2011-05-10 Newly Issued Apple Patents

 

PAT. NO.		Title
1	D637,596		Portable display device
2	7,941,796		Distributing and synchronizing objects
3	7,941,760		Soft keyboard display for a portable multifunction device
4	7,941,758		Animation of graphical objects
5	7,941,757		Method and apparatus for creating multimedia presentations
6	7,941,582		Method and apparatus for mediating among media applications
7	7,941,555		Management and prioritization of media item downloading
8	7,940,942		Self-identifying microphone
9	7,940,843		Method of implementing improved rate control for a multimedia compression and encoding system
10	7,940,768		Source address based routing process
11	7,940,365		Compact display flex and driver sub-assemblies
12	7,940,276		Virtualization of graphics resources
13	7,940,272		System and method for displaying text
14	7,940,250		Web-clip widgets on a portable multifunction device
15	7,940,110		Cascode switching circuit
16	7,940,026		Methods and apparatus for charging a battery in a peripheral device

 

Of Note

The design patent essentially claims the original iPad design, but with an additional landscape dock connector.

This week's executive-inventor is Craig Federighi on US7,941,796, Distributing and synchronizing objects.

 

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