Connector
- Apple
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Description
The broken lines in the figures show portions of the connector that form no part of the claimed design.
Claims
The ornamental design for a connector as shown and described.
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Patent History
Patent number: D1098046
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 17, 2024
Date of Patent: Oct 14, 2025
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (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), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Shin Nishibori (Kailua, HI), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Daniel J Domino
Assistant Examiner: Lee D. Starr
Application Number: 29/952,775
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 17, 2024
Date of Patent: Oct 14, 2025
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (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), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Shin Nishibori (Kailua, HI), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Daniel J Domino
Assistant Examiner: Lee D. Starr
Application Number: 29/952,775
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