ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,062, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Input device" was invented by Takeshi Miyaoka (Osaka, Japan), Masahiro Jigi (Fukui, Japan) and Takeshi Masutani (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes: an operation table including: a touch sensor that receives an operation input; and a controller to which an output signal outputted from the touch sensor is inputted. The controller invalidates the output signal inputted to the controller, in at least one of following cases: (i) when the operation table is in middle of moving or is in a storage position w...