Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250098354
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an integrated circuit device that includes a ceramic-based substrate, a stack of layers disposed on the ceramic-based substrate, and electronic elements. The stack of layers includes an insulation layer and a conductive layer having conductive traces. The electronic elements are electrically connected to the conductive layer. The conductive layer is configured to route electrical signals to the electronic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Henry M. DAGHIGHIAN, Patrick Zilaro, Joel Weiss
  • Publication number: 20250097936
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for employing subnetworks to communicate with cellular networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Hofmann, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Dimitrios Alanis, Milan Zivkovic, Nikolai Bijovski Ribakov, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Tarik Tabet
  • Publication number: 20250097756
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for carrier-specific scaling factor for measurements with or without measurement gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Qiming LI, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG
  • Publication number: 20250094567
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor includes hardware circuitry which may be used to authenticate instruction operands. The processor may execute instructions that perform operand authentication both speculatively and non-speculatively. During speculative execution of such instructions, the processor may execute authentication such that no differences in observable state of the processor, relative to authentication result, are detectable via a side channel. During speculative execution, a result of authentication may be deferred until speculative execution of the instruction, and additional instructions, may be completed. Upon resolution of a condition that indicates acceptance of the speculative execution, a speculative execution result may cause a processor exception and stalling of execution at the instruction to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John D Pape, Deepankar Duggal, Christopher M Tsay, Andrew H Lin, Corey C Stappenbeck
  • Publication number: 20250093926
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a dynamic power estimation (DPE) unit that adapts weights in real-time are described. A system includes a processor, a DPE unit, and a power management unit (PMU). The DPE unit generates a power consumption estimate for the processor by multiplying a plurality of weights by a plurality of counter values, with each weight multiplied by a corresponding counter. The DPE unit calculates the sum of the products of the plurality of weights and plurality of counters. The accumulated sum is used as an estimate of the processor's power consumption. On a periodic basis, the estimate is compared to a current sense value to measure the error. If the error is greater than a threshold, then an on-chip learning algorithm dynamically adjust the weights. The PMU uses the power consumption estimates to keep the processor within a thermal envelope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent F. Chaouat, Saharsh Samir Oza, Hamza Saigol
  • Publication number: 20250097759
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for employing subnetworks to communicate with cellular networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Hofmann, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Dimitrios Alanis, Milan Zivkovic, Nikolai Bijovski Ribakov, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Tarik Tabet
  • Publication number: 20250097746
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for carrier-specific scaling factor for measurements without measurement gaps in dual connectivity networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Yushu ZHANG, Yang TANG, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Huaning NIU, Haitong SUN, Weidong YANG, Chunxuan YE
  • Publication number: 20250093554
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing, a display positioned within the housing; and a cover glass disposed over the display and attached to the housing. The cover glass can include a glass sheet; an intermediate hard-coat layer disposed on the glass sheet, having a hardness greater than a hardness of the glass sheet; an interference layer deposited on the intermediate hard-coat layer and having at least two layers with different optical constants and/or thicknesses; and an exterior hard-coat layer deposited on the interference layer. The optical constants and/or thicknesses of the interference layer can be selected based on an optical constant and/or thickness of the exterior hard-coat layer do minimize reflection of the cover glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lijie Bao, Tyler R. Roschuk, Matthew S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 12251973
    Abstract: A tuned mass damper includes a damper mass having a first mass portion and a second mass portion connected by a third mass portion. The first mass portion, the second mass portion, and the third mass portion form a U-shaped configuration of the damper mass. The damper mass is configured to separate within the third mass portion in response to a force transferred to the damper mass of the tuned mass damper to allow relative motion between the first mass portion and the second mass portion. The damper mass may include geometric features that promote rotation of the tuned mass damper relative to an axis, when subjected to impact loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jacob L. Dawson, Daniel T. Williams, Andrew J. Gunnion
  • Patent number: 12253913
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to memory error tracking and logging. In some embodiments, a memory cache controller circuitry is configured to track, using multiple circuit entries, numbers of detected correctable errors associated with multiple respective locations, and in response to detecting a threshold number of correctable errors for a particular location, generate a signal to the one or more processors that identifies the particular location. In some embodiments, the memory cache controller circuitry includes multiple circuit entries for tracking uncorrectable errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Farid Nemati, Steven R. Hutsell, Derek R. Kumar, Bernard J. Semeria, James Vash, Era K. Nangia, Gregory S. Mathews
  • Patent number: 12251204
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a blood pressure measurement device that includes a strap configured to couple the blood pressure measurement device to a user, an air pump coupled to the strap and having a housing defining a surface facing the user, and an inflatable chamber positioned on the surface of the air pump and fluidly coupled to the air pump. The inflatable chamber can be positioned between the air pump and the user when the blood pressure measurement device is worn by the user and expand towards the user when inflated. The blood pressure measurement device can also include a pressure sensing chamber coupled to the inflatable chamber and positioned between the inflatable chamber and the user when the blood pressure measurement device is worn by the user. The pressure sensing chamber can include a liquid volume and a pressure sensing device configured to detect a pressure of the liquid volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Caleb C. Han, Patrick E. O'Brien, Tongbi T. Jiang
  • Patent number: 12253611
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for ephemeris signaling in wireless networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pavan Nuggehalli, Fangli Xu, Alexander Sirotkin, Chunxuan Ye, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sarma V. Vangala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12254176
    Abstract: In some examples, an electronic device may be in communication with one or more input devices, including a camera, and a remote sensing vibrometer. In some examples, the remote sensing vibrometer may be configurable to emit, using a light source, one or more light beams that are incident on the physical surface on which the virtual image is displayed. In some examples, the remote sensing vibrometer detects contact with the physical surface based on one or more vibrations in the physical surface that are detected using the one or more light beams. In some examples, when the physical object contacts the physical surface on which the virtual image is displayed, the electronic device determines a location of the contact relative to the virtual image on the physical surface based on the detected vibrations produced by the contact of the physical object on the physical surface in the computer-generated environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Nussinson, Yoed Arieli, Jonathan Hauser, Oriel Y. Bergig
  • Patent number: 12254127
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, an exemplary process for controlling representations of virtual objects based on respective user contexts that each correspond to different respective locations in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Burns, Nathan Gitter, Alexis H. Palangie, Pol Pla I. Conesa, David M. Schattel
  • Patent number: 12253697
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing surrounding an interior in which electrical components are mounted. A display may be mounted to housing structures in the device. The housing may have a rear wall. The display cover layer and rear wall of the housing may be formed from transparent glass layers. Coatings may be formed on inwardly facing surfaces of the transparent glass layers. A coating on a transparent glass layer may be formed from a thin-film interference filter having a stack of dielectric layers. The coating may include an ink layer on the thin-film interference filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Que Anh S. Nguyen, Christopher D. Prest, Jody R. Akana, Marta M. Giachino, Matthew S. Rogers, Ove Lyngnes
  • Patent number: 12253831
    Abstract: Wearable electronic devices, such as watches, can include a watch body and a band device that can be used together or independently of one another. The band device can provide continual operation of its functions even in the absence of the watch body. The assembly of the watch body and the band device can provide secure engagement, communication, and power sharing. Accordingly, neither the watch body nor the band device need to independently include components that provide every function that will be desired by the user. Instead, functions that are desired on a continual or long-term basis can be provided by the band device, and functions that are desired on an intermittent or short-term basis can be provided by the watch body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Ershov, Travis J. McQueen
  • Patent number: D1067215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1067216
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Brunner, Christopher Kuh, Achille Biteau
  • Patent number: D1067234
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1067258
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Aled Williams, Christopher I. Wilson