ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,443, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Wireless communication protocol for efficient packet management for input devices" was invented by Philippe Chazot (Saint-Jorioz, France), Attilio Panniello (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Frederic Fortin (Annemasse, France) and Myriam Douve (Pully, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wireless communications between an input device and a host. When only displacement data is detected in a period of time, a reduced-size packet is generated with the displacement data while eliminating packet fields corresponding to the other i...