Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
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Patent number: 12389227Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and preventing a relay attack in a channel on which a near field communication (NFC) action between a key holder device and a reader is attempted are disclosed. A time limit is established for polling communications between the key holder device and the reader. Each of the reader and the key holder device generates a reader random value and a device random value respectively. The reader sends to the key holder device the reader random value, which includes the time limit for a response from the key holder device, the response including the device random value and the reader random value. The reader receives the response from the key holder device and can then determine whether the response from the key holder device is received within the time limit, to detect whether a relay attack can be made on the channel for the NFC action.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthias Lerch, Florian Galdo, Gordon Y. Scott
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Patent number: 12389298Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) and/or cellular network to perform to perform cell detection and measurement, e.g., in new radio (NR) unlicensed (NR-U). The UE may determine that a threshold condition related to missed reference signal opportunities is reached. In response, the UE may modify reference signal monitoring and/or measurement.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12389445Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for reporting random access configuration information in wireless networks.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Gurunadha Rao Kota, Haijing Hu, Siddharth Verma
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Patent number: 12388907Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for connections aggregation among related devices for edge computing. Such techniques may include a grouping of related devices as an edge group, and assignment of a proxy device for distribution of edge server discovery information among the edge group.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Biljana Badic, Babar Qaisrani, Bernd W. Adler, Christian Drewes, Matthias Sauer, Mikhail Wilhelm, Sabine Roessel
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Patent number: 12383200Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a force sensor coupled to the housing component. The force sensor is operable to produce a force signal based on a force exerted between the body part of the user and the housing component. A processing unit of the wearable electronic device receives the force signal from the force sensor and determines the force exerted on the housing component based thereon. The processing unit may use that force to determine a tightness of the band, determine health information for the user, adjust determined force exerted on a cover glass, and/or to perform various other actions.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2024Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Steven J. Martisauskas, Erik G. de Jong, Andrzej T. Baranski, Serhan O. Isikman, Steven J. Banaska, Todd K. Whitehurst, Ming L. Sartee
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Patent number: 12386886Abstract: The subject technology provides for contextual text lookup for images. When a request is received by an electronic device to perform a lookup or search for text in an image that is displayed at the electronic device, the electronic device may obtain one or more search results, based on the text itself and based on contextual information derived, by the electronic device, from the image. In one or more implementations, application information associated with an application that displays the image may also be used as contextual metadata for enhancing the results of the search for the text from the image.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ryan S. Dixon, Pulah J. Shah, Yang Zhao
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Patent number: 12386428Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying user interfaces with device controls.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yoonju Han, Joanna Arreaza-Taylor, Hannah G. Coleman, Elizabeth C. Cranfill, Christopher B. Fleizach, Charles Maalouf, Tu K. Nguyen, Jennifer D. Patton, James N. Cartwright, Jeremiah R. Johnson, Ibrahim Yusuf
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Patent number: 12386482Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing electronic voice communications using an electronic device. In some embodiments, techniques for managing user contacts for electronic voice communications using an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, techniques for managing incoming and outgoing electronic voice communications using an electronic device are described.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Stephen O. Lemay, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Molly Pray Wiebe
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Patent number: 12387636Abstract: A wearable electronic device can include displays and/or cameras that can be calibrated for accurate recording and visual output. Whereas some aspects of a wearable electronic device can be calibrated at the time of production, usage and wear of the wearable electronic device can result in certain components becoming misaligned. A calibration device can provide an output that serves as a reference for each of a pair of displays of the wearable electronic device. Each of the displays can be independently adjusted so their corresponding outputs are properly aligned with the view of the external environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian S. Lau, Michael J. Oudenhoven, Chih Jen Chen, Dominic P. Cincione, Christopher Patton
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Patent number: 12386434Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes initiating a virtual assistant session responsive to receiving user input. In accordance with initiating the virtual assistant session, the process includes determining, based on data obtained using one or more sensors of the electronic device, whether one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are satisfied. In accordance with determining that the one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are satisfied prior to a first time, the process includes automatically deactivating the virtual assistant session prior to the first time. The first time is defined by a setting of the electronic device. In accordance with determining that the one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are not satisfied prior to the first time, the process includes automatically deactivating the virtual assistant session at the first time.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2024Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Musa M. Hindi, Rohit Dasari, Trungtin Tran
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Patent number: 12386451Abstract: In at least one example of the present disclosure, a head-mountable device includes a display, a frame at least partially surrounding the display, a facial interface attached to the frame, a cover disposed around the facial interface, and a touch sensitive surface incorporated into the cover to receive input from a user for the head-mountable device.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: APPLE, INC.Inventors: Darshan R. Kasar, Javier Mendez, Nicholas C. Soldner, Grant H. Mulliken
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Patent number: 12386481Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information about, and facilitates downloading of, featured applications in an app store application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates browsing of applications and games by category. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates presentation of information about in-app purchases for a game or application in an app store application. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the purchase of in-app purchases for the games or applications that are available on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the download/purchase of games, applications and/or in-app purchases from outside of an app store application that is for browsing such content available on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device autoplays media content corresponding to applications (e.g., games, non-game applications, etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: William M. Bachman, Monika E. Gromek, Alexander Constantin Diego Fringes, Joseph Andrew Magnani
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Patent number: 12389094Abstract: A camera comprising: a camera enclosure; an optomechanical assembly fixedly coupled to the camera enclosure; an image sensor assembly movably coupled to the camera enclosure, the image sensor assembly comprising: a substrate, an image sensor coupled to the substrate, a flexible printed circuit board coupled to the substrate, a conductive stiffener plate coupled to the flexible printed circuit board, and a passive heat exchanger thermally coupled to the image sensor to dissipate heat away from the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nitin Kumar Chennupati, Nicholas D. Smyth, Julien C. Vittu
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Patent number: 12389312Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for making a service request in Information Centric Networking (ICN) for next generation cellular networks. The apparatuses and methods can include at least generating, by a user equipment (UE), a service request message comprising access network (AN) parameters and service request parameters, wherein the AN parameters include a fifth generation-system architecture evolution-temporary mobile subscriber entity (5G-S-TMSI) parameter, a selected public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier, or an establishment cause; and transmitting, by the UE, the service request message to a next-generation NodeB (gNB).Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Arrobo Vidal, Zongrui Ding, Qian Li, Geng Wu
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Patent number: 12388512Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate power ramping of PRACH (Physical Random Access Channel), for example, in connection with change of best gNB (next generation Node B) Tx (Transmit) beam and/or dynamic beam switching for control and/or data channels. Power ramping techniques discussed herein can comprise techniques for determining at least one of a power ramping counter or power offset for PRACH in connection with a change in best DL (Downlink) Tx (Transmit) beam. Dynamic beam switching techniques discussed herein can comprise employing DCI comprising at least one beam indication field indicating a beam index of a new beam of a BPL (Beam Pair Link) for at least one of a data channel or a control SS (Search Space).Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Honglei Miao, Yushu Zhang, Yongjun Kwak, Dae Won Lee, Gregory V Morozov, Seung Hee Han
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Patent number: D1087961Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2024Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Kristine S. Atom, Kristina A. Babiarz, Phillip M. Hobson, Jonathan M. Lee, Shirley S. Lu, Ivan S. Maric, Jan K. Quijalvo, Matin Sedat Beheshti, Blake N. Trekell, Forrest C. Wang, Paul X. Wang, Aidan N. Zimmerman
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Patent number: D1087966Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2025Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier
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Patent number: D1087999Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán
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Patent number: D1088012Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2024Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Bradley William Griffin, Jonathan P. Ive, Tiffany Jon, Chanaka Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Daamun Mohseni, Hoan K. Pham, William McMillan Tyler, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes
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Patent number: D1088025Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Greg Dudey, Rachel Goldeen, Steven P. Jobs, Jeffrey Ma, Jeffrey L. Robbin