ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,667, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PEGATRON Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Elastic buckling element and electronic device using the same" was invented by Yu-Peng Lai (Taipei, Taiwan), Hui-Chen Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chan-Wei Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chuan-Yuan Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic buckling element includes a base and an elastic buckling portion. The base includes a bearing surface, and the bearing surface defines a horizontal direction parallel to the bearing surface and a vertical direction perpendicular to the bearing surface, one end of the elastic buckling portion is fixed on the bearing ...