Earphone

- Apple Inc.
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Description

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an earphone showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is another bottom perspective view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 6 is another rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a right side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a top perspective view thereof;

FIG. 9 is another top perspective view thereof; and,

FIG. 10 is another top perspective view thereof.

The dot-dash broken lines in the figures and the faded areas within the dot-dash broken lines show portions of the earphone that form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for an earphone as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D1108398
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 31, 2025
Date of Patent: Jan 6, 2026
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA), Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, CA), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA), Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, IL), 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), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Paula Allen Greene
Application Number: 29/996,188
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Headphone (D14/223)