ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,304, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Input device" was invented by Yuta Saito (Okayama, Japan), Yasunori Yanai (Okayama, Japan) and Takehiko Nara (Okayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device of the present disclosure includes a first fixed electrode, a second fixed electrode electrically insulated from the first fixed electrode, an elastic body having conductivity and positioned above the first fixed electrode and the second fixed electrode, a movable member that is positioned above the elastic body and is configured to push the elastic body t...