ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,775, issued on Sept. 1.
"Aircraft sidestick" was invented by Evgeny A. Nesmeev (Ulan-Ude, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aviation sidestick is a device that can be used to control various manned and unmanned equipment, including flying, ground, underwater, to control spacecraft in outer space and to control computer games. It consists of a housing, a handle with buttons and a scroll wheel, a bracket/arm, a compensating mechanism, a fixed base in the form of a spherical segment and a mechanism that simulates feedback located under the compensating mechanism, while the geometric centers of the sphere and the focus of the sphe...