US Patent Issued to Wistron NeWeb on Aug. 4 for "Waterproof button module and electronic device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,554, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wistron NeWeb Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Waterproof button module and electronic device" was invented by Te-Yu Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chiu-Hui Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsueh-Chu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a waterproof button module, which is applied to an electronic device, including a button mainbody, a button shaft element and at least one elastic connecting element. The button mainbody is made of a flexible material, and the button mainbody includes a pressing portion, a connecting portion and at least two annular protruding structures. Th...