US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on July 15 for "Method and device for involvement-dependent dynamic blocking of an operating apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,523, issued on July 15, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method and device for involvement-dependent dynamic blocking of an operating apparatus" was invented by Thorb Baumgarten (Wolfsburg, Germany), Alice Gross (Berlin), Thomas Werner (Penzlin, Germany), Eric Haller (Fredersdorf, Germany) and Julia Kohl (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a device for blocking display and/or operating contexts comprising at least one operating apparatus for detecting user interactions, and an evaluation apparatus, configured to determine a current involvement value at least on the basis of the detecte...