ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. D1,151,538, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Speaker" was invented by Jeffrey Scott Croyle (San Francisco), Carlos M. Santana (Granada Hills, Calif.), Robert A. Boyd (Los Angeles), Jin Jiang Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Duy P. Le (Venice, Calif.), Christopher Kuh (San Francisco), Achille Biteau (San Francisco), Elvin Chu (San Francisco) and Robert Brunner (Glen Ellen, Calif.).

The patent was filed on April 25, 2024, under Application No. D/939,251.

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