ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,259, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).
"Input apparatus and input determination method" was invented by Takashi Fujiki (Miyagi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input apparatus includes an operating portion configured to be subjected to a pressing operation by an operator, an operation detection sensor whose output value is varied by the pressing operation on the operating portion, a processor configured to determine whether the pressing operation has been performed based on the output value of the operation detection sensor, and a feel generator configured to generate an operation feel in a ...