US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Context-based mapping for physical vehicle controls" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,250, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Context-based mapping for physical vehicle controls" was invented by Matthew Royce Miller (San Francisco), Kok Wei Koh (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michael Kevin Moore (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for associates functions with physical controls (e.g., buttons and/or a scroll wheel) of a vehicle based on a trigger. The vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle systems. One or more physical controls are mounted within the vehicle and configured to be manipulated by a user of the vehicle. An in-vehicle control system is coupled ...