Apple Inc. patent applications published on November 9th, 2023

Summary of the patent applications from Apple Inc. on November 9th, 2023

Apple Inc. has recently filed several patents related to various technologies in wireless communication. These patents aim to improve the efficiency, performance, and user experience of wireless devices.

Summary: - The patents cover technologies such as head-mounted devices that manage heat and reduce noise output, determining time-domain PRACH resources in wireless communication, determining channel occupancy rate in unlicensed spectrum, configuring a search space in network devices, uplink beam management and power control, supporting cross carrier scheduling in LTE and NR dynamic spectrum sharing, transmitting data and control information without using a physical uplink control channel, providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission, triggering and using uplink gaps in cellular networks, and enhancing the Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and Cell Grouping Capability for NR-CA and NR-DC.

Notable Applications:

• Head-mounted device that manages heat and reduces noise output.
• Determining time-domain PRACH resources in wireless communication.
• Determining channel occupancy rate in unlicensed spectrum.
• Configuring a search space in network devices.
• Uplink beam management and power control in wireless communications systems.
• Supporting cross carrier scheduling in LTE and NR dynamic spectrum sharing.
• Transmitting data and control information without using a physical uplink control channel.
• Providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission.
• Triggering and using uplink gaps in cellular networks.
• Enhancing the Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and Cell Grouping Capability for NR-CA and NR-DC.

Overall, these patents demonstrate Apple's commitment to innovation in wireless communication technologies, with a focus on improving heat management, noise reduction, resource allocation, beam management, power control, and overall network efficiency. These advancements have the potential to enhance the user experience and performance of Apple's wireless devices.

Patent applications for Apple Inc. on November 9th, 2023

AUTHORIZED REMOTE CONTROL (18349619)

Main Inventor

Bartholomeus C. Nabbe

Customizable Systems (18172175)

Main Inventor

Jie Gu

Control Mode Selection And Transitions (18224846)

Main Inventor

Libo Cao Meyers

Capturing Location Data For Waypoint (18059325)

Main Inventor

Jared K. McGann

Rhythmic Collection of Positioning Information (18304104)

Main Inventor

Christina Selle

Proactive Recording of Locations for Backtracking (18299011)

Main Inventor

Michael P. Dal Santo

Electronic Devices with Lenses (18324078)

Main Inventor

Nikhil D. Kalyankar

Compact Optical Splitter (18142729)

Main Inventor

Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli

Head-Mounted Display With Low Light Operation (18218787)

Main Inventor

Killian J. Poore

Electronic Devices With Optical Component Protection (18351187)

Main Inventor

Ritu Shah

Dynamic Voltage Margin Recovery (18351248)

Main Inventor

John H. Mylius

RETINAL REFLECTION TRACKING FOR GAZE ALIGNMENT (18138233)

Main Inventor

Arthur Y. Zhang

RING INPUT DEVICE WITH VARIABLE ROTATIONAL RESISTANCE (18353044)

Main Inventor

Michael BEYHS

TOUCH SCREEN SHIELD LAYER WITH RING AND TAPPING POINTS (18312889)

Main Inventor

Sagar R. VAZE

Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Updating a Session Region (17950680)

Main Inventor

Chanaka G. Karunamuni

Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Updating a Session Region (17950694)

Main Inventor

Chanaka G. Karunamuni

Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Updating a Session Region (17950718)

Main Inventor

Chanaka G. Karunamuni

DISCOVERING DIGITAL ASSISTANT TASKS (17961223)

Main Inventor

Elizabeth M. CHAPMAN

OMNIDIRECTIONAL GESTURE DETECTION (18222394)

Main Inventor

Ben ROTTLER

Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Touch Input Processing (18221354)

Main Inventor

Bruce D. Nilo

PORTABLE MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE WITH INTERFACE RECONFIGURATION MODE (18222317)

Main Inventor

Scott M. HERZ

PHYSICAL COMPANION DEVICES FOR USE WITH EXTENDED REALITY SYSTEMS (18222967)

Main Inventor

Samuel L. IGLESIAS

INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ASSISTANT IN A MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT (18224509)

Main Inventor

Petr KARASHCHUK

Request Ordering in a Cache (18353830)

Main Inventor

Sandeep Gupta

MULTI-DEVICE CONTEXT STORE (18356081)

Main Inventor

Kartik Venkatraman

Localization of Objects (18223454)

Main Inventor

Scott Rick Jones

IN-HOME EVENT INTERCOM AND NOTIFICATIONS (18142451)

Main Inventor

Kshitij S. Deshpande

Local Active Matrix Architecture (18350366)

Main Inventor

Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema

EFFICIENT EMBEDDING FOR ACOUSTIC MODELS (17736959)

Main Inventor

Daniel C. KLINGLER

HIGHER ORDER AMBISONICS ENCODING AND DECODING (18246030)

Main Inventor

Moo Young KIM

SEAMLESS SCALABLE DECODING OF CHANNELS, OBJECTS, AND HOA AUDIO CONTENT (18246024)

Main Inventor

Moo Young KIM

HIERARCHICAL SPATIAL RESOLUTION CODEC (18246029)

Main Inventor

Dipanjan SEN

DISPLAY MODULE AND SYSTEM APPLICATIONS (18315727)

Main Inventor

Andreas Bibl

Display Systems with Light-Emitting Diodes (18180758)

Main Inventor

Ziruo Hong

Display Systems with Light-Emitting Diodes (18180763)

Main Inventor

Ziruo Hong

COATINGS FOR CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIALS (18348766)

Main Inventor

Huiming Wu

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUND FENCING (17738787)

Main Inventor

Xiaofang Mu

ENHANCED COMMUNICATIONS FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER (18355139)

Main Inventor

Sriram Narayanan

MAGNETIC ALIGNMENT STRUCTURES WITH VARIABLE FIELD STRENGTH (18214399)

Main Inventor

Karl Ruben F. Larsson

TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROLLING SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE OF RADIO ENERGY TRANSMISSION (18315275)

Main Inventor

Oren Kaidar

Methods and Apparatus for Device Type and Channel State Information Feedback over Initial Access Message in Wireless Communication (17441623)

Main Inventor

Hong He

CSI-RS ENHANCEMENT FOR PORT SELECTION CODEBOOK WITH CHANNEL RECIPROCITY (17442035)

Main Inventor

Haitong SUN

RADIO FREQUENCY HANDSET CALIBRATION BASED ON ANTENNA GAIN (18356898)

Main Inventor

Wassim El-Hassan

Techniques for Pathloss Reference Signal Measurement in Unlicensed Bands (17593838)

Main Inventor

Jie Cui

METHOD FOR ENHANCED HARQ-ACK FEEDBACK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (17441680)

Main Inventor

Hong HE

SMALL GAP DURING UPLINK SWITCH IN MULTI-TRP (17441399)

Main Inventor

Qiming LI

AP-SRS TRIGGERING OFFSET ENHANCEMENT FOR FURTHER ENHANCED MIMO (17441152)

Main Inventor

Haitong SUN

COUNTING ACTIVE RESOURCES FOR UE PROCESSING COMPLEXITY RELATED CAPABILITY (17441797)

Main Inventor

Haitong SUN

TIME DOMAIN RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION (18219261)

Main Inventor

Debdeep CHATTERJEE

ELECTRONIC MESSAGE USER INTERFACE (18223905)

Main Inventor

Alan C. DYE

Distributed Encoding (18335669)

Main Inventor

Maneli Noorkami

Block-Based Low Latency Rate Control (18296351)

Main Inventor

Felix C. Fernandes

CAMERA WITH IMAGE SENSOR SHIFTING (18353805)

Main Inventor

Shashank Sharma

CAMERA ACTUATOR WITH MOVING COILS AND DYNAMIC FLEX CIRCUIT (18353827)

Main Inventor

Nicholas D. Smyth

Proactive Provision of Positioning Information Based on User Context (18305723)

Main Inventor

Glenn Donald MacGougan

MISSED TELEPHONE CALL MANAGEMENT FOR A PORTABLE MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE (18220221)

Main Inventor

Scott FORSTALL

USER EQUIPMENT AGGREGATION (18132316)

Main Inventor

Sudeep Manithara Vamanan

DISCOVERY FRAMES AND GROUP ADDRESSED FRAMES TRANSMISSION (18142149)

Main Inventor

Guoqing LI

SECURE STORAGE AND PROCESSING OF SIM DATA (18313813)

Main Inventor

Deepak DASH

METHODS FOR PATHLOSS REFERENCE SIGNAL ACTIVATION (17442983)

Main Inventor

Qiming Li

HYBRID MEASUREMENT GAP OPERATION (17440444)

Main Inventor

Qiming LI

METHOD FOR NETWORK ELEMENT, NETWORK ELEMENT, METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT, USER EQUIPMENT AND APPARATUS (17441398)

Main Inventor

Qiming LI

Enhanced Packet Filtering (18357012)

Main Inventor

Martin Kugler

MCG FAILURE RECOVERY ENHANCEMENT IN DC MODE (17598093)

Main Inventor

Fangli Xu

MEASUREMENT GAP CONFIGURATION FOR BANDWIDTH PART SWITCHING (17441244)

Main Inventor

Dawei ZHANG

NETWORK SLICING WITH RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) SHARING (17440441)

Main Inventor

Fangli XU

UTILIZING SSB MEASUREMENTS TO IMPROVE SCELL ACTIVATION (18119105)

Main Inventor

Qunfeng He

SENSING FOR USER EQUIPMENT (UE) SUPPORTING SIDELINK DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION (SL-DRX) (17439772)

Main Inventor

Zhibin WU

DETERMINING PROCESSING TIME FOR HIGH FREQUENCY RANGE (17440615)

Main Inventor

Hong HE

PUCCH AND CELL GROUPING CAPABILITY FOR NR-CA AND NR-DC (17442342)

Main Inventor

Haitong SUN

Technologies For Uplink Gap Triggering And Operation (17442482)

Main Inventor

Huaning Niu

HARQ PROCESS HANDLING FOR MULTI-DCI MULTI-TRP OPERATION (17441593)

Main Inventor

Haitong SUN

MULTIPLEXING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (UCI) ON PHYSICAL UPLINK SHARED CHANNEL (PUSCH) (17441245)

Main Inventor

Wenshu ZHANG

SCHEDULING RESTRICTION ENHANCEMENT FOR LTE AND NR DSS (17441154)

Main Inventor

Haitong SUN

ENHANCED UPLINK BEAM MANAGEMENT (18352324)

Main Inventor

Yushu ZHANG

PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION (17442814)

Main Inventor

Hong He

CHANNEL OCCUPANCY RATE DETERMINATION IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM (17441241)

Main Inventor

Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TIME-DOMAIN PRACH RESOURCE DETERMINATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION (17598038)

Main Inventor

Hong He

NOISE MITIGATION FOR HEAD-MOUNTED DEVICE (18225036)

Main Inventor

Ivan S. MARIC