ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,231, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Driving control device and HMI control device" was invented by Takeshi Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan), Asako Nagata (Kariya, Japan), Shizuka Yokoyama (Kariya, Japan), Yuji Ota (Kariya, Japan), Takuya Kume (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuki Kojima (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HMI control device includes an automation level acquisition portion and a display control unit. The automation level acquisition portion acquires an autonomous driving level determined by a driving control device. The display control portion controls an image display operation of an HMI d...