Earplug
The long-short-short-long dashes immediately adjacent to the stippling areas represent the bounds of the claimed design while all other broken lines represent environmental structure and are for illustrative purposes only; the broken lines form no part of the clamed design.
Claims
We claim the ornamental design for an earplug, as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 30, 2008
Date of Patent: Feb 21, 2012
Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. (Neenah, WI)
Inventors: Steven Craig Gehling (Cumming, GA), Waihong Leong (Roswell, GA)
Primary Examiner: Wan Laymon
Attorney: Nancy M. Klembus
Application Number: 29/312,094