In-ear utility device
Valenzuela , et al. August 22, 2
Patent Grant D795224
U.S. patent number D795,224 [Application Number D/557,284] was granted by the patent office on 2017-08-22 for in-ear utility device. This patent grant is currently assigned to SmartEar, Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is SmartEar, Inc.. Invention is credited to Dean L. Gardner, Terence Kwan, Kinuko Masaki, Jeff Salazar, Victor M. Valenzuela.
| United States Patent | D795,224 |
| Valenzuela , et al. | August 22, 2017 |
In-ear utility device
Claims
CLAIM The ornamental design for an in-ear utility device, as shown and described.
| Inventors: | Valenzuela; Victor M. (Hayward, CA), Masaki; Kinuko (San Francisco, CA), Gardner; Dean L. (San Francisco, CA), Salazar; Jeff (Palo Alto, CA), Kwan; Terence (South San Francisco, CA) | ||||||||||
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| Assignee: | SmartEar, Inc. (San Francisco,
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| Appl. No.: | D/557,284 | ||||||||||
| Filed: | March 8, 2016 |
| Current U.S. Class: | D14/223 |
| Current International Class: | 1401 |
| Field of Search: | ;D14/223 ;D24/174,187,167,151 ;181/129,130,135 ;379/430,431 ;381/380,381,375,328,392,322,325,382,390,370,371 ;128/903,902,904,664 ;600/323,484,474,500 |
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Primary Examiner: Greene; Paula
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Avancept LLC Ewing; Thomas L.
Description
FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an in-ear utility device showing our new design;
FIG. 2 is a front side view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a right side perspective view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a left side perspective view thereof
FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a bottom view perspective thereof; and,
FIG. 8 is a bottom perspective view.
The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the ear piece which form no part of the claimed design.
The in-ear utility device can, for example, be a wireless in-ear device for use in providing a variety of services to users, such as music playing, sound amplification, and sports monitoring devices.
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