Patent 7116937 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Electric appliance, in particular in the form of an automotive radio, having a control element (4) for manual control of the electric appliance by a user, and a transmission unit (5) for wireless transmission of data from and/or to the electric appliance, the transmission unit (5) being integrated at least partially spatially into the control element (4).