ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,667, issued on April 22, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).
"Instrument cluster display obscuration tool" was invented by Christopher P. Scolaro (Rochester, Mich.) and Joseph Smeltzer (Ferndale, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display obscuration tool for identifying one or more obscured zones within a display, such as surface areas of the display blocked from view. The tool may include a spatial detection module configured for determining a relative positioning between a display onboard a vehicle, a steering wheel or other implement onboard the vehicle, and a driver, and a gaze detection module conf...