US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Nov. 18 for "Touch input device and method of manufacturing operation panel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,816, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Touch input device and method of manufacturing operation panel" was invented by Shigeru Yamane (Osaka, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch input device includes: a first input area, a non-input area around the first input area, and an intermediate area between the first input area and the non-input area so as to surround the first input area, the first input area accepting an input operation, the non-input area accepting no input operation; and an input receiver that accepts at least an input t...