Samsung Patents an Adaptive Rectifier Circuit for More Efficient Wireless Charging
Wireless charging loses a surprising amount of energy as heat during the AC-to-DC conversion step. Samsung's latest patent targets that exact inefficiency…
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Samsung Patents a Dual-Gate Transistor Design for More Precise OLED Pixel Control
Samsung Display is rethinking how individual OLED pixels get told how bright to be — and their answer is to give the…
Samsung Patents a Secure-Write Architecture That Works During Low Power Mode
Most chips stop doing meaningful work when they enter low power mode — but Samsung's new patent describes a way to keep…
Samsung Files Patent for a Display That Senses Light Without Extra Sensors
Samsung Display is patenting a screen that doubles as a light sensor — embedding light-receiving elements directly into the panel and using…
Samsung Patents a Per-Zone Refresh Rate Clock System for OLED Displays
Most variable refresh rate systems treat the whole screen the same — Samsung's new patent lets different parts of your display refresh…
Samsung Patents a Self-Grounding PCB Mount for Display Devices
Samsung has filed a patent for a display device where the circuit board grounds itself to the chassis the moment it's physically…
Samsung Patents Per-Host Encryption for Shared CXL Memory Devices
When multiple servers share the same pool of memory — a growing trend in modern data centers — how do you stop…
IBM Patents a Parallelizable Simulator for Dynamic Quantum Circuits
Running a quantum circuit simulation is slow and expensive — IBM's new patent tries to fix that by pre-computing and storing wave…
Qualcomm Patents RF Sensing System That Triggers Camera Actions Automatically
Qualcomm wants your device to use radio waves — not just its camera — to know when something is about to enter…
Sony Patents a Multi-Analog-Stick Input System That Picks a Lead Stick When All Are Idle
Sony is exploring controllers with more than two analog sticks — and this patent solves a surprisingly thorny problem: what should the…
Sony Patents a Vertex-Pairing System to Fix 3D Mesh Encoding Seams
When you compress a 3D model by slicing it into patches, the edges where those patches meet can fall apart at decode…
Sony Patents a Two-Layer Stacked Chip for Compact LiDAR Distance Sensing
Sony Semiconductor is trying to shrink a LiDAR sensor down to a two-layer silicon sandwich — putting the laser emitter and light…
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