ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,746, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicular apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Kimura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular includes a drawer, an input device and a maintainer. The drawer executes drawing on a display device. The input device receives a signal indicating an operation for stopping a vehicle. The maintainer maintains the drawer at an operating state during a period until the drawing on the display device is not required, in response to that the input device receives the signal indicating the operation for stopping the vehicle."

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 202...