ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,782, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Italy).
"Selector knob for a motor vehicle" was invented by Vito Conigliaro (Modena, Italy), Davide Marcon (Modena, Italy) and Tommaso Carditello (Modena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A selector knob for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The selector knob comprises a support adapted to be attached to a component of the motor vehicle, a lever carried by the support in a rotatable manner about a straight axis among a plurality of distinct angular positions, transduction means configured to detect information about an actual angular position of the lever and to generate a contr...