Apple Patent Applications

DAMPING STRUCTURE

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071888
The present disclosure describes a structure with a substrate, a damping structure, and a capacitor structure. The damping structure is disposed over the substrate and includes a rigid material layer and a damping material layer disposed on the rigid material layer. The damping material layer includes a damping material with a tensile strength of about 20 MPa, a Young's modulus of about 0.5 GPa, and an elongation of about 10%. The capacitor structure is disposed over the damping…

PRECONFIGURED MEASUREMENT GAP ENHANCEMENT

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071632
Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a network (NW) comprising a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN), one or more messages comprising pre-configured measurement gap (pre-MG) configurations for at least one pre-MG, wherein the UE is in dual connectivity (DC) with the MN and the SN; and determining, from the pre-MG configurations, respective pre-MG statuses for the at least one pre-MG, wherein the MN comprises a master cell group (MCG)…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE SECURITY

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071550
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus. systems, and methods for pairing UICC/SIM with device components.

Light-Folded Projector

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250071233
A device may include a light-folded projector that may include an infrared (IR) light emitter and a light folding element. The light folding element may receive IR light emitted from the IR light emitter and fold the IR light one or more times to guide the IR light passing through the light folding element to exit the device to an environment. The device may also include a detector that may detect and/or recognize an object in the environment using the IR light from the light-folded…

CHANNEL OCCUPANCY TIME (COT) STRUCTURE IN NEW RADIO (NR) SYSTEMS OPERATING ON UNLICENSED SPECTRUM

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250062939
Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for generating and using slot format indicator (SFI) and channel occupancy time (COT) structure in new radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum. For example, some embodiments are directed to a base station that includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to generate a slot format indicator…

RATE MATCHING FOR INTER-CELL MULTIPLE TRANSMIT-RECEIVE POINT OPERATION

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250063562
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide rate matching for inter-cell, multiple transmit-receive point operation in wireless communication systems.

TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTELLIGENT SLICE PRIORITIZATION

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250063479
The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for slice prioritization implementation for frequency re-selection.

TECHNOLOGIES FOR STANDALONE OPERATION FOR NETWORK SLICING

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250063463
Techniques are described herein for network slice availability based de-prioritization. An example, method includes receiving user equipment (UE) routing selection policy (URSP) information. The method further includes starting an application associated with a network slice while registered with a standalone (SA) network. The method further includes evaluating routing selection descriptor information in the URSP information to determine an availability of the network slice of the SA…

DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT PERIOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN A HIGH-SPEED MODE

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250063417
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform measurements on reference signals or synchronization signal. In an example, timing requirements for performing such measurements can be dynamically changed depending on, at least, a measurement on one of the reference signal or the synchronization signal.

EARBUDS

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250063289
This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the…

IN-MEMORY COMPUTING DEVICES FOR MULTIPLY ACCUMULATE

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250060939
The present disclosure describes an in-memory computing (IMC) circuit including a first set of IMC cells having a first number of IMC cells and a second set of IMC cells having the first number of IMC cells. The first set of IMC cells can generate a first bit-product of a weight number having a first number of bits and a first bit of an input number having a second number of bits. The second set of IMC cells can generate a second bit-product of the weight number and a second bit of the…

Location-Based Features For Commute Assistant

Granted: February 20, 2025
Application Number: 20250060226
Some embodiments provide a commute application that provides a first presentation of several stops along a route. The commute application also receives a selection of a stop from the several stops along the route. The commute application further provides a second presentation for displaying several different routes that traverse through the selected stop.

QUANTIZED DEPTHS FOR PROJECTION POINT CLOUD COMPRESSION

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250054197
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. The encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. The encoder packs patch images into an image frame and fills empty spaces in the image frame with a padding. The encoder is also configured to determine quantized minimum…

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DORMANT CELL(S) WITH MULTI-CELL SCHEDULING

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250056558
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for managing dormant cell(s) within a set of cells for multi-cell scheduling. For example, a UE can be configured to receive information associated with a set of cells for multi-cell scheduling and determine a first reference cell based on the received information. The UE is further configured to determine a second reference cell for performing one or more of blind decode counting and control…

TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODS FOR POSITION SENSING

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250056485
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to identify resources for body position sensing and utilize the resources for body position sensing operations via user equipment of a wireless communication system.

SPECIAL SCENARIO HANDLING IN SECONDARY SERVING CELL (SCELL) ACTIVATION

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250056451
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for carrier aggregation operations in wireless communication systems.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION AND INTERLACE UPLINK TRANSMISSION

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250056449
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink transmission and interlace uplink transmission. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station including a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor divides a plurality of candidate Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) positions in a time window into a…

SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SIGNALING MECHANISM FOR UE ASSISTANCE FEEDBACK

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250055508
Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for a signaling mechanism for user equipment (UE) assistance feedback in a wireless communication system. At least a radio frequency integrated circuit can be configured to receive a first configuration signal, and transmit a first message comprising a UE assistance feedback, generated based on the first configuration signal, in an uplink (UL) channel. The first message can contain an index of a profile with information…

SOUNDING REFRENCE SIGNAL (SRS) BASED BEAM PAIR SELECTION FOR SIMULTANEOUS UPLINK TRANSMISSION WITH MULTI-PANEL (STxMP)

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250055506
A user equipment (UE) and a network node can support sounding reference signals (SRS) based antenna beam pair selection for simultaneous uplink transmission with multi-panels by the UE. One or more antenna beam pairs of a UE having a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel may be used to transmit SRSs to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second TRP simultaneously using SRS resources configured by one or more SRS configuration sets from the network node. The UE can…

FILTERING OF KEYPOINT DESCRIPTORS BASED ON ORIENTATION ANGLE

Granted: February 13, 2025
Application Number: 20250054274
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to selecting a subset of keypoint descriptors of two images for match operation based on their orientation angles indicated in headers of the keypoint descriptors. The keypoint descriptors in the two images are matched by first comparing their headers and then performing vector distance determination. During the header comparison operation, a header of a descriptor of a first image is compared only with headers of keypoint descriptors of a…