Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to an all-new manner of operation referred to as a Linked Mode wherein an iPhone could rest against a MacBook Display and share information wirelessly by dragging and dropping. Whether this is something new in-the-works or the foundation for Apple s Continuity feature is a little unclear. One or more scenario presented in this granted patent provide features unavailable with today s Continuity.
This week there were a few additional patents of interest that were published by the U.S. Patent Office that we didn t get around to covering. In this last patent report of the week, we cover two patents. The first patent report covers Augmented Devices which could be very cool in the future, while the second report covers Apple s work on a new speaker configuration for Apple Watch and more.