US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Component for headphones" (American, Austrian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. D1,146,890, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Component for headphones" 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 (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco), Clara Genevieve Marine Courtaigne (Paris), 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 Jose, Calif.), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Fra...