Google Patent Reveals Hidden Hinge That Snaps Foldable Devices Shut Automatically
One of the small but maddening problems with foldable phones is that they can creak open in your pocket or bag. Google…
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Samsung Patent Details Intelligent Display Management for Three-Panel Foldable Phones
Samsung is thinking beyond two folds. This patent describes a phone with three panels and enough sensor smarts to figure out which…
Intel Patents a Neural Network That Draws Its Own 3D Scene Boxes for Faster Graphics
Every 3D scene you've ever seen in a game or movie relies on invisible boxes drawn around objects to help computers decide…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Borrow Color Detail From AI-Upscaled Frames
Nvidia has filed a patent for a system that takes color information produced during AI upscaling and feeds it back into lower-resolution…
Intel Patents a Way to Keep Ray-Traced Graphics Running Without Full Scene Rebuilds
Every time an object moves in a ray-traced scene, the invisible map that guides light rays can silently fall apart. Intel's new…
Qualcomm Patents a Circuit That Kills the Click When Your Audio Chip Switches Power
That faint click or pop you sometimes hear through headphones when a device wakes up or changes volume isn't random noise, it's…
Samsung Patents a Coordinated Power-Failure Shield for Multi-Drive Storage Systems
When a server loses power mid-write, the data in transit can vanish or get corrupted. Samsung's new patent describes a way for…
Nvidia Patents a System That Sends Computing Tasks Through the Fastest Available Connections
When you're running a massive AI job across hundreds of chips, the speed of the cables and connections between those chips matters…
Microsoft Patents a Connector That Deploys and Retracts With a Single Sideways Press
Plugging in a cable is trivial until the port is buried inside a device, mounted in a rack, or awkward to reach.…
Google Patent Targets Real-Time Error Detection in Quantum Computing Systems
Quantum computers make a lot of mistakes, and fixing those mistakes fast enough is one of the hardest unsolved problems in the…
Samsung Patents an Antenna That Connects to Three 5G Networks Through One Chip
Fitting three different radio frequency bands onto one compact antenna board is a real engineering headache. Samsung's new patent describes a layered…
Tesla Patents a Perforated Glass Window That Absorbs Road Noise
Tesla is experimenting with car windows that have tiny holes punched into the inner glass layer, using the gap between layers to…
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