US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Aug. 18 for "User input device, handheld controller and entertainment system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,842, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"User input device, handheld controller and entertainment system" was invented by Jun Yen Leung (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user input device includes: a thumbstick; a housing that partially encloses a base of the thumbstick without contacting the base so as to form a clearance between at least a part of an inner surface of the housing and at least a part of the base; and a guide for guiding the motion of the thumbstick to follow one or more distinct directions when a position of the thumbstick relative to a neutral position thereof fall...