ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. D1,077,470, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Case" was invented by Christina J. Smiechowski (West Hollywood, Calif.), Duy P. Le (Los Angeles), Jeffrey Scott Croyle (San Francisco), Matthew Phillip Casebolt (Fremont, Calif.), Matthew Vincent Costello (Soquel, Calif.), Elvin Chu (San Francisco), Guillaume Raoult (San Francisco), Zu-Ning Chen (San Francisco), Christopher Kuh (San Francisco) and Robert Brunner (Glen Ellen, Calif.).

The patent was filed on Oct. 2, 2023, under Application No. D/913,462.

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