Sony Patents a System That Notices When Your Battery Isn't Charging, and Tells You
You plug in your phone, walk away, and assume it's charging, but the cable wasn't seated quite right, and you wake up…
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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 Fingerprint Reader Hidden Inside a Phone's Structural Skeleton
Samsung is patenting a way to tuck optical sensors behind a phone's screen by cutting a precise hole through the device's internal…
Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Handles Autofocus and HDR Photography at Once
Most phone cameras have to choose between gathering focusing data and capturing a wide range of light in a single shot. Samsung…
Intel Patents a Way to Share Space Between a Phone's Speaker and Its Antenna
There's almost no empty space left inside a modern smartphone, and that's a problem for audio. Intel has filed a patent that…
Qualcomm Patents a Display That Adjusts Zoom Speed Based on How Far Away Your Eyes Are
Every zoom animation on your phone plays at the same speed, whether your face is six inches from the screen or three…
Samsung Patents a Speaker That Stays Quiet When Privacy Is on the Line
Your smart speaker shouts answers into the room even when you'd rather nobody else heard them. Samsung has filed a patent for…
Qualcomm Patents a Display Chip That Leaves Unchanged Screen Areas Alone
Your phone redraws every pixel on screen dozens of times per second, even the parts that never change. Qualcomm has filed a…
Samsung Patents a Way to Route Screen-Drawing Work to Its Fastest Chips Automatically
Samsung has filed a patent for a system that watches what your phone's apps are doing and automatically moves screen-drawing work to…
Google Patents an AI That Reads App Launches to Manage Battery and Performance
Every time you open an app, your phone's chip has to guess how hard to work. Google wants to replace that guessing…
Google Patents an AI System That Keeps Your Device Running Efficiently in Real Time
Instead of waiting for your phone's processor to get hot or slow before making adjustments, Google's new patent describes a chip that…
Apple Patents a Display System That Grabs the Sharpest Frame Piece Available
When your phone's display processor is racing to keep up, Apple wants a backup plan: a second image buffer standing by to…
Samsung Patents a Phone Frame With a Hidden Slot That Acts as an Antenna
Samsung has filed a patent describing a way to build an antenna directly into the structural frame of a phone, tucked out…
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