US Patent Issued to PFU on March 24 for "Input device, control method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,348, issued on March 24, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Input device, control method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Yuya Ooki (Kahoku, Japan) and Tadashi Niwano (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes a first touchpad, a second touchpad, and circuitry. The circuitry outputs a first code assigned to a single operation on the first touchpad when the single operation is performed on the first touchpad, and a second code assigned to a combined operation when the combined operation is performed. The combined operation is a combination of operations on both the first touchp...