ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,226, issued on July 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Hardware-agnostic input framework for providing input capabilities at various fidelity levels, and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Chengyuan Yan (San Bruno, Calif.), Joseph Davis Greer (Portland, Ore.), Sheng Shen (Shoreline, Wash.) and Anurag Sharma (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for providing input capabilities at various fidelity levels. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from an application, a request identifying an input ...