US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Aug. 25 for "Input device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,000, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Input device" was invented by Takuya Inoue (Tokyo), Takeshi Yamazaki (Tokyo), Tae Orita (Tokyo) and Takeshi Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The input device includes: a plurality of capacitive buttons that are provided side by side; a capacitance detection circuit configured to detect capacitance values of a pair of sensor electrodes in the plurality of capacitive buttons; and an input determination circuit configured to, when the capacitance value detected by the capacitance detection circuit in a first button of the plurality of capacitive buttons...