US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Feb. 24 for "Switch device, push-type input device, and electronic shifter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,232, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Switch device, push-type input device, and electronic shifter" was invented by Toshiharu Yoshizawa (Miyagi, Japan) and Fumihito Nikami (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch device includes three or more sensors configured to detect three or more respective measurement values with respect to an operation position of a switch; a memory; and a processor configured to determine a switching state of the switch by making a majority decision based on measurement levels of the three or more measurement values of the three or more sensors, and determine wh...