ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,522, issued on June 3, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Electronic device and method for external force recognition and tactile feedback for electronic device" was invented by Jing Chen (Beijing) and Xiaosheng Cui (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device that can include a device main body, a button on the device main body and at least partially exposed out of the device main body, and an external force recognition and tactile feedback component inside the device main body and opposite to the button. The external force recognition and tactile feedback component can recognize a mag...