US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Dec. 23 for "Position detection device with notification of interrupt failure upon pressing abutton" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,846, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Position detection device with notification of interrupt failure upon pressing abutton" was invented by Yuki Haraikawa (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection device includes: a touch panel disposed on a display screen of a display device; an interrupt signal outputter configured to output an interrupt signal in response to a detection of a contact of an indicator with respect to the touch panel; and a contact position specifier. The contact position specifier specifies, in a case of no displaying of a specific operation area on the d...