ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. D1,086,117, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wearable device" was invented by Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, Ill.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Marc A. Newson (London), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Mikael Silvan...