US Patent Office Grants Articulated Gaming Controller (ProSteer) Patent.
November 15, 2020
The development team at Boxdark are very happy to report that our US Patent No 10,688,387 for our Articulated Gaming Controller (ProSteer) has been granted and Issued.
“This patent is the culmination of 4 years of hard work, so it’s really great for our whole team to finally achieve this milestone.” Commented Boxdark CEO Phil Croft.
Boxdark’s first US patent is the first official validation of Boxdark’s handheld steering innovation and comes ahead of expected European and Australian patents.
As we continue our development journey to bring the evolutionary ProSteer to market we constantly receive feedback from game developers, testers and investors.
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of the Mission Statement and its importance to a start-up. After all, I had been a Corporate
Adviser to many start-ups in my previous business - Harvest Business Growth Partners, and
we certainly espoused the use of a Mission Statement as a grounding force in the often
turbulent waters of early stage innovative business. This all-encompassing statement was a
tool to focus, guide and help founders hold course, return to source or pivot as times
dictated.