US Patent Issued to NINTENDO on Sept. 29 for "Controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,461, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Controller" was invented by Kazuhiko Koriyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigenobu Arai (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes a substrate, a stick, and a functional component. The stick is to be operated by a user. The functional component performs a controller function, and it is different from the stick. The substrate includes a front surface and a rear surface opposite to the front surface. The stick includes an arm that moves as the stick is operated, the arm extending from a side of the front surface toward a side of the rear surfac...