ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,183, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Controller" was invented by Yuta Koda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes an operating body whose tilting operation is possible, the operating body having a shaft section, a tubular body having an inner surface that is parallel with a longitudinal direction of the shaft section when the tilting operation of the operating body is not performed and that is provided with a gap between the tubular body and the shaft section, and an elastic member that is provided between the tubular body and the shaft section of the opera...