ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,883, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Display device for displaying paths of a vehicle" was invented by Sayaka Ono (Mishima, Japan), Yoshitaka Fuwamoto (Mishima, Japan), Hitoshi Kumon (Aichi-gun, Japan), Takayuki Iwamoto (Sunto-gun, Japan), Hiroki Mori (Susono, Japan), Takuji Narumi (Tokyo), Shunsuke Kondo (Tokyo), Tomohiro Tanikawa (Tokyo) and Michitaka Hirose (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a traveling state recognition unit configured to recognize a traveling state of a vehicle, an intervening driving manipulation recognitio...