ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,907, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nintendo Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Input device" was invented by Takanori Okamura (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Taniguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroki Ikuta (Kyoto, Japan), Keisuke Seko (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaya Takei (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a controller includes a housing including an opening, and an operation member, a part of which is exposed through the opening. The operation member includes a key top exposed through the opening and operated by a user, a shaft portion extending downward from the key top, and a protruding portion protruding from the shaft portion. Further...