Apple’s Steve Jobs posthumously awarded patents for iMac and iPod
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded two patents to Steve Jobs, the Apple Inc. co-founder who died five months ago.
The patents were posthumously awarded to Jobs, as well as other employees of Apple, for their design of the current iMac and for the third-generation iPod Shuffle – which was famous for its tiny size and lack of buttons.
In total, the agency awarded 19 patents to the company, which is notorious for stockpiling patents.
In the past, Apple has filed patents for items ranging from products that have never made it to the public to staircases used at Apple stores around the world.
Jobs died in October, a day after the company announced its latest iPhone, after multiple battles with pancreatic cancer. In his lifetime, Jobs was named in more than 300 patents.
This is not the first time Jobs has received an award posthumously. He received a Grammy in February for his contribution to the music industry, and this weekend he was given the Cupertino Chamber of Commerce’s 2012 President’s Award.
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