Adapter
Akana , et al. February 11, 2
Patent Grant D699188
U.S. patent number D699,188 [Application Number D/431,841] was granted by the patent office on 2014-02-11 for adapter. 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 | D699,188 |
| Akana , et al. | February 11, 2014 |
Adapter
Claims
CLAIM The ornamental design for an adapter, as shown and described.
| 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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| Appl. No.: | D/431,841 | ||||||||||
| Filed: | September 11, 2012 |
| Current U.S. Class: | D13/147 |
| Current International Class: | 1303 |
| Field of Search: | ;D13/133,146,147,153,154,156,157,184,199 ;D14/432,433,435,435.1,438 ;345/156 ;361/58,814 ;439/38-40,66,74,77,79,129-130,135,146,149-150,176-177,180,188,217-218,225,246,252,278-279,290-291,329,344-346,350-353,357-358,374,378,381,476.1,607.01,607.04,607.5,607.6,607.17,607.21,607.23,607.25,607.34,607.41,607.53,623,660,668,677,678,680,682,874,883,887,892,894 |
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Primary Examiner: Bui; Daniel
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Description
FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an adapter showing our new design;
FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a top view thereof, the bottom view being a mirror image thereof;
FIG. 4 is a left view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a right view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a rear view thereof; and,
FIG. 7 is a front view thereof.
The shade lines in the Figures show contour and not surface ornamentation.
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