ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,766, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Peripheral device" was invented by Stavros Volos (Cambridge, Great Britain), David Thomas Chisnall (Cambridge, Great Britain), Saurabh Mohan Kulkarni (Redmond, Wash.), Kapil Vaswani (Bangalore, India), Manuel Costa (Cambridge, Great Britain), Samuel Alexander Webster (Cambridge, Great Britain), Cedric Alain Marie Fournet (Cambridge, Great Britain), Richard Osborne (Bristol, Great Britain), Daniel John Pelham Wilkinson (Bristol, Great Britain) and Graham Bernard Cunningham (Chippenham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral...