US Patent Issued to Logitech Europe on Sept. 8 for "Keyboard with universal smart key switch adaptor" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,520, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Logitech Europe S.A. (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Keyboard with universal smart key switch adaptor" was invented by Frederic Alexis Guillaume de Goumoens (Rolle, Switzerland), Jan Stoeckli (Jongny, Switzerland) and Leo Zeender (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key structure comprising a housing, a plunger extending from a top side of the housing and configured to be depressed and travel along a range of motion, a motion sensor system, and driving electronics, all contained within the housing, the sensor system configured to detect movement of the depressible plunger along the...