This Apple patent lists Steve Jobs as an inventor and is directed towards clasp. Mr. Jobs was awarded U.S. Patent D577990 entitled “Clasp” on October 7, 2008. The design patent has been cited 50 times by other U.S. patents in the field of tools and hardware and in other fields.

Link: U.S. Patent D577990

Apple filed this design patent on March 28, 2006 giving it a processing time of 924 days (compared to an average processing time of 546 in the field). They have a total number of 15027 patents. The first named inventor is Steve P. Jobs of Palo Alto, CA. The patent was allowed by assistant examiner John Windmuller and primary examiner Robert M. Spear.

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