US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 31 for "Dial based human interface device" (Dutch, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,321, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dial based human interface device" was invented by Loo Shing Tan (Singapore), Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert (Amsterdam), Gerald Rene Pelissier (Mendham, N.J.) and Thomas Marcus Hinskens (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services using user input are disclosed. To obtain the user input, a passive human interface device may be used. The human interface device may encode information regarding actuations of the human interface device in magnetic field distributions emanati...