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Emery Artemus Sanford

Martha Evans Hankey

Stephen Brian Lynch

Christopher D Prest

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Teodor Dabov

Ruben Caballero

Way Chet Lim

Anthony Michael Fadell

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

Stephan Vincent Schell

Tyson Benner Manullang

David Glen Havskjold

Daniele De Iuliis

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Andrew Bart Hodge

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher Matthew Werner

Wey-Jiun Lin

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Christopher J Stringer

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Jeremy D Bataillou

Shin Nishibori

Jody R Akana

Cameron P Frazier

John Benjamin Filson

Andrew Bert Hodge

David Glenn Havskjold

Julian Hoenig

Mikael M Silvanto

John Gee Tang

Lee E Hooton

Pinida Jan Moolsintong

Kelvin Kwong

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Kurt R Stiehl

Felix Jose Alvarez Rivera

Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong

Erik G P De Jong

Tang Yew Tan

Erik G De Jong

Erik L Wang

Mathias W Schmidt

Charles A Schwalbach

Qingxiang Li

Nicholas Robert Kalayjian

Lijun Zhang

Steven G Herbst

Terry L Tikalsky

R Sean Murphy

Zhijun Zhang

Felix J Alvarez

Patrick T Ryan

Toshihiko Kato

Peter Russell-Clark

Jeff Hayashida

Hamid Mohammadinia

Jesse Lee Doroguskar

Derek A Faust

M Evans Hankey

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

David A Pakula

Eric Steven Jol

John Raff

Colin M Ely

Douglas Joseph Weber

Phillip Michael Hobson

Wei Guang Wu

Tyler S Bushnell

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Donald Joseph Novotney

Trent Weber

Christopher T Eubank

Kenneth Arthur Jenks

Sean Anthony Mayo

James H Foster

Robert Denton Silfvast

Ian P Colahan

Demetrios B Karanikos

Nicholas G L Merz

Stanley Rabu

Miranda L Daly

Philip Michael Hobson

Soundararajan Manthiri

Geng Luo

Jan Moolsintong

Vikas Agrawal

Matthew E Lang

Jeff Terlizzi

Glenn David Henshaw

Anna K Shedletsky

Battery packs that can provide power to an electronic device, can be easy to use and simple to connect to the electronic device, have a small and efficient form factor, and can readily be powered for use.

Magnetically attachable battery pack

A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld controller for controlling the electronic device. The handheld controller may have a housing with an elongated shaft extending between first and second tip portions. The handheld controller may have power receiving circuitry configured to receive power from a power source. The power source may be incorporated into an electronic device such as a wireless charging dock or stick, a battery case, or a head-mounted device. The power source may supply power through terminals that form ohmic contacts with mating terminals in the finger device or may transmit power wirelessly using capacitive coupling or inductive charging arrangements. Magnets may be used to hold and align the elongated shaft of the handheld controller on the power source.

Handheld controllers with charging and storage systems

An in-ear listening device having a device housing including a speaker housing and an elongated tube protruding away from the speaker housing, an audio port formed through the speaker housing, a speaker disposed in the speaker housing and aligned to emit sound through the audio port, a microphone port formed through the elongated tube, a microphone disposed in the elongated tube and operatively coupled to receive sound through the microphone port, a rechargeable battery and a wireless antenna disposed within the device housing, wireless circuitry coupled to the wireless antenna and configured to input and output radio frequency signals for wireless communications, a user-interface touch control disposed on the device housing and operable to control a function of the earbud, and battery charging circuitry coupled to the rechargeable battery and positioned within the device housing and operable to charge the rechargeable battery when coupled to receive power from an external power source.

In-ear wireless device

A handheld computing device that includes an enclosure having structural walls formed from a glass material that can be radio-transparent. The enclosure can be formed from a hollow glass tube or two glass members bonded together. A laser frit bonding process may be used to hermetically seal the two glass members together to create a water resistant electronic device.

Glass enclosure

An electronic device having a housing structure that is configured to receive at least one glass cover is disclosed. The glass cover serves to cover a display assembly provided within the electronic device. The glass cover can be secured to the housing structure so as to facilitate providing a narrow border between an active display area and an outer edge of the housing structure. The enclosure for the electronic device can be thin yet be sufficiently strong to be suitable for use in electronic devices, such as portable electronic devices.

Housing for portable electronic device with reduced border region

Some embodiments provide a vehicle climate control system for controlling climate conditions in various cabin regions of a vehicle cabin, where the climate control system is configured to control one or more vehicle components to change the set of climate conditions associated with one or more cabin regions to approximate a set of optimal comfort conditions. The climate control system controls various vehicle components to control climate conditions, including window assemblies, sunroof assemblies, etc. The climate control system determines optimal comfort conditions which optimize perceived temperature of various occupant body parts and maintain various climate characteristics within one or more sets of thresholds. Output configurations of various vehicle components can be determined based at least in part upon determined optimal comfort conditions of various cabin regions. Output configurations can be generated based at least in part upon various control mode priorities.

Climate control

Electronic devices such as compact portable media players are provided. A housing for an electronic device may be relatively compact. The housing may include a door assembly with an attached spring-loaded clip. The electronic device may include a hold switch. Depending on the state of the hold switch, the electronic device may be in an off mode, a continuous playback mode, or a shuffle playback mode. The electronic device may not have integrated media playback controls such as play, pause, rewind, fast forward, etc. As one example, the electronic device may connect to an accessory that has media playback controls. Buttons and other user interfaces may be included in the accessory and user input information may be conveyed between the accessory and the electronic device using a wired path including audio connectors. The electronic device may include a printed circuit board assembly that is nested together with a battery assembly.

Portable electronic device control

This invention is directed to an electronic device with an embedded authentication system for restricting access to device resources. The authentication system may include one or more sensors operative to detect biometric information of a user. The sensors may be positioned in the device such that the sensors may detect appropriate biometric information as the user operates the device, without requiring the user to perform a step for providing the biometric information (e.g., embedding a fingerprint sensor in an input mechanism instead of providing a fingerprint sensor in a separate part of the device housing). In some embodiments, the authentication system may be operative to detect a visual or temporal pattern of inputs to authenticate a user. In response to authenticating, a user may access restricted files, applications (e.g., applications purchased by the user), or settings (e.g., application settings such as contacts or saved game profile).

Embedded authentication systems in an electronic device

An apparatus for charging a portable wireless listening device including a housing having a socket to receive the portable wireless listening device; a battery; wireless circuitry that enables the apparatus to communicate wirelessly with a host device; power transmitting circuitry configured to provide power to the portable wireless listening device when the device is received in the socket to charge a battery within the portable wireless listening device; and a processor configured to configured to establish a wireless communication protocol between the portable wireless listening device and the host device.

In-ear wireless listening device

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Emery Artemus Sanford