by Natasha Lomas | May 23, 2017 | Apple, Europe, Gadgets, Hardware, Health, Health tech, Mobile, Nokia, patent, TC, Withings
Well that didn’t last long. A fresh patent spat between Nokia and Apple which fired up at the back end of last year when Cupertino accused the former world number one mobile maker of making like a patent troll appears to have been resolved already. Read...
by Mitchel Broussard | May 11, 2017 | patent, Siri
A patent application published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office today details a new Apple service where users could make inquiries and talk with the company’s AI assistant Siri through Messages (via AppleInsider). The new patent is similar to a...
by Tim Hardwick | May 2, 2017 | health and fitness, patent
Apple is exploring an electronic tagging solution to make it easier for Apple Watch users to track their calorie and nutritional intake as part of a healthy lifestyle, as shown in a patent newly granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Many of today’s...
by Mitchel Broussard | Apr 10, 2017 | AirPods, Apple Watch, iPhone 8, patent
A new patent filed by Apple last year, and published recently by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, details a future iteration of the AirPods charging case that could simultaneously recharge the wireless headphones as well as an iPhone or Apple Watch. In...
by Tim Hardwick | Mar 7, 2017 | iPhone 8, patent
Apple was awarded a patent today that details a method of detecting faces in a digital video feed through the use of depth information. Published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the document describes how face detection algorithms could identify the presence...
by Tim Hardwick | Feb 23, 2017 | iPhone 8, patent, Touch ID
One of the more contentious iPhone 8 rumors we’ve seen recently is the claim that with the removal of the home button, Apple will ditch its Touch ID fingerprint recognition technology and replace it with another form of bio-recognition hardware. While several...
by Mitchel Broussard | Feb 21, 2017 | patent
Apple today has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding an “avatar editing environment,” which is the company’s patent terminology for a Mii-like app that users can visit to craft a digitized likeness of...
by Tim Hardwick | Feb 16, 2017 | patent
Cases of cracked iPhone screens are certainly nothing new, and occur often enough to have earned a separate service fee in Apple’s AppleCare+ program. According to one study, half of mobile users globally have experienced at least one cracked smartphone screen...
by Joe Rossignol | Feb 15, 2017 | patent, Smart Keyboard
Apple recently filed a patent application containing drawings of a Smart Keyboard with “Share” and “Emoji” keys, and a key that can be used to both search and invoke Siri, suggesting it may be exploring a new version of the iPad Pro accessory...
by Tim Hardwick | Feb 14, 2017 | iPhone 8, patent, Touch ID
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted Apple a patent that describes a display capable of reading a user’s fingerprint without a dedicated Touch ID sensor (via AppleInsider). The patent is interesting given current rumors swirling around the iPhone...
