USB HID

The universal standard for plug-and-play peripheral communication without custom drivers.

USB Human Interface Device (HID) eliminates the need for proprietary drivers by providing a standardized communication protocol for input hardware. While primarily used for keyboards, mice, and game controllers, it supports diverse hardware like medical instruments and UPS systems through structured report descriptors. It operates on a polling interval (typically 1ms to 10ms) to ensure low-latency data transfer across Windows, macOS, and Linux kernels. By utilizing defined usage tables, HID allows a single firmware implementation to work instantly across millions of host devices.

https://www.usb.org/hid