( September 29, 2026, 1:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a win for Apple Inc., a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a ruling from the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that six patent claims asserted against Apple involving speech recognition technology were unpatentable as obvious; the panel held that the patent’s term “feature vector” includes the vector-quantized codewords disclosed in an earlier patent....