ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,805, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Didactic videos for vehicle operation" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Pietro Buttolo (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Mike Kipley (Saline, Mich.), Laura Symington (Royal Oak, Mich.) and David Kennedy (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to record a first video of inputs to respective controls of a user interface of a vehicle, add metadata to the first video of respective times at which the respective inputs are provided, and gen...