ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,162, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Input device with adaptive grip orientation" was invented by Bart K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Brian T. Gleeson (Mountain View, Calif.), Kristi E. Bauerly (Los Altos, Calif.), William D. Lindmeier (San Francisco), Matthew J. Sundstrom (Campbell, Calif.), Geng Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Seung Wook Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Evangelos Christodoulou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Megan M. Sapp (San Francisco), Kainoa Kwon-Perez (San Francisco), David H. Bloom (San Francisco), Steven J. Taylor (San Jose, Calif.), John B. Morrell (Los Gatos, Calif.), Miao He (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hamza Kashif (San Jose, Calif.).

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