Microsoft Patents a Way to Track Storage Power Use Per Virtual Machine
Every time a virtual machine reads or writes data, it burns power — but right now, most systems can't tell you exactly…
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Memory & storage patents
SSDs, DRAM, and the constant fight to move data faster while losing less of it. These filings show where storage is headed years before products ship.
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Nvidia Patents a More Efficient Way to Store 3D Object Shapes
Storing the precise shape of a 3D object digitally takes up a lot of space — Nvidia's new patent describes a clever…
Samsung Patents Technology That Loads App Data Into Memory Before You Need It
Every time your phone opens an app or loads a file, it's reacting — fetching data only after it's been asked for.…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Handle Too Many Geofences at Once
Your phone tracks dozens of invisible location boundaries at once — and when memory runs out, something has to give. Qualcomm's new…
AMD Patents a Compression Method That Makes Unpacking Data Faster by Design
AMD is patenting a way to make compressed data easier to unpack — not by improving the decompressor, but by quietly constraining…
Samsung Patents a Drive That Clears Out Obsolete Files Before You Ask
Flash storage has a quirky problem: you can't write new data until old data is erased first — and erasing takes time.…
Samsung Patents a Way to Turn Unused SSD Space into Extra RAM
What if your SSD could quietly donate its unused elbow room to your system's RAM pool? That's the core idea behind Samsung's…
Samsung Patents a Storage Device That Sorts Data by App
Most storage systems treat all data the same — a random pile that everything has to dig through. Samsung's new patent wants…
Samsung Patents a Way to Sync Garbage Collection Across Multiple SSDs
Every SSD periodically stops to do housekeeping — and when multiple drives do it at different times, your system stutters unpredictably. Samsung's…
IBM Patents a System That Automatically Fixes App Memory Access Failures
When an app tries to touch protected OS memory and gets rejected, someone has to clean up the mess. IBM's new patent…
IBM Patents a System That Wakes Storage Drives Up Before You Need Them
Every time your computer wakes a sleeping storage drive, there's a delay — sometimes hundreds of milliseconds. IBM wants to eliminate that…
Qualcomm Patents a Memory Architecture with Dedicated Metadata Storage Lanes
Qualcomm is patenting a memory controller design that gives metadata — the bookkeeping information attached to every chunk of data — its…
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