U.S. patent number D681,015 [Application Number D/431,563] was granted by the patent office on 2013-04-30 for earphone. This patent grant is currently assigned to Apple Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer. Invention is credited to Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer.
United States Patent | D681,015 |
Akana , et al. | April 30, 2013 |
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Inventors: | Akana; Jody (San Francisco, CA), Andre; Bartley K. (Menlo Park, CA), Bataillou; Jeremy (San Francisco, CA), Coster; Daniel J. (San Francisco, CA), De Iuliis; Daniele (San Francisco, CA), Hankey; M. Evans (San Francisco, CA), Hoenig; Julian (San Francisco, CA), Howarth; Richard P. (San Francisco, CA), Ive; Jonathan P. (San Francisco, CA), Kerr; Duncan Robert (San Francisco, CA), Nishibori; Shin (Kailua, HI), Rohrbach; Matthew Dean (San Francisco, CA), Russell-Clarke; Peter (San Francisco, CA), Stringer; Christopher J. (Woodside, CA), Whang; Eugene Antony (San Francisco, CA), Zorkendorfer; Rico (San Francisco, CA) | ||||||||||
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Assignee: | Apple Inc. (Cupertino,
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Family ID: | 48146477 | ||||||||||
Appl. No.: | D/431,563 | ||||||||||
Filed: | September 8, 2012 |
Current U.S. Class: | D14/223 |
Current CPC Class: | H04R1/10 20130101; H04R1/1016 20130101; H04R5/033 20130101 |
Current International Class: | 1401 |
Field of Search: | ;D14/223 ;D24/106,174 ;181/129,130,135 ;379/430,431,428.01,428.02,433.02 ;381/380,381,322,372 ;128/864,865 ;600/559 ;455/90.3,575.1 |
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