ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,422, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Customization of vehicle-related images" was invented by Turgay Isik Aslandere (Aachen/NRW, Germany) and Cem Mengi (Aachen/NRW, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a driver assistant image customization of vehicle-related images, a data processing circuit, a computer program, a computer-readable medium, and a vehicle, can include, with at least one sensing device of the vehicle, obtaining an input image to be customized. With at least one human-machine-interface of the vehicle or connected thereto an input determining at least one c...