IBM Patents an AI System That Schedules Airplane De-Icing Automatically
Winter weather is one of the biggest causes of flight delays, and de-icing planes is a slow, labor-intensive bottleneck. IBM thinks an…
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Samsung Patents a Way to Make AI Video Analysis Skip Redundant Work
Every time an AI model watches a video, it has to figure out which parts of each frame actually matter. Samsung's new…
IBM Patents an AI That Reads Your Emotions on Video Calls and Reacts in Real Time
IBM has filed a patent for a system that watches and listens to everyone on a video call, figures out how they're…
IBM Patents an AI System That Sends Drones to Fight Fires With Sound
IBM has filed a patent for a system that uses AI to coordinate fleets of drones to fight fires, not with water…
IBM Patents a Two-Stage AI System That Trims Bad Delivery Routes Before Optimizing
Route optimization is already a hard math problem. IBM's new patent says the trick is to make it a smaller one first,…
IBM Patents a System That Turns Plain-English Questions Into Database Queries
Most company databases are locked behind a programming language almost nobody outside IT actually knows. IBM's new patent describes a system that…
IBM Patents a System That Tells Cashiers and Staff How to Help Customers With Disabilities
Imagine walking into a store and the person at the counter already knows you prefer written communication, need extra time, or have…
Samsung's New Patent Teaches Robot Arms to Ask "Can I Reach That?" Before Moving
Before a robot arm reaches for something, it needs to know two things: can it physically get there, and will it crash…
Adobe Patents an AI That Skips the Steps It Doesn't Need
Most AI models process every internal step in the same order, every time, for every question. Adobe's new patent describes a way…
Nvidia Patents an AI That Lines Up Medical Scans by Practicing on Fake Ones First
Before a doctor can compare two scans of the same patient taken months apart, those images have to be lined up precisely.…
Google Patent Shows Plain Language Requests Can Automatically Build Custom Screen Controls
Instead of hunting through app settings to pin information to your home screen, Google is patenting a system that lets you just…
Microsoft Patents a System for Running AI Tasks From User-Written Config Files
Microsoft has patented a way to let users write simple configuration files that tell an AI model what to do, when to…
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