ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,093, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Controller apparatus and sensor" was invented by Hitoshi Nakamura (Tokyo), Yumi Ueda (Chiba, Japan) and Toshiyuki Ando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a deformable controller main body and at least one sensor disposed on or in the vicinity of the surface of the controller main body, the sensor having an electrode formed of an elastic conductive material."

The patent was filed on March 24, 2022, under Application No. 18/843,521.

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