Apple Inc. patent applications published on September 19th, 2024

Summary of the patent applications from Apple Inc. on September 19th, 2024

1. 'Summary': Apple Inc. has recently filed patents for advanced technologies aimed at improving electronic devices. One patent focuses on enhancing optical sensor performance by mitigating diffractive artifacts through spatial randomization, circular opaque structures, and apodization film. Another patent involves innovative electronic package and package on package structures to stack electronic components efficiently. Additionally, a patent describes a multilayer shield design to absorb electromagnetic radiation, offering protection against signal disruption. Lastly, Apple filed a patent for a corrosion-resistant housing technology to prevent galvanic corrosion between dissimilar metals.

2. 'Key Points of Patents':

• Advanced Optical Sensor Technology: Mitigates diffractive artifacts for improved optical sensor performance using spatial randomization, circular opaque structures, and apodization film.
• Electronic Package and PoP Structures: Efficiently stacks electronic components in package on package structures with back-to-face or face-to-back stacked dies.
• Multilayer Shield for EMI Attenuation: Absorbs electromagnetic radiation through metal and ferrite powder layers, converting it into thermal energy to prevent signal disruption.
• Advanced Corrosion-Resistant Housing Technology: Prevents galvanic corrosion between dissimilar metals in housing design.

3. 'Notable Applications':

• Optical Sensor Technology: Enhances accuracy in smartphones, tablets, AR/VR devices.
• Electronic Package Structures: Used in smartphones, tablets, laptops, automotive ADAS systems.
• Multilayer Shield Technology: Applied in telecommunications, electronics, and defense industries for EMI shielding.
• Corrosion-Resistant Housing: Beneficial in marine, automotive, aerospace industries for increased durability and longevity.

Patent applications for Apple Inc. on September 19th, 2024

DISPLAYING USER INTERFACES ASSOCIATED WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES (18674619)

Main Inventor

Aled Hywel WILLIAMS

Device Positioning with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (18184566)

Main Inventor

Benedikt Schweizer

Waveguide Display with Staircase Grating Input Coupler (18597862)

Main Inventor

Choon How Gan

Hybrid Displays (18671793)

Main Inventor

James E Pedder

Methods and Systems for Changing a Display Based on User Input and Gaze (18575046)

Main Inventor

Shih-Sang Chiu

Eye Tracking Calibration (18673189)

Main Inventor

Walter Nistico

Low-Power Salient Haptics (18122543)

Main Inventor

Nicholas Y. Sakamoto

Electronic Devices With Display and Touch Sensor Structures (18671019)

Main Inventor

Isaac W. Chan

PHOTO-SENSING ENABLED DISPLAY FOR TOUCH DETECTION WITH CUSTOMIZED PHOTODIODE AND LIGHT EMITTING DIODE COMPONENT LEVEL ANGULAR RESPONSE (18411907)

Main Inventor

Mohammad YEKE YAZDANDOOST

USING A STRUCTURAL INTERNAL ELEMENT AS A CAPACITIVE ELEMENT TO SENSE PROXIMITY (18676057)

Main Inventor

Tyler S. Atura Bushnell

METHODS FOR ADJUSTING AND/OR CONTROLLING IMMERSION ASSOCIATED WITH USER INTERFACES (18671936)

Main Inventor

Ieyuki KAWASHIMA

USER INTERFACES FOR COLLECTIONS OF CONTENT SERVICES AND/OR APPLICATIONS (18668662)

Main Inventor

Nabila RAHMAN

REMOTE USER INTERFACE (18674435)

Main Inventor

Imran CHAUDHRI

IMAGE DATA FOR ENHANCED USER INTERACTIONS (18671070)

Main Inventor

Marek BEREZA

Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Adjusting a Display Property of an Affordance Over Changing Background Content (18677747)

Main Inventor

Wan Si Wan

MEDIA CONTROL FOR SCREENSAVERS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE (18424668)

Main Inventor

Tergel PUREVDORJ

TECHNIQUES FOR SELECTING TEXT (18677150)

Main Inventor

Morgan WINER

Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces For Interactions with a Headphone Case (18670568)

Main Inventor

Darius A. Satongar

TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING ERRORS TIED TO SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS (18479036)

Main Inventor

Madhusudan RAO

Scalable Interrupts (18674203)

Main Inventor

Jeffrey E. Gonion

Method and Device for Automatic Authentication (18673195)

Main Inventor

Thomas G. Salter

Configuring Context-Based Restrictions For A Computing Device (18672655)

Main Inventor

Paul W. Salzman

Blitting a Locked Object (18673121)

Main Inventor

Thomas G. Salter

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESOLVING FOCAL CONFLICT (18673176)

Main Inventor

Alexis Henri Palangie

Shader Optimizations for Rendering Semi-Transparent Materials (18606585)

Main Inventor

Daniel S. Shervheim

Systems, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Sharing Augmented Reality Environments (18674495)

Main Inventor

Praveen Sharma

MULTIPLE DEVICE MODEL AUGMENTATION (18441274)

Main Inventor

Daniel Kurz

Display with Silicon Gate Drivers and Semiconducting Oxide Pixels (18673126)

Main Inventor

Shinya Ono

Spatial Audio Upscaling Using Machine Learning (18605688)

Main Inventor

Ismael H. Nawfal

MULTI-DEVICE CHARGING USER INTERFACE (18669322)

Main Inventor

Arian BEHZADI

INDICATION FOR PROTECTIVE CHARGING MODE (18671786)

Main Inventor

Vitalii KRAMAR

Multi-Phase Power Converter with External Phase Circuits (18618171)

Main Inventor

Hao Zhou

PHASE SHIFTER CIRCUIT WITH EMBEDDED IMPEDANCE MATCHING (18121426)

Main Inventor

Milad Darvishi

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PLL GAIN CALIBRATION AND DUTY CYCLE CALIBRATION USING SHARED PHASE DETECTOR (18120819)

Main Inventor

Jongmin Park

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PLL DUTY CYCLE CALIBRATION (18120838)

Main Inventor

Karim M. Megawer

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PLL GAIN CALIBRATION (18121404)

Main Inventor

Karim M. Megawer

DATA CONVERTER WITH OFFSET TONE REDUCTION (18122523)

Main Inventor

Albert H. CHANG

TIME OFFSET MAINTENANCE FOR NONTERRESTRIAL NETWORK (NTN) (18249810)

Main Inventor

Chunhai Yao

Antenna Transmit Diversity in Frequency Domain (18602463)

Main Inventor

Lijie Zhang

ON-DEVICE MACHINE LEARNING-BASED NETWORK BANDWIDTH PREDICTION TO IMPROVE ADAPTIVE MEDIA STREAMING PERFORMANCE (18184316)

Main Inventor

Soutik CHAKRABORTY

Electronic Device that Displays Virtual Objects (18677386)

Main Inventor

Paulo R Jansen dos Reis

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA PARTITIONING IN VIDEO ENCODING (18671720)

Main Inventor

Sorin C. Cismas

Remotely Controlling Playback Devices (18676932)

Main Inventor

Deepak Iyer

Camera with Image Sensor Shifting (18671812)

Main Inventor

Shashank Sharma

EMBEDDED WATERPROOF MEMBRANE (18420675)

Main Inventor

Gregory B. ARNDT

Extracting Ambience From A Stereo Input (18605701)

Main Inventor

Ismael H. Nawfal

MEASUREMENT AND PROCEDURES FOR NR POSITIONING (18654725)

Main Inventor

Alexey Khoryaev

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE COMMUNICATION (18673011)

Main Inventor

Hassnaa Moustafa

DYNAMIC FEATURE-DEPENDENT PROFILE PROVISIONING FOR WIRELESS DEVICES (18183095)

Main Inventor

Stanley M. MAYALIL

METHODS FOR PATHLOSS REFERENCE SIGNAL ACTIVATION (18676254)

Main Inventor

Manasa Raghavan

TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING AND UTILIZING CONNECTIVITY ISSUE PATTERNS (18185006)

Main Inventor

Shadi ISKANDER

RRM Measurement in 5G New Radio FR1 Dual Connectivity (18675312)

Main Inventor

Jie CUI

COORDINATED MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK FOR A SUBNETWORK (18186007)

Main Inventor

Dimitrios Alanis

LATENCY REDUCTION USING PREEMPTION WITHIN A PPDU (18606226)

Main Inventor

Wook Bong LEE

Secondary Cell Activation and Change Procedures (18669258)

Main Inventor

Fangli Xu

Traffic Routing Towards Local Area Data Network Per Application Function Request (18671058)

Main Inventor

Rohit A MATOLIA

Scheduling-Power Profile for UE Power Savings (18679032)

Main Inventor

Yuchul Kim

Wake-Up Signal for Discontinuous Reception Operations (18675282)

Main Inventor

Haitong SUN

DYNAMIC POWER REDUCTION REQUESTS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (18675548)

Main Inventor

Yakun Sun

RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURES BASED ON PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PDDCH) ORDERS (18671540)

Main Inventor

Yongjun KWAK

CONTROL CHANNEL AND REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS (18612988)

Main Inventor

Hong He

TECHNIQUES FOR PDSCH/PUSCH PROCESSING FOR MULTI-TRP (18670190)

Main Inventor

Haitong Sun

Method and Apparatus for Downlink - Credit Distribution Protocol (DL-CDP) in Wireless Communication (18184885)

Main Inventor

Amit Dubey

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COUPLING SECTIONS OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE (18672983)

Main Inventor

Nicholas Merz

CLAD PARTS (18670660)

Main Inventor

Matthew J. Cheung

FLEXIBLE BROADBAND MICROSHIELD FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE AND ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (18122635)

Main Inventor

Henry M. DAGHIGHIAN

Upside-Down DRAM Package Structure (18184527)

Main Inventor

Jiongxin Lu

Displays that Overlap Light Sensors (18571105)

Main Inventor

Lixia Zhou