OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivers more intelligence per watt. We read all seven OpenAI chip patents, including one with Richard Ho’s name on it, and matched them to what OpenAI showed at Hot Chips.

A weekly read of what the world’s biggest technology companies just told the U.S. patent office. Another heavy week: we wrote up 231 filings, with Samsung out front at 50, then Sony with 34, Qualcomm with 25, and Google with 23. The full run lives under this week’s Big Tech patents; these fourteen stood out. … Read more

A weekly read of what the world’s biggest technology companies just told the U.S. patent office. Every Thursday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publishes a fresh stack of applications from the biggest names in tech. Most are routine: defensive claims, incremental variations, legal groundwork. But a patent application is still a company putting in … Read more

A weekly read of what the world’s biggest technology companies just told the U.S. patent office. Every Thursday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publishes a fresh batch of patent applications. Most are paperwork: defensive filings, incremental tweaks, claims written to be forgotten. But a patent application is still one of the most honest documents … Read more

Big Tech’s 10 most interesting patents this week, in plain English: OpenAI’s chip design, Samsung’s spoiler-blurring TV, Disney’s crystal projections, Waymo’s memory for blind corners, and more.

Big Tech’s 10 most interesting patents this week, in plain English: Samsung’s tri-fold glass, Apple headset auth, IBM’s rolling-ball quantum computer, and more.

Apple’s foldable iPhone is coming. We read the real patents behind it: the roller hinge, the crease-control system, and the flexible display, in plain English.

One week of Samsung filings covers displays, cameras, silicon, satellites, and a smart ring. Assembled in one place, they describe a complete device.

OpenAI rarely patents anything. So the five filings it has published, two of them custom silicon, are worth reading closely.

Everything you need to read a Big Tech patent like an insider: what one is, how it travels from filing to grant, how to read the part that actually matters, and what it does and does not tell you.