Apple Patent Application for Combination Fingerprint Scanner and NFC Circuitry Surfaces

Yesterday, patently Apple published that Apple has filed for a European patent (via Free Patents) detailing a system for combining a fingerprint scanner with near field communication (NFC) technology which will allow dual modes of operation in a single space-saving design. Actually,the European patent application was filed in March 2012 and was derived from a U.S. patent application.It was quietly …

Samsung Denies any Violation in the ‘381 patent

Judge Koh has ruled out any possibility of another trial over the ‘381 patent. This has quashed all the hopes of Samsung. This is in connection with the new charter trial over Apple’s patent, which was an important issue in the trial, which was held last year. The two companies had been in loggerheads for quite some time now, with …

Apple Patents 3D Gesture UI For iOS Based On Proximity Sensor Input

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published an Apple patent for a method of generating and manipulating a 3-D object on a computing device, with the process controlled by special gestures made above a touchscreen’s surface. Apple’s patent titled “Working with 3-D objects” is all about manipulating and generating 3-D objects using 3-D gesture inputs enabled by graphical interface. It …