U.S. patent number D947,855 [Application Number D/656,622] was granted by the patent office on 2022-04-05 for cover. 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, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer.
United States Patent | D947,855 |
Akana , et al. | April 5, 2022 |
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), Bataille; Marine C. (San Francisco, CA), Bataillou; Jeremy (San Francisco, CA), Diebel; Markus (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), Jaede; Julian (San Francisco, CA), Kerr; Duncan Robert (San Francisco, CA), Russell-Clarke; Peter (San Francisco, CA), Shaffer; Benjamin Andrew (San Jose, CA), Silvanto; Mikael (San Francisco, CA), Tan; Sung-Ho (San Francisco, CA), Tissandier; Clement (San Francisco, 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/656,622 | ||||||||||
Filed: | July 13, 2018 |
Current U.S. Class: | D14/444 |
Current International Class: | 1402 |
Field of Search: | ;D14/203.4,203.6,250-251,315-327,331,345-346,425,434,440,444,451,455-457,477,507 ;D18/2,11 ;D21/324,330,335,515 ;D6/595-596,601,611 ;D3/201,203.6-203.8,900-905 ;206/45.2,45.23 |
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