ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,958, issued on June 24, was assigned to Solid Contracts Ltd. (Poole, Great Britain).

"Keyboard-key biasing device, system and method" was invented by Anthony Sorrell (Poole, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard-key biasing device 10 having a resiliently-flexible body element 12, a resiliently-flexible elongate first biasing member 14 which has a first contact area 30 and a resiliently-flexible elongate second biasing member 16 which has a second contact area 34. The first and second contact areas 30, 34 being at different distances from the body element 12 so that the biasing device 10 is usable in a plurality of o...