ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,978, issued on June 10, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Haptics and sensing systems for an input device" was invented by Nuno Miguel Pereira dos Anjos Valverde (Bandon, Ireland), Florent Berney (Echallens, Switzerland), James O'Connor (Cork, Ireland), Cyril Yves Anthony Drezet (Dommartin, Switzerland) and Vasco Eugenio Michele Foletti (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a computer mouse includes a housing, a depressible keyplate, and a haptic element coupled to a bottom surface of the depressible keyplate. The haptic element can be configured to operate in a plural...