ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,574, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Display control device and display control method" was invented by Ryuma Misumi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahide Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control device includes a controller (30). The controller (30) acquires a travel route of a subject vehicle having an autonomous traveling function, acquires information on a state of surroundings of the subject vehicle, performs, based on the state of surroundings of the subject vehicle, safety check required for the subject vehicle to travel on the travel route by autonomous t...