Apple Patents

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures and markets smartphones, tablets and personal computers, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac. It also produces the iPod, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as the operating systems and applications that support these devices. The company also sells digital content and applications through its iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, iBooks Store and Apple Music.

Apple Patents by Type
  • Apple Patents Granted: Apple patents that have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
  • Apple Patent Applications: Apple patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
  • Publication number: 20260352249
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to estimating a property of an antenna connected to a front-end module (FEM). This estimation is usable to control an operation of the FEM. The estimation can be performed locally at the FEM rather than at a system on-chip (SoC) connected to the FEM. For example, the FEM can include a set of sensors, each configured to generate one or more FEM parameter measurements. A look-up table can be predefined and can associate FEM parameter measurements with possible estimations of the property. Additionally, or alternatively, an artificial intelligence (AI) model can be pre-trained to output property estimations. In both cases, the FEM parameter measurements are used (e.g., in a look-up of the look-up table or as input to the AI model) to estimate the property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2025
    Publication date: November 5, 2026
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Kevin Bastin
  • Publication number: 20260349948
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing scatter and gather direct memory access (DMA) streaming through a circular buffer are described. A system includes a circular buffer, producer DMA engine, and consumer DMA engine. After the producer DMA engine writes or skips over a given data chunk of a first frame to the buffer, the producer DMA engine sends an updated write pointer to the consumer DMA engine indicating that a data credit has been committed to the buffer and that the data credit is ready to be consumed. After the consumer DMA engine reads or skips over the given data chunk of the first frame from the buffer, the consumer DMA engine sends an updated read pointer to the producer DMA engine indicating that the data credit has been consumed and that space has been freed up in the buffer to be reused by the producer DMA engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2026
    Publication date: November 5, 2026
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marc A. Schaub, Roy G. Moss
  • Publication number: 20260350088
    Abstract: A system reorders filters in a set of the filters that may be used to update a list of content. In response to receiving user input selecting a particular filter, the system may filter and/or reorder the content in the list of content and reorder the remaining un-selected filters. Filters that would result in a more even split of the content may be ranked higher than filters that would result in a less even split of that content. A filter that would result in selection of half of the content would be ranked higher than another filter that would result in selection of one-fourth or three-fourth of the content. The system may rank filters based on a user’s historical usage. The system may apply a variety of factors to select an order for the filters by, for example, using a weighted average of scores that correspond respectively to the factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2026
    Publication date: November 5, 2026
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Alec H. Little
  • Publication number: 20260352607
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for filtering, buffering, discarding, and forwarding cumulative packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 5, 2026
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ralf Rossbach, Fangli Xu, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Zhibin Wu, Ping-Heng Kuo, Peng Cheng, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Dawei Zhang, Alexander Sirotkin, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen
  • Publication number: 20260352953
    Abstract: A camera includes an image sensor, an optical assembly having one or more lenses, and actuator assembly configured to move one of the image sensor or the optical assembly. The actuator assembly includes an optical image stabilization (OIS) carrier. The OIS carrier is configured to move one of the image sensor or the optical assembly along two orthogonal axes for OIS. The actuator assembly also includes a plurality of surfaces on the OIS carrier. A surface portion of the plurality of surfaces is configured to make physical contact with another surface of another component to allow sliding or rolling movement between the surface portion of the plurality of surfaces and the other surface of the other component for allowing movement of the OIS carrier along the two orthogonal axes. The actuator assembly further includes an OIS actuator configured to move the OIS carrier along the two orthogonal axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2026
    Publication date: November 5, 2026
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin C Brunnett, Alfred N Mireault, Kevin Garrison, Nicholas D Smyth, Scott W Miller
  • Publication number: 20260353142
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatuses, systems, and methods for radio resource management (RRM) measurement prediction, including inter-frequency RRM measurement prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2025
    Publication date: November 5, 2026
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantinos Sarrigeorgidis, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12783044
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems, in some implementations, stabilize user interface element using a stabilization property that is determined based on assessing the user's movement, e.g., assessing a hand movement characteristic and a head movement characteristic. In one example, the stabilization property restricts movement of user interface elements in certain circumstances, e.g., based on based on head movement (e.g., angular speed), hand movement (e.g., pinch centroid angular speed), and/or hand translation (e.g., pinch centroid speed).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Ercan, Julian K. Shutzberg, Daniel J. Brewer
  • Patent number: 12783062
    Abstract: A control device can be used to remotely control a target device based on gestures made by a user of the control device. The control device (or a separate moderator device) may determine the location and orientation of the control device within an environment that includes one or more target devices. The control device may detect a first gesture and select a target device for control based on the location and orientation of the control device. The control device may detect a second gesture associated with an operation to be performed by the selected target device and transmit a signal indicating the operation. The signal may include an identifier of the selected target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Beyhs, Julian Quintana, Jacob L Matlick, Lichen Wang, Tu K. Nguyen, Hojjat Seyed Mousavi, Behrooz Shahsavari
  • Patent number: 12782667
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may include optical assemblies for presenting images to a user. Motors may be used to adjust the spacing between the optical assemblies to accommodate different interpupillary distances. The force with which the motors move the optical assemblies towards a central nose bride portion of the device may be limited. The force may be limited using a clutch such as a magnetic clutch or a physical clutch based on structures that decouple from each other to limit the force. The force may also be limited by monitoring the force and halting the motors in response to detection of a given amount of force. Sensor measurements and electrical motor load measurement may be used in measuring the force. If desired, motor operation may be controlled by a user-operated button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R Matzinger, Ivan S Maric, Guilhem S Azzano, Aidan N Zimmerman, Kristina A Babiarz, Bijeta Chakraborty, Alexander B von Schulmann, Matin Seadat Beheshti
  • Patent number: 12782735
    Abstract: An electronic device include a projector that generates image light propagated by a waveguide. An output coupler may couple the image light out of the waveguide and towards an eye box. An infrared emitter may emit infrared light that is coupled into the waveguide. A set of discrete holographic diffusers may be arranged in a ring on the waveguide around the periphery of the output coupler. Each holographic diffuser may include a set of holograms that diffracts the infrared light from a given incident angle onto a range of different output angles. The infrared light may reflect off an eye in the eye box. The reflected infrared light may be captured by an infrared sensor for performing gaze tracking. The holographic diffusers may effectively form virtual point sources for the infrared light around the output coupler without obstructing the field of view of the eye box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Ott, Adam C Urness, Maria I Campana, Ariel Lipson
  • Patent number: 12783330
    Abstract: An electronic device that is in communication with one or more wearable audio output devices detects occurrence of one or more first event while the one or more wearable audio output devices are being worn by a user. In response, the electronic device outputs, via the one or more wearable audio output devices, audio content corresponding to the one or more first events. After outputting the audio content corresponding to the one or more first events, the electronic device detects movement of the one or more wearable audio output devices, and in response to detecting the movement, and in accordance with a determination that a first movement of the one or more wearable audio output devices meets first movement criteria, outputs, via the one or more wearable audio output devices additional audio content corresponding to one or more events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Devin W. Chalmers, Sean B. Kelly, Karlin Y. Bark
  • Patent number: 12784387
    Abstract: In some examples, a first electronic device presents a computer-generated environment, the first electronic device being at a first location relative to a first origin in a first physical environment of a user of the first electronic device, and having a first orientation relative to the first origin. In some examples, the first electronic device detects a request to display a portal through which to visually communicate with a user of the second electronic device, the second electronic device being at a second location relative to a second origin in a second physical environment of the user of the second electronic device and having a second orientation relative to the second origin. In some examples, in response to the request, the first electronic device displays a portal including a representation of the user of the second electronic device that is oriented based on the second location and the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julien Robert, Long H. Ngo, Shih-Sang Chiu, Wenchuan Wei
  • Patent number: 12785775
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing channel state information reporting for enhanced reduced capability (eRedcap) wireless devices in a wireless communication system. A cellular network may configure reference signals for multiple bandwidth parts and may configure an eRedcap device to report measurements on active and deactivated bandwidth parts. An eRedcap device may perform measurements of reference signals on a deactivated bandwidth part and provide reporting to the network based on the configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Jie Cui
  • Patent number: 12785460
    Abstract: A wireless charging system may include a wireless power receiving device that receives wireless power signals from a wireless power transmitting device. The wireless power receiving device may transmit power feedback information to the wireless power transmitting device. The wireless power transmitting device may use a variable gain coefficient to update an inverter operating characteristic based on the power feedback information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lixin Shi, Alin I Gherghescu, Zaid A AbuKhalaf, Adam L Schwartz, Stephen C Terry
  • Patent number: 12785540
    Abstract: A power supply module can be configured to be placed in a backplane with one or more additional power supply modules having their outputs connected in parallel. The power supply module can include a switching converter that receives an input voltage and produces a regulated output voltage; a voltage regulation loop that selectively regulates the regulated output voltage of the power supply module responsive to an output voltage of the power supply module; a current regulation loop operating in parallel with the voltage regulation loop and selectively regulating an output current of the power supply module responsive to a current command signal received externally from the power supply; and control circuitry that selects an output of either the voltage regulation loop or the current regulation loop and generates therefrom drive signals for switching devices of the switching converter to produce a desired output voltage or output current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Vijay G Phadke
  • Patent number: 12786691
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), baseband processor, embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC), and network device (e.g., a shared profile vendor server) are described. A UE that includes an eUICC can perform transmitting, for receipt by a shared profile vendor server, a first message of a shared profile operational international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) provisioning procedure. The first message may include a randomized IMSI. In response to the first message, the UE may receive a second message that includes an indication of a time counter value. In response to the second message, the UE may transmit, in response to determining that the time counter value is valid, a third (e.g., penultimate) message to the bootstrap vendor server. The UE may then receive in response a fourth message (e.g., final) of the shared profile operational IMSI provisioning procedure, the fourth message including a shared profile operational IMSI for the eUICC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Viswanath Nagarajan, Jean-Marc Padova, Ngabin S. Ng, Aurelien P. Raboisson, Didimo Raffo, Abishek Kumar Vaidyanathan
  • Patent number: 12786575
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that can include sensors for capturing an image, computer vision processing (CVP) circuitry that receives the captured image and having subsystems operating in a first power domain, a back-end image signal processing pipeline operating in a second power domain different than the first power domain, and optionally displays configured to receive content for display from the back-end image signal processing pipeline. A multiclient scheduler in the CVP circuitry can receive and reorder image requests received from a plurality of client processors in the electronic device. The multiclient scheduler can query an image server on the electronic device to determine whether image requests can be satisfied by an existing image currently stored on the image server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon L Gardiner, Chiraag Juvekar, Amit Pratap Rane, Karan Sanghi
  • Patent number: 12782732
    Abstract: A display may include a waveguide that directs image light towards an eye box within a field of view (FOV). A first lens may transmit world light to the waveguide and a second lens may transmit the world light and the image light to the eye box. One or more surfaces of the first and second lenses may collectively have a first region with a first optical power, a second region with a second optical power, a corridor with gradient optical power and constant astigmatism, and blending regions with variable astigmatism. The second region may be shifted downwards in elevation angle, the corridor may be elongated, and/or the blending regions may be disposed away from the FOV to prevent the blending regions from introducing astigmatism to the image light at the eye box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin A Keilbach, Barbara J Kruse, Vikrant Bhakta, Hyungryul Choi
  • Patent number: 12784370
    Abstract: A first electronic device captures sensor data and generates scene data. The first electronic device transmits the scene data to an authorized second electronic device that is co-located with the first electronic device. The authorized second electronic device beneficially uses the scene data without having to regenerate the same information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David Cohen, Srinivas Vedula
  • Patent number: 12784751
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example method for processing an image include receiving an image, generating, based on the image, a question corresponding to a first object in the image, generating, based on the image, a caption corresponding to a second object of the image, receiving an utterance from a user, and determining a plurality of speech recognition results from the utterance based on the question and the caption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Saurabh Adya, Sameer Badaskar, Akanksha Bindal, Ahmed S. Hussen Abdelaziz, Xiaochuan Niu, Alkeshkumar M. Patel, Srikanth Vishnubhotla
  • Patent number: 12786307
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays user interfaces associated with games in response to detecting input devices having been connected to the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a reduced user interface in response to detecting that a cover has covered a portion of the display of the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface via a display generation component of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device projects a user interface via a projection device of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device directs inputs from an input device to different user interfaces depending on the mode in which the input device is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fiona P. O'Leary, Jonathan A. Topf, Mylene E. Dreyer, Julian K. Missig
  • Patent number: 12786533
    Abstract: A camera module for an electronic device includes an actuator structure for positioning a movable element of the camera module, such as an image sensor or a lens element. The actuator structure is supported within a module housing of the camera module and includes at least one flexure that includes a flexure pad configured and aligned to engage with a corresponding boss extending from the module housing or a carrier supporting the movable element. The flexure pad includes a roughened surface so as to reduce contact area between the boss and the flexure pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kartthik Kumarasamy, Krishna Chaitanya Pokkali, Hua Deng
  • Patent number: 12786567
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a camera actuator includes an actuator base, an autofocus voice coil motor, and an optical image stabilization voice coil motor. In some embodiments, the autofocus voice coil motor includes a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to the actuator base, a plurality of shared magnets mounted to the base, and an autofocus coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of one or more lenses of the lens carrier. In some embodiments, the optical image stabilization voice coil motor includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the actuator base, and optical image stabilization coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the shared magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in a plurality of directions orthogonal to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aurelien R. Hubert, Qiang Yang, Douglas S. Brodie, Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 12786371
    Abstract: A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Rockwell, Oriel Y. Bergig, Geoffrey Stahl, Thibaut Weise, Peter Kaufmann, Branko Petljanski, Jason L. Slupeiks, Tom Sengelaub, Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki, Yanghai Tsin, Hesam Najafi, Arthur Y. Zhang, Cheng Chen, Graham B. Myhre, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Marinus Meursing, Phil M. Hobson, Jason C. Sauers, Jan K. Quijalvo, Jia Tao, Ivan S. Maric, Jeremy C. Franklin, Wey-Jiun Lin, Muhammad F. Hossain
  • Patent number: 12785732
    Abstract: Wireless circuitry is provided that includes an antenna and a radio-frequency amplifier coupled to the antenna. The radio-frequency amplifier can include a first input transistor having a drain terminal coupled to a first node, a second input transistor having a drain terminal coupled to a second node, and a common mode impedance tuning circuit coupled between the first and second nodes. The common mode impedance tuning circuit can be configured to tune a common mode impedance at the first and second nodes of the radio-frequency amplifier. The common mode impedance tuning circuit can be configured to provide a first common mode impedance when the amplifier is operating in accordance with a first set of operating conditions and can be configured to provide a second common mode impedance, different than the first common mode impedance, when the amplifier is operating in accordance with a second set of operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Seok Park, Youngchang Yoon, Morteza Nick
  • Patent number: 12786887
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to techniques for determining a maximum sensitivity degradation (MSD) value at a user equipment (UE), and sending the value to a network for scheduling a frequency band combination for uplink and/or downlink communication. The network configures the frequency band combination for the UE, and determines whether there may be potential interference when the UE uses the frequency band combination. If so, then the network sends an indication to the UE to deactivate uplink transmission. The UE then determines reference sensitivity (REFSENS) of its receiver when the network does not send a downlink transmission on the frequency band combination. The UE sets its transmitter to transmit with a predetermined (e.g., maximum) transmission power, sends uplink transmissions, and determines an interference power when operating using the frequency band combination. The UE then determines the MSD value based on the REFSENS and the interference power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fucheng Wang, Anatoliy S Ioffe
  • Patent number: 12786457
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for improved video coding with virtual reference frames. A motion vector for prediction of a pixel block from a reference may be constrained based on the reference. In as aspect, if the reference is a temporally interpolated virtual reference frame with corresponding time close to the time of the current pixel block, the motion vector for prediction may be constrained magnitude and/or precision. In another aspect, a bitstream syntax for encoding the constrained motion vector may also be constrained. In this manner, the techniques proposed herein contribute to improved coding efficiencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yeqing Wu, Yunfei Zheng, Guoxin Jin, Yixin Du, Alican Nalci, Hilmi Enes Egilmez, Jun Xin, Hsi-Jung Wu
  • Patent number: 12786686
    Abstract: An edge computing component is configured to receive application specific user information for a first application client (AC) user from a first user equipment (UE) with a first AC, receive application specific user information for a second AC user from a second UE with a second AC, identify a condition related to a location of the first AC relative to one or more service areas related to edge computing and transmit a notification to the second UE, the notification indicating a presence of the first AC user relative to the one or more service areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Featherstone, Haijing Hu, Mona Agnel, Robert Zaus, Shu Guo, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan
  • Patent number: 12787610
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display such as an organic light-emitting diode display. The organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels that each have organic light-emitting diode layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. To improve off-axis luminance and luminance uniformity, the display may include green pixels with emission spectra having a narrow full width at half maximum, the display may include a reflective layer that is formed separately from a transparent anode, and/or the display may include a diffusive layer. The diffusive layer may be embedded in one or more encapsulation layers for the display. The diffusive layer may be a diffusive color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Zhang, Amin Salehi, Chieh-Wei Chen, Hoyeon Kim, Paul S Drzaic, Yun Liu
  • Patent number: 12783114
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods for managing charging of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Chao, Patrick L Coffman, Cyril De La Cropte De Chanterac, Kevin M. Lynch, Conor J. O'Reilly, Michael S. Soetaert, Kartik R. Venkatraman
  • Patent number: 12784084
    Abstract: Methods for providing a virtual shopping experience in which a demonstration of a product is presented to the user. In some embodiments, the demonstration is an interactive demonstration in a simulated virtual environment in which a user is able to interact with the device and the device is responsive to the simulated virtual environment. In some embodiments, the demonstration demonstrates one or more customizable features of the product. In some embodiments, a user is able to customize the features of the product, such as to customize the configuration and/or the parts of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan J. Scully, Alexander B. Oser, Wilson W. Yin, Yang Liu, Paul C. Hikiji, Maxime Montegnies, Weixuan Zhao, Wai Ki Chan, Jaewoong Hwang
  • Patent number: 12785456
    Abstract: A wireless power transmitter (WPT) can include WPT circuitry having a wireless WPT coil that transmits wireless power signals; and control circuitry coupled to the WPT circuitry that: measures a present value of a first function of quality factor and resonant frequency of the wireless power transmitting coil and a present value of a second function of quality factor and resonant frequency of the WPT coil while the WPT is coupled to a wireless power receiver; determines a change between the measured present values and corresponding baseline values of the first and second functions of quality factor and resonant frequency of the WPT coil; determines whether a foreign object is present responsive to the change between the measured present values and corresponding baseline values of the first and second functions of quality factor and resonant frequency exceeding a threshold in a magnetic state space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hanwei Wang, Giuseppe Pinto, Ruiyang Lin, Tao Li, Srinivasa V Thirumalai Ananthan Pillai, Jukka-pekka J Sjoeroos
  • Patent number: 12785361
    Abstract: An optoelectronic apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, an electrically activated spatial light modulator disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) disposed over the spatial light modulator on the semiconductor substrate. A controller is coupled to actuate the VCSEL to emit a beam of optical radiation and to control the spatial light modulator so as to modify an optical property of the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pengfei Qiao, Chinhan Lin, Fei Tan, Alexander Hein
  • Patent number: 12783002
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for associating chronology with a physical article. In some implementations, a device includes a display, one or more processors, and a memory. The method may include presenting an environment comprising a representation of a physical article. An amount of time since a previous event associated with the physical article may be monitored. An indicator of the amount of time may be displayed proximate the representation of the physical article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Devin W. Chalmers
  • Patent number: 12783058
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to disambiguating between gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Adam S. Meyer, Peter C. Tsoi
  • Patent number: 12783117
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to techniques and interfaces for managing media playback devices. In some embodiments, the techniques include varying a feedback based on movement of a computer system toward or away from an external device. In some embodiments, the techniques include displaying an interface that includes controls for controlling media playback on an external device when the computer system and the external device are playing media. In some embodiments, the techniques include performing operations at a computer system in response to an input having a size that is less than or greater than a size threshold. In some embodiments, the techniques include performing different operations at a computer system when status lights have states that indicate different states of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman, Pedro Mari, Camille Moussette, Gemma Alexandria Roper, Peter C. Tsoi
  • Patent number: 12785902
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), baseband processor or other network device (e.g., base station, next generation NodeB, etc.) can operate to process or generate an acknowledgement (ACK) or a non-acknowledgement (NACK) of a beam report to indicate an autonomous transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state update, which can be a TCI update without a corresponding TCI indication/trigger. The UE can determine the ACK/NACK in response to providing the beam report in the autonomous TCI state update. The UE can then activate a TCI state of the autonomous TCI state update in response to identifying the ACK or re-transmit the beam report for autonomous TCI state update when a NACK is recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12786579
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to foveated sensor readout. Foveated sensor readout may include binning, within a pixel array of an image sensor and based on a region-of-interest (ROI) indicator, a subset of the sensor pixels of the pixel array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ashirwad Bahukhandi, Andrew K. Mcmahon, Luke A. Pillans
  • Patent number: 12786303
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to techniques and user interfaces for communication using electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Oluwaseyi A. Amole, Jarrett A. Ford, Yi Huang, Mohamed Khalaf, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 12786760
    Abstract: Embodiments include a computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that perform operations. The operations include receiving a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETs), selecting at least one reference signal (RS) corresponding to at least one activated transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state in a CORESET, analyzing the at least one RS and determining beam failure detection (BFD) or radio link monitoring (RLM) based on the at least one reference signal selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12782740
    Abstract: A head-mounted device is configured to present content to a user and includes a housing, a first optical module coupled to the housing, a second optical module coupled to the housing, an interpupillary distance adjustment assembly configured to support the first optical module and the second optical module with respect to the housing to allow adjustment of a distance between the first optical module and the second optical module, and one or more user-facing cameras configured to obtain images of the eyes of the user. The interpupillary distance adjustment assembly is configured to match the distance between the first optical module and the second optical module with the spacing between the eyes of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Jan K. Quijalvo, Anna V. Mirabella, Wey-Jiun Lin, Jeremy C. Franklin, Forrest C. Wang, Marinus Meursing, Blake N. Trekell, Aidan N. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: D1156086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Caleb Ferris, Kully Kraig Mandon
  • Patent number: D1156383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1156389
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    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, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1156391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    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, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1156426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D1156430
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo F. Caro, Christopher David Lauritzen, Charmian Naguit
  • Patent number: D1156441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D1156443
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2026
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Evgenii Krivoruchko, Richard D. Lyons, Israel Pastrana Vicente, Matan Stauber
  • Patent number: D1156458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2026
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory M. Apodaca, Jesse Chand, Jonathan R. Dascola, Miquel Estany Rodriguez, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard D. Lyons, Israel Pastrana Vicente, Lorena S. Pazmino, William A. Sorrentino, III, Matan Stauber, Wan Si Wan