Apple was granted 70 Patents today covering Apple Watch AssistiveTouch, a MacBook Pro Touch Bar Design Patent & more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 70 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we cover another AssistiveTouch patent and a MacBook Pro design related patent.
Apple was also granted a series of continuation patents today with each adding new patent claims. Some of the higher profile continuation patents cover AirPods & cases (01 & 02); Magnetic systems used in Apple Watch, MacBook and more; and Wireless charging with foreign object detection using machine learning; the Beats Pill wireless audio system now under Apple.
In March Patently Apple posted a report titled "In 2020 Apple Watch was the Global Leader, Tripling Second Place Huawei s Shipments." Apple crushed the competiton including Huawei, Samsung and Fitbit. Apple tripled Huawei and double Samsung+Fitbit combined. Today, Google announced a new collaborative unified smartwatch platform combing Wear OS with Samsung s Tizen OS.
Samsung is attempting to Beat Apple to market with Smartglasses and the Google-Samsung Unified Platform could accelerate their project
Over the years Samsung has beaten Apple to market with the Phablet, Galaxy Note with S Pen support, Galaxy Watch and the Galaxy Z and Flip foldable smartphones with a tri-fold Galaxy smartphone in-the-works. On the smartwatch front, being first hasn t done much for them, as Apple continues to dominate this product category. In March Patently Apple posted a report titled In 2020 Apple Watch was the Global Leader, Tripling Second Place Huawei s Shipments. Apple crushed the competiton including Huawei, Samsung and Fitbit. Apple tripled Huawei and double Samsung+Fitbit combined. That s why Samsung and Google announced that they re now combining Samsung s Tizen OS with Google s WearOS into a unified platform so as to better take on Apple s watchOS starting later this year.
Apple Wins Patent for Advanced Presence Technology that could ID users without a Password or use of Biometrics
In March Patently Apple posted an IP report titled Apple Advances Presence technology that ID s Individuals without passwords & understands both Voice & Gesture Commands. Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple that patent.
Apple s patent FIG. 1 below is a block diagram illustrating an example of an electronic device performing radar measurements.
In Apple s patent FIG 9 above we see an example of a device that contains 8 fields of view that can be used to identify an individual in a room.