Type of Article: MacTech Blog

Apple has been granted several patents by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each.

By Rick Sutcliffe

Or “Time flies like an arrow” …

If we would marry Virgil’s observations on its irretrievability to the unidirectional dictum of modern physics. “Time’s a wasting,” is an apt observation in any day and age, and for all that a week now seems a relative eternity in Internet time, we assume that the flight of time still takes place at the same speed in some external time-inertial frame of reference, call it eternity or what you will.

If you think Apple had a great year in 2011, you ain’t see nothing yet. While still firing on all cylinders in the consumer market, the company is also making great gains in the enterprise arena.

Forrester Research’s (http://www.forrester.com) latest “Global Tech Market Outlook” states that enterprises will spend US$19 billion on Apple hardware in 2012 — which is 68% more iPads and 45% more Macs than purchased in 2011.

Apple has been granted several patents by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. They involve everything from iOS devices to Macs to Apple retail stores. Following is a summary of each.

Patent number 8104911 is for a display system with a distributed LED backlight. Per the patent, each tile LED light source has a tile and a plurality of similar LED light sources on each tile connected for emitting light therefrom. The inventors are Michael D. Hillman, Gregory L. Tice, William Sauway, Sean Bailey, Ann Torres, Efrain Alcorta and Perry Anderson.