ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,984, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Input device" was invented by Ikuo Kobayashi (Tokyo), Takeshi Igarashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaho Morita (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akinori Ito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes: a plurality of input members; an upper surface having a right region in which a part of the plurality of input members is disposed, a left region in which another part of the plurality of input members is disposed, and a center region that is a region between the right region and the left region; and a light emitting region fo...