ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,995, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device including clad components" was invented by Abhijeet Misra (Mountain View, Calif.), Hoishun Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Todd S. Mintz (San Jose, Calif.), Isabel Yang (San Jose, Calif.), James A. Curran (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lei Gao (Shanghai), Chuan Liu (Honghu, China) and Yu Yan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing for an electronic device can include an exterior titanium portion, an interior metal joined to the exterior titanium portion, the interior metal being a different metal than the exterior titanium portion, and an intermetal...