Amazon patented its new display technology “Electrowetting”. Electrowetting displays can be operated in all three modes transmissive, transflective and reflective. They provide long battery life…
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Audience management in a social networking system
FaceBook plans to take away control of your posts from you, when you tag other users. In social interactions outside the context of a social…
Modifying a vehicle state based on the presence of a special-purpose vehicle
Google patents technology to make autonomous cars more “conscious”. The patented technology enables autonomous cars to detect special vehicles like police car, ambulance, and a…
Methods to pan, zoom, crop, and proportionally move on a head mountable display
Google new patent allows Glass Explorers to pan, zoom, crop, and move images using head movements. Google is consistently improving Google Glass. This patent provides…
Enhanced accuracy for tracking tethered airborne vehicles
Google patented a technique to enhance tracking accuracy of its flying wind turbines. Google has been working on wind turbines for some time now, since…
Stylus devices with eraser
Amazon patents a stylus that can do what Apple’s pencil cannot. Amazon has patented a stylus with one important feature that is missing in Apple’s…
Self-propelled unicycle engagable with vehicle
Ford’s latest patent inspired from Batman’s Batmobile Ford has patented a car that can separate into a motorcycle just like Batmobile in the blockbuster movie…
This Day in Patent History - On December 17, 1902, Pattillo Higgins filed a patent for a novel machine for drilling deep oil wells
On December 17, 1902, Pattillo Higgins filed a patent for a novel machine for drilling deep oil wells. Pattillo Higgins was a businessman as well…
This Day in Patent History - On December 16, 1914, Charles Francis Jenkins filed a patent for Gravity-railway device
On December 16, 1914, Charles Francis Jenkins (a prolific inventor) filed a patent for Gravity-railway device, that allows a railway car carrying minerals or passengers…
This Day in Patent History - On December 15, 1964, Kenneth Olsen (founder of DEC) received a patent for "magnetic core memory"
On December 15, 1964, Kenneth Olsen (founder of DEC) received a patent for “magnetic core memory”. This was the first used in a minicomputer. In 1986,…