Atari Games Receives Japanese Patent on Force Feedback Steering Technology; Sega Enterprises and Atari Games Enter Patent Cross-License Agreement.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999--The Japanese Patent Office issued a Japanese Patent Grant to Atari Games Atari Games Corporation was an American producer of arcade games, and originally part of Atari Inc. History When, in 1984, Warner Communications sold the Atari Consumer division of Atari Inc. Corporation, effective November 6, 1998, relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Atari Games' Force Feedback Steering technology. Atari Games originally filed for the patent in Japan in January, 1990. The recently-issued Japanese Patent Number 2847411 corresponds to US Patent Number 5,044,956, granted to Atari Games in 1991, as well as corresponding patents issued in Europe. The Japanese patent entitled, "Control Device Such As A Steering Wheel for Video Vehicle Simulator With Realistic Feedback Forces," will remain in effect through January 10, 2010 and covers the core force feedback steering technology which Atari Games created and first introduced to the video game industry with its Hard Drivin'(R) arcade game in 1989. Atari Games' patent is currently widely applied in arcade driving games and is also applicable to home platform games using steering wheels that feature force feedback which simulate the actual feel of driving. In a related announcement, Atari Games and Sega Enterprises announced that they have entered a patent cross-license agreement. For undisclosed financial terms, Atari Games has granted Sega Enterprises a worldwide non-exclusive license to its force feedback steering technology for use in Sega's arcade games and Sega's home video game systems. Sega Enterprise has also granted Atari Games a non-exclusive worldwide license to its "viewpoint changeover" technology. Sega Enterprises was recently granted a Japanese patent for this viewpoint changeover technology which allows a video game player to choose from a multiple number of pre-set points of view. Atari Games Corporation is a leading designer, publisher and marketer of video games for the coin-operated market. Atari Games is a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MWY MWY Me Without You (band) ) and as such, all home game titles are published under the Midway label. Current popular coin-operated titles include Gauntlet Legends and Area 51 Site 4. Classic titles include Pong (games) Pong - A computer game invented in 1972 by Atari's Nolan Bushnell. The game is a minimalist rendering of table tennis. Each of the two players are represented as a white slab, controllable by a knob, which deflects a bouncing ball. , Breakout, Asteroids This is a list of numbered minor planets, nearly all of them asteroids, in sequential order. As of late September 2007 there are 164,612 numbered minor planets, and many more not yet numbered. Most asteroids are ordinary and not particularly noteworthy. and Centipede centipede, common name for members of a single class, Chilopoda, of the phylum Arthropoda. Centipedes are the most familiar of the myriapodous arthropods, which consist of five groups of arthropods that had a separate origin from other arthropods. . |
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