Samsung Electronics is one of the top consumer electronics manufacturing company in the world. Even though they have manufactured some good phones, but it seems to be a different story when it comes to their laptops. Samsung has made a few solid laptops, but apart from its high-end Chromebooks and the...
Samsung Electronics has a total of 335,155 granted patents and 462,601 patent applications distributed into 336,266 patent families. Their main technology areas are semiconductor devices; electric solid state devices, pictorial communication and electric digital data processing. The U.S. Patent Office has granted a total of 5 patents to Samsung Electronics....
Facebook-owned Oculus has patented a lightweight smart glasses concept that would be able to “augment views of a physical, real-world environment with computer-generated elements.” The patent shows a pair of glasses that look like basic shades, which would force the electronics to be packed in tightly, similar to the first...
In the interim between semi-autonomous and self-driving, cars will need to be able to switch modes with relative ease. Ford has shown one possible way to move to self-driving mode, by making the steering wheel and brake pedals removable. In a patent granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
Samsung is known for its experimental patents. The Korean giant has filed patents for foldable smartphones, multi-device wireless charging, smartwatch-on-phone wireless charging, smartwatches with optical zoom cameras, and magnetic VR hand controllers for Gear VR. The most famous Android OEM isn't afraid to take chances and think outside the box:...
Google’s self-driving division, Waymo, has received a patent for an automotive design where the car loses rigidity before a crash, minimizing the damage to the rider and any other cars. Waymo would achieve this by reducing the tension of hood, panels and bumpers before an accident, according to Silicon Beat....
Apple has patented a method of overlaying details onto real-world environments, similar to what Google was trying to achieve with Glass. The user would see details of points of interest, like the names of buildings on Fifth Avenue or the different parts of a car. In the patent, the user...
Fitbit has been hit with a lawsuit from Immersion, a developer of haptic feedback technology, claiming that the Alta HR and Charge 2 maker has infringed on its patents. Immersion asks for Fitbit to cease manufacturing of all infringing devices, which, we suspect, includes all fitness trackers currently on the...
Samsung as an innovative company has a lot of patents under its name, some of which are yet to see the light of day. The Korean tech company recently added a new patent to this frequently growing list. The new patent is for a phone case with wireless charging feature....
Samsung is always experimenting with new ways to push the boundaries in tech, and the Korean giant kicks over enough rocks to find them. Some of Samsung's best ideas have come by thinking outside the norm, but today's patent refers to a common problem facing (literally) Gear VR users when...
South Korean giants, Samsung, reserves rights to so many designs and devices but only very few of these designs are able to penetrate the official processes and hit the public market. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has received a patent filed by Samsung for a wireless charging case that uses...
A report appeared not too long ago that Samsung, the South Korean tech giant, plans to stop making digital cameras but will instead focus on the Gear 360 and Gear VR headset. While the company launched a new Gear 360 2017 recently, nothing has been heard of the Gear VR headset....
Patent filings of Smartphone tech companies, in general, is always an interesting topic as it showcases some of the most innovative ideas under work at the companies' R&D wings. Smartphone manufacturers aren't short of such innovative concepts when it comes to patent filings and we have seen a lot of...
There are already a number of smart assistant type speakers on the market at the moment, Google home and Amazon echo immediately come to mind. Even the likes of Microsoft have begun a collaboration with Harmon Kardon, actually a Samsung-owned company, to work on a Cortana-powered speaker named Invoke. As you can see,...
We had earlier reported that the development and manufacturing of foldable/flexible displays panels from Samsung is under process at the moment. While there aren't that too many use cases developed for making use of such flexible displays. Now, a Patent application by Samsung, which was spotted by US Patent and...
Flexible displays are most certainly going to be the next big technological innovation in the near future. But, at this point in time, we still haven't explored all the possible use cases that such display panels can bring apart from being used in foldable, bendable and rollable phones and tablets. Now,...
Apple might be looking for a new way to improve the Watch 2 battery life, if a patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month is to be believed. The patent shows two possible designs for a wearable battery charger, one that is embedded into the wristband...
Google’s self-driving division is one step closer to launching a ridesharing service, now that it has patented an accurate location pickup finder for autonomous vehicles. The patent, first spotted by Patent Yogi, shows a concept app that finds the nearest location for pickup, taking the user’s current location into account....
Amazon’s drone delivery program might be part of an even bigger idea, one that involves huge fulfillment centers floating above cities. An Amazon patent, found by CB Insights analyst Zoe Leavitt, shows an “airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for delivery,” one of the wackiest ideas to come out...
Wearable technology has been highly regarded as a revolutionary tech of the future. Smartwatches which fall in this category on the other hand are making very little progress in appealing to consumers. Companies like Pebble had to give up their smartwatch business in 2016 to escape debt (and were acquired...
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