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.

Apple just pushed its glasses to late 2027. The leaks tell you when. The patents tell you what, and they have been telling that story for years.

“Agentic AI” is the phrase of the year. The patent record shows where the real bets are being placed — and it isn’t where the demos are.