ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,639, issued on March 11, was assigned to Input Labs Oy (Helsinki).
"Human operable controller with touch sensor" was invented by Michael Przybilski (Helsinki) and Marcos Diaz (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a human operable controller for controlling an application on an external computer system, the controller comprising: a controller body comprising a front and a back, wherein the front is opposite to the back; a thumb-operable control area arranged at the front of the controller body; a plurality of depressible buttons and a touch sensor arranged at the thumb-operable control area; wherein the controlle...