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Latest cybersecurity patents, Page 26

Fraud detection, encryption, sign-in and privacy controls from Microsoft, Google, IBM, Apple and others. The cybersecurity and privacy patent applications we have broken down from the companies we track, newest first.

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Newest first · 341 total
  1. Samsung · Published May 21

    Samsung Patents an AI System That Scores App Permissions for Privacy Risk

    Every app on your phone quietly uses permissions — microphone, contacts, calendar — and most people never know when something sketchy is happening. Samsung is patenting an AI-powered system that watches permission usage in real time, scores the risk, and then nudges you to do something about it.

  2. Microsoft · Published May 21

    Microsoft Patents an LLM-Driven Threat Hunting Tool Built Around a Tree Interface

    Security investigations are notoriously nonlinear — you chase a lead, it goes cold, and you have to backtrack. Microsoft's new patent describes an LLM-powered system that treats that backtracking as a first-class feature, not an afterthought.

  3. Google · Published May 21

    Google Patents a Security Platform That Diagnoses and Fixes Itself

    Most security platforms tell you something went wrong — Google's patent describes one that figures out why and fixes itself before you have to get involved.

  4. Qualcomm · Published May 14

    Qualcomm Patents a Chip That Tightens Its Own Security When It Overheats

    Hackers don't just attack software — they attack physics. By deliberately overheating a chip, they can cause it to make computational errors that leak secrets. Qualcomm's new patent describes a system that watches a device's temperature and automatically tightens security the moment things start getting suspiciously warm.

  5. Sony · Published May 14

    Sony Semiconductor Patents a Way to Keep Camera Sensors and Chips on the Same Encryption Key

    When a camera sensor and its host processor disagree on which encryption key to use, you get corrupted or unreadable frames. Sony's new patent describes a clean handshake mechanism so both sides always know exactly which key is active — frame by frame.

  6. Samsung · Published May 14

    Samsung Patents a Chip-Tied Authentication Key System for Secure Storage

    Samsung is patenting a way to generate authentication keys that are cryptographically bound to a specific chip's unique identifier — meaning a key cloned from one device simply won't work on another.

  7. IBM · Published May 14

    Red Hat Patents a Cloud-to-Local Secrets Manager Topology Migrator

    Migrating sensitive credentials off the cloud without scrambling how they're organized is a real operational headache — and Red Hat thinks it has a cleaner answer.

  8. IBM · Published May 14

    IBM Patents a Version-Control System for Security Configs in Container Platforms

    Managing security configurations across hundreds of containers is a known headache in modern cloud infrastructure. IBM's new patent tries to bring version control — think Git, but for security policies — directly into the orchestration layer.

  9. IBM · Published May 14

    IBM Patents a System That Automatically Finds Sensitive Data Hiding in Databases

    Most companies don't actually know where all their sensitive data lives — it's buried somewhere between the app your employees use and the database underneath it. IBM's new patent describes a system that watches both layers at once and figures out the connections automatically.

  10. IBM · Published May 14

    IBM Patents a Gesture-Based Authentication System Using Machine Learning

    Forget passwords or fingerprints — IBM is exploring whether the way *you* move your hand in space could be enough to prove you're you. The patent combines gesture recognition with user-specific biometric identification in a single ML-driven step.

  11. IBM · Published May 14

    IBM Patents an AI System That Flags IT Config Policy Gaps Automatically

    Manually auditing whether a sprawling cloud environment actually follows your security policies is tedious, error-prone work. IBM's new patent describes an AI system that reads your infrastructure configs, compares them against policies, and surfaces the most problematic gaps — automatically.

  12. IBM · Published May 14

    IBM Patents a Secret Manager for Locking Down Cloud Workload Credentials

    Every time a cloud app spins up, it needs passwords, API keys, and certificates — and those secrets are often the weakest link in the whole system. IBM's new patent tries to solve that by giving each cloud workload its own dedicated secret-keeper.