US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on Oct. 6 for "Game controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,185, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Game controller" was invented by Kumpei Fujita (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinji Hirose (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example game controller is removably attachable to a main unit. The game controller includes a controller-side slide member. The controller-side slide member protrudes from a first surface of the game controller and is configured to slidably engage with the main unit-side slide member in a slide direction. The controller-side slide member has a first end and a second end in the slide direction, and the game controller is configured to b...