US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on May 20 for "System and method for a quiet keyboard with optical matrix key positioning" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,021, issued on May 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for a quiet keyboard with optical matrix key positioning" was invented by Peng Lip Goh (Singapore) and Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard includes a keyboard key cap of a keyboard key among a plurality of keyboard keys on the keyboard, where the keyboard key cap includes a key cap flange extending from a bottom surface of the keyboard key cap and a rubber dome formed under the keyboard key cap at a key location on the keyboard. A support layer is formed under the rubber dome with the support layer ...