ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,873, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Housing, terminal device, and housing manufacturing method" was invented by Dawei Ji (Dongguan, China), Ming Cai (Dongguan, China) and Banghong Hu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a housing, a terminal device, and a housing manufacturing method. The housing includes a magnesium-based metal matrix. A first aluminum-based metal layer and a second aluminum-based metal layer are respectively disposed on two sides of the magnesium-based metal matrix, a first transition layer is disposed between the magnesium-ba...