ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,222, issued on Sept. 8.

"Portable electronic device with two-piece housing" was invented by Erik L. Wang (Redwood City, Calif.), Phillip Michael Hobson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kenneth A. Jenks (San Jose, Calif.), Adam D. Mittleman (Portola Valley, Calif.), Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, Calif.), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco), Daniele De luliis (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, Ill.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Steven P. Jobs (Palo Alto, Calif.), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Shin Nishibori (Honolulu), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco), Douglas B. Satzger (Menlo Park, Calif.), Calvin Q. Seid (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, Cali...