ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,402, issued on July 1, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"Scroll wheel with lighting" was invented by Yu Shiang Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Sen Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Anthony Vuillemin (Zhubei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure propose a scroll wheel module that may be mounted in a mouse. The scroll wheel module may include a base plate; a carriage coupled to the base plate, wherein the carriage defines a cradle space comprising a first side wall; a scroll wheel at least partially rotatably received within the cradle space, wherein the scroll wheel com...