US Patent Issued to DARFON ELECTRONICS on March 25 for "Lighting keyboard, backlight module and lighting board" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,574, issued on March 25, was assigned to DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Lighting keyboard, backlight module and lighting board" was invented by Chao-Yu Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Heng-Yi Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting keyboard includes a backlight module and at least one keyswitch. The backlight module includes a lighting unit, a light guide panel, and a lighting board for illuminating a keycap of the keyswitch. The light guide panel includes a panel hole to accommodate the lighting unit. The light guide panel further includes plural slots intervally surrounding the lighting unit. The ...