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https://drivepatents.com/patents/1380422 · 2 Apr 2026
A method for controlling a position of a steering wheel of a vehicle includes obtaining vehicle path data indicating a path of the vehicle, obtaining road condition data for roadways along the path of the vehicle, determining, based on the road condition d...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1380421 · 2 Apr 2026
Techniques for optimizing mobile device resource consumption while detecting driving activities are provided. In examples, an application executing on a mobile device determines that the device is disposed in a vehicle during a drive and receives movement ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1380420 · 2 Apr 2026
Techniques for optimizing driving alerts provided by a computing device are presented herein. In some techniques, a driving alert management server system transmits an initial set of alert rules to a driver safety application executing on a computing devic...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1392611 · 1 Apr 2026
The disclosure relates to a method for detecting that a driver (17) of a vehicle (16) is using a handheld electronic device (20). The method comprises capturing or receiving at least one image (I) of the vehicle (16) showing at least a partial frontal view...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1380044 · 26 Mar 2026
A control system for a vehicle includes one or more processing circuits. The one or more processing circuits have programmed instructions to acquire a temperature of a component of the vehicle, acquire at least one of static information or dynamic informat...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1379621 · 19 Mar 2026
A vehicle control apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle control apparatus includes a sensor (e.g., light detection and ranging (LiDAR)), a communication circuit, and a processor. The processor receives a signal indicating that a vehicle ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1398244 · 18 Mar 2026
Method for activating an application program, on a smartphone. This method forces the driver of a vehicle to activate and keep the application program activated while driving, since it is a telematic insurance for a vehicle that only has coverage while the...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1378983 · 5 Mar 2026
An impairment detection process includes detecting an approach of an operator to a machine. The approach is monitored to determine a set of gait parameters of the operator based on an output of a set of gait sensors. The set of gait parameters is provided ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1378982 · 5 Mar 2026
Systems and methods for providing rear voice recognition (VR) conflict monitoring are provided. The method may comprise receiving one or more VR inputs and, using a computing device, determining whether the one or more VR inputs trigger one or more driver ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1378981 · 5 Mar 2026
A method comprises: receiving a surround view monitoring (SVM) video feed from SVM cameras of a vehicle; identifying, using the SVM video feed and a signal from one or more ultrasonic sensors of the vehicle, a first parking slot that is available for parki...