Backbone Labs, Inc.

Performance Designed Products LLC

Ozhan Maker

Jon Christopher Lake

Eric Sorensen

Maneet Singh Khaira

Zachary Scott

Wei-Jun Wang

Trevor Thomas Lehr

Cory Newton

Kevin Zuccaro

A gaming device that includes a handheld controller having a handle and a depressible button on the handle configured to receive user input. The depressible button includes a first marking layer including a first indicia, a first light source configured to illuminate the first indicia in the first marking layer, a second marking layer stacked with the first marking layer and including a second indicia, and a second light source configured to illuminate the second indicia in the second marking layer.

Dynamically changing button indicia for a game controller

A handheld gaming device in which configurations allow for default-open, force-close systems and separate the user's insertion of the mobile device and closure of the handles around the mobile device.

Open and close features for game controller bridge

A game controller for a mobile device having a first handle, a second handle, a bridge coupling the first handle to the second handle, and a magnetic connector. The first handle includes a user-accessible, first hardware interface configured to accept touch inputs. The second handle includes a user-accessible, second hardware interface configured to accept touch inputs. The magnetic connector is configured to magnetically retain a mobile device to the game controller.

Game controller with magnetic wireless connector

A handheld game controller having a handle and a bumper assembly on the handle. The bumper assembly includes a bumper and a haptic actuator. The bumper is configured to accept touch inputs from a user. The haptic actuator includes at least one plate and a piezoelectric actuator. The piezoelectric actuator is configured to receive an electrical signal, convert the electrical signal to mechanical motion, translate the mechanical motion to the at least one plate, and cause the at least one plate and the bumper to vibrate.

Haptics for touch-input hardware interfaces of a game controller

A video game audio controller includes a headset audio port configured to connect to an audio headset and receive a headset audio signal, a chat audio port configured to receive a chat audio signal from another controller, a game audio port configured to receive a game audio signal from a video game console, and control circuitry configured to sum the headset audio signal and the chat audio signal and to output the combined chat audio signal from the controller. A local chat audio gaming network can include a plurality of such video game audio controllers removably connectable with each other via one or more cables, wherein the combined chat audio signal is communicated in only one direction between the plurality of video game audio controllers.

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