ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,572, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Input device" was invented by Masaho Morita (Tokyo) and Takeshi Igarashi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a vibration motor is driven, noise due to a contact between a circuit board and a support member is prevented from being generated and included in voice data. An input device includes a circuit board, a vibration motor, a microphone, a frame to which the circuit board is attached, and a damper disposed between the circuit board and the frame."
The patent was filed on March 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/910,502.
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