ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,295, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Laptop computer" was invented by Yu-Shih Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wen-Chieh Tai (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Chun Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Dong-Sheng Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Tzu-Wei Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Mu Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laptop computer including a first casing, a first sub-circuit board, an input module, a second casing, a motherboard, and a bridge circuit board is provided. The first sub-circuit board is disposed at the first casing. The input module is disposed at the first casing and electrically conne...