ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,081, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Light emitting device and keyboard structure" was invented by Shan-Hui Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Po-Jui Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chang-Hung Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Po-Cheng Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device and a keyboard structure are provided. The light emitting device includes a circuit board and multiple light emitting units. The circuit board includes a substrate, a first conductive pad, multiple second conductive pads, and multiple third conductive pads. The first conductive pad and the second c...