Latest hardware patents, Page 185
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 21
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 driving transistor two control gates instead of one, each fed a carefully coordinated voltage.
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Samsung · Published May 21
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 writing security-critical data to non-volatile memory even when the main processor is essentially asleep.
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Samsung · Published May 21
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 a clever spatial trick to get clean readings without cross-talk from neighboring pixel groups.
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Samsung · Published May 21
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 at completely different speeds, simultaneously, by selectively hiding clock pulses from the panel driver.
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Samsung · Published May 21
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 mounted — no separate grounding step, no extra hardware.
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Samsung · Published May 21
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 one machine from reading another's data? Samsung's new patent tackles that problem head-on inside the CXL memory controller itself.
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IBM · Published May 21
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 functions so repeated simulation runs don't have to start from scratch every time.
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Qualcomm · Published May 21
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 the frame, then act on that knowledge before the lens even sees it.
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Sony · Published May 21
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 game do when none of them are being touched?
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Sony · Published May 21
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 time — creating visible seams or geometry errors. Sony's new patent attacks that problem directly by tracking which vertices on different patches were originally the same point in 3D space.
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Sony · Published May 21
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 receiver on one chip, and the processing circuitry on a second chip bonded directly beneath it.
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Sony · Published May 21
Sony Patents a Tile-Based Hierarchical Map System for Real-Time 3D Streaming
Sony is patenting a system that breaks 3D scene data into tiles and resolution layers, streaming only the pieces your current viewpoint actually needs — and updating only the chunks that actually changed.
