US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 24 for "Method for operating a display unit of a vehicle, and display unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,957, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for operating a display unit of a vehicle, and display unit" was invented by Ulrich Kabatek (Babenhausen, Germany) and Kai Hohmann (Babenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a display unit of vehicle, wherein the display unit displays at least one display, comprises ascertaining the viewing direction of a driver using a gaze-tracking device; checking whether the viewing direction of the driver is directed at the display unit; checking whether traffic-relevant data are present; operating the di...