US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Vehicle operation input device, vehicle operation input method, non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,743, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle operation input device, vehicle operation input method, non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Yuki Kozono (Okazaki, Japan) and Shu Nakajima (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an occupant has performed a specific operation that is an operation different to an input operation on a state switching section while in a state in which a display section capable of displaying information related to an input section is not displaying the information, a processor causes the information to be displayed on the display section and place...