ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,616, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Input device" was invented by Tomoaki Tsuchiya (Miyagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes housing; operation nob; cam member swingable in a direction intersecting with pivoting direction of operation knob, and performing swinging as first movement in response to operation knob pivoting in first angular range and performing swinging as second movement succeeding first movement in response to operation knob pivoting in second angular range; substrate; first switch on substrate, switched on in conjunction with first movement of cam member;...