U.S. patent number D942,459 [Application Number D/784,011] was granted by the patent office on 2022-02-01 for case for portable display device. This patent grant is currently assigned to Apple Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Apple Inc.. 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 | D942,459 |
Akana , et al. | February 1, 2022 |
Inventors: | Akana; Jody (San Francisco, CA), Andre; Bartley K. (Palo Alto, 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/784,011 | ||||||||||
Filed: | May 17, 2021 |
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29679892 | Feb 11, 2019 | D920335 | |||
29586557 | Feb 12, 2019 | D840405 | |||
29500365 | Dec 6, 2016 | D773454 | |||
29415927 | Sep 16, 2014 | D713402 | |||
29415035 | Mar 6, 2012 | ||||
29415062 | Aug 20, 2013 | D688251 | |||
29415035 | Mar 6, 2012 | ||||
Current U.S. Class: | D14/440 |
Current International Class: | 1402 |
Field of Search: | ;D14/440,447,250 ;206/45.23,320,45.2 ;361/679.55 ;294/25 ;224/218 |
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