US Patent Issued to Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics on March 24 for "User interface device and method of controlling tactile presentation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,347, issued on March 24, was assigned to Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"User interface device and method of controlling tactile presentation" was invented by Kazunori Masumura (Kawasaki, Japan), Hiroshi Haga (Kawasaki, Japan), Shin Takeuchi (Kawasaki, Japan), Harue Sasaki (Kawasaki, Japan), Yukihiro Ito (Kawasaki, Japan) and Tomoki Takaya (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface device includes a knob device having a mechanical structure that presents a tactile stimulus in response to every predetermined amount of knob operation, a panel on which the knob device is mounted, a controll...