ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,934, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Controller" was invented by Yukari Konishi (Tokyo), Hitoshi Nakamura (Tokyo) and Yusuke Nakagawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes a sensor that uses an elastically deformable elastic member, detects user's contact with or deforming action of the elastic member, and outputs an electric signal based on the detected contact or deforming action in question."
The patent was filed on March 25, 2020, under Application No. 17/908,074.
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