- Patent Title: Systems and methods for the mitigation of drowsy or sleepy driving
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Application No.: US16268180Application Date: 2019-02-05
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Publication No.: US10672248B1Publication Date: 2020-06-02
- Inventor: Brian Todd Hiles
- Applicant: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US IL Bloomington
- Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Current Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Bloomington
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G08B23/00
- IPC: G08B23/00 ; G08B21/06 ; B60W40/09 ; A61B5/18 ; B60K28/06 ; B60W40/08

Abstract:
Systems and methods for mitigating drowsy and/or sleepy driving may include utilizing vehicle-related and wellness-related telematics to detect and/or predict drowsy and/or sleepy driving states of a driver of a vehicle and take mitigating actions to thereby increase the safety of the driver and other people and/or vehicles in the vicinity of the driver's vehicle. Vehicle-related telematics data and wellness-related telematics data (which may include sleep data) may be collected via sensors that disposed on-board the vehicle, in the vehicle's environment, and at a personal health/fitness tracker of the driver. The collected data may be collectively interpreted to detect, predict, and/or otherwise discover information relating to a drowsy and/or sleepy state of the driver, and one or more mitigating actions may be automatically performed based on the discovered information to thereby mitigate undesirable effects of drowsy/sleepy driving and increase driving safety.
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