ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,520, issued on July 15, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Enhanced map display for autonomous vehicles and passengers" was invented by Ryan Chilton (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems to provide intelligent display for vehicles including a method that comprises determining, by a processor, that a current trajectory of an autonomous vehicle includes a revised road condition having at least one attribute; retrieving, by the processor using the at least one attribute, a graphical overlay corresponding to the revised road condition; and displaying, by the processor...