Apple Inc. patent applications published on October 26th, 2023

Summary of the patent applications from Apple Inc. on October 26th, 2023

• Apple Inc. has recently filed patents for various inventions related to electronic devices, wireless communication, and wireless node technology.
• One patent describes an electronic device with an expandable display that can be expanded and retracted, improving the size and visibility of the display.
• Another patent focuses on improving the performance and reliability of wireless communication by introducing 2-step random access procedures for wireless devices.
• Apple Inc. has also filed a patent for methods and devices that enhance the transmission of a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) for communications beyond 52.6 GHz.
• The organization has filed a patent for a user equipment (UE) that is designed to receive and process control channel configuration information, improving the decoding process for important data.
• Apple Inc. has developed a system where a user device receives instructions from a network's base station regarding multiple scheduled data channels, and creates a codebook for acknowledging the receipt of data.
• Another patent focuses on configuring default beams in wireless communication, allowing the User Equipment (UE) to receive transmissions using a default beam based on received configuration information.
• Apple Inc. has filed a patent for a user equipment (UE) capable of implementing transmit power control (TPC) commands during a specific time period that includes multiple physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions.
• The organization has developed a method for determining and enabling code block group (CBG) based transmissions in an unlicensed spectrum, improving the efficiency of data transmission.
• Apple Inc. has also filed a patent for technology that allows wireless devices to mute certain resource elements used for communication, enhancing the allocation of resource blocks for transmission.
• Lastly, the organization has filed a patent for a wireless node consisting of a radio and a processor, where the processor determines the number of repetitions needed to transmit a specific type of message called a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) message.

Patent applications for Apple Inc. on October 26th, 2023

AUDIO-BASED FEEDBACK FOR HEAD-MOUNTABLE DEVICE (18215745)

Main Inventor

Killian J. POORE

Folded Camera with Actuator for Moving Optics (18343441)

Main Inventor

Nicholas D. Smyth

Optical Systems with Multiple Light Engines for Foveation (18152012)

Main Inventor

Vikrant Bhakta

Optical Systems Having Light Sources with Power Saving Modes (18156309)

Main Inventor

Vikrant Bhakta

EXTERNAL RECORDING INDICATORS (18307069)

Main Inventor

Justin J. Schwab

FORCE-DETECTING INPUT STRUCTURE (18217944)

Main Inventor

Colin M. Ely

USER INTERFACES FOR FACILITATING OPERATIONS (17951034)

Main Inventor

Taylor G. CARRIGAN

Eye Tracking Using Eye Odometers (18347485)

Main Inventor

Tom Sengelaub

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRESENTING A SYNTHESIZED REALITY USER INTERFACE (18215318)

Main Inventor

Ian M. Richter

CONCEALABLE INPUT REGION FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE (18347516)

Main Inventor

Paul X. Wang

Electronic Devices Having Moisture-Insensitive Optical Touch Sensors (18175672)

Main Inventor

Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost

Correcting for Emitted Light Wavelength Variation in Blood-Oxygen Saturation Measurements at Wearable Electronic Device (18215694)

Main Inventor

Ravi K. Shaga

USER INTERFACES FOR SHARING LOCATIONS OF FINDABLE ITEMS (18304911)

Main Inventor

Frank DE JONG

USER INTERFACES FOR FACILITATING OPERATIONS (17951016)

Main Inventor

Taylor G. CARRIGAN

Hardware Element Abstraction (18306509)

Main Inventor

Matthew S. Koonce

VISUALIZATION OF BIOSIGNALS USING MACHINE-LEARNING GENERATED CONTENT (18080736)

Main Inventor

Joseph Y. CHENG

Method for Facial Animation (18314604)

Main Inventor

Thibaut Weise

Selecting Multiple Virtual Objects (18123841)

Main Inventor

Jordan A. Cazamias

Method and Device for Improving Comfortability of Virtual Content (18136760)

Main Inventor

Rahul Nair

OBSTRUCTED OBJECTS IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT (18304290)

Main Inventor

Benjamin H. BOESEL

AVATAR CREATION USER INTERFACE (18138634)

Main Inventor

Nicolas SCAPEL

Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Providing Haptic Feedback (18216546)

Main Inventor

Camille Moussette

USER INTERFACES FOR FACILITATING OPERATIONS (17951035)

Main Inventor

Taylor G. CARRIGAN

Temperature-Based Pixel Drive Compensation (18339229)

Main Inventor

Mahesh B. Chappalli

Display with Side-Wrapped Conductive Traces (18185237)

Main Inventor

Han-Chieh Chang

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARIABLE DISCHARGING TECHNIQUES OF A BATTERY CELL (17860806)

Main Inventor

Hyea Kim

Communication Between Devices in a Wireless Charging System (18342444)

Main Inventor

Zaid A. AbuKhalaf

DYNAMIC CONTENT ENCODING (18077196)

Main Inventor

Christian T. MARTELOCK

FAST MEASUREMENT WITH MULTIPLE CONCURRENT BEAMS (17598237)

Main Inventor

Qiming Li

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BEAM REPORTING, BEAM INDICATION AND SCHEDULING OF DATA TRANSMISSION DURING BEAM MANAGEMENT (18216555)

Main Inventor

Guotong Wang

SPECTRUM EMISSION MASK VERIFICATION BASED ON EIRP MEASUREMENT (18101020)

Main Inventor

Fucheng Wang

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH RADIO DEVICES (17868393)

Main Inventor

Andrew B. INGEBRETSEN

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) FOR NEW RADIO (NR) SIDE-LINKS (18125794)

Main Inventor

Haitong SUN

SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE SECONDARY CELL (SCELL) FAST ACTIVATION (18101350)

Main Inventor

Qiming LI

QCL CONFIGURATION AND DCI INDICATION FOR UNIFIED FRAMEWORK (17598078)

Main Inventor

Yushu Zhang

CROSS-DIVISION DUPLEX SIGNALING (17787691)

Main Inventor

Wei Zeng

Methods and Devices for Self-Interference Cancelation (18312279)

Main Inventor

Feng Xue

JOINT CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR MULTIPLE DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS (18129672)

Main Inventor

Chunxuan YE

TECHNIQUES FOR SHARING DEVICE CAPABILITIES OVER A NETWORK OF USER DEVICES (18216099)

Main Inventor

Scott M. Marshall

DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY FOR MESSAGE TEXT CONTENT MINING (18211973)

Main Inventor

Eric D. Friedman

DATA SYNCHRONIZATION ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES (18216204)

Main Inventor

Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz de Lacerda

Head-Mounted Display Apparatus for Retaining a Portable Electronic Device with Display (18333308)

Main Inventor

Quin C. Hoellwarth

VARIABLE AUDIO FOR AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT (18215371)

Main Inventor

Shai Messingher Lang

RAW SCALER WITH CHROMATIC ABERRATION CORRECTION (18296951)

Main Inventor

Guy Cote

WEARABLE INTERACTIVE AUDIO DEVICE (18218433)

Main Inventor

Benjamin G. Jackson

HEADPHONES WITH A CURVED MESH HEADBAND (18212133)

Main Inventor

Dustin A. Hatfield

Force-Activated Earphone (18216219)

Main Inventor

Nahid Harjee

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING EVOLVING BAND REGULATIONS (18095376)

Main Inventor

Anatoliy S Ioffe

Security Improvements in SL Unicast (17995369)

Main Inventor

Yuqin CHEN

BROKERED SERVICE DISCOVERY AND CONNECTION MANAGEMENT (17728799)

Main Inventor

Charles W Duyk

APPARATUS, METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT, USER EQUPMENT AND METHOD FOR NETWORK ELEMENT (17439559)

Main Inventor

Qiming LI

DIRECT SCELL ACTIVATION DURING HANDOVER (17593682)

Main Inventor

Jie Cui

POWER ALLOCATION IN NEW RADIO AND LONG TERM EVOLUTION DUAL CONNECTIVITY (18122369)

Main Inventor

Gang Xiong

MEASUREMENT OPPORTUNITY SHARING FOR LAYER ONE MEASUREMENTS (18136251)

Main Inventor

Yang Tang

TRANSPORT BLOCK OVER MULTIPLE SLOTS FOR DOWNLINK TRANSMISSIONS (18129658)

Main Inventor

Chunxuan YE

SIGNALING FOR POWER CLASS FALLBACK WITH TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY (18079190)

Main Inventor

Daniel Popp

Dynamic Measurement Gap Operation (17593840)

Main Inventor

Qiming Li

User Equipment Configuration for SIB and MIB Decoding (18303857)

Main Inventor

Tudor NINACS

Repetition Indication for Physical Uplink Control Channel Enhancement (17593742)

Main Inventor

Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian

METHODS, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR UPLINK RESOURCE MUTING OPERATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION (17787820)

Main Inventor

Dawei Zhang

Configured Grant based Uplink Transmissions in Wireless Communication (17995432)

Main Inventor

Hong HE

TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL (TPC) FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS DURING A TIME DOMAIN WINDOW (TDW) (18124449)

Main Inventor

Chunhai YAO

DEFAULT BEAMS FOR PDSCH, CSI-RS, PUCCH AND SRS (17598012)

Main Inventor

Yushu Zhang

Type-2 HARQ-ACK Codebook for Multi-Cell Scheduling DCI (18299867)

Main Inventor

Sigen YE

Downlink Control Information (DCI) Transmission and Reception (18302355)

Main Inventor

Onurcan ISCAN

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TIME-DOMAIN PRACH RESOURCE DETERMINATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION (17598061)

Main Inventor

Huaning Niu

Downlink Radio Resource Control Message Transmission in 2-Step Random Access (18342584)

Main Inventor

Fangli Xu

Electronic Devices with Expandable Displays (18301911)

Main Inventor

Tatsuya Sano