US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 9 for "Data item sharing via pointing device" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,739, issued on June 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data item sharing via pointing device" was invented by Jimmy L. Griffith (Pflugerville, Texas), Kai Wang (Shanghai) and David Allen Dyson (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pointing device, such as a mouse, a touchpad, or an active pen, may include functionality that allows the pointing device to receive a data item from a first information handling system (IHS), such as by storing the data item to a memory of the pointing device, and to transfer the data item to a second IHS. The pointing device may include a near field communication (NFC...