Latest hardware patents, Page 198
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
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Display Patents an Under-Panel Light Sensing Stack for Screens
Samsung Display is patenting a way to weave light-sensing elements directly into the dark gaps between pixels — no separate sensor cutout required. It's a structural approach to putting eyes inside the screen.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Display Panel That Senses Its Own Deformation
Samsung is exploring a way to embed touch and pressure sensing directly into the structure of an OLED display — not as a separate layer on top, but woven into the very material that defines where each pixel lives.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a New Contact Pad Layout for 3D Memory Wordlines
As 3D NAND flash stacks more and more memory layers on top of each other, the tiny metal contact pads that connect each layer's wordlines become a serious space problem. Samsung's latest patent proposes a specific alignment scheme to make that wiring geometry work more cleanly at extreme layer counts.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Files Patent for Selective-Protection Semiconductor Etching Process
Deep inside a chip factory, the difference between a working transistor and a dead one can come down to a single masking step. Samsung is patenting a way to protect some circuit lines while selectively cutting others — a building block of modern chip patterning.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Wearable That Hands Off Tasks to Nearby Devices Automatically
Imagine your smartwatch notices you've sat down at your desk and automatically tells your PC to pick up where your phone left off. That's the core idea behind Samsung's latest wearable patent.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Self-Calibrating Radar Receiver That Fixes Its Own Signal Distortion
Radar chips are only as accurate as their analog circuitry — and that circuitry is never perfect. Samsung's new patent describes a radar transceiver that quietly measures its own imperfections and corrects for them, without ever needing to be plugged into external test equipment.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Motion-Trajectory System for Fixing Blurry Video Frames
Every video has a few frames ruined by motion blur — a fast pan, a sudden gesture, a poorly timed shutter. Samsung's new patent describes a smarter way to fix those frames by borrowing motion data from the sharp ones around them.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Recessed PCB Layout for Thinner Foldable Devices
Getting two separate circuit boards to talk to each other across a mechanical hinge — without adding bulk or breaking when the phone folds thousands of times — is one of the nastiest unsolved problems in foldable phone engineering. Samsung's latest patent takes a quiet but practical swing at it.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Shell-Wrapped Micro-LED Structure to Boost Display Efficiency
Tiny LEDs lose a surprising amount of light through their exposed edges — Samsung's new patent wraps each one in an ultra-thin metal shell to plug that leak.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Dual-Exhaust Airflow System for Smart Clothing Cabinets
Samsung is refining how air moves inside its clothing care cabinets — and the key insight is that not all the air should go through the heater. A two-exhaust system lets the machine heat some air while bypassing the heat exchanger with the rest, giving it finer control over temperature and drying conditions.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents an Induction Cooktop That Knows When Your Pot Is Boiling
Samsung is patenting a way for induction cooktops to automatically detect when something on the burner reaches a boil — no thermometer, no camera, just a tiny vibration sensor in the glass.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents an On-Chip Circuit for Testing Interconnect Health
As chips get smaller and the wires connecting their components shrink to nanometer scales, verifying those connections without destroying the chip becomes a serious engineering puzzle. Samsung's latest patent embeds the testing equipment directly into the chip itself.
