ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,267, issued on May 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing an action in response to a change in status of an input device" was invented by Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing an action in response to a change in status of an input device. A media item is generated for output at a computing device, and a change in status of an input device associated with the computing device is identified. An indication of the change in status of the input device is received, and, in response to receiving the indication,...