US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 9 for "Human interface device sensing" (Dutch, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,369, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Human interface device sensing" was invented by Loo Shing Tan (Singapore), Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert (Amsterdam), Gerald Rene Pelissier (Mendham, N.J.) and Thomas Marcus Hinskens (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may encode information regarding actuations of the human interface device in magnetic field distributions emanating from...