ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,983, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TRAPPER HOLDING AB (Jarfalla, Sweden).
"Link intended for a flexible mat in a pointing device" was invented by Rolf Eric Ragnar Stromberg (Ska, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Links (5a-m), preferably intended for, but not limited to, manufacturing a flexible mat (2) for use in an electronic device such as a pointing device, arranged to control the movement of a pointer/cursor on a monitor/display at, for example, a computer or similar device, and where at least one of the links (5a-m) is substantially rigid in its longitudinal direction. The at least one link (5a-m) can be consisting o...