ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. D1,082,734, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device" was invented by Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, Calif.), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Steven P. Jobs (Palo Alto, Calif.), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Shin Nishibori (Kailua, Hawaii), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco), Douglas B. Satzger (Menlo Park, Calif.), Calvin Q. Seid (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, Calif.), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco) and Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco).

The patent was filed on Sept. 23, 2024, under Application No. D/96...