US Patent Issued to Japan Display on July 14 for "Force sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,892, issued on July 14, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Force sensor" was invented by Hiroumi Kinjo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force sensor includes an input surface that is pressed, and a first sensor and a second sensor stacked in order in a force direction with respect to the input surface. The input surface has a detection region in which force is detected, one of the first sensor and the second sensor is a force distribution sensor having a plurality of individual detection regions dividing the detection region and configured to detect the force input to the individual detection regions, and the other o...