US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on July 29 for "System and methods for providing orientation compensation in pointing devices" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,507, issued on July 29, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and methods for providing orientation compensation in pointing devices" was invented by Gerben Meijer (Oosterbeek, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Axis orientation compensation is provided in a system in which movement of a controlling device is used to control navigational functions of a target appliance by determining which one of plural sides of the controlling device is an active side of the controlling device and by causing navigational functions of the target appliance made relative to at least one of an X, Y, and Z axis o...