Latest hardware patents, Page 199
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
Newest first · 2,316 total-
Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Smarter Error-Correction Encoding Scheme for Flash Storage
Flash memory wears out partly because not all bit patterns are equally kind to the cells that store them. Samsung's new patent describes a way to steer data encoding toward patterns that are easier on the hardware — without throwing away the data itself.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Display Patents a Dual-Zone Active Layer for Brighter, More Efficient LEDs
Samsung Display is rethinking what happens inside the light-emitting heart of an LED. By splitting the active layer into two chemically distinct zones, the company is trying to squeeze more light out of the same tiny chip.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Layer-Aware Privacy Filter for Displays
What if your phone could make just your banking app invisible to the person sitting next to you on the subway — without dimming the rest of your screen? That's the core idea behind this Samsung display patent.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Display Patents a Semiconductor Layer Layout to Reduce Signal Interference
Samsung Display is patenting a specific physical arrangement of semiconductor regions inside a display panel — one where a key semiconductor portion is deliberately kept from sitting directly above the data line beneath it. It sounds like a small structural detail, but in display engineering, stack geometry like this can be the difference between a pixel that performs cleanly and one that doesn't.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Self-Descaling Docking Station for Robot Mops
Robot mops that heat water for cleaning are a great idea — until limescale quietly gunks up the heating element and kills performance. Samsung's new patent tackles that problem by building an automatic descaling cycle right into the docking station.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Lighting System for Freezer Drawers
Opening the top freezer drawer is simple — always turn the lights on. But opening the bottom drawer? Samsung thinks that deserves a smarter, more situational response.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Multi-Grating Overlay Measurement Method for Chip Fabrication
Getting semiconductor layers to line up within a few nanometers across an entire wafer is one of the hardest problems in chip manufacturing. Samsung's new patent tries to make that alignment measurement more reliable by averaging signals from multiple reference gratings buried at different depths.
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IBM · Published May 14
IBM Patents a Tapered Contact Structure for Next-Gen Nanosheet Transistors
As transistors shrink to nanosheet dimensions, the tiny metal contacts that carry current in and out become a serious engineering headache. IBM's latest patent describes a clever geometric fix — a contact that's wider at the bottom than the top — to solve the crowding problem without sacrificing performance.
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IBM · Published May 14
IBM Patents a Hybrid Bonding Structure to Pull Heat Out of Stacked Chips
As chips get stacked closer together, heat has nowhere to go — and that thermal buildup is quietly becoming one of the hardest problems in modern semiconductor design. IBM's new patent proposes embedding dedicated heat-conducting channels directly through the bonding layers that hold chip stacks together.
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IBM · Published May 14
IBM Patents a Transistor-Swapping Trick to Shrink Chip Cell Layouts
IBM has found a clever workaround for a rigid constraint in chip layout tools — temporarily disguising one type of transistor as another so an automated layout engine places it more efficiently, then swapping it back.
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IBM · Published May 14
IBM Patents a Flux-Tunable Superconducting Switch for Quantum Signal Routing
Routing signals inside a quantum computer is one of the messiest unsolved problems in the field — and IBM thinks a tiny tunable superconducting switch might be part of the answer.
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IBM · Published May 14
IBM Patents a Non-Disruptive Fault Isolation System for Server I/O Hardware
When a network card or storage adapter inside a server cluster goes haywire, the usual fix is painful: bring things down, pull the card, restart. IBM's new patent describes a way to wall off the broken component automatically — and keep everything else running while you investigate.
