US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Sept. 15 for "Equipment control device, equipment control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,106, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Equipment control device, equipment control method, and program" was invented by Yasutomo Sasanuma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equipment control device includes a controller that controls a control target based on a touch operation by a user on a touch panel display. The display displays a display screen that includes a control target icon resembling the control target, and a plurality of touch areas an effective area that enables the touch operation for operating the control target; and detects a ...