Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12283549
    Abstract: Multiple component package structures are described in which an interposer chiplet is integrated to provide fine routing between components. In an embodiment, the interposer chiplet and a plurality of conductive vias are encapsulated in an encapsulation layer. A first plurality of terminals of the first and second components may be in electrical connection with the plurality of conductive pillars and a second plurality of terminals of first and second components may be in electrical connection with the interposer chiplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Zhai, Chonghua Zhong, Kunzhong Hu
  • Patent number: 12283936
    Abstract: Systems and methods combine a test signal with a wanted (downlink or uplink) signal at an input of a duplexer of a communication device, and receive the test signal at an output of the duplexer. The test signal may include a radio frequency signal having less power than the wanted signal to avoid interference, or a digital signal that is added to or extracted from the wanted signal when the wanted signal does not have a radio frequency. A processor of the communication device causes the duplexer to operate in a tuning state (e.g., to transmit signals having a transmission frequency and receive signals having a receive frequency). The measurement system determines a difference or ratio in power between the test signal at the duplexer output and the duplexer input, and adjusts the tuning state based on the difference or ratio (e.g., to decrease or minimize the difference or ratio).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christof Pfannenmüller, Dominic Koehler, Julian W Zuber, Oliver Georg Dorn, Bjoern Lenhart, Harald Pretl, Rastislav Vazny, Christian F Tanzer
  • Patent number: 12282160
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a virtual and/or augmented reality device may include a light emitting device that includes one or more light emitting elements configured to generate collimated light beams. A scanning mirror may include one or more microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirrors. Each MEMS mirror of the scanning mirror may be configured to dynamically tilt in at least one of two orthogonal degrees of freedom to raster scan the light beams over multiple angles corresponding to a field of view of an image. A curved mirror may include curves in two orthogonal directions configured to reflect the collimated light beams from the scanning mirror into a subject's eye in proximity to the curved mirror to form a virtual image. The curved mirror may allow external light to pass through, thus allowing the virtual image to be combined with a real image to provide an augmented reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Topliss, Alexander Shpunt
  • Patent number: 12284670
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to a user equipment (UE) delivering an indication of one or more uplink listen-before-talk (LBT) failures to a network. The UE may identify a predetermined condition corresponding to one or more uplink listen-before-talk (LBT) failures associated with a special cell (SpCell). The UE is triggered to provide an indication of uplink LBT failure associated with the SpCell to the network based on the predetermined condition. Next, the UE may determine a type of message that is to be used to deliver the indication of uplink LBT failure associated with the SpCell to the network. The UE may transmit the type of message including the indication of uplink LBT failure associated with the SpCell to the network. Subsequently, the UE may determine that the network received the indication of uplink LBT failure associated with the SpCell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12284680
    Abstract: Aspects herein relate to wireless devices, circuits, and methods for determining a PRACH resource mapping comprising a starting symbol position within a reference slot, wherein the starting symbol position is determined based, at least in part, on a subcarrier spacing configuration of PRACH resources of a wireless network that a wireless device is operating on; and using the radio to transmit a RACH preamble and an associated RA-RNTI via the determined PRACH resource mapping. Further aspects herein relate to devices, circuits, and methods for using a modified RA-RNTI for transmission or reception of data over a wireless network, wherein the wireless network has a subcarrier spacing configuration of PRACH resources, wherein a size of the subcarrier spacing configuration of the PRACH resources causes out-of-range RA-RNTI values to be calculated using a legacy RA-RNTI equation in an unmodified form, wherein the range of permissible RA-RNTI values is from 0 to 216?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12282950
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for provisioning credentials on an electronic device are provided. In one example embodiment, a secure platform system may be in communication with an electronic device and a financial institution subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David T. Haggerty, George R. Dicker, Joakim Linde, Ahmer A. Khan, Timothy S. Hurley
  • Patent number: 12284054
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to including information in a data packet transmitted by a transmitting integrated circuit (e.g., SOC) to account for a time delay associated with an unsuccessful arbitration attempt to send the data packet over a multi-drop bus. The unsuccessful arbitration attempt by the integrated circuit may delay the transmission of the data packet until the multi-drop bus becomes available for the integrated circuit to send the data packet. The data packet includes a data field to include time delay information caused by the unsuccessful arbitration attempt. A receiving integrated circuit may determine the time that the data packet would have been sent out from the transmitting integrated circuit absent the unsuccessful arbitration attempt based on the delay information. Embodiments also relate to a synchronization generator circuit in an integrated circuit that generates timing signals indicating times at which periodic events occur at another integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'Shea, Matthias Sauer, Jorge L Rivera Espinoza
  • Patent number: 12284560
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses for performing a channel switch by an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) and non-AP MLD are described. An AP MLD may transmit information about parameters of an AP that will be implemented following an upcoming channel switch. The non-AP MLD may use the information to implement the channel switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Jinjing Jiang, Qi Wang, Su Khiong Yong, Tianyu Wu, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 12281912
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device present navigation routes from various perspectives. In some embodiments, an electronic device modifies display of representations of (e.g., physical) objects in the vicinity of a navigation route while presenting navigation directions. In some embodiments, an electronic device modifies display of portions of a navigation route that are occluded by representations of (e.g., physical) objects in a map. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of (e.g., physical) objects in maps. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of (e.g., physical) objects in maps in response to requests to search for (e.g., physical) objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan W. Apuy, Vincent P. Arroyo, Brian J. Andrich, Jaime Chen, Lukasz J. Pasek, Giovanni S. Luis, Sebastian A. Araya, Syed Mohsin Hasan, Eugene P. Sturm, Linghao Li, Benjamin R. Dreyer, Sarah A. Bergquist, William A. Viglakis, William N. Danner, Rachel A. Smith, Aaron P. Dennis, Richard A. Small, Kirill Negoda, Alexander J. O'Connell, Steven C. Beeby, Ryan Dignard
  • Patent number: 12284016
    Abstract: Techniques for changing a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state by a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communications system are provided. The UE receives a first message including a TCI state change command from a network and determines, based on the first message, whether a time offset/frequency offset (TO/FO) and a reception (Rx) beam for a new TCI state are known by the UE. Based on the determination, the UE calculates a time delay of the UE to be prepared to receive a reference signal with the new TCI state, generates a second message indicating the time delay of the UE for the new TCI state, and transmits the second message to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Jie Cui, Yushu Zhang, Andrey Chervyakov, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20250124272
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a neural processor that include a plurality of neural engine circuits and one or more planar engine circuits. The plurality of neural engine circuits can perform convolution operations of input data of the neural engine circuits with one or more kernels to generate outputs. The planar engine circuit is coupled to the plurality of neural engine circuits. The planar engine circuit generates an output from input data that corresponds to output of the neural engine circuits or a version of input data of the neural processor. The planar engine circuit can be configured to multiple modes. In a pooling mode, the planar engine circuit reduces a spatial size of a version of the input data. In an elementwise mode, the planar engine circuit performs an elementwise operation on the input data. In a reduction mode, the planar engine circuit reduces the rank of a tensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher L. MILLS, Kenneth W. Waters, Youchang Kim
  • Publication number: 20250126359
    Abstract: A ball bearing sensor shift arrangement for a camera may include one or more voice coil motor (VCM) actuators that include the fixed magnets, optical image stabilization (OIS) coils, and/or one or more autofocus (AF) coils. The ball bearing sensor shift arrangement may be coupled with an image sensor of the camera, and may include carrier frames configured to move on ball bearings so as to enable motion of the image sensor in multiple degrees-of-freedom (DOF). An OIS carrier frame(s) may be coupled with the OIS coils, which may be positioned proximate the fixed magnets and used for moving the image sensor in directions orthogonal to an optical axis of the camera. An AF carrier frame may be coupled with the AF coil(s), which may be positioned proximate the fixed magnets and used for moving the image sensor in at least one direction parallel to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Xu, Xu Wang, Aurelien R. Hubert
  • Publication number: 20250126389
    Abstract: An in-ear listening device having a device housing including a speaker housing and an elongated tube protruding away from the speaker housing, an audio port formed through the speaker housing, a speaker disposed in the speaker housing and aligned to emit sound through the audio port, a microphone port formed through the elongated tube, a microphone disposed in the elongated tube and operatively coupled to receive sound through the microphone port, a rechargeable battery and a wireless antenna disposed within the device housing, wireless circuitry coupled to the wireless antenna and configured to input and output radio frequency signals for wireless communications, a user-interface touch control disposed on the device housing and operable to control a function of the earbud, and battery charging circuitry coupled to the rechargeable battery and positioned within the device housing and operable to charge the rechargeable battery when coupled to receive power from an external power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: M. Evans Hankey, Emery A. Sanford, Christopher D. Prest, Way Chet Lim
  • Publication number: 20250123470
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Saiga, Yoshikazu Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20250123940
    Abstract: Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide application-specific launch optimization. Aspects of the present disclosure include one or more cost functions for each application, where each cost function corresponds to a likelihood that a particular application should be placed into a particular pre-activation state. For each of the inactive applications, a respective one of the pre-activation states is selected based on comparing cost values obtained by evaluating the cost functions. Each of the inactive applications can be moved to or maintained in the respectively-selected pre-activation state to more efficiently provide an expedited application launch experience for a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kartik Venkatraman, David R. Cox, Manish Chandra Reddy Ravula, Shardul S. Mangade
  • Patent number: 12276943
    Abstract: An electronic device, such as a watch, has a crown assembly having a shaft and a user-rotatable crown. The user-rotatable crown may include a conductive cap that is mechanically and electrically coupled to the shaft and functions as an electrode. The conductive cap may be coupled to the shaft using solder or another conductive attachment mechanism. The shaft may electrically couple the conductive cap to a processing unit of the electronic device. One or more additional electrodes may be positioned on the exterior surface of the electronic device. The conductive cap is operable to be contacted by a finger of a user of the electronic device while another electrode is positioned against skin of the user. The processing unit of the electronic device is operable to determine a biological parameter, such as an electrocardiogram, of the user based on voltages at the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Colin M. Ely, Sameer Pandya, Steven C. Roach
  • Patent number: D1070854
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    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, 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
  • Patent number: D1071948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1071954
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Felton
  • Patent number: D1071983
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Lynn Angquist, Teresa Finch Perera, Daniel J. Wiersema