Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11576262
    Abstract: Fabric may include one or more conductive strands. An insertion tool may insert an electrical component into the fabric during formation of the fabric. The electrical component may include an electrical device mounted to a substrate and encapsulated by a protective structure. An interconnect structure such as a metal via or printed circuit layers may pass through an opening in the protective structure and may be used to couple a conductive strand to a contact pad on the substrate. The protective structure may be transparent or may include an opening so that light can be detected by or emitted from an optical device on the substrate. The protective structure may be formed using a molding tool that provides the protective structure with grooves or may be molded around a hollow conductive structure to create grooves. An electrical component mounted to the fabric may be embedded within printed circuit layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani, Benjamin J. Grena, Kyusang Kim, David M. Kindlon, Pierpaolo Lupo, Kishore N. Renjan, Manoj Vadeentavida
  • Patent number: 11573636
    Abstract: A haptic actuator may include a housing, a stator coupled to a medial interior portion of the housing, and a field member within the housing and having an opening receiving the stator therein. The field member may include a frame, and at least one permanent magnet carried by the frame. The at least one permanent magnet may include side-by-side magnetic segments having alternating magnetic polarizations with at least one non-vertical magnetic polarization transition zone between adjacent magnetic segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Denis G. Chen, Alex M. Lee, Scott D. Ridel
  • Patent number: 11573253
    Abstract: A power detector circuit that rejects the common mode portion of a differential signal is disclosed. The circuit includes a differential input having first and second input nodes. Differential and common mode circuit paths are coupled to the differential input. The common mode circuit path includes first and second capacitors coupled to respective first terminals of first and second input nodes of the differential input. The second terminal of each of the first and second capacitors is coupled to a gate terminal of a first bias transistor. The common mode circuit path is configured to reject a common mode portion of a differential input signal provided to the differential input such that a differential output signal is indicative of an amount of power of a differential portion of the differential input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yashar Rajavi, Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak, Abbas Komijani
  • Publication number: 20230033043
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure are directed to implementing a discovery procedure including one or more of single channel publish phases, multi-channel publish phases, and single channel subscribe phases. For example, a method includes determining, by a publisher device, a first time period for a single channel publish phase and determining, by the publisher device, a second time period for a multi-channel publish phase. The method further includes transmitting, by the publisher device, one or more frames during at least one of the first time period of the single channel publish phase or the second time period of the multi-channel publish phase. The method further includes receiving, by the publisher device, a service specific message from a subscriber device during the at least one of the first time period of the single channel publish phase or the second time period of the multi-channel publish phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. BORGES, Lochan VERMA, Su Khiong YONG, Yong LIU
  • Publication number: 20230036711
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a fifth-generation Evolved Node-B (gNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a message comprising an indicator to indicate a number of contention based physical random access channel (PRACH) preambles within a PRACH occasion per Synchronization Signal Block (SSB). The second circuitry may be operable to generate a first PRACH occasion, based on the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei DAVYDOV, Seunghee HAN, Gang XIONG, Gregory V. MOROZOV, Yushu ZHANG, Joonyoung CHO, Dae Won LEE, Yongjun KWAK
  • Publication number: 20230035400
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for early conditional handovers based on body proximity sensing or maximum permissible exposure limits in wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ehsan Haghani, Rohit U. Nabar, Parvathanathan Subrahmanya
  • Publication number: 20230031933
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for group cast with retries (GCR) in a multi-link wireless communications system. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) can exchange information with a non-AP MLD to establish a GCR-multi-link operation (MLO) agreement corresponding to a group address, wherein the information includes, but is not limited to: a GCR primary link or a GCR primary link set of the AP MLD, an association identifier (AID) that corresponds to the group address. In some embodiments, the AP MLD can transmit a GCR frame subject to the GCR-MLO agreement, where the GCR frame includes a sequence number assigned from sequence number space (SNS)_GCR_MLO defined at a MLD level, and generate a Group Temporal Key (GTK)_GCR_ML at the MLD level, where the GTK_GCR_ML enables encryption and decryption of the GCR frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qi WANG, Jarkko L. KNECKT, Yong LIU, Jinjing JIANG, Yoel BOGER, Tianyu WU, Su Khiong YONG
  • Publication number: 20230029514
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Dawei ZHANG, Fangli XU, Haijing HU, Jie CUI, Wei ZENG, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230034863
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel prediction engine that (1) can formulate predictions about current or future destinations and/or routes to such destinations for a user, and (2) can relay information to the user about these predictions. In some embodiments, this engine includes a machine-learning engine that facilitates the formulation of predicted future destinations and/or future routes to destinations based on stored, user-specific data. The user-specific data is different in different embodiments. In some embodiments, the stored, user-specific data includes data about any combination of the following: (1) previous destinations traveled to by the user, (2) previous routes taken by the user, (3) locations of calendared events in the user’s calendar, (4) locations of events for which the user has electronic tickets, and (5) addresses parsed from recent e-mails and/or messages sent to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradford A. Moore, Christine B. McGavran, Gregory D. Bolsinga, Christopher Blumenberg, Seejo K. Pylappan, Marcel Van Os
  • Publication number: 20230032665
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for group cast with retries (GCR) in a multi-link wireless communications system. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) can exchange information with a non-AP MLD to establish a GCR-multi-link operation (MLO) agreement corresponding to a group address, wherein the information includes, but is not limited to: a GCR primary link or a GCR primary link set of the AP MLD, an association identifier (AID) that corresponds to the group address. In some embodiments, the AP MLD can transmit a GCR frame subject to the GCR-MLO agreement, where the GCR frame includes a sequence number assigned from sequence number space (SNS)_GCR_MLO defined at a MLD level, and generate a Group Temporal Key (GTK)_GCR_ML at the MLD level, where the GTK_GCR_ML enables encryption and decryption of the GCR frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Yoel Boger, Tianyu Wu, Su Khiong Yong
  • Publication number: 20230032276
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for canceling reference signal interference in dynamic spectrum sharing networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rajarajan Balraj, Guang Xu, Abhinav Gupta, Sami M. Almalfouh, Leilei Song, Jia Tang, Xiaojun Ma, Majdi Msallem
  • Publication number: 20230032356
    Abstract: The present application relates to a paging mechanism. In an example, a network can transmit SSBs periodically on multiple SSB beams. A UE can receive, during a DRX cycle, an SSB per detected SSB beam and perform SSB-based measurements. Based on these measurements, the UE can perform PDCCH monitoring and PDSCH decoding on at least two beams. The PDCCH monitoring can indicate a scheduled paging message from the network. The PDSCH decoding can allow the UE to determine the paging message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hongbo Yan, Amir Farajidana, Dietmar Gradl
  • Publication number: 20230035992
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for mapping codewords to transmission layers and transmitting phase tracking reference signals in wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Publication number: 20230030913
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional mesh using a video encoding technique. To compress the three-dimensional mesh, the encoder determines sub-meshes and for each sub-mesh: texture patches and geometry patches. Also the encoder determines patch connectivity information and patch texture coordinates for the texture patches and geometry patches. The texture patches and geometry patches are packed into video image frames and encoded using a video codec. Additionally, the encoder determines boundary stitching information for the sub-meshes. A decoder receives a bit stream as generated by the encoder and reconstructs the three-dimensional mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Alexandros Tourapis, Jungsun Kim
  • Publication number: 20230036406
    Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station; and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration from the base station, wherein the SRS resource configuration indicates at least a first SRS resource and a second SRS resource. The processor is further configured to transmit a first SRS via the first SRS resource to the base station using a first antenna coupled to the transceiver and transmit a second SRS via the second SRS resource to the base station using a second antenna coupled to the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lijie ZHANG, Lele CUI, Aiman J. SANG, Yu WU, Yun GAO, Ying ZHANG, Zhiwei WANG, Qiang MIAO
  • Publication number: 20230036278
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to associate a first Beam Reference Signal (BRS) for a first Transmit (Tx) beam having a first beamwidth with one or more second BRSes for one or more respectively corresponding second Tx beams having a second beamwidth. The second circuitry may be operable to generate a first BRS transmission carrying the first BRS, and to generate one or more second BRS transmissions carrying the one or more respectively corresponding second BRSes. The third circuitry may be operable to provide information regarding the first BRS and the second BRSes to the second circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wenting CHANG, Gang XIONG, Yuan ZHU, Huaning NIU, Yushu ZHANG
  • Patent number: D977460
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    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: D977514
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo Caro, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D977517
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Lucas Daniel Langhus, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton, Christopher I. Wilson
  • Patent number: D977520
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Chanaka Karunamuni