ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,762, issued on June 24, was assigned to PSA AUTOMOBILES SA (Poissy, France).

"Method and device for adjusting comfort and/or safety functions of a vehicle" was invented by Pierre Quinio (Versailles, France), Loic Bayard (Les Ulis, France), Eric Eledut (Chatenay Malabry, France), Charles Moreau (Rambouillet, France) and Maxime Savignac (Versailles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for setting functions of a vehicle that includes system of digital rear-view mirrors comprising at least one camera (102, 103) capturing images from outside the vehicle, a first touch screen (104) placed on the driver's...