Samsung Patents a Wearable That Hands Off Tasks to Nearby Devices Automatically
Imagine your smartwatch notices you've sat down at your desk and automatically tells your PC to pick up where your phone left…
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Cell phone patents
Filings where the phone itself is the target: folding bodies, antennas hidden in the frame, cameras, charging, and screens built for pockets. Most also appear under their component type; this page gathers everything phone-bound in one place.
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Samsung Patents a Recessed PCB Layout for Thinner Foldable Devices
Getting two separate circuit boards to talk to each other across a mechanical hinge — without adding bulk or breaking when the…
Samsung Patents a Layer-Aware Privacy Filter for Displays
What if your phone could make just your banking app invisible to the person sitting next to you on the subway —…
Apple Patents a Flexible Display That Wraps Around Your iPhone's Edges
Apple is filing patents for iPhones — or other devices — where the display doesn't stop at the front glass. A flexible…
Apple Patents Memory-Efficient Streaming Convolutions for Its Neural Engine
Running a deep neural network on a phone chip means constantly fighting a memory bottleneck. Apple's latest patent describes a way to…
Apple Patents a Transformer-Based Filter for Wireless Oscillator Circuits
Deep inside every wireless chip is an oscillator — a circuit that generates the precise clock signal your phone uses to tune…
Apple Patents a System That Detects When Your Device Is in a Case and Dials Back Its Radio
Your iPhone already knows when it's in Low Power Mode — Apple's new patent wants it to also know when it's stuffed…
Google Patents a Smarter Echo Canceller for Wireless Speaker Calls
When you take a call through a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi speaker, your phone's microphone picks up your own voice bouncing back off…
Samsung Patents a Hollow-Shaft Hinge Assembly for Foldable Devices
Samsung is patenting yet another hinge design — this time built around a hollow shaft with an inner rotating shaft connected to…
Apple Patents a Gain Curve System for Smarter HDR Image Sharing
Ever sent a photo that looked stunning on your iPhone but washed out or over-bright on someone else's screen? Apple's new patent…
Microsoft Patents Motion-Compensated Compression for 3D Point Cloud Video
Your phone's video codec has used motion compensation for decades — storing only what changed between frames instead of every pixel every…
Google Patents a Smooth-Zoom System That Fixes Jumpy Camera Previews
Anyone who's used a phone camera knows the jarring jump when you zoom in — the preview stutters, shifts, or snaps to…
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