Waymo Patents a Multi-Camera System for Reading Vehicle Lights in Real Time
A self-driving car that can't reliably tell whether the vehicle ahead is braking — or just has a dirty taillight — isn't…
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Google Patents an AI Agent That Remembers Past Conversations Using Embeddings
Most AI assistants forget everything the moment you close the chat window. Google is patenting a way for its agents to selectively…
Google Patents On-Device AI That Runs Meeting Tasks Across Participants' Devices
What if your laptop could run an AI assistant during a video call — not by pinging Google's servers, but by using…
Google Patents an AI That Listens to Your Environment and Suggests What to Do Next
Google is patenting a system where your device passively listens to what's happening around you, figures out what you probably want to…
Google Patents a Reverberation Decorrelation Method for Spatial Audio Compression
Spatial audio sounds immersive when it's played back on good speakers — but compressing it without making the reverb sound flat and…
Google Patents a System That Answers Mid-Movie Questions Using Your Watch History
You're watching a movie, you recognize the lead actor, and you ask your voice assistant — 'wait, what else have I seen…
New Waymo Patent Lets Self-Driving Cars Answer Road Questions
Waymo is patenting a system that lets a neural network field open-ended questions about what a self-driving car is currently sensing —…
Google Patents a Geometry-Free Neural Renderer That Skips 3D Reconstruction
Most 3D scene synthesis systems spend enormous effort building an explicit map of the world — depth, meshes, NeRFs — before they…
Microsoft Patents a Context-Aware Copy-Paste Tool That Auto-Transforms Your Content
Copy-paste is one of the oldest tricks in computing — and Microsoft thinks it's overdue for an upgrade. A new patent describes…
Microsoft Patents a System for Controlling Which Data Feeds Your LLM's People Profiles
When an AI generates a bio or summary about a real person, it pulls from data sources you may never have chosen…
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