US Patent Issued to Innaworks Development on Oct. 27 for "Ergonomic thumb-actuable keyboard" (New Zealander Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,338, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Innaworks Development Ltd. (Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

"Ergonomic thumb-actuable keyboard" was invented by Stephen Cheng (Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A keyboard including: an inner thumb row including a plurality of inner thumb keys configured to be actuated by a thumb, such that a critical contact point of each of the plurality of keys is arranged along an inner thumb arc on an inner thumb key plane; and an outer thumb row including a plurality of outer thumb keys configured to be actuated by the thumb, a critical contact point of each of the plurality of thumb keys i...