ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,299, issued on April 22, was assigned to AdvanOrigin Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Alarm clock" was invented by Te-Hua Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alarm clock includes a microcontroller, a display unit, an audio output unit, ten numeric keys and a functional key. Upon determining that a long-press operation is performed on one of the numeric keys that corresponds to a weekly alarm setting, the microcontroller performs a weekly alarm setting procedure for the corresponding weekly alarm setting. In the weekly alarm setting procedure, the microcontroller sets an alarm time based on some numeric keys that are pre...