ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,900, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cruise control user interfaces" was invented by Benjamin J. Crick (San Francisco), Conrad H. Albrecht-Buehler (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joseph Y. Chan (San Francisco), Richard R. Dellinger (San Jose, Calif.), Yun Jae Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Eileen Y. Lee (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to managing cruise control settings. A cruise control indicator is displayed at a location that corresponds to a cruise control speed concurrently with a textual indication of the cruise control speed. In response to receivin...