Electronic device

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a bottom and front perspective view of an electronic device showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a rear elevation view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top, rear and right side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a bottom, rear and left side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged rear elevation view thereof;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged top, rear and left side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged rear and left side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged bottom and rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged rear and right side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 10 is an enlarged top and rear perspective view thereof; and,

FIG. 11 is an enlarged right side perspective view thereof.

The faded areas show portions of the electronic device that form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dash broken lines denote the boundary of the claim and form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for an electronic device, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D971170
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 9, 2019
Date of Patent: Nov 29, 2022
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), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Markus Diebel (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), Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Sung-Ho Tan (San Francisco, CA), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Llorelys Martinez
Assistant Examiner: Kwabena A. Ankobiah
Application Number: 29/705,040
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D14/138.C