ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,626, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ATIEVA INC. (Newark, Calif.).
"Custom button for a vehicle" was invented by Yunwei Yang (Newark, Calif.), Sizhe Huang (Newark, Calif.) and Dave Flynt (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for selecting and performing a function selectable by a custom button by a user in a vehicle, utilizing an on-board system controller, the on-board system controller comprising a processor and a memory. The method includes the operations of: identifying a pressing of a custom button; receiving a selection of a function from a display panel; linking the functi...