Apple Patents a Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolyte That Ditches a Key Solvent
Apple is experimenting with a battery electrolyte recipe that removes ethylene carbonate — a near-universal ingredient in lithium-ion cells — and replaces…
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Apple Patents a System That Detects When Your Device Is in a Case and Dials Back Its Radio
Your iPhone already knows when it's in Low Power Mode — Apple's new patent wants it to also know when it's stuffed…
Apple Patents a Method for Interleaving Chunked Entropy Data Streams
Apple has filed a patent describing a way to weave two separate data streams together at the chunk level — slotting pieces…
Google Patents a Simplified Filter Derivation Method for Hardware Video Codecs
Video codecs can predict color information from brightness data with impressive accuracy — but the math is often too slow for dedicated…
Waymo Patents a Hybrid LiDAR System That Untangles Speed and Distance Readings
When a self-driving car's sensor sees several objects at once, knowing how far away something is doesn't help much if you can't…
Google Patents a Smart System for Hiding Broken Display Subpixels
Every display has a few bad pixels hiding in it — Google's patent describes a controller that can automatically route around broken…
Google Patents a Smarter Echo Canceller for Wireless Speaker Calls
When you take a call through a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi speaker, your phone's microphone picks up your own voice bouncing back off…
Google Patents a Side Sideband Interface for Flexible Die-to-Die Chip Communication
As chips get built from multiple smaller dies stacked or tiled together, getting those dies to talk to each other reliably —…
Google Patents a Flux-Based Readout System for Superconducting Qubits
Reading out a qubit's state without wrecking it is one of quantum computing's hardest plumbing problems. Google's new patent proposes using a…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Build FPGA Barrel-Shifters Using DSP Multipliers
FPGAs are incredibly flexible chips, but their internal resources aren't all created equal — and Microsoft has filed a patent to stop…
Microsoft Patents an Automated Template System for Chip Interposer Layout Design
Designing the silicon "bridge" that connects multiple chips in a modern processor package is painstaking, repetitive work. Microsoft's new patent describes a…
Microsoft Patents a CPU Performance Sampler That Avoids Polluting Its Own Cache
Profiling a CPU is a bit like measuring your car's speed by adding a second engine to power the speedometer — the…
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