ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,413, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Luminous keyboard and backlight module thereof" was invented by Hsin-Hung Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chao-Yu Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Heng-Yi Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Hsin-Cheng Ho (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module applicable to a key module is provided, the key module includes a plurality of key units and a baseplate, and the plurality of key units are disposed on the baseplate. The backlight module includes a lower substrate, a plurality of periphery light sources disposed along the peripheral of the baseplate, and a ...