Apple Patents a Smarter 5G Radio Monitoring System to Save Battery Life
Your phone's 5G radio is constantly checking in with cell towers even when nothing is happening — Apple's new patent is about…
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Apple Patents a Cleaner Wi-Fi Roaming Handoff Protocol for Multi-Link Devices
Walking from your living room to your kitchen shouldn't cause your Wi-Fi call to stutter — but handoffs between access points still…
Apple Patents a Smarter 5G Beam-Pair Reporting System for iPhones
Your phone is constantly negotiating with cell towers to find the best signal path — Apple's new patent makes that negotiation smarter…
Apple Patents a Smarter 5G Beam Recovery System for Mobile Chips
When your iPhone loses its 5G signal lock, it has to scramble to find a new beam — and the faster that…
Google Patents a Real-Time Video Distortion Removal System Using Masked Frames
Ever noticed how background-blurring effects in video calls sometimes cause your arm to flicker, or your hair to warp? Google is filing…
Google Patents a Structured Reasoning System for LLM Tool Calls
Before a smart AI assistant books your flight or searches for an apartment, it needs to figure out exactly which tool to…
Waymo Patents a Two-Stage AI Model for Predicting Hidden Pedestrians
A parked bus blocks your view of the crosswalk ahead — and a child might be about to step out. Waymo's latest…
Google Patents a Simplified Filter Derivation Method for Hardware Video Codecs
Video codecs can predict color information from brightness data with impressive accuracy — but the math is often too slow for dedicated…
Google Patents a Sandboxed Ad Auction System Built on Trusted Execution Environments
Google is patenting a way to run ad auctions inside hardware-enforced sandboxes so that the code doing the bidding can never leak…
Google Patents a Multi-Stage AI Pipeline for Real-Time Image Restoration
Google has patented a clever iterative training method that progressively teaches smaller, faster AI models to restore degraded photos — with the…
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