US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Dec. 2 for "Pressure sense device and operating device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,675, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Pressure sense device and operating device" was invented by Toru Kuronuma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akira Homma (Totigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sense device includes an annular fitting member, a slide member disposed so as to be slidable in a first rotational direction about a central axis of the fitting member and an opposite direction from the first rotational direction along an outer circumferential surface of the fitting member, a driving device configured to cause the slide member to slide, and a protruding member configured ...