ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,326, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dongguan Weizhong Electronics Co. Ltd (Dongguan, China).

"Low profile compatible with a standard mechanical profile/MX profile keyboard" was invented by Qinyu Shen (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses low profile switches for standard mechanical profile switch/MX profile switch keyboards, the low profile switch installed on PCB of standard mechanical profile switch/MX profile switch keyboards, the bottom of low profile switches arranged with a positioning column, the outer diameter of positioning column being 3.85 mmplus-minus0.15, one side of positioning colu...