ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,839, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
"Button mechanism" was invented by Chun-Lung Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chih-Ching Hsieh (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chun-Feng Yeh (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A button mechanism is provided, including a button element, a magnet connected to the button, a hollow tube, a first coil, and a second coil. The first and second coils are disposed on the tube. When the first coil generates a first magnetic field, the magnet is magnetically attracted by the first coil, and the button element is positioned in the first position. When t...