When Apple launched their 2017 iPhones, they finally introduced wireless charging to its smartphones. In fact there have been recently discovered patents that even suggests that Apple could be interested in reverse wireless charging. However it...
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Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is bursting with ideas since SoftBank invested nearly $1 billion in February, new filings reveal.
A recent patent application details how its R1 self-driving vehicle could carry smaller robots to cross lawns or...
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A holodeck on your head?
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Addressing the problem of locating your hands in space.
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While Microsoft has already launched the HoloLens 2, the field of view of the new headset only expanded somewhat, from around 30 to 50 degrees diagonal, described by some as going from looking through a mail slot to looking through a paper-back...
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Huawei will continue to lead in the 5G telecommunications space with substantial influence and significant contributions despite a US-led geopolitical crackdown, as it has taken a leading position by continuously investing in research and...
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Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all....
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Earlier this month, we told you about the Google Project Stream Controller patent being shown off. We’ve seen several images about and as it turns out, they’re for real. Google has recently announced Stadia which is mainly a new video...
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Sorry cry babies! Eugene S. Robinson & Stephie Haynes are back with an all new edition of the infamous & patented Care/Don’t Care Preview for Thompson vs Pettis on Saturday, March, 23rd - UFC on ESPN+ 6. It’s time for another of our...
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LG is set to commercialize their flexible screen rolling TV this year, and the above design may be exactly what it looks like, going by three patents published on 28 February 2019 which LG filed with the KIPO (Korean Intellectual Property...
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Hawaii was ranked as the nation's seventh least innovative state by personal finance website WalletHub, based on 24 public record measures such Advanced Placement exam participation, patents filed per capita, venture capital funding, average...
Time to revisit the idea of patent portfolio as nuclear deterrence? Analysis Qualcomm has won a $31m judgment against Apple in the US after the iGiant infringed three of Qualy's mobile phone battery patents – the latest ruling in a long series...
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Collaboration between government and startups could help meet the climate challenge while growing small businesses. Findings could inform discussions on Green New Deal or any 'forward-looking policy package', say researchers.
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Sony has seen considerable success with its PSVR headset. If you were wondering whether the company has any plans to make a wireless version of its popular headset, there just might be hope. A new patent has been uncovered which suggests that Sony...
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Steven Craig Wright, the man who has, on various occasions, claimed to be Bitcoin’s legendary creator (or creators) Satoshi Nakamoto is trying to build a cryptocurrency and blockchain patent empire. A recent Hard Fork investigation showed the...
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Latest research on hundreds of new green technology companies in the US shows the patenting activity of a startup climbs by over 73% on average every time they collaborate with a government agency on "cleantech" development—from next-generation...
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Security,
This sounds scary...but is it?
China claims to be developing “magnetized plasma artillery.”
The Chinese military recently published a notice inviting researchers to devise a weapon that sounds like a sort of...
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As of last year, only 10 percent of U.S. patent holders were women, although women account for half of doctoral degrees in science and engineering.