US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Aug. 18 for "Electrostatic input device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,846, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Electrostatic input device" was invented by Takahiro Mogi (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Shogo Ujikawa (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Satoshi Nakajima (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Kohei Kitagawa (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Masaya Sugawara (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Zhiyuan Chen (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Shunichi Watanabe (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic input device includes electrostatic sensor electrodes, a measurement circuit that outputs a measurement value, a control unit that determines whether a state is a proximity state in which the indication body is close to the...