Chips, displays, cameras, phones, batteries and robots. These filings show what devices Big Tech is building, often long before they ship. The hardware patent applications we have broken down from the companies we track, from semiconductors to foldable screens, newest first.
Week of November 12, 2026 · 48 filings covered · refreshes every week
The 48 filings Patentlyze covered this week sort into four clusters: AI silicon, display and form-factor experiments, wireless charging, and space hardware.
Google's filing sketches an AI computer built from many flat, solar-powered satellites that talk to each other by laser. The patent is about the hard part: getting all those beams to find each other and stay locked on.
Your phone's front camera is one of the last things breaking up a clean screen. This Apple patent filing hides it behind the display itself, where the pixels thin out just enough for light to get through.
Samsung describes a way to draw on a phone with a bare finger while two smart rings stand in for a stylus. One ring tracks how far you bend a finger, and the other tracks how you tilt the finger doing the drawing.
Google has filed a patent application for a rolling meeting station with a dome over the table. The dome sends a video call's audio down at the people sitting there and soaks up the rest, so coworkers nearby don't have to listen in.
Your phone's front camera is one of the last things breaking up a clean screen. This Apple patent filing hides it behind the display itself, where the pixels thin out just enough for light to get through.
Samsung has drawn up a memory cell that does the math itself, so an AI chip doesn't have to keep hauling numbers back and forth. It manages this with just six transistors.
Samsung's walking-assist wearable has a motor that pushes on your legs, so this patent has the device confirm the straps are snug before the motor is allowed to move. It treats a loose strap as a safety problem.
Microsoft's filing describes carving a shallow pocket into the back of a phone's screen glass and sliding an antenna array inside, while the top of the screen stays perfectly flat.
Microsoft's patent filing describes a way to turn videos of people using their hands into reusable grip patterns, so a robot could handle a pickle jar after learning from a screwdriver.
IBM has been granted a patent for a system that does more than pick robots for a job. It predicts where they will break, then has a fabrication machine rebuild them before they leave.
Teach a robot hand to turn a screwdriver, and this Microsoft patent application tries to let it work out a pickle jar lid without a new lesson.
A graphics chip often has to fetch numbers and then shuffle them into the right order before it can use them. A new Qualcomm patent application has the chip do that reordering as the numbers arrive, using one extra setting on the load command.
AI chips usually keep separate hardware for grid math and list math. AMD's patent application describes one block that does both by feeding its own answers back in as new inputs.
Every new generation of AI chip tends to break the instructions written for the last one. Intel has filed a patent application for a translator that rewrites those instructions instead of making engineers start over.
Graphics chips running AI lose time rearranging the same numbers between steps. A new Qualcomm patent application lets the matrix hardware read data in the shape the next step wants.
Fix a shaky, grainy frame by borrowing from the one before it, and you can end up with ghosts and smears instead. Qualcomm's filing tries to decide, pixel by pixel, how much borrowing is safe.
2,316 filings, broken out by what the hardware actually is. Every type is its own tracked page.
Over the last 90 days, Samsung leads with 292 hardware filings, followed by Sony (178), Apple (76), Qualcomm (76) and Google (68). That is out of 869 hardware filings from all the companies we track in the same period.
102 hardware patent applications from the companies we track have published in November 2026 so far, after 256 in October. Patentlyze has covered 2,315 hardware filings since May 2026.
Apple Files Patent for a Phone Camera Hidden Behind the Screen, an Apple filing published November 12, 2026. The latest filings are listed above, newest first.
No. A published application is not a product announcement. Companies file to protect options, and most patented ideas never ship in the form described. What filings do show is which companies are putting research effort into hardware right now.
