ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,573, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Housings for electronic devices and memory devices" was invented by Vishnu Chandar Janakiraman (Penang, Malaysia), Mutharasu Devarajan (Penang, Malaysia) and KL Bock (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to housings for, e.g., memory devices and electronic devices, and to processes for forming such housings. In an embodiment, an article for housing at least a portion of an electronic device is provided. The article includes a first component comprising a thermoplastic and a biodegrad...