Earphone
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The dashed broken lines in the figures 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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Type: Grant
Filed: Aug 26, 2024
Date of Patent: Jun 23, 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), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Anne-Marie Heck (San Francisco, CA), Moises Hernandez Hernandez (Palo Alto, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Kainoa Kwon-Perez (San Francisco, CA), Geng Luo (Santa Clara, 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: Dana K Weiland
Assistant Examiner: David Michael Sullivan
Application Number: 29/959,575