US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on May 5 for "Apparatus including actuator and/or heater and method for controlling said apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,182, issued on May 5, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Apparatus including actuator and/or heater and method for controlling said apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Suemasu (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuhiro Kishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenta Murakami (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Sakamoto (Shiga, Japan) and Hayato Naruse (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one of an actuator or a heater, and a controller that controls the at least one of the actuator or the heater. The controller: obtains an application defined by a plurality of blocks that drive the at lea...