ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,158, issued on July 29, was assigned to FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Control device and control method" was invented by Takashi Ishikawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device that generates a screen displayed on a display device in a vehicle and a screen corresponding to the screen of the display device to an external device, wherein the control device includes: a selection unit for selecting the display device or the external device; a setting unit for setting an area for executing processing based on an operation input to the selected device, and for suppressing processing based...