ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,623, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Inputting device" was invented by Isao Okuyama (Tokyo), Takeshi Igarashi (Tokyo) and Takeshi Toyoshima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an inputting device including an operation portion and a grip. The operation portion includes a first operation button and a first circuit board arranged along a first plane. The grip includes a second circuit board arranged in a rear with respect to the first circuit board and arranged obliquely with respect to the first plane and extends obliquely rearwardly from the operation portion. In the inpu...