Google Patents a Flux-Based Readout System for Superconducting Qubits
Reading out a qubit's state without wrecking it is one of quantum computing's hardest plumbing problems. Google's new patent proposes using a…
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Microsoft Patents a Way to Build FPGA Barrel-Shifters Using DSP Multipliers
FPGAs are incredibly flexible chips, but their internal resources aren't all created equal — and Microsoft has filed a patent to stop…
Microsoft Patents an Automated Template System for Chip Interposer Layout Design
Designing the silicon "bridge" that connects multiple chips in a modern processor package is painstaking, repetitive work. Microsoft's new patent describes a…
Microsoft Patents a CPU Performance Sampler That Avoids Polluting Its Own Cache
Profiling a CPU is a bit like measuring your car's speed by adding a second engine to power the speedometer — the…
Microsoft Patents a Precision Glass Filament Drawing and Cutting Method
Microsoft — best known for software, cloud, and Surface laptops — has quietly filed a patent for manufacturing glass filaments with sub-millimeter…
Microsoft Patents Synthetic DNA Tags That Log a Product's Entire Supply Chain Journey
Imagine if every head of lettuce carried an invisible molecular diary of every farm, warehouse, and truck stop it passed through. That's…
Microsoft Patents a Layered Capacitance Sensor for Body-Proximity Antenna Detection
Microsoft is quietly working on a way for devices to sense when your hand is near their antenna — and automatically adjust…
Microsoft Patents NVMe Command Batching for Faster Network Storage
Microsoft is patenting a way to make cloud storage behave more like local storage — by teaching a hardware controller to bundle…
Meta Patents Active Ground-Tracking Circuit for Cleaner Biosensing Wearables
When a wearable tries to read electrical signals from your body, tiny voltage mismatches between the device's ground and your skin can…
Meta Patents Electromagnetic Shielding for Muscle-Signal Wearables
Meta is working to make muscle-reading wristbands accurate enough to survive the real world — and that means designing out the electrical…
Nvidia Patents an API for Fine-Grained GPU NUMA Memory Control
On a server with dozens of CPUs and GPUs, memory location is everything — the wrong node can quietly tank performance. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents an Intelligent Two-Phase Cooling System for AI Datacenters
As AI chips push heat density to extremes, Nvidia is patenting a smarter cooling system that can switch between two different refrigerant…
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