US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Sept. 30 for "Input device and method for determining installation position of operating element" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,965, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Input device and method for determining installation position of operating element" was invented by Takashi Amano (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device capable of determining an installation position of an operating element is provided. A knob includes a fixed part attached to a touch sensor/a cover glass via an adhesive, a rotating part rotatably attached to the fixed part via a rotation shaft, and a conductor provided inside the rotating part. The conductor includes a pair of columnar parts that can be detected by the touch sensor. T...