Latest hardware patents, Page 203
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
- 102
- filings tracked
- 2,316
- sub-topics
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Recent filings
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Nvidia · Published May 14
Nvidia Patents a GPU Memory Error Isolation System for Parallel Workloads
One bad memory cell on a GPU shouldn't crash every workload sharing that chip — but without careful fault isolation, it can. Nvidia is patenting a way to catch that error early, quarantine the offending partition, and let everything else keep running.
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Nvidia · Published May 14
Nvidia Patents a Smarter Denoising Filter for Ray-Traced Shadows
Ray-traced shadows look stunning, but cleaning up their noise is expensive. Nvidia's patent describes a way to skip that cleanup work entirely in areas where it wouldn't matter anyway.
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Nvidia · Published May 14
Nvidia Patents a Stochastic Texture Filtering System for Faster, Sharper GPU Rendering
Nvidia wants to replace one of the oldest tricks in GPU texture rendering — weighted color blending — with something more elegant: deliberate randomness. The surprising part is that it's faster and looks better.
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Tesla · Published May 14
Tesla Patents a Single-Wire System for Lit Buttons That Also Sense Touch
Tesla is trying to make illuminated buttons smarter and simpler — combining the LED power wire and the input-detection wire into a single conductor.
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Amazon · Published May 14
Amazon Patents a Frictionless Item-Return System for Physical Stores
Amazon is patenting a system that can automatically process item returns — or any item 'transition' — as you walk out of a physical store, with no scanning, no staff interaction, and no delay.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Vertical Transistor Design That Grows Its Own Channels
Samsung is filing patents on a vertical transistor architecture where the semiconductor channel material is grown directly out of the electrode beneath it — a fabrication shortcut that could simplify how ultra-dense chips are built.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents Selective Metal Deposition Process for Memory Cell Transistors
Building a transistor inside a memory chip is a bit like trying to paint the inside of a thimble — precision is everything. Samsung's latest patent describes a way to deposit metal exactly where it needs to go, and nowhere else.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Stepped Isolation Layer Design for Next-Gen 3D Memory Chips
As memory chips get more densely packed, the walls that separate individual memory cell blocks have to do more work in less space. Samsung's latest patent describes a clever stepped architecture for those dividing walls — a small structural detail that could matter a lot at the nanometer scale.
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Samsung · Published May 14
Samsung Patents a Hollow-Shaft Hinge Assembly for Foldable Devices
Samsung is patenting yet another hinge design — this time built around a hollow shaft with an inner rotating shaft connected to an outer bracket via link members. It's the kind of incremental mechanical engineering that quietly makes or breaks foldable phones.
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Nvidia · Published Apr 30
Nvidia Patents a Two-Stage AI Pipeline for Teaching Robots to Grab Objects
Getting a robot to reliably pick up an arbitrary object is one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics — and Nvidia just filed a patent for an AI pipeline that splits the job into two distinct learned stages to do it better.
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Apple · Published May 7
Apple Patents a Gain Curve System for Smarter HDR Image Sharing
Ever sent a photo that looked stunning on your iPhone but washed out or over-bright on someone else's screen? Apple's new patent targets exactly that problem — by bundling a mathematical 'gain curve' with every image so the receiving device knows how to display it correctly.
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Microsoft · Published May 7
Microsoft Patents Motion-Compensated Compression for 3D Point Cloud Video
Your phone's video codec has used motion compensation for decades — storing only what changed between frames instead of every pixel every time. Microsoft is now applying that same logic to 3D point clouds, the format that powers volumetric video, LiDAR scans, and immersive spatial experiences.
