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?…
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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…
Microsoft Patents a Capability-Based Gatekeeper for Human Presence Sensors
Modern Windows PCs increasingly ship with sensors that detect whether a human is sitting in front of them — and Microsoft is…
Microsoft Patents a File Protection System That Follows Files Across Devices
What if your file's access rules traveled with it — no matter where it ended up? Microsoft is patenting a system that…
Amazon Patents a Way to Track the Original Identity Behind Assumed AWS Roles
When an AWS user or service assumes a new IAM role, the original identity can get lost in the audit trail. Amazon's…
Samsung Files Patent for a Post-Quantum Signature Verification Test System
As quantum computing threatens traditional cryptography, Samsung is patenting a way to rigorously test whether its memory devices can correctly verify post-quantum…
Samsung Patents Per-Host Memory Encryption for CXL Devices
As CXL memory pooling lets multiple servers share the same physical RAM, Samsung is filing patents to make sure one host can…
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