US Patent Issued to Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. on March 25 for "Operating device, in particular for an electronic household appliance, electronic household appliance, and method for operating an operating device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,038, issued on March 25, was assigned to Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG (Wangen, Germany).

"Operating device, in particular for an electronic household appliance, electronic household appliance, and method for operating an operating device" was invented by Thomas Herbert (Allgau, Germany) and Andreas Maigler (Dieterskirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating device for an electronic household appliance has at least one touch switch each formed by a respective operator panel of a cover plate, and a touch sensor system for detecting contact with and/or proximity to the operator panel. A control device evaluates sensor sig...