Meta Patents a Battery Pack That Guides Itself Into Place
Swapping a battery in a small device is one of those things that sounds easy until you're fumbling to line up tiny…
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Battery & power patents
Charging, power delivery, and squeezing more life out of every cell. Power rarely makes headlines, but these filings decide how long everything else runs.
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47 totalCharging, power delivery, and squeezing more life out of every cell. Power rarely makes headlines, but these filings decide how long everything else runs.
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Samsung Patents a Smartwatch That Boosts Signal Strength Through Its Wireless Charger
Inside a smartwatch there are precious few millimeters to spare, and every component competes for space. Samsung's new patent finds a clever…
Samsung Patents a Finger-Worn Device That Broadcasts Its Location When Lost
Samsung is patenting a way for its smart ring to automatically stop acting like a health sensor and start acting like a…
Samsung Patents a Robot Charging Dock That Picks Its Own Sleep Mode
Your robot vacuum's charging dock sits plugged in 24 hours a day, burning power even when it has nothing to do. Samsung's…
Samsung Patents a System That Splits Incoming Power Between Two Batteries
Most phones have one battery and one charging path. Samsung is patenting a smarter way to handle two batteries at once, using…
Apple Files Patent Describing the Internal Build of an iPhone Charging Port
Apple has filed a patent that describes, in precise legal terms, exactly how the charging port on a mobile phone is physically…
Apple Patents a Battery Case Design With Reinforced Side Walls
Apple is rethinking the metal box that holds your phone's battery cells, making the sides thicker than the top and bottom plates…
Samsung Patents a Selective Data-Sync Check for Multi-Node Computing Systems
When dozens of computing nodes share and modify the same data, constantly double-checking every write operation wastes time and processing power. Samsung's…
Samsung Patents a System That Tracks Battery Wear and Adjusts Every Charge
Every time you plug in your Samsung phone, its battery ages a little. This patent describes a system that notices that aging…
Samsung Patents a Sub-Second Battery Health Check That Skips Long Test Cycles
Most battery health tests take minutes or longer to run. Samsung is patenting a method that gets a key health measurement done…
Samsung Patents a Charging System That Pauses Individual Batteries to Cut Heat
Your phone running a game while plugged in is basically a hand-warmer. Samsung's new patent tries to fix that by intelligently pausing…
Samsung Patents a Way to Charge One Device From Two Power Sources Simultaneously
What if your phone or laptop could pull power from two chargers at once and automatically split the load between them? That's…
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