ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,097, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle display control device, vehicle display device, vehicle, vehicle display control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which vehicle display control program is recorded" was invented by Keigo Hori (Toyota, Japan), Ryota Hamabe (Nisshin, Japan), Takahiro Hirota (Nukata-gun, Japan) and Yoshinori Murata (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle display control device that is configured to: change, in accordance with a type of shift range that has been selected, display proportions of a first display region for dis...