“Apple is notoriously protective of its employees and the inner workings of its research and development teams are highly secretive,” Richard Gray reports for The Telegraph. “However, examining patents and publicly available information can provide an intriguing insight into the engineers and designers behind the company’s products. Here are some of the key figures who played a role in the development of the latest iPhones.”
“Sir Jonathan, or Jony as he likes to be called, is perhaps the most obvious person to mention,” Gray reports. “Until recently he was in charge of Apple’s industrial design team, a role he started in 1996. He is now the Senior Vice President of Design at Apple and oversees the design of all of Apple’s i-devices, including the iPod, iPhone and iPad.”
Gray reports on:
• Benjamin Pope – the Antarctic researcher: The first of four Apple engineers who invented the Touch ID fingerprint scanning technology that appears on the iPhone 5S.
• Mark Zimmer – the mathematician: One of four engineers named on the patent behind Apple’s new Parallax technology that gives the wallpaper and screen a more three dimensional feel.
• Geoff Stahl – the TopGun instructor: Another of the inventors named on a patent for Parallex, Mr Stahl is the director of graphics and imaging at Apple.
• Nicholas Merz – the bell-tower restoration enthusiast: A senior product designer at Apple who also worked on the fingerprint sensor, he studied at Stanford Univrsity and the California College of the Arts.
• Scott Myers: Another of the engineers who worked on the fingerprint technology… He is also credited with a patent for a wrap-around, flexible display.
• Daniel Jarvis – the linguist: Another of the engineers who helped to invent the fingerprint recognition technology.
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