TOPIC
Augmented Reality
Stories containing inventions related to Augmented Reality, tracing similar ideas across companies and years through patent drawings.
STORIES
Companies · LEGO
Building Functions Into Bricks: 10 LEGO Inventions Seen in Patent Drawings
An electronic character that reads markers, a push-button figurine, a 3×3 light-matrix brick, a modular motor, camera/LiDAR sensing, a robotics brain, physical logic bricks, user-designed parts, AR identities built from bricks, and asymmetric play split between the real and virtual worlds.
Things · Food
Electric Taste and Sensor Plates: 10 Patents Rethinking Meals
A burger-flipping robot, a 3D food printer, personalized nutrition from diagnostic samples, AR menus, electrically simulated taste, cartridge-based scent, utensils and plates that measure eating, serving robots and a robotic bartender. Ten patents that make the meal programmable one step at a time.