US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Dec. 23 for "Tactile presentation apparatus and tactile presentation knob" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,831, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tactile presentation apparatus and tactile presentation knob" was invented by Masami Hayashi (Tokyo), Tae Orita (Tokyo), Yoshinori Ueno (Tokyo), Mitsuru Sakai (Tokyo), Naoki Numata (Tokyo), Yuki Furumoto (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Sempuku (Tokyo) and Yuichi Sasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Regarding a tactile presentation panel, a tactile presentation panel that has a tactile presentation knob having a conductive member placed on an operation surface and presents a tactile sense to a user via the tactile presentation knob includes a movement amount calcula...