ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,011, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Directional swiping between camera views" was invented by Kok Wei Koh (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Royce Miller (San Francisco), Herve Cecchi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Kevin Moore (San Jose, Calif.) and Jingying Lin (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes multiple cameras that capture images or videos from a variety of perspectives with respect to the vehicle. A user interface within the vehicle provides a visual display of one or more camera views that is selectable and configurable by the user. Swiping on the use...