Consumer-electronics patents protect the hardware and interaction design people actually touch — capacitive touchscreens, image sensors, display panels, and the gestures and form-factors that make a product feel new. They're where engineering meets everyday experience.
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Consumer Electronics Patents
24 patents
US 7657849 · 2010 · Apple Inc
How the iPhone's Slide-to-Unlock Gesture Worked
US 7479949 · 2009 · Apple Inc
How Touchscreens Tell the Difference Between Your Finger Gestures
US 7469381 · 2008 · Apple Inc
How Touchscreens Make Documents Bounce When You Scroll Too Far
US 5825352 · 1998 · Logitech Inc
How Touchpads Detect Two Fingers for Mouse Clicks and Drags
US 4009052 · 1977 · Exxon Research and Engineering Co
How Early Rechargeable Lithium Batteries Used Layered Materials
US 4723129 · 1988 · Canon Inc
Inkjet Printing — How a Hot Wire Discovered the Bubble Jet
US 8448084 · 2013 · Twitter Inc
Pull Down to Refresh — The Gesture in Every Mobile App
US 5191573 · 1993
How to Buy and Download Digital Music or Movies Over a Phone Line
US 223898 · 1880
Edison's First Practical Electric Light Bulb
US 2495429 · 1950 · Raytheon Manufacturing Co
The Microwave Oven — Invented When a Radar Engineer Melted a Chocolate Bar
US 6362826 · 2002 · Intel Corp
How Computers Speed Up Graphics by Managing Memory
US 7663607 · 2010 · Apple Inc
How Touchscreens Detect Multiple Finger Presses at Once
US 5013088 · 1991 · Data Tech Services Inc
Tamper-Evident Label That Breaks Apart When Removed
US 8046721 · 2011 · Apple Inc
How the iPhone's Slide-to-Unlock Gesture Works
US 7512773 · 2009 · Nvidia Corp
How Computer Graphics Pipelines Switch Tasks Faster
US 5946647 · 1999 · Apple Computer Inc
How Computers Find and Act on Data Patterns
US 11295225 · 2022 · D Wave Systems Inc
How D-Wave Quantum Computers Reduce Noise During Calculations
US 10559047 · 2020 · NCR Corp
How Store Staff Can Use Phones to Close Customer Checks
US 5440632 · 1995 · Scientific Atlanta LLC
How Cable Boxes Got Smarter by Downloading Updates
US 5561631 · 1996 · Xilinx Inc
Checking if Programmable Logic Device Memory is Erased
US 6476836 · 2002 · Ricoh Co Ltd
Printer Feature for Saving Ink or Toner
US 7844915 · 2010 · Apple Inc
How Touchscreens Tell Scrolls from Pinches and Make Content Bounce
US 5682513 · 1997 · International Business Machines Corp
How IBM Linked Data Updates for Disaster Recovery
US 7352772 · 2008 · Lenovo Singapore Pte Ltd
How Wi-Fi Routers Stop Slow Devices From Ruining Fast Connections
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