ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,197, issued on June 17, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Adjusting a vehicle display that occludes a view of an operator in response to identifying a risk" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to adjusting a vehicle display that occludes a view of an operator in response to identifying a risk. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to determining a vehicle is operating in an autonomous mode, displaying content on at least one display wit...