ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,814, issued on July 8, was assigned to Maintek Computer (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (JiangSu, China) and PEGATRON Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Key device" was invented by Jing-Bo Wang (JiangSu, China), Chun-Yen Huang (JiangSu, China) and Yan-Bo An (JiangSu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a key device including a housing, a soft material layer, and a key component. The housing has at least one first assembly hole. The soft material layer is disposed on the housing and has at least one second assembly hole. The key component includes at least one key body and an elastic frame. The key body is exposed to the housing throu...