Qualcomm Patents an AI That Reads 3D Sensors and Cameras at the Same Time
Most perception systems pick a lane: either 3D radar-style sensors or flat camera images. Qualcomm's new patent describes an AI that processes…
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Microsoft Patents a Way to Lock Down Security Settings Shared Between Chips
Modern processors are no longer single chips but collections of smaller chips talking to each other inside the same package. Microsoft has…
IBM Patents a Precise New Switch to Link Quantum Computing Components More Reliably
Getting two quantum bits to talk to each other without accidentally disturbing everything around them is one of the hardest engineering problems…
IBM Patents a Time-Sensitive Memory That Stops AI Models From Answering the Same Question Twice
Every time you ask an AI chatbot a question someone else already asked, the server runs the whole calculation again from scratch.…
Google Patents a Way to Turn Location Searches Into Interactive 3D Walkthroughs
Type in a place, get back a 3D walkthrough complete with simulated rain or rush-hour traffic. That's the vision behind a new…
Samsung Patents a Way to Make Tap-to-Pay Work on International Flights
Paying for that in-flight snack with your phone sounds simple, but the moment a plane leaves terrestrial cell coverage, tap-to-pay often falls…
Apple Patents a Tiered Alert System That Decides Who in Your Home Gets Notified First
When a stranger shows up at your door, not everyone in your household may need to know at the same time. Apple…
Microsoft Patents an AI That Cleans Up Photos by Reading What's in Them
Most AI photo-cleanup tools treat every pixel the same way. Microsoft's new patent describes a model that figures out what kind of…
Intel Patents a GPU Memory System That Fetches Only the Texture Tiles a Scene Actually Needs
Every ray-traced frame asks a GPU to pull in enormous amounts of texture data, most of which never actually appears on screen.…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Train One Speech AI Across Dozens of Languages at Once
Teaching an AI to understand speech in one language is hard. Teaching it to handle dozens at once, without losing accuracy in…
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