Today Apple was granted 3 patents that it had previously filed.
The first patent is described simply as "Computing device," and refers to the Mac mini case design, the patent was originally filed in December of 2005 with the blurb; "ornamental design for a computing device, substantially as shown and described."
The second patent was applied for in August 2004 and issued today and is described as, "Cooling system for electronic devices utilizing fluid flow and agitation," an abstract reading;
"The system comprises a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a liquid to be flown from the inlet into the housing and out of outlet to exit the housing. The housing further has an interior portion for an electronic device to reside therein and a vibration transducer coupling to the housing."
"The liquid is flown across the electronic device to dissipate heat from the electronic device. The vibration transducer causes turbulent or agitation in the liquid as the liquid is flown across the electronic device,"
The third patent issued was described as the following; "System and method using edge processing to remove blocking artifacts from decompressed images."
The abstract reads;
"system and method using edge processing to remove blocking artifacts comprises an edge processor having an image converter for building an edge representation of a received image, a statistics analyzer for compiling a histogram containing edge intensities of the edge representation, a reference calculator for using the histogram to compute reference values corresponding to the blocking artifacts and an artifact remover for identifying and removing the blocking artifacts using the computed reference values."