IBM Patents a System That Builds Encryption Keys From Your Message History
IBM is experimenting with a twist on encryption: instead of relying on a pre-shared secret or a certificate authority, your devices would…
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IBM Patents a Way to Encrypt Live Databases Without Any Downtime
Encrypting a production database usually means taking it offline — sometimes for hours. IBM's new patent describes a way to do the…
Qualcomm Patents an Encrypted RFID Tag That Finds Lost Items Without Exposing Your Identity
Qualcomm has filed a patent for an RFID-based lost-and-found system that lets you locate a missing item through a crowd of strangers'…
Qualcomm Patents a Two-Layer Biometric System That Splits Your Fingerprint Data Across Isolated Chip Zones
Qualcomm wants to make stealing your biometric data much harder by ensuring that no single chip environment ever holds the complete picture…
Apple Patents a QR-Code System That Proves You're Actually There
Apple is patenting a way to use QR codes not just to share information, but to cryptographically prove that a specific device…
Google Patents a Fingerprint-Tap Method for Adding Trusted Users to Devices
What if you could add your partner to your phone's fingerprint unlock just by both touching the sensor at the same time?…
Google Patents a Group-Based System for Blocking Sensitive Data Transfers Between Apps
Google is patenting a way to treat apps as trusted clusters — so sensitive data inside one group of apps can't quietly…
Microsoft Patents a System for Vetting the Documents That Feed Your AI
When you feed an AI a document to answer questions from, how do you know that document hasn't been tampered with? Microsoft…
Microsoft Patents a Registration-Based System to Lock App Tokens to Specific Instances
What if an authentication token could only ever work inside the exact app instance that requested it — and nowhere else? That's…
Microsoft Patents Automatic Runtime Hardening via Static API Call Mapping
What if your build pipeline could automatically figure out exactly which system calls your app is allowed to make — and then…
Microsoft Patents a Detection Engine for Bot-Created Cloud Tenants
Bots don't just spam social media — they spin up fake cloud accounts to abuse free tiers, launder compute, or stage attacks.…
Nvidia Patents a Priority-Aware CAN Bus Authentication System for Autonomous Vehicles
Every sensor reading, brake command, and steering input in an autonomous vehicle travels over a CAN bus — a decades-old network protocol…
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