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US 1,103,971 · App. 29/996,222 · Granted Dec 2, 2025

Earphone

Inventors: Robert Boyd (Los Angeles, CA); Sean Stewart Corbin (South Lake Tahoe, CA); Duy P. Le (Venice, CA); Guillaume Raoult (San Francisco, CA); Christopher Kuh (San Francisco, CA); Robert Brunner (Glen Ellen, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 1,103,971
App. No.
29/996,222
Granted
Dec 2, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for an earphone as shown and described.

Continuity (8)
Continuation 29936082 · Apr 5, 2024
Continuation 29894352 · Jun 8, 2023
Continuation 29853397 · Sep 15, 2022
Continuation 29825907 · Feb 7, 2022
Continuation 29776667 · Mar 31, 2021
Continuation 29721504 · Jan 21, 2020
Continuation 29721503 · Jan 21, 2020
Continuation 29685002 · Mar 25, 2019
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