ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,237, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Operation apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Hideaki Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation apparatus for a vehicle includes a first acquirer, a second acquirer, a controller, and a notifier. The first acquirer is configured to acquire, in a driving operation mode, an operation state of an operation member of the vehicle. The second acquirer is configured to acquire, in a game operation mode, the operation state of the operation member. The controller is configured to perform a control on switching of an operation mode. The notifier is configured to n...