Granted Patent
S1
US 1,065,156 · App. 29/914,759 · Granted Mar 4, 2025
Earphone
Inventors:
Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA); Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA); Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA); Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA); Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA); M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA); Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA); Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA); Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA); Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA); Shin Nishibori (Kailua, HI); Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA); Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA); Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA); Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA); Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
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Claims (1)
The ornamental design for an earphone as shown and described.
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