ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,142, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Variable friction and multi-texture mouse" was invented by Bart K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Brian T. Gleeson (Mountain View, Calif.), Kristi E. Bauerly (Los Altos, Calif.), William D. Lindmeier (San Francisco), Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Geng Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Seung Wook Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Evangelos Christodoulou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Megan M. Sapp (San Francisco), Kainoa Kwon-Perez (San Francisco), John B. Morrell (Los Gatos, Calif.) and John S. Camp (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device can include a...