ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,503, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Computer peripheral report rate and display refresh rate synchronization" was invented by Nicolas Chauvin (La Rippe, Switzerland) and Francois Scholder (Crissier, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprising receiving, by an input device from a host computing device, a display refresh rate for a display, both the display and the input device being communicatively coupled to the host computing device. The method further includes computing, by the input device, a frequency multiplier based on the display refresh...