Lawsuit against the 3 game console makers
Texas based company “Fenner Investments” sues microsoft nintendo and sony for infrigment of the company’s patent – “Low-voltage joystick port interface”
The patent, filed in 1998 and later awarded in 2001, is summarized: “The joystick port interface according the present invention is a low power port which interfaces a typical 5 Volt joystick peripheral device with a lower power computer port.The low-voltage joystick port interface includes a bidirectional buffer circuit and a pulse generator which, together, generate a digital pulse signal, representing a joystick coordinate position, based on an input analog measurement signal.”
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