Meta Files Patent for Wristband Combining EMG Muscle Tracking and Heart Rate Monitoring
Meta wants to put two very different body sensors in the same wristband capsule and make sure they never step on each…
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Samsung Patents a Home Automation System That Reads What You're Doing
Samsung is patenting a system that watches your actions and the state of your connected devices, then automatically adjusts everything around you…
Samsung Patents a Distance-Scanning Sensor That Checks Its Own Accuracy While Operating
Every LiDAR sensor drifts a little as its laser signal fluctuates, and those tiny errors add up into wrong distance readings. Samsung's…
Sony Files Patent for Radar-Based Body Fluid Monitoring
Sony is exploring a way to measure fluids inside your body, like blood, using radar signals bounced through your skin. No needle,…
Samsung Patents a Stovetop That Checks In With Other Home Devices While Idle
Samsung's latest patent describes an induction cooktop that doesn't fully switch off when you're done cooking. Instead, it checks in with other…
Samsung Patents a Phone-Guided Way to Pair Nearby Sensors with IoT Devices
Setting up a smart home often means manually telling your phone which sensors belong to which device — a process that's tedious…
Samsung Patents a Light That Adapts to Your Room's Sun Exposure Over the Day
A north-facing office and a south-facing living room need very different amounts of artificial light at 2pm — Samsung's new patent is…
Samsung Patents Radar Technology That Pinpoints Multiple Objects Hiding Behind Each Other
When a radar signal bounces off the same object from two slightly different directions at the same time, most systems get confused…
Meta's New Patent Reveals How Its Muscle-Reading Wristband Stays Connected to Itself
Meta is quietly building out the internal plumbing of a wristband that reads your muscle signals — and this patent covers how…
Sony Patents a Snap-Together Modular System for Releasing Scents on Demand
Sony is patenting a building-block approach to scent delivery — individual aroma cartridges that each hold a different smell, form a directed…
Samsung Patents a Ray Simulation Correction Method for LiDAR Sensors
LiDAR sensors are only as good as the light signals they receive — and in the real world, those signals get messy.…
Qualcomm Patents GPS-Assisted Motion Estimation for 3D Point Cloud Compression
Compressing 3D LiDAR data is brutally hard — the scene changes every millisecond and every point in space needs to move with…
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