ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,333, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
"Gaming joystick and button mechanism thereof" was invented by Yu-Chun Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chang-En Tsai (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Bing-Kai Huang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chun-Lung Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A button mechanism is provided, including a frame, a motor disposed on the frame, a rotary member connected to the motor, a protrusion disposed on the rotary member, and a movable member hinged to the frame. When the movable member moves relative to the frame in the first direction, the protrusion contact...