US Patent Issued to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) on Oct. 14 for "Operation device, keyboard device, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,291, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Operation device, keyboard device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kimio Kumada (Yokohama, Japan), Kazuyuki Kubota (Yokohama, Japan) and Takahide Wada (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation device is a stick-type operation device configured to perform a tilt operation, and includes a support plate, a sensor substrate having a first through-hole in a plate thickness direction and supported by a front surface of the support plate, a support columnar member formed of a light-transmitting material and provided to stand up fr...