US Patent Issued to Apple on June 30 for "Lanyard" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. D1,132,019, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Lanyard" was invented by Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (Los Altos, Calif.), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco), Clara Genevieve Marine Courtaigne (Paris), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), Alexandre B. Girard (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco), Anne-Marie Heck (San Francisco), Moises Hernandez Hernandez (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thomas Howard (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, Ill.), Julian Jaede (San Jose, Calif.), Kainoa Kwon-Perez (San Francisco), Nicolas Pedro Lylyk (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kevin O. Miron (Santa...