US D1,145,741 S1Grant
Earphone
Issue Date:2026-09-01
•1 Claims
•5 Drawing Sheets
Abstract
Metadata
Assignee
- Apple Inc.
Inventors
- Jody Akana
- Molly Anderson
- Bartley K. Andre
- Shota Aoyagi
- Anthony Michael Ashcroft
- Marine C. Bataille
- Jeremy Bataillou
- Abidur Rahman Chowdhury
- Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne
- Markus Diebel
- Jonathan Gomez Garcia
- M. Evans Hankey
- Richard P. Howarth
- Jonathan P Ive
- Julian Jaede
- Duncan Robert Kerr
- Peter Russell-Clarke
- Benjamin Andrew Shaffer
- Joe Sung-Ho Tan
- Clement Tissandier
- Eugene Antony Whang
Application Information
Application Number:US 29/939,888
Filing Date:2024-04-29
Priority Date:2020-11-11
Art Unit:2951
Classifications
Field of Search:
H04R 1/10H04R 1/1016H04R 1/1066H04R 1/105H04R 1/1033H04R 1/08H04R 1/46H04R 5/033H04R 5/0335H04R 25/00
Patent Drawings (5 sheets)
Description
[0001] FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an earphone showing the claimed design;
[0002] FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view thereof;
[0003] FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;
[0004] FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;
[0005] FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;
[0006] FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;
[0007] FIG. 7 is a top view thereof; and,
[0008] FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof.
Claims
CLAIM
The ornamental design for an earphone as shown and described.
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