ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,523, issued on July 14, was assigned to Elobau GmbH & Co. KG (Leutkirch, Germany).
"Joystick with multifunctional support element" was invented by Ulrich Gerhardt (Altusried, Germany), Simon Caliebe (Isny, Germany) and Robert Stiehle (Heilbronn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joystick for operating utility vehicles is provided. The joystick has a handle area, and the handle area has a substance-to-substance connection to a support element. At least three conductor elements are arranged on the support element. At least one conductor element is designed as a heating element, one conductor element is designed as a temperature ...