ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. D1,122,917, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device" was invented by Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Abidur Chowdhury (San Francisco), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Julian Jaede (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Fran...