US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on June 23 for "Drive circuit, tactile sensation generator, and method for controlling drive circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,894, issued on June 23, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Drive circuit, tactile sensation generator, and method for controlling drive circuit" was invented by Kazuhiko Kinemura (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Takashi Sato (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive circuit includes a first switching element inserted in a current path connecting a load with a resonance frequency to a reference potential point, a drive element having a first input terminal to which a load signal obtained by converting a current flowing in the current path into a voltage is input, a second input terminal to which a first control sign...