US Patent Issued on May 20 for "Modular controller system for single handed use" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,776, issued on May 20.

"Modular controller system for single handed use" was invented by Spencer Ryan Higgs (Havelock, N.C.), David Christopher Starnes (Newport, N.C.) and Robert Howell Duren IV (Richlands, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a hand-held controller configured to be grasped and operated with one hand. The hand-held controller serves as an alternative to standard two-hand controllers for giving input to videogames or other programs. The hand-held controller includes a plurality of input devices configured to be comfortably operated with the user's fingers when the hand-held controller is grasped. Advan...