US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Jan. 27 for "User-customized flat computer simulation controller" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,580, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"User-customized flat computer simulation controller" was invented by Celeste Bean (San Francisco), Ellana Fortuna (Austin, Texas), Yvette Chen (Irvine, Calif.), Alessandra Luizello (San Diego), Andrew Perrine (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Jeremy Ambers (San Francisco), Elizabeth Osborne (Oakland, Calif.) and Marvin Barrera (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallelepiped-shaped body has a flat top surface on which a user draws computer simulation controller buttons with a layout and spacing best fitting the user's physical needs. The us...