US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Feb. 4 for "Light emission control apparatus, operation device, light emission control method, and program" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,275, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Light emission control apparatus, operation device, light emission control method, and program" was invented by Akinori Ito (Tokyo), Toshimasa Aoki (Foster City, Calif.) and Kosuke Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and/or apparatus provide for controlling a controller configured to for provide user operation inputs to an computer apparatus operating under the control of a system program and a game application program, including: controlling a first light emitting area of the controller; controlling a second light emitting area of th...