ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,911, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Marelli Corp. (Saitama, Japan).
"Operation panel" was invented by Hideto Ujiie (Saitama, Japan) and Yuuma Tasai (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation panel includes a touch position sensor configured to output an electrical signal corresponding to a contact area between a finger of a user and a switch and a controller to which an electrical signal is input from the touch position sensor. The controller is configured to: determine that the finger of the user and the touch position sensor are in contact with each other when the calculation value calculated based on the elect...