US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Tracking a paired peripheral input device based on a contact criterion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,340, issued on March 24.

"Tracking a paired peripheral input device based on a contact criterion" was invented by Waleed Abdulla (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sree Harsha Kalli (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mohamed Selim Ben Himane (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes tracking, via a positional tracker, the paired peripheral input device in a first tracking mode. The method includes obtaining sensor data from the paired peripheral input device via a communication interface. The method includes determining that the paired peripheral input device satisfies a contact criterion based on the sensor data. The contact crit...