US Patent Issued to Kostal of America on Feb. 25 for "Method and system for identification of user maneuver intention when operating with touch surface controller" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,041, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Kostal of America Inc. (Troy, Mich.).

"Method and system for identification of user maneuver intention when operating with touch surface controller" was invented by Xiaozhong Duan (Troy, Mich.), Peter Glen Elphick (Rochester, Mich.), Zhiping Hu (Troy, Mich.), Steven R. Hoskins (Wolverine Lake, Mich.) and Kenneth S. Koscielniak (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human-machine interface device includes a touch receiver having a plurality of touch surfaces in distinctly different planes, an elastic strain sensing element having a base and a plurality of legs extending from t...