US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Sept. 23 for "Actuation device for a public transport vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,932, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Actuation device for a public transport vehicle" was invented by Gregor Behlau (Hamburg, Germany), Ralph Gartner (Hamburg, Germany), Andreas Haussler (Hamburg, Germany), Christian Schneider (Hamburg, Germany) and Christoph Schrock (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuation device for a public transport vehicle to avoid transmission of bacteria during the actuation. The device can be actuated by a predefined contactless actuation gesture, the device having a sensor unit that measures without contact and an evaluation unit, which is...