ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,151, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Drive power transmitting mechanism" was invented by Koichi Obana (Tokyo), Kazuya Kikuchi (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Osawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a drive power transmitting mechanism that can transmit drive power losslessly and can be used in environments where silence is required. The drive power transmitting mechanism includes a rotor having a first outer circumferential surface and rotatable about a first rotational axis, a rotor having a second outer circumferential surface pressed against the first outer circum...