ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,803, issued on March 17, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Capacitive sensing for an AR/VR stylus device" was invented by Olivier Guedat (Vufflens-la-Ville, Switzerland), David Brown (Cork, Ireland), Huagui Tan (Suzhou City, China), Yuehe Chen (Suzhou City, China), Xuesong Li (Suzhou City, Switzerland), Qifei Cai (Suzhou City, China), Yungao Dai (Suzhou City, China), Hua Zhao (Suzhou City, China) and JianZhong Fan (Suzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive button for an input device with a curved housing is provided. A button cap extends through an opening in the curved housing. A ca...