A system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface. – Abstract, US patent US5255452 A – …
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It’s patent reform season in Congress again, and along with the warming weather comes a new flurry of over-heated concerns about patent trolls, defined by some as “patent owners who file lawsuits rather than make or sell products.” Well, I’m a patent licensor — inventions…
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There was good news and bad news for Motorola in its second round in court with the patent holding firm Intellectual Ventures. A Delaware jury cleared Motorola of infringing on one of IV’s wireless patents, but it also said that the cellphone maker infringed on…
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Although the iPhone has one of the best smartphone cameras around, there’s always room for improvement. Recently, Apple added Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) technology to its iPhone 6 Plus, and now it seems the company may have an even bigger hardware-based camera update coming soon….
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Google was awarded a patent yesterday for airbag-like bumpers that might deploy on the outside of its forthcoming driverless cars in order to protect oncoming pedestrians. And these aren’t just any airbags. The patent states that the bumpers could theoretically be comprised of either a…
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May allow people with diabetes to easily measure glucose levels Google has been granted a patent for a contact lens with an embedded chip, The patent, which was discovered by WebProNews, features a sensor in the lens. Google has previously said that it is partnering…
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A new patent filed by Apple is looking to greatly expand the location sharing capabilities of the company’s devices by allowing users to track the movements of others in real-time. The Find My Friends app already lets Apple users pinpoint the locations of other iPhone…
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Welcome to the future So, Boeing just patented a force field. Technically, the patent is for a “method and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc,” but that’s just a long way of writing out something unbelievably futuristic: protective force fields may one day make…
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Curved displays seems to be the craze right now and even more so, after Samsung set the tone with the Galaxy Note edge. But even though curved display panels definitely sound like a formidable technical challenge and undoubtedly involve a complicated and most-importantly, expensive production…
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Microsoft announced today that it has signed new patent cross-licensing agreements with Fuji Xerox and Melco Holdings, the parent company of Buffalo, Inc. In a blog post announcing the deals, Microsoft said that the deals will expand the patent coverage offered to both companies, which…
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