As far back as 2013, or eight years ago, Patently Apple covered an Apple patent that was titled "Automatic Configuration of Self-Configurable Environments." Apple s invention generally related to in-vehicle self-configurable environments and more specifically to techniques and systems for storing configuration details in an iDevice like the iPhone. Yesterday Bloomberg wrote about project IronHeart which is the same as the patent but slightly evolved
Apple Won 68 Patents Today covering MacBooks with Disappearing Controls, Two Project Titan Inventions & more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 68 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we briefly cover three patents. Two of them cover Apple s electric semi or fully autonomous vehicles (under Project Titan) covering Automatic Configuration of Self-Configurable Environments and Vehicle with Automated Subsystems. The third granted patent highlighted covers controls that are generally invisible until they light up in the palm area of a MacBook or the surface of a TV remote and more. As always, we wrap up this week s granted patent report with our traditional listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple today.