Patent ID: 11895812
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of manufacturing a computing component, comprising:
positioning a cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material including a cosmetic surface and a protrusion surface;
forming a protrusion on the protrusion surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material by selective laser melting a plurality of layers of the protrusion including an innermost layer and an outermost layer formed above the innermost layer; and
creating a heat affected zone while forming each of the plurality of layers of the protrusion that does not extend to the cosmetic surface of the cosmetic prefabricated sheet of material based on the protrusion being formed of the plurality of selective laser melted layers.