Samsung Patents a Two-Sensor Method for Telling When You're Actually Wearing a Device
Your smartwatch's health readings are only as good as its ability to know it's touching your skin. Samsung has filed a patent…
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Fingerprint readers, pulse monitors, lidar, and everything else that lets devices measure the world. We track each sensor filing as it lands.
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Sony Patents Technology That Reads Soil Wetness Across a Farm to Direct Irrigation
Sony is building a system that stitches together aerial moisture maps and in-ground sensors to tell farmers exactly where and when to…
Disney Patents a System That Tracks Ride Vehicles Between Sensor Points
Disney has filed a patent for a system that knows where a ride vehicle is even when no sensor is directly watching…
Tesla Patents a Soda Ash HVAC Filter That Stops Bacteria Growing in Your Car
Tesla wants to stop bacteria and mold from taking root in your car's air filter by coating it with soda ash, a…
Samsung Patents a Radar System That Cross-Checks Its Own Angle Readings
Radar sensors often guess wrong about where an object sits in 3D space because measuring angles in two directions at once is…
Nvidia Patents an AI Decision-Making System That Ignores Environmental Noise
AI models are notoriously sensitive to conditions they weren't trained on, producing wildly different answers from nearly identical inputs. Nvidia's latest patent…
Sony Patent Merges Mismatched 3D Sensors Into One Precise Unified Frame
Different sensors see the world at different speeds, and that mismatch creates blurry or misaligned data. Sony's latest filing describes a way…
Finger Cuff Patent Maps Artery Pressure for Accurate BP Readings
Google is patenting a finger cuff that presses an array of tiny pressure sensors against your skin to detect your pulse and…
Samsung Patents a System That Recalibrates Your Phone's Altitude Sensor After You Drop It
Drop your phone and the barometric pressure sensor inside it can shift out of calibration feeding bad altitude data to every app…
Samsung Patents a Compass Calibration System That Adapts to Which Sensors Are On
Your phone's compass is almost always slightly wrong, and correcting it depends on knowing how the phone is moving. Samsung's latest patent…
Samsung Patents a Pressure Sensor That Knows When It's Broken
Most sensors can tell you when they detect something. Samsung's new patent describes one that can also tell you when it's stopped…
Apple Patent Pairs Devices by Reading Flashes of Light
Instead of typing a PIN or scanning a QR code to connect a new device, Apple is exploring a system where your…
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