ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. D1,062,743, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Backplate for an electronic device" was invented by Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Adam T. Clavelle (San Francisco), Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong (San Francisco), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Julian Jaede (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Martin...