US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 22 for "Electronic apparatus having variable detection sensitivity area due to progress of near-field communication antenna and driving method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,631, issued on April 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electronic apparatus having variable detection sensitivity area due to progress of near-field communication antenna and driving method" was invented by Shuto Uwai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusaku Shoda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daiki Kano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a touch panel for electrically detecting an input operation, an antenna for near-field communication having a communicable area that overlaps at least a part of a detection area of the touch panel, a memory storing instruct...