Samsung Patents a New Contact Pad Layout for 3D Memory Wordlines
As 3D NAND flash stacks more and more memory layers on top of each other, the tiny metal contact pads that connect…
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Samsung Files Patent for Selective-Protection Semiconductor Etching Process
Deep inside a chip factory, the difference between a working transistor and a dead one can come down to a single masking…
Samsung Patents a Wearable That Hands Off Tasks to Nearby Devices Automatically
Imagine your smartwatch notices you've sat down at your desk and automatically tells your PC to pick up where your phone left…
Samsung Patents a Self-Calibrating Radar Receiver That Fixes Its Own Signal Distortion
Radar chips are only as accurate as their analog circuitry — and that circuitry is never perfect. Samsung's new patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a Motion-Trajectory System for Fixing Blurry Video Frames
Every video has a few frames ruined by motion blur — a fast pan, a sudden gesture, a poorly timed shutter. Samsung's…
Samsung Patents a Recessed PCB Layout for Thinner Foldable Devices
Getting two separate circuit boards to talk to each other across a mechanical hinge — without adding bulk or breaking when the…
Samsung Patents a Shell-Wrapped Micro-LED Structure to Boost Display Efficiency
Tiny LEDs lose a surprising amount of light through their exposed edges — Samsung's new patent wraps each one in an ultra-thin…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Exhaust Airflow System for Smart Clothing Cabinets
Samsung is refining how air moves inside its clothing care cabinets — and the key insight is that not all the air…
Samsung Patents an Induction Cooktop That Knows When Your Pot Is Boiling
Samsung is patenting a way for induction cooktops to automatically detect when something on the burner reaches a boil — no thermometer,…
Samsung Patents an On-Chip Circuit for Testing Interconnect Health
As chips get smaller and the wires connecting their components shrink to nanometer scales, verifying those connections without destroying the chip becomes…
Samsung Patents a Smarter Error-Correction Encoding Scheme for Flash Storage
Flash memory wears out partly because not all bit patterns are equally kind to the cells that store them. Samsung's new patent…
Samsung Display Patents a Dual-Zone Active Layer for Brighter, More Efficient LEDs
Samsung Display is rethinking what happens inside the light-emitting heart of an LED. By splitting the active layer into two chemically distinct…
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