US Patent Issued to HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONS (YANTAI), HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY on April 15 for "Electrically-contactless joystick and terminal device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,065, issued on April 15, was assigned to HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONS (YANTAI) Co. LTD. (Yantai, China) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Electrically-contactless joystick and terminal device" was invented by Yu-Hsiang Hao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Heng Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Cheng-Yeh Sun (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yao-Che Peng (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically-contactless joystick includes a housing, a handle, a first limiting member, a second limiting member, an elastic member, a magnet, and a magnetic sensor. The handle extends through the housing. The first limiti...