ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,714, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Terminal device" was invented by Yihe Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jiuliang Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Zhandong Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device comprises a component and a circuit board. The circuit board comprises a circuit substrate and a solder mask layer, and wherein the circuit substrate comprises a medium layer and a circuit layer stacked with the medium layer. Openings with different depths are provided in the circuit board, and at least part of the component is accommodated in or arranged corresponding to the openin...