Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Screen-Switching System for Tri-Fold Phones
Samsung is quietly figuring out one of the trickiest parts of tri-fold phones: what should happen to your screen when you partially…
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Samsung Patents a Multi-Rail Hinge System for Sturdier Foldable Phones
Foldable phones live and die by their hinges — and Samsung just filed a patent for a more mechanically controlled hinge design…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Barrier Hinge System to Keep Foldables Dust-Free
Dust and debris sneaking into the hinge is one of the most common ways foldable phones fail early — and Samsung may…
Samsung Patents an Under-Display Fingerprint Sensor Built Into the Pixel Layer
Samsung's new patent tucks a capacitive fingerprint sensor directly into the same layer as the display's pixel electrodes — no separate sensor…
Samsung Patents Real-Time App Status Overlays for Foldable Cover Displays
Samsung is filing patents to make the small cover screen on its foldable phones more useful — not just a clock, but…
Samsung Patents an Internal Acoustic Duct That Routes Speaker Sound Around Display Electronics
Getting loud, clear speaker audio out of a razor-thin smartphone is harder than it looks — especially when the display's driver circuitry…
Samsung Patents an Adaptive Row Hammer Detection System for DRAM
Row hammer attacks can corrupt memory by repeatedly accessing adjacent DRAM rows — and Samsung's new patent describes a controller that watches…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Wire Wall-Mount System for Display Panels
Mounting a flat-panel TV to a wall sounds simple, but keeping the internal chassis, wires, and rear cover locked together reliably is…
Samsung Patents a Fold-Angle Audio Routing System for Multi-Device Setups
When you prop two Samsung devices together at an angle, their speakers could automatically carve up a surround-sound mix between them —…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Wavelength LiDAR System with Optical Path Separation
Samsung is working on a LiDAR system that fires multiple light beams at different wavelengths simultaneously — and uses a clever optical…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Surface Stacked Antenna Structure for Devices
Samsung is filing patents on a way to squeeze two antenna structures onto opposite faces of a thin dielectric layer inside a…
Samsung Patents a Contoured Battery Adhesive Designed for Tighter Phone Builds
Holding a battery in place sounds trivial — until your phone is wafer-thin, foldable, or both. Samsung's new patent describes an adhesive…
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