US Patent Issued to Lite-On Technology on March 18 for "Key structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,028, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lite-On Technology Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Key structure" was invented by Ko-Hsiang Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chun-Lin Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key structure including a carrier, a keycap, a lifting member, and an elastic member is provided. The carrier includes a carrier body and multiple positioning hooks. The carrier body has multiple vias, and the positioning hooks are respectively disposed corresponding to the vias. Orthographic projection of each of the positioning hooks falls in the corresponding via. Each of the positioning hooks includes a first positioni...