US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on March 18 for "Electronic apparatus and exterior panel thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,890, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus and exterior panel thereof" was invented by Yujin Morisawa (Tokyo), Kazutaka Eto (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Ootori (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuta Tamaki (Chiba, Japan) and Toshihiro Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exterior panel for attachment to a surface of a housing includes: a curved profile that includes an inner surface and an outer surface; and a plurality of projecting portions extending out of the inner surface of the exterior panel, where each of the projecting portions is configured to fit in corresponding attachment ...