ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,611, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Systems and methods for superimposing augmented reality vehicle lights in a vehicle display" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and William Patrick Garrett (Plymouth, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to superimposing computer-generated exterior vehicle lights over asynchronous real-world exterior vehicle lights to reduce a sensory overload of a vehicle driver. ...