Apple Patents a Digital-Counting Approach to Measuring RF Signal Power
Apple is rethinking how radios measure signal power — swapping out analog circuitry for a digital counting trick that's more precise and…
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Apple Patents a Smarter Way for Wireless Chargers to Spot Dangerous Metal
Wireless chargers already try to detect stray metal objects — like a coin or key that could heat up dangerously. Apple's new…
Nvidia Patents a Smarter Batching Method for Graph Neural Network Training
Training graph neural networks is notoriously wasteful — most batching methods ignore the graph's own structure, so each training step spends half…
Apple Patents a System That Sends Inflated Buffer Reports to Cell Towers for Faster Speeds
Apple is patenting a technique that tells cell towers your phone has more data to send than it actually does — a…
Google Patents Remote Control of Conference Room Devices From Meet's UI
Ever been the remote participant on a call while someone in the conference room fumbles with the camera angle for five minutes?…
Apple Patents a Self-Healing Wireless System That Fights Dropped Connections
When your phone's connection starts failing, most devices just retry and hope for the best. Apple's new patent describes a system that…
Google Patents a Dual-Pupil Prism System for AR Waveguide Displays
Getting bright, crisp images into a thin AR lens without bulky optics is one of the hardest unsolved problems in wearable tech.…
Google Patents a Self-Correcting LED Architecture for Light Field Displays
LEDs don't age gracefully — they dim and shift color over time, and that's a real problem for high-precision light field displays.…
Apple Patents a System for Wi-Fi Access Points to Coordinate Transmissions in Real Time
If you've ever had two Wi-Fi routers step on each other's transmissions, Apple may have a fix. A newly published patent describes…
Waymo Patents Transformer-Based AI System for Building Robotaxi Navigation Maps
Waymo is borrowing the same AI architecture that powers ChatGPT to help its self-driving cars understand what's around them — and turn…
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