ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,085, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Glorius LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Hot-swappable battery system for computer peripherals" was invented by Shazim Mohammad (Fairview, Texas), Shariq Mohammad (McKinney, Texas), Matthew Windt (Austin, Texas) and Sanjaya Bhanu Dissanayake (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-swappable battery system for computer peripherals includes a wireless mouse having a battery compartment, a battery connector assembly mounted within the battery compartment, a removable battery configured to be inserted into and ejected from the battery connector assembly, a keep-alive battery mounted within the w...