Apple Inc.

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Richard H Koch

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Zhipeng Zhang

Daniel William Jarvis

Ian A Spraggs

David A Pakula

Christopher S Tomasetta

Michael D Quinones

Jared P Ostdiek

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Mikael M Silvanto

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Sung-Ho Tan

Marwan Rammah

Nicholas George Merz

Robert F Meyer

Jonathan M Lee

Jesse P Harris

John Raff

Giovanni Gozzini

Dale R Setlak

Ron Alan Hopkinson

John C DiFonzo

Riley E Brandt

Daniel B Sargent

Laura M Burke

Ekaterina Pease

Lee E Hooton

Ryan C Perkins

Benjamin J Kallman

Rasamy Phouthavong

Jeffrey C Olson

Tatsuya Sano

Jason B Neevel

Scott A Myers

Simon Christopher Helmore

Benjamin Shane Bustle

Thomas J Sullivan

Melissa A Wah

Teera Songatikamas

Stoyan P Hristov

Richard C Kimoto

Tobias J Harrison-Noonan

David J Dunsmoor

Michael William Chaw

Habib Sami Karaki

Tommaso P Rivellini

Kodiak D Burke

Jason M Gillier

Gareth L Rose

Mark Clinton Thurber

Jacob Barton

Baris Ozgen

Ethan R Stobbe

Cameron Bauer

Samuel J Pliska

Macey E Dade

Matthew R McGuire

Brandon R Collins-Smoot

Sara E Salmon

Anthony B Sinclair

Nawaf Al-Baghly

Mitchell T Hoertz

Zachary S Scott

Samruddhi A Deshpande

Karl Frank Beckle

Bruno Alejandro Valdes

R Keith Montgomery

An elongated biometric device provides a slim solution for capturing biometric data, and may be placed on a portion of an electronic device having limited space, such as a side of the electronic device. The elongated biometric device may include a force sensor, which may be positioned within a housing of the electronic device and actuated through posts extending from the elongated biometric device through the housing to transfer an applied force to the force sensor.

Elongated fingerprint sensor

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 haptic button assembly may be used for detecting inputs and providing haptic outputs at an electronic device. The haptic outputs may be provided in response to detected inputs or in response to other conditions at the electronic device. The haptic button assembly may define an input surface along an exterior of the electronic device. Inputs may be provided to the input surface of the haptic button assembly. An input may include a touch input on or along the input surface and/or a force input directed substantially perpendicularly to the input surface. The haptic button assembly may provide a haptic output by moving an input member of the haptic button assembly laterally (e.g., substantially parallel to the input surface).

Portable electronic device having a haptic button assembly

An electronic device includes an enclosure and a keyboard positioned within the enclosure. The keyboard includes a substrate and a key mechanism. The key mechanism includes a keycap support mechanism, a keycap supported by the keycap support mechanism and movable relative to the substrate, a ferromagnetic component attached to the keycap support mechanism, and a selectively magnetizable magnet. The selectively magnetizable magnet system may include a magnetizable material and a coil configured to selectively magnetize and demagnetize the magnetizable material. The key mechanism may include a collapsible dome biasing the keycap toward the extended position.

Bistable retractable buttons

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 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 low-profile blood pressure measurement system and methods of use are disclosed. The system includes an expandable member or structure that has a multi-compartment structure and/or is mounted on a rigid surface or structure. The system is incorporated into a portable multi-function device, or is configured to communicate with a portable multi-function device.

Cuff designs and methods

Backplate for an electronic device

Housing module for an electronic device

Growing community of inventors

Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Richard H Koch