New Apple Patents
Apple patents everything from iPhone and Mac features to Vision Pro optics, health sensors, and Apple Silicon, often years before products ship.
Through the USPTO’s November 5, 2026 release, Patentlyze has covered 647 notable Apple patent applications, including 109 published in the last 30 days.
Top Apple filings this week
This week's published patents
The 27 Apple filings Patentlyze covered this week sort into three clusters:
- Headset fit and image quality. Several filings target the headset experience: lenses that slide to fit your eyes, a forehead pad that slides to fit your face, graphics that sharpen only where both eyes look, and a fix for warped hands in headset camera views.
- Cameras and displays. Filings here cover zoom buttons that separate lens zoom from digital zoom, photos that remember how bright the room really was, and a see-through display that zooms in where you look.
- Connectivity and AI routing. On the network and software side, filings address signing your gadgets onto a cell network all at once, letting your phone decide what apps' servers can see, and a switchboard that routes app questions to the right AI model.
What Apple is working on
Long-running programs
what qualifies: 8 or more filings, active in the last 6 weeks
| Apple's AR glasses | 126 filings · latest Nov 5 |
| Apple's eye and hand controls | 51 filings · latest Nov 5 |
| Apple's device-to-device handoff | 31 filings · latest Nov 5 |
| Apple's health sensors | 14 filings · latest Nov 5 |
| Apple's foldable iPhone | 10 filings · latest Oct 30 |
Newly emerging
what qualifies: first Apple filing within the last 8 weeks
| AI models that work in teams | 5 filings since Oct 9 |
Gone quiet
what qualifies: no new Apple filing in 6 or more weeks while the race stays active
| Wearables that read your body | 12 filings · quiet since Jun 26 while 9 rivals kept filing |
| AI assistants that remember you | 10 filings · quiet since Sep 18 while 13 rivals kept filing |
| The GPU rendering race | 3 filings · quiet since Sep 10 while 10 rivals kept filing |
Contested races
what qualifies: 3 or more companies in the same watchlist, Apple among them
| The AR glasses race | 67 of 416 · 11 companies |
| The AI chip wars | 9 of 394 · 13 companies |
| The AI photo editing race | 3 of 268 · 14 companies |
| The AI guardrails race | 3 of 223 · 15 companies |
| AI agents that act for you | 7 of 212 · 16 companies |
| The on-device AI privacy push | 18 of 201 · 14 companies |
Apple patent questions, answered
What is Apple working on right now?
Apple's current patent filings concentrate on Apple's AR glasses, Apple's eye and hand controls, Apple's device-to-device handoff, Apple's health sensors and Apple's foldable iPhone, with newer activity in AI models that work in teams. The breakdown above shows each program’s filing count and latest activity.
How many patents did Apple publish this month?
27 Apple patent applications have published in November 2026 so far, after 127 in October. Patentlyze has covered 646 Apple filings since tracking began in May 2026.
Does an Apple patent mean the feature will launch?
No. A published application is not a product announcement. Companies file to protect options, and most patented ideas never ship in the form described. What filings do show is where Apple is spending research effort right now.
Where can I find Apple’s newest patents?
This page updates every week, when the USPTO publishes its new batch of applications. The newest Apple filings appear in the list below.
Top tech areas
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AR/VR 204
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Hardware 167
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Software 142
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Networking 92
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Cell phone 53
Top inventors
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Dawei Zhang 28
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Stephen O. Lemay 26
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William A. Sorrentino III 21
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Wei Zeng 20
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Weidong Yang 19
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