Apple Files Patent for Smarter Health Data Delivery to Users
Apple is exploring a system that doesn't just collect your health data — it serves it back to you in a way…
736 filings · topic
Latest software patents
Apps, operating systems, games and the everyday features you tap and swipe, from Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Google and more. Every new software patent from the companies we track, newest first.
Recent filings
736 total
Apple Patents a Context-Sensitive UI That Shows Different Controls Per Screen Region
Imagine pointing at different corners of a screen and getting completely different sets of controls — one for the lights in the…
Microsoft Patents Block-Based Floating-Point Compression Using Shared Exponents
Floating-point numbers are notoriously expensive to store and move around — each one carries redundant metadata. Microsoft's new patent proposes a smarter…
Google Patents a System That Explains What You Just Did by Accident
You tap something on your phone, the screen changes, and you have no idea what just happened. Google has filed a patent…
Google Patents a Backward-Compatible Audio Codec That Upgrades Quality On-the-Fly
Google is working on a way to send higher-quality audio to capable devices while keeping older hardware perfectly happy — all inside…
Google Patents a Dual-Timeline Scrubbing Interface for Security Camera Footage
Scrubbing through hours of security camera footage is genuinely painful — Google thinks two timelines are better than one. This patent describes…
Amazon Patents a Multi-Modal App Builder That Keeps Every UI in Sync
Imagine switching from a drag-and-drop visual editor to a chat-style prompt interface mid-build — and having every change follow you seamlessly. That's…
Google Patents a Psychoacoustic Trick to Decode Compressed Audio More Accurately
Your ears can't hear everything — and Google wants decoders to know that. A newly published patent describes a smarter way to…
Apple Patents a System That Builds Playlists From Your Friends' Listening History
Apple is quietly building the infrastructure to turn your friends' music taste into your next playlist — and it's more algorithmic than…
Apple Patents a Single Moving Indicator for Hybrid Vehicle Power Dashboards
Hybrid cars have always had a dashboard problem: two separate gauges for two different powertrains. Apple's new patent collapses them into one.
X Development Patents AI-Guided Optimization for Biological Synthesis Processes
X Development — Alphabet's moonshot lab — is building an AI system that doesn't just optimize biological processes for scientific performance, but…
Google Patents a Scoring System That Prioritizes Specialist Domains in Search Results
Google is patenting a system that quietly scores every domain on how specialized it is — then loads results from niche-expert sites…
Get the weekly Patentlyze email
We read every patent application Big Tech publishes and send you the ones worth knowing. Plain English, free, every week.