ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,609, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Low-travel illuminated key mechanism" was invented by Michelle R. Goldberg (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kathleen A. Bergeron (Los Gatos, Calif.), Paul X. Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Alex J. Lehmann (Sunnyvale, Calif.), William P. Yarak III (San Francisco), Kevin C. Armendariz (San Francisco) and Zheng Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a low profile key for a keyboard having an overmolded support structure. In one aspect, an embodiment includes a key cap having an illuminable symbol. A support structure having a pair of overm...