US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on May 19 for "Electrostatic input device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,919, issued on May 19, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electrostatic input device" was invented by Masahiro Takata (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Hiroshi Shigetaka (Fukushima-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic input device includes a first sensor electrode for input detection, an electronic part, a second sensor electrode for noise detection, the second sensor electrode being placed between the first sensor electrode and the electronic part, and a measurement circuit that measures the capacitance of the first sensor electrode and the capacitance of the second sensor electrode, the measurement circuit ca...