US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on April 21 for "Operating unit for a steering wheel of a motor vehicle and method for determining a position of a symbol display" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,021, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Operating unit for a steering wheel of a motor vehicle and method for determining a position of a symbol display" was invented by Simon Braun (Laaber, Germany), Christian Knoll (Munich) and Kenneth Weselake (Unterhaching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for determining a position of a symbol display in an at least partially transparent operating unit for a steering wheel of a motor vehicle. A position of a symbol display unit is determined. A target position is determined for a visualization of a symb...