US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Dec. 16 for "Input device detecting a touch input operation based on a panel tilt angle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,812, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Input device detecting a touch input operation based on a panel tilt angle" was invented by Satoshi Iimure (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Shunsuke Sato (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device including a panel that is held in a tiltable manner, a plurality of input operation sections that are disposed on the panel and that are capable of detecting a touch input operation, a pressure detector that detects pressure to the panel, and a pressing determination section that determines pressing based on a result of the pressure detection performed by t...