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US 1,112,216 · App. 29/996,158 · Granted Feb 10, 2026

Keyboard

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); 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); Joe Sung-Ho Tan (Vienna, AT); Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA); Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 1,112,216
App. No.
29/996,158
Granted
Feb 10, 2026
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a keyboard as shown and described.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 29932173 · Mar 12, 2024
Continuation 29863013 · Dec 14, 2022
Continuation 29756646 · Oct 29, 2020
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