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Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosignals & Brain Activity

The US Patent & Trademark Office has granted a patent to Apple for next-generation AirPods, which could measure electrooculography (EOG), electromyography (EMG), electroencephalography (EEG), and other biosignals. The patent application…

Apple Envisions AirPods Case with Interactive Touchscreen Display for Improved User Control

According to a recently published patent, Apple is exploring the possibility of adding a built-in touchscreen display to its AirPods case, which would enable users to control audio sources and…

Apple Invests Additional $252 Million In Globalstar for Emergency SOS Via Satellite

Apple has invested an additional $252 million in Globalstar, an American satellite communications company, as part of its partnership to provide Emergency SOS via satellite on the iPhone 14 series….

Could a future Apple Watch battery move to give the wearer haptic feedback?

It’s clear that Apple has an eye on potentially making the battery in its Apple Watch move, as a means of giving the wearer of the device haptic feedback. This…

Apple seeks patent for an iPhone case that would automatically customize the device’s UI for various uses

Can you imagine a future in which you might place your iPhone on a speaker dock, and its main graphical user interface (UI) automatically changes to one showing a set…

60 patents granted to Apple in one day – so, what’s included?

We’re accustomed here at AppleMagazine to hearing about the latest Apple patents, but Tuesday, March 29 proved a particularly prolific one for the Cupertino company on this front. That’s because…

Apple has a patent approved for under-display Touch ID for the iPhone

Speculation is ramping up that under-display Touch ID could eventually debut on the iPhone, as Apple has secured another patent for an under-display fingerprint scanner. Apple filed for this patent…

New Apple patent application suggests a health-oriented version of AirTags

A patent application by Apple, just published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has put forward the idea of an iDevice that would communicate with one or…

‘Apple Car’ comes ever-nearer with granted patent for a liquid cooling system

Are you ready to get behind the wheel of an Apple-branded electric vehicle? That particular longstanding speculation has yet to be converted into any announcement, and as we previously reported,…

Could future iPhones have an almost entirely wraparound display?

It’s a dramatic proposition; an iPhone with a screen that covers nearly the whole device. When you think of such a possibility, you will probably be put in mind of…

Rumors about the ‘Apple Car’ seemingly confirmed after sunroof patent is granted

It has been reported that this week, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted Apple a patent for a car sunroof, in what seems a sure indication that the tech…

Trademark Update Suggests Future iPhone Support for Pencil

The US Patent & Trademark Office has published a recently-granted update to Apple’s long-held iPhone trademark. Tantalizingly, the revised trademark suggests that Apple could be preparing to make future iPhones…

Google Patents Sticky Car Front for Better Pedestrian Safety

A future Google-made car could come with a sticky front layer that, in the unfortunate event of a collision with a pedestrian, keep them stuck to the hood and bumper…

Apple Patent Filing Suggests Force-Sensitive Touch ID Button

Many of us with newer iPhones and iPads regularly use the Touch ID button to unlock our devices. However, a newly-published patent application suggests that future Touch ID buttons could…

Apple Granted Patent for Force Touch Keyboard for Mac

Apple already offers the pressure-sensitive Force Touch technology in Mac trackpads, but the company now seems intent on extending this interface to keyboards, judging from a freshly-granted patent for an…