Latest hardware patents, Page 187
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
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- filings tracked
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- sub-topics
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Recent filings
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Apple · Published May 21
Apple Patents a Motion-Gated Heart Rate Sampling System for Wearables
Your Apple Watch sometimes takes heart rate readings at the worst possible moment — mid-stride, mid-pedal, maximum wrist bounce. This patent is Apple's attempt to fix that by making the watch wait for the right moment.
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Google · Published May 21
Google Patents a Double-Ended Qubit Readout That Extracts Two Results at Once
Every time you measure a qubit in a quantum computer, the act of measuring disturbs it — so knowing what state the qubit landed in *after* the measurement is almost as important as knowing what it read *during* it. Google's new patent proposes squeezing both answers out of the same signal.
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Waymo (Google) · Published May 21
Waymo Patents a Deep Learning Model That Reads Road Wetness in Real Time
Wet or icy roads are among the trickiest situations for any driver — human or robot. Waymo is filing a patent for a deep learning system that doesn't just detect rain, but estimates exactly how much water or ice is coating the road surface beneath its vehicles.
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Microsoft · Published May 21
Microsoft Patents a Predictive Digital Ink System That Only Reports When It's Wrong
Your stylus is constantly shouting its position to your computer — even when nothing surprising is happening. Microsoft's new patent flips that model: only send a report when the prediction is wrong.
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Meta · Published May 21
Meta Patents a Wake Word Arbitration System for Glasses and Wristbands
If you're wearing both smart glasses and a smartwatch, which one should respond when you say 'Hey Meta'? This patent describes a coordination system that picks the right device so they don't both answer at once.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a System That Blends Real Camera Feeds With Digital Twin Simulations
What if a self-driving car or robot could see the world through two lenses at once — one real, one simulated — and blend the best of both? That's exactly what this Nvidia patent proposes.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a Prediction-Based Power Steering System for Data Centers
As GPU clusters push power draw to the edge of what electrical infrastructure can handle, Nvidia is patenting a system that predicts how much power a data center will consume — before it consumes it — and throttles components accordingly.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a Self-Correcting Depth Image Pipeline for Stereo ML Systems
Stereo cameras are everywhere in robotics and autonomous vehicles — but their depth estimates can go badly wrong in glossy, reflective, or poorly lit environments. Nvidia's new patent describes an automated system that catches those errors and corrects them before they cause bigger problems downstream.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a System That Tracks Camera Aging Through Pixel Noise
Your camera might look fine from the outside, but its pixels are quietly getting noisier over time — and Nvidia wants to catch that before it causes a problem in an autonomous vehicle.
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Microsoft · Published May 21
Microsoft Patents a Mixed-Precision Dot Product Pipeline for ML Training
Matrix multiplication is the heartbeat of every AI training run — and Microsoft is patenting a way to make the underlying arithmetic cheaper and faster by mixing number formats inside the same hardware pipeline.
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Microsoft · Published May 21
Microsoft Patents a Sodium-Lithium Chloride Electrolyte for Solid-State Batteries
Microsoft is patenting battery chemistry — not software, not silicon — specifically a new solid electrolyte compound that can carry both lithium and sodium ions at the same time.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a Cloud-Assisted Rollback System for Cluster Storage Recovery
Losing a storage cluster to corruption or failure is one of the worst days in enterprise IT. Nvidia's latest patent describes a system that lets you roll an entire cluster back to a clean point in time — with the recovery menu served up from the cloud.
