ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,053, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Meter display device for a vehicle" was invented by Masaki Motozaki (Toyota, Japan), Shinsuke Omori (Toyota, Japan) and Moto Takabatake (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including: a meter display device that displays a meter video image at a front side of a vehicle cabin and at a vehicle front side of a driver's seat; and a camera display device that displays a camera video image capturing a peripheral field of view of the vehicle, at a position peripheral to the meter video image as viewed from the driver's seat and at a posi...