Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. By tracking both inventors and assignees in the region, we aim to provide a broader view of the region’s inventive activity. Listings are organized by Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of Sept. 26, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

108 patents granted
Ranked No. 10 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 14
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 13
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 1
D: TEXTILES; PAPER 1
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 4
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 5
H: ELECTRICITY 31
G: PHYSICS 32
DESIGN: 7

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 17
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 6
Toyota (Plano) 7
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 4
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 4
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) 2
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 2
TRAXXAS (McKinney) 2

UNASSIGNED 7

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Ben Cline (Salt Lake City, UT) 2
Daniel Hall (Dallas) 2
John Richard McCullough (Weatherford) 2
John Weston Pierce (Salt Lake City, UT) 2
Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove) 2
Kent Poteet (Lucas) 2
Louie Solomon (Richardson) 2
Mikio David (Ypsilanti, MI) 2
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

H U M A N N E C E S S I T I E S

Bio-sensing integrated garment
Patent No. 11766218

Inventor(s): Connor Meehan (Richardson, TX), Dennis T. Nguyen (Allen, TX), Syed Muhammad Abdullah (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Flex Ltd. (Singapore, , SG)
Law Firm: Sheridan Ross P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16427713 on 05/31/2019 (1579 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for a garment comprising a fabric layer, a plurality of biometric sensors integrated into the fabric layer, and a connectivity layer integrated into the fabric layer. The connectivity layer can comprise signal conductors and power conductors coupled with each of the plurality of biometric sensors. The garment can further comprise a power source coupled with each of the power conductors and providing, via the power conductors of the connectivity layer, electrical power to each of the plurality of biometric sensors, a signal monitor coupled with the connectivity layer and receiving, via the signal conductors of the connectivity layer, a signal comprising biometric information from each of the plurality of biometric sensors, and a gateway coupled with the signal monitor, the gateway receiving the biometric information from the signal monitor and providing the biometric information to an external computer system.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

De polishor
Patent No. 11766319

Inventor(s): Mackie Maynor (Desoto, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17300162 on 04/07/2021 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: A distinguishing Tooth apparatus cleaning device with a tooth polisher figure, and a four sided black Technical Circular Brush with feelers, for cleaning teeth. A battery cleaning device provides users a highly enhanced method with toothpaste in brush stubbles area to better polish teeth. Further comprising, a cover for the brush with a light to view the brushing area of the mouth.

[A61C] DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE (non-driven toothbrushes A46B; preparations for dentistry A61K 6/00; preparations for cleaning the teeth or mouth A61K 8/00, A61Q 11/00)

Fixation member inserter instrument
Patent No. 11766342

Inventor(s): Fred Murillo (Carlsbad, CA), Thomas Purcell (Carlsbad, CA)
Assignee(s): ASTURA MEDICAL INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17033636 on 09/25/2020 (1096 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fixation member inserter instrument attaches to an interbody spacer and assists in the insertion of the interbody spacer into the intravertebral spacer. The distal end of the fixation member inserter instrument includes a fixation member guide with two or more fixation members that is configured to simultaneously deliver the two or more fixation members during the fixation member impaction process. The interbody spacer is attached to the inserter instrument by a threaded rod adjacent to the main body of the fixation member inserter instrument. There is an impaction rod extending through the device which connects to the two or more fixation members in the fixation member guide. When the impaction rod is impacted on a proximal end, the distal end contacts the two or more fixation members simultaneously and forces them into the vertebral body at the same time.

[A61F] FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) [2006.01]

Delivery of active ingredients from plant materials to skin
Patent No. 11766388

Inventor(s): Daniel Chen (Shanghai, , CN), James Swanzy (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17533562 on 11/23/2021 (672 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of cleansing facial skin. The method can include obtaining an apparatus that includes: (a) a water-permeable absorbent material, wherein the water-permeable absorbent material is a sponge, cloth, or mesh which has a first outer surface and a second outer surface; and (b) a composition comprising a plant material, a plant extract, or a combination thereof, wherein the plant material, the plant extract, or the combination thereof comprises [i]Aloe vera [/i]extract and a [i]Matricaria recutita [/i](chamomile) extract. The method can also include contacting the apparatus with water heated to 30 C. to 100 C. for a sufficient period of time so as to release, solubilize, or release and solubilize the plant material, the plant extract, or the combination thereof to yield a treated apparatus and contacting and cleansing the facial skin with the treated apparatus.

[A61K] PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms A61J 3/00; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for deodorisation of air, for disinfection or sterilisation, or for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; soap compositions C11D)

Compositions and methods for organ specific delivery of nucleic acids
Patent No. 11766408

Inventor(s): Daniel J. Siegwart (Dallas, TX), Qiang Cheng (Dallas, TX), Tuo Wei (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17191975 on 03/04/2021 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions which shown preferential targeting or delivery of a nucleic acid composition to a particular organ. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a steroid or sterol, an ionizable cationic lipid, a phospholipid, a PEG lipid, and a permanently cationic lipid which may be used to deliver a nucleic acid.

Treatment of age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy with n-acetylcysteine amide (NACA) or (2R,2R)-3,3-disulfanediyl BIS(2-acetamidopropanamide)(DiNACA)
Patent No. 11766413

Inventor(s): G. Michael Wall (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16738819 on 01/09/2020 (1356 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes a method for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, or diabetic retinopathy in a human that comprises administering to the human a therapeutically effective amount of N-acetylcysteine amide (NACA) or (2R,2R)-3,3-disulfanediyl bis(2-acetamidopropanamide) (diNACA) sufficient to treat or reduce the symptoms of the age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, or diabetic retinopathy.

Compositions of -aminoisobutyric acid and methods for use thereof
Patent No. 11766416

Inventor(s): Qilin Liao (Lewisville, TX), Shawn Wells (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): NANJING NUTRABUILDING BIO-TECH CO., LTD. (Nanjing, , CN)
Law Firm: ANOVA LAW GROUP PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17382476 on 07/22/2021 (796 days app to issue)

Abstract: Compositions of -aminoisobutyric acid (BAIBA), and methods of using the same to achieve a physiological objective, are provided. Compositions of BAIBA having enantiomeric purity, in which a selected proportion of the BAIBA is L–aminoisobutyric acid (L-BAIBA) and/or a selected proportion of the BAIBA is D–aminoisobutyric acid (D-BAIBA), are also provided.

[A61P] SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS [7]

Odor reducing device
Patent No. 11766499

Inventor(s): Michael Harper (Fort Worth, TX), Ryan Paxson (Elk Rapids, MI)
Assignee(s): DOSKOCIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: GLOBAL IP COUNSELORS, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17182546 on 02/23/2021 (945 days app to issue)

Abstract: An odor reducing device for a cat litterbox includes a housing and a fastener. The housing has a front sidewall and a rear sidewall. The front and rear sidewalls together defines a top opening that opens to an interior of the housing. The fastener is attached to the housing and is configured to support the housing on the litterbox.

[A61L] METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES (preservation of bodies or disinfecting characterised by the agent employed A01N; preserving, e.g. sterilising, food or foodstuffs A23; preparations for medical, dental or toilet purposes A61K) [4]

Compositions and uses of nanoscale diamond particles for artificial joint
Patent No. 11766507

Inventor(s): Diana Berman (Denton, TX), Donghui Zhu (Frisco, TX), Olga Shenderova (Raleigh, NC)
Assignee(s): University of North Texas (Denton, TX)
Law Firm: Thomas | Horstemeyer, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17015246 on 09/09/2020 (1112 days app to issue)

Abstract: A new insight on the lubrication of artificial joint components is presented. Addition of small amounts of nanoscale diamond particles to an artificial joint promotes a substantial improvement in friction and wear behavior of the artificial joint surfaces. Artificial joint implants are made from a variety of materials ranging from metal alloys to polymers. Suitable methods of applying nanoscale diamond particles to an artificial joint include (i) coating an effective amount of nanoscale diamond particles onto the artificial joint prior to implants; (ii) applying a composition to the artificial joint during an artificial joint implanting surgery, wherein said composition comprises a biocompatible carrier fluid and an effective amount of nanoscale diamond particles dispersed in the biocompatible carrier fluid; (iii) injecting the composition for lubricating the artificial joint into the artificial joint.

Breathing assistance apparatus
Patent No. 11766535

Inventor(s): Alastair Edwin McAuley (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Fisher Paykel Healthcare Limited (Auckland, , NZ)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17816275 on 07/29/2022 (424 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mask assembly for use as part of an apparatus for supplying a flow of respiratory gases to a user is disclosed. The mask assembly includes a mask body having an inlet through which said flow of respiratory gases are provided to the interior of said mask body. A mask seal assembly comprising a seal of flexible material and a clip of rigid material is attached to the body. The seal has a first side and a second side. The first side of the seal is shaped to approximately match the contours of a user”s face and in use substantially seal against a user”s face. The second side is attached to the clip. The clip provides an interface extending substantially the full perimeter or periphery of the mask seal assembly for releasably attaching the mask seal assembly to the mask body. The clip comprises a bridging portion spanning outwards from the perimeter or periphery of the mask body to space at least a portion of the second side of the seal outwards from the perimeter or periphery of the mask body.

[A61M] DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D 7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F 13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J 1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L; magnetotherapy using magnetic elements placed within the body A61N 2/10); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR [5]

Wearable device for managing alcohol-driven violence
Patent No. 11766549

Inventor(s): Ahmed Malik (Plano, TX), Lingesh Veda (Irving, TX), Mirza Faizan (Irving, TX), Naadira Shareef Kateeb (Plano, TX), Rishi Kata (Allen, TX), Shreya Nair (Allen, TX), Tarik Syed (Dallas, TX), Yusuf Zakiy Ali (Richardson,
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17403484 on 08/16/2021 (771 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wearable device [b]100[/b] for managing alcohol-driven violence is disclosed. The device [b]100[/b] comprises a capsule C[b]1[/b] adapted to sense sweat of wearer and detect a level of alcohol in the sweat, a capsule C[b]3[/b] adapted to convert a data detected by the capsule C[b]1[/b] to generate signal activating a capsule C[b]4[/b], a capsule C[b]2[/b] adapted to provide power to the capsule C[b]3[/b], and a capsule C[b]5[/b] adapted to detect a muscle activity of the wearer, wherein the capsule C[b]4[/b] is adapted to inject a drug into the body of the wearer, when activated, and wherein the capsule C[b]5[/b] alerts authorities when no muscle activity is detected.

Active stairwell compensation systems and methods
Patent No. 11766578

Inventor(s): Jon Randall Hinson (Bethlehem, GA), Timothy Edward McNulty (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): RM Manifold Group, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: AVEK IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17244700 on 04/29/2021 (880 days app to issue)

Abstract: An active stairwell compensation system includes air injection points at different elevations in a stairwell; a fan for providing airflow to the air injection points; sensors; air injection dampers; and a controller in data communication with the fan, the sensors, and the air injection dampers. At least some of the sensors are located inside the stairwell, and at least some of the sensors are located outside the stairwell. A respective air injection damper is located between each air injection point and the fan. The controller has programming to utilize data from the sensors to adjust an amount of air provided by the fan and independently adjust the air injection dampers to maintain a desirable amount of air pressure at the air injection points. The desirable amount of air pressure is selected to prevent smoke from entering the stairwell while allowing stairwell doors to open for egress.

[A62C] FIRE-FIGHTING (fire-extinguishing compositions, use of chemical substances in extinguishing fires A62D 1/00; spraying, applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05; fire-fighting aircraft B64D 1/16; alarm arrangements G08B, e.g. fire alarms actuated by smoke or gases G08B 17/10)

Utilizing mobile device capabilities to keep a user engaged with a mobile application
Patent No. 11766614

Inventor(s): Pj Putnam (Dallas, TX), Ruben Hammer (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PJ HAMMER CORPORATION (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: KLEMCHUK PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17664361 on 05/20/2022 (494 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods utilizing an application that utilizes the hardware and software capabilities of a mobile device to extend the time of user engagement. The hardware and software capabilities of the mobile device that are utilized can include gaze tracking, requiring user engagement for award redemption, requiring two-device confirmation in a trading system, blockchain tracking, geo-location reminders, Global Positioning System (GPS) reminders, and combinations thereof.

[A63F] CARD, BOARD OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [5]

Clip for a suction cup
Patent No. 11767865

Inventor(s): Martin P. Belokin (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): Displays by Martin Paul, Inc.Creative Center (Denton, TX)
Law Firm: Loveless Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17719179 on 04/12/2022 (532 days app to issue)

Abstract: A clip to facilitate a coupling of an object to a suction cup includes a body having a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite to the first surface. The body defines an opening extending from the first surface to the second surface. The clip also includes a tongue adapted to engage with the suction cup and extending inside the opening from the body. The tongue includes a first end attached to the body and a second end arranged at a gap from the body.

[A47G] HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT (book-ends A47B 65/00; knives B26B)

O P E R A T I O N S & T R A N S P O R T

Adjustable vise system
Patent No. 11766762

Inventor(s): Richard V. Miller (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): Elijah Tooling, Inc. (Denton, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16747079 on 01/20/2020 (1345 days app to issue)

Abstract: A workholding system includes an adjustable vise, a fixed vise, and a fixture plate. The adjustable vise and the fixed vise are secured to the fixture plate using a T-slot and a fastener. The system includes multiple precision locating surfaces, including interchangeable precision locating surfaces, to secure a working part. In one embodiment, a T-slot fastener facilitates the creation of an entire workholding system that facilitates the rapid installation of studs into receiving members. The fastener includes a quarter turn fastener used in workholding applications to quickly hold and release components of the system, such as tooling, parts, and plates. The compact design of the system makes possible the ability to insert the quarter turn fastener into a device that can fit into a T-slot and still have considerable holding power. The system is lower in cost than other solutions.

[B23Q] DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING (tools of the kind used in lathes or boring machines B23B 27/00); MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL, CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT

Carbon-fiber reinforced polymeric composites and methods related thereto
Patent No. 11766837

Inventor(s): Andrew Makeev (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17606137 on 05/04/2020 (1240 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are carbon-fiber reinforced polymeric composite and methods related thereto.

[B29C] SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B 11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B 37/00-B32B 41/00) [4]

Configurable storage compartments
Patent No. 11766969

Inventor(s): Mikio David (Ypsilanti, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17564482 on 12/29/2021 (636 days app to issue)

Abstract: A configurable storage assembly for a storage compartment of a vehicle, the storage assembly including a plurality of panels extendable between a retracted position and an extended position, one or more attachment features coupled to the first end of each wall portion, and one or more receiving features coupled to the vehicle, the receiving features are configured to be selectively coupled to the attachment features. Each panel includes a wall portion having a first end and an opposite second end, the second end of the wall portion extending from a surface of the vehicle. In the retracted position, the attachment feature of each panel is spaced apart from the receiving features. In the extended position, the attachment feature of each panel is coupled to one of the receiving features.

[B60R] VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for vehicles A62C 3/07)

Rotor assemblies for vehicle propulsion
Patent No. 11767006

Inventor(s): Andrew Ryan Maresh (Lewisville, TX), John Richard McCullough (Weatherford, TX), Paul K. Oldroyd (Azle, TX), Robert Patrick Wardlaw (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17677721 on 02/22/2022 (581 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotor assembly for generating thrust for a vehicle. The rotor assembly includes a rotor hub and a plurality of rotor blade assemblies coupled to the rotor hub. Each rotor blade assembly includes a metallic bearing race, a composite rotor blade and a metallic coupling assembly. The composite rotor blade has a root section with a radially outwardly tapered outer surface. The metallic coupling assembly has a radially inwardly tapered inner surface that receives the radially outwardly tapered outer surface of the root section of the rotor blade therein to provide a centrifugal force seat for the rotor blade. The coupling assembly includes at least two circumferentially distributed coupling members. The coupling assembly is configured to couple the rotor blade to the bearing race and to provide a centrifugal force load path therebetween.

[B60V] AIR-CUSHION VEHICLES

Optical route examination system and method
Patent No. 11767016

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Armstrong (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Transportation IP Holdings, LLC (Norwalk, CT)
Law Firm: THE SMALL PATENT LAW GROUP LLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17242082 on 04/27/2021 (882 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining one or more images of a segment of a route from a camera while a vehicle is moving along the route. The segment of the route includes one or more guide lanes. The method also includes comparing, with one or more computer processors, the one or more images of the segment of the route with a benchmark visual profile of the route based at least in part on an overlay of the one or more images onto the benchmark visual profile or an overlay of the benchmark visual profile onto the one or more images. The one or more processors identify a misaligned segment of the route based on one or more differences between the one or more images and the benchmark visual profile and respond to the identification of the misaligned segment of the route by modifying an operating parameter of the vehicle.

[B60W] CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT [2006.01]

Railroad virtual track block system
Patent No. 11767041

Inventor(s): Jerry Wade Specht (Overland Park, KS), Kent Robert Shue (Bonner Springs, KS), Mitchell Wayne Beard (Shawnee, KS), Ralph E. Young (Osawatomie, KS)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17542263 on 12/03/2021 (662 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of railroad track control includes partitioning a physical track block into a plurality of virtual track blocks, the physical track block defined by first and second insulated joints disposed at corresponding first and second ends of a length of railroad track. The presence of an electrical circuit discontinuity in one of the plurality of virtual track blocks; is detected and in response a corresponding virtual track block position code indicating the presence of the discontinuity in the one of the plurality of virtual track blocks is generated.

[B61L] GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC (brakes or auxiliary equipment B61H, B61K; point or crossing construction E01B)

Wire caddy for transporting and dispensing wire or cable
Patent No. 11767044

Inventor(s): John L. Rhoads (Lewisville, TX), Kevin D. Rodgers (Roswell, NM)
Assignee(s): Encore WIre Corporation (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: WARREN RHOADES LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17954239 on 09/27/2022 (364 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for the transportation and dispensing of spooled wire or cable, the apparatus including a handle structure wherein the handle structure has a first end and a second end, a first support structure attached to the first end of the handle structure, a second support structure attached to the second end of the handle structure, a first spool center insert attached to the first support structure, a second spool center insert attached to the second support structure, a first leg moveably attached to the first support structure, a second leg moveably attached to the second support structure, and wherein a spool of spooled wire or cable is attached to the first and second spool center inserts during transportation and dispensing of the spooled wire or cable.

[B62B] HAND-PROPELLED VEHICLES, e.g. HAND CARTS OR PERAMBULATORS; SLEDGES (characterised by animal propulsion B62C; propulsion of sledges by driver or engine B62M)

Mount for supporting a component and attenuating noise
Patent No. 11767105

Inventor(s): Joshua Allan Edler (Dallas, TX), Matthew Wade Hendricks (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17485466 on 09/26/2021 (730 days app to issue)

Abstract: One example of a mount for a rotorcraft comprises a structural support member, a bracket, and an elastomer. The bracket is configured to attach to a component of the rotorcraft. The component of the rotorcraft produces vibrations at a first frequency. The structural support member configured to transfer a weight of the component of a rotorcraft to an airframe of the rotorcraft. A rotor system of the aircraft vibrates the airframe of the rotorcraft at a second frequency. The elastomer is located between a structural support member and a bracket. The elastomer is configured to attenuate noise caused by the vibrations at the first frequency by isolating the vibrations at the first frequency from reaching the airframe of the rotorcraft while the airframe vibrates at the second frequency.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

System and method for vibratory motion reduction for a pylon assembly
Patent No. 11767107

Inventor(s): Matthew Carl VanBuskirk (Roanoke, TX), Michael Scott Seifert (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16504057 on 07/05/2019 (1544 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vibratory motion reduction system for a pylon assembly includes an inner member having an opening extending therein that receives a first end of the pylon assembly, an outer member moveably attached to the inner member, a tuning mass attached to the inner member and the outer member such that a vibratory motion of the pylon assembly accelerates the tuning mass, a spring member that couples to a second end of the pylon assembly, and the spring member and the tuning mass reduce the vibratory motion of the pylon assembly.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Aircraft having a magnetically couplable payload module
Patent No. 11767112

Inventor(s): John Richard McCullough (Weatherford, TX), Paul K. Oldroyd (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18112832 on 02/22/2023 (216 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft is configured for thrust-borne lift in a vertical takeoff and landing flight mode and wing-borne lift in a forward flight mode. The aircraft includes an airframe having a first wing and a first payload station. A distributed propulsion system that is coupled to the airframe includes a plurality of propulsion assemblies configured to provide vertical thrust in the vertical takeoff and landing flight mode and forward thrust in the forward flight mode. A control system is operably associated with the distributed propulsion system and is operable to independently control each of the propulsion assemblies. A payload module is configured to be transported by the airframe from a pickup location to a delivery location. The payload module is magnetically coupled to the first payload station during transportation and, responsive to a command from the control system, is magnetically decoupled from the first payload station at the delivery location.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Articulating bifurcated integrated transition duct assembly
Patent No. 11767125

Inventor(s): Andrew Jordan Birkenheuer (Arlington, TX), Karl Burge (Hurst, TX), Keith David Weaver (North Richland Hills, TX), Michael Pujol (Dallas, TX), Nicholas Plagianos (North Richland Hills, TX), Thomas Mast (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17017789 on 09/11/2020 (1110 days app to issue)

Abstract: A transition duct assembly includes a shared connector, and a plurality of primary cooling pathways for cooling one or more systems or components. Each primary cooling pathway includes a transition duct in fluid communication with the shared connector, and a transition connector in fluid communication with the transition duct.

[B64D] EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT

Method and apparatus for monitoring waste removal and administration
Patent No. 11767164

Inventor(s): Michael S. Fisher (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Custom Engineered Systems Equipment Co. (St. Charles, IL)
Law Firm: MCDONNELL BOEHNEN HULBERT BERGHOFF LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17675146 on 02/18/2022 (585 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for a municipality to control, track, and monitor waste or refuse receptacles requires a permit for use of a waste receptacle. An issuing organization issues a permit associated with a discreet receptacle identifier. An RFID tag is provided with the permit and attached to a discreet receptacle. The RFID tag transmits a signal carrying data associated with the discreet receptacle identifier. The signal may be read by a portable reader carried by municipal personnel to record violations of municipal code associated with the use of the discreet receptacle.

[B65F] GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE (disinfecting refuse A61L; refuse disintegrators B02C; sorting refuse B03B, B07B; handcarts for transporting refuse receptacles B62B; sack holders B65B 67/00; converting refuse into fertilisers C05F; converting refuse into solid fuels C10L; sewers, cesspools E03F; arrangements in buildings for the disposal of refuse E04F 17/10; refuse-consuming furnaces F23G)

Crane hook rotation-limiting device
Patent No. 11767199

Inventor(s): George P. Rachfalowski (Kitchener, , CA), Troy A. O”Handley (Cambridge, , CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17481596 on 09/22/2021 (734 days app to issue)

Abstract: A crane hook rotation-limiting device includes a mounting base and a plunger extending through a hole formed in the mounting base so as to be movable with respect to the mounting base. A spring first bearing portion is connected to the plunger so as to be movable with the plunger. A spring second bearing portion is positioned opposite the spring first bearing portion so as to be fixed with respect to the plunger during movement of the plunger. A spring member extends between the spring first bearing portion and the spring second bearing portion. A pair of crane hook rotation-limiting devices as described herein may be mounted to a crane hook assembly to control rotation of the crane hook during movement of the hook when the hook supports a sling spreader or a sling spreader and a die (or other item of tooling).

[B66C] CRANES; LOAD-ENGAGING ELEMENTS OR DEVICES FOR CRANES, CAPSTANS, WINCHES, OR TACKLES (rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms, braking or detent devices therefor B66D; specially adapted for nuclear reactors G21)

C H E M I S T R Y & M E T A L L U R G Y

Aminocarboxylic acid-functionalized saccharide polymers and methods for production and use thereof
Patent No. 11767375

Inventor(s): Christopher P. Gardner (Cresson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18246161 on 10/14/2022 (347 days app to issue)

Abstract: Fluid contaminants may be prevalent in many industries, such as the mining industry. Functionalized saccharide polymers comprising two or more monosaccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds and having a portion of the monosaccharide units oxidatively opened and functionalized with at least one aminocarboxylic acid covalently bound through nitrogen at a site of oxidative opening may be utilized in conjunction with fluid remediation processes, such as froth flotation. In non-limiting examples, the functionalized saccharide polymers may also be useful for promoting dust control, particulate coating, clay stabilization, and various subterranean treatment operations. Glycine represents one example of an aminocarboxylic acid that may be covalently bonded through nitrogen at a site of oxidative opening.

[C08B] POLYSACCHARIDES; DERIVATIVES THEREOF (polysaccharides containing less than six saccharide radicals attached to each other by glycosidic linkages C07H; fermentation or enzyme-using processes C12P 19/00; production of cellulose D21) [4] HEADER D PAPER

Acrylic compositions including a hindered amine light stabilizer and methods of making and using the same
Patent No. 11767616

Inventor(s): Gary Kevin Hyde (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Glen Raven, Inc. (Burlington, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16638832 on 08/17/2018 (1866 days app to issue)

Abstract: Acrylic compositions comprising a hindered amine light stabilizer are described herein. The acrylic composition may be in the form of a fiber, thread, yarn, and/or fabric. Also described herein are methods of making and using the acrylic compositions and articles comprising an acrylic composition as described herein.

[D01F] CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MAN-MADE FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBON FILAMENTS [2]

F I X E D C O N S T R U C T I O N S

Composite membrane for building applications
Patent No. 11767673

Inventor(s): Brian A. Davis (Kennett Square, PA), Brian E. Duffy (Wayne, NJ), Daniel Podewils (Evansville, IN), Eric R. Anderson (Montclair, NJ), Jeffrey Avitabile (Lodi, NJ), Joseph Nigro (Wayne, NJ), Li-Ying Yang (Whippany, NJ),
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17039326 on 09/30/2020 (1091 days app to issue)

Abstract: A roofing composite membrane includes a base layer including a first thermoplastic polyolefin. A weight of the base layer is between 5 and 25 grams per square foot. A coating layer at least partially coats the base layer. The coating layer includes at least one inorganic additive, and a second thermoplastic polyolefin including polypropylene and having a melt flow rate between 0.5 grams per 10 minutes and 12 grams per 10 minutes.

[E04B] GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS (border constructions of openings in walls, floors, or ceilings E06B 1/00)

Safe door with movable bolt pan
Patent No. 11767703

Inventor(s): Miguel Alarcon (Quito, , EC), Richard Rolland (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Rolland Safe Lock Company, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17032875 on 09/25/2020 (1096 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a movable bolt pan in which the bolt pan frame is secured directly to a safe door. The positions of securement of the bolt pan frame to the safe door are spread across a large percentage of the door slab. An entirety of the leading edge of the movable bolt pan contacts the door jamb of the safe when the movable bolt pan is in the closed position. A handle on an exterior of the safe door can be used to slide the movable bolt pan laterally from the closed position to the open position, allowing the safe to be opened.

[E05G] SAFES OR STRONG-ROOMS FOR VALUABLES; BANK PROTECTION DEVICES; SAFETY TRANSACTION PARTITIONS (alarm arrangements per se G08B) [2]

Well system with attached sealant line
Patent No. 11767731

Inventor(s): Erik R. Piatt (Grapevine, TX), Lance I. Robinson (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): En RX Chemical, Inc. (Flower Mound, TX)
Law Firm: Smith Hopen, P. A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17408904 on 08/23/2021 (764 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device and method for collecting sample fluids from an underground source which includes sample wells terminating in a corrugated conduit and sieve. The sampling regions for each sample well is separated by a grout or expanding seal barrier. Negative pressure is optionally applied to extract fluids from the underground matrix for sampling. The device can also be used for remediating an environmental contaminant from soil or aquifers. Upon identification of at least one environmental contaminant, a remediation composition is injected into the soil or aquifer using the sampling wells of the device. The remediation fluids can be directed to specific locations by selectively utilizing one or more sampling wells to inject the remediation fluid.

[E21B] EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING (mining, quarrying E21C; making shafts, driving galleries or tunnels E21D); OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS [5]

Systems and methods for plugging a well
Patent No. 11767732

Inventor(s): Timothy Edward Harms (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17215227 on 03/29/2021 (911 days app to issue)

Abstract: A plugging system for plugging a cased well in a single trip downhole. The plugging system may include a tool string positionable within the cased well and including a bore and a downhole tool coupled to the tool string. The downhole tool may include a first perforating gun, an upper resettable packer, a lower resettable packer, and a flow-through assembly. The first perforating gun may be operable to perforate the casing of the cased well. When the downhole tool is positioned in the cased well, the upper resettable packer may be uphole of the first perforating gun. When the downhole tool is positioned in the cased well, the lower resettable packer may be downhole of the first perforating gun. The flow-through assembly may be positioned between the upper resettable packer and the lower resettable packer and operable to flow fluids into a bore of the cased well.

M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G
LIGHTING | HEATING | WEAPONS | BLASTING

Reductant dosing system with calibration value determined based on data from pressure sensor assembly and method of calibrating a reductant dosing system
Patent No. 11767782

Inventor(s): Catherine Alviz-Radi (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): CUMMINS EMISSION SOLUTIONS INC. (Columbus, IN)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17056077 on 05/25/2018 (1950 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reductant dosing system includes: an injector; a fixed displacement pump in fluid communication with the injector; a reductant source in fluid communication with the fixed displacement pump; a pressure sensor assembly configured to detect a pressure of reductant in the reductant dosing system; and a controller communicatively coupled to the fixed displacement pump and to the pressure sensor assembly, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a flow rate of the fixed displacement pump based on at least a calibration value determined based on data received from the pressure sensor assembly.

[F01N] GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES (arrangements in connection with gas exhaust of propulsion units in vehicles B60K 13/00; combustion-air intake silencers specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines F02M 35/00; protecting against, or damping, noise in general G10K 11/16)

Expansion anchor with different expansion angles
Patent No. 11767870

Inventor(s): Arturo Guevara Arriola (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Schaan, , LI)
Law Firm: Crowell Moring LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16976965 on 02/26/2019 (1673 days app to issue)

Abstract: An expansion anchor includes an anchor bolt and an expansion sleeve which surrounds the anchor bolt. The expansion sleeve has an expansion tongue and an anchor tongue and the anchor bolt has a backward-pointing expansion slope for radially displacing the expansion tongue and a backward-pointing anchor slope for radially displacing the anchor tongue. The backward-pointing anchor slope extends more steeply than the backward-pointing expansion slope at least in some regions.

[F16B] DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D)

Headlamp heater
Patent No. 11767957

Inventor(s): Scott M. Conway (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17237492 on 04/22/2021 (887 days app to issue)

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a headlamp heater for a headlamp assembly. In examples, a headlamp assembly comprises a heating element, which directs radiation toward a lens of the headlamp assembly in order to prevent or remove condensation/precipitation on the lens. In examples, the heating element is an infrared heating element, and the wavelength of radiation emitted by the heating element is selected to be a wavelength that excites water. In some examples, the heating element is angled toward the lens and/or has multiple angled surfaces, thereby altering the radiation pattern that is directed toward the lens such that it better matches the beam pattern of a light source in the headlamp assembly.

[F21S] NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF [7]

Liquid transfer pump cycle
Patent No. 11768022

Inventor(s): Carl T. Crawford (Hickory Creek, TX), Robert B. Uselton (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: BRADLEY ARANT BOULT CUMMINGS (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17851103 on 06/28/2022 (455 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of initiating a low-energy cooling mode using a controller of an HVAC system includes measuring a temperature of ambient air proximal to a condenser coil and determining whether the temperature of the ambient air proximal the condenser coil is less than a temperature threshold. If the temperature of the ambient air is less than the temperature threshold, the HVAC system is configured to operate in a low-energy cooling mode. In the low-energy cooling mode, the controller opens a first bypass valve to allow a refrigerant to bypass a compressor and the compressor is powered off. The HVAC system is operated until a cooling demand has been met.

[F25B] REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS, OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials, e.g. refrigerants, or materials for the production of heat or cold by chemical reactions other than by combustion C09K 5/00; pumps, compressors F04; use of heat pumps for domestic or space-heating or for domestic hot-water supply F24D; air-conditioning, air-humidification F24F; fluid heaters using heat pumps F24H)

Multi-piece polymer ammunition, cartridge and components
Patent No. 11768059

Inventor(s): Christopher William Overton (Wylie, TX), Lonnie Burrow (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): TRUE VELOCITY IP HOLDINGS, LLC (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: BURDICK PATENTS, P.A. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17198945 on 03/11/2021 (929 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides polymer ammunition, ammunition cartridge, ammunition case, and portions thereof having traditional and non-traditional cartridge shapes or profiles.

[F42B] EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING; FIREWORKS; AMMUNITION (explosive compositions C06B; fuzes F42C; blasting F42D) [5]

P H Y S I C S

Facilitation of predictive simulation of planned environment
Patent No. 11768082

Inventor(s): Sangar Dowlatkhah (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA), ATT Mobility II LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Amin, Turocy Watson, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16933206 on 07/20/2020 (1163 days app to issue)

Abstract: A simulation of a planned future environment can be presented, including social aspects, along with a simulation of other aspects of the environment, such as sounds and other environment conditions. For example, a user can plan a travel route from point A to point B and view a preview of the journey prior to beginning the journey to envision what to expect and possibly alter their plans as a result. In order for a simulated preview of the journey to be created, a set of data can be collected that can represent the location of connected or non-connected objects at a point in time and predict their location at later points in time. The prediction can be validated or confirmed by other connected devices long the route.

[G01C] MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)

Flow sensing device
Patent No. 11768093

Inventor(s): Yong-Fa Wang (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17648360 on 01/19/2022 (615 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses associated with an example flow sensing device are provided. In some examples, the flow sensing device may include a flow cap component and a sensor component. In some examples, the flow cap component may include a heating element disposed in a first layer of the flow cap component. In some examples, the sensor component may include at least one thermal sensing element disposed in a second layer of the sensor component. In some examples, the first layer and the second layer are noncoplanar. In some examples, the flow cap component may be bonded to a first surface of the sensor component to form a flow channel. In some examples, the first layer and the second layer may be noncoplanar and separated by the flow channel.

[G01F] MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW, OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME [5]

Integrated circuit with reduced signaling interface
Patent No. 11768238

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17362319 on 06/29/2021 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure describes a reduced pin bus that can be used on integrated circuits or embedded cores within integrated circuits. The bus may be used for serial access to circuits where the availability of pins on ICs or terminals on cores is limited. The bus may be used for a variety of serial communication operations such as, but not limited to, serial communication related test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations of an IC or core design. Other aspects of the disclosure include the use of reduced pin buses for emulation, debug, and trace operations and for functional operations.

[G01R] MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES (indicating correct tuning of resonant circuits H03J 3/12)

Re-programmable self-test
Patent No. 11768240

Inventor(s): Alan David Hales (Richardson, TX), Neil John Simpson (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17371464 on 07/09/2021 (809 days app to issue)

Abstract: A built-in self-test (BIST) method includes providing expanded test patterns to a logic circuit under test, generating a first signature based on a response of the logic circuit to the expanded test patterns, generating a second signature based on the first signature, wherein the second signature is a compressed version of the first signature, selecting one of the first signature or the second signature in response to a control signal, comparing the selected one of the first signature or the second signature to an expected signature, and, based on the comparison of the selected one of the first signature or the second signature to the expected signature, determining that the logic circuit passes or fails BIST.

[G01R] MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES (indicating correct tuning of resonant circuits H03J 3/12)

Droop compensation for device under test spectroscopy
Patent No. 11768250

Inventor(s): Charles Kasimer Sestok, IV (Dallas, TX), David Patrick Magee (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17463186 on 08/31/2021 (756 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes determining a droop component of a measured parameter of a device under test (DUT). The measured parameter is responsive to an excitation signal having a frequency component, and the droop component is determined responsive to a first value of the parameter at a first time and a second value of the parameter at a second time. The parameter at the first time has a first phase value, and the parameter at the second time has a second phase value. The first phase value is equal to the second phase value. The method also includes correcting a frequency domain representation of the parameter by applying the droop component at a frequency of the representation of the parameter corresponding to the frequency component of the excitation signal.

[G01R] MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES (indicating correct tuning of resonant circuits H03J 3/12)

Systems and methods for user interaction based vehicle feature control
Patent No. 11768536

Inventor(s): Mikio David (Ypsilanti, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17470532 on 09/09/2021 (747 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for controlling vehicle operations based on user orientation and user interaction data is provided. The method includes detecting, using a sensor operating in conjunction with the computing device of the vehicle, an orientation of a part of a user relative to a location on a display that is positioned in an interior of the vehicle, detecting, using an additional sensor, an interaction between the user and a portion of the display positioned in the interior of the vehicle, determining, using the computing device, whether a distance between the location and the portion of the display satisfies a threshold, and controlling, by the computing device, an operation associated with the vehicle responsive to determining that the distance between the location and the portion of the display satisfies the threshold.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Differential snapshot without array support
Patent No. 11768622

Inventor(s): Thomas L. Watson (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Hopkinton, MA)
Law Firm: Ryan, Mason Lewis, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17107229 on 11/30/2020 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for implementing differential snapshots without array support are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining whether one or more of a plurality of data blocks in a first snapshot of a storage volume have changed relative to a plurality of data blocks in a second snapshot of the storage volume; generating a respective data structure for each of the plurality of data blocks in the first snapshot, wherein the data structure comprises data content of the corresponding data block of the first snapshot only if the corresponding data block has changed relative to the second snapshot; and transmitting the data structures to a remote storage system, wherein the remote storage system generates a copy of the first snapshot based at least in part on the data structures.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Stencil data access from tile memory
Patent No. 11768626

Inventor(s): Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17399817 on 08/11/2021 (776 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reconfigurable compute fabric of a system can include multiple nodes, and each node can include multiple, communicatively coupled tiles with respective processing and storage elements. In an example, a tile-based processor can be configured to perform operations comprising receiving a first stencil that defines input data for a first operation. The stencil can have a height corresponding to N rows in a main memory and a stencil width corresponding to M columns in the main memory. The processor can perform operations comprising establishing N buffers in a tile memory, each buffer having M buffer elements, and populating the M buffer elements of the N buffers using respective information, defined by the first stencil, from the main memory. Tile-based stencil operations can use information from the N buffers and provide compute results in an output array.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Processing device with vector transformation execution
Patent No. 11768685

Inventor(s): Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, CA), Mujibur Rahman (Plano, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17737405 on 05/05/2022 (509 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit, comprising an instruction pipeline that includes instruction fetch phase circuitry, instruction decode phase circuitry, and instruction execution circuitry. The instruction execution circuitry includes transformation circuitry for receiving an interleaved dual vector operand as an input and for outputting a first natural order vector including a first set of data values from the interleaved dual vector operand and a second natural order vector including a second set of data values from the interleaved dual vector operand.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Delay fault testing of pseudo static controls
Patent No. 11768726

Inventor(s): Aravinda Acharya (Bangalore, , IN), Prakash Narayanan (Bangalore, , IN), Wilson Pradeep (Karanataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17543827 on 12/07/2021 (658 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a dynamic core data register (DCDR) cell that includes a data register, a shift register and an output circuit to route the output state of the data register or the shift register to an output of the DCDR in response to an output control input. A clock gate having a gate control input controls clocking of the shift register in response to a first scan enable signal. An output control gate controls the output control input of the output circuit and controls which outputs from the data register or the shift register are transferred to the output of the output circuit in response to a second scan enable signal. The first scan enable signal and the second scan enable signal to enable a state transition of the shift register at the output of the DCDR.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Detecting spikes in memory usage in a computer system
Patent No. 11768747

Inventor(s): Gregory B. Goslen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, TX)
Law Firm: Yao Legal Services, Inc. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17517494 on 11/02/2021 (693 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system determines data which indicate memory usage by a process and information related to a number of instances of the process. The system determines for the process: a first average amount of memory; a first standard deviation; a first value indicating a difference between a current amount of memory used by the process and the first average amount; a second average number of process instances; a second standard deviation; and a second value indicating a difference between a current number of process instances and the second average number. The system performs a corrective action to address a memory spike associated with the process responsive to comparing at least one of: the current amount of memory used by the process with a watermark; the first value with the first standard deviation scaled; the current number of instances with a watermark; and the second value with the second standard deviation scaled.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Latency and jitter for traffic over PCIe
Patent No. 11768784

Inventor(s): Chunhua Hu (Plano, TX), Sanand Prasad (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17946675 on 09/16/2022 (375 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes transmitting first data with a first priority through a first dedicated interface on a transmit side of a PCIe system. The method also includes transmitting second data with a second priority through a second dedicated interface on the transmit side of the PCIe system. The method includes transmitting the first data and the second data to a receive side of the PCIe system using two or more virtual channels over a PCIe link, where the first data uses a first virtual channel and the second data uses a second virtual channel.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Path tracing of mathematical plots
Patent No. 11768797

Inventor(s): Brian Emilio Baldwin Cruzado (Aguascalientes, , MX), Malgorzata Anna Brothers (Plano, TX), Michel Georges Stella (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16677412 on 11/07/2019 (1419 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for path tracing of mathematical plots on a digital device is provided that includes receiving at least one mathematical expression on the digital device, and tracing a path of a plot of the at least one mathematical expression on a display screen coupled to the digital device, wherein tracing the path comprises displaying the path sequentially point by point as a value of an independent variable of the at least one mathematical expression changes over a domain of the independent variable.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Concept networks and systems and methods for the creation, update and use of same in artificial intelligence systems
Patent No. 11768893

Inventor(s): Brandon Michael Burkett (Cedar Park, TX), Carter Myers Brooking (Austin, TX), Jed Jackoway (Austin, TX), Richard Lawrence Stillwell, Jr. (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): REALPAGE, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17306433 on 05/03/2021 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for concept based searching or recommendation based on a concept networks are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of a concept based approach to the search and analysis of data, including the creation, update or use of concept networks in searching and analyzing data are disclosed, including embodiments of the usage of such concept networks in artificial intelligence systems that are capable of utilizing concepts expressed by users to return or evaluate associated entities or content.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Machine learning system for determining a security vulnerability in computer software
Patent No. 11768945

Inventor(s): Hee Yeun Kim (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Allstate Insurance Company (Northbrook, IL)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16842092 on 04/07/2020 (1267 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may retrieve, from an industry standard setting scoring system and for a vulnerability, a temporal score based on a pre-revision version of a scoring system, and predict, based on a machine learning model and based on the temporal score for the vulnerability, an updated temporal score based on a post-revision version of the scoring system. A mitigating factor score, indicative of a mitigation applied to the vulnerability by an enterprise organization, may be determined. A risk score may be generated for each vulnerability, as a composite of the updated temporal score and the mitigating factor score. The risk scores for vulnerabilities in a collection of vulnerabilities may be aggregated to determine an enterprise risk score for the enterprise organization. In some instances, the enterprise risk score may be displayed via a graphical user interface.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Advanced secure intelligent networked architecture, processing and execution
Patent No. 11768952

Inventor(s): Daniel Hittler (Dallas, TX), Derek Ainsworth (Dallas, TX), Howard M. Getson (Coppell, TX), Prince Modi (Richardson, TX), Robert Jump (Cincinnati, OH), Sean Vallie (Lantana, TX)
Assignee(s): Capitalogix IP Owner, LLC (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Carr Ferrell LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17872985 on 07/25/2022 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided are exemplary systems and methods for secure intelligent networked architecture, processing and execution. Exemplary embodiments include an intelligent networked architecture comprising an intelligent agent, a secure cloud of a plurality of specialized intelligent historical agents, a plurality of secure cloud based specialized insight servers configured to transform secure digital data into a scrubbed situational deployment trigger, and an intelligent operational agent configured to receive the scrubbed situational deployment trigger.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

System, method and computer-accessible medium for capturing data changes
Patent No. 11768954

Inventor(s): Abhijit Chitnis (Frisco, TX), Behdad Forghani (Allen, TX), Janardhan Deepak Prabhakara (Allen, TX), Mark Assousa (Plano, TX), Mayur Jagtap (Frisco, TX), Naga Venkata Sriram Vadakattu (Frisco, TX), Parvesh Kumar (Plano, TX
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16902535 on 06/16/2020 (1197 days app to issue)

Abstract: The exemplary embodiments provide real-time data capture and processing which improves data processing performance and speed and facilitate passing of the processed data to various analytical sources, while maintaining superior data quality checks, particularly with respect to data elements associated with multiple data types. The proposed system and process can be used to continuously consume and listen to multiple events while mapping the events to appropriate schemas provided in a separate schema stream. The schema stream is provided once and cached to minimize bandwidth consumed by the transaction stream. The schema information is then further enriched with information from a metadata registry. The event data may then be compressed and aligned in memory tables based on the enriched schema. Once events are decoded and sorted into memory tables in accordance to the identified schema, each memory table can be processed in parallel.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Systems and methods for contextual occupancy simulation
Patent No. 11768978

Inventor(s): Brian F Shipley (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16899280 on 06/11/2020 (1202 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and method for realistic simulation of occupancy are provided herein. A context associated with one or more smart devices associated with a property is reterieved, Then, simulation content specific to the context is requested. The simulation content is then caused to be presented by the one or more smart devices.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Automated risk visualization using customer-centric data analysis
Patent No. 11769096

Inventor(s): Richard Deitch (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver, CO)
Law Firm: Sheppard Mullin Richter Hampton LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17568684 on 01/04/2022 (630 days app to issue)

Abstract: A customer risk trigger associated with a customer may be identified. A response to the customer risk trigger may be detected. First risk analysis data related to the customer risk trigger may be gathered, based on the response, from a first datastore. Second risk analysis data related to the customer risk trigger may be gathered, based on the response, from a second datastore. A customer risk profile to model risk attribute(s) of the customer may be gathered. The risk attributes may represent a risk correlation between the customer and a prohibited act. Customer risk visualization tool(s) configured to facilitate visual user interaction with the customer risk profile may be gathered. The customer risk visualization tools may be rendered in a display of the computing system. The customer risk visualization tools provide a customer-centric view of risk for various applications, including anti-money laundering applications.

[G06Q] DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [2006.01]

System and method for location-based individualized content and mobile wallet offers
Patent No. 11769140

Inventor(s): Cameron Fowler (Fort Worth, TX), Matthew Sullivan (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): Digital Seat Media, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Vos-IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17454313 on 11/10/2021 (685 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for displaying customized mobile content to users at a venue via a user device, includes a server system in conjunction with a plurality of machine-readable codes mounted within the venue. The server system performs the following steps: providing mobile content in a database; collecting user data associated with the user; receiving a request from one of the user devices, the request being generated by scanning one of the machine-readable codes with the user device; determining the user data associated with the user who scanned the machine-readable code; selecting, based upon the user data, customized mobile content from the mobile content in the database; and providing the customized mobile content to the user device.

Simulations using a token exchange system
Patent No. 11769145

Inventor(s): Huihui Wu (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Potomac Law Group, PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17559003 on 12/22/2021 (643 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to techniques to simulate conditions while progressing towards a goal state using token conversions. Tokens can be assets associated with a defined goal and can be implemented to segment accounts for a defined purpose and to improve user planning. An account can be segmented by converting a portion of the user”s account balance to tokens to progress towards the goal. In some implementations, a simulation can generate a target token conversion schedule that achieves a target number of tokens at a target date. However, user behavior can change the observed token amounts and cause deviations from the schedule. The simulations can alter the token conversion schedule and arrive at a new target date for the target number of tokens. In some implementations, automated agents and machine learning components can be used to implement the token tracking and simulations.

Token device for distributed ledger based interchange
Patent No. 11769154

Inventor(s): Duane Cash (McKinney, TX), Hudson R. Jameson (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17848084 on 06/23/2022 (460 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable token device is described, the token device useable to request transactions performed over an interchange system. The token device authenticates a user through the use of biometric data such as a fingerprint. When in proximity to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the token device communicates with the POS terminal over a wireless network to authorize a transaction involving the user. The interchange system employs blockchain elements that can be used in a payment apparatus for managing payments or other types of transactions, and for managing user accounts. The interchange system enables users to enroll in the system, and enables the various users” computing devices to be used as confirmation centers for new transactions and/or funds transfers between users.

Mitigating transitions in mosaic images
Patent No. 11769224

Inventor(s): Jerry O. Moore (Wylie, TX), Matthew A. Schaefer (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17225566 on 04/08/2021 (901 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system mitigates transitions among pixels a mosaic image. The system uses two balancing adjustments and an easing transition adjustment. The first balancing adjustment uses a histogram to remap the pixels in the mosaic to a normal distribution. The second balancing adjustment minimizes transitions between adjacent individual images in the mosaic based on pixels positions of edge pixels and intensity differences between edge pixels in the adjacent images. The easing transitions adjustment modifies the intensity of a target pixel as a function of a radius from the target pixel, the distance between the target pixel and a nearest neighbor pixel, and an intensity difference between the nearest neighbor pixel and a pixel adjacent to the nearest neighbor pixel. A revised mosaic image is created as a function of the first balancing adjustment, the second balancing adjustment, and the easing transition adjustment.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

Exposed pad integrated circuit package
Patent No. 11769247

Inventor(s): Alok Kumar Lohia (Dallas, TX), Andy Quang Tran (Grand Prairie, TX), Reynaldo Corpuz Javier (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17544896 on 12/07/2021 (658 days app to issue)

Abstract: An IC assembly including an exposed pad integrated circuit (”IC”) package having a thermal pad with a top surface and a bottom surface and with at least one peripheral surface portion extending transversely of and continuous with the bottom surface. The bottom surface and the at least one peripheral surface are exposed through a layer of mold compound. Also, methods of making an exposed pad integrated circuit (”IC”) package assembly. One method includes optically inspecting a solder bond bonding a thermal pad of an exposed pad IC package to a printed circuit board. Another method includes wave soldering an exposed pad of an IC package to a printed circuit board.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

System and method for detecting deviations in building structures using reconstructed 3d models
Patent No. 11769268

Inventor(s): Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, TX), Snehal Desai (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17027816 on 09/22/2020 (1099 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for detecting deviations in building structures over time is disclosed. The system and method use range images of buildings captured using range imaging cameras (for example, time-of-flight cameras) to construct 3D models with sufficient resolution to detect deviations in structures that may not be obvious from looking at only photographic images. The system can also use augmented reality to project parts of a 3D model over photographic images of a structure to facilitate easy inspection of the structure.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

Augmented reality automotive accessory customer collaborative design and display
Patent No. 11769303

Inventor(s): Anthony D. Sanor (Melissa, TX), David Kleiner (Plano, TX), Jamese Yarber (Carrollton, TX), Jazmieka Smith (Fairview, TX), Jessica K. Gambhir (Lewisville, TX), Smail Haddad (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17325823 on 05/20/2021 (859 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system that allows customers to collaborate with vehicle accessory manufacturers to design accessories in an augmented reality environment. A customer decision making and purchasing experience is greatly improved when viewing a physical showroom model (or other real-world model) of a vehicle they intend to purchase and/or customize. The system allows the user to select and customize virtual accessories for the physical vehicle, then overlay those virtual accessories atop the physical vehicle in an augmented reality environment.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

Smart and shared services platform
Patent No. 11769352

Inventor(s): Lus Marcelo Borges (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Embraer S.A. (So Jos dos Campos, , BR)
Law Firm: Nixon Vanderhye P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16560459 on 09/04/2019 (1483 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network of computing devices connected to the central AOG management server execute the process of collecting data from a crew with a maintenance controller, supporting the creation of an unique electronic data package to record the data, submitting a maintenance requests from the server to independent mechanics mobile devices and/or maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) computing systems for maintenance using the collect data, supporting maintenance control center controller to identify the needed materials for the events, providing visibility of the case solution progress to all parties involved and/or effected and providing ways to retrieve all data related to specific cases and creating analyses and reports to support Vehicles Operators (e.g., Airlines), independent mechanics, MROs (maintenance repair overhaulers), material providers and OEMs to improve their processes to solve events.

[G07C] TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE (identification of persons A61B 5/117; indicating or recording apparatus for measuring in general, analogous apparatus but in which the input is not a variable to be measured, e.g. a hand operation, G01D; clocks, clock mechanisms G04B, G04C; time-interval measuring G04F; counting mechanisms per se G06M)

Systems and methods for fiber optic based vehicle-direction detection
Patent No. 11769403

Inventor(s): Matthew W. Turlington (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17823543 on 08/31/2022 (391 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive fiber sensing data identifying vehicles traveling on a roadway associated with a fiber optic network and location data identifying geographical locations of the vehicles traveling on the roadway. The device may process the fiber sensing data, with a machine learning model, to identify a particular vehicle, of the vehicles, that is traveling in a wrong direction on the roadway. The device may process the location data, with the machine learning model, to identify locations of the roadway, a cellular network associated with the roadway, and vehicle devices of the vehicles traveling on the roadway, other than the particular vehicle, and a nearest camera device to the particular vehicle. The device may perform one or more actions based on the locations of the roadway, the cellular network associated with the roadway, and the vehicle devices of the vehicles traveling on the roadway, other than the particular vehicle.

[G08G] TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems or lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S 13/91, G01S 15/88, G01S 17/88; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems or lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S 13/93, G01S 15/93, G01S 17/93; control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, not being specific to a traffic environment G05D 1/00) [2]

Virtual meeting content enhancement triggered by audio tracking
Patent No. 11769504

Inventor(s): Romelia H. Flores (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17355573 on 06/23/2021 (825 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for digital remote presentation are provided. Presentation content is received that includes visual content, one or more speech triggers, and one or more presentation enhancements corresponding to the one or more speech triggers. A virtual meeting is presented by transmitting the presentation content to at least one receiver computer. A first audio file is received that includes recorded audio spoken by a presenter during the virtual meeting. From the first audio file the one or more speech triggers spoken by the presenter are identified. The respective presentation enhancement corresponding to the identified speech trigger is performed. The presentation enhancement is presented to the at least one receiver computer during the virtual meeting.

[G10L] SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING [4]

String based erase inhibit
Patent No. 11769560

Inventor(s): Hideto Tomiie (Kanagawa, , JP)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17401749 on 08/13/2021 (774 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-volatile memory device, described herein, comprises: a plurality of memory strings and at least one control circuit in communication with the non-volatile memory cell array. The at least one control circuit is configured to perform, for the plurality of memory strings, one erase-verify iteration in an erase operation including determining whether at least one memory string of the plurality of memory strings passes an erase-verify test. The at least one control circuit is configured to, if the at least one memory string passes the erase-verify test, inhibit the at least one memory string for erase including ramping up, to an erase voltage, of a voltage applied to a gate of a SGD transistor of the at least one memory string and to perform a next erase-verify iteration in the erase operation for remaining memory strings of the plurality of memory strings other than the at least one memory string.

[G11C] STATIC STORES (information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B; semiconductor devices for storage H01L, e.g. H01L 27/108-H01L 27/11597; pulse technique in general H03K, e.g. electronic switches H03K 17/00)

Cognitive evaluation of assessment questions and answers to determine patient characteristics
Patent No. 11769571

Inventor(s): James S. Cox (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17126798 on 12/18/2020 (1012 days app to issue)

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for determining values to associate with medical conditions of a patient. A patient assessment is received that comprises a natural language question and a corresponding answer, about a patient, provided in response to the question. Cognitive natural language processing is performed on the patient assessment to extract features from the natural language question and corresponding answer. The extracted features are evaluated within a context of a pre-existing electronic medical record of the patient. A value for a medical condition of the patient is determined based on results of the evaluation and stored in the electronic medical record for the patient. NULL

Low-power mode for a USB type-C power delivery controller
Patent No. 11770118

Inventor(s): Deric Wayne Waters (Dallas, TX), Roy Alan Hastings (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17093677 on 11/10/2020 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a power delivery (”PD”) controller in a USB Type-C system that includes a configuration channel (”CC”), PD preamble detector, and a power-usage circuit. The PD controller includes a CC input that receives a PD message. The PD preamble detector is configured to detect a PD message preamble based in part upon a power of a filtered PD message and communicates a wake-up signal to the power-usage circuit in response to detecting a PD message preamble. The power-usage circuit is configured to exit a low-power mode in response to receiving the wake-up signal.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Error correcting codes for multi-master memory controller
Patent No. 11768733

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX), Son Hung Tran (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17670582 on 02/14/2022 (589 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU) core and a cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core. The cache subsystem includes a memory configured to store a line of data and an error correcting code (ECC) syndrome associated with the line of data, where the ECC syndrome is calculated based on the line of data and the ECC syndrome is a first type ECC. The cache subsystem also includes a controller configured to, in response to a request from a master configured to implement a second type ECC, the request being directed to the line of data, transform the first type ECC syndrome for the line of data to a second type ECC syndrome send a response to the master. The response includes the line of data and the second type ECC syndrome associated with the line of data.

[H03M] CODING, DECODING OR CODE CONVERSION, IN GENERAL (using fluidic means F15C 4/00; optical analogue/digital converters G02F 7/00; coding, decoding or code conversion, specially adapted for particular applications, see the relevant subclasses, e.g. G01D, G01R, G06F, G06T, G09G, G10L, G11B, G11C, H04B, H04L, H04M, H04N; ciphering or deciphering for cryptography or other purposes involving the need for secrecy G09C) [4]

Gallium nitride transistor with a doped region
Patent No. 11769824

Inventor(s): Dong Seup Lee (McKinney, TX), Jungwoo Joh (Allen, TX), Pinghai Hao (Plano, TX), Sameer Pendharkar (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17165697 on 02/02/2021 (966 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a transistor comprises a gallium nitride (GaN) layer; a GaN-based alloy layer having a top side and disposed on the GaN layer, wherein source, drain, and gate contact structures are supported by the GaN layer; and a first doped region positioned in a drain access region and extending from the top side into the GaN layer.

[H01L] SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (use of semiconductor devices for measuring G01; resistors in general H01C; magnets, inductors, transformers H01F; capacitors in general H01G; electrolytic devices H01G 9/00; batteries, accumulators H01M; waveguides, resonators, or lines of the waveguide type H01P; line connectors, current collectors H01R; stimulated-emission devices H01S; electromechanical resonators H03H; loudspeakers, microphones, gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers H04R; electric light sources in general H05B; printed circuits, hybrid circuits, casings or constructional details of electrical apparatus, manufacture of assemblages of electrical components H05K; use of semiconductor devices in circuits having a particular application, see the subclass for the application) [2]

Forming battery electrodes and associated battery
Patent No. 11769867

Inventor(s): Phalgun Madhusudan (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17385506 on 07/26/2021 (792 days app to issue)

Abstract: In certain embodiments, a method includes forming a battery electrode on a substrate. Forming the battery electrode on the substrate includes depositing a first electrode active material layer on a first portion of a surface of the substrate and depositing, to form a current collector, a conductive material using a thin film deposition process on a surface of the first electrode active material layer. The conductive material is deposited over an edge of the first electrode active material layer and onto a second portion of the surface of the substrate, the second portion of the substrate being adjacent to the first portion of the substrate. The method includes removing the battery electrode from the substrate, the battery electrode including the first electrode active material layer and the current collector.

[H01M] PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY [2]

Structural energy storage with carbon fiber
Patent No. 11769879

Inventor(s): Jae Seung Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Paul Gilmore (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17372629 on 07/12/2021 (806 days app to issue)

Abstract: A coaxially arranged energy storage device suitable for energy storage and structural support for a composite component is provided. The coaxially arranged energy storage device contains an anode core of a continuous carbon fiber;, an electrolyte coating coaxially arranged on the continuous carbon fiber core; and a cathode layer coating coaxially arranged to the continuous carbon fiber core on the electrolyte coating. The electrolyte coating comprises a gel or elastomer of a cross-linked polymer and a lithium salt and a Young”s modulus of the gel or elastomer of a cross-linked polymer is from 0.1 MPa to 10 Mpa. The cathode layer comprises particles of a cathode active material embedded in a matrix of an electrically conductive polymer. Methods to prepare the coaxially arranged energy storage device are described and utilities described.

[H01M] PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY [2]

System and method for charging electronic devices in a controlled environment
Patent No. 11770019

Inventor(s): Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17188886 on 03/01/2021 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for providing electrical charge to residents of a controlled-environment facility. In an embodiment, a charging station may be provided in an area accessible to an inmate to allow charging of in an inmate smart device, such as a phone or tablet. In an embodiment, a portable charger may be provided to an inmate for charging a smart device.

[H02J] CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY (power supply circuits for apparatus for measuring X-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation or cosmic radiation G01T 1/175; electric power supply circuits specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/00; for digital computers G06F 1/18; for discharge tubes H01J 37/248; circuits or apparatus for the conversion of electric power, arrangements for control or regulation of such circuits or apparatus H02M; interrelated control of several motors, control of a prime-mover/generator combination H02P; control of high-frequency power H03L; additional use of power line or power network for transmission of information H04B)

Wireless power transfer method, circuit and apparatus
Patent No. 11770023

Inventor(s): Kenneth Moore (Dallas, TX), Malek Ramezani (Farmers Branch, TX), Petru Emanuel Stingu (Dallas, TX), Ruwanga Dassanayake (Dallas, TX), Yulong Hou (Farmers Branch, TX)
Assignee(s): Spark Connected LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16904108 on 06/17/2020 (1196 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for wirelessly providing power to a LED includes: receiving an AC input voltage having a first frequency via a cable; generating a first rectified voltage at a first node from the AC input voltage, the first node coupled to a first filtering non-electrolytic capacitor; powering a driver with the first rectified voltage; wirelessly transmitting power by driving a first resonant tank with the driver with a driving voltage at a second frequency higher than the first frequency, the driving voltage having a sinusoidal envelope at the first frequency and approximating a square-wave at the second frequency; receiving the wirelessly transmitted power with a second resonant tank; generating a second rectified voltage at second node from a voltage across the second resonant tank, the second node coupled to a second filtering capacitor; generating a DC voltage from the second rectified voltage; and powering the LED with the DC voltage.

Methods and apparatus to start converters into a pre-biased voltage
Patent No. 11770067

Inventor(s): Brian Thomas Lynch (Brookline, NH), Stefan Wlodzimierz Wiktor (Raleigh, NC)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18170666 on 02/17/2023 (221 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to start converter into a pre-biased voltage. The disclosed methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture provide an apparatus comprising: an error amplifier including a feedback network and a differential difference amplifier (DDA), the DDA coupled to a power converter, a voltage generator, and the feedback network coupled to the third input of the DDA, the fourth input of the DDA, and the output of the DDA; a multiplexer coupled to the voltage generator, the second input of the DDA, and the first input of the DDA; a first switch coupled in parallel to the feedback network; a second switch coupled to a delay cell and an oscillator; and a trigger including an output, the trigger coupled to the voltage generator, the power converter, and the output of the trigger coupled to the multiplexer, first switch, and the second switch.

[H02M] APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (conversion of current or voltage specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/02; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables in general, e.g. using transformers, reactors or choke coils, combination of such systems with static converters G05F; for digital computers G06F 1/00; transformers H01F; connection or control of one converter with regard to conjoint operation with a similar or other source of supply H02J; dynamo-electric converters H02K 47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P; pulse generators H03K) [5]

Methods and apparatus for regulated hybrid converters
Patent No. 11770073

Inventor(s): Shishuo Zhao (East Greenwich, RI), Weidong Zhu (East Lyme, CT), Wnenkai Wu (East Greenwich, RI)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16396210 on 04/26/2019 (1614 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for regulated hybrid converters. An example apparatus includes an input terminal; an output terminal, a first converter circuit coupled between the input terminal and an intermediate node, the first converter circuit having a first switch node, a second converter circuit coupled between the intermediate node and the output terminal, the second converter circuit having a second switch node; a first inductor coupled between the first switch node and the second switch node, and a second inductor coupled between the second switch node and the output terminal.

Duty cycle correction for high-speed clock signals
Patent No. 11770116

Inventor(s): Madusudanan Srinivasan Gopalan (Issaquah, WA), Robert Karl Butler (Issaquah, WA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17888586 on 08/16/2022 (406 days app to issue)

Abstract: A duty cycle correction circuit, and method of operating the same, to correct the duty cycle of an input clock signal having a frequency divided-down from a reference clock by an odd-valued integer. A delay stage outputs the input clock signal delayed by one half-cycle of the reference clock, and a logic circuit outputs an extended clock signal by a logical OR of the input and delayed clock signals. A latch latches the extended clock signal when enabled by the reference clock, and a flip-flop latches the extended clock signal responsive to the reference clock. A gate selects the latch output or the flip-flop output based on the state of the delayed clock signal as an intermediate signal. A multiplexer generates the output clock by selecting between the intermediate signal and the input clock signal in alternating reference clock phases.

[H03K] PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D 3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M) [4]

Integrated circuit with high-speed clock bypass before reset
Patent No. 11770124

Inventor(s): Jose Luis Flores (Richardson, TX), Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian (Plano, TX), Venkateswar Reddy Kowkutla (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17514664 on 10/29/2021 (697 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes: a clock domain having a clock domain input; and clock management logic coupled to the clock domain. The clock management logic includes: a PLL having a reference clock input and a PLL clock output; a divider having a divider input and a divider output, the divider input coupled to the PLL clock output; and bypass logic having a first clock input, a second clock input, a bypass control input, and a bypass logic output, the first clock input coupled to divider output, the second clock input coupled to the reference clock input, and the bypass logic output coupled to the clock domain input. The bypass logic selectively bypasses the PLL and divider responsive to a bypass control signal triggered by a reset signal. The reset signal also triggers a reset control signal delayed relative to the bypass control signal.

[H03L] AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES (of dynamo-electric generators H02P) [3]

Radio frequency (RF) location beacon with tunable antennas and cloud integration
Patent No. 11770152

Inventor(s): Michael E. Haslam (Arlington, TX), Weimin Peng (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Apptricity Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: HEMINGWAY HANSEN, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17634072 on 07/27/2020 (1156 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a Radio Frequency Location and/or Proximity Beacon receiver/transmitter with one or more tunable antennas and power levels and having the capability for cloud integration. Disclosed herein is a communication system utilizing a Radio Frequency Location and/or Proximity Beacon receiver/transmitter with one or more tunable antennas and power levels and having the capability for cloud integration. The communication system supports processing of communications regarding a radio frequency (RF) beacon for tracking location and/or proximity of field assets. Disclosed herein is a method of using a Radio Frequency Location and/or Proximity Beacon receiver/transmitter with one or more tunable antennas and power levels and having the capability for cloud integration. The method transmits communications regarding a radio frequency beacon for tracking location and/or proximity of field assets.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Bypassable radio frequency filters
Patent No. 11770164

Inventor(s): XiaoHua Hou (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17354222 on 06/22/2021 (826 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices having bypassable radio frequency (RF) filters are provided. A device includes a bypassable RF filter and an adjustable-length RF transmission line that is coupled thereto. Moreover, the device includes a component that is coupled to the adjustable-length RF transmission line and is configured to change an electrical length of the adjustable-length RF transmission line between a first length and a second length. Related methods of bypassing the bypassable RF filter are also provided.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

System and method for bitcoin mining with reduced power
Patent No. 11770256

Inventor(s): David A. Carlson (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. (Singapore, , SG)
Law Firm: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16447865 on 06/20/2019 (1559 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit and corresponding method enable bitcoin mining in a blockchain network. The circuit comprises a nonce generator that generates a nonce value, on a cycle-by-cycle basis, and changes only one binary digit of the nonce value per cycle. The circuit further comprises a hash engine that inserts, on the cycle-by-cycle basis, the nonce value into a block header of a block candidate and generates a digest by applying a hash function to the block header. The block header includes a representation of a target value. The circuit further comprises a validator that compares, on the cycle-by-cycle basis, the digest to the target value. In an event the digest satisfies the target value, the validator submits the block candidate to the blockchain network, causing newly minted bitcoin to be mined from the blockchain network. Changing only one binary digit of the nonce value, per cycle, reduces power consumption of the circuit.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Transmission of NTN type and NTN type based configuration of operational parameters
Patent No. 11770293

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX), Kyeongin Jeong (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17066402 on 10/08/2020 (1083 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus and method of a network entity in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus and method comprises: identifying a non-terrestrial network (NTN) type associated with an NTN; configuring a set of operational parameters for performing wireless communication based on the NTN type; identifying, based on a network configuration associated with the NTN, one or more interfaces to transmit information indicating the NTN type; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE) or a network function (NF), the information indicating the NTN type via the identified one or more interfaces.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

System and method for establishing network element personality profiles using AI/ML
Patent No. 11770298

Inventor(s): Brian A. Ward (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17680382 on 02/25/2022 (578 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device obtains configuration parameters for multiple network elements of a network and receives first scores that assess a level of efficiency and a level of isolation for each of the multiple network elements. The device identifies a network element of the multiple network elements for modifying the identified network element”s configuration based on the obtained configuration parameters and the received first scores.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Intrusion management with threat type clustering
Patent No. 11770409

Inventor(s): Oner Sufri (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: Yee Associates, P.C. (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17141054 on 01/04/2021 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for threat management. A set of features used by a machine learning model is collected by the computer system to determine a threat type for an access attempt when the access attempt is detected. A cluster is determined, by the machine learning model in the computer system, for the access attempt using the set of features, wherein the machine learning model implements clustering to determine the cluster for the access attempt, and wherein the cluster for the access attempt corresponds to the threat type for the access attempt. A set of actions is performed by the machine learning model in the computer system based on the threat type determined for the access attempt.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Methods, systems, and apparatus for credential format and protocol management
Patent No. 11770418

Inventor(s): Alden Shiverick (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Ping Identity Corporation (Denver, CO)
Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18162472 on 01/31/2023 (238 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a processor and from a user device associated with a user, a request to access a service associated with a first protocol. The method further includes receiving, by the processor, a virtual credential of the user authorized by an authorizing entity. The virtual credential is compliant with a second protocol different than the first protocol. The method further includes verifying, by the processor, that the virtual credential is authorized by the authorizing entity. The method further includes transforming, by the processor, the virtual credential to generate a transformed virtual credential compliant with the first protocol. The method further includes sending, by the processor, a representation of the transformed virtual credential to the service. The method further includes verifying, by the processor and after the sending, that the transformed virtual credential is valid.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Devices and systems for voice over internet protocol codec selection
Patent No. 11770419

Inventor(s): Timothy B. Dentry (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Edgewater Networks, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Brooks, Cameron Huebsch, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16890570 on 06/02/2020 (1211 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices and systems for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) codec selection are described herein. One or more embodiments include a VoIP device for selecting a codec comprising a link monitor to detect an Internet link and an interface coupled to the link monitor, wherein the interface determines a bandwidth, usage, and/or type of the Internet link to select the codec.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Edge computing for internet of things security with blockchain authentication
Patent No. 11770444

Inventor(s): Anil K. Guntupalli (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17727180 on 04/22/2022 (522 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive, by a first blockchain node and via a first base station, a message from a first Internet of Things (IoT) device to a second IoT device, wherein the device corresponds to a first multi-access edge computing (MEC) device located in a first MEC network associated with the first base station. The processor may be further configured to authenticate, by the first blockchain node, the first IoT device using a blockchain associated with a group of IoT devices and send, by the first blockchain node, the message to a second blockchain node in a second MEC device in a second MEC network associated with a second base station servicing the second IoT device, in response to authenticating the first IoT device using the blockchain associated with the group of IoT devices.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Framework for IoT protocol identification and management
Patent No. 11770459

Inventor(s): David J. McCall (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: HANLEY, FLIGHT ZIMMERMAN, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17380838 on 07/20/2021 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify and manage IoT protocols and associated devices. An example apparatus includes a gateway device to communicate according to a first protocol. The example gateway device includes a plugin agent to discover a first device and probe the first device to gather data regarding a protocol of the first device. The example plugin agent is to transmit the gathered data to a plugin manager to determine whether the first device is to communicate via the first protocol, and, when the first device is unable to communicate via the first protocol, determine a plugin for the gateway device to enable the gateway device to communicate with the first device, the plugin agent to provision the plugin for the gateway device with respect to the first device.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Computerized system and method for robocall steering
Patent No. 11770475

Inventor(s): Lulia Ann Barakat (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17745975 on 05/17/2022 (497 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for robocall steering over voice-hosted traffic networks. The disclosed framework provides novel systems and methods for increasing the accuracy and efficiency in tracking, identifying, blocking and preventing robocalls and robocallers. The disclosed systems and methods provide mechanisms for identifying and removing unwanted voice traffic from networks. The disclosed systems and methods analyze voice traffic over a predetermined period of time (e.g., 1 day or 30 days, for example), and leverage this information into a ”know your customer” (KYC) score. This score enables incoming calls to be routed, controlled and/or blocked as they are communicated over voice networks.

[H04M] TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)

Multi-source 3-dimensional detection and tracking
Patent No. 11770506

Inventor(s): Adam Earl Scott (Carrollton, TX), Jonathan Edward Ray (Murphy, TX), Joseph Evan Harris (Carrollton, TX), Julia Florence Kerst (Richardson, TX), Michael Wade Martin (Royse City, TX), Rachel Ann Rivera (Murphy, TX), Thomas
Assignee(s): Innovative Signal Analysis, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Kelly, Holt Christenson, P.L.L.C (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17304699 on 06/24/2021 (824 days app to issue)

Abstract: An object detection system includes a first camera having a first field of view and a second camera having a second field of view that overlaps with the first field of view. The object detection system includes object detection logic configured to receive a first image from the first camera and a second image from the second camera and identify an object in both the first and second image. The object detection system further includes object mapping logic configured to identify a location of the object based on the first and second image. The object detection system also includes display logic configured to display the location of the object.

[H04N] PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION [4]

System and method for optimizing video communications based on device capabilities
Patent No. 11770584

Inventor(s): Channamallesh G. Hiremath (Allen, TX), Rajaraman Krishnan (Chennai, , IN), Rashmi Lohita (Allen, TX), Sivakumar Chaturvedi (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Damaka, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17750562 on 05/23/2022 (491 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for optimizing video for transmission on a device includes, in one example, the method includes capturing an original video frame and scaling the original video frame down to a lower resolution video frame. The lower resolution video frame is downscaled using a first encoder to produce a first layer output and the first layer output is decoded. The decoded first layer output is upscaled to match a resolution of the original video frame. A difference is obtained between the upscaled decoded first layer output and the original video frame. The difference is independently encoded using a second encoder to create a second layer output. The first and second layer outputs may be stored or sent to another device.

[H04N] PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION [4]

Efficient and flexible color processor
Patent No. 11770624

Inventor(s): Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX), Rajasekhar Allu (Plano, TX), Shashank Dabral (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18072813 on 12/01/2022 (299 days app to issue)

Abstract: An image signal processor includes a first matrix processing circuit, a post processing circuit, a second matrix processing circuit, and a split visual and analytics circuit. The first matrix processing circuit is configured to receive a plurality of component images generated based on an image captured by an image sensor and generate a plurality of first matrix outputs based on the plurality of component images. The post processing circuit is configured to perform color conversion on the plurality of first matrix outputs to generate a first luminance component of the image and a chrominance component of the image. The second matrix processing circuit is configured to perform color conversion on the plurality of first matrix outputs to generate a second luminance component of the image and a saturation component of the image. The split visual and analytics circuit is configured to generate visual and analytic data of the image.

[H04N] PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION [4]

Mobile device tools for authenticated smart vehicle pairing and wireless routing configuration and methods of use
Patent No. 11770705

Inventor(s): Ciprian R. Sandu (Coppell, TX), Jason T. Kriesel (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee(s): Thor Tech, Inc. (Elkhart, IN)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17471605 on 09/10/2021 (746 days app to issue)

Abstract: Configuration methods and systems include a smart vehicle router associated with router information stored in a router file in a cloud network, and a smart mobile device comprising a camera and software application tool. The router information includes a unique authentication certificate to permit a one-to-one pairing such that another pairing is not available. The configuration system is configured to read an image of an identification component associated with the smart vehicle router and the router information, apply an authentication algorithm to the image to provision the tool with the unique authentication certificate, authenticate the smart vehicle based on the image and authentication algorithm, pair the authenticated smart vehicle with the tool in the one-to-one pairing based on the unique authentication certificate and the router information, and automatically configure the tool on the smart mobile device to retrieve data associated with the authenticated smart vehicle.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Simultaneous transmission in multiple timing advance groups
Patent No. 11770776

Inventor(s): Anthony Edet Ekpenyong (Houston, TX), Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, , FR), Ralf Matthias Bendlin (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16272838 on 02/11/2019 (1688 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for specifying UE power control allocation for simultaneous transmission of PRACH in a secondary serving cell and PUCCH/PUSCH/SRS in a different serving cell in another timing advance group are disclosed. Rules are provided for prioritizing transmission of PRACH and/or other UL channels/signals. Additionally, UE power allocation is controlled for misaligned subframes across different timing advance groups. Latency of UL synchronization for a secondary serving cell is reduced by prioritizing PRACH retransmission.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

MIMO antenna array for cross division duplex
Patent No. 11770809

Inventor(s): Gary Xu (Allen, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (Plano, TX), Jin Yuan (Richardson, TX), Khurram Muhammad (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17107567 on 11/30/2020 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) unit and method of operation of the RF unit are disclosed herein. The RF unit comprises an antenna array, and the antenna array comprises a plurality of antenna elements. A first set of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to operate in a first mode and a second set of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to operate in a second mode. In the first mode, the first set of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to transmit and receive. In the second mode, the second set of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to only receive.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatuses for physical layer beam indications
Patent No. 11770812

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co. , Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17305050 on 06/29/2021 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for physical layer beam indications. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one or more first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for reception and transmission of downlink (DL) channels and uplink (UL) channels, respectively; receiving one or more TCI state identifiers (IDs); and transmitting an acknowledgement in response to the reception of the one or more TCI state IDs. The method further includes, based on the acknowledgement: determining, based on the one or more TCI state IDs, one or more second TCI states; determining a time to apply the one or more second TCI states; and updating one or more spatial filters based on the one or more second TCI states. The method further includes receiving and transmitting data on the DL channel and UL channels, respectively, using the one or more spatial filters starting at the determined time.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Apparatus and methods for TXOP duration field in PHY header
Patent No. 11770853

Inventor(s): Yongho Seok (Lake Forest, CA), Yujin Noh (Lake Forest, CA)
Assignee(s): Atlas Global Technologies LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Nutter McClennen Fish LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17226940 on 04/09/2021 (900 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method implemented by a station (STA) in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to disregard a Network Allocation Vector (NAV) maintained by the STA. The method includes receiving a first frame from an Access Point (AP), determining whether the NAV maintained by the STA was previously set using a duration indicated in a second frame that (1) was received by the STA prior to receiving the first frame and (2) originated from the AP, and transmitting a third frame to the AP as an immediate response to the first frame without considering the NAV maintained by the STA when a determination is made that the NAV maintained by the STA was previously set using the duration indicated in the second frame that originated from the AP.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Printed circuit board layout
Patent No. 11770900

Inventor(s): Alok K. Lohia (Dallas, TX), Arturo Silva (Allen, TX), Robert J. Catalano (Mesquite, TX), Robert J. Roessler (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, , CH)
Law Firm: Leydig, Voit Mayer, Ltd. (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17546812 on 12/09/2021 (656 days app to issue)

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly is provided. The PCB assembly comprises a printed wiring board (PWB) and one or more electrical components mounted thereon. The PWB comprises a plurality of layers including conductive layers and insulative layers, where one or more of the insulative layers is a prepreg layer that is halogen-free; one or more slotted portions on a surface of the PWB, which are indented into the PWB; and one or more pads disposed on the surface of the PWB, which are paired with the one or more slotted portions. Each of the one or more electrical components is mounted on the surface of the PWB through a pair of a slotted portion and a pad.

[H05K] PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS (details of instruments or comparable details of other apparatus not otherwise provided for G12B; thin-film or thick-film circuits H01L 27/01, H01L 27/13; non-printed means for electric connections to or between printed circuits H01R; casings for, or constructional details of, particular types of apparatus, see the relevant subclasses; processes involving only a single technical art, e.g. heating, spraying, for which provision exists elsewhere, see the relevant classes)

Apparatus for an inductor disposed in a band for method of heat dispersion
Patent No. 11770916

Inventor(s): Matthew Wilkowski (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): Modular Power Technoogy, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)
Law Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17687381 on 03/04/2022 (571 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an apparatus having a band including a high thermally conductive material is disposed at least partially around an inductor.

[H01F] MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES [2]

DESIGN PATENTS

Dispensing comb
Patent No. D000000

Inventor(s): Agustina Huckaby (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29803388 on 08/12/2021 (775 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Universal clamp assembly for solar panel assemblies
Patent No. D999612

Inventor(s): David G. Garza (Plano, TX), Horacio Duhart (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Thrasher Associates (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29814892 on 11/09/2021 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent No. D999782

Inventor(s): Ben Cline (Salt Lake City, UT), Daniel Hall (Dallas, TX), John Weston Pierce (Salt Lake City, UT), Louie Solomon (Richardson, TX), Tuhin Diptiman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29881692 on 01/05/2023 (264 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent No. D999785

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle light assembly
Patent No. D999844

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Randy Perez (McKinney, TX), Terry Soward (Van Alstyne, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29811190 on 10/12/2021 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body
Patent No. D999845

Inventor(s): Casey Christen Jens Christensen (McKinney, TX), Jaime Felix Barajas (Dallas, TX), Jonathan Scott Wood (Campbell, CA), Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Skylar Ha
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29815665 on 11/16/2021 (679 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Patent No. D999967

Inventor(s): Kaylin Rowsell (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ARTERIORS HOME (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29827276 on 02/18/2022 (585 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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