ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,786, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Joystick module" was invented by Feng-Hsueh Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Hsiang Ting (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joystick module includes a circuit board, a base, a steering stick unit, a switch module electrically connected with the circuit board, and a plurality of buckling structures. The base is disposed on the circuit board. The base is equipped with a plurality of hollow buckling units. The steering stick unit is detachably fastened to the base. The steering stick unit has a shell, a directing stick ...