US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Vehicle, vehicle display control device, and method with variable graphic representation of inter-vehicle time and distance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,273, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle, vehicle display control device, and method with variable graphic representation of inter-vehicle time and distance" 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: "A vehicle display control device includes: a processor configured to: acquire a vehicle speed of a subject vehicle, an inter-vehicle distance to another vehicle traveling in front of the subject vehicle in a traveling direction, and a...