Latest hardware patents, Page 205
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
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Recent filings
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents a Smarter Way for Wireless Chargers to Spot Dangerous Metal
Wireless chargers already try to detect stray metal objects — like a coin or key that could heat up dangerously. Apple's new patent tackles the harder problem: what happens when the metal is *supposed* to be there, like a phone case or Apple Watch band?
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents a Wearable That Monitors Your Breathing Using Light Sensors
Apple is exploring a new way to track your breathing without a chest strap or microphone — just light bouncing off your face. The patent describes a wearable packed with multidirectional sensors that can watch different parts of your face at once to figure out when and how deeply you're breathing.
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents a Cross-Link Wi-Fi System That Signals Sleep Mode in Advance
Your phone is connected to Wi-Fi on two bands at once — and Apple wants it to politely warn the router before going quiet on either one. That advance heads-up is surprisingly consequential for battery life.
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents a Fix for Subtle Pixel Crosstalk in Electronic Displays
Even the best displays can suffer from a hidden flaw — pixels on the same row subtly interfering with each other through shared wiring. Apple's latest patent targets exactly that problem, proposing a software-driven fix baked into the display driver itself.
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Nvidia · Published Apr 30
Nvidia Patents a System That Amplifies Robot Training Data 100x Automatically
Teaching a robot to do something useful requires enormous amounts of demonstration data — and collecting that data by hand is slow, expensive, and exhausting. Nvidia's new patent describes a system called SkilGen that could turn a single human demonstration into a hundred usable training examples, automatically.
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Apple · Published Jan 15
Apple Patents a System That Shows Different Apps Different Times Simultaneously
Your iPhone always knows what time it is — but Apple is patenting a way to lie to certain apps about it, deliberately and simultaneously, without touching the real system clock.
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents a Hybrid Magnetic Voice Coil to Squeeze Better Sound from Tiny Speakers
Apple is rethinking one of the oldest parts of speaker design — the voice coil — by weaving magnetic wire into it so the coil itself helps push the diaphragm, rather than fighting it.
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents Chips That Reroute Around Their Own Broken Test Circuits
Apple is patenting a way for chips to detect when part of their own built-in test wiring is broken — and automatically route around it. It's a small but telling sign of how seriously Apple takes chip manufacturing reliability at scale.
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Apple · Published Apr 30
Apple Patents a Hybrid Silicon-Oxide Gate Driver for Next-Gen Displays
Apple is trying to have it both ways in display design — combining the speed of silicon transistors with the low-leakage benefits of oxide transistors in a single gate driver circuit.
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Nvidia · Published Apr 30
Nvidia Patents a Diffusion AI System for Teaching Robots to Grab Objects
Getting a robot to reliably pick up an object sounds simple — it's one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics. Nvidia is now patenting a system that uses generative AI, the same family of tech behind image generators, to teach robots smarter grasping strategies.
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Google · Published Apr 30
Google Patents a Smart Display That Wheels Itself Over to You
Google is patenting a smart display that doesn't wait for you to walk over to it — it drives itself across the room to meet you, and it's smart enough to know when not to bother.
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Nvidia · Published Apr 30
Nvidia Patents a Multi-Layer Video Captioning System That Can Move Robots
What if a robot could watch a video and then physically act on what it saw? Nvidia has filed a patent that chains multiple AI captioning models together — and then feeds that combined understanding directly to a device to make it move.
