US Patent Issued to Logitech Europe on Oct. 14 for "Partial scanning in a hybrid switch array" (Taiwanese, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,554, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Partial scanning in a hybrid switch array" was invented by Jeremie Willemin (Zhubei, Taiwan), Yu-Sen Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Keson Tsao (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Laurent Plancherel (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard system including a plurality of hybrid key structures configured in an array of subarrays, each of the plurality of hybrid key structures configured within a subarray and including a depressible element, a first type of key switch configured to generate a first signal when the depressible element i...