ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,495, issued on Sept. 1.

"Computer input device and method of use" was invented by Kevin P. Dolan (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An educational information system and method includes a data reading unit having a housing with a top surface; and a plurality of wireless data reading units in the housing, wherein the data reading unit reads educational data, via the wireless data reading units, from at least one card containing the educational data and transmits the educational data to a computer screen for display, each card of the at least one card comprises an icon on a top card surface, the icon representative of the ...