Patents by Inventor Patrick Lee Coffman

Patrick Lee Coffman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11003338
    Abstract: An electronic device: displays a first window in a display area; and detects a first user input associated with one or more edges of the first window. In response to detecting the first user input, and in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a first input type, the device resizes one or more dimensions of the first window that correspond to the one or more edges of the first window based on a movement vector associated with the first user input. In response to detecting the first user input, and in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a second input type, the device moves the one or more edges of the first window to one or more corresponding edges of the display area while maintaining respective one or more opposite edges of the first window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Corbin Robert Dunn, John O. Louch, Kevin James Van Vechten, Patrick Lee Coffman, Troy N. Stephens
  • Patent number: 10999442
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing phone calls. In some embodiments, an electronic device with a touch screen displays a phone call user interface which includes informational items associated with phone calls as well as other affordances. In some embodiments, the phone call user interface enables a user the electronic device to access various phone call management functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Imran Chaudhri, Michael Matas, Marcel Van Os, Stephen O. LeMay, Patrick Lee Coffman, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Greg Christie
  • Patent number: 10970030
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting a wearing status of a wearable device, the wearing status indicating whether a user is wearing the wearable device and sending wearing status data to a companion communication device to control a behavior of the companion communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Watson, David John Shaw, Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan, Matthew Gillette, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Jeffrey Chandler Moore, Patrick Ian Bernhard, Baek San Chang, Patrick Lee Coffman, Jonathan Anderson Bennett, Anthony Guetta, Jahan Christian Minoo, Keith Walter Rauenbuehler
  • Publication number: 20210049321
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a touch-sensitive display. The method includes displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, a text region that includes a first portion of text and a second portion of text. The method includes detecting, on the touch-sensitive display, an input within the text region. The method includes, in response to detecting the input within the text region, moving the first portion of text relative to the second portion of text to display a non-text region between the first portion of text and the second portion of text that does not include any text and converting at least a portion of the non-text region into a drawing panel provided to receive drawing input via the touch-sensitive display and display a corresponding graphic in response to receiving the drawing input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher P. Foss, Patrick Lee Coffman, Jason Clay Beaver, Toby Charles Wood Paterson, Alastair Kenneth Fettes
  • Patent number: 10860788
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a touch-sensitive display. The method includes displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, a text region that includes a first portion of text and a second portion of text. The method includes detecting, on the touch-sensitive display, an input within the text region. The method includes, in response to detecting the input within the text region, moving the first portion of text relative to the second portion of text to display a non-text region between the first portion of text and the second portion of text that does not include any text and converting at least a portion of the non-text region into a drawing panel provided to receive drawing input via the touch-sensitive display and display a corresponding graphic in response to receiving the drawing input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Foss, Patrick Lee Coffman, Jason Clay Beaver, Toby Charles Wood Paterson, Alastair Kenneth Fettes
  • Patent number: D904448
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Woon Yung Choi, Maxwell O. Drukman, Peter Walter Roman, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D904449
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Aurelio Guzmán, Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D904451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Patrick Lee Coffman, Vitalii Kramar, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D905739
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Patrick Lee Coffman, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Raymond Sepulveda
  • Patent number: D908729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D910698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Patrick Lee Coffman, Richard Dellinger, Stephen O. Lemay, Brandon Walkin
  • Patent number: D916856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Christie, Patrick Lee Coffman, Anton Davydov, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Stephen O. Lemay, Wyatt R. Mitchell, Parthiban Mohanraj, Daniel T. Preston, Christopher Daryl Soli
  • Patent number: D916867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Patrick Lee Coffman, Thalia Echevarria Fiol, Christopher P. Foss, Bon Min, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D917540
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Christian Xavier Dalonzo, Dylan Ross Edwards
  • Patent number: D921672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Imran Chaudhri, Patrick Lee Coffman, Jonathan Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Foss, David C. Graham, Jonathan P. Ive, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: D921694
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Patrick Lee Coffman, Richard Dellinger, Stephen O. Lemay, Brandon Walkin
  • Patent number: D925577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D925581
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda
  • Patent number: D925583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda
  • Patent number: D925584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong