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Ron Alan Hopkinson

Bartley K Andre

Chris A Ligtenberg

Brett W Degner

John Raff

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

John M Brock

Michelle Rae Goldberg

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Mikael M Silvanto

William Francis Leggett

Charles A Schwalbach

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Gavin J Reid

Eugene J Kim

Zheng Gao

Laura M DeForest

Robert L Coish

David John Yeh

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Jay S Nigen

Patrick Kessler

Dinesh C Mathew

Keith J Hendren

Matthew Theobald

Eric Andrew Knopf

Euan S Abraham

Timothy S Hibbard

Christopher J Stringer

Jonathan P Ive

Daniel J Coster

Jeremy D Bataillou

Robert Y Cao

Asif Hussain

Chang Zhang

Simon R Lancaster-Larocque

Peter M Arnold

Jim C Hwang

Bryan W Posner

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski

Gary S Thomason

Ruchi Goel

Steven Keiper

Jay Kevin Osborn

Houtan R Farahani

John C Difonzo

Frank Faqiu Liang

Brandon S Smith

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Victor H Yin

Jun Qi

Giovanni Gozzini

Dale R Setlak

John B Morrell

Kevin Scott Fetterman

Robert Sean Murphy

Richard H Koch

Derek Yap

Joss Nathan Giddings

R Sean Murphy

Richard H Tan

Eric J Weirshauser

Po-Wen Chiu

Daniel B Sargent

Erin Turullols

Daniel D Sunshine

Peteris K Augenbergs

Paul James Wehrenberg

Cina Hazegh

Mi Zhou

Matthew C Waldon

Cheng Ping Tan

Stewart Shannon Fields

Laura Deforest

Tom Tate

Mahmoud R Amini

David H Narajowski

Ihab A Ali

George Tziviskos

Justin Derry Crosby

John C DiFonzo

Andrew P Bright

Edward J Cooper

Richard D Kosoglow

Ari P Miller

Nathan Alan Johanningsmeier

Matthew A Donarski

David A Hardell

Trevor J Edmonds

Anton Talalayev

Bartly K Andre

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 computer includes a display portion comprising a display and a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion. The base portion may include a bottom case and a top case, formed from a dielectric material, coupled to the bottom case. The top case may include a top member defining a top surface of the base portion and a sidewall integrally formed with the top member and defining a side surface of the base portion. The portable computer may also include a sensing system including a first sensing system configured to determine a location of a touch input applied to the top surface of the base portion and a second sensing system configured to determine a force of the touch input.

Device having integrated interface system

Electronic device

An assembly for heat-generating components includes a metal and a non-metal layer. To secure to a circuit board that carries a heat-generating component, a metal standoff is secured on a perimeter of the circuit board. Multiple protruding elements of the metal layer of the assembly secure within a respective opening of the standoff. The assembly secures, through metal-to-metal contact, to the standoff by multiple mechanical couplings. The assembly not only covers the circuit board, but also extends laterally beyond the circuit board (and the circuit board components). As a result, the assembly receives thermal energy from a heat-generating component(s) on the circuit board and allows the thermal energy to flow through assembly from one portion of the assembly covering the heat-generating component(s) to the lateral portion of the assembly that does not cover the heat-generating component(s).

Thermal module for a circuit board

A top case assembly for a portable computer is disclosed. The assembly may include an integral unified (e.g., homogenous) top case formed from a single part. The integral top case provides an enclosure, frame and cosmetic exterior of the portable computer. The integral top case also serves as the primary structure of the portable computer. The assembly may include a variety of subassemblies such as keyboards, touchpads, circuit boards, and drives that are carried by the underside of the integral top case. The integral top case may be formed from aluminum slab that has been machined to form walls, openings, attachment areas and cosmetic areas of the top case.

Portable computer unified top case

A configurable, force-sensitive input structure for an electronic device is disclosed. The input structure has a metal contact layer, a sense layer positioned below the metal contact layer, and a drive layer capacitively coupled to the sense layer. The input structure may also have a compliant layer positioned between and coupled to the sense layer and the drive layer, a rigid base layer positioned below the drive layer, and a set of supports positioned between the metal contact layer and the rigid base layer.

Configurable force-sensitive input structure for electronic devices

A device includes a display portion that includes a display housing and a display within the display housing. The device also includes a base portion flexibly coupled to the display portion and comprising a glass member defining a keyboard region configured to receive user input, a first haptic actuator configured to produce a first haptic output at a first area of the keyboard region, and a second haptic actuator configured to produce a second haptic output at a second area of the keyboard region that is different from the first area.

A dynamic input surface for an electronic device and a method of reconfiguring the same is disclosed. The input surface has a partially-flexible metal contact portion defining an input area, and a group of indicators. The indicators may be group of holes extending through the contact portion. The group of holes may be selectively illuminated based on a gesture performed on the contact portion. A size of the input area may be dynamically varied based on the gesture. Additionally, the group of indicators indicates a boundary of the input area.

Dynamic input surface for electronic devices

The disclosed embodiments related to a component for use in a portable electronic device. The component includes a wall of the portable electronic device, containing an intake zone that includes a set of intake vents. The wall also includes an exhaust zone containing a set of exhaust vents.

Optimized vent walls in electronic devices

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

Ron Alan Hopkinson