ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,657, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Input device" was invented by Masaho Morita (Tokyo) and Ryu Sannomiya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Noise is prevented from occurring in voice data acquired by a microphone due to an operation of an input stick. An input device (10) includes an upper cabinet section (41) having an opening formed therein, an input stick (31) movable inside the opening, and a buffer member (46) that is provided on an inner edge of the opening of the upper cabinet section (41) and is made of a material different from a material of the inner edge of the opening ...