We reported recently on Microsoft’s Productivity Score feature, which would assign each employee a number based on how effectively they are working with technology. Now a new patent suggests Microsoft plans to add another metric to overstressed workers, in Microsoft’s effort to turn employees from people into productivity units. The patent describes a “Meeting Insight […]
Samsung is the king of flexible displays, and in a new patent, they show these displays can find application in more than folding smartphones. The patent, filed only July 2020 patent, describes a smartphone which has a 100% screen to body ratio, even round the back and top. Samsung says they hope to achieve this […]
Although there is no news about Apple launching the “Apple Car” in the near future, the company continues working on tech for its long-awaited vehicle. We have seen the company file a lot of patents for hi-tech headlights and an autonomous system for cars. Now, according to a recent patent, the company is working on […]
We have just started getting used to folding smartphones with one fold, but Samsung is already planning to push things to the next level. A new patent by the company published on the 26th May 2020 at the USPTO features a handset with multiple fold points, both inwards and outwards. While it is not clear […]
Peloton has had great success with their networked, big-screened exercise bike, but it appears the company should be bracing for some competition if a recently unearthed patent application from Sony is anything to go by. The design patent, which was filed in March 2018, is for a “combined media player and fitness machine” does not […]
Owners of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 series of handsets would be familiar with Samsung’s Screen Off Memo feature, which allows one to write a note on the screen without unlocking the handset, activated by merely removing the stylus from its slot. Now Microsoft has won a patent for a very similar feature which it […]
Waterfall screens are super-attractive, but for many smartphone users, they will never be an option as they demand physical buttons on the side of their phones, which do not work very well when that area is occupied with your screen. The solutions developed by companies that do sell phones with waterfall screens include pressure-sensitive haptic […]
With recent developer events, Microsoft’s Surface Duo and Surface Neo dual-screen devices have become somewhat more real, which has also raised interest in the potential of the platform for various use cases. PatentlyMobile has taken the opportunity to examine a recent Surface Neo patent published by Microsoft talking about the wireless keyboard component. The wireless […]
In the last few years, we’ve seen a radical shift in how people communicate, thanks to dramatic technological advancement in the past few years. While things have taken a turn for the better, there is a lot that can be done to make conversations more effective and easier. Microsoft is one such company that is […]