Date: April 18, 2026 Subject: Evaluation of libusb-win64 for USB device communication on Windows 10 (x64) Author: Technical Analyst 1. Introduction libusb is a cross-platform user-space library that provides generic access to USB devices. On Windows, the libusb-win64 package (often referred to as libusb-win32, but with 64-bit extensions) allows developers to communicate with USB devices without writing kernel-mode drivers.