Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11997487
    Abstract: A method for authentication for wireless power transfer which comprises: receiving an initial certificate signed using a private key associated with an intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificate; determining that the intermediate CA certificate is revoked; determining if a replacement certificate for the initial certificate exists; and if a replacement certificate for the initial certificate exists, trusting a wireless power transfer device associated with the initial certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Douglas Louis
  • Patent number: 11995289
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a subscription to a collection of content services and/or applications enables a user to access content through a plurality of content services. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates a process to subscribe to a collection of content services and/or applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates a process to unsubscribe from a collection of content services and/or applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nabila Rahman, Josiah Kenneth Slifer, John Nicholas Vidnovic, Bryan James Wegman, Mona Azarians
  • Patent number: 11996698
    Abstract: A capacitive power transfer system can include a power transmitter having one or more primary side filter components, a communications modulator, and transmitter capacitive couplers; and a power receiver having receiver capacitive couplers capacitively coupled to the transmitter capacitive couplers, one or more secondary side filter components, and a communication demodulator. The one or more primary side filter components and the one or more secondary side filter components can be selected to provide power amplifier operation at a power delivery frequency and act as a stable gain high pass filter above a communications cutoff frequency that is higher than the power delivery frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shaoge Zang, Zonghong Hu, Saining Ren, Ho Fai Leung, Aiguo Hu, Qi Zhu, Botunga Arachchige Rajith Chaminda Abeywardana, Lei Zhao
  • Patent number: 11997272
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present invention may include: a step for dividing a picture into a plurality of tiles; and a step for determining at least one slice on the basis of the plurality of tiles. Here, the step for dividing a picture into a plurality of tiles may include: a step for determining the width of a first tile column in the picture; and a step for determining the width of a second tile column neighboring the first tile column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 11996190
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aggregating and sharing wellness data. The wellness data can be received by a user device from any number of sensors external or internal to the user device, from a user manually entering the wellness data, or from other users or entities. The user device can securely store the wellness data on the user device and transmit the wellness data to be stored on a remote database. A user of the device can share some or all of the wellness data with friends, relatives, caregivers, healthcare providers, or the like. The user device can further display a user's wellness data in an aggregated view of different types of wellness data. Wellness data of other users can also be viewed if authorizations from those users have been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aroon Pahwa, Rebecca L. Weber, Divya Nag, Christopher D. Soli, Lawrence Y. Yang, Stephen O. Lemay, Kevin M. Lynch, Stacey F. Lysik, Dylan R. Edwards, Zachury B. Minjack, Zachery W. Kennedy, Adam L. Beberg, Dennis S. Park, Afshad M. Mistri, Anton M. Davydov, Jay K. Blahnik, Christine M. Eun, James H. Foster, Stephanie M. Greer, Daniel S. Keen, Natalia C. Maric, Gregory B. Novick, Michael O'Reilly, Donald W. Pitschel
  • Patent number: 11997591
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for differentiating between licensed and unlicensed bands in a common portion of frequency spectrum to facilitate initial access in a fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) wireless communication system having an NR node. The techniques include an NR generating and UE processing frequency configuration information indicating whether the common portion of frequency spectrum is allocated as a licensed band or an unlicensed band to enable a determination that the frequency spectrum is configured as the licensed band or unlicensed band and thereby facilitate initial access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11992337
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device including a housing that is worn by a user and a SMI sensor contained within the housing. The SMI sensor may include an emitter that outputs coherent light toward the skin of a user when the housing is worn by the user. The SMI sensor may also include a detector that detects a portion of the coherent light reflected towards the sensor and generates electrical signals that indicate displacements of the skin based on the portion of coherent light received at the detector. The housing may include a transmitter that is operatively coupled with the SMI sensor and is configured to transmit physiological data to a receiving device based on electrical signals output from the SMI sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmet Fatih Cihan, Adrian Z. Harb, Mehmet Mutlu, Mengshu Huang, Stephen E. Dey, Yuhao Pan
  • Patent number: 11997609
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for transmit power control (TPC) in wireless communication systems are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving downlink control information (DCI) messages corresponding to respective physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions; determining power control adjustment states for the PUSCH transmission occasions; and transmitting in the PUSCH transmission occasions in accordance with the power control adjustment states. Determining the power control adjustment states can include selectively applying TPC accumulation. Determining the power control adjustment states can include determining whether a first PUSCH transmission occasion occurs out-of-order with respect to a second PUSCH transmission occasion based on an arrival ordering of the DCI messages, where the first PUSCH transmission occasion occurs before the second PUSCH transmission occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 11997598
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for notification support in extended discontinuous reception mode. A base station and UE may configure eDRX communication. An indication may be received during the eDRX communication. The network may cache the indication. The network may modify the DRX configuration. The network may use a wake up signal. In response, the UE may receive the indication while achieving power savings from the eDRX configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Murtaza A Shikari, Srirang A Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Srinivasan Nimmala, Yuqin Chen, Sree Ram Kodali, Longda Xing, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11997620
    Abstract: An apparatus of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory. To configure the LAB node for inter-IAB node discovery and measurements within an IAB network, the processing circuitry is to encode a first synchronization signal block (SSB-A) for transmission to an access UE using a first frequency resource from a synchronization raster set of frequency resources. A second SSB (SSB-B) is encoded for transmission to a second IAB node using a second frequency resource from an off-raster set of frequency resources. The off-raster set is non-overlapping with the synchronization raster set of frequency resources and the SSB-B being time-division multiplexed with the SSB-A. A measurement report from the second IAB node is decoded. The measurement report is based on the SSB-B and associated with a backhaul link between the IAB node and the second IAB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Ying, Geng Wu, Lili Wei, Qian Li
  • Patent number: 11995171
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing access to credentials. In some examples, an electronic device authorizes release of credentials for use in an operation for which authorization is required. In some examples, an electronic device causes display of one or more steps to be taken to enable an input device for user input. In some examples, an electronic device disambiguates between commands to change the account that is actively logged-in on the device and commands to cause credentials to be released from the secure element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Peter D. Anton, Patrick L. Coffman, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: 11994906
    Abstract: Flexible electronic devices may be provided. A flexible electronic device may include a flexible display, a flexible housing and one or more flexible internal components configured to allow the flexible electronic device to be deformed. Flexible displays may include flexible display layers, flexible touch-sensitive layers, and flexible display cover layers. The flexible housing may be a multi-stable flexible housing having one or more stable positions. The flexible housing may include a configurable support structure that, when engaged, provides a rigid support structure for the flexible housing. The flexible internal components may include flexible batteries, flexible printed circuits or other flexible components. A flexible battery may include flexible and rigid portions or may include a lubricious separator layer that provides flexibility for the flexible battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Scott A. Myers, Benjamin M. Rappoport, Stephen Brian Lynch, John P. Ternus, Justin R. Wodrich
  • Patent number: 11994865
    Abstract: An autonomous navigation system which enables autonomous navigation of a vehicle along one or more portions of a driving route based on monitoring, at the vehicle, various features of the route as the vehicle is manually navigated along the route to develop a characterization of the route. The characterization is progressively updated with repeated manual navigations along the route, and autonomous navigation of the route is enabled when a confidence indicator of the characterization meets a threshold indication. Characterizations can be updated in response to the vehicle encountering changes in the route and can include a set of driving rules associated with the route, where the driving rules are developed based on monitoring the navigation of one or more vehicles of the route. Characterizations can be uploaded to a remote system which processes data to develop and refine route characterizations and provide characterizations to one or more vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmad Al-Dahle, Matthew E Last, Philip J. Sieh, Benjamin Lyon
  • Patent number: 11995615
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays an editable time input element, including a first field and a second field. In some embodiments, the electronic device receives a selection input directed to the editable time input element. In some embodiments, after receiving the selection input, the electronic device receives one or more editing inputs. In some embodiments, in response to receiving the first set of one or more editing inputs, in accordance with a determination that the selection input was a first type of input, the electronic device edits content of the first field based on the one or more editing inputs and in accordance with a determination that the selection input was a second type of input, different from the first type, the electronic device edits content of the first field and the second field based on the one or more editing inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Grant R. Paul, Cas G. Lemmens, Christian X. Dalonzo
  • Patent number: 11995263
    Abstract: A touch screen may be formed from a display and perimeter touch electrodes. Touches detected at one or more of the perimeter touch electrodes can be imputed to touch on a region of the display of the touch screen adjacent to the perimeter touch electrodes. In some examples, the perimeter touch electrodes comprise segmented frit metal arranged around the perimeter of the display (e.g., frit metal used to encapsulate the display). In some examples, the perimeter touch electrodes can be coupled to one or more touch sensing circuits via switching circuitry. In some examples, the switching circuitry can be operated based on control signals shared with the display circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, Jun Qi, Hao-Lin Chiu, Sai-Chang Liu
  • Patent number: 11995116
    Abstract: A device implementing a multi-user content queue may include a memory and at least one processor configured to receive, on the device, a content query and retrieve, from the memory, user account credentials corresponding to user accounts associated with the device. The at least one processor may be further configured to provide, to a server, the user account credentials and the content query. The at least one processor may be further configured to receive, from the server and based on the content query, a user account identifier of one of the user accounts and a content identifier corresponding to content in a content library of the one of the user accounts. The at least one processor may be further configured to utilize the user account identifier and the content identifier for output, by the device, of the content from the content library of the one of the user accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cody D. Jorgensen, Edward T. Schmidt, Jason P. Ketterman, Michael Gachet
  • Patent number: 11994915
    Abstract: A case can provide a mechanism for securely retaining a stylus with a host device while the stylus is not in use. Such a mechanism can maintain the alignment of the stylus with the host device for attachment, power transfer, and/or communication. The mechanism can further protect the stylus from impact or other external influences. The same mechanism can transition to a lower profile while not retaining the stylus (e.g., while the stylus is in use as an input device for the host device). Such a mechanism can selectably be placed into a configuration that substantially conceals the mechanism, such that it can temporarily appear to be a case or portion of the host device that does not necessarily have a dedicated receptacle for retaining the stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammadali Parsian, Nicholas Joseph Ross, Patrick Griffin Skovsted, John Patrick Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: D1028758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 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, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1028976
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 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, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1029028
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Bradley William Griffin, Jonathan P. Ive, Tiffany Jon, Chanaka Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Daamun Mohseni, Hoan K. Pham, William McMillan Tyler, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes