Conductive cap for watch crown
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12276943
An electronic device, such as a watch, has a crown assembly having a shaft and a user-rotatable crown. The user-rotatable crown may include a conductive cap that is mechanically and electrically coupled to the shaft and functions as an electrode. The conductive cap may be coupled to the shaft using solder or another conductive attachment mechanism. The shaft may electrically couple the conductive cap to a processing unit of the electronic device. One or more additional electrodes may be…
Child distributed unit resource configuration information signaling in 5G-NR integrated access backhaul network
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12279282
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for communicating DU resource configuration information of a child IAB node to a parent IAB node. An example method includes identifying distributed unit (DU) resource configuration information for an IAB node device functioning as an IAB node in the IAB network, wherein the IAB node is associated with a parent IAB node, and transmitting the DU resource configuration information to the parent IAB node.
Layers in messaging applications
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12279185
A text messaging system that allows messaging apps to send one or more layer identifiers that can specify content for a layer and Z depth of that layer relative to other layers in a text message transcript such as a sent message layer and a received message layer.
Method and apparatus for measurement configuration updates for inter-cell mobility
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12279166
A method for a network element is provided. The method comprises: encoding a message for transmission to a user equipment (UE) including neighbor cell configuration information that includes a list of a plurality of neighbor cell groups, wherein each of the plurality of neighbor cell groups is associated with a specific cell; and transmitting the message to the UE.
Utilizing context information with an electronic device
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12278918
The present disclosure generally relates to the utilization of context information by an electronic device. In one example, the electronic device receives a first notification of a first type and determines a current status for one or more contextual categories. If the current status for the one or more contextual categories satisfies a set of one or more delivery criteria for notifications of the first type, then the electronic device provides the first notification of the first type.…
Hybrid serial receiver circuit
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12278886
A hybrid receiver circuit included in a computer system may include both an analog and an ADC-based receiver circuit. A front-end circuit generates different equalized signals based on received signals that encode a serial data stream that includes multiple data symbols. Depending on a baud rate of the serial data stream, either the digital receive circuit or the analog receiver circuit is activated to provide the desired performance and power consumption over the range of possible baud…
Wireless power systems with foreign object detection
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12278503
A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device uses a wireless power transmitting coil to transmit wireless power signals to the wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device determines whether an external object is present. The external object may be a foreign object such as a coin or paperclip or may be a wireless power receiving device. External objects are…
Voice trigger for a digital assistant
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277954
A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion thereof. The method includes determining whether at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to a predetermined type of sound, such as…
Multi-dimensional tensor support extension in neural network processor
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277494
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a tensor access operation circuit in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit further includes a data processor circuit and at least one neural engine circuit. The tensor access operation circuit indirectly accesses at least a region of a source tensor in a system memory having a rank, and maps one or more source components of the source tensor into an input tensor having another rank. The data processor circuit stores an…
Eye-gaze based biofeedback
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277265
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine an attentive state of a user during an experience (e.g., visual and/or auditory content that could include real-world physical environment, virtual content, or a combination of each) based on the user's gaze characteristic(s) to enhance the experience. For example, an example process may include obtaining physiological data associated with a gaze of a user during an experience, determine a gaze…
Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
D1070892
Head-mounted display
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
D1070853
Case with earphones
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
D1070820
Highlighting reading based on adaptive prediction
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272261
A method is provided that includes predicting, using a language model, one or more words from a first set of words expected to be difficult for a reader, and providing the first set of words for display to the reader. The predicted one or more words in the first set of words are displayed differently from non-predicted words in the first set of words.
Enhancements to support TRP specific beam failure recovery
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273176
A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish a connection to a base station, wherein the base station configures the UE with a first beam corresponding to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second beam corresponding to a second TRP, wherein the first and second beam are in frequency range 2 (FR2) and wherein the UE does not support simultaneous reception of multiple beams in FR2, detect a beam failure during a beam failure detection (BFD) evaluation period, identify one…
Dynamically beamformed control channel for beamformed cells
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273169
Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods using or implementing dynamic beamforming in control channels, by transmitting downlink control channels to user equipment (UEs) in a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a downlink subframe. A first OFDM symbol of the number of OFDM symbols can be transmitted using first beamforming parameters in a first direction, and a second OFDM symbol of the number of OFDM symbols can be transmitted using…
Adjustable radio-frequency splitter-combiner
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273086
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver circuit, a front-end module, and an antenna array having multiple antennas. The front-end module may include radio-frequency splitter-combiner circuitry that splits radio-frequency signals from a single port into multiple radio-frequency signals at multiple split ports and/or combines radio-frequency signals from the multiple ports into radio-frequency signals at the single combined port. The…
Coordinating complementary notifications across related computing devices connected to a wireless charging apparatus
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272979
The embodiments set forth a technique for coordinating notifications across computing devices placed onto a wireless charging apparatus. According to some embodiments, the technique can involve the wireless charging apparatus (1) receiving, from a first computing device, first information that includes (i) a first unique identifier (ID) associated with the first computing device, and (ii) one or more unique IDs that are each associated with a respective auxiliary computing device known…
System and method for cooling battery cells
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272805
A battery system includes a battery cell, a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) that cools the battery cell, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the battery cell, and a battery management unit (BMU) controller. The BMU controller activates the TEC to cool the battery cell in response to determining that a state of charge (SOC) of the battery cell is greater than a threshold SOC and the temperature of the battery cell is greater than a threshold temperature.
Grounded ferrite in wireless power systems
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272482
Charging devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a housing including an input configured to receive power from a power source and provide power to internal components of the charging device. The charging devices may include a ferrite. The ferrite may be coupled with electrical ground. The charging devices may also include a conductive coil seated in the ferrite. The conductive coil may be configured to generate an electromagnetic field from an AC signal.
