ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,635, issued on July 28.

"Bright color coatings for electronic devices" was invented by Jozef M. Matlak (San Francisco), Brian S. Tryon (Redwood City, Calif.), Lijie Bao (Saratoga, Calif.), Maruwada Sukanya Sharma (Redwood City, Calif.), Shiva K. Mandepudi (San Ramon, Calif.) and Sonja R. Postak (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include conductive structures such as conductive housing structures. A high-brightness, visible-light-reflecting coating may be formed on the conductive structures. The coating may have adhesion and transition layers and an uppermost coloring layer on the adhesion and tran...