ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,098, issued on June 17, was assigned to AVA INNOVATIONS AG (Solothurn, Switzerland).
"Controller mechanism" was invented by Raphael Oberholzer (Solothurn, Switzerland), Dimitri Leimgruebler (Aarau, Switzerland), Patrick Domenig (Nidau, Switzerland) and David Berger (Oberwangen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller mechanism having a selectable actuator with a touchscreen that displays a plurality of selectable options and is configured to highlight a selection from the plurality of selectable options by touch, and extending outward from the actuator is a plurality of protrusions; a frame having an aperture through ...