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This Week's Big Tech Patent Trends
Patentlyze covered 245 notable Big Tech patent filings from this week’s USPTO release. Samsung led our coverage with 43, ahead of Apple (34), Google (30), and Sony (25). AI / ML (71) and Hardware (48) were the biggest categories.
The standouts: Apple files a patent for earbuds that notice when you fall asleep and pause your podcast, Samsung files a patent for a ring that projects a touchscreen onto your palm, and Disney files a patent for an AI character that invents its own memories to match yours.
What We're Watching
All watchlists →The ongoing patent races we follow filing by filing. Every watchlist is a living timeline that updates as new applications publish.
The AR glasses race
This tracker follows patent filings from Apple, Google, and Meta that solve concrete problems in AR glasses and headsets: eye…
The AI chip wars
This watchlist tracks patents on the plumbing of AI chips: memory bottlenecks, task scheduling, data compression, and coordination across multiple…
The AI photo editing race
This tracker collects Google and Nvidia filings on photo and video editing, covering per-region edits, text-guided recoloring, compression, and smoother…
Apple's AR glasses
This tracker follows Apple's patent filings on how AR glasses might fit a face, sense slippage, track eyes, size virtual…
Samsung's home robots
This tracker follows Samsung patents that give robots better balance and recovery, teach appliances to sense spills, boiling water, or…
Meta's smart glasses
This tracker collects Meta patents on smart glasses hardware: camera lens shielding, hinge durability, nose bridge fit, display alignment, and…
Browse New Patents By Company
6921 published patentsThe latest Big Tech patents: one standout pick per company, updated as each week's filings publish.
Apple
591 patents
Fall asleep with a podcast on and your earbuds could notice, pause it, and back it up a few seconds so you can pick up where you…
Google describes an AI that answers 'Can you give me a workout routine?' by building you a small app-style screen on the spot,…
Microsoft
559 patents
You write an email, and software tells you which coworker's words most shaped it. Microsoft's patent application describes…
Meta
176 patents
Meta describes a device that mutes its own microphone when you walk up to a restroom sign, enter a marked no-recording area, or…
Nvidia
609 patents
Instead of streaming every frame of your video call, Nvidia describes sending one full photo and then only a handful of points…
Tesla
51 patents
In most cars, the door skin you see is thin and the real crash protection hides inside. Tesla's patent application flips that,…
OpenAI
42 patents
Ever wait on a chatbot and wonder whether it froze? OpenAI's filing describes a live timeline that shows the AI cropping your…
Amazon
105 patents
Before an AI assistant can use the right app for you, it has to know which apps exist. Amazon's filing describes a screening step…
Samsung
1543 patents
Samsung's patent puts a tiny projector and camera inside a ring, so your own palm becomes the screen. Wear two rings and you can…
IBM
419 patents
Your permission to sit in a virtual meeting could change mid-conversation. IBM describes software that follows what is being…
Adobe
228 patents
AI image tools can draw 'a dog on a beach,' but not your dog. Adobe's filing describes one model that learns a specific pet or…
Qualcomm
543 patents
A photo captures one angle and nothing else, but this Qualcomm patent application describes software that guesses what the scene…
Sony
650 patents
Instead of streaming finished video frames, Sony's patent has a server teach a small AI model what a 3D scene looks like, then…
Intel
188 patents
Intel's patent application describes a train or car window that can erase an animal or person from the view just before impact,…
AMD
114 patents
The chips that run AI chatbots spend a surprising amount of time waiting for data instead of crunching numbers. AMD's patent…
Salesforce
98 patents
AI assistants can give a different answer every time you ask the same question, which makes them hard to grade. Salesforce's…
Disney
60 patents
When Disney's AI character has no memory that matches yours, it makes one up. That invented memory, built from details you just…
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