ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. D1,122,259, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Cover" was invented by Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, 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 (Lake Forest, Ill.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, Calif.), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco) and Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco).
The paten...