ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,092, issued on April 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Input apparatus and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yoshitaka Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input apparatus includes an operation surface having a twill shape and configured to receive input through tilt operation and press operation, and a wall portion formed at an end of the operation surface. Each vertex of the twill shape is located on a spherical surface. The wall portion protrudes from the spherical surface."
The patent was filed on July 26, 2023, under Application No. 18/359,484.
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