Apple Inc.

Other

Google Inc.

Bryan Patrick Kiple

Charles B Woodhull

Tang Yew Tan

David A Pakula

Thomas Johannessen

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

David Y Phelps

Masashige Tatebe

Richard Walter Heley

Napthaneal Yuen Tan

William C Mers Kelly

John Murray Thornton, Iii

Julie Hanchak-Connors

Michael Coleman

Christopher D Prest

Daniel William Jarvis

Douglas Joseph Weber

Dale N Memering

Jared Mitchell Kole

Shayan Malek

Michael Kane Pilliod

Dhaval N Shah

Kelvin Kwong

Paul Choiniere

Warren Jones

Ji Heun Lee

Michael P Coleman

George Matsumoto

Various components of an electronic device housing and methods for their assembly are disclosed. The housing can be formed by assembling and connecting two or more different sections together. The sections of the housing may be coupled together using one or more coupling members. The coupling members may be formed using a two-shot molding process in which the first shot forms a structural portion of the coupling members, and the second shot forms cosmetic portions of the coupling members.

Components of an electronic device and methods for their assembly

Methods and structures for forming anodization layers that protect and cosmetically enhance metal surfaces are described. In some embodiments, methods involve forming an anodization layer on an underlying metal that permits an underlying metal surface to be viewable. In some embodiments, methods involve forming a first anodization layer and an adjacent second anodization layer on an angled surface, the interface between the two anodization layers being regular and uniform. Described are photomasking techniques and tools for providing sharply defined corners on anodized and texturized patterns on metal surfaces. Also described are techniques and tools for providing anodizing resistant components in the manufacture of electronic devices.

Double anodized parts

A computing device is described that receives fingerprint data that is generated by at least one sensor of the computing device and determines, based on a comparison of the fingerprint data with data associated with a fingerprint of an authorized user of the computing device, whether to authorize access to one or more applications that are executable by the computing device. Responsive to determining that access to the one or more applications is authorized, the computing device determines a gesture indicated by the fingerprint data, selects, based on the gesture, an application of the one or more applications as a selected application, and outputs, for display, a graphical user interface of the selected application.

Multi-function button for computing devices

Anodizing resistant components and methods of use thereof

The disclosed embodiments include enclosures for electronic devices formed from RF-transparent, toughened glass materials, such as chemically hardened alkali-aluminosilicate glass. For example, according to the disclosed embodiments, an enclosure for an electronic device may be formed from a plurality of enclosure components joined together along corresponding interfaces to establish an enclosure structure, or alternatively, may be formed from a single enclosure component. In some aspects, the enclosure structure may have corresponding first and second ends, the enclosure structure may have corresponding first and second surfaces, and the second surface may be exposed to an environment. The enclosure may also include first and second cap components disposed at corresponding ones of the first and second ends.

Glass enclosures for electronic devices

A method and apparatus for injection molding plastic parts is described. In one embodiment, at least two materials are simultaneously injected into a mold. The resulting molded part can include at least two different regions. Each region can have distinct physical properties. Positions of the regions within the molded part can be at least partially controlled by controlling flow fronts of the at least two materials within the mold.

Molded parts

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Los Gatos, CA, United States of America

Bryan Patrick Kiple