ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,822, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle display system for nighttime driving" was invented by Manoj Sharma (Troy, Mich.), Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing information to an occupant of a vehicle includes training a machine learning algorithm to receive a nighttime image as an input and produce an enhanced image as an output. The method also includes capturing the nighttime image of an environment surrounding the vehicle using a camera of the vehicle. The method also inc...