Meta Patents a Wake Word Arbitration System for Glasses and Wristbands
If you're wearing both smart glasses and a smartwatch, which one should respond when you say 'Hey Meta'? This patent describes a…
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Meta Patents a Nose-Bridge Disparity Sensor to Keep AR Displays Perfectly Aligned
If the two tiny displays inside a pair of AR glasses drift even slightly out of alignment, your brain turns that misalignment…
Meta Patents a Face Verification System That Never Sees Your Biometric Data
Meta wants to confirm you are who you say you are — using your face — without your face ever leaving your…
Meta Patents a Shared Anchor System to Keep Multiuser XR Worlds in Sync
When two people in different rooms put on XR headsets and enter the same virtual space, how do you make sure they're…
Nvidia Patents a 4D Scene Generator That Builds Synthetic Worlds for Self-Driving AI
Training a self-driving car requires millions of hours of real-world footage — unless you can just generate those worlds from scratch. Nvidia's…
Nvidia Patents a System That Blends Real Camera Feeds With Digital Twin Simulations
What if a self-driving car or robot could see the world through two lenses at once — one real, one simulated —…
Nvidia Patents an Automatic Precision Selector for Neural Network Layers
Every layer of a neural network doesn't need the same level of numeric precision — but figuring out which layers can tolerate…
Nvidia Patents a Prediction-Based Power Steering System for Data Centers
As GPU clusters push power draw to the edge of what electrical infrastructure can handle, Nvidia is patenting a system that predicts…
Nvidia Patents Neural Network System That Simulates Data Center Cooling Hardware
Running a data center is essentially a giant thermal management problem — and Nvidia wants to replace physical trial-and-error with neural networks…
Nvidia Patents a Unified Audit Log That Stitches Together Multi-Node Activity
When a single request fans out across dozens of compute nodes, keeping a coherent audit trail is surprisingly hard. Nvidia's new patent…
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