US Patent Issued to CHICONY ELECTRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Keyboard device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,050, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CHICONY ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Keyboard device" was invented by Shin-Chin Weng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Ping Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shih-Yu Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Liang-Chun Yeh (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Bo-Wei Su (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard device includes a substrate, a keycap, a first connection member, and a first elastic arm structure. The substrate has a top surface, and the top surface has an assembling region. The keycap is disposed above the assembling region, and the keycap has a bottom surface facing the assembling region....