Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12250600
    Abstract: One or more methods for enhancing inter-node handover (HO) signaling for conditional HO (CHO). At least one of the methods include: providing a message that comprises indications of a plurality of potential target cell identifiers that are applicable to a CHO operation; and performing a CHO operation based on the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jaemin Han, Alexander Sirotkin, Bharat Shrestha, Yi Guo
  • Patent number: 12250262
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for remotely commanding a mobile device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input identifying a mobile device, presenting to a user one or more remote commands corresponding to the mobile device, receiving user input selecting a remote command from the one or more presented remote commands, generating a remote command message instructing the mobile device to execute the selected remote command, and transmitting the remote command message to a server for publication in a message topic. Further, a selectable list of mobile devices associated with a remote management account can be presented to the user, the selectable list including information uniquely identifying each mobile device. Additionally, the selectable list of mobile devices can include an indication of whether an included mobile device is online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Slack, Brendan A. McCarthy, Carsten Guenther, Christopher Brooke Sharp
  • Patent number: 12249328
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coordinating interactions between a user device and a plurality of accessory devices. In one example, a user device receives information identifying one or more accessory devices in communication with the user device. The user device may implement accessory interaction instances for each of the identified accessories. A first accessory interaction instance can be associated with a first accessory among the identified accessories and receive a first audio input from the first accessory corresponding to a user request. The first accessory interaction instance can process a portion of the received audio input and receive a first response from a server computer. The user device may then transmit the first response to the first accessory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared S. Grubb, Robert M. Stewart, Gabriel Sanchez, Anshul Jain, Zaka ur Rehman Ashraf, David J. Chandler, Andrew Byrne, Anumita Biswas, Minsub Lee, Mahesh Shanbhag
  • Patent number: 12248399
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to multi-block fetches for cache misses. In some embodiments, cache tag circuitry maintains a tag value that is shared by multiple cache blocks. In response to a miss, the cache may initiate a fetch request to a next level cache or memory. Aggregation circuitry may aggregate multiple fetch requests for cache blocks that share the tag value and fetch circuitry may initiate a single multi-block fetch operation to the next level cache or memory that returns cache blocks for the aggregated multiple fetch requests. In various embodiments, disclosed techniques may improve performance (e.g., by reducing fetch bus transactions), reduce power consumption, or both, relative to traditional techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Winnie W. Yeung, Cheng Li
  • Patent number: 12250361
    Abstract: A head-mountable device can operate in concert with one or more optical assemblies thereof to provide multiple users with shared experiences and content enjoyment. Such operations can be facilitated by a connection between the head-mountable device and one or both of its optical assemblies to allow different users to receive content. Such a connection can be made possible by a communication link that directly and/or physically connects the head-mountable device and one or both of its optical assemblies when the one or both of the optical assemblies is removed from the head-mountable device for operation by a separate user. The ability to provide multiple outputs on separate components allows separate users to participate in a shared experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Jeremy C. Franklin
  • Patent number: 12250627
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods for conducting multilink communications between a user equipment device (UE) and a wireless access point (AP) over a wireless local area network (WLAN). The UE establishes a connection with an access point through a WLAN, wherein the connection utilizes a plurality of links. The UE transmits an indication to the access point through a first link of the plurality of links, where the indication specifies one or more available links of the plurality of links that are available for the UE to receive downlink (DL) communications from the access point. The UE receives one or more DL communications from the access point through at least one of the one or more available links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Christiaan A. Hartman, Guoqing Li, Jinjing Jiang, Qi Wang, Su Khiong Yong, Tianyu Wu, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 12250433
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device detects that playback of content has reached a respective playback position. In some embodiments, in response to detecting that the playback of the content has reached the respective playback position and in accordance with a determination that the respective playback position in the content is associated with respective augmented reality content corresponding to the content, an electronic device provides a notification corresponding to the respective augmented reality content wherein an input directed to the notification initiates a process for displaying of the respective augmented reality content. In some embodiments, in accordance with a determination that the respective playback position in the content is not associated with the respective augmented reality content, an electronic device forgoes providing the notification corresponding to the respective augmented reality content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Tommy Payne
  • Patent number: 12250033
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can compensate for imbalances between multiple transport streams of an uplink (UL)-multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can adjust one or more signal metrics of multiple recovered transport streams of the UL-MIMO transmission that are received in the presence of imbalances between the multiple transport streams of the UL-MIMO transmission. As an example, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can inject noise into one or more of the multiple recovered transport streams to adjust the one or more signal metrics of the multiple recovered transmission streams to lessen the imbalances between the multiple transmission streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lijie Zhang, Zhiwei Wang, Lakshmi N. Kavuri
  • Patent number: 12248675
    Abstract: A method for performing multi-touch (MT) data fusion is disclosed in which multiple touch inputs occurring at about the same time are received to generating first touch data. Secondary sense data can then be combined with the first touch data to perform operations on an electronic device. The first touch data and the secondary sense data can be time-aligned and interpreted in a time-coherent manner. The first touch data can be refined in accordance with the secondary sense data, or alternatively, the secondary sense data can be interpreted in accordance with the first touch data. Additionally, the first touch data and the secondary sense data can be combined to create a new command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Carl Westerman, John Greer Elias
  • Patent number: 12249599
    Abstract: Multiple chip module (MCM) structures are described. In an embodiment, a module includes a first and second components on the top side of a module substrate, a stiffener structure mounted on the top side of the module substrate, and a lid mounted on the stiffener structure and covering the first component and the second component. The stiffener is joined to the lid within a trench formed in a roof of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Jie-Hua Zhao, Jun Zhai, Po-Hao Chang, Hsien-Che Lin, Ying-Chieh Ke, Kunzhong Hu
  • Patent number: 12249016
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a first agent engine that generates actions for a first agent, a first objective of the first agent. In some implementations, the method includes generating, by the first agent engine, a first influence for a second agent engine that generates actions for a computer-generated reality (CGR) representation of a second agent. In some implementations, the first influence is based on the first objective of the first agent. In some implementations, the method includes triggering the CGR representation of the second agent to perform a set of one or more actions that advances the first objective of the first agent. In some implementations, the second agent engine generates the set of one or more actions based on the first influence generated by the first agent engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Laszlo Kovacs
  • Patent number: 12249033
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure includes techniques and user interfaces for interacting with virtual objects in an extended reality environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects in an extended reality environment, including repositioning virtual objects relative to the environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects, in an extended reality environment, including virtual objects that aid a user in navigating within the environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects, including objects displayed based on changes in a field-of-view of a user, in an extended reality environment, including repositioning virtual objects relative to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yiqiang Nie, Giovanni Agnoli, Devin W. Chalmers, Allison W. Dryer, Thomas G. Salter, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 12249909
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a circuit having a current source and a load circuit coupled to the current source. The current source can include a transistor electrically coupled to a voltage supply and can be configured to generate a first current with a first current rate-of-change during a time interval, where the first current can be a cancellation current. In addition, the load circuit can be configured to generate a second current with a second current rate-of-change during the same time interval, where the second current can be a load current. The second current rate-of-change can be substantially an inverse of the first current rate-of-change. A power system can include a power management unit configured to generate a power supply voltage at an output, a current source and a load circuit electrically coupled to the output, and a control circuit controls the first current rate-of-change during the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Meei-Ling Chiang, Khaled M. Alashmouny, Zhi Hu
  • Patent number: 12248626
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that perform gaze tracking using combinations of ultrasound and imaging data. Some implementations detect a first attribute of an eye using imaging measurements in a first image of the eye, and a first location associated with the first attribute is determined in a 3D coordinate system based on depth information. A second attribute of the eye is detected based on depth information from ultrasound based measurements of the eye, and a second location associated with the second attribute is determined in the 3D coordinate system based on the depth information and a 3D model of a portion of the eye. A gaze direction in the 3D coordinate system is determined based on the first location and the second location. In some implementations, user characteristics are identified (e.g., authentication) using ultrasonic biometric characteristics with imaging biometrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Nistico, Patrick R. Gill
  • Patent number: 12249839
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a metallic housing defining an interior that contains one or more systems of the electronic device. The metallic housing can further define a pocket within the metallic housing separated from the interior. The pocket can have a window to an exterior of the metallic housing to facilitate wireless power transfer. An electronic device can include a non-metallic housing defining an interior that contains one or more systems of the electronic device and a wireless power transfer module that further includes a metallic structure defining a receptacle separated from the interior housing. The receptacle can have at least one open side to facilitate wireless power transfer. In either case, the wireless power transfer coil can be disposed at least partially or completely within the pocket or receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Agha Jahanzeb, Arash Akhavan Fomani, Matthew J Chabalko
  • Patent number: D1065886
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alice Marlin Brugger, Joshua Robert Edwards, Kameron Gad, Jean-Marc Gady, Taylor Hoff, Martynas Laurita, Stephen Yustiono
  • Patent number: D1066322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1066358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli
  • Patent number: D1066407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Allison W. Dryer, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard D. Lyons, Grant R. Paul, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: D1066408
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley William Griffin, Christopher Daryl Soli