ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,576, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Thermo-haptics for a pointing device for gaming" was invented by Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas) and Peng Lip Goh (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include a processor, a data storage device, a power management unit, a thermo-haptic mouse, including an array of thermoelectric generators of a thermo-haptic module to selectively heat or cool a portion of the thermo-haptic mouse to be felt by a user of the thermo-haptic mouse, and a piezoelectric actuator of the thermo-haptic module to selectively apply a vibrati...