Apple Inc.

Ian A Spraggs

David A Pakula

Daniel William Jarvis

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Jody R Akana

Julian Hoenig

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Jeremy D Bataillou

Shota Aoyagi

Mikael M Silvanto

Tang Yew Tan

Christopher J Stringer

Daniele De Iuliis

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Marwan Rammah

Matthew D Hill

Joe Sung Ho Tan

Lee E Hooton

Robert F Meyer

Eric Steven Jol

Michael D Quinones

James A Bertin

Albert John Golko

Mathias W Schmidt

Stoyan P Hristov

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Simon Christopher Helmore

Cameron P Frazier

Jason S Sloey

Gregory N Stephens

Richard H Koch

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Jahan C Minoo

Nicholas George Merz

Douglas G Fournier

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Wendell B Sander

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Sung-Ho Tan

Benjamin J Pope

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Ashutosh Yugesh Shukla

Miguel C Christophy

Rasamy Phouthavong

Shin Nishibori

Jared Mitchell Kole

Shayan Malek

Eric McCallister Bennett

James B Smith

Steven Porter Hotelling

Erik G De Jong

Brian Quentin Huppi

Peter W Richards

Christopher S Graham

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Jonah Alexander Harley

Martin Paul Grunthaner

Omar Sze Leung

Steven James Martisauskas

John B Ardisana, Ii

Scott P Porter

Ruchir M Dave

Dhaval N Shah

Charles B Woodhull

Shimon Elkayam

Dennis R Pyper

Abhijeet Misra

Karl Ruben F Larsson

Brandon R Garbus

Amir Salehi

Ashley E Fletcher

William A Counts

Aaron Albert Oro

Blake M Coughenour

Mattia Pascolini

Rico Zörkendörfer

Jun Zhai

Flynn P Carson

Paul J Thompson

Tyler Robin Kakuda

Benjamin Shane Bustle

Salih Yarga

Joshua G Nickel

Shakti Singh Chauhan

A portable electronic device may include a housing having a wall defining an opening in the housing and at least a portion of four side surfaces of the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may further include a display at least partially within the housing, a front cover positioned in the opening in the housing and over the display, the front cover defining a front surface, a peripheral side surface extending from the front surface and at least partially surrounded by the wall of the housing, and a notch that, together with a portion of the wall of the housing, defines an acoustic port of the portable electronic device. The electronic device may further include an acoustic port cover positioned at least partially in the acoustic port and a speaker at least partially within the housing and configured to direct sound through the acoustic port cover.

Handheld electronic device

A mobile phone may include a housing, a battery at least partially within the housing, and a circuit board assembly at least partially within the housing and positioned along a side of the battery. The circuit board assembly may include a first circuit board defining a first hole, a second circuit board defining a second hole, a wall structure between the first circuit board and the second circuit board and attached to an inner surface of the first circuit board and an inner surface of the second circuit board, and a fastener assembly configured to retain the first circuit board to the second circuit board.

Housing module for an electronic device

A portable electronic device includes a housing, a sensor array including a first camera module having a first field of view, a second camera module having a second field of view different from the first field of view, and a light source, and a rear cover formed from a glass material and defining a raised sensor array region positioned over the sensor array. The raised sensor array region defines a first hole extending through the rear cover and positioned proximate a first corner region of the raised sensor array region, and a second hole extending through the rear cover and positioned proximate a second corner region diagonal from the first corner region. The first camera module includes a first camera housing defining a recess at a corner of the first camera housing, and the second camera module includes a second camera housing extending into the recess.

A portable electronic device may include a housing member, a rear cover coupled to the housing member, and a top module coupled to the housing member and including a front cover defining an exterior surface and an interior surface opposite to the exterior surface, a display stack attached to the interior surface of the front cover and comprising a flexible circuit element extending from a side of the display stack, a frame member attached to the interior surface of the front cover and extending at least partially around a periphery of the display stack, and an encapsulating structure positioned between the frame member and the display stack and at least partially encapsulating a portion of a peripheral side of the display stack and the flexible circuit element. The encapsulating structure may cover at least a portion of a bottom side of the display stack.

A strobe module can include a Fresnel lens that defines an external surface of the strobe module and a sidewall at least partially defining an internal volume and defining an external channel. A gasket can be disposed in the external channel. A substrate can be coupled to the sidewall to further define the internal volume and a light source can be disposed on the substrate in the internal volume.

Integrated strobe module

A portable electronic device includes a housing, a front cover defining a front side of the portable electronic device, a display stack below the front cover and comprising a plurality of display layers configured to produce a graphical output in a display region of the display stack, the graphical output visible through the front cover, and a light sensor module positioned at least partially within the housing and coupled to the display stack in the display region. The light sensor module may be configured to receive ambient light passing through the front cover and through the plurality of display layers and, while a blanking interval is positioned over the light sensor module, produce an output corresponding to the received ambient light, the portable electronic device configured to determine an ambient light value based at least in part on the output from the light sensor module.

A portable electronic device may include a housing, a display at least partially within the housing, a front cover coupled to the housing and positioned over the display, and a biometric sensor module configured to illuminate an object and capture an image of the object through the front cover. The biometric sensor module may include a first lens positioned below the front cover, a first light source positioned below the first lens and configured to project, through the first lens, a dot pattern on the object, a second light source positioned below the first lens and configured to illuminate, through the first lens, the object with a flood of light, a second lens positioned below the front cover, and a light sensor positioned below the second lens and configured to capture an image of the object.

A device configured to determine the location and magnitude of a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a transparent touch sensor that is configured to detect a location of a touch on the transparent touch sensor. The device also includes a force-sensing structure disposed at the periphery of the transparent touch sensor. The force sensor includes an upper capacitive plate and a compressible element disposed on one side of the upper capacitive plate. The force sensor also includes a lower capacitive plate disposed on a side of the compressible element that is opposite the upper capacitive plate.

Force determination based on capacitive sensing

An electronic disclosed herein may include a band formed from metal that combines with a bottom wall formed from a non-metal to form an enclosure that carries internal components. The electronic device may include a transparent cover and a display assembly partially covered by a border having a uniform dimension. The electronic device may include a vision system designed for facial recognition of a user of the electronic device. A bracket assembly may hold the vision system. The bracket assembly may not be affixed to the enclosure and may move relative to the enclosure. The electronic device may include a battery assembly having multiple battery components coupled together. The electronic device may further include a receiver coil for wireless charging of the battery assembly. The electronic device may include a circuit board assembly having stacked circuit boards. The electronic device may further include a dual camera assembly.

Portable electronic device

Backplate for an electronic device

Display for electronic device

Battery for an electronic device

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Ian A Spraggs