New Patent Tackles Battery Health Accuracy Over Time
Every battery lies to you a little more each year. Samsung is patenting a way to catch those lies before they snowball…
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Apple Patent Aims to Extend Battery Life Through Intermittent Wireless Charging
Your phone charger is running at full blast even when your battery barely needs a trickle. Apple's latest patent describes a system…
Google Patent Reveals Hidden Hinge That Snaps Foldable Devices Shut Automatically
One of the small but maddening problems with foldable phones is that they can creak open in your pocket or bag. Google…
Samsung Patent Details Intelligent Display Management for Three-Panel Foldable Phones
Samsung is thinking beyond two folds. This patent describes a phone with three panels and enough sensor smarts to figure out which…
Nvidia Patent Shows How Machines Can Learn to Correct for Unexpected Disturbances
When a robot arm bumps into something unexpected, or a self-driving vehicle hits a patch of ice, its internal model of the…
Samsung Patents a Way for Robots to Update Their Maps Using Plain-Language Descriptions
Telling a robot 'the couch moved to the left side of the room' sounds simple, but today's robots can't really act on…
Nvidia Patents Robots That Build Living Maps Tracking Environmental Changes Over Time
Most robots see the world as a frozen snapshot. Nvidia's new patent describes a system that keeps a constantly updated mental map…
Salesforce Patents a System Where AI Agents Watch a Factory Simulation and Direct Real Robots
Salesforce, the company most people associate with sales software and CRM dashboards, has filed a patent for a system that lets AI…
Sony Patent Targets Smarter Personalized Content Delivery for Nursing Care Robots
Sony is building a brain for nursing care robots that reads a patient's personal profile and decides, on its own, what to…
Intel Patents a Neural Network That Draws Its Own 3D Scene Boxes for Faster Graphics
Every 3D scene you've ever seen in a game or movie relies on invisible boxes drawn around objects to help computers decide…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Borrow Color Detail From AI-Upscaled Frames
Nvidia has filed a patent for a system that takes color information produced during AI upscaling and feeds it back into lower-resolution…
Nvidia Patents an AI That Builds 3D Scene Maps From Ordinary Cameras
Cameras are cheap; lidar sensors are not. Nvidia has filed a patent for an AI pipeline that reads ordinary 2D photos and…
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