ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,982, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Miki Tsujino (Nagakute, Japan), Sara Yamafuji (Miyoshi, Japan), Makoto Suzuki (Seto, Japan), Takatoshi Hattori (Nagoya, Japan) and Keigo Hori (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a control unit that displays, when another vehicle that is running in front of an own vehicle in a traveling direction is detected by a detection unit, a graphic image in which information related to inter-vehicle time required for the own vehicle to reach a position at which the other...