ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,581, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Primax Electronics Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Touchpad module" was invented by Wei-Chiang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Ping Chan (Taipei, Taiwan), Ruey-Piin Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Hui Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tung-Heng Wu (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touchpad module includes an elastic bracket, a touch member, a plurality of connecting elements and a pressure sensing unit. The elastic bracket includes a plurality of cantilevers. The plurality of cantilevers have respective free ends and respective fixed ends. The plurality of connecting elements are connected with the respe...