Apple Granted Six New Patents for iPhone Dock – MacBook Design and Speech Synthesis

Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s six newly granted patents.

The six patents are:

Stand: iPhone stand/dock design. Originally filed for in September 2007.

Computing Device: MacBook design. originally filed for in October 2007.

Electronic Device Holder: iPod holder used in lanyard. Originally filed for in March 2007.

Method and Apparatus for Backlighting a Device: Distribution of light in relation to a keyboard. Originally filed for in June 2005.

Data-Driven Global Boundary Optimization: Text-to-speech synthesis. Originally filed for in October 2003.

Circuits and Methods for Amplifying Signals: Power supply compensation circuit in class D modulators. Originally filed for in June 2006.

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