US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 20 for "Portable information handling system keyboard membrane having liquid detection" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,672, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Portable information handling system keyboard membrane having liquid detection" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), Chiu-Jung Tsen (Zhubei, Taiwan) and John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane having plural input sensors and plu...