When in doubt, buy controlling interest to obtain the thing that you want. Apple on Thursday revealed plans to acquire the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business. Through the deal, more than 2,000 Intel staff will join Apple, the roughly $1 billion purchase transferring a number of patents to Apple as well Following rumors that […]
Category: Patents
Apple’s autonomous vehicle project, also known as “Project Titan,” may incorporate an incredibly different bumper upon its arrival. Per a recently published patent for a patent filed in 2016, Apple’s bumper would include an inflatable structure between the bumper cover and car body. It would also be able to retract to reduce the length of […]
Foldable screens are en route, but they may be a while yet in arriving. Huawei on Friday confirmed that the company is delaying the launch of its Mate X foldable smartphone from June to September given quality assurance purposes. A spokesperson for Huawei said the Chinese smartphone maker is being more “cautious” after some reviewers […]
The next-gen iPhone could retain Touch ID, albeit through a series of pinholes that would allow a fingerprint to be captured through the screen. Where the introduction of the iPhone X in 2017 eliminated the famous Home button in favor of an edge-to-edge display, Apple had to reconsider where to place its Touch ID feature, […]
A recently-published Apple patent filing indicates that Apple may be working on a “hybrid” display that mixes both OLED and quantum-dot LEDs. The U.S. filing, no. 20,190,131,356, describes a “tandem hybrid pixel” with an OLED subpixel and a quantum dot subpixel, plus various needed transport layers and cathodes. Quantum Dots are photoluminescence particles embedded in […]