ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,892, issued on July 29, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"User interface for controlling safety critical functions of a vehicle" was invented by Ming Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface for controlling a function of a vehicle is provided. The user interface comprises a manual input device for generating a user input signal in response to manual actuation by a user and one or more proximity sensors for being arranged in a vicinity of the manual input device, wherein each proximity sensor is configured to generate a proximity sensor signal in response...