ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,146, issued on June 23, was assigned to DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
"Lighting keyboard and backlight module thereof" was invented by Ying-Lan Liu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Hsin-Cheng Ho (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Heng-Yi Huang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chao-Yu Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight module is configured to illuminate at least one keycap. The backlight module includes a shielding sheet, a lighting board and a protrusion structure. The lighting board includes an illuminant unit and a pair of footprints respectively connecting the illuminant unit. Each of the footprints inc...