Apple Patent Grants

User interfaces for group workouts

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12239884
The present disclosure generally relates to sharing workout content on electronic devices.

Device category in 3GPP communications

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12245083
A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation…

Controlling displays

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242705
Exemplary processes are described, including processes to move and/or resize user interface elements in a computer-generated reality environment.

Shared-content session user interfaces

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242702
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing shared-content sessions. In some embodiments, content is shared with a group of users participating in a shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is screen-share content that is shared from one device to other participants of the shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is synchronized content for which output of the content is synchronized across the participants of the…

System and method for stylus detection

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242695
In some examples, an electronic device including a touch screen can sense a stylus proximate to the touch screen. For example, the user can draw or write with the stylus to create a simulated drawing or simulated handwriting displayed on the touch screen. In some examples, the electronic device can sense a series of “points” corresponding to the location of the stylus over time while the drawing/writing input was provided. In some situations, noise in the stylus data can cause the…

Input device

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242676
A keyboard of the present disclosure has a keyboard housing with a base plate defining a trackpad opening. The keyboard can also include a trackpad assembly disposed within the trackpad opening, the trackpad assembly including: a touch input plate configured to receive a user touch input and positioned above the base plate; and a flexure positioned below the base plate. In some examples the flexure includes: a first attachment portion attached to the touch input plate; a second…

Multi-finger gesture based on finger manipulation data and extremity tracking data

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242668
A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, a display, an extremity tracking system, and a communication interface provided to communicate with a finger-wearable device. The method includes displaying a computer-generated object on the display. The method includes obtaining finger manipulation data from the finger-wearable device via the communication interface. The method includes determining a multi-finger gesture based on…

PC-based memory permissions

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242396
A memory permissions model for a processor that is based on the memory address accessed by an instruction as well as the program counter of the instruction. These permissions may be stored in permissions tables and indexed using the memory addresses of the instruction and the address of the memory locations that it accesses. Those indexes may be obtained from a page table in some cases. These memory permissions may be used in conjunction with other permissions, such as execute…

Application-specific launch optimization

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242366
Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide application-specific launch optimization. Aspects of the present disclosure include one or more cost functions for each application, where each cost function corresponds to a likelihood that a particular application should be placed into a particular pre-activation state. For each of the inactive applications, a respective one of the pre-activation states is selected based on comparing cost values obtained by evaluating the cost functions.…

Remote capacitive interface

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242308
Computing devices, input devices, keyboard assemblies, and related systems include a set of conductive traces or leads configured to transfer a capacitive load from an appendage of a user or another capacitive load source from a remote location, such as on a keycap of the keyboard, to a conductive portion or electrode on the keyboard that is positioned near a touch-sensitive interface of a computing device. The capacitive load is thereby transferable through the conductive traces or…

Earphone

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: D1065156

Thermally actuated electrodes for improved skin-contact physiological measurements

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12239462
A device for skin-contact biological measurement includes one or more electrodes to enable signal transmission through a skin contact and a control mechanism coupled to the one or more electrodes to adjust an electrode-to-skin impedance (ESI). The control mechanism is configured to implement the ESI adjustment using a thermal actuator.

Heartrate tracking techniques

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12239427
An example technique may include tracking motion of a user wearing the wearable device using at least first sensors of one or more sensors of the wearable device. The technique may also include tracking a physical state of the user using at least second sensors of the one or more sensors of the wearable device. The technique may also include determining whether an application of the wearable device has been launched. The technique may also include determining an action category of the…

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: D1065237

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: D1065233

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: D1065231

Wearable device

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: D1065185

Earphone

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: D1065157