ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,686, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Keyboard unit including hole in light-emitting module and electronic apparatus including the same" was invented by Kentaro Nagase (Yokohama, Japan) and Satoshi Douzono (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard unit includes a plurality of keytops; a baseplate supporting the plurality of keytops; and a light-emitting module having a light guide plate, a first flexible sheet covering a first surface of the light guide plate, and a second flexible sheet covering a second surface of the light guide plate opposite to the first surface of th...