Electronic device
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Description
The broken lines depict portions of the electronic device which form no part of the claimed design.
Claims
The ornamental design for an electronic device as shown and described.
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Patent History
Patent number: D1121626
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 13, 2024
Date of Patent: Apr 7, 2026
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA), Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA), Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA), Alexandre B. Girard (Sunnyvale, CA), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Anna Heck (San Francisco, CA), Moises Hernandez Hernandez (Palo Alto, CA), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, IL), Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Kainoa Kwon Perez (San Francisco, CA), Nicolas Pedro Lylyk (Los Gatos, CA), Peter Riering-Czekalla (Oakland, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Christian P. McLean
Assistant Examiner: Emilee Voigt
Application Number: 29/962,882
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 13, 2024
Date of Patent: Apr 7, 2026
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA), Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA), Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA), Alexandre B. Girard (Sunnyvale, CA), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Anna Heck (San Francisco, CA), Moises Hernandez Hernandez (Palo Alto, CA), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, IL), Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Kainoa Kwon Perez (San Francisco, CA), Nicolas Pedro Lylyk (Los Gatos, CA), Peter Riering-Czekalla (Oakland, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Christian P. McLean
Assistant Examiner: Emilee Voigt
Application Number: 29/962,882
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