ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,651, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Keyswitch structure" was invented by Yu-Ming Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chin-Hung Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyswitch structure includes a baseplate, a keycap disposed over the baseplate and configured to be movable relative to the baseplate, a membrane switch disposed between the keycap and the baseplate and configured to have one or more buffer portions with two open edges opposite to each other, and a first linking bar connected to the keycap and disposed between the keycap and the membrane switch. The first linking ba...