ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,822, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Authorization for vehicle display" was invented by Paul Li (Mountain View, Calif.), John F. Daly (Frisco, Texas), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Satoshi Nagashima (Long Island, N.Y.) and Adrian Lombard (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of determining an event has occurred at a location, responsive to a level of the event being above a threshold, determining vehicles heading toward the location that can display information on...