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US 1,103,983 · App. 29/978,870 · Granted Dec 2, 2025

Electronic device

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); Daniele De Iuliis (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); Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA); Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA); Joe 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 1,103,983
App. No.
29/978,870
Granted
Dec 2, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for an electronic device as shown and described.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 29862237 · Dec 7, 2022
Continuation 29785889 · May 27, 2021
Continuation 29625111 · Nov 7, 2017
Continuation 29574078 · Aug 11, 2016
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