Samsung Patents a Scheduled Device Discovery System for Wireless Networks
Before two wireless devices can talk to each other, they first have to find each other — and that handshake process is…
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Samsung Patents a Smarter Error-Correction Encoding Scheme for Flash Storage
Flash memory wears out partly because not all bit patterns are equally kind to the cells that store them. Samsung's new patent…
Samsung Display Patents a Dual-Zone Active Layer for Brighter, More Efficient LEDs
Samsung Display is rethinking what happens inside the light-emitting heart of an LED. By splitting the active layer into two chemically distinct…
Samsung Patents a Layer-Aware Privacy Filter for Displays
What if your phone could make just your banking app invisible to the person sitting next to you on the subway —…
Samsung Display Patents a Semiconductor Layer Layout to Reduce Signal Interference
Samsung Display is patenting a specific physical arrangement of semiconductor regions inside a display panel — one where a key semiconductor portion…
Samsung Patents a Self-Descaling Docking Station for Robot Mops
Robot mops that heat water for cleaning are a great idea — until limescale quietly gunks up the heating element and kills…
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Lighting System for Freezer Drawers
Opening the top freezer drawer is simple — always turn the lights on. But opening the bottom drawer? Samsung thinks that deserves…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Grating Overlay Measurement Method for Chip Fabrication
Getting semiconductor layers to line up within a few nanometers across an entire wafer is one of the hardest problems in chip…
Samsung Patents Finer QoS Traffic Prioritization for 5G and 6G Networks
Samsung is pushing for a finer-grained way to prioritize network traffic inside 5G and 6G devices — essentially adding a new sub-category…
IBM Patents a Provider-Agnostic Multi-Tenant Storage Management System
Managing storage across dozens of departments inside a single Kubernetes cluster without stepping on each other's data is a genuine headache for…
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