ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,220, issued on May 13, was assigned to DEXIN Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Mouse pad" was invented by Ho-Lung Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Pai-Yang Chou (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mouse pad that is adapted to a wireless charging transmitter and operates in cooperation with a wireless mouse is provided. The mouse pad includes a main body and a secondary resonant coil circuit disposed inside the main body. The secondary resonant coil circuit wirelessly receives a first electromagnetic energy provided by the wireless charging transmitter arranged outside the main body, and then converts the first electromagnetic ...