ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,537, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ELECOM Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Operating system determining system and input device" was invented by Yoshiya Furuhata (Osaka, Japan), Takanori Ishii (Osaka, Japan) and Toshifumi Yakushinji (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating system determining system for determining an operating system installed on a terminal to which a peripheral device is connectable, the terminal being capable of having installed at least one operating system including a first operating system configured to, in response to receiving a first signal, transmitting a second signal, includes: a transmissio...