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Type: Grant
Filed: Jun 30, 2017
Date of Patent: Apr 16, 2019
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Robert Brunner (San Francisco, CA), Monica Fernandez (Los Angeles, CA), Christopher Kuh (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA)
Primary Examiner: Paula Allen Greene
Application Number: 29/609,517