Connector

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a top, front, left perspective view of a connector showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevation view thereof, the rear view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof, the bottom view being identical thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side elevation view thereof; and,

FIG. 5 is a right side elevation view thereof.

The equal-length broken lines depict portions of the connector that form no part of the claimed design. The dash-dot-dash broken lines depict boundaries of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a connector, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D928715
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 29, 2019
Date of Patent: Aug 24, 2021
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Kendra Leslie Hamilton
Assistant Examiner: Amanda Christensen
Application Number: 29/678,447