ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,989, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle display control device, vehicle display control method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Miki Tsujino (Nagakute, Japan), Kentaro Matsumoto (Toyota, Japan) and Ryusei Gichu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle display control device includes a display control unit configured to display a main image and an auxiliary image in a display portion mounted on a vehicle such that the main image is provided with a display taste that is common to a hands on mode and a hands off mode and a display mode of the auxiliary image is chan...