US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on July 8 for "Keypad comprising keys causing both MCU wake-up and key detection" (Swedish, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,267, issued on July 8, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Keypad comprising keys causing both MCU wake-up and key detection" was invented by Bernt Arbegard (Altura, Portugal) and Robin Dahlback (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided it is provided a keypad comprising: a voltage bus configured to distribute power in the keypad; and a plurality of keys: a plurality of row key connections; and a plurality of column key connections: A wake-up signal causes a microcontroller to transition from a low-power state to an active state such that the microcontroller can detect which one of the plurality of keys was actu...