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US 1,071,948 · App. 29/939,802 · Granted Apr 22, 2025

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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); 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); Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA); Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA); Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA); Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA); 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 1,071,948
App. No.
29/939,802
Granted
Apr 22, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a cover as shown and described.

Continuity (7)
Continuation 29875766 · May 10, 2023
Continuation 29796875 · Jun 28, 2021
Continuation 29752584 · Sep 28, 2020
Continuation 29730552 · Apr 6, 2020
Continuation 29671284 · Nov 26, 2018
Continuation 29606501 · Jun 5, 2017
Continuation 29558786 · Mar 21, 2016
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