ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,748, issued on July 28, was assigned to DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Touchpad device having bracket of integral dual-layered one-piece structure" was invented by Chun-Yuan Wang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Ting-Yi Chu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Hui-Chun Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touchpad device includes a touchpad and a bracket disposed below the touchpad and configured to support the touchpad. The touchpad is configured to sense a touch operation thereon. The bracket has a plurality sets of limiting structures, and each set of limiting structure includes two interfering members. The tw...