US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on May 27 for "Position detection device, input device, and position detection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,518, issued on May 27, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Position detection device, input device, and position detection method" was invented by Tomoki Yamada (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The position detection device includes a detector that detects degrees of contact or degrees of proximity of an object to an operation surface at a plurality of detection positions on the operation surface and outputs a plurality of detection data representing the degrees at the plurality of detection positions, a coordinate calculator for calculating a spatial coordinate of the object in a spatial coordinate system...