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 January 31, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

158 patents granted
Ranked No. 9 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 6
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 20
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 3
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 11
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 7
G: PHYSICS 56
H: ELECTRICITY 46

Design: 7

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 28
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) 9
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 8
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston) 6
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 6
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 6
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 3
Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) 3
Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, FI) 3

UNASSIGNED 15

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Boon Loong Ng (Plano) 2
Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell) 2
Enis Tuncer (Dallas) 2
Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton) 2
Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound) 2
Terry Adams (Dallas) 2
Vutha Va (Plano) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Soil preparation implement
Patent No. 11564342

Inventor(s): Lloyd F. Estes (Springtown, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17571996 on 01/10/2022 (386 days app to issue)

Abstract: A soil preparation apparatus having a first frame member configured to couple to a towing vehicle, wherein the first frame member comprises a blade member configured to engage soil. The apparatus can also include a second frame member pivotally secured to the first frame member, wherein the second frame member comprises an adjustable height protruding member configured to engage soil. The apparatus can also include a third frame member pivotally secured to the second frame member, wherein the third frame member comprises a plurality of bars configured to engage soil, and wherein the second frame member pivots relative to the first and third frame members.

[A01B] SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL (making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring A01C 5/00; machines for harvesting root crops A01D; mowers convertible to soil working apparatus or capable of soil working A01D 42/04; mowers combined with soil working implements A01D 43/12; soil working for engineering purposes E01, E02, E21)

Methods and systems of pest management
Patent No. 11564386

Inventor(s): Armando Landeros (Colleyville, TX), Ethan Vickery (Colleyville, TX), Ron Fox (Colleyville, TX), Ronen Amicahi (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): VM PRODUCTS, INC. (Colleyville, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16640621 on 08/22/2018 (1623 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure describes devices, systems, and methods associated with pest (e.g., rodent) management. An example of a pest-management apparatus includes a detector device having a housing, a magnetic switch coupled to the housing, and circuitry disposed within a cavity of the housing. The detector device is configured to be coupled to a trap having a base and a capture element pivotally coupled to the base such a portion of the capture element is biased toward a capture portion of the base. The circuitry is configured to detect operation of the trap based on a change in state of the magnetic switch responsive to a magnet coupled to the trap. In a particular implementation, the detector device is coupled to the trap via a platform. In another particular implementation, the detector device includes multiple magnetic switches and is configured to concurrently be coupled to multiple traps.

[A01M] CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS (appliances for catching swarms or drone-catching A01K 57/00; fishing A01K 69/00-A01K 97/00; biocides, pest repellants or attractants A01N); APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS

Shelf alignment guide system
Patent No. 11564510

Inventor(s): Jayson Emmett Fulks (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17209856 on 03/23/2021 (679 days app to issue)

Abstract: A shelf alignment guide system includes a first substrate with one or more channels disposed on the top surface of the substrate, the one or more channels to hold eyeglasses; a light strip secured to the first substrate; the one or more channels are curved to align with the eyeglasses.

[A47F] SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS, OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS

Bath kit
Patent No. 11564536

Inventor(s): Patrick Louis Meagher (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): VBC TRACY LLC (Philadelphia, PA)
Law Firm: Volpe Koenig (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16682093 on 11/13/2019 (1175 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bath kit configured to transition from a crate form to a bathroom form is provided. The bath kit includes a bathtub enclosure surrounded by a first sidewall sub-assembly, a second sidewall sub-assembly, a rear bracing sub-assembly, a drop ceiling sub-assembly, and a floor sub-assembly. The sub-assembly components form the three sides, a top, and a bottom of the bath kit in crate form. These components are also configured to form the walls, ceiling, and floor of the bathtub enclosure in the bathroom form. The method of assembling the bath kit and the method of transforming the bath kit from a crate form to a bathroom form are also provided.

[A47K] SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (connecting to water supply or waste pipe, sinks E03C; water-closets E03D); TOILET ACCESSORIES (cosmetic equipment A45D)

Hydrogen peroxide-producing bacterial composition
Patent No. 11564785

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Daniel Hillman (Gainesville, FL)
Assignee(s): ProBiora Health, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Fish IP Law, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15662232 on 07/27/2017 (2014 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention provides compositions that include isolated, non-pathogenic, hydrogen peroxide-producing bacterial strains and genetically engineered LDH-deficient bacterial strains, which can be used to whiten teeth and treat periodontal disease.

[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)

Speaking endotracheal tube and method of use
Patent No. 11565063

Inventor(s): Dan M Meyer (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17460222 on 08/29/2021 (520 days app to issue)

Abstract: An endotracheal tube is disclosed that allows a patient to speak while intubated. The endotracheal tube includes a balloon for seating against the trachea and a collapsible portion proximal to the balloon that aligns with the vocal cords. The collapsible portion may be held open by an inner tube which translates within the endotracheal tube. Suction and balloon inflation conduits span the collapsible portion so that suction and balloon inflation may be performed while the patient is speaking. A small distal tube that bypasses the balloon provides some airflow while the patient speaks.

[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]

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

Sanding apparatus with multiple part engagement members
Patent No. 11565368

Inventor(s): Kenneth P. Eldridge (Georgetown, KY)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16540655 on 08/14/2019 (1266 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of removing material from a surface of an ultrasound directing element comprising a plastic material is provided. The method includes mounting the ultrasound directing element to a mounting block of a sanding apparatus. The mounting block includes an engagement member that moves from a release position to an engagement position thereby engaging the ultrasound directing element. The mounting block is moved along a base of the sanding apparatus bringing a surface of the ultrasound directing element into contact with a sanding surface. Material is removed from the surface of the ultrasound directing element using the sanding surface.

[B24B] MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING (by electro-erosion B23H; abrasive or related blasting B24C; electrolytic etching or polishing C25F 3/00); DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS [2]

Robot base assemblies
Patent No. 11565400

Inventor(s): Keith J. Wells (Evansville, IN), Shigeo Akiyama (Lexington, KY)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17177857 on 02/17/2021 (713 days app to issue)

Abstract: A robot base assembly that supports a robot assembly above a floor. The robot assembly engages with a work piece having a locating component. The robot base assembly includes a base plate coupled to the floor, a support member slidably coupled to the base plate for linear displacement, a clamp assembly coupled to the support member, and a lock mechanism. The clamp assembly is movable between an engaged state and a disengaged state. In the engaged state the clamp assembly engages with the locating component. The lock mechanism is movable between a locked state and an unlocked state. In the locked state the support member is inhibited from linear displacement, and in the unlocked state the support member is permitted for linear displacement. The lock mechanism switches from the unlocked state to the locked state in response to the clamp assembly moving from the disengaged state to the engaged state.

[B25J] MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES (robotic devices for individually picking fruits, vegetables, hops or the like A01D 46/30; needle manipulators for surgery A61B 17/062; manipulators associated with rolling mills B21B 39/20; manipulators associated with forging machines B21J 13/10; means for holding wheels or parts thereof B60B 30/00; cranes B66C; arrangements for handling fuel or other materials which are used within nuclear reactors G21C 19/00; structural combination of manipulators with cells or rooms shielded against radiation G21F 7/06) [5]

Method for manufacturing an engineered stone and an engineered stone
Patent No. 11565438

Inventor(s): Claudio Caselli (Dallas, TX), Terry Adams (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Dal-Tile, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16647055 on 10/02/2018 (1582 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an engineered stone, the method including: providing a mixture comprising at least a stone or stone like material and a binder; compacting the mixture; curing the binder; and further comprising printing a printed pattern on at least a top surface of the engineered stone.

[B28B] SHAPING CLAY OR OTHER CERAMIC COMPOSITIONS, SLAG OR MIXTURES CONTAINING CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER (foundry moulding B22C; working stone or stone-like material B28D; shaping of substances in a plastic state, in general B29C; making layered products not composed wholly of these substances B32B; shaping in situ, see the relevant classes of section E)

Sequential simulated gear ratio calculation and rev-matching in a hybrid electric vehicle
Patent No. 11565581

Inventor(s): Erik Hasso Benedikt (Ann Arbor, MI), Shannon Wrobel (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16736794 on 01/07/2020 (1120 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for simulating rev-matching in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). In particular, increased engine response is provided while downshifting during acceleration. The transmission of an HEV may include an electronic control unit that controls the speed of the engine to simulate gears, and increases the speed of the engine responsive to a driver using the gear selector to shift from one of the simulated gears to a lower one of the simulated gears, thereby providing the desired rev-matching experience. The increased engine response can be reflected in a target engine speed that is calculated based on specific gear ratios associated with each of the simulated gears.

[B60K] ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES [2006.01]

Vehicle seat convertible into vehicle access and loading tool
Patent No. 11565613

Inventor(s): Hamshivraj Singh Dhamrat (Saline, MI), Lindsay A. Babian (Canton, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17039561 on 09/30/2020 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: A removable vehicle seat convertible from a seat configuration into a ladder or a ramp configuration and methods of converting the same. The seat may include a seat cushion having a back surface and a back end removably engaged with a floor of an interior of the vehicle in the seat configuration. The back surface may face and be positioned on a ground surface in the ladder or ramp configurations. The seat may include a seat back having a bottom end pivotally attached to the seat cushion. The bottom end may be oriented towards the back end. The seat back may be lockable in place relative to the seat cushion at an angle equal to or less than ninety degrees with at least one locking member. The seat may include a ladder or a ramp attached to the seat back usable to access or load the vehicle once converted.

[B60N] VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (furniture construction A47)

Suction-based door protection device
Patent No. 11565642

Inventor(s): Randal Schmidt (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Merchant Gould, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17140960 on 01/04/2021 (757 days app to issue)

Abstract: A removable vehicle exterior door guard device comprising an elongate panel and a plurality of vacuum seal suction cups. The panel can comprise a foam pad or other flexible polymer coupled to one or more suction cups configured to hold the panel to a vehicle surface. The device can comprise a foam pad having suction cups configured to provide a vacuum seal to a vehicle exterior door, for example using screw-tightening suction cup mechanism or a lever tightening suction cup mechanism. The vacuum seal suction cups are configured to maintain a strong seal against the vehicle surface over extended periods of time, even if the panel is bumped or the vehicle surface is not clean. The device can additionally include a theft deterrent system comprising a cord attached at a proximate end to the panel and at a distal end to an anchor that is secured inside the vehicle.

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

Autonomous vehicle, system, and method of operating an autonomous vehicle
Patent No. 11565720

Inventor(s): Trenton B. Lindholm (Northville, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16925501 on 07/10/2020 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to enhance the situational competency of a vehicle, when operating at least partially in an autonomous mode, and/or the safe operation of a vehicle, when operating at least partially in an autonomous mode. Such systems, methods, and computer program products are to facilitate operation of a vehicle, when operating at least partially in an autonomous mode, in a multi-lane roadway environment to coordinate a change of lane of the autonomous vehicle from a first lane in which the autonomous vehicle is currently operating and a target lane change area of a second lane. Such coordination is to dynamically take into consideration several operational safety factors within the driving environment, including the presence of one or more vehicles in a third lane adjacent to the target lane area of the second lane and the geometric roadway design.

[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]

Automated tie marking
Patent No. 11565730

Inventor(s): Lisa Marie Kelly (Weatherford, TX), Michael James Brick (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17687025 on 03/04/2022 (333 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for automating railroad maintenance for a tie gang using electronic tie marking (ETM) configured to optimize railroad asset maintenance. The system enables the automating of an adaptive maintenance process for the asset that is being maintainanced. The system can identify a railroad asset scheduled for maintenance using various forms of inspection including real-time kinematic (RTK)-corrected GPS data, radar signal processing data, and real-time imaging. The system also provides for the acquisition and upload of asset pictures for verification and analysis of a railroad asset. The system can identify a next location to perform maintenance and can calculate an optimum path based on sensor input incorporating machine-specific and environmental characteristics. The system further can provide a customizable user interface to identify, track, and process information related to maintenance of the railroad asset.

[B61K] OTHER AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT FOR RAILWAYS (energy-storing brakes B61H; protection of permanent way against weather influences E01B; rail cleaning, snow ploughs E01H)

Bicycle saddle with spring-based vibration isolation
Patent No. 11565763

Inventor(s): Christian Arthur Trager (Canton, MI), Michael Paul Rowe (Pinckney, MI), Paul A. Gilmore (Ann Arbor, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmington Hills, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America. Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17571969 on 01/10/2022 (386 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vibration isolator can be configured to provide improved vibration isolation performance, such as in connection with a bicycle saddle. The bicycle saddle can be operatively connected to a bicycle frame. The vibration isolator can be located within a portion of the bicycle frame. The vibration isolator can be operatively positioned with respect to the bicycle saddle. The vibration isolator being configured to exhibit a non-linear stiffness profile. The non-linear stiffness profile can include a region of quasi-zero stiffness. The vibration isolator including a plurality of spring members arranged in a stack.

[B62J] CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; ACCESSORIES PECULIAR TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS (registration plates B60R 13/10; cyclometers, i.e. wheel-revolution counters, G01C 22/00)

Methods for maneuvering a marine vessel
Patent No. 11565783

Inventor(s): Brad E. Taylor (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Brunswick Corporation (Mettawa, IL)
Law Firm: Andrus Intellectual Property Law, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17115059 on 12/08/2020 (784 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for maneuvering a marine vessel includes receiving an input signal from an analog user input device and comparing a magnitude of the input signal to a predetermined threshold. In response to the magnitude of the input signal being less than the predetermined threshold, the method includes actuating a first marine propulsion device to produce thrust. In response to the magnitude of the input signal being greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold, the method includes actuating the first marine propulsion device and a second marine propulsion device to produce thrust. The second marine propulsion device does not produce thrust when the magnitude of the input signal is less than the predetermined threshold.

[B63H] MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING (propulsion of air-cushion vehicles B60V 1/14; peculiar to submarines, other than nuclear propulsion, B63G; peculiar to torpedoes F42B 19/00)

Pivoting sail fairing system and rotary wing aircraft including the same
Patent No. 11565788

Inventor(s): Jonathan Witt (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (Bethesda, MD)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16809936 on 03/05/2020 (1062 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to an aspect, a pivoting sail fairing system includes a rotatable fairing, for rotation about a first axis of rotation of an aircraft, that includes a housing that defines a compartment arranged inward from the housing, the housing including a first orifice on a first surface and a second orifice on a second surface of the housing, and a first actuator mounted on a surface of the compartment inward from the housing.

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

Adjustable ducted rotor blade tip extension
Patent No. 11565799

Inventor(s): George Matthew Thompson (Lewisville, TX), Timothy Brian Carr (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16900543 on 06/12/2020 (963 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotor system includes a rotor duct; at least one rotor blade that includes an outboard end; a tip extension mechanism affixed at the outboard end of the at least one rotor blade, the tip extension mechanism including at least one shim, the at least one rotor blade with the tip extension mechanism affixed thereto including an extended rotor blade; and a blade tip affixed to an outboard end of the extended rotor blade, wherein the blade tip is affixed to the extended rotor blade via at least one removable fastener.

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

Multi-piece assembly for a tubular composite body
Patent No. 11565800

Inventor(s): Jared Mark Paulson (Fort Worth, TX), Mark Mays (Bedford, TX), Michael Christopher Burnett (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16048869 on 07/30/2018 (1646 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for two or more cured composite assemblies that are bonded together to form a tubular composite structure, wherein each of the cured composite assemblies do not have a tubular shape. The tubular composite structure may form a spar for an aerodynamic component, for example. The two or more cured composite assemblies may comprise carbon or fiberglass composite materials or a combination of materials. Each of the cured composite assemblies may further comprise axial edges that are configured to be bonded to another of the cured composite assemblies, wherein the axial edges have a sloped shape. An adhesive agent may be applied on the axial edges for bonding two cured composite assemblies. Alternatively, or additionally, one or more fasteners may be used to attach the axial edges of at least two cured composite assemblies.

[B32B] LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM

Rotor systems having lead-lag damper cooling
Patent No. 11565802

Inventor(s): Aaron Alexander Acee (Flower Mound, TX), Michael Scott Seifert (Southlake, TX), Shahryar Fotovati (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17154650 on 01/21/2021 (740 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotor system for a rotorcraft includes a rotor hub having a plurality of blade grips coupled thereto. Each blade grip has a rotor blade coupled thereto. A fairing is disposed at least partially around the rotor hub. Each of a plurality of lead-lag dampers is coupled to at least a respective one of the blade grips. Each lead-lag damper has a damper heat exchanger and a fluid pump operably associated therewith. A fairing heat exchanger is in fluid communication with the damper heat exchangers and the fluid pumps. Each lead-lag damper is configured to drive the respective fluid pump responsive to damping operations to pump a cooling fluid from the respective damper heat exchanger to the fairing heat exchanger.

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

Electric drive system line replaceable unit with integrated cyclic actuation
Patent No. 11565803

Inventor(s): Stephen Yibum Chung (Keller, TX), William Kyle Heironimus (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16808851 on 03/04/2020 (1063 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment is an electric drive system including a plurality of redundant motors, wherein power generated by the plurality of motors is used to drive a rotor system comprising a rotor shaft having a plurality of rotor blades connected thereto via a swashplate; a gear box associated with the plurality of redundant motors; a cyclic actuation system for controlling an individual pitch of the rotor blades connected to the swashplate; and at least one structural element for retaining the redundant motors, the gear box, and the cyclic actuation system together as a single integrated unit.

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

Garbage can retaining clip apparatus
Patent No. 11565852

Inventor(s): William Buck (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16596929 on 10/09/2019 (1210 days app to issue)

Abstract: A garbage bag retaining clip apparatus for securing garbage bag excess includes a housing having an open front side separated from an open back side, a top side separated from an open bottom side, and a left side separated from a right side defining a housing inside. A bag gate is flexibly coupled within the housing inside. The bag gate is biased to rest in the pinch position. A plurality of parallel retaining ridges is coupled to the housing. Each of the retaining ridges extends vertically from the right side and the left side within the housing inside. A tab is coupled to the housing. The tab proximal end has a hinge extending between the left side and the right side proximal the top side and the back side. The tab moves between a locked position engaged within the retaining ridges and a released position extending behind the housing.

[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)

Positional securement system for a rollable cart
Patent No. 11565880

Inventor(s): Rommel B. Ceniza (Guelph, , 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: 16701825 on 12/03/2019 (1155 days app to issue)

Abstract: A securement system for restricting rolling of a rollable cart residing on a ground surface includes a first mechanism including a first mechanism base defining a first cavity structured to receive a rolling element of the rollable cart therein while the rolling element is in direct contact with the ground surface. The first mechanism may also include a first mechanism blocking member operably coupled to the first mechanism base so as to be adjustably positionable to a closing position in which the first mechanism blocking member blocks a path of the rolling element out of the first cavity, and also to an opening position in which the first mechanism blocking member does not block the path of the rolling element out of the first cavity.

[B65G] TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable or mobile lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F 9/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C 9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D)

Atomic layer etching on microdevices and nanodevices
Patent No. 11565936

Inventor(s): George Skidmore (Richardson, TX), Jonas Gertsch (Boulder, CO), Joseph J. Brown (Honolulu, HI), Nathan Thomas Eigenfeld (Boulder, CO), Steven M. George (Boulder, CO), Victor M. Bright (Boulder, CO)
Assignee(s): DRS Network Imaging Systems, LLC (Dallas, TX), The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, CO)
Law Firm: Saul Ewing LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16303612 on 05/25/2017 (2077 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention relates to the unexpected discovery of novel methods of preparing nanodevices and/or microdevices with predetermined patterns. In one aspect, the methods of the invention allow for engineering structures and films with continuous thickness equal to or less than 50 nm.

[B81C] PROCESSES OR APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS (making microcapsules or microballoons B01J 13/02; processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of piezo-electric, electrostrictive or magnetostrictive elements per se H01L 41/22) [7]

Hydroactive vortex scrubber and reactor
Patent No. 11566553

Inventor(s): Nathan Hastings (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16932139 on 07/17/2020 (928 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hydro-active scrubber and reactor (HSR) system and apparatus is disclosed that includes a main body, an inlet configured to receive a first fluid medium comprised of pollutant particles, and a nozzle configured to dispense a second fluid medium within the main body. In addition, the HSR system and apparatus may also include a cylindrical body or hydro-vortex generator within the main body having a plurality of horizontally positioned rods projecting therefrom, wherein the cylindrical body further comprises a plurality of openings. Further, the HSR system and apparatus can include a motor configured to rotate the cylindrical body thereby directing the first and second fluid mediums through the cylindrical body. In addition, a first area within the main body can receive the pollutant particles from the first fluid medium, and a first outlet within the main body can be configured to direct the received pollutant particles out of the main body.

[B01D] SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D, by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B, by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges B04B; vortex apparatus B04C; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B 9/02) [5]

Compact portable foldable solar panel support system and methods of use
Patent No. 11569781

Inventor(s): Gregory K. Miller (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Sierra IP Law, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17857020 on 07/03/2022 (212 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing portable or fixed solar array support systems. Embodiments of the invention include an apparatus that holds two multi-cell rooftop-grade solar panels and folds up into a relatively small portable device that easily fits in a garage or shed. When open, the panels are displayed at near the nominal angle to the sun for the region. Adjustable angle supports are available in alternative embodiments.

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

Wireless electrical interface system
Patent No. RE049398 (Reissue)

Inventor(s): Jessie James Shafer (Wichita, KS)
Assignee(s): 1A Smart Start LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16806642 on 03/02/2020 (1065 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention comprises a wireless electrical interface system and method for establishing a non-intrusive interface with the vehicle”s electrical subsystems required for the operation of an aftermarket electrical device, such as an Ignition Interlock Device (IID) or a GPS tracking device with integrated immobilizer technology. Said non-intrusive interface is established through utilizing engineered connectors for electrical connections to the vehicle”s electrical system, and by incorporating wireless interface technology to establish a wireless electrical interface between the vehicle”s electrical subsystems accessible only within the passenger compartment and the vehicle”s electrical subsystems accessible only within the engine/trunk compartment, eliminating the conventional hardwired electrical interface between aftermarket electrical devices and the vehicle”s electrical system. Patent Class: N/A

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

Systems and methods for cleanable and slip resistant tile
Patent No. 11565965

Inventor(s): Aaron C. Dilbeck (Dallas, TX), David A. Earl (Corning, NY), Linda Robledo (Mesquite, TX), Norman Elias (Terrell, TX), Terry Adams (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Daltile Corporation (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17145460 on 01/11/2021 (750 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are floor tiles comprising, for instance, a substrate and a surface coating provided on an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the surface coating comprises (i) a base formula comprising a glaze and (ii) solid particles comprising tabular alumina.

[C04B] LIME; MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS (devitrified glass-ceramics C03C 10/00); REFRACTORIES (alloys based on refractory metals C22C); TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE [4]

Graphene-containing roofing materials and related methods
Patent No. 11565970

Inventor(s): Ming-Liang Shiao (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17856386 on 07/01/2022 (214 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a roofing material, wherein the roofing material may comprise a plurality of coated roofing granules, wherein each of the plurality of the coated roofing granules may comprise a roofing granule having an outer surface; and a granule coating, wherein the granule coating is disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of the roofing granule, and wherein the granule coating comprises graphene. Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a roofing material, wherein the roofing material may further comprise a reflective base coating, wherein the reflective base coating is positioned between the outer surface of the roofing granule and the granule coating.

Method for making 1,1,3,3-tetrachloropropene
Patent No. 11565988

Inventor(s): Darrell G. Hollis (Conway Springs, KS), Derrek Rae Burrows (Wichita, KY), John L. Dawkins (Derby, KS), Keith S. Kramer (Andover, KS), Rodney L. Klausmeyer (Wichita, KS)
Assignee(s): Occidental Chemical Corporation (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Renner, Kenner (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17458877 on 08/27/2021 (522 days app to issue)

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of 1,1,3,3-tetrachloropropene, the process comprising dehydrochlorinating 1,1,1,3,3-pentachloropropane, where said step of dehydrochlorinating 1,1,1,3,3-pentachloropropane takes place in the presence of an oxidizing agent and in the presence of a Lewis acid, and where the oxidizing agent is chlorine and the Lewis acid is ferric chloride.

[C07C] ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (macromolecular compounds C08; production of organic compounds by electrolysis or electrophoresis C25B 3/00, C25B 7/00)

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

Gasket seals for drain closures
Patent No. 11566407

Inventor(s): Casey J. Fregoe (The Colony, TX), Muhammad Towheed Hossain (Dallas, TX), Robert Clifton Jones, Jr. (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): Danco, Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Thomas | Horstemeyer, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16161475 on 10/16/2018 (1568 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment, among others, of the present disclosure is directed to a drain closure assembly. Such an assembly has a head of the drain closure assembly that is fastened to a top end of a stem, wherein the bottom end of the stem is insertable in a drain shoe. The assembly further includes a gasket fastened around an outer cylinder of the stem below the head. Accordingly, the gasket comprises a series of concentric annular platforms such that a force applied to a top surface of the gasket causes an upper concentric annular platform having a smaller outer diameter to be compressed before the lower concentric annular platform having a larger outer diameter is compressed, thereby creating a seal between the head of the drain closure assembly and the drain shoe.

[E03C] DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER (not connected to either water-supply main or to waste pipe A47K; devices of the kind used in the ground E03B, E03F); SINKS

Roofing panels with water shedding features
Patent No. 11566426

Inventor(s): Daniel E. Boss (Morris Township, NJ), David Gennrich (Fitchburg, WI), Eric R. Anderson (Montclair, NJ), Kevin A. Pollack (Dallas, TX), Matthew J. Poster (Madison, WI), Trieu Nguyen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17103998 on 11/25/2020 (797 days app to issue)

Abstract: Roofing panels with water shedding features may be installed on the roof of a house or other structure in lieu of or as an underlayment for traditional roofing materials. The water shedding features can be built into a base of the roofing panels, as part of a frame for the roofing panels, or formed as part of a waterproofing layer applied to the base of the roofing panels, or which can be configured as a roofing panel. The roofing panels also can be installed in overlapping courses along a roof with water shedding features applied thereto or incorporated along one or more peripheral edges. The water shedding features of adjacent roofing panels will collect and divert water away from the upper surfaces and/or away from headlap and/or sidelap joints defined between the roofing panels.

[E04D] ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS (coverings of outer walls by plaster or other porous material E04F 13/00)

Temporary pool cover and floor system
Patent No. 11566437

Inventor(s): Italia Marisol Ovalle (Duncanville, TX), Luis Fernando Ramirez (Duncanville, TX), Sherwood Noel Wagner (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Colhurst Concepts, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Hitchcock Evert LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17584038 on 01/25/2022 (371 days app to issue)

Abstract: The innovation relates to a pool covering system that is usable as a flooring surface. The pool covering system includes brackets and support beams spanning the pool opening. The beams provide structural support to cross members and flooring placed on top of the beams. The pool covering system does not require significant drainage of the pool and does not damage the pool structure during installation and use.

[E04H] BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E02D) [4]

Cable tie restraining apparatus
Patent No. 11566452

Inventor(s): Jared Waddle (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16890218 on 06/02/2020 (973 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cable tie safety mechanism configuration is disclosed having a looped region that allows a space or opening within the cable tie such that it can be cut or sheared from a restrained person without the risk of injury. In particular, a safety mechanism is disclosed for a cable tie having a projection or protruding region, wherein the projection extends upwardly from a base region of a cable tie apparatus. In addition, the projection further extends or slopes in a downward configuration or orientation, wherein the sloped or downward configuration forms a hook-like configuration. Further, the projection forms an open space or gap underneath, thereby allowing a user to safely cut the cable tie near, within, or around the space or gap region of the projection without harm or injury to the restrained individuals arm, wrist, or hands, among other advantages.

[E05B] LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS

Gravel pack service tool used to set a packer
Patent No. 11566490

Inventor(s): Colby Munro Ross (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: McGuireWoods LLP (Local + 9 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 14890735 on 01/22/2014 (3296 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a gravel pack service tool that utilizes an internal closure device to set a packer. One disclosed system includes a completion string including at least one packer, a service tool configured to be arranged within the completion string and having an interior that provides a flow path for fluids and a crossover tool, and a closure device arranged within the flow path and being actuatable between an open position and a closed position in response to a signature pressure pulse detected by the closure device, wherein, when the closure device is in the open position, the fluids are able to bypass the closure device and flow to lower portions of the service tool, and wherein, when the closure device is in the closed position, the fluids are prevented from bypassing the closure device and a pressure within the service tool is increased to set the at least one packer.

[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]

Downhole tool with casing scraper with induced rotation
Patent No. 11566492

Inventor(s): Brittany Morgan Emerson (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17444903 on 08/11/2021 (538 days app to issue)

Abstract: A downhole tool for cleaning debris from an inner surface of a downhole casing that includes an inner mandrel moveable within the casing; and a scraper mandrel movably coupled to the outside of the inner mandrel by the engagement of a lug within a groove, the scraper mandrel including a scraper blade positioned on an outside of the scraper mandrel. Longitudinal movement of the scraper mandrel relative to the inner mandrel causes the lug to move within the groove, causing the scraper mandrel and the scraper blade to rotate relative to the inner mandrel and clean debris from the inner surface of the casing. The longitudinal movement is achieved by restraining movement of the scraper mandrel relative to the inner mandrel by contacting the debris with a scraper blade on the outside of the scraper mandrel, causing the scraper mandrel to move longitudinally relative to the inner mandrel.

Retrievable well assemblies and devices
Patent No. 11566494

Inventor(s): Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX), Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16306721 on 01/26/2018 (1831 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wellbore assembly can include a completion string having a side pocket. A downhole device can be positioned within the side pocket of the completion string. The downhole device can have a first end sized and shaped for coupling to a tool for inserting and removing the downhole device in the side pocket while the completion string is positioned downhole in a wellbore. The downhole device can be an electronic device.

Pressure-actuated safety for well perforating
Patent No. 11566499

Inventor(s): Christopher C. Hoelscher (Arlington, TX), Jason Karl Cook (Crowley, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17346981 on 06/14/2021 (596 days app to issue)

Abstract: A safety mechanism and method for downhole perforating are disclosed. In one example, a mechanical firing head includes a firing pin carried on a pin carrier within a housing. The firing pin is movable from a retracted position to a firing position for striking an explosive initiator. A retention member retains the firing pin in the retracted position with the safety member in the armed position. A safety member is biased to a safety position that additionally blocks movement of the firing pin. The safety member is moveable to an armed position that unblocks movement of the firing pin in response to an arming pressure supplied to the housing bore. The retention member releases the firing pin in response to a firing pressure supplied to the housing in excess of the firing pressure.

Wellbore perforation analysis and design system
Patent No. 11566508

Inventor(s): Brenden Michael Grove (Mansfield, TX), Dennis James Haggerty (Burleson, TX), Jacob Andrew McGregor (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16599023 on 10/10/2019 (1209 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects and features include a system and method for wellbore perforation analysis and design. The system takes into account geomechanical considerations. In some examples the system determines wellbore parameters associated with a wellbore in a formation, calculates a current effective stress value associated with a hole in the formation, and determines a maximum effective stress value and a minimum wellbore pressure value. The system can then produce perforating job parameters to maximize a perforation while maintaining at least the minimum wellbore pressure value. In some examples, the system makes use of a parts database to determine job parameters that can implemented based on available parts.

Bottomhole choke for managed pressure cementing
Patent No. 11566514

Inventor(s): Yan Luo (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17073746 on 10/19/2020 (834 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling bottomhole pressure in a wellbore during cementing includes a sensor positionable to measure pressure in the bottomhole of the wellbore, a controllable valve, and a controller. The controller may be positionable to receive pressure measurements from the sensor and control the controllable valve to maintain a specified pressure in the wellbore based on the pressure measurements. The apparatus may be positionable in a bottomhole portion of the wellbore.

Sensor nipple and port for downhole production tubing
Patent No. 11566520

Inventor(s): Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX), Thomas Jules Frosell (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Polsinelli PC (Local + 15 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16484743 on 02/08/2018 (1818 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tubular string formed by one or more tubulars with a central flow passage for an internal fluid therethrough and an external surface. The tubular having a wall thickness defined between external surface and the central flow passage and at least one sensor port disposed along a longitudinal length of the tubular. At least one sensor includes a main body and=nipple extending from the main body and inserted into the sensor port of the tubular. The nipple extends through the wall thickness sufficient to detect a property of an internal fluid within the central flow passage.

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

Martensitic wear resistant alloy strengthened through aluminum nitrides
Patent No. 11566299

Inventor(s): David M Doll (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): L.E. Jones Company (Menominee, MI)
Law Firm: Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17163914 on 02/01/2021 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: An iron-based alloy includes, in weight percent, carbon from about 0.75 to about 2 percent; manganese from about 0.1 to about 1 percent; silicon from about 0.1 to about 1 percent; chromium from about 3 to about 6 percent; nickel up to about 4 percent; vanadium from about 1 to about 3 percent; molybdenum from about 4 to about 7 percent; tungsten from about 4 to about 7 percent; cobalt from about 4 to about 7 percent; boron up to about 0.1 percent; nitrogen from about 0.001 to about 0.15 percent, aluminum from about 0.001 to about 0.6 percent, copper from about 0.1 to about 1 percent, sulfur up to about 0.3 percent, phosphorus up to about 0.3 percent, up to about 5 percent total of tantalum, titanium, hafnium and zirconium; iron from about 65 to about 80 percent; and incidental impurities.

[F01L] CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES (valves in general F16K)

Acoustically treated panels
Patent No. 11566564

Inventor(s): Duncan R. C. Lee (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Technologies Corporation (Farmington, CT)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer L.L.P. (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17308715 on 05/05/2021 (636 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for dampening noise generated by a gas turbine engine is disclosed. In various embodiments, the system includes a fan exit guide vane having a leading edge, a trailing edge and a pocket that extends in a chordwise direction between the leading edge and the trailing edge; and an acoustic panel configured to be received within the pocket, the acoustic panel including a back sheet, a face sheet and a core disposed between the back sheet and the face sheet, the core having a first cavity extending between a first wall and a second wall and a second cavity disposed within the first cavity.

[F02C] GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS (construction of turbines F01D; jet-propulsion plants F02K; construction of compressors or fans F04; combustion apparatus in which combustion takes place in a fluidised bed of fuel or other particles F23C 10/00; generating combustion products of high pressure or high velocity F23R; using gas turbines in compression refrigeration plants F25B 11/00; using gas-turbine plants in vehicles, see the relevant vehicle classes)

Connector
Patent No. 11566664

Inventor(s): David Aaron Yanoshak (Carrollton, TX), Francisco Musiol Lima (Carrollton, TX), Gregory Elliott Needel (Carrollton, TX), Jonathan James Bryant (Carrollton, TX), Michael Andrew Kaurich (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): REV Robotics LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16779001 on 01/31/2020 (1096 days app to issue)

Abstract: A connector and associated system. In a first aspect, the connector comprises a patterned surface and a primary track. The patterned surface comprises a surface aperture pattern that is configured to receive at least one protruding element, the protruding element being configured to connect the connector to a first modular component. The primary track is connected to the patterned surface. The primary track can slidably engage a protruding element of a second modular component, thereby connecting the first modular component and the second modular component. In a second aspect, a system can comprise the connector, the first modular component and the second modular component.

[F16C] SHAFTS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; MECHANICAL MEANS FOR TRANSMITTING MOVEMENT IN A FLEXIBLE SHEATHING; ELEMENTS OF CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; PIVOTS; PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS; ROTARY ENGINEERING ELEMENTS OTHER THAN GEARING, COUPLING, CLUTCH OR BRAKE ELEMENTS; BEARINGS [5]

Propped cantilever carrier
Patent No. 11566701

Inventor(s): Gregory A. Spruce (Grand Prairie, TX), Trenton A. Hamm (Cleburne, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Frost Brown Todd LLP (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17575756 on 01/14/2022 (382 days app to issue)

Abstract: A propped cantilever carrier is described that can be used in planetary gear systems. The carrier can comprise cantilevered arms extending outward from a central hub. At the end of each cantilever a post can extend downward that is configured to receive bearings and gears. A plate can comprise a hole for each post in the carrier. When the plate is coupled to the carrier it can hold the bearings and gears in place and provide added strength to the carrier. The strength benefits are large compared to the light weight of the carrier (with plate) apparatus.

[F16H] GEARING

Fluid flow control devices and related systems and methods
Patent No. 11566714

Inventor(s): Bradford B. Haines (Springville, UT), Bruce J. Butler (Payson, UT), Paul J. Parish (Springville, UT)
Assignee(s): Flowserve Management Company (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: PCFB LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17140011 on 01/01/2021 (760 days app to issue)

Abstract: Fluid flow control devices and related systems and methods may include a body or housing and a plug at least partially positioned in the body or housing to define a flow path. In a position of the plug, the plug and the body or housing may collectively define a fluid flow path.

[F16K] VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING

Lubrication system for a frac pump
Patent No. 11566748

Inventor(s): Jacob Bayyouk (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): SPM Oil Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16638717 on 08/31/2018 (1614 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lubrication system for a frac pump includes a lubrication system housing, a lubricant tank held by the lubrication system housing, a heating device held by the lubrication system housing, a cooling device held by the lubrication system housing, and a filtration device held by the lubrication system housing. The lubrication system housing is configured to be at least one of mounted to a frac pump housing of the frac pump or held within the frac pump housing.

[F16N] LUBRICATING

Glass penetrating projectile
Patent No. 11566877

Inventor(s): Harold F. Beal (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): True Velocity IP Holdings, LLC (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Burdick Patents, P.A. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17467515 on 09/07/2021 (511 days app to issue)

Abstract: A projectile for use in a firearm ammunition cartridge, and a method of forming the projectile, the projectile including a core, and a jacket in which the core is disposed, the jacket having a closed rearward end and an open forward end, the forward end tapering inwardly toward a longitudinal centerline of the jacket to define an ogive portion of the projectile, wherein the forward end of the jacket terminates in a plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline of the jacket, and wherein an outer perimeter of the forward end of the jacket has a machined sharp edge.

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

P H Y S I C S

Integrated smart actuator and valve device applications
Patent No. 11566805

Inventor(s): Rick A. Van Buren (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP (Milwaukee, WI)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15901852 on 02/21/2018 (1805 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated device in an HVAC system is configured to modify an environmental condition of a building. The integrated device includes a valve configured to regulate a flow of a fluid through a conduit and an actuator. The actuator includes a motor and a drive device. The drive device is driven by the motor and coupled to the valve for driving the valve between multiple positions. The integrated device further includes a processing circuit coupled to the motor. The processing circuit is configured to detect device identifying information for the valve or the actuator and to detect the integrated device location within the building.

[G05B] CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (fluid-pressure actuators or systems acting by means of fluids in general F15B; valves per se F16K; characterised by mechanical features only G05G; sensitive elements, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. G12B, subclasses of G01, H01; correcting units, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. H02K)

System and method for correcting meter sizing
Patent No. 11566930

Inventor(s): Jerry Potter (Mansfield, TX), Scott H. Seehoffer (Uniontown, PA)
Assignee(s): Master Meter, Inc. (Mansfield, TX)
Law Firm: The Webb Law Firm (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16884445 on 05/27/2020 (979 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for identifying an incorrectly sized utility meter having a measuring system for fluid passing through the utility meter, including monitoring a plurality of utility meters, each utility meter being installed at a utility location, receiving utility meter data, transmitted by at least one utility meter of the plurality of utility meters to a central computer including at least one processor, wherein the utility meter data comprises a measurement of a volumetric amount of fluid passing through the utility meter or other utility meter data for deriving the volumetric amount of fluid passing through the utility meter, identifying the incorrectly sized utility meter by detecting whether a flow rate associated with the volumetric amount of fluid passed through the utility meter is outside of a flow rate range; and providing an interactive interface to report/receive a status associated with the incorrectly sized utility meter.

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

Methods of making a tubular specimen with a predetermined wrinkle defect
Patent No. 11566984

Inventor(s): Michael Burnett (Fort Worth, TX), Michael Dearman (Weatherford, TX), Wei-Yueh Lee (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations, Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Timmer Law Group, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16923413 on 07/08/2020 (937 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of offset load testing a tubular composite specimen with two pairs of aligned holes and having at least one defect, the method comprising: providing a testing apparatus having a pair of arms including a fixed arm and a mobile arm; securing the pair of arms using a fastener assembly in each of the two pairs of aligned holes; and moving the mobile arm to impart an offset load force to the tubular specimen. One aspect includes a method of offset load testing comprising: providing a testing apparatus having a pair of arms including a fixed arm and a mobile arm; providing a tubular composite specimen with a top portion and a bottom portion; securing the pair of arms to the top and bottom portions of the tubular composite specimen; and moving the mobile arm to impart an offset load force to the tubular composite specimen.

[G01N] INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q)

PH sensor
Patent No. 11567026

Inventor(s): Ernst Georg Muellner (Munich, , DE), Markus Hefele (Munich, , DE), Scott Robert Summerfelt (Garland, TX), Sebastian Meier (Munich, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17105142 on 11/25/2020 (797 days app to issue)

Abstract: For sensing pH of a fluid, a heating apparatus of a semiconductor die controls a temperature of the fluid to a first temperature. A first voltage of a gate of a floating gate transistor of the semiconductor die is measured while the temperature of the fluid is at the first temperature. Also, the heating apparatus controls the temperature of the fluid to a second temperature that is different than the first temperature. A second voltage of the gate is measured while the temperature of the fluid is at the second temperature. The pH of the fluid is determined based on the first and second voltages, the first temperature and the second temperature.

System and method for collection and dissemination of biologic sample test results data
Patent No. 11567070

Inventor(s): Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): RELIANT IMMUNE DIAGNOSTICS, INC. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15786139 on 10/17/2017 (1932 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for collection and dissemination of biologic data, comprising collecting at least one biologic sample by a testing device including thereon an alignment target and including a plurality of immunoassay test strips, wherein the at least one biologic sample contacts a sample pad on at least one of the plurality of immunoassay test strips, assigning correlative values as test results, wherein each test performed on the biologic sample is assigned a different correlative value, receiving the test results at a server disposed on a network, wherein the server has configured thereon a database, assigning a unique identification to the biologic sample, storing the unique identification in the database, storing the test results in the database in association with the unique identification of the biologic sample, and providing access to the database to healthcare organizations for analysis of the test results.

Differential hall sensor
Patent No. 11567107

Inventor(s): Arup Polley (Richardson, TX), Baher S. Haroun (Allen, TX), Srinath M. Ramaswamy (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17138977 on 12/31/2020 (761 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system comprises first and second Hall-effect sensors and an amplifier. The first Hall-effect sensor has a first bias current direction parallel to a first direction, a pair of first bias input terminals spaced along the first direction, and a pair of first sense output terminals spaced along an orthogonal second direction. The second Hall-effect sensor has a second bias current direction parallel to the second direction, a pair of second bias input terminals spaced along the second direction, and a pair of second sense output terminals connected out of phase with the first sense terminals. The amplifier has a pair of amplifier input terminals coupled to the first and second sense terminals.

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

Integrated circuit with embedded testing circuitry
Patent No. 11567121

Inventor(s): Adrian Poh Siang Chan (Plano, TX), George Earl Fleming (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16836820 on 03/31/2020 (1036 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit, comprising a plurality of pins, including a signal output pin. The integrated circuit also comprises a plurality of signal nodes. Each node in the plurality of signal nodes is operable to store a respective internal data signal. The integrated circuit also comprises a plurality of testing circuits. Each testing circuit in the plurality of testing circuits configured to sample a respective internal data state and in response to concurrently couple a unique output signal to a same pin in the plurality of pins, other than the signal output pin.

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

Synchronizing a device that has been power cycled to an already operational system
Patent No. 11567129

Inventor(s): Gary L. Swoboda (Sugar Land, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17173952 on 02/11/2021 (719 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method comprises a system comprising a host device coupled to a first remote device actively operating according to a state diagram that the host device and all remote devices follow during operation of the system. The method further comprises powering up a second remote device while the host device and first remote device are actively operating according to the state diagram. The second remote device waits for a synchronization point sequence. Upon detecting the synchronization point sequence, the second remote device implements a predetermined feature set and synchronizes itself to the state diagram at a common point as the host device and first remote device.

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

Programmable test compression architecture input/output shift register coupled to SCI/SCO/PCO
Patent No. 11567131

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17528372 on 11/17/2021 (440 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure describes novel methods and apparatuses for accessing test compression architectures (TCA) in a device using either a parallel or serial access technique. The serial access technique may be controlled by a device tester or by a JTAG controller. Further the disclosure provides an approach to access the TCA of a device when the device exists in a daisy-chain arrangement with other devices, such as in a customer”s system. Additional embodiments are also provided and described in the disclosure.

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

System and method for correcting for atmospheric jitter and high energy laser broadband interference using fast steering mirrors
Patent No. 11567341

Inventor(s): Aaron Stonely (McKinney, TX), Daniel Young (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16559136 on 09/03/2019 (1246 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a high energy laser (HEL) configured to transmit a HEL beam aimed at a first location on an airborne target. The system also includes a beacon illuminator laser (BIL) configured to transmit a BIL beam aimed at a second location on the target, wherein the second location is offset from the first location. The system also includes at least one fast steering mirror (FSM) configured to steer the BIL beam to be spatially and angularly offset from the HEL beam. The system also includes at least one Coud path FSM configured to simultaneously receive both the HEL beam and the BIL beam and steer the HEL beam and the BIL beam to correct for atmospheric jitter of the HEL beam and the BIL beam while maintaining the offset of the BIL beam from the HEL beam.

[G02B] OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS (G02F takes precedence; optical elements specially adapted for use in lighting devices or systems thereof F21V 1/00-F21V 13/00; measuring-instruments, see the relevant subclass of class G01, e.g. optical rangefinders G01C; testing of optical elements, systems, or apparatus G01M 11/00; spectacles G02C; apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them G03B; sound lenses G10K 11/30; electron and ion “optics” H01J; X-ray “optics” H01J, H05G 1/00; optical elements structurally combined with electric discharge tubes H01J 5/16, H01J 29/89, H01J 37/22; microwave “optics” H01Q; combination of optical elements with television receivers H04N 5/72; optical systems or arrangements in colour television systems H04N 9/00; heating arrangements specially adapted for transparent or reflecting areas H05B 3/84) [7]

Method and apparatus for portable lighting
Patent No. 11567394

Inventor(s): Paul Ernest (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17647329 on 01/06/2022 (390 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide adjustable lighting devices for use in photography lighting systems. In one embodiment, an adjustable lighting device comprises at least two panel sections and a light element. The at least two panel sections are each configured to act as a light reflector or flag, and are rotatably coupled to each other such that each panel section is freely rotatable relative to its one or more adjacent panel sections. The light element is coupled to one side of a first panel section of the panel sections, and configured to direct light substantially in a direction away from the one side of the first panel section.

[G03B] APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR (optical parts of such apparatus G02B; photosensitive materials or processes for photographic purposes G03C; apparatus for processing exposed photographic materials G03D) [4]

Methods and systems for selecting machine learning models to predict distributed computing resources
Patent No. 11567495

Inventor(s): BaekGyu Kim (Mountain View, CA), Dawei Chen (Mountain View, CA), Yin-Chen Liu (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16710590 on 12/11/2019 (1147 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a vehicle to perform a computing task, selecting a machine learning model from among a plurality of machine learning models based at least in part on the request, and predicting an amount of computing resources needed to perform the computing task using the selected machine learning model.

[G05D] SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES (for continuous casting of metals B22D 11/16; valves per se F16K; sensing non-electric variables, see the relevant subclasses of G01; for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F)

Exponential-based slope compensation
Patent No. 11567520

Inventor(s): Jian Liang (Shanghai, , CN), Weicheng Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17231176 on 04/15/2021 (656 days app to issue)

Abstract: A voltage converter includes an inductor, a transistor, a comparator, an error amplifier, and a slope generator circuit. The transistor has a control input and first and second transistor current terminals. The first current terminal is coupled to the inductor. The comparator has first and second comparator inputs and a comparator output. The comparator output is usable to control the transistor”s control input. The error amplifier has an error amplifier input and an error amplifier output. The error amplifier output is coupled to the first comparator input. The slope generator circuit is coupled to at least one of the first or second comparator inputs. The slope generator circuit is configured to generate a slope compensation current which, during at least a portion of each cycle of operation of the voltage regulator, varies approximately exponentially with respect to time.

[G05F] SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING ELECTRIC OR MAGNETIC VARIABLES (regulating the timing or recurrence frequency of pulses in radar or radio navigation systems G01S; regulation of current or voltage, specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces G04G 19/02; closed-loop systems for regulating non-electric variables by electric means G05D; regulating power supply of digital computers G06F 1/26; for obtaining desired operating characteristics of electromagnets with armatures H01F 7/18; regulating electric power distribution networks H02J; regulating the charging of batteries H02J 7/00; regulating of the output of static converters, e.g. switching regulators, H02M; regulation of the output of electric generators H02N, H02P 9/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils H02P 13/00; regulating frequency response, gain, maximum output, amplitude or bandwidth of amplifiers H03G; regulating tuning of resonant circuits H03J; controlling generators of electronic oscillations or pulses H03L; regulating characteristics of transmission lines H04B; controlling electric light sources H05B 37/02, H05B 39/04, H05B 41/36; electric control of X-ray apparatus H05G 1/30) [5]

Preemptive wakeup circuit for wakeup from low power modes
Patent No. 11567527

Inventor(s): Anand Kumar G (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16519655 on 07/23/2019 (1288 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit comprises a power controller, a real-time clock (RTC) sub-system, and a processing sub-system. The RTC sub-system includes an alarm register storing a predetermined time for a task, and provides an early warning countdown and a scheduled event signal. The processing sub-system includes a processor, a preemptive wakeup circuit, and a component coupled to the processor and configured to execute the task with the processor. The preemptive wakeup circuit comprises a selector logic circuit, a comparator, and a wakeup initiation circuit. The selector logic circuit receives latency values indicative of wakeup times for a clock generator and the component, and outputs a longest wakeup time to the comparator, which indicates when the early warning countdown and the longest wakeup time are equal. The wakeup initiation circuit generates a clock request and disables the sleep mode indicator. The power controller provides a clock signal and wakes the component.

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

Relative position based eye-tracking system
Patent No. 11567570

Inventor(s): D. Scott Dewald (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Avegant Corp. (San Mateo, CA)
Law Firm: Nicholson De Vos Webster Elliott LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17806945 on 06/15/2022 (230 days app to issue)

Abstract: A relative position based eye tracking system includes a light source to illuminate a portion of the eye and an optical sensor to capture a sequence of samples of the portion of the eye. The system further includes a sample comparator to compare two samples and a relative position calculator to calculate a change in the position of the eye based on data from the sample comparator.

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

Adaptive thresholding and noise reduction for radar data
Patent No. 11567580

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Khuong N. Nguyen (Frisco, TX), Vutha Va (Plano, TX), Wenxun Qiu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17158794 on 01/26/2021 (735 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device for gesture recognition, includes a processor operably connected to a transceiver. The transceiver is configured to transmit and receive signals for measuring range and speed. The processor is configured to transmit the signals, via the transceiver. in response to a determination that a triggering event occurred, the processor is configured to track movement of an object relative to the electronic device within a region of interest based on reflections of the signals received by the transceiver to identify range measurements and speed measurements associated with the object. The processor is also configured to identify features from the reflected signals, based on at least one of the range measurements and the speed measurements. The processor is further configured to identify a gesture based in part on the features from the reflected signals. Additionally, the processor is configured to perform an action indicated by the gesture.

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

Memory sub-system for supporting deterministic and non-deterministic commands based on command expiration and the state of the intermediate command queue
Patent No. 11567700

Inventor(s): Patrick A. La Fratta (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17223684 on 04/06/2021 (665 days app to issue)

Abstract: Commands in a command queue are received and scheduled. For each of the commands, scheduling includes determining an age of a command based on an entrance time of the command in the command queue. When the age of the command satisfies a first threshold, marking all other commands in the command queue as not issuable when the command is a deterministic command, and marking all other commands in the command queue as not issuable when the command is a non-deterministic command and the intermediate command queue is not empty. Scheduling the command further includes determining whether the command is a read command and marking the command as not issuable when the command is a non-deterministic read command and the intermediate command queue is empty.

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

Control registers to store thread identifiers for threaded loop execution in a self-scheduling reconfigurable computing fabric
Patent No. 11567766

Inventor(s): Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Gamburd Law Group LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17227333 on 04/11/2021 (660 days app to issue)

Abstract: Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. A representative system includes an interconnection network; a processor; and a plurality of configurable circuit clusters. Each configurable circuit cluster includes a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array; a synchronous network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array; and an asynchronous packet network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array. A representative configurable circuit includes a configurable computation circuit and a configuration memory having a first, instruction memory storing a plurality of data path configuration instructions to configure a data path of the configurable computation circuit; and a second, instruction and instruction index memory storing a plurality of spoke instructions and data path configuration instruction indices for selection of a master synchronous input, a current data path configuration instruction, and a next data path configuration instruction for a next configurable computation circuit.

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

ECC protected storage
Patent No. 11567829

Inventor(s): Samuel Paul Visalli (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17080143 on 10/26/2020 (827 days app to issue)

Abstract: A data storage circuit includes memory, an error correcting code (ECC) storage circuit, and control circuitry. The memory is configured to store a data value comprising a plurality of fields. Each of the fields is independently writable. The ECC storage circuit is configured to store an ECC value corresponding to the data value. The control circuitry is configured to receive a field value to be written into one of the fields, and store the field value in the one of the fields by writing only the field value to the memory. The control circuitry is also configured to retrieve the ECC value from the ECC storage circuit, compute an updated ECC value based on the ECC value retrieved from the ECC storage circuit and the field value, and store the updated ECC value in the ECC storage circuit.

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

Journaling data received in a cloud-based distributed computing environment
Patent No. 11567837

Inventor(s): Jian Xing (Pleasanton, CA), Pu Paul Zhang (San Jose, CA), Qian Zhang (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): Panzura, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16510916 on 07/13/2019 (1298 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for journaling data received in a cloud-based distributed computing environment (CBDCE). Multiple services simultaneously execute on the CBDCE compute nodes, with each service comprising multiple service instances that simultaneously execute on multiple, distinct compute nodes of the CBDCE. The CBDCE includes a distributed database that enables coordination between the service instances of services that execute in the CBDCE; this distributed database also includes multiple distributed database instances that simultaneously executing on multiple different CBDCE compute nodes. During operation, a service instance executing on one of these compute nodes receives a client request. The service instance submits this client request to a distributed database instance and, in parallel, also submits the client request and its associated user data to a distributed journaling service.

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

Prefetch management in a hierarchical cache system
Patent No. 11567874

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), Bipin Prasad Heremagalur Ramaprasad (Austin, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX), Hung Ong (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17520805 on 11/08/2021 (449 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a CPU core, a first memory cache with a first line size, and a second memory cache having a second line size larger than the first line size. Each line of the second memory cache includes an upper half and a lower half. A memory controller subsystem is coupled to the CPU core and to the first and second memory caches. Upon a miss in the first memory cache for a first target address, the memory controller subsystem determines that the first target address resulting in the miss maps to the lower half of a line in the second memory cache, retrieves the entire line from the second memory cache, and returns the entire line from the second memory cache to the first memory cache.

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

Rack controller with native support for intelligent patching equipment installed in multiple racks
Patent No. 11567891

Inventor(s): Dallas Bartlett (Plano, TX), Lary Blake Van Scoy (Allen, TX), Matthew R. Kiener (Richardson, TX), Ryan E. Enge (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Fogg Powers LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16619076 on 06/05/2018 (1701 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a multi-rack rack controller for an automated infrastructure management (AIM) system comprising a plurality of independent patching equipment bus interfaces. Another embodiment is directed to a rack controller comprising at least one rack controller interface configured to connect the rack controller to another rack controller. Each rack controller interface comprises a respective termination circuit. The rack controller is configured to determine whether each rack controller interface is connected to another rack controller as a function of a respective sense signal developed by the termination circuit associated with said rack controller interface. Another embodiment is directed to a rack controller comprising a base unit having a locate button disposed on the front of the base unit. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Virtual storage interface
Patent No. 11567908

Inventor(s): Lior Sharon (Frisco, TX), Shailesh Mishra (Frisco, TX), Steven Wheelis (Plano, TX), Van Cline (Aubrey, TX), Vera Kan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15925280 on 03/19/2018 (1779 days app to issue)

Abstract: Generating a storage interface includes receiving a request for documents, detecting an accounting workflow type corresponding to request, and identifying a document organizational structure matching the accounting workflow type. Further, a virtual storage interface is built using an index on the documents and according to the document organizational structure, and presented.

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

Method for refining cognitive insights using travel related cognitive graph vectors
Patent No. 11567977

Inventor(s): John N. Faith (Austin, TX), Kyle W. Kothe (Austin, TX), Scott E. Goldberg (Venice, CA)
Assignee(s): RealPage, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17071809 on 10/15/2020 (838 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for using travel-related cognitive graph vectors.

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

System and method for improved searching across multiple databases
Patent No. 11568011

Inventor(s): Amber Venz Box (Dallas, TX), Baxter Box (Dallas, TX), Jason Ellis Pearlman (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): rewardStyle, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16670502 on 10/31/2019 (1188 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for database access comprising a plurality of databases, each database having a plurality of defined data fields and a mapping system coupled to the plurality of databases, the mapping system configured to create an algorithmic relationship between a plurality of first fields of a plurality of first databases, and a corresponding field of a plurality of second fields of a plurality of second databases.

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

Methods and apparatus to defend against adversarial machine learning
Patent No. 11568049

Inventor(s): Celeste R. Fralick (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): McAfee, LLC (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Hanley, Flight Zimmerman, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16586476 on 09/27/2019 (1222 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to defend against adversarial machine learning are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a model trainer to train a classification model based on files with expected classifications; and a model modifier to select a convolution layer of the trained classification model based on an analysis of the convolution layers of the trained classification model; and replace the convolution layer with a tree-based structure to generate a modified classification model.

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

Systems and methods for optimizing battery designs in multiple dimensions
Patent No. 11568102

Inventor(s): Kaito Miyamoto (East Amherst, NY)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16698286 on 11/27/2019 (1161 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining an improved electrode design of a battery. In one embodiment, a method includes computing one or more equivalent circuits as porous electrode transmission line models corresponding to one or more electrode designs. Individual circuits of the equivalent circuits define an arrangement of electrode elements having at least two geometric degrees of freedom. The electrode designs are defined according to battery specifications indicating at least a battery volume, and a separator thickness. The method includes determining attributes for the equivalent circuits according to the at least the two geometric degrees of freedom in which the equivalent circuits are defined. The method includes identifying a target design of the electrode designs associated with one of or more of the attributes satisfying a circuit threshold. The target design improves one or more of the attributes in relation to the battery.

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

Accelerating sparse matrix multiplication in storage class memory-based convolutional neural network inference
Patent No. 11568200

Inventor(s): Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, CA), Tung Thanh Hoang (San Jose, CA), Won Ho Choi (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16653346 on 10/15/2019 (1204 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are presented for accelerating in-memory matrix multiplication operations for a convolution neural network (CNN) inference in which the weights of a filter are stored in the memory of a storage class memory device, such as a ReRAM or phase change memory based device. To improve performance for inference operations when filters exhibit sparsity, a zero column index and a zero row index are introduced to account for columns and rows having all zero weight values. These indices can be saved in a register on the memory device and when performing a column/row oriented matrix multiplication, if the zero row/column index indicates that the column/row contains all zero weights, the access of the corresponding bit/word line is skipped as the result will be zero regardless of the input.

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

Using deep learning models to obfuscate and optimize communications
Patent No. 11568209

Inventor(s): Daniel Solero (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Hartman Citrin LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16792998 on 02/18/2020 (1078 days app to issue)

Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for using deep learning models to obfuscate and optimize communications. A request can be received in a first language, from a user device, and at a first computing device storing a first neural network. The request can be translated using the first neural network into a modified request in a custom language. The modified request can be sent to a second computing device hosting an application. The first computing device can receive a modified response that is in the custom language, where the modified response can be created at the second computing device using the second neural network and based on a response from the application. The modified response can be translated into a response in the first language and sent to the user device.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Recurrent neural network inference engine with gated recurrent unit cell and non-volatile memory arrays
Patent No. 11568228

Inventor(s): Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, CA), Tung Thanh Hoang (San Jose, CA), Wen Ma (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16908861 on 06/23/2020 (952 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-volatile memory device includes arrays of non-volatile memory cells that are configured to the store weights for a recurrent neural network (RNN) inference engine with a gated recurrent unit (GRU) cell. A set three non-volatile memory arrays, such as formed of storage class memory, store a corresponding three sets of weights and are used to perform compute-in-memory inferencing. The hidden state of a previous iteration and an external input are applied to the weights of the first and the of second of the arrays, with the output of the first array used to generate an input to the third array, which also receives the external input. The hidden state of the current generation is generated from the outputs of the second and third arrays.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

System and method for determining a structured representation of a form document utilizing multiple machine learning models
Patent No. 11568284

Inventor(s): Andrew Van Cao (Plano, TX), Karpaga Ganesh Patchirajan (Plano, TX), Stephanie Broyles (Plano, TX), Stephen A. Eubanks (Plano, TX), William R. Georgen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Law Firm: DLA Piper LLP (US) (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16914218 on 06/26/2020 (949 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods may be used to generate and use a structured form representation and structured metadata. The structured form representation and structured metadata may include information relevant to a particular context and may be used to update document templates, import new documents and update document versions into software, automate data entry for document completion, update records to include new and or updated information, and provide other functionality of an information service.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Absolute and relative importance trend detection
Patent No. 11568292

Inventor(s): Drew Franklin Waller (Fort Worth, TX), Matthew Curtis Ledbetter (North Richland Hills, TX), Silvio Mario Lopez (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Shackel, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16912626 on 06/25/2020 (950 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes acquiring a current condition indicator of a condition indicator set associated with an operating condition of a machine, the condition indicator set indicating sensor readings associated with an operating element of the machine under the operating condition. The method also includes determining, by a data server, a relative trend significance over a trend window of the condition indicator set based, at least in part, on an evaluation of the trend window in relation to a historical window of the condition indicator set. The method also includes determining, by the data server, whether trend criteria associated with the operating element is satisfied, where the trend criteria may include criteria related to the relative trend significance. The method also includes executing, by the data server, an alerting process in response to the determining that the trend criteria is satisfied.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Data analytics model selection through champion challenger mechanism
Patent No. 11568343

Inventor(s): Prabir Majumder (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Larson Newman, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16791485 on 02/14/2020 (1082 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for forecasting includes obtaining input data from a data store, using a processor to forecast future data with a currently selected model, detecting a trigger event using a processor, training alternative models in a model family or from multiple families on the input data based on detecting in response to detecting the trigger event, identifying a replacement model from the alternative models using a processor, and using a processor to forecast future data with the replacement model.

[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]

Retail user interface for dynamic behavior configuration
Patent No. 11568350

Inventor(s): Andrei Khaitas (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Tokyo, , JP)
Law Firm: Coats Bennett, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17038764 on 09/30/2020 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method of generating business rules for a retail system. Particularly, a computing device receives rule data from a user interface. The rule data comprises retail context information associated with a retail business operating the retail system. A business rule template is then generated based on the retail context information included in the rule data, and validated based on the retail context information and on sample business data. Validation may occur by conditionally performing one or more Point of Sale (POS) functions on the sample business data according to the retail context information. If valid, the business rule template is activated for use in the retail system.

Computing system implementing morbidity prediction using a correlative health assertion library
Patent No. 11568364

Inventor(s): Ardaman Singh (Union City, CA), Cathy Ye Fan (San Francisco, CA), Munjal Shah (Los Altos, CA), Ryan Hinchey (Mountain View, CA), Shuo Jiao (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): Hi.Q, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Mahamedi IP Law LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17136380 on 12/29/2020 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing system can execute a correlation model for a library of health assertions to configure a correlation value for each health assertion. The correlation value comprises a correlation between knowledge associated with the health assertion and known health outcomes of individuals in a control group who have also provided responses to the health assertions. The computing system provides a health trivia session for users and based at least in part on the performance of the user, generates a morbidity risk profile that is used to classify the user in an underwriting class.

Decentralized systems and methods for transferring information between subsystems of communication networks
Patent No. 11568375

Inventor(s): Brinkley Brown Eiting (Dallas, TX), Chelsea Adina Lish (Dallas, TX), Eric M. Garza (Dallas, TX), Joel David Kosloski (Grand Prairie, TX), Khaled Adel Sioufi (McKinney, TX), Sarah Elizabeth Bradbury (Dallas, TX), Thadd Rae
Assignee(s): MoneyGram International, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Law Office of Bill R. Naifeh (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17197983 on 03/10/2021 (692 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize one or more social networking systems when creating, funding, and/or notifying a party of a transaction are provided. In accordance with one aspect, a money transfer transaction may be staged by a user whereupon a link corresponding to the staged transaction may be posted to one or more social networking services in order to allow for multiple users to access and fund the staged transaction. Additionally, in some aspects a user of a social networking service may generate a comment or post which then automatically triggers the staging of a money transfer transaction. Moreover, social networking services may be utilized to provide various notifications regarding money transfer transactions.

System and method for providing an automated trading platform for cross-border settlements
Patent No. 11568489

Inventor(s): Bart S. van Hoek (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MoneyGram International, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Law Office of Bill R. Naifeh (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17476130 on 09/15/2021 (503 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein for automated cross-border settlement transactions, the system comprising: a trading platform network coupled to a plurality of settlement solution networks; and an autonomous bot configured to execute a plurality of instructions for: executing a scheduler to convert a plurality of user requirements and system requirements into a target schedule; executing a plurality of settlement transactions via the settlement solutions using the trading platform; determining a differential between the executed settlement transactions and the target schedule; and modifying the execution of future settlement transactions if the differential is greater than a predefined threshold.

Computer systems and software for self-executing code and distributed database
Patent No. 11568495

Inventor(s): Joshua Paul Davis (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16997882 on 08/19/2020 (895 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes creating a premiums escrow, with a zero balance, for a group of policyholders and managed using a distributed ledger and self-executing agreement. At a term beginning, the self-executing agreement receives premium payments using cryptocurrency from each policyholder and allocates the premium payments to the premiums escrow. During the term the self-executing agreement receives a notification of an incident claim associated with a claimant policyholder. At a term end, the self-executing agreement receives payment instructions from the policyholders; pays, using cryptocurrency from the premiums escrow, the claimant an incident claim payment larger than the premium payment and determined according to the payment instructions; and distributes to the policyholders a rebate payment equal to or lower than the premium payment from the premiums escrow, which returns to a zero balance. The self-executing agreement stores a record of the incident claim in a tamper-proof, publicly-available, non-repudiable distributed ledger.

System and method for a computing environment for verifiable execution of data-driven contracts
Patent No. 11568505

Inventor(s): Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): DOCUSIGN, INC. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Fenwick West LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16164501 on 10/18/2018 (1566 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for establishing a verified computing environment for executing data-driven contracts, comprising a cryptographic directed acyclic graph object model of a data-driven contract, wherein at least a subset of the objects in the MDAG correspond to clause state of at least one programmable clause of the data-driven contract; at a computing environment, administrating the data-driven contract in accordance with the MDAG which can include at least one execution instance comprised of: receiving a contract input to contract logic of the data-driven contract, processing the input according to the clause logic, in response to the contract input, generating at least one updated state object and generating at least one output object, and for each generated object, hash-linking the generated object to an object associated with the creation of the generated object.

System of and method for facilitating on-device training and creating, updating, and disseminating micro-learning simulations
Patent No. 11568506

Inventor(s): Benjamin Bishop (McKinney, TX), Justin Lake (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): SKYLLFUL INC. (Denver, CO)
Law Firm: Kutak Rock LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17376015 on 07/14/2021 (566 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system of and method for facilitating on-device training and creating, updating, and disseminating micro-leaning simulations is provided. The system utilizes a trio of core tools, which are Simulator tool, a Creation tool, and a management and monitoring tool. These tools are utilized to develop tracks, modules, and lessons for users to complete and demonstrate proficiency. The system provides for recreation of native mobile applications from screenshots and utilizing these recreations for the development of sandboxed lessons without need to access the native application during training. The system also includes utilizing mobile device features and peripherals to create a realistic training simulation.

[G09B] EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS

System and method for sensing and computing of perceptual data in industrial environments
Patent No. 11568511

Inventor(s): Christopher D. McMurrough (Arlington, TX), James Francis Staud (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Cloud 9 Perception, Inc. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17159605 on 01/27/2021 (734 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sensing and computing system and method for capturing images and data regarding an object and calculating one or more parameters regarding the object using an internal, integrated CPU/GPU. The system comprises an imaging system, including a depth imaging system, color camera, and light source, that capture images of the object and sends data or signals relating to the images to the CPU/GPU, which performs calculations based on those signals/data according to pre-programmed algorithms to determine the parameters. The CPU/GPU and imaging system are contained within a protective housing. The CPU/GPU transmits information regarding the parameters, rather than raw data/signals, to one or more external devices to perform tasks in an industrial environment related to the object imaged.

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

System and method to analyse an animal”s image for market value determination
Patent No. 11568530

Inventor(s): Ricardo Alexandre Esteves Mendonca (San Jose, CA), Timothy L. Robertson (Belmont, CA), Yashar Behzadi (Orinda, CA)
Assignee(s): PRECISION LIVESTOCK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Dana Legal Services (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16393807 on 04/24/2019 (1378 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for training a system or a model to allow estimation of the value of livestock that is farmed for monetary gain. The various aspects of the invention include generation of data that is used to supplement or augment capture or real data, wherein the subject of the data is an animal. Labels or attributes are generated and validated.

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

Contour-based detection of closely spaced objects
Patent No. 11568554

Inventor(s): Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, TX), Sarath Vakacharla (Irving, TX), Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, TX), Trong Nghia Nguyen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts, LLP (Local + 6 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16664160 on 10/25/2019 (1194 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a sensor and a client. The client receives a set of frames of top-view depth images generated by the sensor. The client identifies a frame of the received frames in which a first contour associated with a first object is merged with a second contour associated with a second object. The client determines, at a first depth in the identified frame, a merged-contour region which is associated with the merged contours. The client detects a third contour at a second depth that is less than the first depth and determines a first region associated with the third contour. The client detects a fourth contour at the second depth and determines a second region associated with the fourth contour. If criteria are satisfied, the client associates the first region with a position of the first object and associates the second region with a position of the second object.

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

Aligning vision-assist device cameras based on physical characteristics of a user
Patent No. 11568566

Inventor(s): Allison V. L. Thackston (San Jose, CA), Rajiv Dayal (Milpitas, CA), Tiffany Chen (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA. INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15205946 on 07/08/2016 (2398 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vision-assist device may include at least one image sensor for generating image data corresponding to an environment, a user input device for receiving user input regarding one or more physical characteristics of a user, and a processor. The processor may be programmed to receive the image data from the at least one image sensor, receive the user input from the user input device, and adjust an alignment of the at least one image sensor based on the received image data and the user input. Methods for aligning an image sensor are also provided.

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

Image targeting via targetable 3D data
Patent No. 11568638

Inventor(s): Jody D. Verret (Rockwall, TX), Richard W. Ely (Lewisville, TX), Stephen J. Raif (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17020300 on 09/14/2020 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method can include identifying a geolocation of an object in an image, the method comprising receiving data indicating a pixel coordinate of the image selected by a user, identifying a data point in a targetable three-dimensional (3D) data set corresponding to the selected pixel coordinate, and providing a 3D location of the identified data point.

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

Systems and methods for automated makeup application
Patent No. 11568675

Inventor(s): Elizabeth Whitelaw (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: SMU Law School Patent Clinic (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16296159 on 03/07/2019 (1426 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated makeup application allow a user to select and apply desired makeup styles to the user”s face. The systems and methods include a computer application with a graphical user interface which allows selection of a look from a plurality of preconfigured looks. A camera coupled with a robotic arm records a face map and color coding and sends that data to be stored on a virtual server database. The application calculates formula quantity and a pump extracts desired formula amounts from appropriate formula cartridges which it releases into reservoirs on the robotic arm”s head. An airbrush compressor mixes the formula and plug triggers release one of several airbrush nozzles to start spraying the user”s face with formula. A cleaning mechanism is provided between makeup applications and after the final application. NULL

Airborne acoustic absorber
Patent No. 11568848

Inventor(s): Hideo Iizuka (Ann Arbor, MI), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15965149 on 04/27/2018 (1740 days app to issue)

Abstract: Airborne acoustic absorbers include periodic arrays of Helmholtz resonators that are covered and/or partially filled with an acoustically absorptive material, such as a thermoplastic foam. The combined structures have much broader frequency ranges of high acoustic absorption than do structures having only Helmholtz resonators or acoustically absorbing foam.

[G10K] SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES (sound-producing toys A63H 5/00); METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [6]

Voltage adjustment based on pending refresh operations
Patent No. 11568913

Inventor(s): Brian W. Huber (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Holland Hart LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17164738 on 02/01/2021 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for voltage adjustment based on, for example, pending refresh operations are described. A memory device may periodically perform refresh operations to refresh volatile memory cells and may at times postpone performing one or more refresh operations. A memory device may determine a quantity of pending (e.g., postponed) refresh operations, such as by determining a quantity of refresh intervals that have elapsed without receiving or executing a refresh command, among other methods. A memory device may pre-emptively adjust (or cause to be adjusted) a supply voltage associated with the memory device or memory device component based on the quantity of pending refresh operations to prepare for the current demand associated with the performing the one or more pending refresh operations. For example, the memory device may increase a supply voltage associated with one or more components to prepare for performing multiple pending refresh operations.

[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)

Memory apparatus and method of operation using zero pulse smart verify
Patent No. 11568943

Inventor(s): Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, CA), Dengtao Zhao (Los Gatos, CA), Ravi Kumar (Redwood City, CA), Xue Bai Pitner (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17102954 on 11/24/2020 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory apparatus and method of operation is provided. The apparatus includes a block of memory cells. Each of the memory cells is connected to one of a plurality of word lines and are also arranged in strings and configured to retain a threshold voltage within a common range of threshold voltages. A control circuit coupled to the plurality of word lines and the strings is configured to determine an erase upper tail voltage of a distribution of the threshold voltage of the memory cells following an erase operation. The erase upper tail voltage corresponds to a cycling condition of the memory cells. The control circuit is also configured to calculate a program voltage to apply to each of selected ones of the plurality of word lines associated with the memory cells to program the memory cells during a program operation based on the erase upper tail voltage.

Fast sensing scheme with amplified sensing and clock modulation
Patent No. 11568945

Inventor(s): Anirudh Amarnath (San Jose, CA), Jongyeon Kim (Milpitas, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17343075 on 06/09/2021 (601 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of verifying the programming of a plurality of memory cells in a data storage system includes performing a setup operation including settling of bit lines associated with the subset of memory cells; performing a sensing operation including subjecting the settled bit lines to a verify voltage signal; and performing first and second latching operations identifying memory cells of the subset of memory cells having threshold voltages that meet first and second verify reference voltages, where the first and second latching operations are part of the same program verify operation with no setup time between them.

Screening of memory circuits
Patent No. 11568951

Inventor(s): Anthony Martin Hill (Dallas, TX), Devanathan Varadarajan (Allen, TX), Francisco Adolfo Cano (Sugar Land, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16817096 on 03/12/2020 (1055 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods of screening memory cells by modulating bitline and/or wordline voltage. In a read operation, the wordline may be overdriven or underdriven as compared to a nominal operating voltage on the wordline. In a write operation, the one or both of the bitline and wordline may be overdriven or underdriven as compared to a nominal operating voltage of each. A built-in self test (BIST) system for screening a memory array has bitline and wordline margin controls to modulate bitline and wordline voltage, respectively, in the memory array.

Technique to proactively identify potential uncorrectable error correction memory cells and countermeasure in field
Patent No. 11568954

Inventor(s): Liang Li (Shanghai, , CN), Ming Wang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16914653 on 06/29/2020 (946 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory apparatus and method of operation is provided. The apparatus has blocks each including non-volatile storage elements. Each of the non-volatile storage elements stores a threshold voltage representative of an element data. The apparatus also includes one or more managing circuits configured to erase at least one of the blocks in an erase operation and program the element data in a program operation. The one or more managing circuits are also configured to proactively identify ones of the blocks as potential bad blocks and selectively apply stress to the ones of the blocks identified as the potential bad blocks and determine whether the potential bad blocks should be retired from the erase and program operations and put in a grown bad block pool or released to a normal block pool used for the erase and program operations based on a judgment after selectively applying the stress.

System and method for accelerating FEP methods using a 3D-restricted variational autoencoder
Patent No. 11568961

Inventor(s): Alvaro Prat (Barcelona, , ES), Alwin Bucher (Cambridge, , GB), Charles Dazler Knuff (Dallas, TX), Gintautas Kamuntavicius (Vilniaus rajonas, , LT), Hisham Abdel Aty (Clitheroe, , GB), Orestis Bastas (Vyronas, , GR), Roy Tal (Dallas
Assignee(s): RO5 INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Galvin Patent Law LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17828533 on 05/31/2022 (245 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for accelerating the calculations of free energy differences by automating FEP-path-decision-making and replacing the standard series of alchemical interpolations typically created by molecular dynamic (MD) simulations with voxelated interpolated states. A novel machine learning approach comprising a restricted variational autoencoder (ResVAE) is used which can reduce the computational-cost associated with interpolations by restricting the dimensions of a molecular latent space. The ResVAE generates a model based on flow-based transformations of a 3D-VAE latent point that is trained to maximize the log-likelihood of MD samples which enables the model to compute transformations more efficiently between molecules and also handle deletions of atoms more efficiently during iterative FEP calculation steps.

[G06G] ANALOGUE COMPUTERS (analogue optical computing devices G06E 3/00; computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Data linkage across multiple participants
Patent No. 11570152

Inventor(s): Igor Anatolyevich Naumov (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16789409 on 02/12/2020 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of determining, by a supply-chain node, a plurality of assets of a supply-chain node, and executing, by the supply-chain node, a smart contract to: assign aliases to the plurality of the assets; and match the plurality of the assets with a plurality of assets of a different supply-chain node based on the aliases.

Systems and methods for synchronous group device transmission of streaming media and related user interfaces
Patent No. 11570218

Inventor(s): Brian F. Roberts (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Discovery.com, LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17658130 on 04/06/2022 (300 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing synchronous transmission of streaming media are disclosed. One method may include: receiving, from a first user device associated with a first user, a request to invite a second user to a virtual media streaming session; retrieving, from the at least one database, a second user profile, the second user profile identifying a second user device associated with the second user; transmitting, subsequent to the retrieving, instructions to the second user device to present a notification alerting the second user of the request; determining, using a processor, whether a response accepting the request is detected from the second user device; and connecting, responsive to determining that the response accepting the request was detected, the second user profile to the virtual media streaming session; wherein multimedia content presented in the virtual media streaming session is simultaneously viewable on the first user device and the second user device.

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

Methods and apparatuses for dynamically updating routing identifier(s)
Patent No. 11570626

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16973695 on 06/25/2019 (1316 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically updating routing identifiers (IDs) are provided. One method may include deciding, at a network node, to update a routing identifier for at least one user equipment. The method may then include obtaining or generating a new routing identifier to be assigned to the at least one user equipment along with authentication vectors, and transmitting the new routing identifier to an authentication entity.

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

Universal SFP support
Patent No. RE049408 (Reissue)

Inventor(s): James T. Theodoras, II (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16749072 on 01/22/2020 (1105 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for supporting optical and electrical protocols, such as on the ports of a line card in a network device, are provided. A port on a line card supports optical and electrical connections. The PHY monitors a signal to determine if the transmission connection at the port has changed, such as from optical to electrical, or vice versa. If there has been a change, the PHY is directed to reset a port to correspond to the appropriate transmission connection. By resetting the port, the PHY changes the protocol that is utilized with the signals (e.g., NRZI or 3-Level MLT3). Patent Class: N/A

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Reset circuit for battery management system
Patent No. 11567549

Inventor(s): Indranil Gangopadhyay (Plano, TX), Madhu Dundaiah (Plano, TX), Quanqing Hu (Irving, TX), Vishnu Vardhan Ravinuthula (Dallas, TX), Wan Laan Jackie Hui (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16888113 on 05/29/2020 (977 days app to issue)

Abstract: A battery cell monitoring circuit comprises an input pin; a reset command detection circuit comprising an integrator circuit coupled to the input pin; a counter circuit coupled to an output terminal of the integrator circuit; and a one-shot circuit coupled to an output terminal of the counter circuit; a logic gate coupled to an output terminal of the one-shot circuit; and a reset circuit coupled to the logic gate.

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

System for securing electronic data by aggregation of distributed electronic database entries
Patent No. 11568065

Inventor(s): Nia Mack (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17149878 on 01/15/2021 (746 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system is provided for securing electronic data by aggregation of distributed electronic database entries. The system may comprise two or more data repositories that may be logically and/or physically separated from one another. Incoming data may be split into multiple parts that may be stored in a distributed manner across the two or more data repositories. Each of the parts of the incoming data may be associated with an identifier and/or a sequence number such that the system, upon receiving a user query for such data, may aggregate the individual parts of the data in the correct sequence. In some embodiments, the system may further use an obfuscation algorithm to apply randomized values to the identifiers and/or sequence numbers and track the operations performed in an obfuscation log. In this way, the system may provide a way to securely store and retrieve data to prevent unauthorized access.

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

Electronic device with lead pitch gap
Patent No. 11569152

Inventor(s): Anis Fauzi Bin Abdul Aziz (Kedah, , MY), Lee Han Meng@Eugene Lee (Malacca, , MY), Siew Kee Lee (Kedah, , MY), Wei Fen Sueann Lim (Melaka, , MY)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16254853 on 01/23/2019 (1469 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device, a lead frame, and a method, including providing a lead frame with a Y-shaped feature having branch portions connected to a dam bar in a prospective gap in an equally spaced repeating lead pitch pattern, and a set of first leads extending parallel to one another along a first direction and spaced apart from one another along a second direction in lead locations of the repeating lead pitch pattern, attaching a semiconductor die to a die attach pad of the lead frame, attaching bond wires between bond pads of the semiconductor die, and the first leads, enclosing first portions of the first leads, the die attach pad, and a portion of the semiconductor die in a package structure, and performing a dam bar cut process that cuts through portions of the dam bar between the lead locations of the repeating lead pitch pattern.

[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]

Leadframes with folded conductor portion and devices therefrom
Patent No. 11569153

Inventor(s): Enis Tuncer (Dallas, TX), John Paul Tellkamp (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16819902 on 03/16/2020 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: A leadframe includes leads or lead terminals, a plurality of folded features including i) support features positioned within an area defined in at least one dimension by the leads or the lead terminals configured for supporting at least one of a die pad and a first pad and a second pad spaced apart from one another, or ii) current carrying features. At least one of the folded features includes a planar portion and a folded edge structure that curves upwards at an angle of at least 45 relative to the planar portion. The folded features are configured to provide an effective increase in thickness to reduce the deformation observed in assembly.

Interdigitated outward and inward bent leads for packaged electronic device
Patent No. 11569154

Inventor(s): Anis Fauzi Bin Abdul Aziz (Berendam, , MY), Mohammad Waseem Hussain (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17331818 on 05/27/2021 (614 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device includes a package structure, a first lead and a second lead. The first lead has a first portion extending outward from a side of the package structure and downward, and a second portion extending outward from the first portion away from the package side. The second lead has a first portion extending outward from the package side and downward, and a second portion extending inward from the first portion toward the package side, and a distal end of the second lead is spaced from the package side.

Integrated power module
Patent No. 11569174

Inventor(s): Paul Wheeler (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): WOLFSPEED, INC. (Durham, NC)
Law Firm: BakerHostetler (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17178435 on 02/18/2021 (712 days app to issue)

Abstract: A power module includes a power substrate, a number of power semiconductor die, and a number of connector pins. The power substrate includes a number of conductive traces. The power semiconductor die are mounted on the power substrate and electrically coupled to the conductive traces. The connector pins are each electrically coupled to a different one of the conductive traces and configured to be interconnected such that the power semiconductor die provide an active front-end and a switching power converter. By providing the power semiconductor die such that they can be interconnected to form an active front-end and a switching power converter in the same power module, the power module may provide a significantly more compact power converter system using both an active front-end and switching power converter.

[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)

Three-dimensional memory device with vertical field effect transistors and method of making thereof
Patent No. 11569215

Inventor(s): Kwang-Ho Kim (Pleasanton, CA), Peter Rabkin (Cupertino, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17007823 on 08/31/2020 (883 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes at least one set of vertical field effect transistors embedded within dielectric material layers overlying a substrate. Each vertical field effect transistor includes a bottom doped semiconductor electrode, a vertical transistor channel, a cylindrical gate dielectric, and a top doped semiconductor electrode. A three-dimensional NAND memory array can be provided over the first field effect transistors, and can be electrically connected to the vertical field effect transistors via metal interconnect structures. Alternatively, a three-dimensional NAND memory array can be formed on another substrate, which can be bonded to the substrate via metal-to-metal bonding. The vertical field effect transistors can be employed as switches for bit lines, word lines, or other components of the three-dimensional NAND memory array.

Three-dimensional memory device with double-sided stepped surfaces and method of making thereof
Patent No. 11569259

Inventor(s): Masaaki Higashitani (Cupertino, CA), Yuki Mizutani (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16985305 on 08/05/2020 (909 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory die can include an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and memory stack structures vertically extending through the alternating stack. A first layer stack within the alternating stack includes a first staircase region in which the first electrically conductive layers have respective lateral extents that increase with a vertical distance from the substrate to provide first stepped surfaces. A second layer stack within the alternating stack includes a second staircase region in which the second electrically conductive layers have respective lateral extents that decrease with the vertical distance from the substrate to provide second stepped surfaces. The second layer stack can be more distal from the substrate than the first layer stack. Contact via structures can be formed from the top side and the bottom side of the alternating stack.

Three-dimensional memory device including discrete memory elements and method of making the same
Patent No. 11569260

Inventor(s): Adarsh Rajashekhar (Santa Clara, CA), Fei Zhou (San Jose, CA), Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, CA), Rahul Sharangpani (Fremont, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17001003 on 08/24/2020 (890 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers, dielectric barrier liners and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate and a memory stack structure extending through each layer in the alternating stack. Each of the dielectric barrier liners is located between vertically neighboring pairs of an insulating layer and an electrically conductive layer within the alternating stack. The memory stack structure includes a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel, the memory film includes a tunneling dielectric layer and a vertical stack of discrete memory-level structures that are vertically spaced from each other without direct contact between them, and each of the discrete memory-level structures includes a lateral stack including, from one side to another, a charge storage material portion, a silicon oxide blocking dielectric portion, and a dielectric metal oxide blocking dielectric portion.

Precision capacitor
Patent No. 11569342

Inventor(s): Haowen Bu (Plano, TX), Luigi Colombo (Dallas, TX), Poornika Fernandes (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16820549 on 03/16/2020 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, a method for forming a capacitor includes: forming a capacitor first plate over a non-conductive substrate; flowing ammonia and nitrogen gas into a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) chamber containing the non-conductive substrate; stabilizing a pressure and a temperature in the PECVD chamber; turning on radio frequency high frequency (RF-HF) power to the PECVD chamber; pretreating the capacitor first plate for at least 60 seconds; depositing a capacitor dielectric on the capacitor first plate; and depositing a capacitor second plate on the capacitor dielectric.

Semiconductor on insulator on wide band-gap semiconductor
Patent No. 11569378

Inventor(s): Christopher Boguslaw Kocon (Mountain Top, PA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17130969 on 12/22/2020 (770 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor material having a band-gap. The first semiconductor structure has a first surface. An insulating layer has first and second opposing surfaces. The first surface of the insulating layer is on the first surface of the first semiconductor structure. A second semiconductor structure is on the second surface of the insulating layer and includes a second semiconductor material having a band-gap that is smaller than the band-gap of the first semiconductor material. A floating electrode couples the first semiconductor structure to the second semiconductor structure.

Method to induce strain in 3-D microfabricated structures
Patent No. 11569384

Inventor(s): Nicolas Loubet (Guilderland, NY), Pierre Morin (Kessel-Lo, , BE)
Assignee(s): STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074121 on 10/19/2020 (834 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and structures for forming strained-channel finFETs are described. Fin structures for finFETs may be formed in two epitaxial layers that are grown over a bulk substrate. A first thin epitaxial layer may be cut and used to impart strain to an adjacent channel region of the finFET via elastic relaxation. The structures exhibit a preferred design range for increasing induced strain and uniformity of the strain over the fin height.

Apparatus and method for a low loss coupling capacitor
Patent No. 11569393

Inventor(s): Brian Creed (Batavia, IL), Kent Jaeger (Cary, IL), Lawrence E. Connell (Naperville, IL), Matthew Richard Miller (Arlington Heights, IL)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16813702 on 03/09/2020 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are provided herein for low loss coupling capacitor structures. The embodiments include a n-type varactor (NVAR) configuration and p-type varactor (PVAR) configuration. The structure in the NVAR configuration comprises a p-doped semiconductor substrate (Psub), a deep n-doped semiconductor well (DNW) in the Psub, and a p-doped semiconductor well (P well) in the DNW. The circuit structure further comprises a source terminal of a p-doped semiconductor material within P well, and a drain terminal of the p-doped semiconductor material within the P well. Additionally, the circuit structure comprises an insulated gate on the surface of the P well, a metal pattern comprising a plurality of layers of metal lines, and a plurality of vias through the metal lines. The vias are contacts connecting the metal lines to the gate, the source terminal, and the drain terminal.

Optical sensor package with optically transparent mold compound
Patent No. 11569396

Inventor(s): Enis Tuncer (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17088963 on 11/04/2020 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: An optical sensor package includes an IC die including a light sensor element, an output node, and bond pads including a bond pad coupled to the output node. A leadframe includes a plurality of leads or lead terminals, wherein at least some of the plurality of leads or lead terminals are coupled to the bond pads including to the bond pad coupled to the output node. A mold compound provides encapsulation for the optical sensor package including for the light sensor element. The mold compound includes a polymer-base material having filler particles including at least one of infrared or terahertz transparent particle composition provided in a sufficient concentration so that the mold compound is optically transparent for providing an optical transparency of at least 50% for a minimum mold thickness of 500 m in a portion of at least one of an infrared frequency range and a terahertz frequency range.

Flow field designs for tailored permeability fuel cell bipolar plates
Patent No. 11569514

Inventor(s): Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Tsuyoshi Nomura (Novi, MI), Yu Yang Song (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Meter Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16276183 on 02/14/2019 (1447 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bipolar plate with an enhanced fluid flow field design is provided for a fuel cell. The bipolar plate includes an inlet, an outlet, and a flow field having a pattern defining a plurality of microchannels configured to provide fluid communication between the inlet and the outlet. The pattern is designed using an inverse permeability field, and is based on a reaction-diffusion algorithm to model channel spacing, thereby providing a variable pitch microchannel pattern to direct fluid from the inlet to the outlet. In various aspects, the reaction-diffusion algorithm utilize Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion equations, which may be used to obtain an anisotropic microchannel layout. The variable pitch microchannel pattern may include a channel spacing based on effective medium theory.

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

Low-complexity beam steering in array apertures
Patent No. 11569575

Inventor(s): Nikolaus Klemmer (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16677520 on 11/07/2019 (1181 days app to issue)

Abstract: A transceiver for low-complexity beam steering. The transceiver has a first antenna array including a first sub-aperture with a first native beam steering angle and a second antenna array including a second sub-aperture with a second native beam steering angle different than the first native beam steering angle. The first antenna array and the second antenna array are arranged in the transceiver such that the first sub-aperture is combinable with the second sub-aperture to form a combined aperture when the first antenna array and the second antenna array are excited.

[H01Q] AERIALS (radiators or aerials for microwave heating H05B 6/72)

Electrical power tap connector
Patent No. 11569589

Inventor(s): Jonathan Scott Wood (Frisco, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Terry Soward (Van Alstyne, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17220192 on 04/01/2021 (670 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electrical power tap connector for a model vehicle is provided including a first power tap housing. The first power tap housing contains a power tap terminal configured to electrically couple with a connector terminal of an electrical connector. The power tap connector also includes a second power tap housing releasably securable to the first power tap housing and a releasable locking mechanism configured to physically secure the power tap connector to the electrical connector. Wherein the power tap terminal is configured to electrically couple with the connector terminal via a non-mating end of the electrical connector.

[H01R] ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS (switches, fuses H01H; coupling devices of the waveguide type H01P 5/00; switching arrangements for the supply or distribution of electric power H02B; installations of electric cables or lines, or of combined optical and electric cables or lines, or of auxiliary apparatus H02G; printed means for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits H05K)

Charge control circuitry in a wireless power receiver
Patent No. 11569673

Inventor(s): Deepak Mohanlal Khanchandani (Karnataka, , IN), Paul LeRoy Brohlin (Parker, TX), Stephen Christopher Terry (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16540964 on 08/14/2019 (1266 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for reducing data corruption in a wireless power transmission system. Power is transmitted from a primary coil to a secondary coil by induction. The voltage induced on the secondary coil by induction is rectified. The change in current supplied to a load configured to be coupled to the wireless power transmission system is limited.

[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)

Hybrid gate driver
Patent No. 11569726

Inventor(s): Neeraj A. Keskar (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16874837 on 05/15/2020 (991 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid gate driver circuit includes a field effect transistor (FET) drive terminal, a switching node terminal, a transistor, and a capacitor. The transistor includes a first terminal coupled to the FET drive terminal, and a second terminal coupled to ground. The capacitor includes a first terminal coupled to the switching node terminal, and a second terminal coupled to a third terminal of the transistor.

[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]

Self-adjusting DC/DC converter soft-start mechanism
Patent No. 11569736

Inventor(s): Joerg Kirchner (Mauern, , DE), Stefan Schimonsky (Munich, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17184721 on 02/25/2021 (705 days app to issue)

Abstract: A soft-start circuit includes an error amplifier, a reference voltage ramp circuit, and a minimum current clamp circuit. The error amplifier is configured to generate a difference voltage representing a difference of a feedback voltage and a reference voltage ramp. The reference voltage ramp circuit is configured to generate the reference voltage ramp. The minimum current clamp circuit is configured to clamp an output of the error amplifier to a predetermined minimum voltage.

Compensation in a voltage mode switch-mode converter
Patent No. 11569741

Inventor(s): Neil Gibson (Freising, , DE), Stefan Herzer (Marzling, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16950660 on 11/17/2020 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a circuit comprises a first field effect transistor (FET) having a first gate adapted to couple to a reference voltage source, a first source coupled to a first current source, and a first drain coupled to a second current source. The circuit comprises a second FET having a second gate coupled to the first drain, a second drain coupled to the first current source, and a second source coupled to a first resistor. The circuit comprises a third FET having a third gate adapted to couple to a feedback loop of a voltage converter, a third source coupled to a third current source, and a third drain coupled to a fourth current source. The circuit comprises a fourth FET having a fourth gate coupled to the third drain, a fourth drain coupled to the third current source, and a fourth source coupled to a second resistor.

DC-DC converter with pulse modulation control circuit
Patent No. 11569743

Inventor(s): Jian Liang (Shanghai, , CN), Ming Luo (Shanghai, , CN), Weicheng Zhang (Shanghai, , CN), Yangwei Yu (Hangzhou, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17116794 on 12/09/2020 (783 days app to issue)

Abstract: A DC-DC converter control circuit includes an error amplifier, a voltage-to-current conversion circuit, an oscillator circuit, and a pulse frequency modulation (PFM) control circuit. The error amplifier is configured to generate a difference voltage as a difference of an output voltage of the DC-DC converter circuit and a reference voltage. The voltage-to-current conversion circuit configured to convert the difference voltage to a difference current. The oscillator circuit is configured to generate a clock signal at a predetermined frequency for pulse width modulation. The PFM control circuit is configured to disable the oscillator circuit, based on the difference current, for PFM operation.

Direct current (DC)-DC power converter with multiple modes of operation
Patent No. 11569744

Inventor(s): Evan Michael Reutzel (Center Valley, PA), Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bangalore, , IN), Rengang Chen (Center Valley, PA), Scott Edward Ragona (Bethlehem, PA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17152223 on 01/19/2021 (742 days app to issue)

Abstract: A converter stage having a control pin, an input voltage pin, an output pin, a ground pin, a high-side switch coupled between the input voltage pin and the output pin, a low-side switch coupled between the output pin and the ground pin, a current sensor configured to detect a current at the output pin, and control logic coupled to the control pin and the current sensor. The control logic is configured to control switching of the high-side and the low-side switches in continuous conduction mode, discontinuous conduction mode, and body braking control for the converter stage in response to a first signal received via the control line and a second signal received from the current sensor. A driver controls switching, based on the detected current and sequential event tracking, between an on state and an off state.

Control system with delayed protection for a three-level inverter
Patent No. 11569758

Inventor(s): Longgi Li (Shenzhen, , CN), Wanling Zhang (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17340645 on 06/07/2021 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: A microcontroller unit for controlling a three-level inverter including delayed fault protection is provided. The microcontroller unit includes an input port configured to receive a trip signal from a fault detection module, and a plurality of EPWM modules, each configured to control a power switch within the three-level inverter. The microcontroller unit includes an auxiliary EPWM module configured to receive the trip signal and produce a delayed trip signal, and processing circuitry coupled with the input port, the plurality of EPWM modules, and the auxiliary EPWM module. The processing circuitry is configured to, in response to activation of the trip signal, direct one of the plurality of EPWM modules to shut off its corresponding power switch upon activation of the trip signal, and to direct a different one of the plurality of EPWM modules to shut off its corresponding power switch upon activation of the delayed trip signal.

[H02H] EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS (indicating or signalling undesired working conditions G01R, e.g. G01R 31/00, G08B; locating faults along lines G01R 31/08; emergency protective devices H01H)

Wide high voltage swing input comparator stage with matching overdrive
Patent No. 11569808

Inventor(s): Laszlo Balogh (Merrimack, NH), Ritesh Jitendra Oza (Plano, TX), Satish Kumar Vemuri (Raleigh, NC), Tuli Luthuli Dake (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17515077 on 10/29/2021 (459 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a differential input pair, a first resistor, a second resistor, and a comparator. The differential input pair having first and second differential inputs. The first differential input is adapted to be coupled to an output of a controller and the second differential input is adapted to be coupled to a signal ground of the controller. The first resistor is adapted to be coupled to a third resistor via the first differential input to form a first voltage divider. The second resistor is adapted to be coupled to a fourth resistor via the second differential input to form a second voltage divider. The comparator having first and second comparator inputs. The first comparator input is coupled between the first resistor and the first differential input. The second comparator input is coupled between the second resistor and the second differential input.

[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]

Analog-to-digital convertor pseudo periodic IL estimation
Patent No. 11569827

Inventor(s): Joseph Palackal Mathew (Kerala, , IN), Nagalinga Swamy Basayya Aremallapur (Ranebennur, , IN), Nithin Gopinath (Bangalore, , IN), Sai Aditya Nurani (Hyderabad, , IN), Sthanunathan Ramakrishnan (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17390362 on 07/30/2021 (550 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the description provide for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to convert an analog input signal to an output signal at an output of the ADC. In some examples, the ADC includes multiple sub-ADCs coupled in parallel, each of the multiple sub-ADCs coupled to the output of the ADC and operable to receive the analog input signal. The ADC is configured to operate the sub-ADCs in a consecutive operation loop including a transition phase in which the ADC operates each of the sub-ADCs sequentially for a first number of sequences, an estimation phase in which the ADC operates each of the sub-ADCs sequentially for a second number of sequences following the first number of sequences, and a randomization phase in which the ADC operates subsets of the sub-ADCs for a third number of sequences following the second number of sequences.

[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]

Multi-beam codebooks with further optimized overhead
Patent No. 11569879

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Christopher Weisberg, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074780 on 10/20/2020 (833 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, wireless device and network node for determining an indication of a precoder are provided. According to one aspect, a method in a wireless device includes determining and the indication of the precoder from a codebook, the indication comprising a first beam phase parameter and a second beam phase parameter corresponding to a first beam and a second beam respectively. The first beam phase parameter takes on one of a first integer number of phase values and the second beam phase parameter takes on one of a second integer number of phase values. At least one of the following conditions apply: the second integer number of phase values is less than the first number of phase values, and the second frequency-granularity is greater than the first frequency-granularity. The method includes transmitting the determined indication of a precoder to the network node.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus for beam management in multi-module devices
Patent No. 11569892

Inventor(s): Anum Ali (Plano, TX), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Jianhua Mo (Allen, TX), Vutha Va (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17446122 on 08/26/2021 (523 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device and methods for performing low-latency, low-power beam management are disclosed herein. An electronic device for performing low-latency, low-power beam management comprises a plurality of antenna modules and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a number of active antenna modules to include in a set of active antenna modules, and select the set of active antenna modules, from among the plurality of antenna modules, based on a spherical coverage of the set of active antenna modules and based on information on blockage states of the plurality of antenna modules.

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

Support for additional decoding processing time in wireless LAN systems
Patent No. 11569925

Inventor(s): Dae Won Lee (Lake Forest, CA), Sungho Moon (Lake Forest, CA), Young Hoon Kwon (Lake Forest, CA), Yujin Noh (Lake Forest, CA)
Assignee(s): ATLAS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17525691 on 11/12/2021 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireless communication device in a wireless system may generate a High Efficiency Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (HE PPDU) frame including (i) an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol including padding bits and (ii) an extension having a non-zero signal strength, and transmit the HE PPDU frame. A High Efficiency signal (HE-SIG) field of the transmitted HE PPDU frame may include an indication for a duration of the extension to avoid ambiguity of the extension. A communication device in a wireless system may receive an HE PPDU frame including (i) an OFDM symbol including padding bits, and (ii) an extension having a non-zero signal strength, and transmit an Acknowledgement frame a predetermined inter-frame space after an end of the HE PPDU frame. An HE-SIG field of the received HE PPDU may include an indication for duration of the extension to avoid ambiguity of the extension.

[H04J] MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION (peculiar to transmission of digital information H04L 5/00; systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal H04N 7/08; in exchanges H04Q 11/00)

Method and apparatus for CSI reporting
Patent No. 11569966

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Hongbo Si (Plano, TX), Young-Han Nam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16278614 on 02/18/2019 (1443 days app to issue)

Abstract: For CSI reporting mechanisms, a user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver and a processor operably connected to the transceiver. The transceiver is configured to receive channel state information (CSI) process configuration information including at least one beamformed type associated with a plurality of non-zero-power (NZP) CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource configurations and receive a CSI-RS resource index (CRI) reporting configuration. The processor is configured to calculate, in response to receipt of the configuration information, a CRI and a channel quality indicator (CQI). The transceiver is further configured to report the CRI and the CQI by transmitting the CRI and the CQI on an uplink channel.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus for uplink control information transmission and reception
Patent No. 11569967

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: 16566562 on 09/10/2019 (1239 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from at least one base station (BS) of a group of (N) BSs, channel state information (CSI) configuration information including a number of uplink control information (UCI) parts for a CSI reporting; identifying the number of UCI parts for the CSI reporting; determining a CSI report based on the identified number of UCI parts; identifying one or more BSs in the group of (N) BSs to transmit the determined CSI report; and transmitting, to the one or more identified BSs, via an uplink channel, a UCI including the determined CSI report, wherein the UCI includes the identified number of UCI parts each of which includes a part of the determined CSI report.

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

Path routing with delay constraints
Patent No. 11570084

Inventor(s): Paparao Palacharla (Richardson, TX), Qiong Zhang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): FUJITSU LIMITED (Kawasaki, , JP)
Law Firm: Maschoff Brennan (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17334759 on 05/30/2021 (611 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example method may include obtaining network information of a network and determining a second path from a first node of multiple nodes to a second node of the multiple nodes. The network information may include a network topology that may include the multiple nodes and multiple links connecting the multiple nodes. The multiple links may include a first routing metric and a second routing metric. The network information may also include multiple first paths from each node of the multiple nodes to all other nodes of the multiple nodes along the multiple links. The multiple first paths may be determined based on the first routing metric. The determining the second path may include selecting path segments for the second path along the multiple links based on the path segments being included in the multiple first paths based on the second routing metric of the multiple links included in the path segments.

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

Enhanced secure encryption and decryption system
Patent No. 11570155

Inventor(s): Brandon Hart (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Everything Blockchain Technology Corp. (Jacksonville, FL)
Law Firm: Polansky Associates, P.L.L.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16935941 on 07/22/2020 (923 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods are described for a data creator to securely send a data payload to another device in a transient symmetric key technology (TSKT) system, and for the other device to securely receive the payload data. One method includes receiving a first seed and a formula from a command and control server. A second seed is generated, and the first seed and the second seed are combined using the formula to create a data seed. A first key is generated using the first seed, and the second seed is encrypted using the first key to form an encrypted second seed. A second key is generated using the data seed, and the data payload is encrypted using the second key to form an encrypted data payload. The encrypted data payload and the encrypted second seed are combined in a secure container, and subsequently all keys and seeds and the formula are destroyed.

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

Detecting and quantifying vulnerabilities in a network system
Patent No. 11570198

Inventor(s): Christina Willis (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17011494 on 09/03/2020 (880 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to quantification of attack surfaces in an enterprise computing system. A computing platform may receive indications of usage of a plurality of controls associated with an enterprise computing system. The computing platform may determine, based on a mapping between the plurality of controls and a plurality of attack vectors, one or more controls of the plurality of controls that are mapped to an attack vector. The computing platform may determine respective compliance scores of the one or more controls, and determine, based on the respective compliance scores, a vulnerability score associated with the attack vector. The computing platform may transmit an indication of the determined vulnerability score associated with the attack vector.

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

Highly redundant and scalable storage area network architecture
Patent No. 11570248

Inventor(s): Charles Baiamonte (Little Elm, TX), David Barr (Grand Prairie, TX), David Daniel (Wylie, TX), John Hawkins (Bedford, TX), John Kile (Dallas, TX), Robert Stoker (The Colony, TX), Ronald Stephens (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17195587 on 03/08/2021 (694 days app to issue)

Abstract: A storage area network architecture and a method for storing data in the storage area network architecture are disclosed. For example, the storage area network architecture comprises a first layer of servers, the first layer of servers comprising a plurality of file receiving servers, a second layer of servers, the second layer of servers comprising a plurality of file sharing servers in communication with the first layer of servers and a third layer of servers, the third layer of servers comprising a plurality of storage servers in communication with the second layer of servers.

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

Methods and apparatus to prevent illicit proxy communications from affecting a monitoring result
Patent No. 11570270

Inventor(s): Achilleas Papakostas (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Hanley, Flight Zimmerman, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16532170 on 08/05/2019 (1275 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to prevent illicit proxy communications from affecting a monitoring result are disclosed. An example method includes accessing a log of communications of a proxy server, the log of communications including a plurality of records, each of the plurality of records corresponding to a requesting device that transmitted a communication to the proxy server, identifying a first internet protocol (IP) address subnet in the log of communications, the first IP address subnet associated with a block of IP addresses, filtering the plurality of records for a first set of records associated with communications originating from the first IP address subnet, and in response to determining the first set of records does not include a record associated with a heartbeat communication, adding the first IP address subnet to a blacklist of the proxy server.

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

On-demand contact center electronic communication system and method
Patent No. 11570304

Inventor(s): Timothy Kefford (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): MITEL NETWORKS CORPORATION (Ottawa, , CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17230578 on 04/14/2021 (657 days app to issue)

Abstract: Electronic communication methods and systems for rating agents and allowing customers for select agents are provided. Exemplary systems include a communication server for connecting a user to a communication with a contact center, a presence system to determine status of one or more agents, a wait-time determination engine to determine a wait time for one or more agents present for the communication, an agent scoring system for determining a score for one or more agents present for the communication, and a routing engine to connect a selected agent to the communication.

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

Decoding device, encoding device, decoding method, encoding method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
Patent No. 11570448

Inventor(s): Yukinobu Yasugi (Osaka, , JP)
Assignee(s): Velos Media, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Grable Martin Fulton PLLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17459848 on 08/27/2021 (522 days app to issue)

Abstract: A coding device and a decoding device are configured to include an estimated prediction mode deciding section including: a reference block selecting section for selecting a reference block for use in estimating an intra-prediction mode for a subject block; an estimating number deciding section for deciding an estimating number of estimated values to be estimated for the intra-prediction mode; and an estimated prediction mode deriving section for estimating, based on a reference block, the estimating number of estimated values of the prediction mode.

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

Alternating frame processing operation with predicted frame comparisons for high safety level use
Patent No. 11570468

Inventor(s): Aishwarya Dubey (Plano, TX), Shashank Dabral (Allen, TX), Veeramanikandan Raju (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17520795 on 11/08/2021 (449 days app to issue)

Abstract: Frames from an image stream or streams are processed by independently operating digital signal processors (DSPs), with only frame checking microprocessors operating in a lockstep mode. In one example, two DSP are operating on alternate frames. Each DSP processes the frames and produces prediction values for the next frame. The lockstep microprocessors develop their own next frame prediction. The lockstep processors compare issued frames and previously developed predicted frames for consistency. If the predictions are close enough, the issued frame passes the test. The lockstep processors then compare the issued frame to the preceding two frames for a similar consistency check. If the prior frames are also close enough, the issued frame is acceptable. In another example, hardware checkers are provided to compare the present frame with a larger number of prior frames. The hardware checkers provide comparison results to the lockstep processors to compare against allowable variation limits.

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

System and method for providing synchronized interactive multimedia content to mobile devices based on geolocation of a vehicle
Patent No. 11570485

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: 17453907 on 11/08/2021 (449 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system has a plurality of machine-readable tags and includes a server system for synchronizing the display of interactive mobile content on a user device with a destination of a vehicle. Each machine-readable tag encodes an address and is mounted within the vehicle for access by users in the vehicle. The system receives a request from the user device, generated by scanning one of the machine-readable tags, and determines the destination of the vehicle. A coupon corresponding with the destination of the vehicle is selected and provided. The users that have selected the coupon for download are determined, each of the users who have downloaded the coupon are notified of the identities of the other users who downloaded the coupon, and transportation of all of the users is facilitated to the location of the restaurant so they may utilize the coupon which each of them downloaded.

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

Method and apparatus for base station audit correction in wireless communication networks
Patent No. 11570648

Inventor(s): Hao Chen (Allen, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (Plano, TX), Mandar N. Kulkarni (Richardson, TX), Rubayet Shafin (Allen, TX), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17152669 on 01/19/2021 (742 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a base station is provided. The method includes in response to a triggering event, fetching information on a base station (BS) configuration parameters comprising a location, a height, an antenna pattern, and topographical details surrounding the BS; determining the BS configuration parameters that are error prone and require re-estimation; obtain measurement reports created by at least one user equipment (UE); determining an audit method to perform an audit correction, the audit correction based on the one or more of the BS configuration parameters to re-estimate, available BS information and the measurement reports; performing the audit correction, to obtain a result based on a computed score for each candidate value of the BS configuration parameters; generating, based on the result, one or more corrective actions; and adjusting at least one of the BS configuration parameters based on the one or more corrective actions.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus to control access attempts from a terminal for wireless backhaul
Patent No. 11570691

Inventor(s): Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17314595 on 05/07/2021 (634 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide for controlling access attempts for wireless backhaul. In the context of a method, the method constructs an access request comprising an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) access indication. The method further determines whether the access attempt is allowed for a particular cell, and if so, determines an establishment cause value based at least on the IAB access indication. The method also causes transmission of the access request and establishment cause value.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for manually selecting a network
Patent No. 11570704

Abstract: A method comprising: determining, by a user equipment, that a non-closed access group cell is available to the user equipment in a public land mobile network, wherein the public land mobile network is identified by a public land mobile network identity and the user equipment is only allowed to access the public land mobile network via one or more closed access group cells; displaying the public land mobile network identity to a user; receiving user input selecting the public land mobile network identity; and transmitting a registration request to the public land mobile network identified by the public land mobile network identity.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Coexistence of wireless sensor networks with other wireless networks
Patent No. 11570790

Inventor(s): Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, TX), Soon-Hyeok Choi (Allen, TX), Srinath Hosur (Plano, TX), Yanjun Sun (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16679929 on 11/11/2019 (1177 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for communicating in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is described. Using control logic, a first wireless transceiver is caused to transmit a wireless packet to a node in a wireless sensor network. The control logic bases its causing on a transmission coinciding with a break in transmission for a second wireless network, such that the transmission from the first wireless transceiver does not coincide with transmissions made on the second wireless network. Time synchronized channel hopping (TSCH) slot frames for wireless packet transmission in the wireless sensor network are caused to be time offset if the first wireless transceiver is utilizing TSCH. Wake up sequence transmissions for the wireless sensor network are caused to be time offset if the first wireless transceiver is utilizing coordinated sampled listening (CSL).

Systems and methods for establishing and modifying user plane communications
Patent No. 11570847

Inventor(s): Parry Cornell Booker (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17318716 on 05/12/2021 (629 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems described herein provide techniques for establishing and modifying user plane communications sessions between Long-Term Evolution (”LTE”) User Equipment (”UE”) devices, connected to LTE base stations, and a Fifth Generation (”5G”) core network. An LTE-5G Interworking function (”LTE-5G IWF”) may logically generate a virtual 5G UE and/or 5G base station, map a LTE UE to the virtual 5G UE, and cause the establishment of a Protocol Data Unit (”PDU”) Session, at the 5G core network, with the virtual 5G UE. The LTE-5G IWF may provide PDU Session information to the LTE UE and base station to facilitate the establishment of user plane communications (e.g., via a tunnel) between the LTE UE and the 5G core network. The LTE-5G IWF may also receive modification parameters, such as Quality of Service (”QoS”) parameters, and provide instructions to the 5G core and/or to the LTE UE to handle traffic according to such parameters.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Testing methods and apparatuses using simulated servers
Patent No. 11570935

Inventor(s): Jacob Mertel (Plano, TX), John David Enright (Plano, TX), Taylor Monnig (Plano, TX), William Hadala (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TMGCore, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17573319 on 01/11/2022 (385 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present application pertains to testing methods and apparatus useful in single phase or two-phase liquid immersion cooling systems. Single phase systems use a fluid similar to mineral oil in which to immerse the servers. As the fluid is heated by the operating servers the fluid is circulated to one or more heat exchangers for cooling so the fluid never boils. In contrast, two-phase systems cool heat generating computer components which cause a dielectric fluid in its liquid phase to vaporize. The dielectric vapor is then condensed back into a liquid phase and used to cool the computer components. Using the testing methods and apparatuses herein one may design and test more efficient components and systems. More specifically, the one or more heating elements are both passive and intelligent. They may be used to mimic the power load of a server which is used in the load testing of immersion cooling so actual servers are not required to test various aspects of the liquid immersion cooling units.

DESIGN PATENTS

Sprout container
Patent No. D976696

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Sholl (Naples, FL)
Assignee(s): RA FOODS HOLDINGS LLC (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Westman, Champlin Koehler, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29767528 on 01/22/2021 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Package
Patent No. D976698

Inventor(s): Carlos Caicedo (Dallas, TX), Carol Monza (Dallas, TX), Carolyn Eckert (Dallas, TX), David Shin (Dallas, TX), Don Miller (Dallas, TX), Michael Comiskey (Dallas, TX), Natalie Cruz (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29810824 on 10/08/2021 (480 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Reclosable storage bag
Patent No. D976713

Inventor(s): Brad A. Cobler (Irving, TX), Daniel J. Layden (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Poly-America, L.P. (Grand Prairie, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29795054 on 06/16/2021 (594 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

On-body wearable charger
Patent No. D976816

Inventor(s): Anjan Panneer Selvam (Plano, TX), Qing Sun (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): VITALTECH PROPERTIES, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Goodhue, Coleman Owens, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29809523 on 09/28/2021 (490 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Stylus five-point nib
Patent No. D976908

Inventor(s): Mark Cuban (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Klemchuk PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29791598 on 01/20/2022 (376 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Controller housing
Patent No. D976909

Inventor(s): Stephen J. Vendt (Lewisville, TX), Surendran Ramasamy (Tamil Nadu, , IN)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Johnston IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29750204 on 09/11/2020 (872 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Textured siding
Patent No. D977154

Inventor(s): Javier Valle, II (Quinlan, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Cramer Patent Design, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29786093 on 05/28/2021 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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