ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,805, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lite-On Technology Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Input device" was invented by Hao Jhih Lian (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-I Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Chi Feng Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Zhi-Yun Zhang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes a housing having an opening and a scroll wheel structure disposed in the housing. The scroll wheel structure includes a support frame fixed in the housing, a scroll wheel frame, a positioning frame including a first body portion connected to the support frame and a second body portion disposed in the scroll wheel frame, a magnetic member disp...