US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 14 for "Information handling system secure keyboard health state tracking for enhanced reuse and recycling" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,667, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system secure keyboard health state tracking for enhanced reuse and recycling" was invented by John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas), Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas) and Andrew P. Tosh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key input counter stored in non-transitory memory coupled to a keyboard membrane and executing on a processing resource of the keyboard membrane stores a number of key presses detected at the membrane to track health of the keyboard for reuse. Key input values are queued in batches of sufficient size...