US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on June 2 for "Infinite drag and swipe U turn" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,035, issued on June 2, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Infinite drag and swipe U turn" was invented by Luke Timmins (Bellevue, Wash.), Gregory Peng (Bellevue, Wash.), Elizabeth M.E. Chung (Bellevue, Wash.) and James Levasseur (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for implementing dynamic movement control on a virtualized physical controller, comprising receiving, on a touch-screen display, an indication of a first touch input received from a user at a first location, determining, based at least in part on a distance between the first location and a seco...