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USPTO release · Thursday, May 7, 2026

Big Tech patents published May 7, 2026

All 83 patent applications we covered from the USPTO's Thursday, May 7, 2026 release, grouped by company. AI / ML (26) and Hardware (12) were the biggest categories.

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Google 29 Apple 23 Microsoft 12 Nvidia 12 Meta 3 Amazon 2 OpenAI 1 Tesla 1

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Google · 29 Apple · 23 Microsoft · 12 Nvidia · 12 Meta · 3 Amazon · 2 OpenAI · 1 Tesla · 1

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Google · 29 filings

Cell phone

Google Patents a Smooth-Zoom System That Fixes Jumpy Camera Previews
Software

Google Patents a System That Explains What You Just Did by Accident
AI / ML

Google Patents an AI Assistant That Balances Every User's Preferences at Once
AI / ML

Google Patents an AI System That Controls How Fast Your Content Feed Loads
AI / ML

Google Patents a Schema-Guided Machine Learning System for Document Entity Extraction
AI / ML

Google Patents a Teacher-Student Framework for Training Smaller AI Models
Software

Google Patents a Backward-Compatible Audio Codec That Upgrades Quality On-the-Fly
AR / VR

Google Patents a Curved Lightguide That Keeps AR Glasses Thin
Security

Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving Compute System Blending MPC and Trusted Enclaves
AI / ML

Google Patents an AI Gatekeeper That Decides Which Photos Are Worth Enhancing
AI / ML

Google Patents a Two-Model System for Smarter AI Training Data Selection
Automotive

Waymo Patents a Microphone System That Lets Robotaxis Hear Sirens Coming
AI / ML

Google Patents On-Device AI Recommendation Engine for Television Apps
AI / ML

Google Patents a Teacher-Student Framework for Shrinking AI Models
Battery & power

Google Patents a Direction-Aware Touchpad That Only Powers the Sensors You're About to Touch
Input & haptics

Google Patents a Speed-Sensitive Rotary Crown for Smartwatches
Automotive

Waymo Patents a LiDAR System That Adapts to Fog in Real Time
AR / VR

Google Patents a Smarter Way to Measure Crosstalk in 3D Displays
AI / ML

Google Patents the 'Teacher-Student' AI Training Method Behind Model Compression
Networking

Google Patents Smarter Uplink Scheduling for XR and Cloud Gaming on 5G
Security

Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving Ad Attribution System Using Attestation Tokens
Display

Google Patents a Polarization-Recycling Optical System for LCoS Displays
Cell phone

Google Patents a Hybrid Auto-Focus System That Prioritizes Close-Up Subjects
Security

Google Patents a Privacy Filter That Scrubs Your Voice Queries Before Sharing With Third-Party AI Assistants
Software

Google Patents a Dual-Timeline Scrubbing Interface for Security Camera Footage
AI / ML

Google Patents a Machine Learning System for Smarter Image Inpainting
AI / ML

Google Patents a Multi-Agent AI System That Controls Apps Autonomously
Biotech

Google Patents an AI System That Scores Your Heart's Biological Age
AI / ML

Google Patents a Two-Stage Prompt Filtering System for Better AI Responses

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Apple · 23 filings

Cell phone

Apple Patents a System That Detects When Your Device Is in a Case and Dials Back Its Radio
Memory & storage

Apple Patents a Method for Interleaving Chunked Entropy Data Streams
Networking

Apple Patents a System for Silencing Flagged Devices at the eSIM Level
Networking

Apple Patents a 5G Chip System for Monitoring Shared Radio Spectrum
Software

Apple Patents a System That Predicts What You Want to Paste Next
Networking

Apple Patents a Dynamic Transmit Power System That Pushes Beyond Default 5G Limits
Software

Apple Patents a Cross-Device Screen System That Reacts to Where You Place Your Phone
Networking

Apple Patents Adaptive Radio Link Monitoring for Air-to-Ground Cellular Networks
Networking

Apple Patents Location-Aware Power Control for Air-to-Ground Cellular Networks
Networking

Apple Patents a Wi-Fi Handshake System for Ultra-Low Latency Transmissions
Networking

Apple Patents a Smarter 5G Radio Monitoring System to Save Battery Life
Networking

Apple Patents a Cleaner Wi-Fi Roaming Handoff Protocol for Multi-Link Devices
Networking

Apple Patents a Smarter 5G Beam-Pair Reporting System for iPhones
Networking

Apple Patents a Smarter 5G Beam Recovery System for Mobile Chips
Display

Apple Patents a Gain Curve System for Smarter HDR Image Sharing
AR / VR

Apple Patents a System That Sizes Virtual Windows to Your Room
AI / ML

Apple Patents End-to-End AI Navigation of iPhone Screens Using Vision Language Models
AR / VR

Apple Patents a Sliding Optical Enclosure for Head-Mounted Displays
AR / VR

Apple Patents a Display System That Moves Content to Follow Your Eyes
AR / VR

Apple Patents Eye-Tracking Filter That Corrects Gaze Data at Lens Boundaries
AR / VR

Apple Patents a System That Tracks Your Eye and Maps It in 3D at the Same Time
Software

Apple Patents a Context-Sensitive UI That Shows Different Controls Per Screen Region
Networking

Apple Patents a Smart Load-Balancing System for Hub Devices and Accessories

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Microsoft · 12 filings

Security

Microsoft Patents an AI Prompt Security System That Profiles Both Models and Users
AI / ML

Microsoft Patents a System That Picks the Right AI Inference Trick for Every Job
Security

Microsoft Patents AI Agent System for Searching Fragmented Cybersecurity Data
Security

Microsoft Patents an AI System That Reads Security Logs and Summarizes Threats Automatically
AI / ML

Microsoft Patents a GPT Model That Remembers When — Not Just What — You Did
AI / ML

Microsoft Patents a Unified Contrastive Learning System for Vision AI
AI / ML

Microsoft Patents a Three-Phase AI System for Predicting Protein Shape Ensembles
Display

Microsoft Patents Motion-Compensated Compression for 3D Point Cloud Video
Software

Microsoft Patents Block-Based Floating-Point Compression Using Shared Exponents
AI / ML

Brainwaves Could Flag AI Errors the Moment They Appear
Security

Microsoft Patents a Real-Time Risk-Scoring System for Human and Bot Identities
AI / ML

Microsoft Patents a Self-Reorganizing AI Agent Workflow System

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Nvidia · 12 filings

Automotive

Nvidia Patents a System That Teaches Self-Driving Cars to Know When They're Flying Blind
AI / ML

Nvidia Patents a System for Writing Captions About Specific Parts of an Image
Automotive

Nvidia Patents a Multi-Head Neural Network for Reading Traffic Lights
AI / ML

Nvidia Patents a Domain-Specific Retrieval System That Learns Your Vocabulary
AI / ML

Nvidia Patents a Self-Teaching Neural Renderer That Reconstructs 3D from 2D Images
Automotive

Nvidia Patents an AI System That Chooses How Your Car Sees Around Itself
Chip

Nvidia Patents a Bird's Eye View Generator for Embedded Vision Systems
Automotive

Nvidia Patents ML System That Automatically Maps Road Markings for Self-Driving Cars
Automotive

Nvidia Patents a Laser-Targeting System for Calibrating In-Cabin Sensors
AI / ML

Nvidia Patents a Three-Agent AI Pipeline for Automatic Code Modification
Security

Nvidia Patents an AI System That Generates Fake Spear Phishing Emails to Train Detectors
Automotive

Nvidia Patents a Lightweight System for Converting Stereo Camera Data into Bird's Eye Views

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Meta · 3 filings

Wearable

Meta Patents Frequency-Band Volume Control for Head-Wearable Devices
AI / ML

Meta Patents an AI Image Editor That Picks Its Own Edit Tasks From Plain-Language Instructions
AR / VR

Meta Patents an Adjustable Hinged Nose Bridge for Smart Glasses

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Amazon · 2 filings

AI / ML

Amazon Patents a System That Gives LLMs a Formal Logic Brain
Software

Amazon Patents a Multi-Modal App Builder That Keeps Every UI in Sync

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OpenAI · 1 filing

AI / ML

OpenAI Patents a System for Forcing AI Responses Into Structured Formats

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Tesla · 1 filing

Chip

Tesla Patents a Visualization Tool for Wafer-Scale Computing Systems

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