ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,176, issued on July 7, was assigned to C. JOSEF LAMY GMBH (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Input device" was invented by Sebastian Zielonka (Viernheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device, in particular active or passive, which is intended for touch-sensitive screen and to the front end of which an input element, which can be placed on the screen, of a preferably elongate input part of the input device is assigned in order to make inputs. Input part is movably mounted so latter is movable from a housing position, wherein input element, preferably the entire input part, is located in housing of input device, into an input pos...