ThisWeekInPatents Archives - Patent Yogi LLC

Postal cube

Next Gen Mailbox patented to receive deliveries from drones. The mailbox is designed to securely and automatically receive parcel delivery via conventional parcel delivery personnel,…

Electrowetting display device

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…

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…