ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,089, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Smart keyboard device" was invented by Yi-Hsien Ko (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a keyboard device including multiple optical sensors and an AI engine. The multiple optical sensors are arranged corresponding to multiple key caps and used to output time differential data, spatial differential data and raw data. The AI engine is used to determine a number of, positions of and output data format of enabled sensors among the multiple optical sensors corresponding to different work modes in a learning stage a...