Apple patents reflect iPods, hybrid ground grid
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Apr 24, 2007 at 10:29am
Several Apple patents have appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Most involve iPod and iPod accessories, but one is for a “hybrid ground grid for printed circuit board.
Three patents (numbers D541297, D54298 and D541299) are for a ornamental design for a media device (an iPod, naturally). Patent number D54042 is for an electronic device holder can, for example, be an electronic device holder for a handheld electronic device such as media player, media storage device, cell phone, PDA and/or the like. Basically, it’s an armband for holding an iPod. The inventors of the devices are Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Steve Jobs, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerry, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Douglas B. Satzger, Calvin Q. Seid, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whag and Rico Zorkendorfer.
Patent number 7207104 is for a “hybrid ground grid for printed circuit board. Electrical mounting boards and methods for their fabrication and use are disclosed. In particular, such mounting boards embodiments utilize hybrid ground lines interconnected through a substrate core to form multilayer ground grids. According to Apple, such hybrid ground lines include groups of substantially parallel ground lines configured such that the groups of ground lines are positioned in transverse arrangement with other groups of ground lines formed on the same level. Such implementations have many uses, including, but not limited to, the ability to more efficiently route signal lines and connect electrical components on a circuit board.
The inventors of this patent are Robert Steinfeld and Cheung-Wei Lam.
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