US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on Sept. 9 for "Domestic appliance, operating element for a domestic appliance, and method for controlling a domestic appliance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,917, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Domestic appliance, operating element for a domestic appliance, and method for controlling a domestic appliance" was invented by Thomas Eric Beliveau (Munich), Tobias Schmidt (Munich) and Elena Leinmuller (Ottobrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household appliance includes an operating region for controlling the household appliance, and an operating element configured for attachment on the operating region by magnetic force and removal therefrom and being movable relative to the operating region. The operating element includes an outer element and an...