Patent 10443709 was granted and assigned to Honda on October, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A shifter mechanism for a transmission of a motor vehicle controlled by a transmission controller includes a central processing unit for transmitting a shifting request to the transmission controller, a dial shifter including a rotatable shifter knob and a rotation mechanism in communication with the rotatable shifter knob and about which the rotatable shifter knob rotates, and a sensor connected to the central processing unit for detecting rotation of the rotatable shifter knob.