ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. D1,073,602, issued on May 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Display stand" was invented by Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Richard P Howarth (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco), Julian Jaede (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco), Clara Genevieve Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, Calif.), ...