ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. D1,122,237, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Case for an electronic device" was invented by Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (Los Altos, Calif.), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco), Clara Genevieve Marine Courtaigne (Paris), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), Alexandre B. Girard (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anne-Marie Heck (San Francisco), Moises Hernandez Hernandez (San Francisco), Thomas Howard (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, Ill.), Julian Jaede (San Jose, Calif.), Kainoa Kwon-Perez (San Francisco), Nicolas Pedro Lylyk (Los Gatos, Calif.), Youma Ohashi (San Francisco), Peter Riering-Czekalla (Oakland, Calif.), Benjamin A...