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Latest hardware patents, Page 189

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.

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Recent filings

Newest first · 2,316 total
  1. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents an Under-Display Fingerprint Sensor Built Into the Pixel Layer

    Samsung's new patent tucks a capacitive fingerprint sensor directly into the same layer as the display's pixel electrodes — no separate sensor module needed, no extra thickness.

  2. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents Real-Time App Status Overlays for Foldable Cover Displays

    Samsung is filing patents to make the small cover screen on its foldable phones more useful — not just a clock, but a live window into whatever apps are running inside.

  3. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents an Internal Acoustic Duct That Routes Speaker Sound Around Display Electronics

    Getting loud, clear speaker audio out of a razor-thin smartphone is harder than it looks — especially when the display's driver circuitry is sitting right where the sound needs to go. Samsung's new patent solves that by building a dedicated acoustic tunnel inside the phone's frame itself.

  4. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents an Adaptive Row Hammer Detection System for DRAM

    Row hammer attacks can corrupt memory by repeatedly accessing adjacent DRAM rows — and Samsung's new patent describes a controller that watches for those patterns in real time and decides on the fly how aggressively to defend against them.

  5. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents a Dual-Wire Wall-Mount System for Display Panels

    Mounting a flat-panel TV to a wall sounds simple, but keeping the internal chassis, wires, and rear cover locked together reliably is a real mechanical puzzle. Samsung's latest patent proposes a specific wire-hole geometry to solve it.

  6. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents a Fold-Angle Audio Routing System for Multi-Device Setups

    When you prop two Samsung devices together at an angle, their speakers could automatically carve up a surround-sound mix between them — no manual configuration required. That's the idea behind this new Samsung patent.

  7. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents a Multi-Wavelength LiDAR System with Optical Path Separation

    Samsung is working on a LiDAR system that fires multiple light beams at different wavelengths simultaneously — and uses a clever optical trick to keep the outgoing and incoming signals from stepping on each other.

  8. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents a Dual-Surface Stacked Antenna Structure for Devices

    Samsung is filing patents on a way to squeeze two antenna structures onto opposite faces of a thin dielectric layer inside a device — with one pattern deliberately overlapping the other when you look straight down through the board. It's a spatial trick that could help pack better wireless performance into slimmer hardware.

  9. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents a Contoured Battery Adhesive Designed for Tighter Phone Builds

    Holding a battery in place sounds trivial — until your phone is wafer-thin, foldable, or both. Samsung's new patent describes an adhesive member with a deliberate protrusion designed to grip a battery against the housing wall, keeping it from shifting even in increasingly tight internal layouts.

  10. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents an Injectable Waterproofing System for Phone Displays

    Instead of relying on pre-cut rubber gaskets to waterproof your phone, Samsung is experimenting with injecting liquid sealant directly into a purpose-built port in the device frame — a subtle but potentially more reliable twist on how phones keep water out.

  11. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents a Near-Memory System for Faster Deep Learning Training

    Samsung is filing patents that push AI training intelligence directly into memory hardware — reducing the back-and-forth between a CPU/GPU and RAM that quietly eats up training time and energy.

  12. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents an Antenna Built Directly Into a Laptop's Keyboard Structure

    Samsung's latest patent tucks a wireless antenna directly into the keyboard area of a laptop — using the keyboard opening cutouts themselves as part of the antenna's physical boundary. It's a clever bit of space-saving engineering that could help future Galaxy Books get thinner without sacrificing signal.