US Patent Issued to PFU on June 24 for "Keyboard apparatus in which touch pad is located based on Fitts's law" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,030, issued on June 24, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Keyboard apparatus in which touch pad is located based on Fitts's law" was invented by Kiichiro Shimosaka (Kahoku, Japan), Yoshie Fuchigami (Kahoku, Japan) and Satoshi Kubota (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard apparatus includes an enclosure, a plurality of keys located on a top face of the enclosure, and a touch pad provided on at least one side face of the enclosure. A shortest distance D between a key assigned to a home position out of the plurality of keys and an upper end of a side face on which the touch pad is provided, and a width W of th...