Patents Assigned to Apples Inc.
  • Patent number: 12368429
    Abstract: This disclosure provides techniques for impedance matching. A radio frequency (RF) device includes a power detector to determine a transmitter leakage and a post-processing unit to determine a receiver leakage, and determines if isolation is acceptable based on the leakages. The RF device may include a device for measuring antenna impedance. Otherwise, the RF device may select multiple tuner settings (e.g., capacitor values) for test signals to be transmitted and received at a target frequency, determine multiple sets of leakage values, determine multiple reflection coefficients based on the multiple sets of leakage values, and determine an estimated antenna impedance at the target frequency based on the reflection coefficients. The RF device then determines impedance tuner settings based on the measured or estimated antenna impedance. Alternatively, the RF device determines impedance tuner settings using an inverse machine-learning model based on a determined matching impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Björn Lenhart, Joonhoi Hur, Harald Pretl, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 12369200
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate inactive state transmissions for a Base Station (BS) via a 4-step or 2-step inactive state RACH process. One example aspect is a BS including communication circuitry and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the communication circuitry and configured to cause the BS to transmit a radio link quality threshold and an uplink data size for a Radio Resource Control (RRC) inactive data transmission. Receive a Random Access Channel (RACH) preamble in response to the radio link quality threshold and the uplink data size being satisfied. Receive the RRC inactive data transmission, and transmit a RACH message in response to receiving the RRC inactive data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sarma V. Vangala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12369474
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels that each have OLED layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. Voltage may be applied to the anode of each pixel to control the magnitude of emitted light. The conductivity of the OLED layers may allow leakage current to pass between neighboring anodes in the display. To reduce leakage current and the accompanying cross-talk, the display may include active and/or passive leakage-mitigating structures. The passive leakage-mitigating structures may have an undercut that causes discontinuities in the overlying OLED layers. Active leakage-mitigating structures may include a conductive layer (e.g., a conductive ring) that drains leakage current to ground. Alternatively, the active leakage-mitigating structures may include a gate electrode modulator with a variable voltage that stops the current flow laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Chun Yeh, Jiun-Jye Chang, Doh-Hyoung Lee, Caleb Coburn, Niva A. Ran, Ching-Sang Chuang, Themistoklis Afentakis, Chuan-Jung Lin, Jung Yen Huang, Shinya Ono, Ting-Kuo Chang, Shih Chang Chang, Chih-Hung Yu, Chia-Yu Chen, Yung Fong Kao, Shih Lun Huang, Xingfeng He, Chieh-Wei Chen, Lei Yuan, Gwanwoo Park
  • Patent number: 12367793
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a wrist band may include a strip of fabric that wraps around a longitudinal axis. A one-dimensional array of light sources may be embedded in the strip of fabric and may emit light parallel to the longitudinal axis to produce edge illumination along an edge of the strip of fabric. Optical structures such as light-diffusing strands, light-diffusing polymer structures, and/or light guides may be located between the light sources and the edge of the strip of fabric to help diffuse light and/or guide light to the edge of the strip of fabric. Light-reflecting layers may be formed on inner surfaces of the fabric. Control circuitry may control the light sources to produce the edge illumination in response to an event occurring on an external electronic device such as a notification on an external display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Guild, Ryan D Shelby, Benjamin J Grena, David M Kindlon, Kathryn P Crews, Storrs T Hoen, Yue Chen
  • Patent number: 12368993
    Abstract: A multi-radius spherical microphone that includes an inner body defining an inner sphere having an inner radius from a center; a plurality of inner microphones coupled to the inner spherical body and defining an array of inner microphones; an outer body defining an dodecahedron, wherein the inner body and the outer body are concentric about the center; and a plurality of outer microphones coupled to the outer body at respective vertices of the dodecahedron and defining an array of outer microphones, wherein each of the plurality of outer microphones is positioned radially equidistant from the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Abhaya Parthy, Dipanjan Sen, Bonnie W. Tom, Jonathan D. Sheaffer, Justin D. Crosby, Symeon Delikaris Manias, Emily A. Wigley
  • Patent number: 12367623
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that render perspective correct 2D graphics (e.g., virtual objects, text, graphics) correctly at any angle and distance in an electronic device such as an HMD. In some implementations, a vector graphic including portions defined on a 2D canvas is obtained and the 2D canvas is divided into separate regions, each region containing a plurality of pixels. In some implementations, data based on associating a plurality of the regions of the 2D canvas with the portions of the vector graphic is generated, the data identifying one or more contributing portions of the portions of the vector graphic to use in rendering the pixels in each of the plurality of regions of the 2D canvas. In some implementations, the data is provided to a processor for rendering the vector graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy G. Bridon, Courtland M. Idstrom
  • Patent number: 12368567
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine that half-duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, identify a collision between a cell-specific downlink reception and a cell-specific uplink transmission and implement a HD-FDD collision handling technique. A UE may also be configured to determine that half-duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, perform a first cell-specific uplink transmission at a first time and perform a first cell-specific downlink reception at a second time, wherein a guard period represents a time duration between the first time and the second time during which the UE is not to perform a second different cell-specific uplink transmission or a second different cell-specific downlink reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12367632
    Abstract: A method includes: presenting a posture summary interface including: a representation of the user, a visualization of a current accumulated strain value for the user, and a first affordance for initiating an animated posture summary associated with the accumulated strain value for the user over a respective time window; and in response to detecting a user input directed to the first affordance within the posture summary interface, presenting an animation of the representation of the user over the respective time window that corresponds to one or more instances in which head pose information changes associated with the user caused an increase or a decrease to the accumulated strain value greater than a significance threshold, wherein an appearance of the visualization of the current accumulated strain value for the user changes to represent the accumulated strain value for the user over the respective time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Matthew S. DeMers, Adeeti V. Ullal, Alexander G. Bruno, Daniel M. Trietsch, Ioana Negoita, James J. Dunne, Thomas G. Salter, Thomas J. Moore
  • Patent number: 12369030
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit a first registration request to a network, receive a registration accept message in response to the first registration request comprising a rejected network slice and an indication of a rejection cause corresponding to the rejected network slice and transmit a second registration request to the network comprising a requested network slice, wherein the requested network slice and the rejected network slice are a same network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shashanka Totadamane Ramappa, Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar, Krisztian Kiss, Nirlesh Koshta, Sridhar Prakasam
  • Patent number: 12368576
    Abstract: A first electronic device can establish a communication channel with a second electronic device and receive a second signed log head of an identifier log via the communication channel. The identifier log is managed by a key transparency server and can include public keys of users registered with the server and user identifiers. The second signed log head includes a hash of the public keys and the user identifiers in the identifier log. The second signed log head can be provided to the second device by the server. In response to sending a request for a consistency-checked log head from the server, the device can receive at least one consistency-checked signed log head. The device can verify a consistency between the second signed log head and the at least one consistency-checked log head. If verified the device can maintain use of the server for verifying ownership of the keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Cristina L. Formaini, Bailey E. Basile, Erik D. Strahm, Benton C. Case
  • Patent number: 12369060
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed for configuring measurement timings in connection with UEs that are capable of signaling whether a measurement gap (MG) is needed to measure a target frequency carrier. For example, a measurement period may be determined for the target frequency carrier based on the UE indicating that it supports per-frequency range (FR) MGs, and determining that the FR of the target frequency carrier does not include any current serving cell(s). If the UE indicates that no MG is needed to measure the target frequency carrier, then the measurement period may be based on an SMTC, and may be further based on a predefined effective measurement gap repetition period (MGRP). If the UE indicates that a MG is needed, then the measurement period may be based on the SMTC, and may be further based on the effective MGRP or a per-UE MGRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12367603
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of localizing a device is performed at a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining an estimate of a pose of the device in an environment. The method includes obtaining an environmental model of the environment including a spatial feature in the environment defined by a first spatial feature location. The method includes determining a second spatial feature location of the spatial feature based on the estimate of the pose of the device. The method includes determining an updated estimate of the pose of the device based on the first spatial feature location and the second spatial feature location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anna L. Brewer, Devin W. Chalmers, Thomas G. Salter
  • Patent number: 12365620
    Abstract: A glass sheet having asymmetric chemical strengthening is disclosed and described. The examples described herein are directed to a cover glass for an electronic device and other glass components that may be used as enclosure elements or may form an enclosure. Within the glass component, localized compressive stress regions may be formed on opposite sides of the glass component, which may help arrest or redirect propagating cracks or defects in the glass. The opposing compressive stress regions may also help maintain the overall flatness of the component while increasing strength and/or impact resistance of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James R. Wilson, Christopher D. Jones, Christopher C. Bartlow, Aidan R. Doan
  • Patent number: 12367381
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a neural processor circuit that includes a first number of neural engine circuits, a second number of channels and a data processor circuit. The first number of neural engine circuits are pipelined into the second number of chains smaller than the first number. Each of the chains is configured to generate output data of a first size. Each of the channels is coupled to each of the chains and configured to transmit the output data from each of the neural engine circuits in the chains sequentially. The data processor circuit is coupled to the channels to receive the output data. The data processor circuit aggregates the output data of each of the chains into aggregated data of a second size larger than the first size and writes the aggregated data of the second size into a buffer memory of the data processor circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ponan Kuo, Hsiao-Chen Chang, Ji Liang Song
  • Patent number: 12369067
    Abstract: To accommodate a mix of high frequency carriers and lower frequency carriers, a protocol stack may include a radio link control (RLC) entity that allows configuration of status reporting control parameters on per carrier, or per subcarrier spacing. Alternatively, a protocol stack may include two RLC entities, one for handling high frequency carriers, and another for handling lower frequency carriers. (High frequency carriers and lower frequency carriers may be distinguished based on a frequency threshold.) Furthermore, a user equipment may transmit (to the network) an indication of its L2 buffer size. The network may configure the UE and/or control scheduling, to ensure the UE's L2 buffer does not overrun. Alternatively, the UE may indicate that it can support a percentage of a maximum buffer size. The network may configure the UE and/or control scheduling so that the UE's buffer occupancy does not exceed the percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu, Sarma V. Vangala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy
  • Patent number: 12369058
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for defining threshold monitoring service for performance management of 5G networks. For example, some embodiments are directed to an electronic device. The electronic device includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to receive, using the radio front end circuitry, a first request to generate a threshold monitoring service for a network function (NF). The processor circuitry can be further configured to generate the threshold monitoring service and transmit, using the radio front end circuitry, a second request to the NF to monitor a performance measurement based on a threshold defined by the threshold monitoring service. The processor circuitry can also be configured to receive, using the radio front end circuitry, the performance measurement from the NF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
  • Patent number: 12368621
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for reference signal indication for idle or inactive user equipments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Huaning Niu, Hongbo Yan, Shengshan Cui, Wei Zeng, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Haitong Sun
  • Publication number: 20250231599
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can advantageously leverage a power budget to manage heat. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can dynamically distribute the power budget to manage the heat. As part of this dynamic distribution, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can monitor their operation. In some embodiments, when this monitoring indicates that workloads are being created faster than being performed, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can be distributed more of the power budget to optimize the efficiency in performing these workloads. On the other hand, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can be distributed less of the power budget to optimize the efficiency in creating these workloads when this monitoring indicates workloads are being performed faster than being created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ronit Banerjee, Apoorv Gupta, Jason P. Jane, Bryan R. Hinch, Andrei Dorofeev, John G. Dorsey, Karthic A. Palaniappan
  • Patent number: D1084658
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1085104
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Park, Florian Ponson, Policarpo Wood