US Patent Issued to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 3 for "Key structure" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,011, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Key structure" was invented by Ko-Hsiang Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chun-Lin Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key structure is provided. The key structure includes an elastic element and a keycap disposed on the elastic element. The elastic element includes a movable portion, a fixed portion and a connection portion. The fixed portion surrounds the movable portion. The connection portion connects the fixed portion with the movable portion. The keycap includes a first connection portion. The first connection portion is connected to the...