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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2022
Applicant:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeansoo Khim, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Osman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/24 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/24 (2014.09);
Abstract
A controller, thumbstick, or system comprising a thumbstick body, a thumbstick shaft coupled to the thumbstick body wherein the thumbstick shaft is configured to retract into the thumbstick body and wherein the thumbstick body and the thumbstick shaft is freely rotatable together around a pivot center within the controller body. In some implementations the thumbstick body included a fluid and the thumbstick shaft displaces the fluid when the thumbstick shaft retracts into the thumbstick body.