US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 2 for "Keyboard backlight control" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,251, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Keyboard backlight control" was invented by Yong-Teng Lin (Yilan, Taiwan), Chun-Kai Tzeng (KeeLung, Taiwan) and Bradford Edward Vier (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes keyboard backlights, an embedded controller, and a processor. The embedded controller communicates with the keyboard backlights. In response to an activate keyboard backlights signal, the embedded controller turns on the keyboard backlights. In response to a deactivate keyboard backlights signal, the embedded controller turns off the keyboa...