US Patent Issued to EM Microelectronic-Marin on Dec. 2 for "Method for tracking an optical mouse by way of frame anchoring" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,476, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Method for tracking an optical mouse by way of frame anchoring" was invented by Evan Lojewski (Woodland Park, Colo.) and Brian Moore (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking a position of an optical computer mouse based on determining a spatial displacement between image frames. A respective image frame is considered as an anchor frame if the respective image frame comes first in a sequence of image frames or the distance of the respective image frame to its immediately previous anchor frame is equal to or gre...