ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,677, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method of assembling and sustainable system for a user-repairable mouse" was invented by Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas), Weijong Sheu (Austin, Texas) and Peng Lip Goh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user-repairable mouse for an information handling system comprising a board-to-board connector comprising a sensor printed circuit board (PCB) connector first side bridged to a mouse main PCB connector and a user-replaceable mouse bottom cover having a user-replaceable mouse scroll wheel and scroll wheel encoder operatively coupled to the mouse...