As PatentlyApple notes, the patent wasn't filed in Apple's name, but by two employees of Apple, engineering manager Jonah Harley and hardware engineering manager David Simon, and the Cupertino-based company can take assignment for the patent before it is granted.
He started taking assignments for The Daily News and The Chicago Tribune, and he became a regular contributor to The Times in the late 1970s.
After college he supported himself as a cartoonist and graphic designer, mostly for leftist newspapers like New Masses and P.M., and kept taking assignments for decades, even after he became a teacher, a professional painter and an international traveler.
She published the first of her 18 books in 1974 and financed her photojournalism projects by taking still photographs on the sets of movies, including "Apocalypse Now" and "The Missouri Breaks". Later, as magazines began to publish fewer photographs, she took assignments for advertising and celebrity portraits.
He told a Chicago court in a mid-1990s murder case that he "took assignments with Naval intelligence" for four years after getting shot on the job in 1982: "I did counter terrorists work for them".
In their book Get Ahead By Going Abroad: A Woman's Guide to Fast-Track Career Success, C. Perry Yeatman and Stacie Nevadomski Berdan make a compelling argument for taking assignments abroad.
She not only put herself through college by waiting tables, she also took notes and read assignments for her blind sister, Thelma.
Google encourages employees to take "bungee" assignments for three months to one year in different areas of the company.
McCann-Erickson New York takes on assignments for Electrasol dishwasher detergent, Jet Dry dishwasher rinse agent and Lime-A-Way household cleaners.
She's in Iraq, taking covert assignments for the U.S. government.
