Microsoft Patents a Mixed-Precision Dot Product Pipeline for ML Training
Matrix multiplication is the heartbeat of every AI training run — and Microsoft is patenting a way to make the underlying arithmetic…
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Microsoft Patents a Sodium-Lithium Chloride Electrolyte for Solid-State Batteries
Microsoft is patenting battery chemistry — not software, not silicon — specifically a new solid electrolyte compound that can carry both lithium…
Nvidia Patents a Cloud-Assisted Rollback System for Cluster Storage Recovery
Losing a storage cluster to corruption or failure is one of the worst days in enterprise IT. Nvidia's latest patent describes a…
Nvidia Patents a Priority-Ordered Telemetry Controller for Multi-Device Systems
When you're running hundreds of GPUs in a data center, not all performance metrics are equally urgent. Nvidia's new patent describes a…
Amazon Patents a System That Fuses Object Maps With Audio to Find the Real Sound Source
Your smart speaker is often listening to a reflection of your voice, not the real thing — Amazon's new patent is designed…
Samsung Patents a Wrapped FPCB Battery Connection for Foldable Phones
Getting a battery and a motherboard to talk to each other sounds trivial — until you're doing it inside a foldable phone…
Samsung Patents a Self-Validating Device Positioning System
Most location systems give you a position and move on — Samsung's patent adds a step where the device stops and asks…
Samsung Patents a Chip-Embedded Multi-Wavelength Optical Biometric Sensor
Samsung is trying to shrink a multi-wavelength laser-based biometric sensor down to a single chip substrate — and the key trick is…
Samsung Patents a Neural Network Supersampling Method for 3D Rendering
Samsung is patenting its own take on AI-driven supersampling — the same category of technology that powers Nvidia's DLSS and AMD's FSR…
Samsung Patents a Nano Optical Lens Array for Single-Shot HDR Capture
Samsung is patenting an image sensor that uses nanoscale optical structures — not software — to simultaneously capture bright and dark scene…
Samsung Patents a Sampling-Grid Method for Pixel-Level Image Reconstruction
Samsung is patenting a way to rebuild images pixel-by-pixel using a grid that already knows where each reconstructed pixel should land —…
Samsung Patents a Clip-On Bracket That Mounts Your Phone Directly to a Monitor
Samsung is patenting a physical bracket that snaps onto the edge of a monitor frame and holds your phone in place —…
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