ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,676, issued on May 12, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Presentation control device, autonomous driving control device, and storage medium thereof" was invented by Takuya Kume (Kariya-city, Japan) and Kazuki Izumi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A presentation control device, which controls presentation of information relating to autonomous driving function of a vehicle, is configured to: grasp whether a switch from a driving assist control, which requires a periphery monitoring by a driver as an obligation, to an autonomous traveling control, which does not require the periphery monitoring by the ...