US Patent Issued to YAMAHA on Sept. 29 for "Input device and sound signal generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,470, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Input device and sound signal generation device" was invented by Jun Ishii (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Masao Noro (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes a first operating element and a first sensor. The first sensor includes a first conductor, a first coil, and a first magnetic material forming an open magnetic circuit together with the first coil. A positional relationship between the first coil and the first magnetic material is fixed. A first distance between a first end portion of the first magnetic material and the first con...