ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,618, issued on July 15, was assigned to Wuhu Tianma Automotive Electronics Co. Ltd. (Wuhu, China).

"Knob-type touch display device and detection method therefor" was invented by Chuanhuang Zhang (Wuhu, China), Yumin Xu (Wuhu, China) and Changzhi Wu (Wuhu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a knob-type touch display device and a detection method therefor. The display device includes a touch display panel including multiple touch electrodes; a knob including multiple contact electrodes, where along a direction perpendicular to a plane where the touch display panel is located, a contact electrode overlaps a touch electrod...