ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. D1,103,982, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device" was invented by Jody Akana (San Francisco), Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (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 Francisco), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, Calif...