ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,838, issued on July 22, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicular device and method for the same" was invented by Akira Kudo (Kariya, Japan) and Takahiro Tsuduki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular device of an embodiment includes a control unit that executes processing related to displaying on a meter display, an video processing unit that generates a video to be displayed, a video output unit that outputs the generated video, a ROM that stores a telltale image that is a basis of the video to be generated and a CRC master as an error detection code that has been calculated from the telltale image,...