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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.

647

total filings tracked

109

published last 30 days

343

published last 90 days

Top Apple filings this week

Apple Files Patent for Smart Glasses That Warn Bystanders When the Camera Is On

Nov 5, 2026

Apple Files Patent for a See-Through Display That Zooms In Where You Look

Nov 5, 2026

Apple Files Patent for Letting Your Phone Decide What Apps' Servers Can See

Nov 5, 2026

Apple Files Patent for Borrowing Your Phone's Camera on a Shared TV

Nov 5, 2026

Apple Patents Video Call Effects That Slip Behind You or Float in Front

Nov 5, 2026

Apple Patents a Dial That Buzzes Harder as You Near a Setting's Limit

Nov 5, 2026

See all 27 from this week ↓

This week's published patents

Week of November 5, 2026 · 27 filings covered · refreshes every week

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

Based on Apple's activity across the watchlists we track · tracked programs only, not all of Apple's output

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

Numbers pull live from the database, so answers never go stale

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

Top inventors

Dawei Zhang 28
Stephen O. Lemay 26
William A. Sorrentino III 21
Wei Zeng 20
Weidong Yang 19

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