US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Feb. 17 for "Drive device, manipulator, puppet operating device, and movable base" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,049, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Drive device, manipulator, puppet operating device, and movable base" was invented by Shinichi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Hitoshi Nakamura (Tokyo), Yuuichi Machida (Kanagawa, Japan), Toru Kuronuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Kuji (Tokyo), Maito Omori (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Ando (Tokyo), Yumi Ueda (Chiba, Japan) and Takeshi Asano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device (7) that unwinds, in a first direction, a wire (WR) connected to an operation target (41, 551, 552) with predetermined tension and pulls the wire in a direction opposite to the f...