“Earlier today Patently Apple discovered a patent application filing that listed one of Apple’s leading product design engineers,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“The patent application was published under its inventor’s names as a means of avoiding being published under Apple’s name at the US Patent Office. Legally speaking, Apple only has to appear as the assignee after the patent application has been granted,” Purcher reports. “This is a somewhat common practice that Apple uses to keep specific intellectual property out of the lime light until the last possible moment. The discovery today covers a rather simple invention. It’s about providing Apple TV with a much larger heat sink.”
Purcher reports, “Today’s Apple TV supports a 32-bit single-core A5 processor. But if Apple should ever decide to adopt their faster A7 or future A8 64-bit single or multi-core processors to support gaming, it would need a larger heat sink.”
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I hear that Apple has also patented a longer power cord for AppleTV as well. That will enable the unit to be placed in more positions than before. Just one of a number of exiting things coming in September. Hold your hats.
How exciting! things are exiting the building before September! If a number of exiting things were indeed exiting, I hope I would sitting on toilet when that happened, then I would be able to keep my dignity when all around me others were losing theirs!
Coherent much?
I believe your brain exited your cranial housing group.
Any reason for dignity or respect about yourself ended Day One of your birth.
I c what you are saying/
Does this really qualify as an invention???
But i love the idea of apple tv being geared towards gaming!
That is awesome!
That must be some magic heat sink to warrant a new patent. Maybe it’s liquid cooled with unicorn tears.
or used to animate a mini lava lamp.
Never needed an apple tv until the lava lamp edition,
Now i GOTTA have it!
A heat sink completely marginalizes the hockey puck form factor and evens my conviction, we could see a beefed up and larger TV.