Latest hardware patents, Page 183
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 Foldable Cover Display That Reads Content From Its Own Case
Samsung is patenting a foldable phone that detects when you snap on a case — then pulls content data directly from that case and displays it on the cover screen. The case itself tells the phone what to show.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Wearable That Dials Down Radio Power During Music Playback
Your wireless earbuds are constantly juggling two jobs at once — playing music and maintaining a radio link. Samsung's new patent is about making that juggling act a lot less clumsy.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Way to Merge Dual-Camera Footage Into One Video Track
Samsung is patenting a method to take footage from two separate cameras and pack it into a single video track — potentially simplifying how multi-camera video is stored, shared, and played back on its devices.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a LUT-Driven Ray Tracing Denoiser for Real-Time Rendering
Samsung is rethinking how to clean up noisy ray-traced images — not by running a full neural network at render time, but by baking the smarts into a lookup table that can do the job faster and cheaper.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Display Patents an Optical Control Module for Anti-Reflection Screens
Samsung Display is patenting a multi-layer optical system designed to cut down on reflections in display panels — the kind of annoying glare that washes out your screen in bright sunlight or under office lights.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Single-Substrate Growth Method for Full-Color Micro LED Displays
One of the biggest manufacturing headaches in micro LED display tech is growing red, green, and blue pixels separately and then assembling them. Samsung's new patent describes a way to grow all three colors on the same substrate — which could be a meaningful step toward making micro LED displays practical at scale.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Robot Vacuum That Physically Moves Obstacles to Clean Beneath Them
Most robot vacuums politely drive around shoes, bags, and pet bowls — Samsung's new patent describes a robot that just moves them out of the way, cleans the dirty spot underneath, then carries on.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents an Auto-Focusing Liquid Crystal Lens Assembly for Wearables
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable lens system that can physically move *and* electronically change its focus — using a liquid crystal lens that a processor tunes in real time based on sensor readings. It's a two-pronged approach to optics that could make prescription-free smart glasses a lot more practical.
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Samsung · Published May 28
Samsung Patents a Pocket-Detection System for Foldable Phones
Samsung is filing patents to solve one of the most mundane-but-maddening problems with foldable phones: the screen you can still see on the outside keeps registering phantom taps when the phone is buried in your pocket.
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IBM · Published May 28
IBM Patents a Co-Packaged Optical Module for High-Density Chip Interconnects
As AI clusters demand ever-faster chip-to-chip links, IBM is patenting a way to embed optical hardware directly inside a chip package — shrinking the distance light has to travel and cutting the energy wasted in the process.
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Qualcomm · Published May 28
Qualcomm Patents a Context-Aware Screen Time Monitor That Weighs Your Environment
Your phone already tracks how long you stare at a screen — but Qualcomm is filing patents for a system that also tracks *how bad* that staring actually was, based on your lighting, posture, and physical state at the time.
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Qualcomm · Published May 28
Qualcomm Patents a System That Stops Updating Your Watch When Its Screen Goes Dark
When you're listening to music through earbuds and your smartwatch screen is off, why should your phone keep sending playback updates to that watch? Qualcomm has filed a patent for a system that asks exactly that question — and stops the waste.
