US Patent Issued to Logitech Europe on April 21 for "Combining electropermanent magnets and magnetorheological fluid to modify an operation of an input device" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,088, issued on April 21, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Combining electropermanent magnets and magnetorheological fluid to modify an operation of an input device" was invented by Cyril Drezet (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jan Stoeckli (Jongny, Switzerland) and Nicolas Ramond (Lurgrin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include a computer peripheral device comprising an input element that operates based on a performance characteristic, an electropermanent magnet (EPM) assembly including a permanent magnet configured to generate a magnetic field and a magnetizing assembly configur...