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US 1,067,215 · App. 29/948,655 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Earphone

Inventors: Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA); Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA); Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA); Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA); Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, CA); Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA); Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA); Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA); Markus Diebel (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); Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA); Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA); Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA); Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA); Sung-Ho Tan (Vienna, AT); Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA); Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA); Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 1,067,215
App. No.
29/948,655
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for an earphone as shown and described.

Continuity (10)
Continuation 29883876 · Feb 3, 2023
Continuation 29850637 · Aug 22, 2022
Continuation 29804821 · Aug 23, 2021
Continuation 29764724 · Dec 31, 2020
Continuation 29741273 · Jul 10, 2020
Continuation 29705727 · Sep 13, 2019
Continuation 29741272 · Jul 10, 2020
Continuation 29705727 · Sep 13, 2019
Continuation 29741274 · Jul 10, 2020
Continuation 29705727 · Sep 13, 2019
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