Connector
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U.S. patent number D788,041 [Application Number D/519,786] was granted by the patent office on 2017-05-30 for connector. This patent grant is currently assigned to Apple Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Apple Inc.. Invention is credited to Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer.
| United States Patent | D788,041 |
| Akana , et al. | May 30, 2017 |
Connector
Claims
CLAIM The ornamental design for a connector, as shown and described.
| Inventors: | Akana; Jody (San Francisco, CA), Anderson; Molly (San Francisco, CA), Andre; Bartley K. (Palo Alto, CA), Aoyagi; Shota (San Francisco, CA), Ashcroft; Anthony Michael (San Francisco, 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), Rohrbach; Matthew Dean (San Francisco, CA), Russell-Clarke; Peter (San Francisco, CA), Shaffer; Benjamin Andrew (San Jose, CA), Silvanto; Mikael (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/519,786 | ||||||||||
| Filed: | March 8, 2015 |
| Current U.S. Class: | D13/147 |
| Current International Class: | 1303 |
| Field of Search: | ;D13/133,146,147,154,184,199 ;D14/433,434,435,435.1,436,438 ;D24/129 |
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Attorney, Agent or Firm: Saidman DesignLaw Group, LLC
Description
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a connector showing our new design;
FIG. 2 is a front view thereof, the rear view being a mirror image;
FIG. 3 is a top view thereof, the bottom view being identical;
FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof; and,
FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof.
The dashed broken lines represent structure or features that form no part of the claimed design.
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