US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on Dec. 16 for "Operating device for a household appliance comprising an integrated touch-sensitive operating ring in an operating depression" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,810, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Operating device for a household appliance comprising an integrated touch-sensitive operating ring in an operating depression" was invented by Ulrich Goss (Munich), Alexander Marsch (Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany), Christoph Ortmann (Munich), Alice Russo (Munich), Robert Sachon (Munich) and Jonas Vaas (Ellwangen/Jagst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating device for a household appliance includes a visual display unit, a touch-sensitive operating ring acting as a touch-sensitive operating region which is configured in a surface area of the visual d...