Latest hardware patents, Page 201
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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- in November so far
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- filings tracked
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Recent filings
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Apple · Published May 14
Apple Patents Memory-Efficient Streaming Convolutions for Its Neural Engine
Running a deep neural network on a phone chip means constantly fighting a memory bottleneck. Apple's latest patent describes a way to stream data through multiple network layers without ever needing to hold the whole picture in memory at once.
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Apple · Published May 14
Apple Patents a Transformer-Based Filter for Wireless Oscillator Circuits
Deep inside every wireless chip is an oscillator — a circuit that generates the precise clock signal your phone uses to tune into a frequency. Apple is filing patents on a clever way to filter the noise out of those oscillators using a pair of transformers.
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Apple · Published May 14
Apple Patents a Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolyte That Ditches a Key Solvent
Apple is experimenting with a battery electrolyte recipe that removes ethylene carbonate — a near-universal ingredient in lithium-ion cells — and replaces it entirely with a fluorinated cousin. That's a meaningful chemistry bet.
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Apple · Published May 7
Apple Patents a System That Detects When Your Device Is in a Case and Dials Back Its Radio
Your iPhone already knows when it's in Low Power Mode — Apple's new patent wants it to also know when it's stuffed inside a case, and automatically turn down its radio to avoid signal chaos.
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Apple · Published May 7
Apple Patents a Method for Interleaving Chunked Entropy Data Streams
Apple has filed a patent describing a way to weave two separate data streams together at the chunk level — slotting pieces of one stream inside the other — and then cleanly pull them back apart at the other end.
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Google · Published May 14
Google Patents a Simplified Filter Derivation Method for Hardware Video Codecs
Video codecs can predict color information from brightness data with impressive accuracy — but the math is often too slow for dedicated hardware chips. Google's new patent trims that math down just enough to make it practical.
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Waymo (Google) · Published May 14
Waymo Patents a Hybrid LiDAR System That Untangles Speed and Distance Readings
When a self-driving car's sensor sees several objects at once, knowing how far away something is doesn't help much if you can't also tell how fast it's moving — and which speed reading belongs to which object. Waymo's latest patent tackles exactly that matching problem.
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Google · Published May 14
Google Patents a Smart System for Hiding Broken Display Subpixels
Every display has a few bad pixels hiding in it — Google's patent describes a controller that can automatically route around broken subpixels, blending in repairs using both same-color neighbors and pixels of entirely different colors.
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Waymo (Google) · Published May 14
Waymo Patents a Machine Learning System for Smarter AV Lane Changes
Changing lanes is one of the trickiest things a human driver does — and it turns out it's just as hard for a robot. Waymo's latest patent describes a machine learning approach that maps out multiple possible lane-change paths, then ranks them by predicting how surrounding traffic will behave.
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Google · Published May 14
Google Patents a Smarter Echo Canceller for Wireless Speaker Calls
When you take a call through a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi speaker, your phone's microphone picks up your own voice bouncing back off that speaker — and your caller hears a ghostly echo. Google's new patent targets exactly that problem with a timing-aware fix.
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Google · Published May 14
Google Patents a Side Sideband Interface for Flexible Die-to-Die Chip Communication
As chips get built from multiple smaller dies stacked or tiled together, getting those dies to talk to each other reliably — and cheaply — is one of the unsexy but critical engineering problems of modern silicon design. Google's latest patent takes a direct swing at it.
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Google · Published May 14
Google Patents a Flux-Based Readout System for Superconducting Qubits
Reading out a qubit's state without wrecking it is one of quantum computing's hardest plumbing problems. Google's new patent proposes using a secondary 'flux qubit' as a go-between — potentially cutting the complexity of the signal chain significantly.
