News: Apple patent points to short-range communications bridge (iLounge)
News: Apple patent points to short-range communications bridge (iLounge)
Apple is working on a way to provide wide-area wireless communications to devices offering only short-range communications, according to a new patent application. The application describes a system in which wireless modules, offering both long-range and short-range wireless communication, are embedded in common objects such as cars, purses, t-shirts, tennis shoes, and more, and facilitate …
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Fractal Firm Discloses Patent Filing on Wideband Cloaking and Metamaterials (Centre Daily Times)
Fractal Firm Discloses Patent Filing on Wideband Cloaking and Metamaterials (Centre Daily Times)
Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc., the pioneering innovator of fractal antenna and fractal electronics technology, today announced that it has filed for patent protection on method and apparatus for producing wideband ‘cloaking’ devices and wideband metamaterials. The invention sets a path for the realization of practical devices for rendering objects less distinguishable from their background (that …
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Microsoft gets bleeping patent (CNET via Yahoo! News)
Microsoft gets bleeping patent (CNET via Yahoo! News)
Microsoft got another &#@*%-ing patent.
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