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Retail Asia08/02/2024

The tech world is never sleeping. Google’s latest patent has to do with a new antenna design for wearable devices like smartwatches. The just-filled patent for the new design makes the antenna more compact and optimized for communications. According to Google, the refreshed antenna design uses a microwave dielectric substrate with a high relative permittivity. That […]

Retail Asia30/03/2022

Force Touch, also called 3D Touch, was a technology that Apple used for some years but then suddenly replaced with Haptic Touch. With 3D Touch, iPhone users had the ability to access more menus by simply applying different pressures to their iPhone display. Although it’s a tiny possibility, it appears that Apple might again introduce a newer […]

Retail Asia11/07/2021

Nokia, just like other big companies in the telecom industry, is very protective when it comes to its own patents. The Finnish company signed licensing agreements with many companies that use its patents and sued those that used them without permission. The most recent on the list of companies that have just got sued by […]

Retail Asia02/07/2021

Vivo has filed a patent for a flying smartphone camera. You read that right, the camera disconnects from the phone and takes to the air to provide the user with unusual photo opportunities to take snapshots and video from. The camera module features four propellers, two dual cameras, three infrared proximity sensors and an extra […]

Retail Asia17/02/2021

Apple has received a patent that could change the way the Apple Pencil is used. Titled “Multipurpose stylus with exchangeable modules,” the patent covers the tips (or nibs) used on the Apple Pencil. There are various reasons why an Apple Pencil user might want to change the nib on the (with all due respect to the late Steve […]

Retail Asia05/12/2019

Imagine listening to a conference call on a headset and knowing the position of everyone in the room just by listening to the sound. Apple apparently is planning on developing AR audio headphones and has just received a patent covering related technology from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Called Intelligent augmented audio conference calling using headphones, […]

Retail Asia27/06/2019

BMW Motorrad has filed patents for an electrically-driven front wheel that is likely to be featured in future generation adventure bikes. The patent drawings are ostensibly of an electric front wheel drive system, which will be able to supply drive force in combination with the conventional rear-wheel drive on motorcycles. The drawings show what is […]

Retail Asia10/05/2019

Since notches first arrive back in 2017, smartphone brands have attempted a range of implementations ranging from wide ones to much subtler water drop alternatives. One thing that hasn’t been attempted, however, is an outward facing one. But Xiaomi’s latest patent suggests it could be working on one. In what is presumably an attempt at creating a […]

Retail Asia05/04/2019

Earlier this month, we passed along a rumor stating that the 2019 Apple iPhone XI line will feature a new Underwater Mode that would allow users to snap pictures and navigate the screen even with the phone submerged in water. The original rumor mentioned that the Underwater Mode would be patented, and today the actual […]

Retail Asia14/01/2019

Samsung Electronics grabbed the No. 2 spot in U.S. patent grants among global corporate giants in 2018, industry data showed Thursday. Samsung Electronics, the world’s top smartphone and memory chip maker, received 5,850 U.S. patent grants last year, up 13 from the previous year, according to the data from IFI Claims Patent Services, provider of […]

Retail Asia16/01/2017

Amazon continues to push the envelope as a supply chain and logistics disrupter with the granting of a patent in late December for what has been dubbed a giant ‘flying warehouse’. The Amazon Technologies Inc. filing describes ‘airborne fulfillment centers’ (AFCs) comprised of large and robust flying drone made up of numerous smaller drones, designed […]

Retail Asia22/02/2016

Apple was granted four design patents yesterday in Hong Kong China covering the Apple Watch Sport’s retail packaging & a connector with an on-off switch at the top as noted in our cover graphic. Unlike “patent applications,” design patents published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and/or any other Patent Office, don’t reveal pertinent […]

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This Google patent may extend the battery life of your next smartwatch

New Apple patents hint at a better pressure sensor technology

Nokia suing Oppo over patent infringement in several countries

Vivo files a patent application for a detachable flying smartphone camera

Apple receives a patent for a major new Apple Pencil feature

Apple patents technology for AR audio headphones

BMW Motorrad Files Patent For Electric Front Wheel Drive

Xiaomi just patented a weird-looking inverted Notch

Apple patent application “confirms” a new feature for iPhone

Samsung ranks second in 2018 U.S. patent grants

Amazon gains patent for drone ‘Mothership’

Apple Granted 4 Design Patents in Hong Kong