US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Case" (American, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. D1,077,780, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Case" 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), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, Ill.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Julian Jaede (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Sung-Ho Tan (Vienna), Clement ...