Big Tech patents published October 8, 2026

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  Biotech

  Alphabet Spinout Verily Patents a Blood-Sugar Sensor That Sits Under Your Eyelid

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents Earbuds That Capture What Others Say So an AI Can Recap It Later

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for Phone AI That Uses Your Location but Hides It From Apps

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  Security

  A New Google Patent Has Your Phone Force a Stray Tracker to Beep

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for a Search Tool That Researches Big Questions for You

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  AR / VR

  Google Patents Tracking That Lets You Read Your Phone Inside a VR Headset

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents a Preview Sketch You Can Edit Before AI Draws the Final Image

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents an AI Assistant That Remembers How You Like Your Answers

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for Makeup Filters Trained on AI-Made Faces

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents an AI That Turns Hours-Long Livestreams Into Highlight Clips

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents an AI Memory That Stays the Same Size, However Long the Conversation Runs

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents an AI Memory That Stops Growing as Text Gets Longer

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  AR / VR

  Google Patents Smart Glasses Lenses With Switchable Mirrors to Widen the Picture

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  Automotive

  Waymo Files Patent for Cars That Let Drivers Behind Them Pass Before Turning

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents an AI That Does the Research When You Ask About a Photo

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  Automotive

  A New Waymo Patent Checks Other Drivers' Turn Signals Against How They're Actually Moving

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents a Chat Tool That Turns Typed Descriptions Into Custom Stickers

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for Robots That Turn a Plain-English Request Into a Step-by-Step Plan

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  Cell phone

  Google Patents a Phone Camera Focus System That Knows When It Is Guessing

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents a Coach That Grades Every Search an AI Assistant Runs

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for AI Language Models That Stop Answering in the Wrong Language

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  Automotive

  Waymo Files Patent for Predicting Where a Car Will Turn From Its Front Wheels

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  Software

  Google Files Patent for Spotting Cropped, Zoomed Video Copies by Their Soundtrack

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for an AI Production Crew That Makes Ads for Each Audience

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  AR / VR

  Google Patents Glasses That Flash Notifications From the Frame Instead of the Lens

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  Chip

  Google Files Patent for a Phone Chip That Sees Overheating Coming

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for an AI That Looks Up Facts Without a Second Model

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  Software

  Google Files Patent for Holding Down an App Icon and Speaking Your Command

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  Automotive

  Waymo Patents Using Two Radars to Tell Where Cars and Pedestrians Are Heading

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents a Toolkit That Turns Your Thumbs-Up Clicks Into AI Training

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for Swapping a Bigger Language AI Into a Photo-Reading One

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for Training Speech Recognition With Blanked-Out Slices of Sound

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  AI / ML

  Google Patents Training Image AI on Photos of Every Shape and Size at Once

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  Chip

  A New Google Patent Trims Phone Battery Drain by Matching Cellular Power to Each App

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  Robotics

  Wing Files Patent for Delivery Drones That Work Out Which Charging Pad They're On

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  Robotics

  Intrinsic's New Patent Covers Software That Automatically Programs Robots for Factory Work

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  AR / VR

  Google Patents a Shortcut That Cuts the Math Behind 3D Sound in VR and AR

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  Software

  A New Google Patent Lets a Database Switch Tactics While It Searches

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  AI / ML

  Google Files Patent for Big AI Models That Write Small Programs for Cheaper Ones

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  Wearable

  Samsung Patents a Smartwatch That Tightens Itself When You Start Running

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  Display

  Samsung Patents a Smartwatch Screen That Checks Blood Pressure Through Your Finger and Wrist

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  Display

  Samsung Patents a Fix for Foldable Phones That Block Their Own Camera

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  AI / ML

  Samsung Patents a Robot Vacuum Map That Uses Your Photos and AI to Fill in the Gaps

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  Display

  Samsung Files Patent for a Phone Screen That Reads Your Pulse in Both Hands

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  Cell phone

  Samsung Patents Earbuds That Work Out What You're Doing From Sound and Movement

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  Chip

  Samsung Files Patent for Memory That Lets Servers Predict Failures Without Seeing Its Secrets

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  AI / ML

  Samsung Patents an AI Avatar That Matches Its Face and Body Language to Its Words

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  AR / VR

  Samsung Patents a Fix for Jarring Color and Brightness Jumps in Headset Video

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  AR / VR

  Samsung Patents AR Glasses That Light Up Just One Lens for Simple Alerts

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  AI / ML

  Samsung Files Patent for a Voice Assistant That Fact-Checks Its Answers Against Your Apps

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  Software

  Samsung Patents a Phone Folder That Builds Itself Around the Task You're Doing

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  Wearable

  Samsung Patents a Watch Band That Tightens Itself When You Start a Workout

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  AR / VR

  Samsung Patents Brighter Camera Feeds for Headsets Used in Dim Rooms

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  Wearable

  Samsung Files Patent for a Workout Plan That Changes While You Sweat

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  Camera

  Samsung Patents a Camera Sensor That Fixes Motion Blur by Counting Individual Light Particles

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  AR / VR

  Samsung Patents a Headset Dial That Fits Your Head and Your Eyesight

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  Networking

  Samsung Files Patent to Keep Your Phone Connected as Satellites Hand It Off

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  Display

  Samsung Patents a Fix for Jagged Lines on Screens That Show 3D Without Glasses

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  Networking

  Samsung Files Patent for Tracking Your Phone's Location Using the Radio Wave Itself

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  Display

  Samsung Files Patent for an Always-On Screen That Dims Itself to Match the Room

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  AR / VR

  Samsung Files Patent for Headsets That Brighten Their Camera View in Dim Rooms

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  Display

  A New Samsung Patent Folds a Smart Ring's Antenna Down Over Its Radio Chip

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  Chip

  Samsung Files Patent for a Slimmer Phone Camera With Focus Parts Tucked Into Its Base

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  AR / VR

  Samsung Patents Auto-Correction for Dark, Grainy Video in Headsets That Show Your Room

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  AI / ML

  Samsung Patents a Small AI Model That Rates How Detailed a Video Frame Is

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  Networking

  Samsung Files Patent for Phones That Fall Back to a Rougher Location on Their Own

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Patents Store Shelf Price Tags That Point You to the Product You Want

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Battery-Free Store Tags That Help Your Phone Find Products

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  Automotive

  A New Qualcomm Patent Plans Your Drive Around Where Cell Signal Is Strong

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  Display

  Qualcomm Patents a Method to Play Video Without Waking the Main Chip

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  Security

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Catching Fake GPS Signals Before They Mislead Your Phone

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  AI / ML

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Storing Giant AI Models as Small Edits to a Shared Copy

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  AR / VR

  Qualcomm Files Patent for AR Glasses That Freeze Background Apps to Save Battery

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Wireless Audio That Patches Its Own Dropouts

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  AI / ML

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Software That Spots When Cars and Signs Are Partly Hidden

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Letting Your Phone Skip Its Cell Tower Check-Ins

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  Security

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Cross-Checking Phone Locations Against Camera Footage

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Spotting Shelf Price Tags That Have Been Moved

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Home Internet Boxes That Move Their Own Antennas

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Steering Phones to the Cell Tower That Saves Battery

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  AR / VR

  Qualcomm Files Patent for a Headset Helper That Fetches 3D Objects Before You Need Them

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Roadside Equipment That Catches Bad GPS Satellite Data

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Patents Battery-Free Tags That Map How Radio Signals Move Through a Store

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  AI / ML

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Teaching AI on Phones Without Collecting Your Data

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  AI / ML

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Chatbot Chips That Skip the Work They Don't Need

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  AR / VR

  Qualcomm Files Patent for AR Headset Chips That Put Spare Memory Toward Sharper Video

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Phones That Tell Cell Towers Their AI Limits

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Shelf Labels That Unscramble Data From Battery-Free Tags

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Patents a Method to Save Battery While Your Phone Searches for Nearby Devices

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  Networking

  Qualcomm Files Patent for Keeping Differently Compressed Data Apart in Wireless Signals

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  AR / VR

  Apple Patent Puts a Miniature 3D Stadium Beside the Game, Including Players Outside the TV Shot

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  Wearable

  Apple Patents a Watch That Predicts Your Period and Fertile Days From Heart Rate

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  Software

  New Apple Patent Lets Viewers Turn Down Sports Commentators While Keeping the Crowd

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  AR / VR

  Apple Files Patent for Glasses That Do Different Things Depending on Which Arm You Touch

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  Networking

  Apple Files Patent for Letting Your Phone Report Its Location Without Giving Its Name

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  AR / VR

  Apple Files Patent for a Food Tracker That Asks When It's Unsure

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  Software

  Apple Files Patent for Group Chats That Open Shared Documents Without Exposing Your Identity

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  AR / VR

  Apple Patents a Bigger Phone Keyboard You Can Read Inside a Headset

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  AR / VR

  Apple Files Patent for Virtual Walls and Furniture That Cover Up a Film Set's Flaws

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  Networking

  Apple Files Patent for Phones That Grade Their Own Wireless Signal Forecasts

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  Networking

  Apple Files Patent for Phones That Predict the Best 5G Signal Without Testing It

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  Software

  Apple Patents a Wallet Student ID That Shimmers Like Metal When You Tilt Your Phone

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  AR / VR

  Apple Patents Floating Controls for Moving and Resizing Virtual Objects by Looking and Pinching

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  Software

  Apple Files Patent for a Swipe That Reveals More Controls the Farther You Go

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  Networking

  Apple Files Patent for Phones That Tell Cell Towers Their AI Limits

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  Software

  Apple Files Patent for Voice Assistant Replies That Fit Around Your Phone's Camera Cutout

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  AR / VR

  Apple Files Patent for Avatars That Show Less Detail From Some Angles

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  Networking

  Apple Patents a Labeling System So Your iPhone and Cell Tower Use Matching AI

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  AR / VR

  Apple Files Patent for Room Scans That Fix Mistakes Without Starting Over

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  AI / ML

  Apple Files Patent for Letting AI Servers Work While They Talk to Each Other

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  Chip

  Apple Files Patent for Covering Up Dropped Video Pieces Before You Notice

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  Security

  Apple's New Patent Keeps Unsafe Programs From Running on Your Device

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  Software

  Microsoft Files Patent for Game Characters That Change Look When a Helper Takes Over

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for AI That Rewrites the Instructions Given to Other AI

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for an AI Assistant That Knows What's Open on Your Screen

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Patents a System to Keep Its Chatbot Behaving Consistently Over Time

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for Cutting the Memory Cost of AI Text Generation

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Patents an AI Game Tester That Finds Bugs by Watching the Screen

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Patents Meeting Replays That Skip to the Parts Your Job Cares About

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for Sorting Screenshots by Topic Instead of Time

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  Software

  Microsoft Files Patent for Headsets That Animate Your Avatar on Calls

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  Security

  Microsoft Patents Two Hidden Audio Signals to Catch Pirated Sound Files

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  AI / ML

  A New Microsoft Patent Trains Speech Recognition on Voices Scrubbed of Identity

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  AR / VR

  Microsoft Files Patent for Headset Instructions That Adapt to the Equipment You Have

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  Security

  Microsoft Files Patent for AI Training Data That Guards Riskiest Personal Details Hardest

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for Teaching AI to Sharpen Blurry Game Graphics

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for Trimming Web Pages Before an AI Reads Them

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Patents a System That Sends AI Requests to Models Based on Answer Length

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for AI Search Suggestions Written by Several Models at Once

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for Teaching AI a Concept From a Handful of Example Words

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  AI / ML

  Microsoft Files Patent for Training AI on Whole Sets of Graded Answers

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  Software

  Microsoft Files Patent for Remote Desktop Sessions With Brighter, Richer Color

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  AI / ML

  Nvidia Files Patent for AI That Invents New Camera Angles for Game Footage

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  AI / ML

  Nvidia Files Patent to Turn One Ordinary Photo Into a 360-Degree Scene

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  Automotive

  Nvidia Patents a Dashboard Camera That Measures Your Eyelids to Catch Drowsy Driving

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  Automotive

  Nvidia Files Patent for Cars That Know When They're Towing a Trailer

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  AI / ML

  Nvidia Patents AI That Gives Plain 3D Models Realistic Surfaces From a Written Description

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  Automotive

  Nvidia Files Patent for Self-Driving Cars That Preview Where a Move Leads

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  Software

  Nvidia Files Patent for Cleaning Up Grainy Game Graphics Without Tracking Millions of Triangles

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  AI / ML

  Nvidia Patents Camera Tuning That Fixes One Part of a Photo Without Wrecking the Rest

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  AI / ML

  Nvidia Files Patent for Robot Vision That Redraws an Object Until It Matches the Camera

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  AI / ML

  Nvidia Patents an AI That Guesses the Hidden Part of Partly Blocked Objects

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  Automotive

  Nvidia Files Patent for Sharper Night Vision From Low-Cost Car Cameras

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  AI / ML

  Nvidia Files Patent for Video Streaming That Cleans Up Blocky Frames

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  Automotive

  Nvidia Files Patent on Teaching Self-Driving Cars to Trace Curving Lane Lines

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  Camera

  OpenAI Patents a Moving Assistant That Keeps Waving Until You Look at It

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Files Patent for a Chatbot That Writes Its Own Notes About You

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Patents a Voice Assistant That Forgets the Part You Talked Over

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Patents an AI That Writes Short Profiles of You for Apps to Use

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Files Patent for Voice AI That Knows When You've Finished Your Thought

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  AI / ML

  A New OpenAI Patent Puts Building and Testing a Custom Chatbot in One Window

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Patents a Split-Screen Tool for Pitting Two AI Models Against Each Other

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Files Patent for Letting Customers Teach Its AI With Their Own Pictures

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Wins a Patent for Voice Chat That Starts Thinking Before You Stop Talking

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Files Patent for a Stop Button That Interrupts Its Voice AI Mid-Answer

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Patents On-Screen Cues That Show When Its AI Voice Mode Is Listening

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  AI / ML

  OpenAI Files Patent for Keeping Thousands of Custom AI Models Ready to Answer

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  Biotech

  Sony Patents a Surgery Simulator That Makes Virtual Tissue Bleed and Smoke

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  Input & haptics

  Sony Patents a Game Controller With Joysticks You Can Slide Out and Swap

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  AR / VR

  Sony Patents a VR Headset With a Camera Pointed at Your Controller

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  Automotive

  Sony Files Patent for Cars That Project Messages Onto the Road and Dodge Puddles

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  AI / ML

  Sony Patents an AI That Picks Your Game Settings From a Plain-English Request

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  AR / VR

  Sony Patents a Lens That Dims Eye-Projecting Laser Glasses Without a Filter

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  Software

  Sony Files Patent for Streaming Game World Animation From a Server

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  Display

  Sony Patents a Touchscreen That Treats a Hovering Finger as Part of the Gesture

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  Software

  Sony Files Patent for Game Streams That Tell Your Screen When Lag Matters Most

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  AI / ML

  Sony Patents a Tool That Spots Glitches in AI-Sharpened Game Footage

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  AI / ML

  Sony Files Patent to Cut the Data Phones Upload When Training Shared AI

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  Biotech

  Sony Files Patent for Zooming Through Giant Tissue Scans Without the Lag

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  Automotive

  Red Hat Files Patent for Cars That Lock Down Features During a Hack

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  AI / ML

  IBM Patents a Seizure Detector That Works With Any Number of Brain Sensors

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  AI / ML

  IBM Patents an AI Assistant That Builds a New Tool for Every Request

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  Software

  Red Hat Files Patent for a Reservation System That Lets Quantum Programs Share Hardware

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  Security

  Red Hat Files Patent for Car Hack Defenses That Scale With the Threat

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  AI / ML

  IBM Patents an AI That Designs Power Circuits and Checks Its Own Work

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  Chip

  IBM Patents a Two-Layer Chip Surface to Keep Medical Sensors Reading Accurately

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  Biotech

  IBM Files Patent for Trimming the Run Time of AI Gene Analysis Without Changing Results

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  Chip

  A New IBM Patent Lets Chip Software and Hardware Teams Hunt Bugs Together

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  Chip

  IBM Patents a Chip Mirror That Catches Stray Light as Signals Turn Corners

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  AI / ML

  IBM Files Patent for Mainframe AI That Studies Only the Jobs That Repeat

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  Automotive

  Mobileye Files Patent for a Map That Grades the Quality of Lane Paint

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  Networking

  Intel Files Patent for Network Gear That Answers AI Requests on the Spot

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  AI / ML

  Intel Patents Video Upscaling That Skips the AI on Flat Areas Like Sky

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  Chip

  Intel Patents a Chip Shortcut That Spends Video Quality Where Viewers Look

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  Automotive

  Mobileye Files Patent for Cars That Judge How Dark It Is Using Their Cameras

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  Software

  Intel Files Patent for Data Centers That Shift Work Between Chips Mid-Job

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  AI / ML

  A New Adobe Patent Turns a Black T-Shirt Into Tiger Fur, Leaving the Photo Intact

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  AI / ML

  Adobe Patents AI That Guesses the Whole Room's Lighting From One Photo

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  AI / ML

  Adobe Patents an AI Photo Brush That Lets You Dial In How Much Changes

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  AI / ML

  Adobe Patents an AI Chat Tool That Answers in Both Words and Pictures

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  AI / ML

  Adobe Files Patent for AI That Stages Product Bundle Photos Without a Shoot

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  AI / ML

  Adobe Files Patent for Cheaper Training of AI Image Generators

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  Automotive

  Zoox Filing Has Robotaxis Listen for Police Orders and Tell Riders What to Do

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  Automotive

  Zoox Patents a Spinning Window That Flings Rain Off Its Self-Driving Car Sensors

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  AI / ML

  Amazon Files Patent for Software That Ranks the Topics Callers Feel Strongly About

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  Automotive

  Zoox Files Patent to Keep Its Robotaxis From All Piling Onto the Same Street

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  AI / ML

  Amazon Files Patent for a Voice Assistant That Clicks Through Websites for You

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  AI / ML

  AMD Files Patent for Running Image AI on About a Third of the Memory

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  Chip

  AMD Files Patent to Let Graphics Chips Pull Game Visuals Straight From Storage

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  Chip

  AMD Files Patent for AI Chips With a Built-In Spare for Manufacturing Flaws

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  Networking

  AMD Files Patent for Keeping AI Chip Clusters Running When a Network Card Dies

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  Chip

  AMD Files Patent for AI Chip Parts That Share Memory and Run Side by Side

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  AI / ML

  A New Disney Patent Rewrites Dubbed Dialogue to Match the Original Actor's Pauses

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  AI / ML

  Disney Patents an AI That Designs Custom Character Mugs, Then Checks Its Own Work

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  AI / ML

  Disney Patents AI That Turns Flat Movie Scenes Into 3D, Down to Strands of Hair

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  Software

  Disney Patents a Camera System That Tracks Your Moves Without Knowing Who You Are

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  AR / VR

  Meta Patents Smart Glasses That Combine Their Microphones to Cut Through Noise

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  Camera

  Meta Files Patent for Glasses Cameras That Read Your Pulse Past Sweat and Glare

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  AR / VR

  Meta Files Patent for Tilting the Picture Inside AR Glasses to Slim Them Down

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  AI / ML

  Salesforce Patents a Fake Caller to Test AI Phone Assistants Before Real Customers Do

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  AI / ML

  Salesforce Patents a Search Assistant That Rewrites Your Query When It Finds Nothing

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  Robotics

  Tesla Patents a Touch-Sensitive Skin Molded to Fit Robot Hands

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  Automotive

  A New Tesla Patent Has Nearby Cars Fix Each Other's GPS Errors

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