US Patent Issued to CASIO COMPUTER on June 2 for "Button device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,244, issued on June 2, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Button device and electronic device" was invented by Hirokatsu Katoh (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A button device includes a substrate with a hole; a button cap arranged above the substrate in a position corresponding to the holes in the substrate; and a projecting portion protruding toward the button cap through the hole in the substrate."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2023, under Application No. 18/326,251.

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