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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
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The talent behind this year’s MAMI Select: Filmed on iPhone projects delve into how India’s varied landscapes and cultures shaped their shorts. Writer, director, and actor Konkona Sen Sharma believes that beyond technology, a filmmaker’s most important tool is courage.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
The Apple Vision Pro presently utilizes in-air gestures to navigate the visionOS user interface. Apple has a wealth of patents on an accompanying ring accessory that could one day advance Vision Pro’s navigation in a 3D space (01, 02, 03, 04 and more)to better interact with 3D objects in games and so forth.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 47 newly granted utility patents for Apple Inc. In this particular report we briefly cover patents for a ‘Conformable HMD Interface; Vision Pro’s EyeSight Feature; and a MacBook with an expandable display. Apple was also granted a design patent for the Mac Studio. Lastly, we wrap up this week's granted patent report with a listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple this week.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
Apple TV+ announced today that it has landed the global rights to the acclaimed 2025 Sundance Film Festival selection and Festival Favorite Award-winning documentary, “Come See Me in the Good Light,” from director Ryan White.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
In Q2 2025, the European Patent Office published a patent application of Samsung’s regarding a possible future smart ring designed to connect to a portable ring-like battery so that the Galaxy Ring could work around the clock, if need be, without having to remove it for changing on a separate charger.
The invention envisions a Galaxy Ring that includes a housing with a coupling portion detachably connectable to an external device in a ring shape.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
A new Fast Technology report from China claims that the development of Apple's first foldable iPhone is accelerating and is expected to meet consumers as early as 2026. Further, Apple has decided to use OLED panels from South Korea's Samsung Display, and this time it will focus on a single supplier to ensure that screen quality is the top priority.
Samsung Display will be responsible for supplying OLED panels, and deliveries are expected to begin at the end of this year or early next year.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
Apple Watch is the world’s most popular watch, and the ultimate fitness and health companion. Every day, Apple Watch offers fitness motivation to millions of people around the globe, along with powerful insights into their workouts, training, and more, across a wide range of activities. Leveraging its advanced sensor technology, Apple Watch also provides users with information on important aspects of their health, including sleep, heart health, and menstrual health.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
According to South Korea’s SEDaily, the Samsung Foundry is manufacturing Qualcomm’s second-generation XR application processor, the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, using its advanced 4nm process technology.
While Samsung previously announced the XR alliance back in February 2023 with Qualcomm and Google on XR headset development, this marks the first instance of Samsung Foundry producing a Qualcomm-designed XR chip.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
The global smartphone market grew 3% YoY in Q1 2025, according to preliminary results from Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse Early Look. Declines in developed markets were offset by growth in China owing to government subsidies, and continuing recovery in key emerging markets across Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East & Africa.
OEM dynamics continue to remain interesting.
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patentlyapple.com | Jack Purcher
On Friday, Patently Apple posted a report titled “Google’s head of XR Android demonstrated a Prototype of their Android Phone Smartglasses Accessory at a TED Conference in Canada.” The report noted that In June 2023, we posted a report that covered the news of the Samsung, Google and Qualcomm alliance for developing an XR headset. Then in 2024, the alliance spoke about smartglasses as an Android phone accessory. The alliance will deliver an XR Headset to compete with Vision Pro this fall.
