Latest hardware patents, Page 202
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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Microsoft · Published May 14
Microsoft Patents a Way to Build FPGA Barrel-Shifters Using DSP Multipliers
FPGAs are incredibly flexible chips, but their internal resources aren't all created equal — and Microsoft has filed a patent to stop one common operation from hogging the most precious ones.
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Microsoft · Published May 14
Microsoft Patents an Automated Template System for Chip Interposer Layout Design
Designing the silicon "bridge" that connects multiple chips in a modern processor package is painstaking, repetitive work. Microsoft's new patent describes a system that automates a big chunk of that layout process using reusable, snappable design templates.
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Microsoft · Published May 14
Microsoft Patents a CPU Performance Sampler That Avoids Polluting Its Own Cache
Profiling a CPU is a bit like measuring your car's speed by adding a second engine to power the speedometer — the act of measuring changes what you're measuring. Microsoft's new patent tackles exactly that problem.
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Microsoft · Published May 14
Microsoft Patents a Precision Glass Filament Drawing and Cutting Method
Microsoft — best known for software, cloud, and Surface laptops — has quietly filed a patent for manufacturing glass filaments with sub-millimeter precision. That's a long way from Excel, and it raises some interesting questions about where the company is heading.
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Microsoft · Published May 14
Microsoft Patents Synthetic DNA Tags That Log a Product's Entire Supply Chain Journey
Imagine if every head of lettuce carried an invisible molecular diary of every farm, warehouse, and truck stop it passed through. That's essentially what Microsoft is patenting — using synthetic DNA as a physical tracking label you can decode like a barcode.
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Microsoft · Published May 14
Microsoft Patents a Layered Capacitance Sensor for Body-Proximity Antenna Detection
Microsoft is quietly working on a way for devices to sense when your hand is near their antenna — and automatically adjust transmit power before your body absorbs too much radio energy.
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Microsoft · Published May 14
Microsoft Patents NVMe Command Batching for Faster Network Storage
Microsoft is patenting a way to make cloud storage behave more like local storage — by teaching a hardware controller to bundle commands together and route them intelligently before they ever hit the network.
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Meta · Published May 14
Meta Patents Active Ground-Tracking Circuit for Cleaner Biosensing Wearables
When a wearable tries to read electrical signals from your body, tiny voltage mismatches between the device's ground and your skin can corrupt the data. Meta's new patent tackles that problem head-on with a real-time compensation circuit baked into the wearable itself.
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Meta · Published May 14
Meta Patents Electromagnetic Shielding for Muscle-Signal Wearables
Meta is working to make muscle-reading wristbands accurate enough to survive the real world — and that means designing out the electrical noise that everyday appliances constantly pump into your skin.
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Nvidia · Published May 14
Nvidia Patents an API for Fine-Grained GPU NUMA Memory Control
On a server with dozens of CPUs and GPUs, memory location is everything — the wrong node can quietly tank performance. Nvidia is patenting an API that lets software explicitly tell a GPU exactly which memory node to use.
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Nvidia · Published May 14
Nvidia Patents an Intelligent Two-Phase Cooling System for AI Datacenters
As AI chips push heat density to extremes, Nvidia is patenting a smarter cooling system that can switch between two different refrigerant loops on the fly — automatically ramping up when your GPUs start running hot.
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Nvidia · Published May 14
Nvidia Patents a Compiler-Driven System for Concurrent Task Pipeline Execution
Running software tasks one-at-a-time wastes GPU muscle. Nvidia's new patent describes a compiler-level system that identifies which parts of a program can safely run at the same time — potentially squeezing a lot more work out of the same hardware.
