Ford has filed a new patent for technology that uses sensors to determine the smell inside an Uber or Lyft, allowing the user to determine if they want to accept or deny the vehicle for their trip.

Apple may be working on a new foldable version of the iPhone, according to a patent filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office this week, showing off a proprietary new hinge to protect the screen.

Apple filed a patent for a system that determines between the device's owner and unauthorized eyes, and blurs the screen the latter is determined in order to keep people from snooping.

Apple could add FaceID to its Macbook and Mac monitors that uses sensors capable of emitting light at the user and detecting how the patter of light reflects back in order to identify the user.

Apple has filed a patent illustrating an experimental new design for a bendable laptop that would be made from a single piece of material and fold in the same way as a stack of papers.

At the Make in India event, the DIPP secretary said some of this work will be outsourced to the IITs

The European Patent Office at Munich recently ran into opposition to a broad spectrum patent granted on all GM soyabean varieties to a Monsanto owned company.

The patent design suggests the keys on the keyboard be rather capacitive than tactile and the layout seems to be congested than wider.

According to reports, the status indicator around the camera is in various shapes like square, ovaloid, and even circular.

IBMs the biggest patent holder of all time, and when it comes to defending them, it tries to work things out amicably. That is exactly what is happened with Twitter, after the social giant today announced it has bought 900 patents from Big Blue and entered into a cross-licensing agreement to limit the threat of future lawsuits.

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Facebook has been experiencing an uptick in terms of its intellectual property holdings in recent years. In 2014, the company was tied with Emerson Electric for 132nd overall with 279 patents issued that year by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an increase of almost 120 percent over the companys patenting pace the previous year. Facebooks already earned 250 U.S. patents in 2015 according to Innography, making it very likely that the company will post higher patent totals this year. The text cluster provided here shows us that much of the companys recent innovation focuses on social networking, although user interfaces and computing devices were also large areas of focus.

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