ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. D1,082,768, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device" was invented by Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Molly Anderson (San Francisco), 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 (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco), Christopher J. S...