U.S. patent number D685,742 [Application Number D/389,284] was granted by the patent office on 2013-07-09 for magnetic connector. 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, Evans Hankey, 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, Evans Hankey, 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 | D685,742 |
Akana , et al. | July 9, 2013 |
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; Evans (San Francisco, CA), Howarth; Richard P. (San Francisco, CA), Ive; Jonathan P. (San Francisco, CA), Kerr; Duncan Robert (San Francisco, CA), Nishibori; Shin (Portola Valley, CA), 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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Appl. No.: | D/389,284 | ||||||||||
Filed: | April 8, 2011 |
Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
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29379391 | Nov 18, 2010 | D639748 | |||
29345272 | Dec 28, 2010 | D629752 | |||
Current U.S. Class: | D13/147 |
Current International Class: | 1303 |
Field of Search: | ;D13/133,146-147,154,184 ;439/38,39,40,129,180,266,269.1,350,352,378,379,380,381,476.1,607.23,607.55,626,660,680,682,894 |
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