ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,469, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hosiden Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electric device" was invented by Kiyotaka Miyauchi (Osaka, Japan) and Eiji Sato (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric device includes: an electric circuit; a power supply circuit configured to feed electric power to the electric circuit and stop the feed; and a housing containing the electric circuit and the power supply circuit. The power supply circuit is configured to, in response to a first operation performed from outside the housing while the power supply circuit is in an OFF state, the OFF state being a state in which the battery feeds ...