ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,345, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Display device for displaying other vehicles and display method for displaying other vehicles" was invented by Hironori Ito (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Takeshi Matsumura (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device displays a host vehicle and other vehicles running in driving lanes together with the driving lanes on an information display screen. When the other vehicles are present at a far region at a front side in a direction of vehicle advance outside a display range of the screen, the display device displays marks showing that the other vehi...