slimerancher@lemmy.worldM to Nintendo@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoNintendo has filed a patent for ‘smart fluid’ joysticks, perhaps to eliminate drift | VGCwww.videogameschronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1181arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1172arrow-down1external-linkNintendo has filed a patent for ‘smart fluid’ joysticks, perhaps to eliminate drift | VGCwww.videogameschronicle.comslimerancher@lemmy.worldM to Nintendo@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJonDorfman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThat patent is what I was referring to when I mentioned a novel approach.
minus-squareMatija Šuklje@toot.silinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months ago@JonDorfman, right, but Hall effect analogue sticks themselves have existed for a long time, so that technology in general (except any novel addition) is (most likely) not patented anymore.
That patent is what I was referring to when I mentioned a novel approach.
@JonDorfman, right, but Hall effect analogue sticks themselves have existed for a long time, so that technology in general (except any novel addition) is (most likely) not patented anymore.