Samsung Patents a Two-Layer Shield for Stacked Camera Sensor Chips
Modern smartphone camera sensors are built from multiple chips stacked on top of each other — and the tiny electrical pins connecting…
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Samsung Patents a Tighter Way to Filter Antenna Options in Multi-Tower 5G
When your phone connects to multiple 5G towers simultaneously to boost speed, coordinating which antenna signals to use gets complicated fast. Samsung's…
Samsung Patents a Headset That Places Controls Within Arm's Reach of Real Objects
Imagine looking at a smart TV through a mixed reality headset and having the remote controls automatically appear on the nearest armrest…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Storage Camera Design That Captures More Light in Less Space
Samsung is patenting a way to wire two capacitors in an image sensor together using a single shared vertical connector — a…
IBM Patents a System That Stops Its AI From Inventing Fake Database Answers
AI chatbots famously make things up — and when they're answering questions about your company's live database, that's a serious problem. IBM's…
IBM Patents a System That Scrubs Sensitive Chat History Before New Users Can See It
Ever scrambled to delete a message before someone with the wrong clearance level joined a work call? IBM is patenting a system…
Red Hat Patents a Method to Score and Filter AI Training Sources
An AI model is only as good as the data it learns from — and Red Hat just filed a patent for…
IBM Patents a Dashboard for Tracking How Much Code AI Actually Wrote
As AI coding assistants quietly write more and more of the software your company ships, IBM thinks someone should be keeping score…
IBM Patents a System That Catches Dropped Customer Service Calls and Reroutes Them
Anyone who's been cut off mid-complaint to a customer service agent — and then had to call back, re-explain everything, and start…
IBM Patents a Smart Alarm System That Identifies Burning Materials Before Alerting You
Most smoke alarms just scream when they detect smoke. IBM's new patent describes a system that first figures out what's on fire…
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