ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,279, issued on April 15, was assigned to FORWARD ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Multi-directional output device" was invented by Ching-Hao Chung (Taipei, Taiwan), Chun-Lin Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsiu-Chen Li (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-directional output device includes a printed circuit board on which first and second magnetic sensors are arranged, and a direction control unit arranged above the printed circuit board. The direction control unit includes: first and second rotating driving bodies; first and second sliding driving bodies respectively movably connected to the first and second rotat...