ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,462, issued on June 23, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vibration generating device, and production method therefor" was invented by Takayuki Suizu (Miyagi, Japan), Masaaki Mikawa (Miyagi, Japan), Takahiro Umezu (Miyagi, Japan), Takayuki Mizuhashi (Fukushima, Japan), Ryota Suzuki (Miyagi, Japan), Yuki Ikezoe (Miyagi, Japan) and Kazuhiro Takahashi (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration generating device includes a housing; a movable body housed in the housing; a support configured to support the movable body so as to be vibratable; a bracket that includes a main plate and an attachment plate extending...