ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,967, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Channel switching mechanism among wireless peripheral devices" was invented by JuiChang Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Boon Kiat Law (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system detects a signal triggered by a user manipulation to switch from a first host to a second host, whereupon the first wireless peripheral device disconnects from the first host and re-connecting to the second host, and transmits to the second wireless peripheral device a request to switch from the first host to the second host."

The patent was filed on Sep...