Magnetic connector
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The broken lines illustrate portions of the magnetic connector and form no part of the claimed design. The gray shading on a portion of the magnetic connector represents a metallic surface.
Claims
The ornamental design for a magnetic connector, as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Apr 8, 2011
Date of Patent: Jul 9, 2013
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Menlo Park, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Shin Nishibori (Portola Valley, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Daniel Bui
Application Number: 29/389,284