U.S. patent number D928,715 [Application Number D/678,447] was granted by the patent office on 2021-08-24 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 |
D928,715 |
Akana , et al. |
August 24, 2021 |
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) |
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Apple Inc. |
Cupertino |
CA |
US |
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Assignee: |
Apple Inc. (Cupertino,
CA)
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Appl.
No.: |
D/678,447 |
Filed: |
January 29, 2019 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
D13/147 |
Current International
Class: |
1303 |
Field of
Search: |
;D13/101,107,110,118,133,147,153,154 ;D14/432,433,435.1
;D7/300.2 |
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Primary Examiner: Hamilton; Kendra Leslie
Assistant Examiner: Christensen; Amanda
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Saidman DesignLaw Group, LLC
Description
FIG. 1 is a top, front, left perspective view of a connector
showing our new design;
FIG. 2 is a front elevation view thereof, the rear view being a
mirror image thereof;
FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof, the bottom view being identical
thereof;
FIG. 4 is a left side elevation view thereof; and,
FIG. 5 is a right side elevation view thereof.
The equal-length broken lines depict portions of the connector that
form no part of the claimed design. The dash-dot-dash broken lines
depict boundaries of the claimed design.
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