US Patent Issued to PFU on June 10 for "Keyboard device, control method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,982, issued on June 10, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Keyboard device, control method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Keisuke Kai (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard device includes a key switch corresponding to a character, a plurality of touchpads, a memory to store mapping information, a communication interface to communicate with an information processing apparatus, and circuitry. In the mapping information, a code to be output to the information processing apparatus is set for each combination of operations on the plurality of touchpads. When a combination of operations on ...