ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,012, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHENZHEN ZESUM TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Multi-directional input device" was invented by Yusho Nakase (Shenzhen, China), Wei Yang (Shenzhen, China), Shiying Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Chaoxian Chen (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-directional input device includes a housing, an operation stick, a magnetic member, a printed circuit board, a supporting seat, a reset assembly, an elastic sheet, a pressing member and a magnetic induction chip. The operation stick includes an operation portion and a rocker portion connected to the operation portion. The reset assem...