US Patent Issued to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN on Dec. 9 for "Method for determining a state of a driver monitoring device and driver monitoring device" (German, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,069, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method for determining a state of a driver monitoring device and driver monitoring device" was invented by Thomas Putz (Bad Rodach, Germany), Mahmoud Tamam (Cairo) and Thomas Haebig (Bad Rodach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a state of a driver monitoring device includes generating a first image. The first image is based on an image of an interior illuminated by means of an illumination device. The method includes dividing the first image into multiple image sections. The method includes determini...