US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Feb. 18 for "Entertainment apparatus, light emission controlling apparatus, operation device, light emission controlling method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,234, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Entertainment apparatus, light emission controlling apparatus, operation device, light emission controlling method and program" was invented by Akinori Ito (Tokyo), Hiroshi Morita (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoe Ochiai (Tokyo), Takeshi Igarashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuji Takeuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a controller for receiving input from a user, including: a plurality of input elements, each operating to receive respective operative input from a user, the respective operative input being processed and transmitte...