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Latest AR & VR patents

Headsets, smart glasses, and the displays, eye tracking and sensors that make them work, from Apple, Meta, Samsung, Sony and more. The augmented reality and virtual reality patent applications we have broken down from the companies we track, newest first.

in the Nov 12 release
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in November so far
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filings tracked
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last 90 days
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Recent filings

Newest first · 690 total
  1. Qualcomm · Published Jun 11

    Qualcomm Patents a Step-by-Step Wake-Up and Login System for AR/VR Headsets

    Every time you put on an AR or VR headset, something has to figure out that you're there — and that it's really you. Qualcomm just filed a patent laying out exactly how that process should work, step by step, across two dedicated chips.

  2. Qualcomm · Published Jun 11

    Qualcomm Patents In-Car Headset Visuals Delivered Live From Remote Servers

    Qualcomm is patenting a way to pipe cloud-rendered extended reality experiences directly into a moving vehicle — blending what's happening outside the car with what a passenger sees through an XR headset, all processed off-device.

  3. Qualcomm · Published Jun 11

    Qualcomm Patents a Two-Chip Startup and Login Sequence for XR Headsets

    Before you can see anything in a mixed-reality headset, a lot has to happen behind the scenes — and Qualcomm wants to own exactly how that handshake works, chip by chip.

  4. Meta · Published Jun 4

    Meta's New Patent Hides Headset Hardware Where Your Eyes Can't See It

    Your eyes have a natural blind spot at the edge of your vision — and Meta wants to stuff the hardware of a mixed-reality headset right into it, making the device look far thinner and more like ordinary glasses than anything on the market today.

  5. Meta · Published Jun 4

    Meta's New Patent Hides Charging and Display Sensors Inside AR Glasses' Nose Bridge

    Meta is trying to squeeze two completely different jobs — battery charging and display alignment sensing — into a single flexible circuit tucked into the nose-bridge of an AR headset. It's a small design decision with real consequences for how thin and integrated next-gen AR glasses could get.

  6. Meta · Published Jun 4

    Meta's New Patent Hides Muscle-Reading Sensors Inside a Fabric Wristband

    Meta is patenting a wristband that picks up the electrical signals your muscles fire when you move — wrapped in fabric, held in place by magnets, and designed to sit flush against your wrist skin without any obvious hardware sticking out.

  7. Meta · Published Jun 4

    Meta's New Patent Teaches AR Glasses to Filter Out the Digital Clutter

    Imagine walking into a store and your AR glasses are technically aware of a hundred digital overlays attached to products around you — but only show you the ones that actually make sense right now. That's exactly the problem Meta is trying to solve with this patent.

  8. Google · Published Jun 4

    Google's New Patent Lets an AI Answer Questions About Whatever You're Watching in AR

    Imagine asking a question mid-movie and getting an answer that actually accounts for where you are in the story — not just a generic web search. That's the core idea behind Google's new extended reality patent.

  9. Google · Published Jun 4

    Google Patents AR Glasses That Stop Ghost Images Before They Reach Your Eyes

    If you've ever seen a faint double image or halo in an AR headset, you've met stray light. Google's latest patent is specifically designed to kill it before it reaches your eyes.

  10. Google · Published Jun 4

    Google's New Patent Lets a VR Headset Tell Streaming Apps Where to Put the Screen

    Google is patenting a handshake system that lets an XR headset tell a streaming app exactly where and how to place a video panel inside a custom virtual environment — so the app and the scene stay in sync without the user doing any setup.

  11. Google · Published Jun 4

    Google Patents AR Glasses That Track Your Eyes Without a Visible Camera

    Google has filed a patent for an AR waveguide that handles both your display image and infrared eye tracking inside the same thin optical slab — no separate camera module required.

  12. Google · Published Jun 4

    Google Patents AR Glasses That Stop Text From Vanishing Into the Background

    If you've ever squinted at white AR text floating in front of a white wall and thought 'this is unreadable,' Google is apparently filing patents to fix exactly that.