Housing for an electronic device

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of housing for an electronic device showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof.

Claims

The ornamental design for a housing for an electronic device, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D752044
Type: Grant
Filed: Aug 11, 2014
Date of Patent: Mar 22, 2016
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Brad G. Boozer (Cupertino, CA), Makiko Kawamura Brzezinski (San Jose, CA), Tyler Scott Bushnell (Mountain View, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), Colin Ely (Cupertino, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Phillip M. Hobson (Menlo Park, CA), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Eric Steven Jol (San Jose, CA), Benjamin Jordan Kallman (Menlo Park, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), David Nazzaro (Groveland, MA), Trevor Jordan Ness (San Francisco, CA), Marc A. Newson (London), David Pelletier (Cupertino, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Fletcher Rothkopf (Los Altos, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Jason Christopher Sauers (Cupertino, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Anna-Katrina Shedletsky (Mountain View, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Samuel Bruce Weiss (Los Altos Hills, CA), Christopher M. Werner (San Jose, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Michael Benjamin Wittenberg (Sunnyvale, CA), Stephen Paul Zadesky (Portola Valley, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Mary Ann Calabrese
Assistant Examiner: Jennifer L Rempfer
Application Number: 29/499,089
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Wrist Or Body Attached (D14/344)