US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on June 23 for "Image forming apparatus with sliding keyboard" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,973, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Image forming apparatus with sliding keyboard" was invented by Dongwoo Lee (Seongnam Si, South Korea), Hanjun Lee (Seongnam Si, South Korea) and Chanhyun Park (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example image forming device includes a printing portion to print an image on a print medium, a protruding portion protruding upward from an upper surface of the printing portion and comprising an accommodation portion, and a keyboard movable between a storage position in which the keyboard is partially stored in the accommodat...