US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for providing a user interface" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,619, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for providing a user interface" was invented by Mark Anthony (London), Jun Yen Leung (London) and Paul Terence Mulligan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a user interface on a controller having a plurality of input elements. The method includes the step of loading game data to initiate interactive gameplay; and sending control signals to the controller based on the interactive gameplay to provide a lighting effect on a light emitting element associated with one of the plurality of input elements, where...