Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11585749
    Abstract: This relates to systems and methods for measuring a concentration and type of substance in a sample at a sampling interface. The systems can include a light source, optics, one or more modulators, a reference, a detector, and a controller. The systems and methods disclosed can be capable of accounting for drift originating from the light source, one or more optics, and the detector by sharing one or more components between different measurement light paths. Additionally, the systems can be capable of differentiating between different types of drift and eliminating erroneous measurements due to stray light with the placement of one or more modulators between the light source and the sample or reference. Furthermore, the systems can be capable of detecting the substance along various locations and depths within the sample by mapping a detector pixel and a microoptics to the location and depth in the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Miikka M. Kangas, Mark Alan Arbore, David I. Simon, Michael J. Bishop, James W. Hillendahl, Robert Chen
  • Patent number: 11588455
    Abstract: An amplifier circuit includes multiple transistors, a set of input routing circuits, and a set of output routing circuits. Each output routing circuit corresponds to an input routing circuit. Each input routing circuit and its corresponding output routing circuit are controlled by one or more control signals. Each input routing circuit is configured to selectively connect each transistor of a transistor pair to a first input terminal of the amplifier circuit, a second input terminal of the amplifier circuit, or a third input terminal of the amplifier based on a value of the one or more control signals. Each output routing circuit is configured to selectively connect each transistor of the transistor pair to a first output terminal of the amplifier circuit, a second output terminal of the amplifier circuit, or a calibration circuit based on the value of the one or more control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Erhan Ozalevli
  • Patent number: 11587650
    Abstract: Prior to connecting to a gateway associated with an electronic health record system, a user device can check in with a server. The server can send configuration information useable by the user device for connecting to the gateway for downloading medical record data. The configuration information may include an update value that is useable by the user device to determine a time frame for contacting the gateway. In some examples, the user device determines when to contact the gateway without using the update value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Todd D. Power, Mark E. Pennell, Jorge F. Pozas Trevino, Sean R. Moore, Sami Shaio, Sangeeth Sridharan, Kevin M. Lynch
  • Patent number: 11589152
    Abstract: An earbud design is disclosed that is configured to sit securely within an ear of a user. The earbud can be secured within the ear by an anchoring feature formed from an elastomeric material. The anchoring feature has a size and shape in accordance with an interior geometry of an ear of a user. Because the anchoring feature positions the earbud with respect to the ear, geometries of the earbud can be focused upon audio performance and/or device aesthetics. In some embodiments, the earbud housing can have a linear design which allows an audio driver within the earbud housing to be positioned close to an opening defined by the earbud housing. In this way, acoustic degradation associated with a long audio path from the audio driver to the opening can be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Glenn K. Trainer, Scott C. Grinker, Craig M. Stanley
  • Patent number: 11588377
    Abstract: A fan motor suitable for use in an electronic device, such as a consumer electronic device, is disclosed. The fan motor includes a stator and a rotor. In order to minimize a varying torque applied to the rotor, the stator includes modifications. For example, the stator includes stator teeth, each with an arc defined by a radius of curvature that varies. The radius (from a reference point to the arc) can vary in accordance with a sinusoidal curve. Furthermore, the corners of each stator tooth may be rounded. The rounded corners of the stator teeth may include a uniform (or constant, non-varying) radius of curvature. These enhancement are designed to provide a more uniform torque by the stator to the rotor. As a result, the rotation of the rotor is subject to smaller fluctuations, and the fan motor undergoes less vibration and generates less acoustical noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jifang Tian, Cheng Ping Tan, Enoch Mylabathula
  • Patent number: 11589305
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including a user equipment device (UE) exchanging communications with a base station to determine one or more scheduling profiles, such as one or more scheduling-power profiles, where a scheduling-power profile may specify one or more parameters associated with UE communication behavior, e.g., one or more constraints on UE communication behavior and/or slot scheduling of UE communications. In addition, the method may include the UE receiving a slot configuration schedule from the base station. The slot configuration schedule may be based on at least one scheduling-power profile of the one or more scheduling-power profiles. Further, the method may include the UE performing communications with the base station based on the at least one scheduling-power profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Wei Zhang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Junsung Lim, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Zhu Ji, Yang Li, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Patent number: 11588871
    Abstract: A process for real time protocol (RTP) data streaming includes generating a plurality of codec bitstreams, each codec bitstream being configured to carry encoded information that includes one of occupancy map data, geometry data, or attribute data for a volumetric video. The process includes generating, for each codec bitstream of the plurality, a dedicated RTP stream, the dedicated RTP stream including a RTP payload format based on the respective codec bitstream for that RTP stream. The process includes multiplexing each dedicated RTP stream into a result RTP stream for the volumetric video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Ozgur Oyman
  • Patent number: 11587909
    Abstract: Package structure with folded die arrangements and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a package structure includes a first die and vertical interposer side-by-side. A second die is face down on an electrically connected with the vertical interposer, and a local interposer electrically connects the first die with the vertical interposer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chonghua Zhong, Jun Zhai, Kunzhong Hu
  • Patent number: 11587468
    Abstract: A visual-information security system that includes an information security label positioned to conceal visual information on a substrate. The information security label may include a spiral-shaped cut (or other complex shape) within the body of the label and a pull-tab, such that when a user pulls on the tab, the label peels off of the substrate in a spiral pattern, revealing the information concealed beneath the label. The complex-shaped cut makes reapplication of the label difficult and evident, thus providing security to consumers. The label may include multiple layers of material, for example, a peel-off layer and an adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy Vanslette
  • Patent number: 11588155
    Abstract: Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a first battery cell. The first battery cell may include an anode current collector, and an anode active material disposed on the anode current collector. The first battery cell may include a cathode current collector and a cathode active material disposed on the cathode current collector. The current collectors may be polymeric materials. The batteries may include a first conductive band electrically coupled with the first battery cell. The first conductive band may be seated on the second surface of one of the anode current collector or the cathode current collector. The first conductive band may extend about a perimeter of the one of the anode current collector or the cathode current collector. The batteries may include a cell module including a first flexible extension electrically coupled with the first conductive band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dylan Erb, Abraham B. Caulk, Ross L. Johnstal, Paul W. Firehammer, Edward T. Hillstrom, Christopher T. Campbell, Andrew C. Chu
  • Patent number: 11588492
    Abstract: An analog to digital converter (ADC) receives first and second analog input signals. A charge sampling demultiplexer includes multiple capacitors that sample the first and second analog input signals, and generates multiple input samples representative of charge stored on the capacitors. A plurality of sub-ADCs each include first and second charge-to-time converters, which receive from the charge sampling demultiplexer respective first and second input sample of the first and second analog input signals and output respective first and second pulse-width-modulated (PWM) signals responsively to the respective first and second input samples. Temporal processing circuitry processes the PWM signals to generate a digital value indicative of a temporal difference between the first and second PWM signals. Output reordering circuitry receives the digital value from each of the sub-ADCs and generates a digital output indicative of a difference between the first and second analog input signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Andrei Levi, Tiberiu Carol Galambos
  • Patent number: 11588599
    Abstract: A network device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), or a new radio NB (gNB)) can process or generate a configuration of a physical random access channel (PRACH) over physical resource blocks (PRBs) that are interlaced in an unlicensed band in an NR unlicensed (NR-U) communication. The PRBs in the PRACH can be based on an occupied channel bandwidth (OCB) of the unlicensed band in the NR-U communication. A random access channel transmission in the PRACH can then be generated by interlacing the PRBs defining the PRACH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongho Jeon, Seau Lim, Yongjun Kwak, Anthony Lee, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Joonyoung Cho, Huaning Niu
  • Patent number: 11586653
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retrieving local information on a user device include detecting itinerary information stored by a first application on a user device, and identifying a travel destination based on the detected itinerary information. The travel destination is communicated to a second application executable on a user device, and the travel destination is stored in association with the second application. The second application is adapted to retrieve local information based on an identified geographic location, and local information for the travel destination is provided through the second application in response to a user interaction with the second application and based on a triggering threshold associated with the itinerary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Devrim Varoglu, Swapnil R. Dave
  • Patent number: 11587954
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vasudha Gupta, Jae Won Choi, Shih Chang Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Young Bae Park
  • Patent number: 11589010
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to camera and visitor user interfaces. In some examples, the present disclosure relates to techniques for switching between configurations of a camera view. In some examples, the present disclosure relates to displaying indications of visitors detected by an accessory device of the home automation system. In some examples, the present disclosure relates to displaying a multi-view camera user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis S. Park, Christopher John Sanders
  • Patent number: D978842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 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, Clara Geneviéve 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D978857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steven P. Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D978867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 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, 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
  • Patent number: D978894
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Alan C. Dye, Pedro Mari
  • Patent number: D978900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gorm Halfdan Amand, Daniel Joseph Billett, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, James Nicholas Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Vincent M. Lane, Chia Yang Lin, Cecilia S. Zhou