US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for overmolding on electronic device surfaces" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,387, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for overmolding on electronic device surfaces" was invented by Zhicong Yao (Seattle) and Kenneth Charles Boman (Duvall, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a display with a glass planar portion and a second material position at an outer edge of the glass planar portion. The glass planar portion defines a majority of a display surface of the display, and the second material is molded to the outer edge of the glass planar portion and defines at least part of a border portion. The second materi...