Apple Inc.

Benjamin J Pope

Scott A Myers

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Matthew D Hill

Richard P Howarth

Jeremy D Bataillou

Shota Aoyagi

Daniel William Jarvis

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jody R Akana

Julian Hoenig

Clement Tissandier

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Martha Evans Hankey

Tang Yew Tan

Terry L Gilton

Benjamin Shane Bustle

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Benjamin B Lyon

Barry J Corlett

Shawn Xavier Arnold

Steven Webster

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Shayan Malek

Edward S Huo

Tyler B Cater

Mikael M Silvanto

Sung-Ho Tan

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

John J Baker

Rasamy Phouthavong

Abidur Rahman Chowdhury

Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne

Jonathan Gomez Garcia

Jared Mitchell Kole

Lee E Hooton

Benjamin J Kallman

Ian A Spraggs

Ruchir M Dave

Kelvin Kwong

Christopher J Stringer

Daniele De Iuliis

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

M Evans Hankey

Steven Porter Hotelling

Martin E Johnson

Brian Richards Land

Ashutosh Yugesh Shukla

Jason S Sloey

Justin Derry Crosby

Nicholas George Merz

Jae Hwang Lee

Chad Seguin

Richard Hung Dinh

Shaohai Chen

Marcel Van Os

Stephen Brian Lynch

John Patrick Ternus

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Christopher R Wilk

Byron Bay Han

Scott P Porter

Kenneth Arthur Jenks

Myra Mary Haggerty

Darius A Satongar

Miguel C Christophy

John Andrew Wright

Mattia Pascolini

Christopher D Prest

David A Pakula

Colin M Ely

Erik G De Jong

Teodor Dabov

Tyler S Bushnell

Dale N Memering

Rico Zörkendörfer

Sean S Corbin

Christopher S Graham

Trevor J Ness

Derek William Wright

John B Ardisana, Ii

Steven P Cardinali

Yang Liu

Dhaval N Shah

James H Foster

Gregory N Stephens

William C Lukens

Zhipeng Zhang

Dennis R Pyper

A portable electronic device may include an enclosure defining an interior cavity and having a front cover, and a haptic engine positioned in the interior cavity. The haptic engine may include a first body component defining a first side of the haptic engine and including a first spring flexure and a first end element molded over a portion of the first spring flexure, a second body component defining a second side of the haptic engine opposite the first side and including a second spring flexure and a second end element molded over a portion of the second spring flexure, a movable mass component coupled to the first spring flexure and the second spring flexure, and a coil configured to induce a linear movement of the movable mass component in response to the actuation signal thereby producing a haptic output.

Handheld electronic device

A mobile phone may include an enclosure defining an internal volume, the enclosure including a front cover formed from a transparent material and defining a front exterior surface, a rear cover formed from a glass material and defining a rear exterior surface, and a housing component defining a side exterior surface. The mobile phone may include a circuit board assembly within the internal volume. The circuit board assembly may include a circuit board, a circuit component coupled to an exterior surface of the circuit board, and a cowling coupled to the circuit board and covering the circuit component, the cowling having a thickness less than about 0.5 mm and including a base structure formed from an aluminum alloy having a thickness less than about 0.4 mm and a thermally conductive structure positioned over the base structure and configured to dissipate heat.

An electronic device has an electrically adjustable shutter. The shutter may be placed in a transparent state or a nontransparent state. The shutter may overlap a portion of a display, may overlap a liquid contact indictor or a structure with text in a device, or may overlap an optical component such as an optical proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, visible light-emitting diode or laser, infrared light-emitting diode or laser, visible light image sensor, or infrared light image sensor. Control circuitry in the electronic device may place the shutter in an opaque state to hide an overlapped component from view or may place the shutter in a transparent state to allow the overlapped component to transmit or receive light. The adjustable shutter may exhibit changes in its transmission spectrum in different modes of operation and may be used as a camera filter or neutral density filter.

Electronic devices having electrically adjustable optical shutters

The present disclosure generally relates techniques for audio-assisted enrollment of biometric features. In some embodiments, methods and devices for assisting users with enrollment of biometric features, using spatial audio cues, are described.

Audio assisted enrollment

Housing module for an electronic device

Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs are provided. While a display of an electronic device with a fingerprint sensor displays a first user interface, the device may detect movement of a fingerprint on the fingerprint sensor. In accordance with a determination that the movement of the fingerprint is in a first direction, the device allows navigating through the first user interface, and in accordance with a determination that the movement of the fingerprint is in a second direction different from the first direction, the device allows displaying a second user interface different from the first user interface on the display.

Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs

A portable electronic device includes a housing defining an internal volume and a circuit board assembly within the internal volume. The circuit board assembly includes a first circuit board, a wall structure soldered to the first circuit board, and a second circuit board soldered to the wall structure and supported above the first circuit board by the wall structure. The second circuit board defines an exterior top surface of the circuit board assembly. A processor is coupled to the first circuit board and positioned within an internal volume defined between the first circuit board and the second circuit board and at least partially surrounded by the wall structure. A memory module is coupled to the exterior top surface of the circuit board assembly.

A portable electronic device includes a housing, a display at least partially within the housing, and a front cover and rear cover coupled to the housing. The rear cover defines a first portion of a rear exterior surface of the portable electronic device, a protrusion defining a sensor array region of the rear cover and a second portion of the rear exterior surface, and an internal surface opposite the second portion of the rear exterior surface. The portable electronic device also includes a sensor array mounted within the housing along the sensor array region and comprising a frame member coupled to the rear cover, a camera module positioned in the first container region, and a depth sensor module positioned in the second container region and attached to the internal surface of the rear cover.

An electronic device including a housing defining an aperture, a display component positioned in the aperture, and a filler material at least partially surrounding a periphery of the display component. The filler material can contact the display component and a portion of the housing defining the aperture.

Mobile display encapsulation to improve robustness and water resistance

Display for an electronic device

A portable electronic device includes a housing member defining a first portion of an exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a first portion of an exterior rear surface of the portable electronic device, at least a portion of an exterior side surface of the portable electronic device, a recess along an interior side of the housing member, and a ledge feature along the interior side of the housing member. The device also includes a top module coupled to the housing member and including a front cover defining a second portion of the exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a display stack attached to the front cover, and a frame member extending at least partially around a periphery of the display stack and set apart from a surface of the recess by a gap.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Benjamin J Pope