US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on May 27 for "System and method for a quiet mouse scroll wheel with magnetic haptic encoder" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,488, issued on May 27, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for a quiet mouse scroll wheel with magnetic haptic encoder" 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 mouse for use with an information handling system comprising a base chassis of the mouse to enclose a mouse microcontroller and a mouse power management unit (PMU) to power the mouse microcontroller, a scroll wheel to receive scrolling input from a user from scroll wheel rotation and a magnetic haptic encoder detecting scrolling input and comprising a grooved ferromagn...