Meta Patent Embeds Muscle-Reading Sensors Directly Into Wristband Material
Meta is working on a wristband that reads the electrical signals your muscles send when you move your fingers, and this patent…
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Samsung Patents a Washing Machine That Adjusts Its Own Spin-Cycle Safety Limits
Most washing machines shake violently with an uneven load and either power through or stop entirely. Samsung's new patent describes a machine…
Microsoft Patent Splits One Trackpad Into Two Separate Hand-Controlled Zones
Your laptop's trackpad is one big slab that does one thing at a time. Microsoft wants to change that by splitting it…
Intel Patents a Cache-Sync System for Multi-GPU Chip Designs
When you split a GPU across multiple chips, keeping each chip's local memory in sync is a surprisingly hard problem. Intel's new…
Meta Patent Targets Cleaner Muscle Signal Readings in Wristband Technology
Meta is building the hardware foundation for a wristband that reads your nerve and muscle signals well enough to control computers with…
Intel Patents Chip Design That Speeds Up Complex Math on Graphics Hardware
Intel wants GPUs to handle some of the trickiest math operations faster by cleverly reusing hardware that's already sitting inside the chip,…
Sony Patents Real-Time Collision Avoidance for Robots With Jointed Moving Arms
Every time a robot arm moves, it needs to know not just where to go, but how to get there without hitting…
Samsung Patents a Smart Ring That Reads a Finger Pressed Into Its Groove
Samsung is rethinking what a smart ring can sense, filing a patent for a ring with physical grooves on its outer surface…
Intel Patents Technology to Run Visual Effects Code Across Any Graphics Platform
Writing code for one graphics system and having it refuse to run on another is one of the oldest headaches in software…
Apple Patents a Hinge That Hides Wiring Inside Smart Glasses Arms
Apple has filed a patent for a hinge mechanism that does two jobs at once: it lets a wearable display's arms fold…
IBM Patents Technology to Track Exactly How Much Power Each Program Uses on a Shared Graphics Chip
When dozens of jobs run on the same GPU at once, figuring out how much power each one actually consumed is surprisingly…
Sony Patents a Prediction System for Compressing 3D Video Data
Streaming a three-dimensional scene, like a sports replay you can walk around in or a lidar map from a self-driving car, takes…
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