Patent to lock (Ironic Edition): design of the old MacBook Air, iChat, Quartz Extreme Composer and more

What timing On the eve of the arrival of the new MacBooks Air, with a different design, Apple won two more patents on the design of the old model, in addition to the one it won in March! Now she can be sure that she will not tarnish the memory of the Air that is gone and God knows how long it will take to get the patent for the Airs that arrived today.

Design patent for the first MacBook Air

Another patent obtained by Ma yesterday was the video conference system between several people of iChat. At least FaceTime for Mac (yet) does not offer conversations between multiple participants, not to mention that part of this technology may be being used in the new standard, but it is still ironic to see such an invention being registered right now.

IChat video chat patent

Finally, something that was not outdated in today's keynote: Quartz Extreme Composer. The graphic window management technology of Mac OS X shown in this invention as a tool for generating stereoscopic (or three-dimensional) images at the operating system level, so that the applications themselves do not need to consume extra resources generating independent images for each eye or at least that's what I understood when I saw the image above and read an excerpt from the patent. Avoid using “3D” or “Three-dimensional” in the patent text may have been deliberate, you will know

Patent Quartz Extreme Composer

Other patents published yesterday include an event processor on systems with a graphical interface, an antenna sharing circuit between portable devices, the design of the compass icon on iOS, methods pertinent to a video viewer. feeds news and a portable power supply capable of supplying power to a device through an interface.

(via Patently Apple)