Latest hardware patents, Page 204
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
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Recent filings
Newest first · 2,316 total-
Meta · Published May 7
Meta Patents Frequency-Band Volume Control for Head-Wearable Devices
Instead of just turning everything up when it's loud, Meta's new patent describes a smarter approach: analyzing ambient noise across individual frequency bands and adjusting your audio output band-by-band to match. It's the difference between a blunt volume knob and a precision equalizer that reacts to the world around you.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Smooth-Zoom System That Fixes Jumpy Camera Previews
Anyone who's used a phone camera knows the jarring jump when you zoom in — the preview stutters, shifts, or snaps to a new framing. Google's new patent targets exactly that problem.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Direction-Aware Touchpad That Only Powers the Sensors You're About to Touch
Most touchpads waste power keeping every sensor awake, even the ones your finger will never reach. Google's new patent describes a smarter approach: predict where a touch is going, then only power the sensors that are actually in the way.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Speed-Sensitive Rotary Crown for Smartwatches
Spin the crown on Google's hypothetical smartwatch slowly, and it scrolls carefully. Spin it fast, and it leaps — because the software multiplies your input based on how quickly you're turning.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Polarization-Recycling Optical System for LCoS Displays
Most of the light in an LED-based display gets thrown away before it ever reaches your eye — Google's new patent is specifically designed to stop that from happening, squeezing more usable brightness out of the same power budget.
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Google · Published May 7
Google Patents a Hybrid Auto-Focus System That Prioritizes Close-Up Subjects
Getting a sharp photo of something small and close — a flower petal, an insect, a piece of food — is surprisingly hard for smartphone cameras. Google's new patent describes a smarter autofocus system that knows when to ignore one sensor and trust another to nail those tricky macro shots.
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Nvidia · Published May 7
Nvidia Patents a Bird's Eye View Generator for Embedded Vision Systems
Nvidia has filed a patent describing a way to convert raw stereo camera depth data into a bird's eye view image — all on a low-power embedded chip, no beefy GPU required.
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Tesla · Published May 7
Tesla Patents a Visualization Tool for Wafer-Scale Computing Systems
Tesla is quietly building tools to manage computing systems so large they span entire silicon wafers — and this patent is about making sense of what's inside them.
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents Scheduled 5G Upload Gaps to Sense How Close Your iPhone Is to Your Body
Your iPhone doesn't always know whether it's sitting in your hand, pressed against your ear, or stuffed in your jacket pocket — and that gap in awareness has real consequences for how much radio energy it pumps out near your body. Apple's latest patent proposes a clever fix: schedule tiny, coordinated pauses in 5G uploads so the phone can quietly take a body-proximity reading.
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Meta · Published Apr 30
Meta Patents a Metal-Sheathed Camera Lens Assembly for AR Glasses
Meta is patenting a very specific way to wrap a camera lens in metal — and the tiny air gap built into the design is doing more work than it looks.
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents a System That Lets Chips Detect and Fix Their Own Stress
Apple is patenting a way for its chips to continuously monitor their own operating conditions — and automatically dial things back before stress causes real damage. Think of it as a nervous system built directly into the silicon.
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents a Digital-Counting Approach to Measuring RF Signal Power
Apple is rethinking how radios measure signal power — swapping out analog circuitry for a digital counting trick that's more precise and easier to integrate into modern chips.
