US Patent Issued to CHERRY EUROPE on Dec. 30 for "Device for detecting a keystroke of a key module, keyboard and method for detecting a keystroke of a key module" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,281, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CHERRY EUROPE GMBH (Auerbach, Germany).

"Device for detecting a keystroke of a key module, keyboard and method for detecting a keystroke of a key module" was invented by Eduard Ruff (Auerbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for detecting a key press of a keyboard, including a key module, a circuit substrate, a planar coil arranged on or in the circuit substrate, and at least one damping element, wherein the at least one damping element for damping the planar coil is movably arranged in the key module between a rest position and an actuation position, wherein the damping element...