ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,645, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"HMI control apparatus and driving control apparatus" 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 human machine interface (HMI) control apparatus configured to control an HMI apparatus mounted on a host vehicle, is configured to acquire lane information including a presence state of an adjacent lane adjacent to a currently traveling lane of the host vehicle; and present, using the HMI apparatus, automation related information based on the acquired lane information. The automation relat...