Google Patents a Way to Pull Live Database Data Straight Into a Spreadsheet Cell
What if you could type a SQL query straight into a spreadsheet cell and have it pull live data from an external…
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Google Patents a Way to Stop Drivers and Riders from Circling Each Other
Standing on a busy corner trying to figure out where your driver is supposed to stop is one of the more frustrating…
Adobe Patents a Way to Stop Animated Characters from Moving Like Robots
Keyframe animation has always been a game of connect-the-dots — you set a start pose, an end pose, and hope the software…
Adobe Patents a Color Editor Where You Drag to Pick a Shade, Then Drag to Change It
Adobe is patenting a new way to edit colors in images — one where you drag across a graph to pick exactly…
Apple's New Patent Wants to Take On Venmo With Group Payment Sharing
Apple is exploring ways to let multiple people coordinate and authorize financial transfers through shared user interfaces — a direct push into…
Samsung Patents a Payment System That Pushes Checkout Info to Nearby Screens
Samsung is patenting a payment setup where your device quietly mirrors transaction details to a second screen — think a merchant terminal,…
Samsung Patents a Fix for Typing Inside Virtual Machine Apps
Running an Android app inside a virtual machine on a Galaxy device and need to type something? Right now, that's a messier…
Samsung Patents a System That Figures Out Which Button You Actually Meant to Tap
Fat-finger problems on touchscreens have plagued smartphones since day one. Samsung is now patenting a method that detects when your tap lands…
Samsung Patents a Camera System That Flattens Curved-Object Scans Automatically
Ever tried to scan a business card lying at an angle and got a warped, unreadable mess back? Samsung is filing a…
IBM Patents an Automated System for Moving Containers Between Servers Quickly
Moving a containerized app between servers is one of those tasks that sounds simple but quietly involves a dozen manual steps that…
Sony Patents a System for Keeping Local and Cloud Game Instances in Sync
Imagine playing a co-op game with a friend on the same couch — but your copy of the game is running locally…
Google Patents a More Efficient Way to Compress Video Transform Blocks
Google is filing patents on the low-level math that makes video smaller — and this one targets the specific order in which…
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