US Patent Issued to AZOTEQ HOLDINGS on Feb. 24 for "Pressure mouse wheel" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,014, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AZOTEQ HOLDINGS Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Pressure mouse wheel" was invented by Frederick Johannes Bruwer (Paarl, South Africa) and Jean Viljoen (Paarl, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring wheel parameters of a user interface and using such information to implement a freewheeling (virtual rotation) output that operates independent of real rotation of the wheel. A specific application can be found in computer mouse products."

The patent was filed on Sept. 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/890,933.

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