ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. D1,076,927, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device" 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), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, Calif.), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco) and Rico Z...