On May 19, Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple Previews a Powerful new Apple Watch feature called AssistiveTouch that uses patented wrist-gesture technology & more." Our report included links to two Apple patents that support AssistiveTouch and today, the US Patent & Trademark Office published yet another patent application from Apple that protects this technology for Apple.
Apple Reveals their work on Project Titan s Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications System for future Autonomous Vehicles
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to Project Titan. More specifically, the patent relates to very sophisticated vehicle-to-vehicle communications systems that directly relates to future automated vehicles. Project Titan is Apple s semi and fully autonomous vehicles project that may one day materialize.
In Apple s patent background they explain that vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications are automobile technologies designed to allow automobiles to communicate with each other and with other devices (e.g., pedestrian smartphones and traffic lights).
Thu, May 27th 2021 9:35am
Mike Masnick
There had been some talk that we might, once again, get someone to head the Patent Office who actually understood and appreciated the many trade-offs associated with monopoly rights around inventions. But apparently that s not happening. There s an article in The American Prospect saying that Senator Chris Coons one of the more maximalist of the copyright and patent maximalists in Congress has secured some sort of ridiculous deal with the Biden administration that no one who has ever criticized patents will be allowed to run the US Patent & Trademark Office.
Patents have not historically animated sustained intraparty fights that spill out into headlines. But Coons’s pro-IP, pro-patent stance, and his long friendship with the president, has elevated the issue, and turned the selection of the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) into a flashpoint. Coons has been aggressive in working with the White House to secu
Apple invents an AR Display for Eyewear that Accurately Displays AR Content in both Bright or Low light
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to modifying displays in future AR Glasses or MR Headset (HMD) so that they function accurately when viewing AR content in both bright and low light situations.
Apple s patent background provides us with an overview of the issues that their invention is to overcome. Apple notes that in augmented reality (AR), computer-generated content is composited with a user s physical environment in order to comingle computer generated visual content with real-world objects.