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
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  • Patent number: 12721532
    Abstract: Embodiments include systems and methods for determining blood pressure of a user. Embodiments can include a restriction device that is configured to apply an external pressure cycle to a blood vessel of the user and a pressure sensing device that is configured to detect pressures within the blood vessel during the external pressure cycle and output a signal indicative of the detected pressures. Embodiments can also include a processing device that is configured to receive the signal from the pressure sensing device, determine a first set of pressure values corresponding to minimum pressure values for each pulse pressure wave and determine a second set of pressure values corresponding to pressure upstrokes that occur during a descending pressure phase of a respective pulse pressure wave. The system can determine a blood pressure parameter of the user based on the first set of pressure values and the second set of pressure values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert K. Montgomery, II, Chin San Han
  • Patent number: 12724530
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of items of content available for playback on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents selectable options for playing an item of content in accordance with the manners in which the item of content is available to be played on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of episodes in a series of episodic content. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents an enhanced preview of content. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a control panel. In some embodiments, an electronic device switches the active user profile of a device. In some embodiments, an electronic device enters into a picture-in-picture mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Policarpo B. Wood, Jeff Tan-Ang, Florian M. Ponson
  • Patent number: 12724796
    Abstract: A method may include receiving information associated with a transmission of data. The method may include determining a classification for the information associated with the transmission of data. Based on the classification and in response to a trigger, the method may include formatting a portion of the information into a first schema associated with a location service. The method may also include transmitting a request for location information corresponding to the portion of the information to the location service according to the first schema. The method may include receiving, from the location service, the location information according to the first schema and formatting the location information from the first schema to a second schema associated with the computing device. The method may include updating the information associated with the transmission of data to include the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Tong, George Walker, Andrei P. Makhanov, Derek Farmer, Kieran O'Sullivan, Marco Paneghel, Mark Schubel, Saurabh V. Pendse
  • Patent number: 12726221
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having active circuitry such as active power splitter circuitry and active power combiner circuitry. The active power splitter and combiner circuitry can include single-ended or differential amplifiers coupled to one another using single-ended coupled lines or differential coupled lines. Each set of differential coupled lines may include first and second pairs of coupled lines. The single-ended coupled lines and the differential coupled lines can provide routing and impedance matching functions. In active power splitter circuitry, multiple transmitting amplifiers may be used to drive a plurality of antennas in a phased antenna array. In active power combiner circuitry, multiple receiving amplifiers may be used to receive radio-frequency signals from the plurality of antennas in the phased antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad Adnan, Abdulrahman A Alhamed, Xiang Guan, Frederic Bossu
  • Patent number: 12726890
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to share channel maps between devices for channel selection for connections. A device may perform channel scanning operations for determining channel conditions and generating channel maps, and may provide the channel maps to other devices. The other devices can reduce channel scanning operations based on receiving the channel maps from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lokanath Penukonda, Dongwoon Hahn
  • Patent number: 12726914
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing uplink port selection management in a wireless communication system. A sounding reference signal transmit power calculation method may be selected by a wireless device from multiple possible methods, potentially based on a number of uplink multiple input multiple output transmission layers configured for the wireless device. Sounding reference signal transmit powers for a first antenna port and a second antenna port may be determined using the selected sounding reference signal transmit power calculation method. Sounding reference signals may be transmitted using the first antenna port and the second antenna port at the determined sounding reference signal transmit powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Feng, Vijay Venkataraman, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Yu Wu, Dhiraj J. Shirke, Han Pu, ChunLei Lin, Xu Sun, Pranav Tripathi, Hao Sun
  • Patent number: 12726841
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods of communication are generally described herein. A Master gNB (MgNB) may be arranged to operate in accordance with a New Radio (NR)-NR Dual Connectivity (NR-NR DC) arrangement with a Secondary gNB (SgNB). If the UE does not support per-frequency (per-FR) measurement gaps, the MgNB may configure a per-UE measurement gap for the UE for measurement of signals in a first frequency range and in a second frequency range. If the UE supports the per-FR measurement gaps, the MgNB may configure a first measurement gap in the first frequency range, and the SgNB may configure a second measurement gap in the second frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple, Inc.
    Inventor: Candy Yiu
  • Patent number: 12722599
    Abstract: A computer system performs techniques related to displaying a representation of a secure credential and using the secure credential. In some embodiments, a computer system detects that the computer system is physically near a vehicle. In some embodiments, a computer system permits a user access to use one or more functions of a vehicle using a secure credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vitalii Kramar, Dorian D. Dargan, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 12724138
    Abstract: An electronic device may include radio-frequency sensing circuitry that transmits sensing signals and that receives reflected signals using one or more antennas. The sensing circuitry may generate digital sensor data based on the reflected signals. The sensor data may be indicative of moving objects moving through positions that occlude lines of sight between the electronic device and stationary objects behind the moving objects. The sensor circuitry may detect the locations on the stationary objects based on changes to the sensor data associated with motion of the moving objects through the positions. The sensor circuitry may accumulate an environment map of the detected locations as the moving objects move about the environment over time. This may allow the sensor circuitry to generate the environment map with high spatial resolution using as few antennas as possible. The sensor circuitry may detect boundaries of the environment based on the environment map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jiaming Cui, Jonathan Ah Sue, Nayef A Alsindi, Andreas Menkhoff, Matthew A Mow, Tideya Kella, Joseph Hakim
  • Patent number: 12724734
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marc A. Schaub, Roy G. Moss
  • Patent number: 12726254
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing beam failure recovery in a high speed single frequency network scenario in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a cellular link with a cellular network according to a single frequency network scheme. The wireless device may determine one or more beam failure detection resources for each of multiple transmission reception points associated with the cellular network. The wireless device may detect beam failure for one or more of the transmission reception points using the beam failure detection resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Jie Cui
  • Patent number: 12726751
    Abstract: A three-dimensional weaving system may be used to form customized earbuds for a user. An electronic device with a three-dimensional sensor may be used to capture three-dimensional images of one or both of the user's ears. The three-dimensional ear images may be provided to computing equipment that analyzes the images to determine the dimensions of the ear such as tragus and antitragus dimensions and concha dimensions. Three-dimensional weaving equipment may be used to weave customized earbuds for the user based on the ear images. The customized earbuds may include a tragus and antitragus portion that matches the dimensions of the tragus and antitragus in the ear images, as these areas of the ear are more sensitive. The concha portion of the customized earbuds may be woven with slightly larger dimensions than the user's actual concha, as the concha area can withstand some compression without discomfort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kathleen A Bergeron, Daniel A Podhajny, Joseph B Walker
  • Patent number: 12726995
    Abstract: Methods and devices for a base station acting as a primary cell to perform dual spectrum sharing (DSS) with a first user equipment device (UE) over a 5G NR connection and a second UE over an LTE connection. The first UE establishes the 5G NR connection with the primary cell and one or more secondary cells. One of the secondary cells is configured in the 5G NR connection to provide downlink control information to the UE for the primary cell, to avoid collisions by the primary cell with LTE control transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12727281
    Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation detectors includes anti-reflective epitaxial structures incorporated into an epitaxial stack of the electromagnetic radiation detector. An anti-reflective structures as described herein are grown between (and thereby connect) two lattice-matched epitaxial layers that have different refractive indices. The anti-reflective structure reduces Fresnel reflections that would otherwise occur if the two epitaxial layers were directly connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew T. Morea, Daniel Mahgerefteh, Dylan N. Rees, Mark A. Arbore, Romain F. Chevallier
  • Patent number: 12721533
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises: establishing, by a wireless wearable computer worn by a user, a wireless communication connection with a fitness machine; obtaining machine data from the fitness machine while the user is engaged in a workout session on the fitness machine; obtaining, from a heart rate sensor of the wireless device, heart rate data of the user; determining a calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user based on the heart rate data and the machine data; determining a heart rate caloric expenditure based on the heart rate data and the calibrated maximal oxygen consumption of the user; and providing information corresponding to the heart rate caloric expenditure for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bharath Narasimha Rao, Jennifer Strasser, Umamahesh Srinivas, Kevin Sheridan, James Ochs, Vinay R. Majjigi, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Olivier Humblet, Jay Kriz Blahnik
  • Patent number: 12725364
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure includes techniques and user interfaces for interacting with virtual objects in an extended reality environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects in an extended reality environment, including repositioning virtual objects relative to the environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects, in an extended reality environment, including virtual objects that aid a user in navigating within the environment. In some embodiments, the techniques and user interfaces are for interacting with virtual objects, including objects displayed based on changes in a field-of-view of a user, in an extended reality environment, including repositioning virtual objects relative to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yiqiang Nie, Giovanni M. Agnoli, Devin W. Chalmers, Allison W. Dryer, Thomas G. Salter, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 12725621
    Abstract: A method that includes receiving an audio component associated with an audio scene, the audio component including an audio signal, determining a loudness level of the audio component based on the audio signal, receiving a target loudness level for the audio component, producing a bitstream with the audio component by encoding the audio signal and including metadata that has the loudness level and the target loudness level, and transmitting the bitstream to an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Baumgarte, Dipanjan Sen
  • Patent number: 12726988
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modularized design for inter-physical layer priority uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may determine a first code rate for a first portion of UCI and a second code rate for a second portion of UCI. Different code rates may be used to encode different portions of UCI (e.g., hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits, channel state information (CSI) reporting bits, scheduling request (SR) bits, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits, etc.). Further, a UE may select a group of bets offset sets based on a physical layer priority type and a UCI multiplexing type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Chao Jin, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Ruoheng Liu, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wenshu Zhang, Yinghui Li
  • Patent number: 12727002
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for multi-cell PUSCH/PDSCH scheduling with a single DCI in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Chunhai Yao, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 12726798
    Abstract: Proxy coordinated wireless communication operation is described for vehicular environments. In one example, a first user equipment receives a proxy operation authorization from a vehicular environment proximity services function for the first user equipment to operate as a Proxy for the proximity services function. The first user equipment then controls configuration information of other user equipment. The first user equipment also controls the vehicular environment operation mode used by the other user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dave Cavalcanti, Anna Lucia Pinheiro
  • Patent number: 12724578
    Abstract: Displaying and updating content items in a primary viewing screen and one or more secondary viewing screens in a computer-generated environment is disclosed. The primary and secondary viewing screens can present different content items, or in some examples the secondary viewing screens can present content items that correspond to the content items in the primary viewing screen. A viewer can provide input to change the size and arrangement of the viewing screens, change the content items being displayed in the viewing screens, or change the designations (primary or secondary) of the viewing screens. The viewer can also establish criteria that can trigger the automatic updating of content items being displayed in the viewing screens. In some examples, a viewer can join a multi-user communication session to jointly view the primary viewing screen and the one or more secondary screens while maintaining control over some of the viewing screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley W. Peebler, Danvin Ruangchan
  • Patent number: 12724479
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may be used with an external electronic device. One or more sensors on the head-mounted device may obtain sensor data that is used to determine whether the external electronic device is actively being viewed. When the external electronic device is actively being viewed, a notification may be presented on a display of the external electronic device. When the external electronic device is not actively being viewed, a notification may be presented on a display of the head-mounted device. An electronic device may determine whether a display in the electronic device is being viewed by one or more viewers. When the display is being viewed by more than one viewer, the electronic device may send an instruction to a head-mounted device to cause the head-mounted device to present a notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Nair, Paulo R Jansen dos Reis
  • Patent number: 12726763
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide noise mitigation for electronic devices. Noise mitigation can mitigate the effect of a sound-generating component of an electronic device that generates sound as a byproduct of a primary function of the sound-generating component. The noise mitigation can include geometrically distributing another sound in a geometric distribution that mitigates the perceived effect of the sound of the sound-generating component on a user of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Camellia G. Boutros, Christopher T. Eubank, Christopher J. Moulios, Michael J. Rockwell, Ronald J. Guglielmone, Jr., Steven A. Hales
  • Patent number: 12726339
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to cryptographic key exchanges. In some embodiments, a first device belonging to a first device group receives a request to perform a key exchange to establish a shared secret with a second device belonging to a second device group. The first device verifies a key authorization data structure issued by a key authority, the key authorization data structure including a first public key of a first participant authority authorized to identify members of the first device group and a second public key of a second participant authority authorized to identify members of the second device group. In response to the verifying being successful, the first device performs the requested exchange using a public key pair attested to by the first participant authority as belonging to a member in the first device group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Mensch, Elad Efrat, David Tamagno, Armaiti Ardeshiricham, Wade Benson, Yannick L Sierra
  • Patent number: 12726717
    Abstract: A method of operating an electronic device such as a head-mounted device to mitigate judder, double images, ghosting, and other display artifacts is provided. The method can include acquiring images of a scene with one or more cameras, outputting the acquired images of the scene with one or more displays, sensing light in the scene with a flicker sensor, obtaining a frequency and a phase of the sensed light, and setting or locking a frame rate of the cameras based on the frequency of the sensed light. The method can also include shifting or locking exposure periods of the cameras based on the phase of the sensed light. Determination of whether judder is present can involve computing a display artifact severity parameter and comparing that parameter to a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Fortin-Deschenes, Christophe Seyve, Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini, Luke A Pillans, Christian I Moore, Hengzhou Ding, Cheng-Sheng Hsu, Colin D Munro, Joseph Cheung, Moshe H Malkin, Russell L Jones, Saul H Weiss, Marc Osswald
  • Patent number: 12726574
    Abstract: Disclosed is technology that analyzes voicemail data and takes a particular action based on the analysis of the data. For example, a user device (e.g., a smart phone) can receive a voicemail from an external caller and analyze data representative of the voicemail with an artificial intelligence agent. The artificial intelligence agent can utilize contextual data including user device contextual data and past voicemail contextual data to determine the appropriate task to perform based on the voicemail. Based on that determination, the user device can automatically perform the task that is relevant to the voicemail on behalf of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mansi Goyal, Ajoy K Singh, Andrey Berezin
  • Patent number: 12723331
    Abstract: Interlacing equipment may be used to form fabric. A component detector may be used to feed strands such as a conductive strand to the interlacing equipment. One or more electrical components may be mounted to the conductive strand. The component detector may have a sensor configured to detect the presence of the electrical component as the conductive strand is fed to the interlacing equipment through the component detector. In response to detecting the component with the sensor, the interlacing equipment may automatically adjust interlacing operations in preparation for receiving the electrical component. For example, needles may be lowered in a knitting system, select warp strands may be raised and lowered in a weaving system, or a carrier may follow a modified path in a braiding system in response to detecting the electrical component. The fabric may have a different construction in regions where the electrical component is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew L Rosenberg, Kathryn P Crews, Didio V Gomes, Weibing Gong, Benjamin J Grena, Francois R Jacob, Maurice P May, Daniel A Podhajny, Lia M Uesato
  • Patent number: 12724506
    Abstract: Detecting a touch includes receiving image data of a touching object of a user selecting selectable objects of a target surface, determining a rate of movement of the touching object, in response to determining that the rate of movement satisfies a predetermined threshold, modifying a touch detection parameter for detecting a touch event between the touching object and the target surface, and detecting one or more additional touch events using the modified touch detection parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lejing Wang, Benjamin R. Blachnitzky, Lilli I. Jonsson, Nicolai Georg
  • Patent number: 12725495
    Abstract: A haptic button assembly may be used for detecting inputs and providing haptic outputs at an electronic device. The haptic outputs may be provided in response to detected inputs or in response to other conditions at the electronic device. The haptic button assembly may define an input surface along an exterior of the electronic device. Inputs may be provided to the input surface of the haptic button assembly. An input may include a touch input on or along the input surface and/or a force input directed substantially perpendicularly to the input surface. The haptic button assembly may provide a haptic output by moving an input member of the haptic button assembly laterally (e.g., substantially parallel to the input surface).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared P. Ostdiek, Jesse P. Harris, Richard H. Koch
  • Patent number: 12725558
    Abstract: A device may include image processing circuitry that generates image data corresponding to an image to be displayed during a first image frame and a second image frame. However, the image data is not regenerated for the second image frame. The device may also include an electronic display having a frame buffer that receives and stores the image data from the image processing circuitry. The electronic display may also include a display panel that displays the image during the first image frame based on a first read of the image data from the frame buffer in response to a first emission sync signal and displays the image during the second image frame based on a second read of the image data from the frame buffer in response to a second emission sync signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Denis M Darmon, Christopher P Tann, Hopil Bae, Yanghyo Kim, Ramana V Rachakonda, Xiaofeng Wang, Robert D Zucker
  • Patent number: 12726123
    Abstract: A voltage regulator circuit included in a computer system may employ a control circuit and a switch array that includes multiple switch circuits. Different groups of switch circuits that include respective groups of switch devices are coupled between an input power supply node and corresponding regulated power supply nodes. To maintain desired respective voltages on the regulated power supply nodes, the control circuit compares the voltages of the regulated power supply nodes to corresponding reference voltages and, based on results of the comparisons, opens and closes various ones of the switch devices included in the different groups of switch circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jay B. Fletcher, Nathan F. Hanagami, Sanjay Pant, Hao Zhou, Shawn Searles
  • Patent number: 12726725
    Abstract: A head-mountable device can have multiple cameras, which may be used to generate graphical content, provide a video passthrough of the environment, and/or sense objects, people, or events in the environment. The cameras of the head-mountable device can capture views that are output to a display. Other sensors and/or detectors can detect the presence or motion of objects and/or events in an environment of the user and provide outputs that call the user's attention to such objects and/or events. The outputs can include notifications, selectable features of a visual display output, and/or a view that includes the objects and/or events. The cameras can be integrated in a way that provides a low profile, such as by incorporation with other features of the head-mountable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Paul X. Wang
  • Patent number: D1145694
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1145695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1145696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1145740
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Croyle, Duy P. Le, Christina J. Smiechowski, Robert A. Boyd, Christopher Wiita, Kjell Ferdinand Ekman, Joseph F. Dembs, Dillon Q. Johnson, Patricio Romano, Wenjie Zhuang, Christopher Kuh, Guillaume Raoult, Robert Brunner
  • Patent number: D1145741
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1145743
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 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, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1145744
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
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    Type: Grant
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    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
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    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
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    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
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    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
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    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Chand, Miquel Estany Rodriguez, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard D. Lyons, James J. Owen, Israel Pastrana Vicente, William A. Sorrentino, III, Matan Stauber
  • Patent number: D1145802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Felton
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    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2026
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oluwaseyi A. Amole, Jae Woo Chang, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D1145815
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2026
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tito Lloyd Balsamo, Tobias Alexander Hauner
  • Patent number: D1145826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Patrick Lee Coffman, Robert Garcia, III, Stephen O. Lemay
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    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Garcia, III, Alfred B. Huergo Wagner, Bryant Adam Jow, Shubham Kedia, Stephen O. Lemay, James J. Owen, Grant R. Paul