Samsung Patents a Multi-Level Battery Short Circuit Detection System
A short circuit inside a phone or laptop battery doesn't always announce itself dramatically — it can smolder quietly for a long…
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Samsung Display Patents a Vibration-Pattern System for Catching Factory Equipment Failures Early
Samsung Display is patenting a system that listens to the vibrations of factory machines and matches those patterns against a library of…
IBM Patents a Time-Expiring Certificate System for Locking Down Secure VM Traffic
IBM's new patent tackles a real headache in confidential computing: how do you make sure two secure virtual machines are actually allowed…
IBM Patents a Chip Stack That Combines Fast DRAM and Flash Storage
IBM is patenting a memory architecture that physically stacks fast DRAM chips together with NAND flash storage in a single package —…
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…
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…
IBM Patents a System That Turns Quantum Hardware Noise Into a Feature
Every quantum computer is noisy — qubits misfire, decohere, and produce errors constantly. IBM's new patent flips that problem on its head…
IBM Patents a System That Builds Encryption Keys From Your Message History
IBM is experimenting with a twist on encryption: instead of relying on a pre-shared secret or a certificate authority, your devices would…
IBM Patents a System for Auditing How Well Pre-Trained AI Models Adapt to New Tasks
Pre-trained AI models are everywhere, but knowing whether one has actually learned the right things for your specific task is surprisingly hard.…
IBM Patents a Decoder-Only System for Linking Plain-English Questions to Databases
Before an AI can turn your plain-English question into a SQL query, it has to figure out which tables and columns in…
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