Microsoft founder Bill Gates appears as a principal applicant on a patent published last week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but the concept in question isn’t computer-based; it’s an ...

One of the ten inventors on a new Searete LLC-filed patent for a new type of engine combining attributes of traditional internal combustion and power generators? None other than Microsoft's Bill Gates ...

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP -- A West Bloomfield Township startup says it's working with Oakland County's economic development team on a location to research and build advanced electromagnetic engines ...

Bill Gates may love his Ford Focus, but he’s got plans to improve on age-old combustion, applying—along with Nathan Myhrvold and others from the Intellectual Ventures gang—to patent a smart engine ...

Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. Randy Moore of RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with ...

Where does the energy for your Android come from? Do you plug it into the wall? Do you use some kind of battery charger? …and does that energy come from solar power? Or a nuclear power plant? A ...

Recent patent filings have shown Bill Gates and his friends exploring subjects as diverse as <a href="http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Bill_Gates_and_friends_apply ...