IBM Patents a System That Automatically Fixes App Memory Access Failures
When an app tries to touch protected OS memory and gets rejected, someone has to clean up the mess. IBM's new patent…
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IBM Patents a Drone-Based System That Extends a Car's Vision in Fog or Snow
Fog and heavy snow are genuinely hard problems for self-driving cars — the sensors that work great in sunshine can go nearly…
IBM Patents a System That Wakes Storage Drives Up Before You Need Them
Every time your computer wakes a sleeping storage drive, there's a delay — sometimes hundreds of milliseconds. IBM wants to eliminate that…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Bundle Matrix Math Instructions Before They Hit the Accelerator
Every time a CPU fires an instruction at a hardware accelerator, there's overhead in the handoff. Qualcomm's new patent is about collapsing…
Qualcomm Patents a Memory Architecture with Dedicated Metadata Storage Lanes
Qualcomm is patenting a memory controller design that gives metadata — the bookkeeping information attached to every chunk of data — its…
Qualcomm Patents a Self-Tuning Filter for GPS Signal Errors Caused by the Atmosphere
Every GPS fix you get has been quietly distorted by the ionosphere — the charged layer of atmosphere that bends and delays…
Qualcomm Patents a Color-Aware Frame-Dropping System for Smoother Video Playback
When a game runs at 90fps but your screen refreshes at 120Hz, something has to give — and Qualcomm thinks analyzing color…
Qualcomm Patents Presence Detection That Adapts to Foldable Phone Angles
Your foldable phone held flat on a desk behaves very differently than one propped up at a 120-degree angle — and Qualcomm…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Automatically Lowers GPU Work During Heavy Mobile Game Frames
Qualcomm is patenting a way for a phone's graphics driver to automatically detect when a game frame is about to be expensive…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Batch CPU Instructions Before They Hit the AI Accelerator
Every time a CPU and an AI accelerator talk, there's overhead. Qualcomm's new patent proposes a buffer that bundles multiple instructions into…
Qualcomm Patents a Battery-Aware System That Moves Audio Processing Off Your Headset
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a system that lets a wireless audio device — think a headset or earbud — notice…
Qualcomm Patents a Memory System That Computes and Transfers Data at the Same Time
Moving data between memory and a processor is one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern chips. Qualcomm's new patent describes a memory…
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