ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,391, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).
"Input device with electrode connection portions" was invented by Koji Ishizaki (Tokyo), Hayato Kurasawa (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Mizuhashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device is provided and includes substrate; first metal mesh shape electrodes provided on layer of substrate; second metal mesh shape electrodes provided on same layer of the substrate as first metal mesh shape electrodes; second metal connection electrodes each of which connects adjacent two of second metal mesh shape electrodes on same layer as first metal mesh shape electrodes; insulati...