ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. D1,089,157, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Component for a headphone" was invented by Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Bartley K. Andre (Los Gatos, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco), Clara Genevieve Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, Calif.), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, Ill.), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Julian Jaede (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (S...