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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2020
Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US);
Danielle R. Truckenmiller, Falcon Heights, MN (US);
John W. Cain, River Falls, WI (US);
Peter D. Ludowise, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Sean D. Regan, St. Paul, MN (US);
Benjamin M. Wilke, Shoreview, MN (US);
Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device having a housing that includes a major side portion having a curved major surface and an inside major surface, the major side portion comprises a first section and a second section each having different opacities. An aspect of the present disclosure is that the housing is not powder coated, or painted. The electronic device can have a display comprising an array of display elements surface mounted on a rigid printed circuit board such that the array of display elements are planar, a display element from the array of display elements is aligned with the second section such that light is transmitted through the second section and projected onto the curved major surface.