ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,792, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Increased polling rates in a communication protocol" was invented by Keshav Lakshminarasimhan (Tamil Nadu, India) and Prathap Chandran Rajmohan (Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for wireless communications between a Human Interface Device (HID) and a host. The host receives a plurality of virtual endpoints for a single HID, and transmits multiple polling tokens to the virtual endpoints in each period. The HID responds either with sensor data, or dummy data when there is no new sensor data. The dummy data keep...