US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 7 for "Control device and method for actuating an active haptic operating element for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,553, issued on July 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Control device and method for actuating an active haptic operating 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 actuates an active haptic operating element for a motor vehicle. The control device is designed to determine whether there is an activation of the operating element; to determine whether the operating element is assigned an available function if an acti...