ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,391, issued on Sept. 2.

"Gamepad" was invented by Kai Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel gamepad is provided, which relates to the technical field of game peripherals. The novel gamepad includes a gamepad body, grips, and a D-pad, ABXY buttons, trigger buttons and thumb levers which are arranged on the gamepad body; main control buttons for arcade game are also arranged on the gamepad body; and the main control buttons for arcade game are arranged on one sides of the thumb levers. By the adoption of the above technical solution, the novel gamepad has the advantages of reasonable structural design, diversified...