Apple Wins Industrial Design for the iPod Nano with Multi-Touch UI

Apple has won a design Patent for their sixth generation iPod nano which debuted in September 2010. This is Apple's first generation of iPod nano with Multi-Touch.

Apple credits VP Industrial Design Jonathan Ive and team members, Jody Akana, Bartley Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel Coster, Anton Davydov, Daniele De Iuliis, George Fino, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang, Policarpo Wood, and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D647,919, originally filed in Q3 2010. New Designers on Apple's Industrial Design Team are highlighted above in darker gray.

Apple Wins Industrial Designs for the new iPod Shuffle & their previous iPod Nano

Apple has won design patents for their Fourth Generation iPod Shuffle with control pad and their Fifth Generation iPod Nano with Clickwheel.

New iPod Shuffle Design Credits

Apple credits VP Industrial Design Jonathan Ive and team members, Jody Akana, Bartley Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D647,921, originally filed in Q2 2011. New Designers on Apple's Industrial Design Team are highlighted above in darker gray.

Previous iPod Nano Design Credits

Apple credits VP Industrial Design Jonathan Ive and team members Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, 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 D647,876. Oddly, the original filing date is noted as being March 2011, even though this particular iPod Nano was replaced in September 2010.

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