ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,456, issued on July 29.

"Dry bag for game controller" was invented by Nayan Arvind Patel (Brentwood, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dry bag for game controllers is described. The dry bag may include one or more joystick protrusions that receive the joystick(s) of the game controllers to allow the user to move (and preferably rotate) the joystick(s) while the game controller is in the dry bag. The protrusion(s) may be surrounded by an accordion fold(s) that allows movement of the joystick protrusion(s) and joystick(s) in a 360 degree manner."

The patent was filed on July 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/221,045.

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