ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,373, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).
"State based action buttons" was invented by Gregory Peng (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for implementing a virtualized physical controller. The techniques may comprise receiving. from a user via a touchscreen display. a first touch input corresponding to at least one input mechanism of a set of input mechanisms. determining a first state that is currently active. generating. based on the first state. first activation data that includes an indication of a first action. The techniques may fur...