Component for a headphone
- Apple
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Description
The broken lines in the figures show portions of the component for a headphone that form no part of the claimed design.
Claims
The ornamental design for a component for a headphone as shown and described.
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Patent History
Patent number: D1151535
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 13, 2025
Date of Patent: Oct 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), Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA), Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (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), Joe Sung-Ho Tan (Vienna), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Michael A. Pratt
Assistant Examiner: Russell Carnell Smith, Jr.
Application Number: 29/983,875
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 13, 2025
Date of Patent: Oct 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), Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA), Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (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), Joe Sung-Ho Tan (Vienna), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Michael A. Pratt
Assistant Examiner: Russell Carnell Smith, Jr.
Application Number: 29/983,875
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