US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on July 28 for "Input device configured to determine rotation operation and push operation using magnetic sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,137, issued on July 28, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Input device configured to determine rotation operation and push operation using magnetic sensor" was invented by Asuka Koike (Miyagi, Japan), Yasuhiro Ishizawa (Miyagi, Japan) and Takashi Sato (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes an operation nob configured to perform a rotation operation and a push operation; one magnet provided so as to perform a rotational movement in response to the rotation operation and to perform a sliding movement in response to the push operation, from an initial state; a magnetic sensor disposed on a su...