Samsung Patents a Vertical Transistor Design That Grows Its Own Channels
Samsung is filing patents on a vertical transistor architecture where the semiconductor channel material is grown directly out of the electrode beneath…
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Samsung Patents Selective Metal Deposition Process for Memory Cell Transistors
Building a transistor inside a memory chip is a bit like trying to paint the inside of a thimble — precision is…
Samsung Patents a Stepped Isolation Layer Design for Next-Gen 3D Memory Chips
As memory chips get more densely packed, the walls that separate individual memory cell blocks have to do more work in less…
Samsung Patents a Hollow-Shaft Hinge Assembly for Foldable Devices
Samsung is patenting yet another hinge design — this time built around a hollow shaft with an inner rotating shaft connected to…
Waymo Patents a System That Predicts Crashes Between Other Vehicles
Most self-driving safety systems ask 'will I crash into something?' Waymo's new patent asks a harder question: 'are two other things about…
Microsoft Wants LLMs to Do Your Threat Modeling For You
Threat modeling is one of the most time-consuming parts of secure software development. Microsoft is patenting an approach that hands the job…
Nvidia Patents a Two-Stage AI Pipeline for Teaching Robots to Grab Objects
Getting a robot to reliably pick up an arbitrary object is one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics — and Nvidia…
Apple Files Patent for Smarter Health Data Delivery to Users
Apple is exploring a system that doesn't just collect your health data — it serves it back to you in a way…
Google Patents a Compact Optical Element to Fix High-Speed Fiber Dispersion
When light travels through fiber at very high speeds, different colors of light arrive at slightly different times — and that timing…
Apple Patents a Gain Curve System for Smarter HDR Image Sharing
Ever sent a photo that looked stunning on your iPhone but washed out or over-bright on someone else's screen? Apple's new patent…
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