US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Handheld electronic device" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,003, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Handheld electronic device" was invented by Eric W. Bates (San Jose, Calif.), Arun R. Varma (San Jose, Calif.), Benjamin J. Pope (Woodside, Calif.), Griffin L. Schmitt (San Francisco), Zonghao Liu (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael W. Firka (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christopher J. Durning (Halifax, Canada), Douglas G. Fournier (San Jose, Calif.) and Yaocheng Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile phone may include a display, wireless communication circuitry, a battery, and an enclosure enclosing the display, the wireless communication circuitr...