ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,380, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"Motorized scroll wheel for an input device" was invented by Maxim Vlasov (Geneva), Jan Stoeckli (Jongly, Switzerland), Baptiste Merminod (Dommartin, Switzerland), Cyril Yves Anthony Drezet (Dommartin, Switzerland), Nicolas Ramond (Chalet les Castor Laprau Lugrin, France) and Jean-Claude Dunant (Fey, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral device may include a body. The device may include a scroll wheel rotatably coupled with the body. The scroll wheel may include a ferromagnetic rotor. The rotor may be generally annular and may defi...