What we're watching in Big Tech patents
Every ongoing patent race we follow, each one a living timeline that updates automatically as new filings publish. Pick a watchlist to see the full story.
The AR glasses race
This tracker follows patent filings from Apple, Google, and Meta that solve concrete problems in AR glasses and headsets: eye tracking, waveguide…
The self-driving sensing race
This watchlist collects Waymo and Nvidia patents on the sensors, models, and software that let self-driving cars map roads, hear sirens, see…
The AI chip wars
This watchlist collects patents on the plumbing of AI chips: memory bottlenecks, task scheduling, data compression, and coordination across multiple chips. Together,…
The AI photo editing race
This tracker collects Google and Nvidia filings on photo and video editing, covering per-region edits, text-guided recoloring, compression, and smoother zoom previews.…
The AI guardrails race
This tracker collects patents that rank AI answers by accuracy, trace text back to its source, catch conflicting data, and block AI…
Samsung's camera sensor push
This tracker follows Samsung filings that address sensor pixel design, video motion blur, AI image fill quality, compression, and upscaling. Together they…
AI assistants that remember you
This tracker collects patents that decide what an assistant remembers, how it fills in context before you ask, and how it coordinates…
AI agents that act for you
This watchlist collects filings on AI agents that plan actions, control apps, parse tool calls, read images, remember past chats, listen to…
The on-device AI privacy push
This watchlist collects patents on scrubbing personal data before it leaves a device, training AI models without exposing raw data, and filtering…
Samsung's display technology
This tracker follows Samsung's patent filings on screen flicker, moisture-proofing OLED layers, uneven brightness across pixels, and light that adjusts to room…
The foldable phone race
This tracker collects Apple and Samsung filings that attack crease-prone screens, hinge wear, camera-magnet interference, flexible circuit boards, and cover-display software tricks.…
Waymo's robotaxi senses
This watchlist collects Waymo patents on sensing and prediction: hearing sirens through microphones, adapting lidar to fog, spotting hidden pedestrians and wobbly…
Samsung's 5G and network push
This tracker collects Samsung's patent filings on cell handovers, satellite fallback, beamforming, emergency call signaling, and low-power device scheduling. Together they show…
The GPU rendering race
This tracker collects Intel and AMD patents aimed at specific GPU rendering bottlenecks, including texture conversion, edge smoothing, ray tracing efficiency, and…
Teaching robots to grasp and move
This tracker collects Nvidia and Intel patent filings on teaching robots to grasp objects, navigate around obstacles, correct sensor drift, and learn…
Samsung's foldable phones
This watchlist collects Samsung's filings on foldable phone hinges, flexible circuit boards, display covers, camera shielding, and screen software for folded and…
Meta's smart glasses
This tracker collects Meta patents on smart glasses hardware: camera lens shielding, hinge durability, nose bridge fit, display alignment, and voice-plus-gesture wake…
Samsung's home robots
This tracker follows Samsung patents that give robots better balance and recovery, teach appliances to sense spills, boiling water, or mineral buildup,…
Wearables that read your body
This watchlist collects patent filings on sleep tracking, breathing sensors, heart rate accuracy during motion, muscle-signal wristbands, and hand or head gesture…
AI models that work in teams
This tracker follows patents on routing tasks to the right specialist AI, merging conflicting instructions, and catching AI mistakes before they reach…
Google's smart glasses display
This watchlist tracks Google's patent filings that attack specific AR glasses problems: color fringing, stray light, ghost images, poor text contrast, and…
Samsung's next-generation SSDs
This watchlist collects Samsung's SSD patents that target data corruption, chip defects, voltage spikes, and ransomware, alongside filings that speed up reads,…
IBM's quantum computing buildout
This tracker collects IBM and Red Hat patents that address the physical and software plumbing of quantum computers, from switches and wiring…
Apple's eye and hand controls
This tracker collects Apple's patents on gaze detection, hand gestures, and the software that turns both into commands for menus, sliders, and…
Apple's AR glasses
This tracker follows Apple's patent filings on how AR glasses might fit a face, sense slippage, track eyes, size virtual displays to…
Adobe's controllable AI images
This tracker follows Adobe's patents for controlling AI image output, from fixing object placement and blending styles to keeping characters and brand…
Nvidia's text-to-3D characters
This watchlist tracks Nvidia's filings on turning text prompts, photos, and video into rigged, animatable 3D characters and full digital humans, replacing…
Apple's device-to-device handoff
This tracker collects Apple's patent filings on how nearby devices decide who takes a call, plays audio, becomes a camera, or shares…
Meta's muscle-reading wristband
This tracker gathers every Meta patent on its muscle-reading wristband, from cleaner signal grounding and shielding to internal wiring, fabric-hidden sensors, and…
Alexa learns to act
This tracker follows Amazon patents that let Alexa read what's on your screen, catch a skill collecting sensitive data, sense when you're…
Apple's health sensors
This tracker follows Apple's patents on sleep-mode switching, breath and heart-rate sensing, muscle tracking, nutrition-linked workout goals, and health data synced across…
Apple's foldable iPhone
This watchlist gathers Apple's filings on foldable iPhone engineering, from hinge wear and screen crease control to pixel crosstalk and edge-to-edge curved…
Tesla's camera-only bet
This tracker follows Tesla's camera-only patents, covering intent detection, lane mapping, simulated training data, image-processing chips, and the camera hardware itself. Together,…
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