ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,449, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vehicular distraction manipulation" was invented by Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sathya Santhar (Chennai, India), Sridevi Kannan (Chennai, India) and Samuel Mathew Jawaharlal (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described with respect to a system, method, and computer program product for manipulating vehicular displays. An associated method includes receiving a plurality of parameters associated with a vehicle; analyzing an environment associated with the vehicle based on the parameters; detecting at lea...