We observed this decrease by reviewing every patent issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since 2020 – nearly 1.4 million patents. Here are the findings: ...

Last month, a major Bloomberg exclusive revealed Apple is bringing Touch ID back with the 2020 iPhone. Now Patently Apple has discovered how Apple plans to make this work, and it blows away ...

Additionally, Li’s patent was only filed on February 3, 2020. Apple launched the first iPhone with Face ID back in 2017, and the technology will of course have been developed some considerable ...

Aside from REAL ID compliance questions, Apple’s latest patent application was submitted with five prior related U.S. patent documents, which date as far back as Dec. 28, 2018.

Sean - Nov 4, 2020 Apple has just recently been granted a patent for the next generation of Touch ID.

Apple has today been awarded yet another patent for a form of under-display Touch ID. This would be another step forward in the company’s long-held ambition of ‘a single slab of glass ...

Total patent application filings declined only slightly during 2020 to just over 180,000 patent applications, a reduction of 0.7% compared to the EPO’s 2019 patent filing totals.