US Patent Issued to GUANGDONG K-SILVER INDUSTRIAL on April 7 for "Thumbstick assembly with adjustable damping and gamepad" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,491, issued on April 7, was assigned to GUANGDONG K-SILVER INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Thumbstick assembly with adjustable damping and gamepad" was invented by Xiao Zeng (Shenzhen, China) and Jianbo Zhao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a thumbstick assembly, which includes a base part, a thumbstick part rotatably installed at the base part, an adjustment plate translationally connected to the base part, an adjustment knob, an adjustment base including a slide portion and a rotation portion, and a first spring. The adjustment knob is of a shell structure, located at an outer side of the thumbst...