ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,216, issued on May 13, was assigned to BHTC GmbH (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Operating device for a vehicle" was invented by Markus Karliczek (Lippstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The operating device for a vehicle is provided with a capacitively operating touch panel (16) comprising an upper face with a touch-sensitive surface, and an operating unit comprising a movable operating element (22) which can the grasped manually and has an electrically conductive surface and a plate-shaped holding element provided with an upper face and a lower face (54) facing away from the upper face, on which holding element the operating eleme...