Microsoft Patents a Security Engine That Blocks Files Based on Filename Tricks and Device History
Malware often hides in plain sight — a file named 'Report.pdf.exe' looks like a document but runs like a program. Microsoft's new…
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Microsoft Patents a Multi-Layer Security Graph Engine for Cloud Incident Management
Managing cloud security means juggling thousands of interconnected resources — servers, identities, permissions, network paths — and querying all of that in…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Summarizes Meeting Content You Missed While Distracted
We've all zoned out during a video call and quietly panicked about what we just missed. Microsoft is patenting a system that…
Microsoft Patents a System That Translates Classic ML Models Into Neural Networks
Most companies have years of traditional machine learning models — decision trees, gradient boosters, scikit-learn pipelines — that can't easily tap into…
Microsoft Patents an AI Pipeline That Generates New Molecules From Chemical Neighbors
Instead of asking an AI to invent molecules from scratch, Microsoft's new patent describes a smarter approach: find the chemical neighbors of…
Microsoft Patents NVMe Command Batching for Faster Network Storage
Microsoft is patenting a way to make cloud storage behave more like local storage — by teaching a hardware controller to bundle…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Figures Out What's Missing From Your Photos
Most AI image tools wait for you to tell them what to add. Microsoft is patenting a system that looks at your…
Microsoft Patents a Middlebox That Unlocks Advanced 5G Radio Network Features
Microsoft is filing patents in a corner of telecom infrastructure most people never think about — the plumbing between 5G antennas and…
Meta Patents Active Ground-Tracking Circuit for Cleaner Biosensing Wearables
When a wearable tries to read electrical signals from your body, tiny voltage mismatches between the device's ground and your skin can…
Meta Patents a Multi-Wavelength Trick to Fix Holographic Display Speckle
Holographic displays look incredible in demos — until you notice the grainy, shimmering noise called speckle. Meta's latest patent tackles that problem…
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