Meta Patent Targets Cleaner Muscle Signal Readings in Wristband Technology
Meta is building the hardware foundation for a wristband that reads your nerve and muscle signals well enough to control computers with…
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Intel Patents Chip Design That Speeds Up Complex Math on Graphics Hardware
Intel wants GPUs to handle some of the trickiest math operations faster by cleverly reusing hardware that's already sitting inside the chip,…
Sony Patents Real-Time Collision Avoidance for Robots With Jointed Moving Arms
Every time a robot arm moves, it needs to know not just where to go, but how to get there without hitting…
Samsung Patents a Smart Ring That Reads a Finger Pressed Into Its Groove
Samsung is rethinking what a smart ring can sense, filing a patent for a ring with physical grooves on its outer surface…
Intel Patents Technology to Run Visual Effects Code Across Any Graphics Platform
Writing code for one graphics system and having it refuse to run on another is one of the oldest headaches in software…
Apple Patents a Hinge That Hides Wiring Inside Smart Glasses Arms
Apple has filed a patent for a hinge mechanism that does two jobs at once: it lets a wearable display's arms fold…
IBM Patents Technology to Track Exactly How Much Power Each Program Uses on a Shared Graphics Chip
When dozens of jobs run on the same GPU at once, figuring out how much power each one actually consumed is surprisingly…
Sony Patents a Prediction System for Compressing 3D Video Data
Streaming a three-dimensional scene, like a sports replay you can walk around in or a lidar map from a self-driving car, takes…
Qualcomm Patents a Chip That Speeds Up Small Shapes in 3D Graphics
Every 3D scene is built from millions of triangles, and tiny ones have always caused outsized headaches for GPUs. Qualcomm's new patent…
Intel Patents Hardware That Runs AI Calculations Using Less Memory and Power
Intel is patenting the internal plumbing of an AI processor that handles a compact number format called FP8, which lets chips do…
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