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US 1,098,078 · App. 29/991,713 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Earphone

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); Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA); M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA); Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA); Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, IL); 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 1,098,078
App. No.
29/991,713
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for an earphone as shown and described.

Continuity (8)
Continuation 29954460 · Jul 26, 2024
Continuation 29909863 · Aug 11, 2023
Continuation 29881538 · Jan 3, 2023
Continuation 29837465 · May 5, 2022
Continuation 29805722 · Aug 30, 2021
Continuation 29768810 · Feb 1, 2021
Continuation 29768818 · Feb 1, 2021
Continuation 29706556 · Sep 20, 2019
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