US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 16 for "Low acoustic magnetic mouse scroll wheel" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,982, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Low acoustic magnetic mouse scroll wheel" 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: "An information handling system peripheral mouse accepts scroll inputs at a scroll wheel extending from the upper surface of the mouse. The scroll wheel rotates about an axis and has a geared wheel core with peaks and valleys that rotate past a magnet, such as a Halbach magnet. The geared wheel core interacts with a magnetic field of the Halbach magnet so that magnetic flux resistance to rotation varies b...