Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250112176
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an integrated circuit (IC) die package are disclosed. An IC die package includes an IC die, an interposer die electrically connected to the IC die, a first bonding structure disposed on the IC die, a second bonding structure bonded to the first bonding structure, a molding compound layer disposed on the second bonding structure and a frame structure disposed on the second bonding structure and surrounding the IC die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jiongxin LU, Kunzhong Hu
  • Publication number: 20250112385
    Abstract: Structures, methods, and apparatus for soldering contacts of multiple connector receptacles to pads on a board while also providing high-speed data paths between the multiple connector receptacles and the pads on the board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Jeon, Ayoub Yari Boroujeni, James E. Harper, Mahmoud R. Amini, Davood Mousanezhad Viyand
  • Publication number: 20250113224
    Abstract: Techniques are described for multi-layer interference detection. The method can include transmitting data to a system using a connection on a wireless network, the system configured to provide access to a functionality of a device. The method can further include accessing at least one of link quality monitoring (LQM) information from a medium access control layer of the user device or transmission control protocol (TCP) information from a transport layer of the device during a presentation of data by the system. The method can further include determining that the wireless network is experiencing interference based at least in part on the LQM information or TCP information. The method can further include generating interference information based at least in part on determining that the wireless network is experiencing the interference. The method can further include transmitting the interference information to the system during the presentation of data by the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debarshi Kar, Daniel R. Borges, Nathan J. Zhao, Nohee Ko
  • Publication number: 20250111031
    Abstract: Techniques for using an authorizer in a virtual terminal on a multipurpose device to authorize operations of a cryptographic applet in a secure element associated with the multipurpose device are described herein. These techniques include receiving an authorization token and setting authorization criteria for the operation of the cryptographic applet based on the authorization token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Andries van den Berg, Rahul Narayan Singh, Robin Burel
  • Publication number: 20250113346
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for supporting eight transmitter uplink operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Ankit Bhamri, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Xiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20250112488
    Abstract: Electric fields that can cause corrosion of contacts can be compensated for by embodiments of the present invention. For example, voltage waveforms at the contacts can be made to have a zero volt average, and therefore have a zero net electric field. Galvanic voltages generated by dissimilar metals used by a contact and a housing can generate an electric field, and currents motivated by the galvanic electric field can be blocked by capacitively coupling the contacts to their corresponding circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Wang, Todd S. Mintz, Benjamin Morse, Christopher S. Graham, Eric X. Zhou, Karl Ruben Fredrik Larsson, Nicholas S. Brodine
  • Publication number: 20250113190
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for an application function (AF) direct access to a radio access network (RAN) management function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Arnab Roy, Oner Orhan, Walter Featherstone, Onur Sahin, Krisztian Kiss, Ahmed M. Soliman
  • Patent number: 12264931
    Abstract: A method for providing navigation assistance using a head-worn device that has a camera, several microphones, and several speakers. The method captures sound in an environment as a plurality of microphone audio signals, captures, using the camera, a scene of the environment as a digital image, and processes the digital image to detect an object therein. The method selects, in response to the detection of the object, one of several navigation audio rendering modes. The several navigation audio rendering modes include a first mode that activates an acoustic transparency function to cause the speakers to reproduce the sound of the environment, a second mode that sonifies the object and activates the acoustic transparency function, and a third mode that sonifies the object, partially activates the acoustic transparency function, and an activates active noise cancellation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine S. Shigeoka, Jonathan D. Sheaffer, Andrew P. Bright
  • Patent number: 12265364
    Abstract: An electronic device, with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, one or more processors and memory, displays a first representation of a first controllable external device, where the first controllable external device is situated at a location. The device detects a first user input corresponding to a selection of the first representation of the first controllable external device. The device, after detecting the first user input, adds data identifying the first controllable external device and a first state of the first controllable external device in a scene profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, Arian Behzadi, Christopher Patrick Foss, Cyrus Daniel Irani, Ieyuki Kawashima, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher D. Soli, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 12264994
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to a device including a pressure sensor to measure a pressure level in a port cavity. A port allows equalization of air pressure between the port cavity and an outside environment. A vent port within the port cavity allows equalization of air pressure between the port cavity and an internal volume of a housing of the device. A tool is used to activate a heat-generating component of the device while the port is obstructed for a predetermined time duration to enable detecting a sealing efficacy of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brentley M. Wiles, Jeanny Wang, David MacNeil
  • Patent number: 12265689
    Abstract: An electronic device, which is in communication with a display and one or more input devices, displays a view of a three dimensional environment that includes a plurality of selectable user interface objects overlaid on an animated background. In response to detecting a request to change a viewpoint associated with a user of the electronic device, the electronic device shifts the plurality of selectable user interface objects in the three dimensional environment in accordance with the request, and also shifts the animated background in the three dimensional environment in accordance with the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Dean Jackson, Antoine Quint, Barry Munsterteiger
  • Patent number: 12265696
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to receiving voice input via the one or more microphones; and displaying a visual indication of the voice input, where in accordance with a determination that a portion of the voice input corresponds to voice input that is to be transmitted to one or more devices displaying, via the one or more display devices, the visual indication includes displaying the visual indication with a first set of one or more colors; and in accordance with a determination that the voice input does not include an instruction to transmit any portion of the voice input to the one or more devices, displaying, via the one or more display devices, the visual indication includes displaying the visual indication with a second set of one or more colors that is different from the first set of one or more colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Seunghyun Kim, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 12265703
    Abstract: Features are described for controlling the functionality of an electronic device, where the device operates according to a restricted mode of operation in which functions that the electronic device is otherwise capable of performing are not immediately available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Heena Ko, Catherine Lee, Reed E. Olsen, Paul W. Salzman, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Kevin Lynch, Stephen O. Lemay, David S. Clark
  • Patent number: 12265657
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device navigates between user interfaces based at least on detecting a gaze of the user. In some embodiments, an electronic device enhances interactions with control elements of user interfaces. In some embodiments, an electronic device scrolls representations of categories and subcategories in a coordinated manner. In some embodiments, an electronic device navigates back from user interfaces having different levels of immersion in different ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Israel Pastrana Vicente, Jay Moon, Jesse Chand, Jonathan R. Dascola, William A. Sorrentino, III, Stephen O. Lemay, Dorian D. Dargan
  • Patent number: 12265438
    Abstract: A system for a given device may include a plurality of systems on a chip (SOCs). Each SOC may include an interface circuit and a bridge circuit for communicating with other SOCs. The interface circuit of an SOC may include a plurality of communication devices to transfer data packets from/to the SOC to the other SOCs. The bridge circuit may provide various control functions for the interface circuit. An indication may be generated when the system enters an idle mode. In response, the bridge circuit may generate signal(s) to cause some of the communication devices of the interface circuit into a low power state. The interface circuit may obtain the signal(s) and accordingly transition some of the communication devices to the low power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tzach Zemer, Lior Zimet, Sagi Lahav
  • Patent number: 12265248
    Abstract: An electronic device may have image transport layer material such as coherent fiber bundle material or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer material may overlap optical components. Optical sensor components can emit and/or detect light passing through the image transport layer material. Optical components such as light-emitting diodes may emit light through image transport layers. An image from a display may pass through an image transport layer. Infrared light-emitting diodes, infrared photodetectors, and/or other optical sensor components may be used to form a two-dimensional optical touch sensor that is configured to gather touch input from an external object such as a finger of a user. The optical touch sensor may operate through an image transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erik G. de Jong, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Michael B. Wittenberg, Ueyn L Block, Vivek Venugopal
  • Patent number: 12265665
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: determining a location for virtual content; detecting a user interaction with the virtual content; in response to detecting the user interaction with the virtual content, determining a position of a hand gesture during the user interaction with the virtual content; in accordance with a determination that the position of the hand gesture is within a threshold distance relative to the location of the virtual content, generating corrected hand tracking data associated with the user interaction with the virtual content; and in accordance with a determination that the position of the hand gesture is outside of the threshold distance relative to the location of the virtual content, generating uncorrected hand tracking data associated with the user interaction with the virtual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Piuze-Phaneuf, Ali Ercan, Julian K. Shutzberg, Paul A. Lacey
  • Patent number: 12265474
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to dynamically allocating and mapping private memory for requesting circuitry. Disclosed circuitry may receive a private address and translate the private address to a virtual address (which an MMU may then translate to physical address to actually access a storage element). In some embodiments, private memory allocation circuitry is configured to generate page table information and map private memory pages for requests if the page table information is not already setup. In various embodiments, this may advantageously allow dynamic private memory allocation, e.g., to efficiently allocate memory for graphics shaders with different types of workloads. Disclosed caching techniques for page table information may improve performance relative to traditional techniques. Further, disclosed embodiments may facilitate memory consolidation across a device such as a graphics processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin A. Hensley, Karl D. Mann, Yoong Chert Foo, Terence M. Potter, Frank W. Liljeros, Ralph C. Taylor
  • Patent number: D1068723
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Brunner, Christopher Kuh
  • Patent number: D1068844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Daniel Satoru Hamaguchi