Samsung Patents a Corner Magnet Design to Keep Foldable Phones Sealed
Samsung's latest patent filing solves a surprisingly fiddly problem: how do you confirm that a foldable phone's internal seal is properly glued…
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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 Cover Glass Trick That Kills Rainbow Patterns on Folding Screens
Every folding phone has a dirty secret: the crease zone can produce faint, shimmering rainbow bands when the display bends. Samsung's new…
Samsung Patents a Spring-Loaded Gear Hinge for Its Foldable Phones
Samsung has filed a patent for a hinge mechanism that uses interlocking gears and a compressed spring to keep a foldable phone's…
Qualcomm Patents Chip Technology That Stops Unauthorized Programs From Reading Sensitive Data
Every time a chip touches a block of memory, something has to decide whether that access is allowed. Qualcomm's new patent describes…
Qualcomm Patents a Boot System That Picks Its Own Power Lines
Every time your phone starts up, its chip draws power from a fixed set of lines, whether it needs all of them…
Samsung Patents a Display That Dims Based on How Hot Your Phone Gets
Your phone's screen is one of the biggest reasons it overheats, and Samsung is patenting a way to automatically dial back brightness…
Samsung Patents a Display Circuit That Feeds Each Color Pixel a Different Voltage
Most phone screens treat all their pixels equally at reset time, sending the same baseline voltage to red, green, and blue dots…
Samsung Patents a Stress-Absorbing Foam Layer for Foldable Phone Screens
The fold crease on foldable phones is one of the most persistent complaints about the category, and Samsung is looking at an…
Qualcomm Patents a Graphics Chip Trick That Skips Pixel Work When Unnecessary
Every frame your phone renders is a mountain of tiny color calculations. Qualcomm's new patent describes a way for the graphics chip…
Samsung Patents a Speaker Built Into a Sliding Phone's Inner Rail
Samsung is exploring a way to fit a speaker directly inside the structural rail that lets a phone's screen slide open, freeing…
Samsung Patents a Foldable Phone That Tucks Its Antenna Inside the Hinge
Samsung may have found a clever place to hide a phone's antenna: right inside the hinge that lets the screen fold in…
Qualcomm Patents a Sound-Wave System for Locating Tracked Objects
Your phone already uses radio signals to search for lost items, but Qualcomm thinks sound waves could do the job with greater…
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