Patents Expiring in 2028

How Touchscreens Understand Your Finger Swipes and Scrolls

This patent describes how touchscreens use smart rules, called heuristics, to figure out if your finger movement means scrolling up, moving around a map, or flipping to the next photo, especially by looking at how you start your swipe.

How Amazon Optimizes Website Loading Speeds by Managing Domain Requests

A system that tests different ways to distribute website resources across multiple domains to find the fastest way to load a webpage for users.

How a Smart System Verifies and Updates Customer Data

This patent describes an automated system that uses artificial intelligence to pick the best ways to check and update information about people or businesses, choosing from methods like web searches, phone calls, or direct mail.

Making Iron More Efficiently and Generating Power with Oxygen

This patent describes an integrated system that uses extra oxygen in a blast furnace to make iron more efficiently, while also capturing the furnace's waste gases to generate electricity and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The Design of the Original iPhone 3G

A design patent protecting the specific visual appearance and shape of the iPhone 3G as it appeared in 2008.

How Smartphones Switch Between Slow and Fast Scrolling

A system that automatically changes how a list scrolls based on how fast or hard you interact with the screen.

How to Send Data Streams Independently Without Connection Overload

A method for sending multiple streams of data between devices using independent, reliable paths that keep data in the correct order without needing a constant connection.

How Satellites Handle Super Fast User Data Using Shared Antennas

This patent describes a satellite system boosting data capacity by having satellites receive high-speed user data, relay it via crosslinks to other satellites, and then send it to ground stations, often using a single antenna for both user and ground connections.

Wind Turbine Blades with Noise-Reducing Serrated Edges

This patent describes a wind turbine blade design that reduces noise by attaching a special serrated plate to its trailing edge, integrated directly into one of the blade's outer surfaces.

How Gilead Made a Stable HIV Pill Combining Two Medicines

This patent describes a stable, single-pill combination of two HIV drugs, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine, designed to prevent them from breaking down when stored together.

How Genentech's Antibody Targets Cancerous B Cells

This patent describes a specific humanized antibody designed to bind to a protein called CD79b, which is found on the surface of certain cancer cells.

How Nanoparticles Form Adaptive Neural Network Connections

This patent describes how to build and strengthen a physical neural network using tiny nanoparticles suspended in a liquid, where electric fields make the connections learn and adapt.

How Cloud Storage Providers Automatically Connect Files to Content Delivery Networks

A system that lets website owners use a single button in their storage dashboard to automatically distribute their files across a global network of servers for faster loading.

How Facebook's Share Button Works Across Different Websites

A patent describing how a social network can pull content from an outside website and share it with friends based on specific user-selected settings.

How Network Providers Subcontract Data Processing Tasks

A method for internet service providers to bundle specific data processing tasks from many users and send them to a third party for efficient handling.

Using Antibodies to Target Tissue Factor Without Stopping Blood Clotting

A patent describing specific antibodies that attach to a protein called tissue factor without interfering with the body's natural blood-clotting process.

Solar Cells Made of Stacking Layers with Different Energy Gaps

This patent describes a solar cell built by stacking multiple layers, each designed to capture a different part of the light spectrum for maximum energy conversion, achieving high efficiency.