Housing module for an electronic device

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a bottom and front perspective view of a housing module for an electronic device showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a top and rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front elevation view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear elevation view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side elevation view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side elevation view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken lines in the figures show portions of the housing module for an electronic device that form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

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

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Patent History
Patent number: D1048028
Type: Grant
Filed: Apr 1, 2022
Date of Patent: Oct 22, 2024
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, CA), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Lucy E. Browning (San Francisco, CA), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA), Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA), Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA), Richard Hung Minh Dinh (Saratoga, CA), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Sung-Ho Tan (Vienna), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Luman Zhang (Cupertino, CA), Xiao Ying Zhao (Santa Clara, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Messina L Smith
Assistant Examiner: Kwabena A. Ankobiah
Application Number: 29/833,187
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: For Computer (D14/439)