US Patent Issued to DENSO on March 25 for "Presentation control device and automated driving control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,031, issued on March 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Presentation control device and automated driving control system" was invented by Takuya Kume (Kariya, Japan), Yukari Itou (Kariya, Japan), Kazuki Kojima (Kariya, Japan) and Shiori Maneyama (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A presentation control device is configured to control information presentation to a driver of a vehicle. A determination unit is configured to distinguish between a monitoring interruption mode in which the driver is permitted to interrupt surroundings monitoring and a monitoring-required mode in which the driver is prohibited to ...