ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,923, issued on April 29, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"Hybrid switch for an input device" was invented by Jan Stoeckli (Jongny, Switzerland), Nicolas Ramond (Lurgrin, France), Olivier Egloff (Renens, Switzerland), Regis Croisonnier (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Laurent Plancherel (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device comprises a depressible element with two switches including a first switch configured to generate a first signal when the depressible element is depressed by a threshold distance and a second switch configured to generate a second signal indicating when the de...