Apple has been granted a design patent for the iPhone by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Its patent D672769.
The inventors are Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Douglas B. Satzger, Calvin Q. Reid, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer.

