Apple Patent Brings Centimeter-Level GPS Accuracy to Future Smartphones
Your phone's GPS is good enough to get you to the right block, but it often can't tell which side of the…
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Adobe Patents an AI Tool That Finds Matching Materials Across 3D Models
Picking the right material in a 3D scene is tedious, click-heavy work. Adobe is patenting a way to let designers tap one…
Samsung Patents a Battery System That Decides When a Cell Is Truly Dead
Declaring a battery cell permanently dead is a one-way door. Samsung's new patent describes a system that checks two conditions before slamming…
Google Patents an AI That Separates Nearby Voices From Background Noise by Distance
Your smart speaker hears you just fine, but it also hears the TV, the dog, and whoever is talking in the next…
Google Patents a Way to Animate 3D Characters Without Hardware Limits
Every 3D character you've ever seen in a game or app is secretly held together by an invisible skeleton, and most graphics…
Sony Patents a Way to Find a Light Source by Reading the Glare in a Photo
That bright, washed-out glare on someone's face or a shiny object in a photo turns out to be a surprisingly precise compass…
Microsoft Patents an AI That Assembles Drug Molecules One Atom at a Time
Building a new drug molecule usually means searching through an almost unimaginably large space of possible chemical shapes. Microsoft is patenting an…
Google Patents a Two-Stage AI That Strips Your Personal Data Before Asking the Cloud
Google is patenting a system where the AI on your phone acts as a privacy filter, deciding whether a question is worth…
Nvidia Patents a Cloud System That Puts AI-Generated Likenesses Under Lock and Key
Nvidia has filed a patent for a cloud-based gatekeeper that decides who can instruct an AI to generate images or video using…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Let Memory Chips Handle Multiple Jobs at Once
Qualcomm is patenting a way for memory chips to pause one job, save its place, and switch to another without losing any…
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