US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on June 2 for "Input unit, input device, and cover mountable over input unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,036, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Input unit, input device, and cover mountable over input unit" was invented by Satoshi Aoyagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input unit enables the force of a finger of a user to smoothly act on an input stick no matter whether the finger radially tilts the input stick or returns the input stick to an initial position. An input device includes an input stick. The input stick includes a touch section that is disposed on the uppermost part of the input stick and is to be touched by a thumb of the user. The upper surface of the touch section ha...