ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. D1,129,157, issued on June 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Retail display" was invented by Jean-Marc Gady (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kameron Gad (Encinitas, Calif.), Gregory Guillaume Lespinard (San Jose, Calif.), Jessie Zaza Elisabeth Zuilhof (Oakland, Calif.), Phillip James Cameron (San Francisco), Indhu V. Solayappan (San Jose, Calif.), Alice Marlin Brugger (Sonoma, Calif.), Po Huang (Campbell, Calif.), Gabriel J. Lamb (Burlingame, Calif.), Seung Chae Kang (San Francisco), Teva Aviv Kohavi (San Carlos, Calif.), Hyun Jin Kim (San Francisco), Simona M. Szabados (San Francisco), Paul Malcolm Cox (Palm Springs, Calif.), Jake A. Nelson (Berkeley, Calif.), Joshua Robert Edward...