ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,030, issued on May 20, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Display with a rotary control mounted on the display" was invented by Dirk Beilker (Frankfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display comprising a rotary control mounted on the display, wherein the display has touch sensors, wherein a handle of the rotary control is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation and has at least one counter electrode and the rotational position of the handle of the rotary control is determined by evaluation of the touch sensors, wherein the counter electrode is configured as a hollow cylinder,...