Tesla Patents a Magnetic Sun Visor That Splits Into Two Separate Panels
Tesla's latest patent reimagines one of the most low-tech parts of your car — the sun visor — by splitting it in…
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Tesla Patents a Precision Trimming System for Dry Electrode Battery Manufacturing
Tesla is filing patents deep in battery manufacturing process engineering — and this one tackles one of the trickiest steps in making…
Tesla Patents a Single-Wire System for Lit Buttons That Also Sense Touch
Tesla is trying to make illuminated buttons smarter and simpler — combining the LED power wire and the input-detection wire into a…
Tesla Files Patent for Autonomous System That Reads Intent Before Moving
Tesla is patenting a system that won't just drive itself — it'll wait until it's confident both the car is ready and…
OpenAI Patents a Schema-Based System for Connecting External APIs to AI Chatbots
OpenAI has filed a patent describing a structured, manifest-file-driven approach for connecting third-party APIs to a natural language model — essentially a…
Amazon Patents a Frictionless Item-Return System for Physical Stores
Amazon is patenting a system that can automatically process item returns — or any item 'transition' — as you walk out of…
Zoox Patents a Smarter Ground Detection System for Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars need to know exactly where the ground is — but LiDAR sensors can lie. Zoox's new patent describes a clever…
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…
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…
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