US Patent Issued to Universal City Studios on Oct. 27 for "Control stick with enabling and disabling functionality" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,342, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Universal City Studios LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Control stick with enabling and disabling functionality" was invented by Kevin Smith (Orlando, Fla.), Ray Ellington Chowning IV (Orlando, Fla.) and Myles Geoffrey McClellan (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control stick includes a handle coupled to a base, the handle pivots relative to the base, and a controller system configured to detect an angle and a direction of the handle relative to a neutral position and provide data to a controlled device based on the angle and the direction, wherein the controller system includes a t...