ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,441, issued on April 7.

"Chinese character input method, system and keyboard" was invented by John Zhongqi Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a Chinese character input method, system and a keyboard, and relates to the technical field of computers. A specific implementation of the method includes: recognizing the received key signal; in the case where the recognition result of the received key signal indicates a Chinese character Category Code and/or phrase Category Code, determining the recognized Chinese character and/or phrase represented by the Chinese character Category Code and/or the ph...