{"id":262,"date":"2016-01-11T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=262"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T20:24:19","slug":"apple-granted-another-solar-related-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/apple-granted-another-solar-related-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple granted another solar-related patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology powerhouse Apple was granted 53 new patents last week, one of which deals specifically with technology that is directly related to solar-powered devices. <\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the newly granted, solar-related patent titled &#8220;Methods and apparatuses for operating devices with solar power&#8221; involves solar power tracking techniques.<\/p>\n<p>The patent covers technology that aids the performance of devices that have multiple power sources, e.g. solar power, power received from a USB connection, etc.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apple Granted Patent 53 Patents Today Covering Solar Power, a Dock with a Flex Connector + <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZlzNxZNa65\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZlzNxZNa65<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2XgRyQQgQO\">pic.twitter.com\/2XgRyQQgQO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patently Apple (@PatentlyApple) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatentlyApple\/status\/684331943240929280\">January 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>One of many solar patents<\/h2>\n<p>All told, Apple now holds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlyapple.com\/patently-apple\/solar-energy\/\" title=\"more than a dozen solar-related patents\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>more than a dozen solar-related patents<\/strong><\/a> that deal with various aspects of solar energy and solar power, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solar cell ambient light sensors.<\/li>\n<li>A power management system with solar panel option.<\/li>\n<li>Both touch and solar cells on a single panel.<\/li>\n<li>Integrated touch sensor and solar panel stack-up configurations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/walmart-tops-the-list-u-s-corporate-solar-users\/\" title=\"Walmart tops the list U.S. corporate solar users\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Walmart_Store_sign-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Walmart tops the list U.S. corporate solar users\" alt=\"Walmart tops the list U.S. corporate solar users\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/walmart-tops-the-list-u-s-corporate-solar-users\/\" title=\"Walmart tops the list U.S. corporate solar users\"><h4>Walmart tops the list U.S. corporate solar users<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/walmart-tops-the-list-u-s-corporate-solar-users\/\" title=\"Walmart tops the list U.S. corporate solar users\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Apple &amp; solar<\/h2>\n<p>Apple is frequently seen on lists of <a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/walmart-tops-the-list-u-s-corporate-solar-users\/\" title=\"top U.S. corporate solar users\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>top U.S. corporate solar users<\/strong><\/a>. A recent analysis from recent the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) had Apple at third on the <a href=\"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/walmart-tops-the-list-u-s-corporate-solar-users\/\" title=\"list of U.S. companies by total installed solar capacity\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>list of U.S. companies by total installed solar capacity<\/strong><\/a>, ranked by capacity in megawatts.<\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlyapple.com\/patently-apple\/2016\/01\/apple-granted-patent-53-patents-today-covering-solar-power-for-idevices-a-dock-with-a-flexible-connector-more.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Patently Apple<\/a><\/span><div class=\"pd-photo-att\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Apple_Headquarters_in_Cupertino.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo<\/a> by Joe Ravi \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology powerhouse Apple was granted 53 new patents last week, and one of the new patents deals specifically with technology that is directly related to the performance of solar-powered devices. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,32,50,48,30],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-corporate","tag-solar-patent","tag-technology"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}