US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Electronic devices having glass layers with scratch resistant coatings" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,745, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices having glass layers with scratch resistant coatings" was invented by Martin Melcher (Paris), Matthew S. Rogers (San Jose, Calif.), Ove Lyngnes (Carmel Valley, Calif.), Que Anh S. Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen C. Cool (San Jose, Calif.) and Tyler R. Roschuk (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be surrounded by an exterior region and may have an interior region. Electronic components may be mounted in the interior region. Housing walls such as housing walls formed from transparent layers of material ma...