Apple Patent Grants

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: D1071968

Temporary handling of wireless communication device capabilities

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12284723
A wireless communication device (UE) may provide information pertaining to one or more operating capabilities of the UE to LTE and 5G-NR networks. The UE may transmit information to an LTE base station directly, and to a 5G-NR base station directly, or indirectly via the LTE base station. The information may include preferred values corresponding to any number of different operating parameters associated with wireless communications or wireless communication capabilities of the UE in…

Methods and apparatus for PRACH resource determination and RA-RNTI computation in wireless communication

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12284680
Aspects herein relate to wireless devices, circuits, and methods for determining a PRACH resource mapping comprising a starting symbol position within a reference slot, wherein the starting symbol position is determined based, at least in part, on a subcarrier spacing configuration of PRACH resources of a wireless network that a wireless device is operating on; and using the radio to transmit a RACH preamble and an associated RA-RNTI via the determined PRACH resource mapping. Further…

Enhancement on scheduling and HARQ-ACK feedback for URLLC, multiplexing scheme for control/data channel and DM-RS for NR, and activation mechanism, scheduling aspects, and synchronization signal (SS) blocks for new radio (NR) system with multiple bandwidth parts (BWPS)

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12284660
An apparatus, method, system and machine-readable medium. The apparatus may be an apparatus of a New Radio (NR) gNodeB or of a NR User Equipment (UE), and may include a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry for the apparatus of the gNodeB is to: configure a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) associated with respective numerologies; determine a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including downlink control information (DCI), the DCI including information on…

Secure eSIM subscription transfer

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12284524
The described embodiments set forth techniques for securely transferring a cellular wireless service subscription associated with an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile from a source wireless device to a target wireless device via communication with servers of a mobile network operator (MNO). An MNO provisioning server encrypts an activation code, used for transfer of the cellular wireless service subscription, with a session key generated based on a one-time-use eUICC…

Systems and methods for triggering a frame capture in a wearable device

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12284440
Frame capture techniques may include obtaining, from at least one sensor, sensor data indicating a motion rate of the system in the environment, receiving a request for the image data of the environment, and selecting, by the controller, a frame rate based on one or more requesting client applications and the sensor data. In addition, the frame tracking techniques may include detecting, based on a motion parameter in the sensor data and by the controller, that a motion of the system…

Signaling of time for communication between integrated circuits using multi-drop bus

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12284054
Embodiments relate to including information in a data packet transmitted by a transmitting integrated circuit (e.g., SOC) to account for a time delay associated with an unsuccessful arbitration attempt to send the data packet over a multi-drop bus. The unsuccessful arbitration attempt by the integrated circuit may delay the transmission of the data packet until the multi-drop bus becomes available for the integrated circuit to send the data packet. The data packet includes a data field…

Transmission configuration indication (TCI) state and beam switching

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12284016
Techniques for changing a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state by a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communications system are provided. The UE receives a first message including a TCI state change command from a network and determines, based on the first message, whether a time offset/frequency offset (TO/FO) and a reception (Rx) beam for a new TCI state are known by the UE. Based on the determination, the UE calculates a time delay of the UE to be prepared to…

Integration of analog circuits inside digital blocks

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12283956
A circuit for sensing local operating properties of an integrated circuit is disclosed. The circuit may include one or more sensor circuits configured to sense the local operating properties of the integrated circuit. The sensor circuits may receive a supply voltage with a magnitude in a limited range from a digital power supply that is different from the digital power supply that provides power to functional circuits in the integrated circuit. Level shifters may be coupled to the sensor…

Own voice reverberation reconstruction

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12283265
A method that includes determining a set of one or more reverberation parameters of an extended reality (XR) environment in which a user is to participate, determining whether an audio source device is wirelessly communicatively coupled to send audio to an audio output device, in response to determining that the audio source device is not wirelessly communicatively coupled to the audio output device obtaining a microphone signal produced by a microphone of the audio source device,…

Two-way communication to allow consistent per-frame configuration update

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12283258
An electronic device uses a leader synchronize signal generator to synchronize clock signal generators used by multiple components in the electronic device to a common time-base. A processor core complex of the electronic device sends per-frame configuration to a timing controller for frames to be displayed on an electronic display before a corresponding frame begins.

Systems, methods, and user interfaces for generating a three-dimensional virtual representation of an object

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12283020
Generating a three-dimensional virtual representation of a three-dimensional physical object can be based on capturing or receiving a capture bundle or a set of images. In some examples, generating the virtual representation of the physical object can be facilitated by user interfaces for identifying a physical object and capturing a set of images of the physical object. Generating the virtual representation can include previewing or modifying a set of images. In some examples,…

Presenting avatars in three-dimensional environments

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12282594
In some embodiments, a computer system receives data representing a pose of at least a first portion of a user and causes presentation of an avatar that includes a respective avatar feature corresponding to the first portion of the user and presented having a variable display characteristic that is indicative of a certainty of the pose of the first portion of the user. In some embodiments, a computer system receives data indicating current activity of one or more users is activity of a…

Techniques for identifying vetted software applications that provide unauthorized features

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12282538
This Application sets forth techniques for identifying when a vetted software application transitions into providing unauthorized features. In particular, the techniques involve identifying original operating characteristics of a software application during a vetting process that is performed by a management entity (and/or other vetting entities). The vetting process produces a vetted software application, which includes information about the original operating characteristics of the…

Object detection-based notification

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12282084
Implementations of the subject technology provide object detection and/or classification for electronic devices. Object detection and/or classification can be performed using a radar sensor of an electronic device. The electronic device may be a portable electronic device. In some examples, object classification using a radar sensor can be based on an identification of user motion using radar signals and/or based on extraction of surface features from the radar signals. In some examples,…

Labeling a significant location based on contextual data

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: 12281914
Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.

Electronic device with graphical user interface

Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number: D1071954

Table

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: D1070436

Case with earphones

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: D1070820

Bearer reconfiguration for SCG activation/deactivation

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12279321
A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a base station of a wireless network, a deactivation indication indicating that a secondary cell group (SCG) of a dual connectivity (DC) wireless communications configuration has been deactivated, receive, from the base station, a remapping indication indicating that SCG data originally mapped to an SCG bearer should be remapped to an alternate bearer, remap the SCG data to the alternate bearer based on the remapping indication and…