ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. D1,131,477, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Head-mounted display" 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 (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco), Clara Genevieve Marine Courtaigne (Paris), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), Alexandre B. Girard (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Anne-Marie Heck (San Francisco), Moises Hernandez Hernandez (Palo Alto, Calif.), Julian Hoenig (...