Issue with T500 keyboard

Hi there,
I have a T500 from few weeks and last time, the laptop locked because inactivity but when I get back in, the keyboard did no work at all, only the mouse worked. I tried with fn key and F2 and other combination but nothing. I have tried also to plug a USB keyboard but it did not work too. Do you have any idea what it could be ? When I restart the laptop it worked fine, weird isn't ?
Thanks for the answer

I thought the same Barry, but it functions perfectly well on my MBP and has no other issues.
Plus its less that 6mths old.

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