US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 14 for "Control device and method for activating an active haptics operator control element for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,581, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Control device and method for activating an active haptics operator control element for a motor vehicle" was invented by Stefan Breitschaft (Nabburg, Germany), Thomas Hilger (Iffeldorf, Germany), Christian Knoll (Munich), Stephan Mueller (Munich) and Hannes Trapp (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for activating an active haptics operator control element for a motor vehicle is configured to determine whether the operator control element is being operated with a short press or a long press. The control device is configured so as, if it ...