ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,305, issued on June 3, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Display control device, display control method, and recording medium" was invented by Masahito Oishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tadahiro Uchikoshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shintaro Miike (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control device performs display control on the displays of a vehicle. The display control device includes an obtainer and a display controller. The obtainer obtains switching information indicating that switching between driving modes including an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode is to be performed in t...