US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 17 for "Mechanical flexural parallel motion trackpad" (Serbian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,094, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Mechanical flexural parallel motion trackpad" was invented by Vladimir Carapic (Belgrade, Serbia) and Srdjan Jovanovic (Belgrade, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clickable trackpad designs generally aim to achieve a thin form factor with a minimized footprint that provides consistent user perception of click feel at scale within cost constraints. The clickable trackpad designs found herein adopt a mechanical depression mechanism that allows a user to register a click at any point on the trackpad surface with little variance in the depr...