ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,429, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vibration generating device with movable body, guide member, magnetic member around coil" was invented by Takenori Takahashi (Miyagi, Japan), Kazunari Takahashi (Miyagi, Japan) and Yuki Ikezoe (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration generating device includes: a stationary body; a movable body housed in the stationary body; a guide member configured to guide the movable body so that the movable body is reciprocally movable in the stationary body along a left-and-right direction; a magnetic flux-generating member fixed to the movable body and conf...