ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,057, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Input device" was invented by Takanori Minamino (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenzo Nishikawa (Tokyo), Takeshi Igarashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Isao Okuyama (Chiba, Japan) and Yoshiaki Kawamura (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improvement in accuracy in recognition of the position and posture of input devices is achieved. The input device has a grip extending in an up-down direction, an upper portion positioned upward of the grip and having operating members to be operated by a finger disposed therein, and a lower portion positioned downward of the...