ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,283, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Electronic device comprising side key" was invented by Kyoungsun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwanghwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yuchul Chang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a housing having a key-hole formed therein, a key coupled to the housing so as to be at least partially disposed in the key-hole, a key circuit board that is disposed inside the housing and that includes a switch, the switch being disposed on one surface of the key circuit board and...