ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. D1,145,353, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Case" was invented by Samuel G. Fowle (Los Angeles), Jeffrey Scott Croyle (San Francisco), Alejandro E. Ramirez (Santa Paula, Calif.), Christopher Wiita (Granada Hills, Calif.), Robert A. Boyd (Los Angeles), Duy P. Le (Culver City, Calif.), Robert Brunner (Glen Ellen, Calif.), Christopher Kuh (San Francisco), Guillaume Raoult (San Francisco), James Swasey (Oakland, Calif.) and Benjamin Newton (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

The patent was filed on July 18, 2025, under Application No. D/013,945.

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