Apple Wins 4 Industrial Design Patents Covering the iPod nano, LED Cinema Display, MacBook Air SuperDrive & Keyboard with Number Keypad
Apple keeps on racking up new design wins for their cool consumer and pro products and today, the US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a new series of granted design patents for their fourth generation iPod nano, LED Cinema Display, the MacBook Air SuperDrive and large Keyboard with Numeric Keypad.
Industrial Design Win: LED Cinema Display
Apple has been granted a patent for the industrial design of their LED Cinema Display.
Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D604,733, originally filed Q4 2008.
It was noted in a recent report that LG Display plans to release 20-inch and larger OLED panels in 2010, 30-inch and larger panels in 2011 and 40-inch and larger panels in 2012. Being that Apple's iMac has now adopted an LED backlit Display, Apple's Cinema Display may be ripe for a shift to OLED either in 2010 or 2011. The report noted above supports a 27 inch model handedly for 2010. See a picture of LG's OLED TV below.
Industrial Design Win: iPod Nano
Apple has been granted two patents for the industrial design of their fourth generation iPod nano.
Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patents D604,713 and D604,714, originally filed in Q3 2008.
Industrial Design Win: MacBook Air SuperDrive
Apple has been granted a patent for the industrial design of their MacBook Air SuperDrive
Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D604,729, originally filed Q1 2008.
Industrial Design Win: Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
Apple has been granted a patent for the industrial design of their Keyboard with Numeric Keypad.
Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Calvin Q Seid, Vincent Keane Seid, legal representative, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D604,736, originally filed in Q3 2007.
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