Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Fabric sensing device
    Patent number: 12067178
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive textile device that is configured to detect the occurrence of a touch, the location of a touch, and/or the force of a touch on the touch-sensitive textile device. In some embodiments, the touch-sensitive textile device includes a first set of conductive threads oriented along a first direction, and a second set of conductive threads interwoven with the first set of conductive threads and oriented along a second direction. The device may also include a sensing circuit that is operatively coupled to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may be configured to apply a drive signal to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may also be configured to detect a touch or near touch based on a variation in an electrical measurement using the first or second set of conductive threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Kathryn P. Crews, Daniel D. Sunshine
  • Systems, methods and apparatus for through skin communication and noise disambiguation
    Patent number: 12067188
    Abstract: Sensing circuitry of a first electronic device can be configured to sense a signal transmitted by the second, external electronic device contacting and coupling through the body of the user. The first electronic device can be configured to detect the contact while receiving data from the second device, and determine whether the signal transmitted by the external device corresponds an “intentional touch,” or corresponds to a signal coupling between a different body part and the external device or through a different signal pathway (e.g., electromagnetically, through the air, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared L. Zerbe, Brian H. Tsang, Timothy M. Johnson, Bryan D. Raines, Zaid M. Nadeem, Andy J. Zhou, Xinhao Wang
  • Method for measurement of UE-to-UE reference signal in new radio networks with cross-link interference
    Patent number: 12068796
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for determination of reference signal received power (RSRP) to estimate cross-link interference. The approach uses a received signal from a second UE and downlink (DL) timing information from a transmission reception point (TRP). The approach generates a corrected timing signal based on the received signal, the DL timing information and a reference sequence, and then extracts a symbol from the received signal and the corrected timing signal. The approach then transforms using a fast Fourier transform (FFT) circuit the symbol, and then cross-correlates with a reference sequence to generate a correlation result from which the RSRP is estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Hassan Ghozlan, Qian Li, Dawei Ying, Geng Wu
  • Tracking reference signal setup in radio resource management testing
    Patent number: 12069591
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method that allows a user equipment (UE) to perform a wireless measurement. The method configures a characteristic of a channel-state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for tracking of the UE. Also disclosed is a system and method to perform radio resource management (RRM) testing. Testing can include: setting a power level of CSI-RS for tracking to a smaller value that a power level of another RRM reference signal; or setting a negative power offset value of the CSI-RS for tracking to a synchronization signal (SS) of the RRM reference signal; or setting a positive power offset value of the CSI-RS for tracking to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of the RRM reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Zhibin Yu, Qiming Li, Yang Tang, Hua Li
  • Transit navigation
    Patent number: 12066293
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a map application that identities a transit route that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to start navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Usama M. Hajj, Marcel Van Os, Brian Andrich, Ian Leighton, Justin O'Beirne, David Hodge, Eleanor Cady Wachsman, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Aaron A. Reiner, Christine B. McGavran, Wesley Yue, Eric L. Grundstrom
  • Memory bank with subdomains
    Patent number: 12067275
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to an I/O agent circuit. The I/O agent circuit may include a memory bank and be coupled to a set of devices. The I/O agent circuit may assign a device of the set of devices to a subdomain of a plurality of subdomains implemented for the memory bank. The I/O agent circuit may store, in that memory bank, a set of transactions of the device in association with the subdomain assigned to the device. The I/O agent circuit may execute the set of transactions such that transactions stored in the memory bank in association with other ones of the plurality of subdomains than the subdomain assigned to the device do not block execution of the set of transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samer Nassar, Sagi Lahav, Lital Levy-Rubin, Roey Grinvald
  • Joining an existing audio session
    Patent number: 12067328
    Abstract: An audio output device may join an existing session between a source device and another audio output device. The source device may transmit audio data associated with an audio session, using a first frequency band, to a first wireless audio output device and transmit connection information associated with the audio session to a second wireless audio output device over a second frequency band. The second frequency band differs from the first frequency band and the connection information allows the second wireless audio output device to join the audio session. After transmitting the connection information, the source device may transmit subsequent audio data associated with the audio session to the first wireless audio output device and the second wireless audio output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alon Paycher, Sriram Hariharan
  • Image signal encoding/decoding method and device for same
    Patent number: 12069263
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present invention may include splitting a picture into a plurality of tiles; and determining at least one slice on the basis of the plurality of tiles. Here, splitting a picture into a plurality of tiles may include: determining the width of a first tile column in the picture; and determining the width of a second tile column neighboring the first tile column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
  • Beamforming optimization for segmented thin-film acoustic imaging systems incorporated in personal portable electronic devices
    Patent number: 12067196
    Abstract: An acoustic imaging system coupled to an acoustic medium to define an imaging surface. The acoustic imaging system includes an array of piezoelectric acoustic transducers formed at least in part from a thin-film piezoelectric material, such as PVDF. The array is coupled to the acoustic medium opposite the imaging surface and formed using a thin-film manufacturing process over an application-specific integrated circuit that, in turn, is configured to leverage on or more beamforming scan operations to drive the array of piezoelectric actuators to generate an image of an object at least partially wetting to the imaging surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus C. Yip, Brian M. King, Jason S. Griesbach, Ehsan Khajeh, Aaron S. Tucker, Andrew W. Joyce, Giovanni Gozzini, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Gordon S. Franza
  • Data migration synchronization process using a manifest from a source device to a new destination device
    Patent number: 12067271
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may configure a new device based on a current state of an old device, including settings, preferences, and other user data. The data may be transferred from the old device to the new device, and then relocated according to a manifest that details positions of the data on the old device. The destination device may be rebooted into a configuration mode to allow for the relocation of the transferred data, and then rebooted again to configure the destination device to provide access to the data in its respective relative locations on the destination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Ciudad, George C. Chicioreanu, Yan Arrouye
  • Optical aberration control for camera
    Patent number: 12066623
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein include optical aberration control for a camera system. Such a camera system may implement optical aberration control, e.g., by combining one or more variable focus devices with one or more actuators (e.g., a voice coil motor actuator) for moving a lens stack of the camera system to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) functionality. A variable focus device may have variable optical power to achieve AF, OIS, and/or introduce optical aberrations such as spherical aberration. In some implementations, the variable focus device may be driven to introduce optical aberrations, and the actuator for moving the lens stack may be driven to compensate for the optical power from the variable focus device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin A. Gross
  • Apparatus and methods for restricted binding of ports
    Patent number: 12069049
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a port binding module that binds ports to processes. A process running on the electronic device sends a port request to the port binding module. The port binding module determines whether the requested port is a restricted port. If not, the port binding module binds the requested port to the process. If the requested port is restricted, then the port binding module determines whether the requesting process has an entitlement corresponding to the port. If the requesting process has the corresponding entitlement, then the port binding module binds the requested restricted port to the process. If not, then the port binding module denies binding the requested restricted port to the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sushant U. Chavan, Vincent Lubet, David Schinazi
  • Multi-die fine grain integrated voltage regulation
    Patent number: 12068324
    Abstract: A semiconductor device package is described that includes a power consuming device (such as an SOC device). The power consuming device may include one or more current consuming elements. A passive device may be coupled to the power consuming device. The passive device may include a plurality of passive elements formed on a semiconductor substrate. The passive elements may be arranged in an array of structures on the semiconductor substrate. The power consuming device and the passive device may be coupled using one or more terminals. The passive device and power consuming device coupling may be configured in such a way that the power consuming device determines functionally the way the passive device elements will be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared L. Zerbe, Emerson S. Fang, Jun Zhai, Shawn Searles
  • Automated device access
    Patent number: 12067101
    Abstract: A method of unlocking a locked device includes receiving a device identifier over a wireless communication protocol, determining if the device identifier is associated with a list of trusted devices, transmitting a request to generate an acoustic signal over the wireless communication protocol based on the determination, receiving the acoustic signal as an audio sound generated external to the locked device, estimating a distance between a source of the audio sound and the locked device, and unlocking the locked device based on the estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew E. Last
  • Systems and methods for distinguishing between a user and an object
    Patent number: 12066702
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic device including an optical sensing unit for distinguishing between a user's body and an object. The optical sensing unit can include a plurality of light detectors, a plurality of first light emitters, and a plurality of second light emitters. The plurality of first light emitters can measure physiological information of the user, and the plurality of second light emitters can measure a state of the device. The device can include one or more optical components, which can allow the plurality of second light emitters to emit first light towards the strap attached to the device and second light towards the edges of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Paul Joseph Allec, Maximillian Chase Bruggeman, Ueyn L Block
  • Packaging
    Patent number: D1039381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arsalan Aslam, Grace Tsai, David Samuel Kumka, Molly Anderson, Clement Tissandier
  • Wearable device
    Patent number: D1039411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D1039522
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D1039545
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Diogo Jose Da Silva Valente Soares, Aurelio Guzmán, Mohamed Samir Abdelghani Khalaf
  • Apple tree named ‘MAIA-AM’
    Patent number: PP36071
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of apple tree was identified from a test cross of ‘Honeycrisp’ and ‘Fuji.’ The new variety, named ‘MAIA-AM’ ripens in early September. ‘MAIA-AM’ possesses advantageous growth habit, precocity, fruit quality, and storability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: MIDWEST APPLE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: David Doud, William Dodd