ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,180, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Filter circuit" was invented by Yukimitsu Yamada (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter circuit includes a processor configured to compare a current input value with a last-time output value, add a first correction value to the current input value and to the last-time output value if a comparison result between the current input value and the last-time output value is greater than a predetermined value, and add a second correction value smaller than the first correction value to the current input value and to the last-time output value if the compa...