Google Patents a Smarter Prediction Scheme for 3D Mesh Compression
3D meshes are made of millions of tiny triangles, and compressing them efficiently means guessing vertex positions as accurately as possible before…
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Google Patents a Stacked Membrane Method for Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tests
Google has quietly filed a patent covering how to manufacture the layered membrane strips inside point-of-care diagnostic tests — the kind of…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Build FPGA Barrel-Shifters Using DSP Multipliers
FPGAs are incredibly flexible chips, but their internal resources aren't all created equal — and Microsoft has filed a patent to stop…
Microsoft Patents a Distributed Antialiasing Engine for Smoother Cloud-Streamed Graphics
Jagged edges are the telltale sign of a game or app running on someone else's hardware. Microsoft's new patent proposes splitting the…
Microsoft Patents an Automated Template System for Chip Interposer Layout Design
Designing the silicon "bridge" that connects multiple chips in a modern processor package is painstaking, repetitive work. Microsoft's new patent describes a…
Microsoft Patents a Smarter Auto-Tuning System for Large-Scale Data Clustering
Clustering millions of data points sounds simple until you realize the whole algorithm breaks if you pick the wrong radius parameter —…
Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Message Drafting Based on User Profile Data
Microsoft wants your messaging app to know why you're sending a message before you even start typing — and then write it…
Microsoft Patents a Dynamic Compliance-Checking System for App Data Access
Before an app can touch sensitive data, Microsoft's new patent wants to check whether that app is actually playing by the rules…
Microsoft Patents Automated Data Lineage Extraction from Database Query Logs
Every time a database query runs, it leaves a trail — and Microsoft wants to automatically turn that trail into a full…
Microsoft Patents a Dense Context Engine That Primes AI With Company-Specific Knowledge
Before your AI assistant answers a question, what if it could automatically load up a compressed briefing of everything relevant about your…
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