Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12196013Abstract: A striker system includes a chassis, a striker, an actuator, and a controller. The striker is pivotable relative to the chassis and configured to be received by and couple to a latch. The actuator is configured to pivot the striker. The controller operates the actuator to pivot the striker relative to the chassis in a range of motion greater than 60 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Thuan D. Doan, Ali Tavakoli Targhi, Steven H. Klotz, Donald R. Monroe
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Patent number: 12199730Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multiplexing of PUCCH for beam failure recovery and other signals. A UE may determine a transmission dropping rule and a transmission power scaling rule for a PUCCH which is dedicatedly configured for secondary BFR transmission, such as a PUCCH-BFR, when it is multiplexed with BFR multiplexed with at least one other signal. The PUCCH-BFR and the at least one other signal may be multiplexed in a CC or in multiple CCs. The UE may determine a transmission dropping rule, e.g., so that UE can transmit an uplink signal with higher priority and drop the other uplink signal with lower priority to avoid beam collisions. The UE may determine a transmission power scaling rule, e.g., so the UE may scale transmission power within a CC and/or across CCs. The UE may multiplex the PUCCH-BFR with the at least one other signal according to the rules.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Gang Xiong, Alexei Davydov, Yingyang Li, Guotong Wang
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Patent number: 12197258Abstract: A computing device can be reconfigurable to include one or more electrical devices in various configurations. The computing device can include a base forming an input surface configured to receive user input. The base can receive one or more input devices, such as, displays or keyboards. The base can include a hinge rotatably attached to the base and configured to removably retain an electronic device, such as, a display. The computing device can include a coupling mechanism having a first retaining portion and a second retaining portion rotatably coupled to an intermediate portion. The first and second retaining portions can be configured to removably retain electrical devices to the coupling mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Keith J. Hendren, Nicholas L. Qu, Dinesh C. Mathew, Adam T. Garelli
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Patent number: 12197922Abstract: A system includes a processor, a charger circuit and a battery management unit (BMU). The charger circuit charges a battery. The BMU includes an intelligent boot module that can send a boot signal to the processor based on information including a battery condition and system information. The processor starts a boot sequence based on the boot signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Wei He, Eugene Kim, Guangyu Liu, Suhak Lee
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Patent number: 12199912Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods of scheduling transmission of synchronization signal blocks (SSB) at a first subcarrier spacing (SCS) with uplink and downlink transmissions at a second SCS that is higher than the first SCS.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 12193812Abstract: Estimation of a characteristic of a user's physiological signals can be improved using one or more calibration relationships that may be dependent on a characteristic of the optical sensor. For example, different calibration relationships can be used that are dependent on a spatial characteristic and/or that are dependent on a wavelength characteristic of the light emitting component(s) of the respective emitter of a channel. In some examples, a unique calibration relationship can be used for each channel. In some examples, a common calibration relationship can be used for multiple channels with shared distance and/or wavelength characteristics. Utilizing distance-dependent and/or wavelength-dependent calibration relationships can improve robustness of pulse oximetry measurements.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paul D. Mannheimer, Albert E. Cerussi
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Patent number: 12199713Abstract: Techniques for employing QCL (Quasi Co-Location) signaling for beamforming management are discussed. One example embodiment can comprise a baseband processor of a User Equipment (UE). The baseband processor comprises one or more processors to make a determination whether a first set of RS (Reference Signal) APs (Antenna Ports) are QCL-ed (Quasi Co-Located) with a second set of RS APs with respect to one or more large-scale channel properties and to select a set of receiving parameters for the second set of RS APs based on the one or more spatial receiver parameters. The one or more large-scale channel properties comprise one or more spatial receiver parameters. The first set of RS APs are distinct from the second set of RS APs.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Alexei Davydov
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Patent number: 12197679Abstract: Differential driving and/or sensing can reduce noise in a touch screen. In some examples, the touch electrodes and/or routing traces can be implemented using metal mesh in first and second metal layers. To mitigate electrical interference at the touch screen from a display, a display-noise shield or sensor can be provided between the display and the touch screen. In some examples, a shield can minimize a noise contribution from the display to signals generated at the touch screen. In other examples, a sensor can enable a differential read out of signals at the touch screen that subtracts a noise component measured by the sensor. Forming the shield or sensor, and the touch screen over the display using an on-cell process can improve touch screen performance and yield. The shield can be connected to a conductive ring and flex circuit via tapping points in a stackup separate from a display stackup.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sagar R. Vaze, Yu-Heng Cheng, Prathit Bugnait, Isaac W. Chan
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Patent number: 12200331Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with a folded optics arrangement and include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator assembly to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. The camera with folded optics and the associated VCM actuator assembly have a first rotational normal mode of free vibration such that lenses of the camera rotate about an optical axis of the camera such that the rotational motion in the first rotational mode of free vibration is invisible from a perspective of an image sensor of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Brad V. Johnson, Alfred N. Mireault
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Patent number: 12196972Abstract: A head-mounted display unit includes a display assembly and a head support coupled to the display assembly that supports the head-mounted display unit worn on a head of a user. The head support includes a band that is formed from a stretchable material to allow for expansion and contraction of the band, a cord that extends through the band, and an adjustment mechanism that is coupled to the cord and is configured to extend and retract the cord to thereby shorten and lengthen the head support.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Heidi Williamson, James A. Stryker, Andrew Gallaher
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Patent number: 12197659Abstract: Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Patrick Foss, Anton M. Davydov, Dylan Ross Edwards, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Stephen O. Lemay, Kevin M. Lynch, Lawrence Y. Yang, Dennis S. Park
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Patent number: 12193839Abstract: A wearable electronic device may include a display and a housing. The housing may include a chassis defining a first portion of a rear exterior surface of the wearable electronic device, a first portion of a side exterior surface of the wearable electronic device, and an internal wall. The housing may also include a glass shell defining a front wall positioned over the display and defining a front exterior surface of the wearable electronic device and a side wall extending from the front wall and overlapping the internal wall, the side wall defining a second portion of the side exterior surface of the wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device may also include a touch sensing system within the housing and configured to detect a touch input applied to the front exterior surface of the wearable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Hiemstra, Erik G. de Jong, Sameer Pandya
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Patent number: 12197643Abstract: An electronic device may have a display for displaying image content. Head-mounted support structures in the device may be used to support the display. The electronic device may have an eye monitoring system that detects eye saccades and eye blinks. Control circuitry in the electronic device may coordinate operation of the display with periods of suppressed visual sensitivity that are associated with the saccades and blinks. By making adjustments to display circuitry and image content during periods of suppressed visual sensitivity, potentially visually obtrusive changes to displayed images can be hidden from a user of the electronic device. Adjustments to display operation may help reduce burn-in effects, may help reduce power consumption, and may otherwise improve device performance.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Andrew B. Watson
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Patent number: 12200755Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a fifth-generation Evolved Node-B (gNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a message comprising an indicator to indicate a number of contention based physical random access channel (PRACH) preambles within a PRACH occasion per Synchronization Signal Block (SSB). The second circuitry may be operable to generate a first PRACH occasion, based on the indicator.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Gang Xiong, Gregory V. Morozov, Yushu Zhang, Joonyoung Cho, Dae Won Lee, Yongjun Kwak
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Publication number: 20250014960Abstract: Various embodiments of an integrated circuit (IC) die package are disclosed. An IC die package includes an IC die, an interposer structure electrically connected to the IC die, a first bonding structure, a second bonding structure, and a molding compound layer. The first bonding structure includes a first dielectric layer disposed on the IC die and a first conductive plug disposed in the first dielectric layer. The second bonding structure includes a second dielectric layer disposed on the interposer structure and a second conductive plug disposed in the second dielectric layer. The molding compound layer includes a mold region and a mold cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jiongxin LU, Kunzhong Hu, Jun Zhai
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Publication number: 20250015027Abstract: Various embodiments of an integrated circuit (IC) die package are disclosed. An IC die package includes an IC die, an interposer structure electrically connected to the IC die, a first bonding structure, and a second bonding structure. The first bonding structure includes a first dielectric layer disposed on the IC die and also includes a first conductive pad having an embedded portion disposed in the first dielectric layer and an anchor portion extending over a top surface of the first dielectric layer. The second bonding structure includes a second dielectric layer disposed on the interposer structure, a second conductive pad disposed in the second dielectric layer, and an anchor layer surrounding the anchor portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jiongxin LU, Kunzhong HU
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Publication number: 20250016524Abstract: In some implementations, a first computing device can send notifications at times that the first computing device is not in an expected location. A user of a second computing device can remotely configure an expected location for the first computing device, which may be a particular location for a certain period of time. During that time, the first computing device can monitor its own location and check whether it is within the expected location. If the first computing device unexpectedly leaves or fails to enter the expected location, the first computing device may transmit a notification to the second computing device. Similarly, if the first computing device loses connectivity with other devices, a server device may notify the second computing device that the location of the first computing device cannot be determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andreas E. Schobel, Swaminathan Jayaraman, Paul W. Salzman, Kevin M. Lynch, Tommy Rochette, Albert R. Howard, Siva Ganesh Movva, Thomas Chathoth Abraham, Frank De Jong, Rachel F. Needle, David John Williams, Raghunandan K. Pai, Swadesh Bhattacharya
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Publication number: 20250015636Abstract: Electronic apparatuses according to embodiments of the present technology may include an electronic device a first surface and a second surface opposite the first. The electronic device may include a battery and a wireless charging coil within an interior volume of the device. The electronic device may include a first magnetic conductor and positioned between the battery and the wireless charging coil. The electronic device may also include an integrated circuit coupled with the battery and the wireless charging coil. The apparatuses may include a case extending about the electronic device. The case may be characterized by a first surface and a second surface. The case may be characterized by a thickness between the first surface of the case and the second surface of the case. The case may include a second magnetic conductor incorporated within the thickness of the case at the second surface of the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Weihong Qiu, Jun Liu, Zaki Moussaoui
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Publication number: 20250014292Abstract: A light system that may project virtual content onto surfaces of a room. The system may include one or more low-resolution light-emitting diode (LED) projectors for emitting light representing low-resolution virtual content, and a high-resolution LED projector for emitting light representing high-resolution virtual content. The high-resolution projector may be used to project a 2D image of augmented or virtual reality content being viewed by a person in a room using a device such as a headset or glasses onto a surface of the room so that other persons in the room can view a representation of what the person using the device is seeing. The low-resolution projector(s) may project low-resolution images onto other surfaces in the room, for example the walls and ceiling. The system may also be configured to emit diffuse light to illuminate a room when not emitting light representing virtual content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael D. Simmonds, James H. Foster, James E. Pedder, Richard J. Topliss, Thomas M. Gregory
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Patent number: D1057753Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Hanwen Fan, Aurelio Guzmán
