ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,413, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Display control method and display control device" was invented by Soshiro Murata (Toyota, Japan), Hiroshi Umeno (Nisshin, Japan), Takahiro Nomura (Okazaki, Japan) and Yuya Onozuka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control method is a display control method that is performed by an ECU of a vehicle that controls an HMI for displaying information on a charging station and a replacing station of a battery mounted on the vehicle and a CPU of a management server. The display control method includes the steps of: calculating, by the CPU of t...