US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Switchable conversion of a standard keyboard to a braille interface" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,908, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Switchable conversion of a standard keyboard to a braille interface" was invented by Smit Kapila (Bangalore, India), Prakash Kurma Raju (Bangalore, India), Naveen Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Santosh Gangal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Keyboards that are selectably configurable between a standard interface and a braille interface. In embodiments, the keyboard is equipped with six keys corresponding to six dots of a braille matrix, each of the keys equipped with a shape memory alloy spring or other mechanism to cause each of the keys to sel...