Apple Inc.

Running Tide Technologies, Inc.

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Christopher D Prest

Anthony Michael Fadell

Stephen Brian Lynch

Tang Yew Tan

Douglas Joseph Weber

Phillip Michael Hobson

Martha Evans Hankey

Andrew Bart Hodge

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Emery Artemus Sanford

Ruben Caballero

Stephan Vincent Schell

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Joseph C Poole

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

Jonathan P Ive

John Benjamin Filson

Matthew S Scott

Dermot J Stratton

Christopher J Stringer

Erik L Wang

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Daniele De Iuliis

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Aram M Lindahl

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Brad G Boozer

Pinida Jan Moolsintong

John C DiFonzo

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Mikael M Silvanto

Marc A Newson

Adam Duckworth Mittleman

Eric Steven Jol

David I Nazzaro

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Trevor J Ness

Makiko K Brzezinski

Robert W Schlub

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky

David Albert Lundgren

Robert J Hill

Samuel Bruce Weiss

Trent Weber

Kenneth Arthur Jenks

Hongli Dai

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Colin M Ely

Tyler S Bushnell

Christopher Matthew Werner

Donald Joseph Novotney

Jason C Sauers

Andrew Bert Hodge

Benjamin J Kallman

David M Pelletier

David A Pakula

John C Difonzo

Richard Walter Heley

Jason S Sloey

Brett W Degner

Dinesh C Mathew

Daniel William Jarvis

Theodore Andrew Waniuk

John J Baker

Nicholas George Merz

Shin Nishibori

Steve P Jobs

Douglas B Satzger

Calvin Q Seid

M Evans Hankey

Steven Porter Hotelling

Lawrence K Lam

Matthew D Hill

Albert John Golko

Matthew Emanuel Last

Rico Zörkendörfer

Kurt R Stiehl

Jonah Alexander Harley

Craig Matthew Stanley

John Gee Tang

Byron Bay Han

Cameron P Frazier

Wey-Jiun Lin

Roy Joseph Riccomini

Victor Manuel Tiscareno

Paul Choiniere

Richard Hung Dinh

Stanley Carl Ng

A cold worked stainless steel bezel for a portable electronic device is provided. The bezel is secured flush to a housing to form part of the case of the portable electronic device. A brace that includes a slot for receiving a wall extending from the bezel is fixed to the housing. When the bezel engages the housing, the wall of the bezel is inserted in the slot of the brace and releasably held by a spring that engages both the brace and the wall. The bezel can be released by disengaging the spring, (e.g., using a special tool or a magnetic field). Because the bezel is manufactured from cold worked stainless steel, it is hard and resistant to impacts. Cold worked steel also facilitates manufacturing within design constraints and tolerances, and requires very little machining after manufacturing to comply with those constraints.

Cold worked metal housing for a portable electronic device

Housing for an electronic device

Examples of portable electronic devices including a piezo actuated vibrator for providing tactile feedback to the user are described. Portable electronic devices according to the present disclosure may include tactile feedback devices, which may be driven by a piezoelectric actuator/vibrator that is operatively coupled to or embedded into the housing of a portable electronic device. In some examples, the housing of the electronic device itself can be made of piezoelectric ceramic material. The piezoelectric element may be coupled to the housing of the product to cause the housing to deflect and/or vibrate. In some examples, the housing of the portable electronic device, which may be a portable media player device, may be configured for placement directly or indirectly in contact with the user's skin such that vibrations of the housing may be felt directly (without audible feedback) by the user.

Portable electronic device using a tactile vibrator

An aquaculture system which has a pen, a control system, a water pumping mechanism coupled to the pen, and a set of buoyancy tanks coupled to the pen. The pen can be disposed in a body of water and at least temporarily stores aquatic animals during development. The control system receives electric power from a power source and provides electric power to the water pumping mechanism to provides a flow of water through the pen. A portion of the control system is in fluid communication with the set of buoyancy tanks and adjusts a volume of fluid in at least one buoyancy tank to move the pen from a first position in which the pen is partially submerged in the body of water to a second position in which the pen is fully submerged in the body of water.

System and methods for the cultivation of aquatic animals

An electronic device having a unitary housing is disclosed. The device can include a first housing component having an open cavity, an internal electronic part disposed within the cavity, a second housing component disposed across the cavity, and a support feature disposed within the cavity and arranged to support the second housing component. The first housing component can be formed from metal, while the second housing component can be formed from a plurality of laminated foil metal layers. The second housing component can be attached to the first housing component via one or more ultrasonic welds, such that a fully enclosed housing is created. The fully enclosed housing can be hermetically sealed, and the outside surfaces thereof can be machined or otherwise finished after the ultrasonic welding.

Unitary housing for electronic device

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 electronic device may include a battery, and a charging system in electronic communication with the battery. The charging system may be configured to initiate a charging of the batter when the battery is in a partially-depleted state. The charging system may then discontinue the charging in response to the battery being charged to the threshold charge value, and may monitor the function of the electronic device to predict an event of the electronic device. After the event is predicted, the charging system may determine when to initiate a recharging process, so that the battery is fully charged when the event occurs.

Battery charging control base on recurring interactions with an electronic device

Methods and apparatus for applying internal features or complex mechanical structures to a surface of a metal part are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for creating an assembly that includes a substrate and a molded piece involves obtaining the substrate, and forming at least one binding feature on a surface of the substrate. The method also includes molding on a surface of the binding feature and the surface of the substrate. Molding on the surface of the binding feature and the surface of the substrate mechanically binds the molded piece to the substrate.

Housings for electronic devices

An aquaculture system which has a pen, a control system, a pumping mechanism coupled to the pen, and a set of buoyancy tanks coupled to the pen. The pen can be disposed in a body of water and at least temporarily stores aquatic animals during development. The control system receives electric power from a power source and provides electric power to the pumping mechanism to provide a flow of water through the pen. A portion of the control system is in fluid communication with the set of buoyancy tanks and adjusts a volume of fluid in at least one buoyancy tank to move the pen from a first position in which the pen is partially submerged in the body of water to a second position in which the pen is fully submerged in the body of water.

Systems and methods for the cultivation of aquatic animals

Wireless charging control based on electronic device events

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Portola Valley, CA, United States of America

Stephen Paul Zadesky