ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,138, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Input device and movable object" was invented by Hideki Nishinakama (Fukui, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes a permanent magnet, a magnetic sensor, an operating unit, and a conversion mechanism. A movable member is one of the permanent magnet or the magnetic sensor. The conversion mechanism is configured to convert a movement of the operating unit in a first direction into a first action of the movable member and convert a movement of the operating unit in a second direction into a second action of the movabl...