US Patent Issued to TDK ELECTRONICS on Feb. 10 for "Control element and vehicle with control element" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,320, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TDK ELECTRONICS AG (Munich).

"Control element and vehicle with control element" was invented by Bernhard Stanje (Graz, Austria), Andreas Pentscher-Stani (Leibnitz, Austria) and Johannes Burger (Deutschlandsberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control element for use, for example with a vehicle is disclosed. The control element includes at least one tubular section with a cavity at least partially surrounded by a wall, and a piezoelectric component. The piezoelectric component is arranged in the cavity and generates a haptic signal at at least one partial region of the control element ...