PATENT INFORMATION: Patent No – US 9,082,047 Patent Title: Learning beautiful and ugly visual attributes Inventors:Marchesotti; Luca (Grenoble, FR) Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION (Norwalk, CT) Family…
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Amazing. Sony did not learn any lesson from failure of BluRay, they are still working on optical storage media.
PATENT INFORMATION: Patent No – US 9082430 Patent Title: Optical information recording medium Inventors: Takeuchi; Atsushi (Miyagi, JP), Owada; Katsuya (Park Ridge, NJ) Assignee: Microsoft…
Self cleaning glasses from Ford
PATENT INFORMATION: Patent Number – US 9083864 Patent Title – Self-cleaning camera lens Inventors: Reed; Glenn Richard (Ann Arbor, MI) Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC…
Maglev based aircraft catapult revealed in a patent granted this week.
Patent Information: Patent Number: 9,079,671 Patent Title: Aircraft thrust, assembly, and methods Inventors: Endres; Steven P. (Ann Arbor, MI) Assignee: Exhaustless, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI)…
Privacy issues be damned. Microsoft thinks the problem with Google Glass is shorter temple arms. This was revealed in a patent granted to Microsoft this week.
PATENT INFORMATION: Patent Number: US 9083864 Patent Title: Head worn device having temple arms to provide long axis compression Inventors: Adams; Aditha May (Seattle, WA),…
A cool Canard-locked oblique wing aircraft
Patent Information: Patent Number: 9,079,663 Patent Title: Canard-locked oblique wing aircraft Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, VA) Family ID: 1000001211485 Appl. No.: 14/185,465…
Google Glass to soon get a cool hand-triggered photography feature
Patent Information Patent Number: US 9,076,033 Patent Title: Hand-triggered head-mounted photography Inventors: Barron; Jonathan Tilton (Oakland, CA), Levoy; Marc Stewart (Stanford, CA), Hasinoff; Samuel William…
Boeing just killed the plot of Black Hawk Down!
The plot of the movie Black Hawk down revolves around a Black Hawk Super Six-One helicopter, which is shot down by an enemy rocket-propelled grenade…
List of Nikola Tesla's 300 patents. Happy Birthday Tesla! (Source: Wikipedia)
Nikola Tesla obtained 300 patents in his lifetime in over 26 countries. Patents #1–#50 U.S. Patent 0,334,823 – Commutator for Dynamo Electric Machines – 1886…
Amazon patents a method to determine depth in photos
PATENT INFORMATION: Patent Number: US 9,077,891 Patent Title: Depth determination using camera focus Inventors: Baldwin; Leo Benedict (Cupertino, CA) Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Reno, NV)…