ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,700, issued on July 22, was assigned to DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Keyboard with lighting board for backlighting keycap" was invented by Yi-Jui Pan (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Po-Yueh Chou (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting board includes a substrate having an insulation surface, a plurality of openings penetrating through the substrate, a plurality of coupling members disposed on the substrate and configured to connect to at least one keycap, a lighting circuit disposed on the insulation surface at a side opposite to the coupling members, an illuminant electrically connected to the lighting circui...