Microsoft Patents a Collision-Detection Tool for AI Assistant Plug-in Selection
When you ask an AI assistant to book a flight and it opens the wrong app, that's a 'collision' — and Microsoft…
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Microsoft Patents a Cost-Cutting Routing System for AI Coding Assistants
Running every developer keystroke through a massive cloud LLM is expensive. Microsoft's new patent describes a routing layer that quietly decides when…
Microsoft Patents a Browser That Uses AI to Rank Your Tabs by Urgency
Microsoft is patenting a browser that reads the content of every open tab and uses a generative AI model to decide how…
Microsoft Patents a Real-Time Meeting Summarizer That Switches AI Attention Modes on the Fly
Most AI meeting summaries arrive after the call ends. Microsoft is patenting a system that builds the summary while people are still…
Microsoft Patents a Rare-Term Index to Surface Niche Web Content
Most search indexes are optimized for popular content — but that leaves a long tail of niche, specialized pages effectively invisible. Microsoft's…
Meta Patents a Wake Word Arbitration System for Glasses and Wristbands
If you're wearing both smart glasses and a smartwatch, which one should respond when you say 'Hey Meta'? This patent describes a…
Meta Patents a Nose-Bridge Disparity Sensor to Keep AR Displays Perfectly Aligned
If the two tiny displays inside a pair of AR glasses drift even slightly out of alignment, your brain turns that misalignment…
Meta Patents a Face Verification System That Never Sees Your Biometric Data
Meta wants to confirm you are who you say you are — using your face — without your face ever leaving your…
Meta Patents a Shared Anchor System to Keep Multiuser XR Worlds in Sync
When two people in different rooms put on XR headsets and enter the same virtual space, how do you make sure they're…
Nvidia Patents a 4D Scene Generator That Builds Synthetic Worlds for Self-Driving AI
Training a self-driving car requires millions of hours of real-world footage — unless you can just generate those worlds from scratch. Nvidia's…
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