US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Sept. 15 for "Manipulation device and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,778, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Manipulation device and method" was invented by Shota Takeuchi (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Hideo Kawase (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Yukimitsu Yamada (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Takashi Otomo (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Kazuhiro Takahashi (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manipulation device has: a manipulation unit on which a movement manipulation is possible; a sensor that outputs a detection value according to the position of the manipulation unit; a conversion unit that converts a detection value acquired by an acquisition unit to information about the position of t...