ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. D1,066,314, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Case for mobile communications device or the like" was invented by Jody Akana (San Francisco), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Shin Nishibori (Kailua, Hawaii), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, Calif.), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco) and Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco).
The patent...