ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,543, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Terminal apparatus, method of operating terminal apparatus, and system for adjusting shared images on screen" was invented by Tatsuro Hori (Tokyo-to, Japan) and Jorge Pelaez (Kawaguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus includes an input/output screen including a rectangular input/output area configured to accept touch input and display an image, a communication interface configured to communicate with another terminal apparatus including the input/output area having a different longitudinal direction, and a controller configured, u...