ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,611, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system keyboard lighting and language by key lattice coupling" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Shawn Paul Hoss (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system keyboard is tested for wear to determine reuse or recycling by subjecting the information handling system to visual inspection performed by a camera that includes an evaluation of key wear based in part on a keyboard language in a key lattice. The key lattice couples to a keyb...