ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,330, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Light color coatings for electronic devices" was invented by Lijie Bao (Saratoga, Calif.), Jiayun Liu (Suzhou, China), Fei Tong (Shanghai), Jozef M. Matlak (Berkeley, Calif.), Sonja R. Postak (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Brian S. Tryon (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include conductive structures with a light-reflecting coating. The coating may have a two or four-layer thin-film interference filter. The two-layer filter may have a CrN layer and an SiCrN layer. The four-layer filter may have two CrN layers and two SiCrN laye...