US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 25 for "Configuring a mouse device through pressure detection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,376, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Configuring a mouse device through pressure detection" was invented by Masaaki Fukumoto (Beijing), Hao Zhuang (Beijing), Jianjun Ju (Beijing), Paul Kos (Shenzhen, China) and Nicolas Schmitt (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for configuring a mouse device through pressure detection, and further proposes a corresponding mouse device. Pressure detected between the mouse device and an operation surface may be obtained. An operating state corresponding to the pressure may be determined. T...