ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,719, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Operation device" was invented by Masashi Ito (Miyagi, Japan) and Masatoshi Ono (Miyagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation device includes a lever operable to tilt and an actuator having an opening through which the lever is disposed and including a rotation shaft, the actuator being configured to rotate in accordance with the tilting of the lever, such that the rotation shaft of the actuator is rotatably supported within a shaft-receiving hole. The operation device includes a biasing unit configured to bias the lever upward. The lever includes a p...