IP Library Granted Patent US 1,094,537
Granted Patent S1
US 1,094,537 · App. 29/920,403 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Type font

Inventors: Guillaume P. Barlier (Sunnyvale, CA); Alan C. Dye (San Francisco, CA); Aurelio Guzmán (San Jose, CA); Nicolas V. Scapel (London, GB); Christopher I. Wilson (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Patent No.
US 1,094,537
App. No.
29/920,403
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a type font as shown and described.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 29764065 · Dec 28, 2020
Continuation 29688488 · Apr 22, 2019
Continuation 29649901 · Jun 3, 2018
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