ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,846, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Driving control device and HMI control device" was invented by Takeshi Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan), Asako Nagata (Kariya, Japan), Shizuka Yokoyama (Kariya, Japan), Yuji Ota (Kariya, Japan), Takuya Kume (Kariya, Japan) and Kazuki Kojima (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An HMI control device, which controls an HMI device mounted on a vehicle. The HMI device presents information to a driver of the vehicle in a recognizable manner. The vehicle is capable of automated driving and travels following a preceding vehicle at a speed equal to or lower than a predet...