ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,264, issued on March 31, was assigned to Impulse Labs Inc. (San Francisco).
"Detachable multi functional control knob assembly" was invented by Jacob Russell Davis (San Francisco), Samuel Redmond D'Amico (San Francisco), Samuel William Lenius (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Bradley James Tallon (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knob assembly for a coupled appliance includes a base static part and an actionable cap part, where the base static part includes a substrate base, a bearing holder fixed to the substrate base, a sleeve bearing fixed to the bearing holder, and a set of coupling magnets disclosed between the bearing holder...