ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. D1,128,340, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Retail fixture" was invented by Allison Inouye (San Francisco), Jean-Marc Gady (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ismael Flores Trujano (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory Guillaume Lespinard (San Jose, Calif.), Mi Zou (San Francisco), Po Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Wesley Bryan Hamm (San Francisco), Russell John Kaaihue Heirakuji (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua Robert Edwards (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Nicholas E. Corti (San Francisco), Manuel Dejesus (San Francisco) and Alice Marlin Brugger (Sonoma, Calif.).

The patent was filed on Nov. 14, 2023, under Application No. D/916,660.

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