ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,211, issued on May 13, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Profile caching for a peripheral device" was invented by Chris Hughes (Oakland, Calif.), Jacob Kottage (Liverpool, N.Y.), Christine Flores (Seattle) and Andrew Coonrad (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors of a keyboard device from a host computing device communicatively coupled thereto, a request to switch to a first key input profile for a plurality of keys on the keyboard device; determining whether the first key input profile is locally stored on the keyboard...