ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,234, issued on March 24, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Casing structure of electronic device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Tzu-Wei Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Chun Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Cheng-Nan Ling (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Wen-Chieh Tai (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casing structure of electronic device including a metal base plate, a transparent cathodic electrodeposition paints layer, and a transparent paints coating layer is provided. The metal base plate has brushed texture and high gloss surface. The transparent cathodic electrodeposition paints layer ...