ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,249, issued on May 6, was assigned to DENSO WAVE Inc. (Aichi-Pref., Japan).
"Pressure sensor and optical information reader" was invented by Kazumi Kambe (Chita-gun, Japan) and Akira Ito (Chita-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller samples, after determination of a start of a user's press on a pressable input surface of a pressure sensing member, a value of an output voltage of the pressure sensing member, and determines whether one of a first condition and a second condition is satisfied to accordingly determine whether the user's press on the pressable input surface is terminated. The first condition represents tha...