Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring.
Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, yall.
This June-ish roundup lands on the tastyStrawberry Moon!
Since mylast post, the US patent office issued over 31,765 patents and published over 32,673 patent applications.
Each patent asset adds a little something new to the human knowledge base.
Patent #1.
Amazon to record you before you say Alexa!
(20190156818)
Voice assistants such as Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri are going mainstream now.
These devices detect a wake-word before they start listening to a command.
So you cannot just talk to your unit as you would to another person.
Moreover, the command needs to be in proper syntax.
Amazon is looking to address this very problem in a recently publishedpatent program.
To do so, your speech is buffered and markers are inserted to indicate phrases and sentences.
This allows you to give commands likePlay music for me Alexa from Travis Scotts Astroworld.
Alexa devices do not accept such commands as of now.
On the other hand, this feature potentially increases your privacy concerns.
It’s free, every week, in your inbox.
I am certainly looking forward to this upgrade as this will simplify my interactions with Alexa devices.
But the potential privacy concerns cannot be overlooked.
I just hope that all the captured and recorded data is stored securely.
Patent #2.
Airbus has pioneered a technology to reduce fuel consumption and emissions considerably.
The details of this technology are disclosed in a recently publishedpatent program.
According tothe patent program, an unmanned auxiliary air vehicle is used to launch a main aircraft.
The main aircraft continues and completes the rest of the flight to the destination on its own.
The removal of these parts makes aircraft lighter thereby reducing fuel consumption and the cost of air travel.
The fabrication of a solar cell requires highly specialized equipment.
The crystalline silicon structure of the solar cell is prone to mechanical shock.
A recently publishedpatent applicationfrom Google discloses ground-breaking painted solar cell.
The painted solar cell contains paintable electrical components that are produced in a fluid form.
Similarly, other components of the solar cells are components are produced in a liquid form.
Specifically, a photosensitized layer is painted between a painted solar cell cathode and a painted solar cell anode.
The whole painted structure is covered with painted transparent protective layer.
Each painted layer provides electrical conductivity to the adjacent layers to enable operations of the solar cell circuit.
This invention will help in efficiently installing solar panels in remote areas as well.
To counter these problems, pets can now be replaced with pet-like robots.
A recently publishedpatent applicationdiscloses a pet robot that changes its behavioral characteristics when clothes are put on it.
which help it in communicating with the owner.
The pet robot changes its motion according to the clothes put on it.
This pet robot can help in increasing humans empathy towards the robots.
But, can a pet robot really replace a live pet?
We must wait and see how people actually take on to this robot pet.
But this continuous supply is sometimes broken due to the interference of birds with the transmission lines and equipment.
The drone follows a predefined flight path as shown in the figure above.
The drone flies across the flight path of the bird and deters it from entering the sensitive area.
This system will help to protect countless birds that meet a cruel fate by unknowingly engaging with electrical components.
Additionally, the system will also protect the electrical components and ensure continuity in power supply.
We can only wait for how soon this system is employed by utility companies all over.
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