ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,983, issued on June 10, was assigned to Backbone Labs Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.).
"Universal mobile game controller" was invented by Shawn O'Connor (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal mobile game controller is provided that can interoperate with multiple computing device operating systems (e.g., Android and iOS) in an automatic way through a common connector (e.g., USB-C). With these embodiments, instead of building a separate mobile game controller for each operating system, a single mobile game controller can be used for all operating systems. These embodiments can also enable communication with an application r...