All the stories tagged with patent
Apple Patents Retail Packaging System
04/04/2013, Patents seem to be the new “ammunition” that companies hoard, as you can make quite a hefty amount through the courts when you have the right patents and others infringe on it, knowingly or otherwise. Well, Apple has its fair [...]
Apple Patent Could Improve Pedometer Accuracy
04/04/2013, Some of Apple’s most popular products these days would include the iPhone, iPad, and MacBook (Air and Pro), but does this mean that Apple has no interest whatsoever in other aspects of the consumer electronics business? Actually, they might venture [...]
Apple Patent Hints At Their Own Version Of Google Street View
04/04/2013, You would think after what Apple went through with its Maps application which was released on iOS 6, they would try to copy Google a lot less considering how much everyone, even Apple themselves , hated the results. But it looks as [...]
Google Patents Method That Adjusts Display Quality To Conserve Battery Life
04/01/2013, While manufacturers like Samsung can boast all they want about their beautiful AMOLED displays, the problem is that at zero battery, it won’t matter how beautiful your display is. One of the current ways to improve battery life is by [...]
Camera Settings Depend On Local Weather In Google Patent Application
03/28/2013, Originally, GPS was used by the military, and ever since the technology has made its way to the masses for peaceful and civilian use, we have seen our fair share of GPS navigation systems. Of course, these dedicated GPS navigation [...]
Apple Patent Looks At Wrap-Around AMOLED Display
03/28/2013, Apple is a company (among many other companies these days) who treat patents like the new corporate “currency”, turning them into bargaining chips down the road – hey, you never know when you might need those old patents filed so [...]
Apple Sued For Patent Infringement With Siri
03/27/2013, Well, well, what do we have here? A company that has decided to take Apple to court? This is definitely something that most folks have taken for granted, considering how Samsung and Apple were trading barbs in the courtroom since [...]
LG Issued Patent For A Phone With Three Displays
03/27/2013, Phones these days are getting pretty big, especially with devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and the LG Optimus G Pro that seem to blur the line between a smartphone and a tablet. The question is, is there a [...]
Microsoft’s Touch Cover Patent Granted
03/26/2013, Microsoft has finally picked up a patent for their Microsoft Touch Cover, thanks to the good people over at the US Patent and Trademark Office who were the ones who granted this particular patent. If one were to be more [...]
Apple Pen Computer Patent Reissued
03/26/2013, Apple has recently been issued their pen computer patent, although this time around, the reissued patent would throw in the likes of cellular connectivity in order to help it keep up with the Joneses, while dropping hints of a future [...]
Sony Works On Google Glass Competitor
03/24/2013, It looks like Google Glass is not going to live out a charmed existence, especially when you consider how it will be facing competition from the likes of LG as we have heard before, and now it seems as though [...]
Apple Patent Describes A Method To Prevent Your Phone From Falling Display First
03/21/2013, Don’t you just hate it when you drop your phone, and of all places it lands it somehow lands right smack on its display? That crunching/cracking sound of glass is heart wrenching, especially if your device is brand new, but [...]
Twitter Receives Own Patent
03/19/2013, Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Christopher “Biz” Stone are now proud owners of holding patents, where the USPTO’s database did share more intimate details concerning a messaging system that allows users to follow one another, while showing off messages without [...]
