US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Dec. 30 for "Input device applying vibrations to a touch surface during pressing and releasing operations" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,967, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Japan).

"Input device applying vibrations to a touch surface during pressing and releasing operations" was invented by Takashi Sato (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes a touch sensor, a detector that detects a load of a press on a touch surface of the touch sensor, a vibration applying section that vibrates the touch surface, a controller that issues an instruction for vibrating the touch surface to the vibration applying section when determining that the load detected by the detector exceeds a predetermined press reference, and a tim...