Granted Patent
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US 1,106,214 · App. 29/967,221 · Granted Dec 16, 2025
Housing module for an 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); Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA); Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA); Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA); Jonathan Gomez Garcia (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); 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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Claims (1)
The ornamental design for a housing module for an electronic device as shown and described.
Continuity (2)
Continuation
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Continuation
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