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US 1,078,682 · App. 29/959,468 · Granted Jun 10, 2025

Headphones

Inventors: Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA); Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA); Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, 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); Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA); Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA); Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA); M. Evans Hankey (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)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 1,078,682
App. No.
29/959,468
Granted
Jun 10, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for headphones as shown and described.

Continuity (5)
Continuation 29878550 · Jun 23, 2023
Continuation 29856905 · Oct 18, 2022
Continuation 29848299 · Aug 1, 2022
Continuation 29801991 · Aug 2, 2021
Continuation 29731847 · Apr 17, 2020
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