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US 1,087,095 · App. 29/947,143 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Stylus

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); Matthew Dean Rohrbach (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); Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA); Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 1,087,095
App. No.
29/947,143
Granted
Aug 5, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a stylus as shown and described.

Continuity (8)
Continuation 29914833 · Oct 23, 2023
Continuation 29846116 · Jul 13, 2022
Continuation 29779882 · Apr 21, 2021
Continuation 29698903 · Jul 22, 2019
Continuation 29656741 · Jul 16, 2018
Continuation 29609756 · Jul 5, 2017
Continuation 29577947 · Sep 16, 2016
Continuation 29538660 · Sep 4, 2015
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