Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12218424Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a conductive sidewall. An aperture may be formed in the sidewall. The sidewall may have a cavity that extends from the aperture towards the interior of the device. The cavity may be filled with an injection-molded plastic substrate. A dielectric block having a dielectric constant greater than that of the injection-molded plastic substrate and the antenna layers may be embedded in the injection-molded plastic substrate. The dielectric block may at least partially overlap an antenna. The antenna may convey radio-frequency signals at a frequency greater than 10 GHz through the cavity, the dielectric block, the injection-molded plastic substrate, and the aperture. The dielectric block may increase the effective dielectric constant of the cavity, allowing the antenna to cover relatively low frequencies without increasing the size of the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bhaskara R. Rupakula, Harish Rajagopalan, Hao Xu, Jennifer M. Edwards, Bilgehan Avser, Siwen Yong
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Patent number: 12216594Abstract: A memory control circuit coupled to multiple memory ranks may receive read and write requests for a different ranks of the multiple memory ranks. The memory control may allocate write requests to different slots based on the write requests target memory rank, and may adjust the number of slots available for a given memory rank during a write turn to improve write efficiency. The memory control circuit may also determine a number of ranks switches within a read turn based on whether a particular quality-of-service requirement associated with the read requests is being satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shane J. Keil, Gregory S. Mathews, Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy Nukala
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Patent number: 12216782Abstract: The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for providing secure data access for electronic devices. The secure data access can allow processes, such as scripts, at a device to be executed to obtain and process restricted data locally on the device without requesting user authorization for the access and processing. The secure data access can prevent the processes from exporting the data, and/or data derived from the data, from an execution space of the processes, whether locally on the device or externally from the device, without obtaining user authorization for the exportation. In this way, user authorizations can be obtained for securing restricted data, in a way that is efficient for the device, for the processes accessing and processing the data, and for the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Conrad B. Kramer, Cristina L. Formaini
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Patent number: 12216833Abstract: A physical keyboard can be used to collect user input in a typing mode or in a tracking mode. To use a tracking mode, first movement data is detected for a hand of a user in relation to a physical keyboard at a first location. A determination is made that the first movement data is associated with a tracking movement. In response to determining that the movement type is associated with the tracking movement, a tracking mode is initiated. User input is provided based on the movement data and in accordance with the tracking mode. Contact data and non-contact data is used to determine a user intent, and a user instruction is processed based on the user intent.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michele Stoppa, Waleed Abdulla, Henning Tjaden, Sree Harsha Kalli, Senem E. Emgin, John B. Morrell, Seung Wook Kim
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Patent number: 12218764Abstract: A user equipment (UE) communicates with a further UE via a sidelink and communicates with a cell of a network via an uplink. The UE receives a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) timing parameter from the network, generates a sidelink HARQ-ACK codebook based on a signaling exchange with the further UE, wherein the sidelink HARQ-ACK codebook is constructed in decreasing order of one or more physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission slots associated with a configured physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) occasion, and transmits an indication of the sidelink HARQ-ACK codebook to the cell of the network.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
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Patent number: 12218896Abstract: A first messaging app, in one embodiment receives text and detects that the text includes a URL that refers to audio or audiovisual media content in a catalog of media content, and the messaging app obtains metadata about the media content and transmits the metadata to a second messaging app. Both the first and the second messaging app can operate, through interprocess communication, with its own music extension app that displays a user interface within a view hosted by the respective messaging app.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Thomas M. Alsina, Samuel M. Weinig, Chance Graham, Taylor G. Carrigan, Nathan de Vries, Timothy P. Horton
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Patent number: 12217353Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to intersection tests for ray tracing in graphics processors. In some embodiments, test circuitry is configured to perform an intersection test based on traversal of an acceleration data structure that includes hierarchically-arranged bounding volumes for a graphics scene, where the test operates on: reduced-precision representations of rays that are quantized versions of initial representations of the rays and reduced-representatives of primitives that are quantized versions of initial representations of the primitives. The test may generate a first result for a first ray and a first primitive that indicates that a line coincident with the first ray definitively intersects the first primitive. The graphics processor may record an intersection for the first ray with the first primitive, based on the first result, without performing an intersection test for the first ray using the initial representation of the first ray and the first primitive.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Christopher A. Burns
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Patent number: 12218401Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless communications circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include centimeter and millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and a phased antenna array. A dielectric cover may be formed over the phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may transmit and receive wireless radio-frequency signals through the dielectric cover. The dielectric cover may have first and second opposing surfaces. The second surface may face the phased antenna array and may have a curvature. The curvature of the second surface may include one or more recessed regions of the dielectric cover. The one or more recessed regions of the second surface may serve to maximize and broaden the coverage area for the phased antenna array. The first surface may be conformal to other structures in the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jiangfeng Wu, Siwen Yong, Yi Jiang, Lijun Zhang, Mattia Pascolini
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Patent number: 12216754Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for authentication, including providing authentication at a computer system in accordance with some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sung Chang Lee, Bowen Cheng, Yue Hang, Weiqi Pan, Yue Shen, Xiaoguang Yang, Xiaofeng Yu, Feng Zhang, Liang Zhao, Qiuji Zhao, Wendong Zhong
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Patent number: 12217379Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a virtual object kit that includes a set of virtual object templates of a particular virtual object type. In some implementations, the virtual object kit includes a plurality of groups of components. In some implementations, each of the plurality of groups of components is associated with a particular portion of a virtual object. In some implementations, the method includes receiving a request to assemble a virtual object. In some implementations, the request includes a selection of components from at least some of the plurality of groups of components. In some implementations, the method includes synthesizing the virtual object in accordance with the request.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Jack R. Greasley
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Patent number: 12218864Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide collision resolution procedures in wireless communication systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye
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Patent number: 12218894Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for displaying and using avatars. In some embodiments, avatars are used to generate stickers for sending in a content-creation user interface. In some embodiments, avatars are used to generate a representation of a contactable user in a contactable user editing user interface. In some embodiments, a user interface can be used to create and edit an avatar. In some embodiments, a user interface can be used to display an avatar that is responsive to detected changes in pose of a face of a user. In some embodiments, contact information is transmitted or received.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Allison Dryer, Marcel Van Os
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Patent number: 12219074Abstract: Various features and processes related to document collaboration are disclosed. In some implementations, animations are presented when updating a local document display to reflect changes made to the document at a remote device. In some implementations, a user can selectively highlight changes made by collaborators in a document. In some implementations, a user can select an identifier associated with another user to display a portion of a document that includes the other user's cursor location. In some implementations, text in document chat sessions can be automatically converted into hyperlinks which, when selected, cause a document editor to perform an operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Keng Fai Lee, Wang Chiu Chan, Charles J. Migos, M. Frank Emanuel
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Patent number: 12214099Abstract: Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM) dual-standby (DSDS) user equipment device (UE) configured with a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE performs communications with a first cellular network using the first SIM and a first radio resource control (RRC) connection, and receives a request to perform a higher priority communication using the second SIM. In response to the request to perform the higher priority communication, the UE transmits a request to the first network to suspend the first RRC connection. After transmission of the request to suspend the first RRC connection, the UE receives a message from the first network to place the first RRC connection in an inactive state, and initiates a timer, wherein the timer is used to determine whether the first RRC connection remains in the inactive state or transitions to an idle state.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Srirang A Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sree Ram Kodali, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Longda Xing, Zhiwei Wang, Yaoqi Yan, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Beibei Wang, Lele Cui
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Patent number: 12214943Abstract: A hang tab assembly includes a paper outer layer and inner layer. The outer layer may include a hanging panel, a tear-away panel adjacent to the hanging panel, a first kiss-cut path on an upper surface of the outer layer, and a second kiss-cut path on a lower surface of the tear-away panel, the second kiss-cut path offset from the first. The assembly may include a first adhesive disposed on the lower surface of the tear-away panel, and a second adhesive disposed on a lower surface of the inner layer facing away from the outer layer. The outer layer may include a tear-away portion that tears transversely between offset kiss-cut paths to unseal a sealed package and expose internal paper material to provide visual indication that the package has been unsealed.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manuel Hodrius, Jonathan M. McCarren
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Patent number: 12216260Abstract: An optical system for a camera may include a lens group having a plurality of lenses, a prism, and an image sensor. The prism may be positioned, optically, between the plurality of lenses and the image sensor along the optical transmitting path of the light. The prism may include at least four surfaces, which may fold the light within the prism at least four times to guide the light from the plurality of lenses passing through the prism to the image sensor. The prism may include multiple prisms joined together using an optical cement. The prism may include one or more aperture masks inside the prism to reduce flare.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Takeyoshi Saiga, Yoshikazu Shinohara
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Patent number: D1060233Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 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 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
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Patent number: D1060269Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Birgers, Michael Joseph Solomon, Charles Werley
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Patent number: D1060346Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 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, Julian Hoenig, 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1060377Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Bas Ording, Marcel van Os