US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 16 for "On-screen virtual keyboards with side-by-side keyboard portions" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,977, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"On-screen virtual keyboards with side-by-side keyboard portions" was invented by Francis Wu (Waterloo, Canada), Sakib Chowdhury (Toronto), Jack Cobb (Mono, Canada), Michael Kazman (Kitchener, Canada), Sidhartha Singh (Brampton, Canada), Qinghe Tian (Waterloo, Canada) and Mathew Snyder (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein include displaying a keyboard on a display. The virtual keyboard is split into a first keyboard portion including an inner zone including one or more letters and an oute...