ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,458, issued on March 24, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for external display-based pedestrian navigation assistance" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rebecca L Kirschweng (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Stuart Parson (Tokyo), Stephanie Seohyun Park (Tokyo), Yukiyo Nozawa (Tokyo), Yen Yu Chen (Tokyo), Ryusuke Shimizu (Tokyo) and Uyakhan-Egshig Molomjamts (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to provid...