US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Electronic apparatus" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,592, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Akimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshitaka Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Taro Fuchigami (North Point, Hong Kong), Haruhisa Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan), Nagisa Yanagibashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takayuki Iwasa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes an operation member that is rotationally operable, a rotation detection substrate provided with a rotation detector configured to detect rotation of the operation member, a capacitance detector provided inside the operation member and configured to output ...