ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,335, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for a power sustainability mouse with inertial solenoidal energy harvester device" was invented by Peng Lip Goh (Singapore) and Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless mouse operatively coupled to an information handling system including a wireless mouse microcontroller and a power management unit (PMU) to provide power to the wireless mouse microcontroller and the PMU operatively coupled to a battery and an ultracapacitor. The wireless mouse further comprising a inertial solenoidal energy harvester devi...