Microsoft Patents a System for Navigating Screenshot Interfaces with a Keyboard
What if you could navigate a screenshot of a desktop interface using just arrow keys or a gamepad? Microsoft is patenting exactly…
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Microsoft Patents a System That Backs Up Files Before You Delete Them
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that intercepts a file deletion in real time, ships the file to cloud storage…
Microsoft Patents Synthetic DNA Tags That Log a Product's Entire Supply Chain Journey
Imagine if every head of lettuce carried an invisible molecular diary of every farm, warehouse, and truck stop it passed through. That's…
Microsoft Patents a Layered Capacitance Sensor for Body-Proximity Antenna Detection
Microsoft is quietly working on a way for devices to sense when your hand is near their antenna — and automatically adjust…
Microsoft Patents a Key Rotation System That Never Exposes Your Encrypted Data
Rotating encryption keys is a security best practice — but doing it usually means either holding onto old keys or laboriously re-encrypting…
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…
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…
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