Samsung Patents a Layer-Aware Privacy Filter for Displays
What if your phone could make just your banking app invisible to the person sitting next to you on the subway —…
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Samsung Display Patents a Semiconductor Layer Layout to Reduce Signal Interference
Samsung Display is patenting a specific physical arrangement of semiconductor regions inside a display panel — one where a key semiconductor portion…
Samsung Patents a Self-Descaling Docking Station for Robot Mops
Robot mops that heat water for cleaning are a great idea — until limescale quietly gunks up the heating element and kills…
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Lighting System for Freezer Drawers
Opening the top freezer drawer is simple — always turn the lights on. But opening the bottom drawer? Samsung thinks that deserves…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Grating Overlay Measurement Method for Chip Fabrication
Getting semiconductor layers to line up within a few nanometers across an entire wafer is one of the hardest problems in chip…
IBM Patents a Tapered Contact Structure for Next-Gen Nanosheet Transistors
As transistors shrink to nanosheet dimensions, the tiny metal contacts that carry current in and out become a serious engineering headache. IBM's…
IBM Patents a Hybrid Bonding Structure to Pull Heat Out of Stacked Chips
As chips get stacked closer together, heat has nowhere to go — and that thermal buildup is quietly becoming one of the…
IBM Patents a Transistor-Swapping Trick to Shrink Chip Cell Layouts
IBM has found a clever workaround for a rigid constraint in chip layout tools — temporarily disguising one type of transistor as…
IBM Patents a Flux-Tunable Superconducting Switch for Quantum Signal Routing
Routing signals inside a quantum computer is one of the messiest unsolved problems in the field — and IBM thinks a tiny…
IBM Patents a Non-Disruptive Fault Isolation System for Server I/O Hardware
When a network card or storage adapter inside a server cluster goes haywire, the usual fix is painful: bring things down, pull…
IBM Patents a Resilient Network Cache System for Virtual Machine Environments
When a virtual I/O server crashes in a busy data center, every virtual machine depending on it can grind to a halt.…
IBM Patents a Vertically Stacked P-N Diode Built Into FET Gate Structures
IBM has filed a patent for a P-N diode that lives inside the same physical space as a transistor's source and drain…
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