US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on May 13 for "Electronic apparatus and exterior panel thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,823, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus and exterior panel thereof" was invented by Yujin Morisawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Ootori (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiichi Aoki (Tokyo) and Shinya Tsuchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electronic apparatus which improves an external appearance and which easily ensures the strength of an exterior member. In the electronic apparatus, an upper surface of an exterior panel (20A) has, on a peripheral portion of the upper surface, a first position (P1), a second position (P2) defined on an opposite side of a...