US Patent Issued to Alps Alpine on Oct. 7 for "Input device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,940, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd (Tokyo).

"Input device" was invented by Junji Hashida (Fukushima-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes an input detection unit including a circuit board, an electrostatic electrode on the circuit board for capacitance detection, a light source on the circuit board, a light guide plate provided on the lower side with respect to an operation surface and the upper side with respect to the electrostatic electrode and having a first side surface that faces the light source and a second side surface that does not face the light source, and a frame-shaped...