Patent Bolt

Samsung has been granted a Surprising Design Patent for a Chameleonic Styled Dual Display Tablet

A great number of Samsung patents have demonstrated their interest in both future dual and flexible display smartphones. Yet nothing on that scale has been published regarding tablets, until now. The US Patent and Trademark Office have recently revealed that Samsung has been granted a new design patent for a rather surprising chameleonic styled tablet.

Google Files for New "MyGlass" Trademark

On April 23, 2013, the US Patent & Trademark Office published two of Google's latest trademark filings for "MyGlass." Google launched the companion Android app for Google Glass called MyGlass on their Google play website last week. The trademark filing covers their new black and white logo associated with MyGlass. Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt surprised many yesterday with the admission that Google Glass will not be shipping this year as widely anticipated. Schmidt stated the developers would have access to Google Glass for testing and writing apps but that the consumer product won't debut until sometime next summer.

Lenovo Patents a Unique yet Mysterious Ultrabook Detachable

A pure tablet computer provides great efficiency in note-taking environments or in a highly mobile environment where it is difficult to set up or use a keyboard and mouse to input data into the computer. Unfortunately, this advantage is also a great disadvantage because, many users may still find that there is a great need and efficiency in using a keyboard for data entry. Even for existing convertible tablets which have keyboards, users may find they are thick and heavy. A new patent application published this month illustrates that Lenovo wants to enter the Ultrabook detachable notebook market in the not-too-distant future, beyond their Ultrabook convertible that debuts this June with Intel's new from the ground up Haswell processor.

Lenovo Patents the Ability to Coordinate PC & Tablet Displays

Multiple screen display computer systems are becoming more prevalent due to cheaper prices of a secondary display. Another factor is that a multiple screen computer system offers a computer user more area upon which information and work may be displayed. With a greater display area, the computer user may spend less time cycling through overlapping windows, frequently referred to as "thrashing," to find information that may lie hidden under the overlapping windows. The US Patent Office has published a new Lenovo patent that will allow a user to run their future Windows and/or Android tablets as a second display. The camera on both devices will use face recognition to set up the device so that the devices will be visually coordinated properly as shown in our cover graphic.

HTC Patent Reveals their Work on In-Cell Touch Displays

A new display battle report published today between the iPhone 5 and the new HTC One confirms that the SLCD 3 in the HTC One does not use in-cell display technology. However a new HTC patent filing published last week confirms that the company is indeed working on such a development. According to HTC's patent filing, "the touch module may further be co-constructed with the flexible printed circuit board of the in-cell touch display module, or be incompliance with the contour of the light guide member, so as to lowering a thickness of the handheld electronic apparatus." When HTC will get this to market is unknown at this time.

Surprise: New Android Based Convertible & Detachable Ultrabooks Begin Shipping Next Month

Taiwan's DigiTimes confirms this morning that the next generation of Ultrabooks launching shortly won't be limited to the Windows 8 operating system. The surprising news is that Android will play a huge role in these new convertible notebooks starting with one launching in May from Lenovo.

Google is granted yet another Glass Related Design Patent

Just as Google Glass hits production, they win yet another design patent. Yesterday, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted Google a design patent for a "wearable display device." Although design patents are barren wastelands when it comes to actually delivering details about the particular design in question, the principle of what is actually patented is clear. Only what is within solid lines is patentable. Everything else is technically a sideshow. In this case, the wearable display device is relating directly to the arm that will likely connect to the frame of a future pair of prescription glasses. Updated at 3:45 PM MST Google Glass Unboxing Video has been added. 

Microsoft Reveals their Indoor Mobile Device Location System

In March Apple acquired indoor-GPS company WifiSLAM, a sign that the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up. The company stated that their product "Allows your smartphone to pinpoint its location (and the location of your friends) in real-time to 2.5m accuracy using only ambient WiFi signals that are already present in buildings." Now a new Microsoft patent application published by the US Patent and Trademark Office titled "Sound-based Positioning" has surfaced describing one of their solutions regarding indoor mobile location services based on ultrasonic signals. Microsoft provides an extensive scenario of a shopper using the new technology in a store. Yes, the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up and Microsoft has a new solution in the works.

Microsoft may have Two Google Glass-Like Projects in the Wings

With Google Glass now hitting production, will we see a competitor step up to the plate this year to compete with Google? Will Google have a runaway lead in the coming wearable computer revolution? While I have no idea as to how this will all play out over the course of the year, there's at least a possibility that Microsoft may be closer to delivering one if not two possible Glass related products. Our report shows you how the case for such products is building.