ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,878, issued on June 30, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Mitigating an influence of external magnetic fields on an analog computer peripheral device" was invented by Frederic Alexis Guillaume de Goumoens (Morges, Switzerland), Leo Victor Pedro Zeender (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Vasco Eugenio Michele Foletti (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer mouse comprising a keyplate; a first conductive element coupled to the keyplate; a second conductive element coupled to the keyplate; a first sensor element configured to detect a first magnetic field generated by the first conductive e...