All the stories tagged with: patent
Apple Patent Hints At MagSafe Connectors For Portable Devices
10/08/2010, Apple’s MacBooks use the popular MagSafe power connector that is attached via a magnet, allowing it to safely snap off in the event someone trips over the wire, potentially saving your MacBook from a deathly plunge. Now a patent application [...]
Apple Patent Hints That iPhone Display Could Be Used As An RFID Transponder
10/05/2010, Apple has been placing a lot of focus on NFC (Near Field Communications) recently, and now the fruity company has been granted a new patent that brings its devices one step closer to being able to pay for your grocery [...]
Patent: Virtual Input Device For OS X In The Future?
10/01/2010, An Apple patent has surfaced showing some new possible input methods for OS X. The patent describes a virtual input device that works in both 2D and 3D, allowing the monitor to display a virtual input device that can be [...]
New Patent Hints At Possible 3G MacBooks In The Future?
09/29/2010, Many road warriors have complained that Apple’s MacBooks lack built-in 3G modems, and while there still isn’t any confirmation that such a feature will be arriving anytime soon, Apple has been granted a patent related to such technology, specifically a [...]
Apple Patents Aims To Reduce The Size Of Audio Jack For Nano Devices
09/24/2010, As Apple often makes tiny audio devices such as the iPod nano and iPod shuffle, it’s worth remembering that the size of the device is also affected by the 3.5mm audio jack component, and a recent patent filing by Apple [...]
Apple Patents New Camera And Flash Technologies
09/23/2010, Apple has been busy improving the imaging capabilities of its devices, as evidenced by the improved camera on the iPhone 4 and the inclusion of a camera on the iPod touch. Now a patent application has surfaced detailing a new [...]
Facebook Patents New Social CAPTCHA System
09/10/2010, Facebook has filed for an interesting patent on a new technology that it hopes will help ward of the scammers and hackers on Facebook. The patent describes a new CAPTCHA system that will make use of the user’s social graph, [...]
Apple patent shows off LCD TV that caters for video and photos
09/09/2010, One of Apple’s latest patents to be revealed concerns an LCD TV which will feature separate modes for both video and still photos. While sharing photos on an iDevice like the iPad is already simple enough as it is, Apple [...]
Apple Wins Patent For Improving The Cosmetic Surface Of Composite Laminate
09/09/2010, Every time Apple files a new patent, folks always like to inspect it and see if it’ll give any hint to an upcoming Apple product. This time Apple’s latest patent has many folks scratching their heads, as the patent covers [...]
RIM Patents Traffic-sensing Billboards
09/07/2010, Perhaps RIM intends to get its feet wet in the advertising scene too, as patent filings for some billboard systems have been filed by RIM, called the “Adaptive roadside billboard system and related methods” and the “Adaptive pedestrian billboard system [...]
Facebook Search Patent Returns Results Based On Your Social Network
08/31/2010, If there was any doubt that Facebook and Google were on collision course, the recent patent that Facebook was awarded regarding certain types of search algorithms should dispel that. The social networking giant has managed to patent the “ranking of [...]
BlackBerry patent for physically rotatable keyboard filed
08/26/2010, Research In Motion (RIM) has filed a patent for a physically rotatable keyboard that sports a numeric QWERTY layout – now this is definitely something worth checking out. After all, the display itself will not rotate, but rather the keyboard [...]
Apple Files For Patent Of A Touchscreen iMac Desktop
08/23/2010, We previously heard some rumors regarding a touchscreen iMac that might be running iOS, and now a patent filed by Apple at the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office) seems to confirm the possibility of such a device. The patent [...]
