ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. D1,103,207, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface" was invented by Willem Renier Blignaut (Pretoria, South Africa), Benjamin B. Bours (San Francisco), Drew Rocky Domm (Oakland, Calif.), Alexander Benton Grossman (San Francisco), Lene van Heerden (Cape Town, South Africa), Byron Peter Meiring (Reading, Great Britain), David Moretti (Orinda, Calif.), Thomas Ignathius Jakobus Naude (Cape Town, South Africa), William Pule (Cape Town, South Africa), Tiffany Shelton Reese (Cupertino, Calif.), Christine Elizabeth Tran (Los Altos, Calif.) and Michael Joseph Zarcone III (Santa Monica, Calif.). ...