US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Interactions between an input device and an electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,215, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Interactions between an input device and an electronic device" was invented by Marcos Alonso (Oakland, Calif.), Daniel T. Preston (San Jose, Calif.), Peder Blekken (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Christopher D. Soli (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to providing feedback about the pose and/or orientation of an input device relative to a surface, such as feedback about a change in an orientation of the input device relative to the surface due to rotational movement of the input device about a first axis associated with the input ...