US Patent Issued to Apple on March 18 for "Coatings for transparent substrates in electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,697, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Coatings for transparent substrates in electronic devices" was invented by Que Anh S. Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher D. Prest (San Francisco), Jody R. Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Marta M. Giachino (San Francisco), Matthew S. Rogers (San Jose, Calif.) and Ove Lyngnes (Carmel Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have a housing surrounding an interior in which electrical components are mounted. A display may be mounted to housing structures in the device. The housing may have a rear wall. The display cover layer and ...