Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12230980Abstract: A wireless power system can include a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver. The transmitter can include a transmit coil, an inverter, and inverter control circuitry that can operate one or more switching devices of the inverter to communicate information to the receiver by controlling a delay between receipt of the burst request pulse and initiating operation of the inverter and/or controlling a polarity of a first pulse of the inverter. The receiver can include a receive coil magnetically coupled to the transmit coil, a rectifier, and rectifier control circuitry that initiates a burst request pulse to initiate operation of a transmitter. The rectifier control circuitry can operate one or more switching devices of the rectifier to communicate information to the transmitter by at least one of short circuiting an LC tank including the receive coil or controlling a polarity of the burst request pulse.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ye Li, Gianpaolo Lisi, Bingyao Sun, Liang Chen, Gaurav Kalra, Rohan Dayal, Stephen C. Terry
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Patent number: 12232270Abstract: Electrical components may have plastic packages. Contacts may be formed on exterior surfaces of the plastic packages. A plastic package for an electrical component may have an elongated shape that extends along a longitudinal axis. A first groove may run parallel to the longitudinal axis on a lower surface of the plastic package. A second groove may run perpendicular to the first groove on an opposing upper surface of the plastic package. The electrical components may be coupled to fibers in a fabric such as a woven fabric. A first solder connection may be formed between the first groove and a first fiber such as a weft fiber. A second solder connection may be formed between the second groove and a second fiber such as a warp fiber.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel D. Sunshine, Daniel A. Podhajny, Kathryn P. Crews, Yohji Hamada
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Patent number: 12228989Abstract: A system includes multiple hardware circuits and protection circuitry. The multiple hardware circuits are coupled to respective power domains having respective sets of domain-specific power settings. The protection circuitry is configured to monitor requests in which one or more of the hardware circuits request transitions between the domain-specific power settings, to determine, from among multiple system-level combinations of the domain-specific power settings, a subset of system-level combinations that could potentially be traversed in performing the requested transitions, and to initiate a responsive action upon detecting that any of the system-level combinations in the subset is specified as invalid.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple IncInventors: Doron Rajwan, Ami Schwartzman, Lior Zimet
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Patent number: 12231583Abstract: Techniques to privacy proof secure element generated certificates anonymous secure element attestations are described herein. An attestation certificate request can be generated that is signed using the static key of the secure element. The attestation certificate request can then be sent to an attestation server, which can verify the attestation certificate request and return an anonymized attestation certificate. The device containing the secure element can transmit the certificate to third parties to verify attestation data signed by the secure element using the certificate and provide assurance to the third parties that the data being attested to has been generated inside a secure element associated with a specific manufacturer.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adrien Surwumwe, Robin Burel, Rahul Narayan Singh
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Patent number: 12231792Abstract: A camera may one or more lenses and an image sensor having an array of light-gathering pixels. The pixels may generate image signals based on light passing through the lenses. The camera may include at least one pixel output settling assist circuit. The pixel output settling assist circuit may be electrically coupled to an output signal line of at least one of the pixels. The pixel output settling assist circuit may include a pixel output voltage change detection circuit and a bias current adjustment circuit. During read-out of the image signals of the at least one pixel, the pixel output voltage change detection circuit may detect a change of a voltage at the output of the pixel. The bias current adjustment circuit may generate and adjust a current injected to the output based on the detected change of the voltage at the output.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hai Yan, Chiajen Lee
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Patent number: 12231414Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to multiway communications. In some embodiments, a first electronic device initiates a multiway call between a plurality of electronic devices and exchanges a first secret with a first set of electronic devices participating during a first portion of the multiway call, the first secret being used to encrypt traffic between the first set of electronic devices. The first electronic device receives an indication that first set of participating electronic devices has changed and, in response to the indication, exchanges a second secret with a second set of electronic devices participating during a second portion of the multiway call, the second secret being used to encrypt traffic between the second set of participating electronic devices. In some embodiments, the indication identifies a second electronic device as leaving the multiway call, and the second secret is not exchanged with the second electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yan Yang, Jin Hyung Park, Joe S. Abuan, Berkat S. Tung, Sean P. Devlin, Vu H. Chiem, Jose A. Lozano Hinojosa, Thomas P. Devanneaux, Vladimir Goupenko, Hsien-Po Shiang, Daniel B. Pollack, Mark M. Xue, David J. Steele, Yu Xing, Ryan W. Baker, Christopher M. Garrido, Ming Jin
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Patent number: 12232126Abstract: A method for enhanced physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetitions includes receiving at least one of a dynamic grant or a configured grant for an uplink transmission, determining a time domain resource allocation (TDRA) for repeated transmission of the uplink transmission on a PUSCH, and repeatedly transmitting the uplink transmission based on the TDRA.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sergey Panteleev, Debdeep Chatterjee, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Toufiqul Islam, Artyom Putilin
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Patent number: 12232146Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for SRS antenna switching. A UE may transmit, to a base station, a capability message indicating an antenna configuration associated with SRS antenna switching e.g., via as RRC signaling. The capability message may indicate at least one of (and/or one or more of) a one transmit point (1T) and six receive point (6R) SRS resource set configuration, a 1T8R SRS resource set configuration, a 2T6R SRS resource set configuration, a 2T8R SRS resource set configuration, and/or a 4T8R SRS resource set configuration. The UE may receive, from the base station, a configuration message, e.g., via RRC signaling. The configuration message may indicate an SRS antenna switching configuration based, at least in part, on the capability message. The UE may transmit, to the base station, one or more SRSs, e.g., according to the SRS antenna switching configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12231171Abstract: An electronic device may include an optical demultiplexer, optical combiners, optical paths between the demultiplexer and the combiners, modulators on the optical paths, and a symbol generator that generates a set of electrical OFDM symbols. The modulators may generate a set of optical OFDM symbols by mixing optical carriers with the electrical OFDM symbols. The combiners may generate an aggregate optical OFDM symbol from the optical OFDM symbols and may combine the aggregate optical OFDM symbol with an optical local oscillator signal. The aggregate optical OFDM symbol may exhibit a large bandwidth. The combiners may illuminate a photodiode, which produces current on an antenna resonating element that radiates a radio-frequency signal at frequencies greater than 100 GHz.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bertram R Gunzelmann, Ramin Khayatzadeh
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Patent number: 12228952Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having digital-to-analog converters, filters, mixers, and current buffers disposed between the filters and the mixers. The current buffers may provide proper resistance termination for the filters. The current buffers may include current mirrors formed from diode-connected n-type transistors and diode-connected p-type transistors, which collectively provide a linear input resistance. The current mirrors may receive a high voltage from a voltage regulator having a replica current mirror and proportional-to-absolute-temperature current sources.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Milad Darvishi, Georgios Palaskas
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Patent number: 12228655Abstract: This disclosure is directed to shared antenna tuning. An electronic device may receive a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) tune request to tune a shared antenna to a GNSS signal frequency. The electronic device may then tune the antenna to the GNSS signal frequency and enable a GNSS receiver. The electronic device may also receive a cellular tune request to tune the antenna to a cellular frequency. The electronic device may tune the antenna to a cellular frequency and may deactivate the GNSS receiver or blank the GNSS receiver. In some embodiments, the electronic device may also communicate with a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. During LEO satellite communication, the electronic device may transmit a signal to blank a GNSS L1 receiver to avoid signal interference with the LEO satellite communication, and activate a GNSS L5 receiver to receive GNSS signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Glenn D. MacGougan, Aditya N. Srivastava, Harsha Shirahatti, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Ozgur Ekici, Sachin J. Sane, William J. Bencze
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Patent number: 12230224Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be configured to display standard dynamic range image content and high dynamic range image content at the same time. The control circuitry may dynamically adjust an amount of headroom for the high dynamic range image content to avoid washing out the standard dynamic range image content. For example, the control circuitry may reduce the amount of headroom available for high dynamic range image content with high average pixel luminance levels and low screen coverage. The headroom may be increased as the average pixel luminance levels decrease and/or as screen coverage increases. Different high dynamic range images that are displayed at the same time may be assigned different amounts of headroom (e.g., different peak brightness levels) based on average pixel luminance values, screen coverage, whether or not the content is within an active window on the display, etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Elizabeth Pieri, Teun R Baar, Jackson K Roland
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Patent number: 12232055Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for configuring full power transmission modes in a UE. The disclosed full power transmission modes include a Mode 0 and a Mode 3, which are enhancements over previous modes disclosed in the 3GPP specification. The UE gathers supported modes and configuration capabilities, such as number of ports and supported coherency schemes, and forwards the configuration capabilities to the network. The network analyzes the received information and selects a supported full power transmission mode based on the UE capabilities. The selection is then transmitted to the UE in a PUSCH-Config message. The UE extracts the selection from the PUSCH-Config message, and configures its radio accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Publication number: 20250054197Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. The encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. The encoder packs patch images into an image frame and fills empty spaces in the image frame with a padding. The encoder is also configured to determine quantized minimum depths and/or maximum depths patch images in the image frames, wherein depth information is signaled relative to the quantized minimum depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexandros Tourapis, Fabrice A. Robinet, Jungsun Kim, Khaled Mammou, Valery G. Valentin, Yeping Su
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Publication number: 20250054274Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to selecting a subset of keypoint descriptors of two images for match operation based on their orientation angles indicated in headers of the keypoint descriptors. The keypoint descriptors in the two images are matched by first comparing their headers and then performing vector distance determination. During the header comparison operation, a header of a descriptor of a first image is compared only with headers of keypoint descriptors of a second image in a discrete orientation angle range corresponding to an orientation angle indicated by the header of the first image descriptor or keypoint descriptors of the second image in adjacent discrete orientation angle ranges. After the headers of the keypoint descriptors satisfying one or more matching criteria are determined, distance determination operations are performed between the keypoint descriptors while the remaining keypoint descriptors are discarded without determining their distances.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Assaf METUKI, Lukas POLOK, Danny GAL, Liran FISHEL
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Publication number: 20250056449Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink transmission and interlace uplink transmission. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station including a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor divides a plurality of candidate Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) positions in a time window into a plurality of groups and communicates, using the transceiver, information associated with the plurality of groups of candidate SSB positions to the UE. The processor further performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. In response to the LBT procedure being successful, the processor determines a first group of the plurality of groups and transmits, using the transceiver, one or more SSBs on one or more candidate SSB positions of the first group to the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong HE, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Jie CUI, Oghenekome OTERI, Pengkai ZHAO, Wei ZENG, Wei ZHANG, Weidong YANG, Yang TANG, Yuchul KIM, Yushu ZHANG, Zhibin WU
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Patent number: D1062605Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1062743Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Adam T. Clavelle, Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Martin Melcher, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1062771Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Aurelio Guzmán, Diogo Jose Da Silva Valente Soares
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Patent number: D1062776Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Apple, Inc.Inventor: Imran Chaudhri