ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,436, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Tactile presentation device" was invented by Chigusa Ide (Tokyo) and Tae Orita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a tactile presentation device that includes a tactile presentation knob placed on an operation screen and for presenting a tactile sense to a user via the tactile presentation knob. The tactile presentation knob includes a conductive elastic portion that includes a surface layer facing the operation screen and an inner layer located on the side opposite to the operation screen, and an operation part that fixes ...