ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,870, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Vehicle surrounding monitoring apparatus, vehicle surrounding monitoring method, computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle surrounding monitoring program" was invented by Yuki Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle surrounding monitoring apparatus comprises an image acquisition device which acquires a surrounding image corresponding to an image of a view around an own vehicle, and a displaying device which displays the surrounding image. The vehicle surrounding monitoring apparatus displays the ...