ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,360, issued on March 31, was assigned to RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"User interface adjustment based on proximity to upcoming maneuver" was invented by Jason Meyer Quint (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Samuel Morgan Roberts (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Matthew Miller (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems for adjusting a panel based on a vehicle's proximity to an upcoming maneuver within a navigation user interface (UI) and the presence of mapping data within a display region of a UI layer (e.g., a media UI or a call UI). Processing circuitry may modify access to the UI layer until after the vehicle completes...