US Patent Issued to Maxell on June 16 for "Position input terminal with z-position duration-based and z-position range-based mode switching" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,927, issued on June 16, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Position input terminal with z-position duration-based and z-position range-based mode switching" was invented by Motoyuki Suzuki (Oyamazaki, Japan), Yasunobu Hashimoto (Oyamazaki, Japan), Nobuo Masuoka (Oyamazaki, Japan), Hiroshi Shimizu (Oyamazaki, Japan), Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Oyamazaki, Japan) and Mitsunobu Watanabe (Oyamazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This input terminal device 1 for receiving a user operation via a position input object PS is provided with: a position detection unit 106 which detects the position of the position input object; a displ...