ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,849, issued on April 29, was assigned to Fulian Yuzhan Precision Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Metal-plastic composite part and method of making same, and electronic device housing having same" was invented by Ke-Na Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Pei-Bang Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a composite piece comprised of a metal part and a glass-fiber-reinforced plastic part, comprising: providing a metal part with a receiving cavity and a flow guiding channel, the flow guiding channel having an inlet communicating with the receiving cavity and an outlet; introducing molten plastic reinforced...