ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,343, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Input device" was invented by Yoshihiro Hosokawa (Fukui, Japan) and Naoki Matsumura (Fukui, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes: an operating component that includes an operating surface and is operated by an operating body; a rotation detector that detects rotation of the operating component; a touch sensor that detects a contact position of the operating body on the operating surface; and a controller that outputs a detection result of the rotation detector when the rotation detector detects the rotation of th...