US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on June 9 for "Input device and cover of input device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,713, issued on June 9, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Input device and cover of input device" was invented by Masaho Morita (Tokyo) and Takashi Onda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The rigidity of an input device is increased while an effect on the external appearance of the input device is suppressed. The input device has a device front portion as well as a right grip and a left grip. An upper case and a lower case of the input device form a part of each of the device front portion, the right grip, and the left grip, and house a frame. The lower case is fixed to at least one of the frame ...