US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Input device including optical sensor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,809, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Input device including optical sensor" was invented by Evangelos Christodoulou (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input devices for electronic devices and systems that include input devices in communication with electronic devices are disclosed. In an example, an input device includes a housing that includes an elongate body and a tip coupled with the elongate body. The input device further includes an optical flow sensor disposed in the tip of the housing. The optical flow sensor is configured to detect two-dimensional movement of the input d...