US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Sept. 22 for "Knob input device including a vibrating member and a magnetic sensor" (Swedish, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,166, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Knob input device including a vibrating member and a magnetic sensor" was invented by Shunsuke Sato (Miyagi, Japan) and Takashi Noguchi (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes: an operating member configured to allow a user to rotate the operating member; a holding member configured to hold the operating member such that the operating member is allowed to rotate about a virtual rotation axis; a vibrating member configured to vibrate the holding member and transmit vibrations to the operating member via the holding member;...