Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12206716
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, a device may obtain a link that corresponds to a call with a second device, encrypt a request to join the call using a key obtained using the link, and send the encrypted request to a server for delivery to the second device. The link may also include information used to identify an alias for an account associated with the second device. The device may send the encrypted request to the server with the alias. The device may receive an encrypted response to the request from the server, obtain an identifier of the call from the encrypted response, and then receive an invitation to join the call associated with the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Circosta, Daniel B. Pollack, Justin R. Etzine, Nelson M. Leduc, Frederic Jacobs
  • Patent number: 12201227
    Abstract: A product display stand for reducing displayed product movement can be used in a retail environment to reduce movement of a product displayed by the product display stand. Such product display stand includes a damping assembly configured to attach to a display platform. The damping assembly includes a housing configured to attach to the display platform. The housing defines a damping chamber. The assembly also includes within the chamber a damping flange and damping material. The product display stand also includes a display post fixed to the damping flange. The display post extends above the display platform and to retain and display a product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Weijia Wang, Gregory R. Ritter, Joshua Adams, Olivia Ching, Priya K. Nambiar, Charles A. Schwalbach, David S. Herman, John S. Camp, Samuel O. Schneider
  • Patent number: 12206163
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a cover layer and an antenna. A dielectric adapter may have a first surface coupled to the antenna and a second surface pressed against the cover layer. The cover layer may have a three-dimensional curvature. The second surface may have a curvature that matches the curvature of the cover layer. Biasing structures may exert a biasing force that presses the antenna against the dielectric adapter and that presses the dielectric adapter against the cover layer. The biasing force may be oriented in a direction normal to the cover layer at each point across dielectric adapter. This may serve to ensure that a uniform and reliable impedance transition is provided between the antenna and free space through the cover layer over time, thereby maximizing the efficiency of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Jiang, Jiangfeng Wu, Lijun Zhang, Siwen Yong, Mattia Pascolini, Samuel A. Resnick, Anthony S. Montevirgen
  • Patent number: 12201196
    Abstract: Wearable electronic devices, such as watches, can be provided with an attachment system for connecting and releasing a removable module that interfaces with some portion of the electronic device. For example, a watch housing includes a main body having a channel for receiving a watchband and a first opening extending to the channel. A rear cover coupled to the main body provides a second opening. A unibody button is positioned between the main body and the rear cover. The button is biased against the rear cover and is moveable toward the channel to release a watchband engaged therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William C. Lukens, Colin M. Ely, Adam T. Clavelle
  • Patent number: 12206061
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display has pixels configured to display an image. The display is mounted in a housing. The housing may include head-mounted support structures configured to support the display for viewing through lenses. The pixels of the display may be covered by a layer of thin-film encapsulation. The thin-film encapsulation may be covered with a cover layer such as a glass cover layer that is attached to the thin-film encapsulation layer by a layer of adhesive. To suppress internal light reflections, the display may include reflection suppression structures. The reflection suppression structures may include an antireflection layer and/or polarizer and waveplate layers. The reflection suppression structures may be formed on an outwardly facing surface of the cover layer and/or between the thin-film encapsulation layer and the cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dagny Fleischman, Chi-Jui Chung, Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Giovanni Carbone, Graham B. Myhre, Michael Slootsky
  • Patent number: 12206502
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE comprises a processor configured to perform operations comprising receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request process group (HPG) configuration signal from a base station associated therewith, wherein the HPG configuration signal comprises information of a plurality HARQ process groups (HPGs), each HPG comprising one or more HARQ processes of a set of HARQ processes configured for the UE. The operations further comprise receiving a downlink control information (DCI) from the base station, wherein the DCI comprises information that identifies one or more HPGs of the plurality of HPGs, the HARQ-ACK feedback information of which are to be included in a HARQ-ACK feedback signal that is triggered by the DCI. In addition, the operations comprise generating the HARQ-ACK feedback signal comprising the HARQ-ACK feedback information of HARQ processes associated with the one or more HPGs and sending the HARQ-ACK feedback signal to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12207123
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform CSI-reporting. In an example, a BWP includes “M” subbands and is configured to the UE. The UE can process “Kc” CSI-RS samples to generate “M” subband CSI reports, where “Kc>M.” The UE determines what number of CSI-RS samples to use per subband based on the channel information of the BWP, where this number can vary between the subbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ghaith N. Hattab, Louay Jalloul, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 12204730
    Abstract: A touch sensor panel includes a first set of touch electrodes configured to operate as drive lines and that are disposed in a first layer of the touch sensor panel. The touch sensor panel also includes a second set of touch electrodes configured to operate as sense lines and that are disposed in a second layer of the touch sensor panel, different than the first layer of the touch sensor panel, such that one or more mutual capacitance touch nodes are formed by the first set of touch electrodes and the second set of touch electrodes. The touch sensor panel also includes a third set of touch electrodes configured to operate as self-capacitance electrodes and that are disposed in the first layer or the second layer of the touch sensor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christophe Blondin, Jean-Marie Bussat, Robert Leo Sheridan, Sagar Rajiv Vaze
  • Patent number: 12204115
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a camera includes a lens assembly in a lens carrier, an image sensor for capturing a digital representation of light transiting the lens, and a voice coil motor. In some embodiments, the voice coil motor includes a spring suspension assembly for moveably mounting the lens carrier to an actuator base, a plurality of permanent magnets mounted to the actuator base through a magnet holder assembly and a focusing coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier and mounted to the actuator base through the suspension assembly. In some embodiments, the permanent magnets each generate a magnetic field of a respective permanent magnet field strength, and the magnet holder assembly generates a holder magnetic field of a holder magnetic field strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott W. Miller, Steven Webster, Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 12206100
    Abstract: Compounds, particles, and cathode active materials that can be used in lithium ion batteries are described herein. Methods of making such compounds, powders, and cathode active materials are described. The particles have a particle size distribution with a D50 ranging from 10 ?m to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hongli Dai, Huiming Wu, Dapeng Wang, John David Carter, Yan Li, Anh D. Vu, Xiaoping Wang, Christopher S. Johnson, Rui Xu, Zhenzhen Yang, Yanjie Cui, James A. Gilbert, Arthur Jeremy Kropf, Hakim H. Iddir
  • Patent number: 12207342
    Abstract: The described embodiments set forth techniques for private cellular wireless network management personalized for a wireless device, including private cellular wireless network characterization at frequently visited locations, targeted cell search, cell radio link monitoring, and radio resource management. The wireless device builds a database of private cellular wireless networks characterized using information gathered when searching for and while attached to cells of a private cellular wireless network. The wireless device uses the database to determine when to enable or disable SIMs or eSIMs of private cellular wireless networks at known locations and network parameters to use to find and connect to the private cellular wireless networks. The wireless device uses learning processes to maintain currency of the database of private cellular wireless networks as network topologies change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nabil Akdim, Gencer Cili, Mahak Goindani
  • Patent number: 12204292
    Abstract: A watch can include a watch body and a band for securing the watch to the user. The watch body can detect an identification of the band or combination of band portions, which can serve as an input to initiate actions performed by the watch body. For example, a type, model, color, size, or other characteristic of a band can be determined and used to select a corresponding action performed by the watch body. Identification of the band can be performed by components of the watch body that also serve other purposes. The watch body can respond to the identification of a particular band by performing particular functions, such as changing an aspect of a user interface or altering settings of the watch body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Beyhs, Thayne M. Miller, Julian Quintana, Wesley W. Zuber
  • Patent number: 12202413
    Abstract: A vehicle may have a vehicle body and one or more movable sensors mounted to the body. A movable sensor may be rotated, linearly translated, or otherwise moved between multiple positions in response to location information, driving mode information, vehicle speed, and/or other information. The movable sensor may be moved to track objects, to provide pedestrians and others with visual feedback, to allow the sensor to gather desired sensor information to support driver assistance and autonomous driving operations, to place the sensor in a stowed position, and to perform other functions. The movable sensor may be protected with a movable cover. A cleaner may clean the sensor. The sensor may be a radar sensor, lidar sensor, camera, or other sensor. Information from the sensor may be used to detect roadway obstructions, to detect objects near the vehicle, to monitor pedestrians, and to monitor other conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt R Stiehl, Christopher P Child, Michael C Wharton, Romain A Teil, Stephen B Lynch
  • Patent number: 12207111
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for carrying out performance measurement monitoring. Specifically, a consumer seeking performance measurement monitoring transmits a request to a management service producer that includes the parameters of the monitoring, such as the type of data to be monitored, a granularity period and one or more threshold values. In response, the management service producer communicates with a network function to carry out the monitoring. In particular, for each granularity period, a monitoring value is initialized. Then, either at the end of the granularity period or at intervals throughout the granularity period, the monitoring value is measured. If, at the time of measurement, the measurement value exceeds any one of the threshold values, a notification is transmitted to the consumer. Otherwise, monitoring continues for the remainder of the granularity period and/or is repeated for subsequent granularity periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
  • Patent number: 12206620
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to determine a first Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) sequence and a second SRS sequence. The second circuitry may be operable to process a first Uplink (UL) transmission from the first UE incorporating the first SRS sequence over a first set of subcarrier frequencies. The second circuitry may also be operable to process a second UL transmission from the second UE incorporating the second SRS sequence over a second set of subcarrier frequencies. The second SRS sequence may comprise at least a first block that overlaps the first set of subcarrier frequencies and a second block that does not overlap the first set of subcarrier frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sameer Pawar, Alexei Davydov
  • Patent number: 12207120
    Abstract: A network element for configuring a Remote Interference Monitoring Reference Signal (RIM-RS) is disclosed. The network element transmits RIM-RS resource configuration and Information of Things (IoT) measurement and reporting configuration information to a base station. The base station conducts the IoT measurement and ducting phenomenon detection according to the received configuration, and transmits the results to the network element. The base station determines the number of repetition and/or near-far indication based on the received information and transmits the number of repetition and near-far indication to the base station. The base station then transmits the RIM-RS according to the received repetition and near-far indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 12205510
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a device may include a pulsed emission electronic display having multiple display pixels in order to display an image frame. The display may pulse one or more display pixels of over a plurality of sub-frames within the image frame based on display image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the display image data based on source image data indicative of an image to be displayed during the image frame. Additionally, the image processing circuitry may dither an order of the plurality of sub-frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hopil Bae, Xiang Lu, Haitao Li
  • Patent number: 12206397
    Abstract: An integrated circuit may be provided with power switching circuitry. The power switching circuitry may include a primary power switch and multiple auxiliary power switches. A power gating control circuit may output control signals for selectively activating the primary power switch and at least one of the auxiliary power switches to charge a gated voltage. One or more voltage detectors may be configured to monitor the gated voltage and to activate the remaining auxiliary power switches in response to detecting that the gated voltage exceeds one or more thresholds. Configured and operated in this way, inrush current surge protection can be achieved while charging up the gated voltage sufficiently fast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yueming He, Dennis M Fischette, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12206617
    Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to a system and method of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission termination. The system and method can include a user equipment (UE) that can receives a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a PUSCH transmission overlapped with repetitions of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process for the UE and terminates the PUSCH transmission upon detection of the DCI after a fixed number of symbols where the fixed number of symbols is counted from a symbol after the last symbol of a control resource set (CORESET).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sergey Panteleev, Debdeep Chatterjee
  • Patent number: D1058582
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Heena Ko, Lucas Daniel Langhus, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton, Grant R. Paul, Christopher I. Wilson