ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. D1,126,209, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device" 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 (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Abidur Chowdhury (San Francisco), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, Ill.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Julian Jaede (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Fran...