US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Sept. 15 for "Electrostatic input device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,068, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Electrostatic input device" was invented by Satoshi Nakajima (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Kohei Kitagawa (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Shogo Ujikawa (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Masaya Sugawara (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Zhiyuan Chen (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Shunichi Watanabe (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic input device includes a plurality of electrostatic sensor electrodes arrayed in one direction, a measurement circuit configured to measure a capacitance between each of the plurality of electrostatic sensor electrodes and an operation body, a storage unit,...