ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,884, issued on June 23, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Method and system for dynamic illumination correction from bit-reduced data for computer mouse applications" was invented by Sylvain Grosjean (Les Fins, France), Evan Lojewski (Woodland Park, Colo.), Brian Moore (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Jeremy Schlachter (Villars-le-Grand, Switzerland) and Lorenzo Pierobon (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying illumination correction for an optical computer mouse, includes: flashing a light source of the mouse directed towards a surface; accumulating voltage on a pixel a...