Latest hardware patents, Page 186
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
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- in November so far
- 102
- filings tracked
- 2,316
- sub-topics
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Recent filings
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Sony · Published May 21
Sony Patents a Shared Logical Address System to Speed Up Console Boot Loading
Sony is patenting a way to make your console's secondary processor pre-load downloaded data in the background — using the exact same memory address layout that the main chip expects — so content can appear on screen before the console even finishes booting.
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Sony · Published May 21
Sony Patents a Controller That Logs You Into Your Console Using Your Phone
Sony is exploring a login system where your PlayStation controller detects that your phone is nearby and automatically handles the sign-in — no typing required.
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Sony · Published May 21
Sony Patents a Floor-Card-Reading Toy That Teaches Kids to Program
Sony Interactive Entertainment is patenting a toy vehicle that drives over physical cards laid on the floor — each card encoding a movement instruction — so kids can literally build programs by arranging cards in a path.
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Sony · Published May 21
Sony Files Patent for a System That Remembers Your Speaker Layout
Sony Interactive Entertainment has patented a way for an information processing system — almost certainly a game console or cloud gaming service — to store and recall the exact physical positions of your speakers, so audio can be processed correctly every time without you re-entering your setup.
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Intel · Published May 21
Intel Patents a Robot That Guesses Object Weight From Your Posture
Before a robot grabs something from you, it needs to know how heavy it is — and Intel thinks the best way to figure that out is to watch how you're standing.
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AMD · Published May 21
AMD Patents a Real-Time Debugger That Freezes GPU Partition Switching
Debugging a GPU that's simultaneously serving multiple virtual machines is a bit like trying to read a spinning roulette wheel — AMD's new patent wants to pause the spin just long enough to take a clean snapshot.
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AMD · Published May 21
Xilinx Patents Fine-Grained Task Preemption for Neural Processing Units
When two AI tasks compete for the same chip, the more urgent one usually has to wait its turn. Xilinx's new patent describes a way to make neural processing units interrupt themselves mid-task so a higher-priority job can cut the line.
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AMD · Published May 21
AMD Patents a Data-Parallel Method to Decompress Dense 3D Triangle Meshes on the GPU
Rendering a detailed 3D scene means feeding a GPU millions of triangle coordinates — and that data has to arrive fast. AMD's new patent describes a way to decompress a compact triangle-mesh format directly on the GPU, without the usual sequential bottlenecks.
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Apple · Published May 21
Apple Patents an Apple Watch That Detects Surface Taps Using Light
Apple is working on an Apple Watch that can tell when your hand taps a table, desk, or any surface — without you ever touching the watch itself. The trick is an optical sensor hidden behind the watch crown.
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Apple · Published May 21
Apple Patents a Curve-Based Method for Generating HDR Gain Maps
Apple is filing patents around one of the quieter but genuinely tricky problems in modern photography: how do you let an HDR image display beautifully on both a dazzling Pro Display XDR and a five-year-old laptop screen at the same time? The answer is a gain map — and this patent is about generating one automatically.
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Apple · Published May 21
Apple Patents a System That Picks the Nearest Speaker When You Hit Play
What if your iPhone just knew to play music through the kitchen HomePod because that's the room you walked into? Apple's new patent describes exactly that — using hardware-level ranging to auto-route audio to whichever speaker is physically closest to you.
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Apple · Published May 21
Apple Patents a Programmable Chip That Bakes CNN Layers Directly Into Hardware
Apple is exploring a chip design where each layer of a convolutional neural network gets its own dedicated slice of programmable hardware — complete with its own memory buffers sitting right next door. It's a bet that specialization, not generalism, is the right path for AI inference at the edge.
