US Patent Issued to Acer on Feb. 10 for "Key structure and portable computer using the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,720, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Key structure and portable computer using the same" was invented by Chun-Hung Wen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hui-Ping Sun (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jui-Yi Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yen-Chou Chueh (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chun-Hsien Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key structure includes a base, a bracket, a sensing circuit, an elastic member, a key cap, and a screwing member. The bracket is disposed on the base, the sensing circuit is disposed on the bracket, and the sensing circuit has an opening. The elastic member is disposed on the sensing cir...