ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,851, issued on April 7, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Information processing device" was invented by Shinya Miyazawa (Nagano, Japan), Junro Takeuchi (Nagano, Japan), Masaya Fujimoto (Nagano, Japan) and Yosuke Oguchi (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a control board, a housing in which the control board is accommodated, a display which is fixed to the housing on an outer side of the housing, a flexible printed board which is disposed inside the housing and covers a face on a first direction side of the control board, and a detection mechanism for detecti...