US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Feb. 11 for "Input system and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,135, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Input system and control method" was invented by Ryo Nakae (Okayama, Japan), Yasunori Yanai (Okayama, Japan), Takehiko Nara (Okayama, Japan) and Yuta Saito (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This input system includes an input device, an electrostatic sensor, a conduction sensor, a controller, and a determiner. When a movable contact of the input device is pressed, electrostatic capacitance between a first electrode and a second electrode changes, and when the movable contact of the input device is further pressed ...