Samsung Patents a Robot That Finds and Cleans Up Liquid Spills Autonomously
Spilled a glass of water at 2am? Samsung is patenting a robot that can spot liquid on the floor, figure out whether…
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Samsung Patents a Touch-Detection System That Listens and Feels for Taps
What if your device could figure out where you tapped — not just from the touchscreen itself, but from the sound of…
Samsung Patents a Barrier Structure to Protect 3D Memory Wordlines
As memory chips get denser and more three-dimensional, the manufacturing steps used to etch one part of the chip can accidentally damage…
Samsung Patents a Stacked Nanosheet Transistor Design with Built-In PN Junction
Samsung is filing patents on a way to stack two sets of transistors on top of each other, separated by a special…
Samsung Patents a Stress-Resistant Flexible Circuit Board for Foldable Devices
Every time you fold a Galaxy Z Fold, a thin strip of circuit board flexes with it — and Samsung is quietly…
Samsung Display Patents a Redesigned Pixel Boundary Layer for OLED Screens
The walls between pixels in an OLED screen matter more than most people realize. Samsung Display is rethinking exactly how those walls…
Samsung Patents a Two-Layer 2D Semiconductor Channel Design for Next-Gen Chips
Samsung is working on a way to keep ultra-thin, atom-scale semiconductor channels from peeling off their substrates — a surprisingly tricky problem…
Samsung Display Patents a Gate Bypass Wiring System for Displays
Routing signals across a display panel sounds mundane — until the routing itself limits how thin or how precise a screen can…
Samsung Patents a Voltage-Sensing Protection System for Gas Cooking Appliances
A gas burner's ignition system is surprisingly vulnerable to electrical spikes — Samsung's latest patent describes a smart circuit that steps in…
Samsung Display Patents a Silicon-Based Protective Layer Stack for Panels
Samsung Display is patenting a specific layered construction for display panels that sandwiches silicon-based materials both above and below a cover panel…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Stack Semiconductor Package With Separate Wiring Paths
Samsung has filed a patent for a semiconductor package that stacks two groups of chips on top of each other — but…
Samsung Patents a Linear Guide System for Sliding Expandable Displays
Slide-out and rollable phones sound cool in demos, but the engineering challenge is keeping a flexible display perfectly flat and aligned as…
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