ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. D1,067,215, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Earphone" was invented by Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Molly Anderson (San Francisco), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco), Markus Diebel (San Francisco), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco), Julian Jaede (San Francisco), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San ...