ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. D1,025,043, issued on April 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Case for an electronic device" was invented by Jody Akana (San Francisco), Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco), Clara Genevieve Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, Calif.), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Julian Jaede (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisc...