Latest hardware patents, Page 182
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.
- in the Nov 12 release
- 48
- in November so far
- 102
- filings tracked
- 2,316
- sub-topics
- 13
Recent filings
Newest first · 2,316 total-
Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Display That Blends Two Viewing Angles with a Dimmed Transition Zone
Samsung is filing patents for a screen that can show different content to different viewers — and it's figured out how to make the edge between those zones look smooth instead of jarring.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents an Error-Detecting Charging System for Cordless Vacuums
Samsung is patenting a vacuum cleaner that watches its own charging process in real time — comparing voltages at both ends of the charging connection to catch faults before they damage the battery.
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Apple · Published May 28
Apple Patents a Differential Drive Touch Panel to Cut Noise
Touch screens have a noise problem — and Apple thinks the fix is sending two opposing signals at once, then listening for the difference. It's a classic analog trick, now baked into the electrode geometry itself.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents an Air Gap Heat Shield for Wearable Devices
Anyone who's worn a smartwatch during a long workout knows the uncomfortable warmth that builds up on your wrist. Samsung is patenting a way to put a deliberate air gap between your skin and the heat-generating electronics inside.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Modular Camera Stack That Chains Units Together on One Board
Samsung is rethinking how multiple camera modules wire into a phone — instead of each camera running its own cable to the main board, this patent describes a system where one shared circuit board carries signals from several cameras in a chain.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Camera That Shifts Frame Rates While Moving
Samsung is patenting a system that lets a moving device — think a robot, a drone, or an autonomous vehicle — automatically change how fast its camera captures frames based on what's happening in its environment. The idea is simple: not every situation needs the same camera throughput, and burning processing power on high frame rates when you don't need them is wasteful.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Space-Saving Internal Layout for Foldable Phones
Foldable phones have a space problem — you're cramming a dual-display device into a body that needs to fold in half. Samsung's latest patent tackles that constraint by deliberately overlapping two components that usually compete for the same real estate.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Display That Pops 2D Content into 3D as You Scroll
Samsung is patenting a system where scrolling a piece of content into a specific zone on your screen is all it takes to flip it from flat 2D into stereoscopic 3D — no button press required.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Layered Hinge Design for Foldable Phones
The hinge is the most mechanically stressed part of any foldable phone — and Samsung is patenting a subtle but specific fix for how its internal hinge components fit together.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Layered AI System for Precise Robot Motion Control
Teaching a robot to 'clean the table' is easy to say and brutally hard to execute — Samsung's new patent tackles that gap by chaining AI models together to translate a high-level goal into precise, frame-by-frame physical movements.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Curved Display That Shrinks Pixels at the Bend
Samsung is patenting a display architecture that deliberately uses smaller pixels in the curved regions of a screen — a structural fix for one of the trickiest problems in foldable and wraparound display design.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Dual-Mode Display That Embeds Sensors Between Its Pixel Layers
Samsung's new display patent describes a panel that can run in two distinct modes — one using all its pixels, one using only a subset — while routing light for sensors through the same layered stack. It's a clever approach to cramming more functionality into thinner display hardware.
