US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on March 11 for "Control system, control apparatus, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,429, issued on March 11, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control system, control apparatus, and control method" was invented by Masahiro Takata (Miyagi, Japan), Takeshi Masaki (Tokyo), Kazuhito Oshita (Miyagi, Japan) and Satoru Takizawa (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a contact sensor configured to detect entry of an operation body into a recess formed between a door handle of a door handle apparatus and a body of the door handle apparatus by detecting contact between the operation body and an back face of the door handle, a force sensor configured to detect a force applied by t...