Latest hardware patents, Page 188
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
- 2,316
- sub-topics
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Recent filings
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a Priority-Ordered Telemetry Controller for Multi-Device Systems
When you're running hundreds of GPUs in a data center, not all performance metrics are equally urgent. Nvidia's new patent describes a controller that figures out which telemetry data to grab first — so the most critical signals always get through.
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Amazon · Published May 21
Amazon Patents a System That Fuses Object Maps With Audio to Find the Real Sound Source
Your smart speaker is often listening to a reflection of your voice, not the real thing — Amazon's new patent is designed to fix exactly that by teaching devices to cross-reference what they hear with what they know about the room.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Wrapped FPCB Battery Connection for Foldable Phones
Getting a battery and a motherboard to talk to each other sounds trivial — until you're doing it inside a foldable phone where every fraction of a millimeter counts. Samsung's latest patent is all about a smarter way to route that connection.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Self-Validating Device Positioning System
Most location systems give you a position and move on — Samsung's patent adds a step where the device stops and asks itself, 'how confident am I in that answer, really?'
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Chip-Embedded Multi-Wavelength Optical Biometric Sensor
Samsung is trying to shrink a multi-wavelength laser-based biometric sensor down to a single chip substrate — and the key trick is a precisely machined groove that locks the laser diode into perfect alignment with the light guides etched into the chip itself.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Neural Network Supersampling Method for 3D Rendering
Samsung is patenting its own take on AI-driven supersampling — the same category of technology that powers Nvidia's DLSS and AMD's FSR — using a neural network pipeline that leans on motion vectors and a clever jitter-correction step to reconstruct high-resolution frames from low-res inputs.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Nano Optical Lens Array for Single-Shot HDR Capture
Samsung is patenting an image sensor that uses nanoscale optical structures — not software — to simultaneously capture bright and dark scene data in a single exposure, potentially replacing the multi-shot HDR tricks your phone currently relies on.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Sampling-Grid Method for Pixel-Level Image Reconstruction
Samsung is patenting a way to rebuild images pixel-by-pixel using a grid that already knows where each reconstructed pixel should land — a low-level but potentially powerful approach to image upscaling, correction, or super-resolution.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Clip-On Bracket That Mounts Your Phone Directly to a Monitor
Samsung is patenting a physical bracket that snaps onto the edge of a monitor frame and holds your phone in place — turning the display and the device into a single combined unit.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Screen-Switching System for Tri-Fold Phones
Samsung is quietly figuring out one of the trickiest parts of tri-fold phones: what should happen to your screen when you partially — or fully — unfold the device? This patent lays out a specific answer.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Multi-Rail Hinge System for Sturdier Foldable Phones
Foldable phones live and die by their hinges — and Samsung just filed a patent for a more mechanically controlled hinge design that uses a network of interlocking rails and spring-loaded support members to keep both sides of the display tracking together smoothly.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Dual-Barrier Hinge System to Keep Foldables Dust-Free
Dust and debris sneaking into the hinge is one of the most common ways foldable phones fail early — and Samsung may have a mechanical fix that doesn't rely on software or materials science alone.
