Apple Inc.

Labrador Diagnostics LLC

Peter J Kardassakis

Erik G De Jong

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky

Samuel Bruce Weiss

Katherine E Tong

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher J Stringer

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Jody R Akana

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Mikael M Silvanto

Marc A Newson

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Christopher S Graham

Trevor J Ness

Jayesh Nath

Adam Thomas Clavelle

Makiko K Brzezinski

Rex Tyler Ehman

Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong

Stefan A Kowalski

Morgan T McClure

Elizabeth A Holmes

Erik L Wang

Steven P Cardinali

Sameer Pandya

Joy Roy

Steven C Roach

Giovanni Gozzini

Marduke Yousefpor

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost

Jason C Sauers

Brian Michael King

Ehsan Khajeh

Marcus Yip

Yi Tao

Aaron Scott Tucker

Sunny Balwani

Alvin T Chang

Shaowei Qin

Eric G De Jong

Farhan Panthaki

Stephen R Mcclure

Graham Christopher S S

An electronic watch may include a housing defining a side wall having a through-hole and a crown assembly including an actuation member. The actuation member may include a crown shaft extending through the through-hole and having an exterior portion defining an input surface and a crown ring coupled to the exterior portion of the crown shaft and electrically isolated from the crown shaft. The crown assembly may further include an optical encoder component attached to the actuation member and defining a group of optical features. The electronic watch may further include an optical detector configured to detect rotation of the crown assembly by detecting motion of the group of optical features and an electrocardiograph sensor comprising a sensing component. The sensing component may be conductively coupled to the actuation member via a conductive path at least partially defined by the crown shaft.

Crown assembly for an electronic watch

Acoustic touch and/or force sensing system architectures and methods for acoustic touch and/or force sensing can be used to detect a position of an object touching a surface and an amount of force applied to the surface by the object. The position and/or an applied force can be determined using time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, for example. Acoustic touch sensing can utilize transducers (e.g., piezoelectric) to simultaneously transmit ultrasonic waves along a surface and through a thickness of a deformable material. The location of the object and the applied force can be determined based on the amount of time elapsing between the transmission of the waves and receipt of the reflected waves. In some examples, an acoustic touch sensing system can be insensitive to water contact on the device surface, and thus acoustic touch sensing can be used for touch sensing in devices that may become wet or fully submerged in water.

System and method for acoustic touch and force sensing

Display for electronic device

Systems and methods are provided for sample processing. The system, in one configuration, includes a sample processing apparatus for use with a biological sample and/or a reagent, a housing and a touchscreen display mounted to the housing. The system, in one configuration, contains a cartridge insertion location; at least one optical detector; a control unit having a processor that is programmed to execute computer-readable commands; and a sample handling system.

Systems and methods for multi-purpose analysis

Embodiments disclosed herein describe a wireless power receiving system for an electronic device includes: a first inductor coil configured to receive power primarily at a first frequency and from magnetic fields propagating in a first direction; and a second inductor coil configured to receive power primarily at a second frequency and from magnetic fields propagating in a second direction, wherein the first frequency is different than the second frequency.

Architecture of portable electronic devices with wireless charging receiver systems

Systems and methods are provided for sample processing. A device may be provided, capable of receiving the sample, and performing one or more of a sample preparation, sample assay, and detection step. The device may be capable of performing multiple assays. The device may comprise one or more modules that may be capable of performing one or more of a sample preparation, sample assay, and detection step. The device may be capable of performing the steps using a small volume of sample.

Fluid handling apparatus and configurations

Antenna integration for portable electronic devices having wireless charging receiver systems

Single-structure wireless charging receiver systems having multiple receiver coils

A thin-film transistor layer, an organic light-emitting diode layer, and other layers may be used in forming an array of pixels on a substrate in a display. Vias may be formed through one or more layers of the display such as the substrate layer to form vertical signal paths. The vertical signal paths may convey signals between display driver circuitry underneath the display and the pixels. The vias may pass through a polymer layer and may contact pads formed within openings in the substrate. Vias may pass through a glass support layer. Metal traces may be formed in the thin-film transistor layer to create signal paths such as data lines and gate lines. Portions of the metal traces may form vias through a polymer layer such as a substrate layer or a polymer layer that has been formed on top of the substrate layer.

Display with vias to access driver circuitry

A moisture sensor includes one or more electrodes and sensor circuitry configured to detect the presence of moisture by detecting a change in an electrical measurement of the one or more electrodes. In response, the sensor may signal a component to perform an action. In some examples, capacitance and/or resistance between a pair of electrodes may be monitored, such as a pair of electrode sheets or meshes positioned in passage of a device that are separated by a gap. In various examples, a first electrode may be mounted cantilever to a second electrode and the presence of moisture between the electrodes may pull a free end closer to the second electrode. In some examples, the presence of moisture may cause bridging of a gap between two or more electrodes to complete or corrosion of a portion of an electrode to result in a change of resistance that can be detected.

Moisture sensors

An electronic device may have a housing, electrical components, and other electronic device structures. A display may be mounted in the housing. The display may have a transparent display cover layer and a display layer such as an organic light-emitting diode display layer that is mounted to the underside of the transparent display cover layer. A flexible printed circuit with metal traces may be mounted under the organic light-emitting diode display layer. The metal traces may form coils for a near-field communications inductive loop antenna. A magnetic shielding layer may be interposed between the housing and the flexible printed circuit. The magnetic shielding layer may include a polymer magnetic shielding layer having magnetic material particles embedded in a polymer matrix. The magnetic shielding layer may also have a polymer-binder-free magnetic shielding layer.

Wireless electronic device with magnetic shielding layer

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Peter J Kardassakis