US Patent Issued to Logitech Europe on May 13 for "Establishing a trust relationship between a peripheral device and a server" (Swiss, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,184, issued on May 13, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Establishing a trust relationship between a peripheral device and a server" was invented by Stephen Wheeler (Ottawa), Laurent Gillet (Grandvaux, Switzerland), Marc Viredaz (Villaraboud, Switzerland), Nabil Hamzi (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Xavier Caine (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of authorizing a computer mouse to perform a particular action may include receiving, by a network device, a request associated with a particular action to be performed by a computer mouse. The request may be digitally signed using a private de...