Apple Patents a Way for Devices to Recognize Each Other with Invisible Light Pulses
Apple is exploring a way for devices to quietly exchange information using light pulses that flicker too fast for any camera to…
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Apple Patents the iPhone Screen That Guides You When No Signal Exists
No cell signal, no Wi-Fi — and your iPhone still needs to get help to you. Apple is filing patents around the…
Samsung Patents a Lower-Power Way to Find Nearby Wi-Fi Devices
Finding nearby devices over Wi-Fi usually means your phone has to stay in sync with a shared clock — Samsung's patent describes…
Samsung Patents a Tiered Idle System That Quiets IoT Devices the Longer They Sit Unused
Most smart home devices keep pinging the internet even when nobody's touched them in weeks. Samsung's new patent proposes a smarter way…
Samsung Patents a 5G Wake-Up Signal That Cuts Idle Radio Power Drain
Your phone's 5G radio is one of its biggest battery drains — not because you're streaming, but because it's constantly scanning for…
Red Hat Patents a Middleware Layer That Connects Incompatible Quantum Computers
Quantum computers from different vendors can't easily talk to each other — the same way early computer networks couldn't. Red Hat thinks…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Build Digital Twins from Distributed Camera Networks
Qualcomm is patenting a method for stitching together live visual feeds from multiple network nodes into a real-time 3D model of a…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Stops Nearby Shelf Labels from Flashing the Same Alert
When two electronic shelf labels are inches apart and both need to flash an alert, how does a store employee know which…
Qualcomm Patents a Wireless System That Knows When Shelf Items Go Missing
Qualcomm is patenting a way for store shelves to automatically notice when a tagged item has been picked up or removed —…
Qualcomm Patents a Way for Connected Cars to Share Their Roadside Unit Links for Precise Positioning
Getting a car's precise location in a dense urban environment is harder than it sounds — GPS alone isn't enough. Qualcomm's new…
Qualcomm Patents a Cloud-Offloaded Location Engine That Filters Bad GPS and Cell Signals
Your phone uses GPS, Wi-Fi, and cell towers all at once to figure out where you are — but deciding which signals…
Qualcomm Patents a Way for Wireless Network Nodes to Share Camera and Sensor Imagery for ML-Driven Positioning
Qualcomm wants wireless network nodes to pool their camera feeds, lidar scans, and RF sensor snapshots so that any node on the…
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