US Patent Issued to Atieva on June 2 for "Steering wheel capacitive control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,356, issued on June 2, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Steering wheel capacitive control" was invented by Dave Wayne Flynt (Newark, Calif.) and Yunwei Yang (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for activating a function by selecting a graphical user interface (GUI) element on a screen of a vehicle using a capacitive controller. In some implementations, the method can include detecting an active selection of a first GUI element on the screen of the vehicle selectable using the capacitive contr...