ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,236, issued on May 13, was assigned to Clevetura LTD (Limassol, Cyprus).
"Keyboard" was invented by Vasily Borysyonok (Limassol, Cyprus), Dzmitry V. Zakreuski (Limassol, Cyprus), Raman Sakovich (Limassol, Cyprus), Mikhail Yu Krupiankou (Limassol, Cyprus) and Yury V. Lahutski (Limassol, Cyprus).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a combined touch sensor and keypress sensor comprising: a first layer, comprising: at least a portion of a plurality of touch sensor electrodes; and exposed portions of a plurality of keypress sensor electrodes; and a second, connecting, layer, comprising: connecting lines that connect the expose...