ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,555, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Primax Electronics Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Mechanical keyboard" was invented by Shu-An Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Kai-Wen Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Sheng-An Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Li-Kuei Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan), Tsun-Han Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chen-Wei Chan (Taipei, Taiwan) and Shao-Ju Yen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical keyboard is provided, which includes a plurality of mechanical keys, a circuit board, a plurality of first magnetic elements, a lower casing and a plurality of second magnetic elements. The mechanical keyboard has a key region and an edge region surrounding t...