ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,036, issued on Aug. 11.

"Devices and methods for providing access to internal component" was invented by Benjamin Mark Rappoport (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, Calif.), Fletcher R. Rothkopf (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeremy C. Franklin (San Francisco), John Patrick Ternus (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Julian Hoenig (Lisbon, Portugal), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Scott Andrew Myers (Saratoga, Calif.) and Stephen Brian Lynch (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for applying concealment of components of an electronic device. In one embodiment, an e...