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 February 7, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 9
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 10
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 2
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 5
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 4
G: PHYSICS 39
H: ELECTRICITY 44
DESIGN: 4

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments (Dallas) 20
Toyota (Plano, TX) 11 Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 5
ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA) 3
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 3
CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC) 3
Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson) 3
Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID) 3

UNASSIGNED 7

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Amit Kaistha (Coppell) 2
Hongbo Si (Plano) 2
Kai Chirca (Dallas) 2
Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton) 2
Norman Lu (Fairview) 2
Parry Cornell Booker (Arlington) 2
Tony M. Brewer (Plano) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Adjustable, controlled rate plant watering device
Patent No. 11570957

Inventor(s): Keith Alan Joyner (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17248025 on 01/05/2021 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device facilitating water or liquid fertilizer distribution to a plant growth medium by wicking from a tube that accepts a separate and removable liquid reservoir. The tube is closed at the bottom and accepts the outlet of the external reservoir. The tube is inserted into the top surface of the plant growth medium so that the wick emerges from the tube above the top of the plant growth medium and contacts it. As liquid is transferred by the wick, the liquid level in the tube drops below the opening of the reservoir outlet, allowing air to enter the reservoir from the bottom and more water to flow from the reservoir into the tube. The characteristics of the wicks can be adjusted by the user to change the water flow rate and water distribution pattern to accommodate the needs of individual plants.

[A01G] HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS, OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING (picking of fruits, vegetables, hops, or the like A01D 46/00; plant reproduction by tissue culture techniques A01H 4/00; devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs A23N 15/08; propagating unicellular algae C12N 1/12; plant cell culture C12N 5/00)

Package delivery box
Patent No. 11571079

Inventor(s): Aiza Gaffar (Plano, TX), Anika Prasad (Frisco, TX), Carcyn Coleman (Grand Prairie, TX), Daniel Syed (Richardson, TX), Hisham Ahmad (Allen, TX), Isha Agrawal (Plano, TX), Mirza Faizan (Irving, TX), Sooryavanshi Narayan
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17460241 on 08/29/2021 (527 days app to issue)

Abstract: A package delivery box [b]100[/b] is disclosed. It comprises a container [b]101[/b] for accommodating at least one package, an openable lid [b]102[/b] attached to the container [b]101[/b], a closing mechanism for closing the container [b]101[/b], and a locking mechanism for locking the closed container [b]101[/b]. The closing mechanism comprises a pressure plate [b]103[/b] at a base of the container [b]101[/b], a string [b]105[/b] connecting the pressure plate [b]103[/b] with the lid, and at least one pull spring [b]106[/b] between the lid [b]102[/b] and the container [b]101[/b], and the locking mechanism comprises a flexible rod [b]104[/b] beneath the pressure plate [b]103[/b] and directly connected to the pressure plate [b]103[/b], a slider [b]109[/b] connected to the flexible rod, and a hole [b]110[/b] in the lid, wherein the hole [b]110[/b] is adapted to accommodate insertion of the flexible rod [b]104[/b] therein.

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

Bone cutting guide
Patent No. 11571226

Inventor(s): Robert E. Wigginton (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): New Standard Device, LLC (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Greg Goshorn, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17944378 on 09/14/2022 (146 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a Bone Cutting Guide (BCG) for facilitating the cutting of a patent”s bones that may include an outer shell, comprising an upper shell; and a lower shell; a left guidance sphere, comprising a first plurality of pin guidance holes; and a first guide surface; a right guidance sphere, comprising a second plurality of pin guidance holes; and a second guide surface, wherein the left and right guidance spheres are positioned between the upper and lower shells; and a plurality of fasteners configured to hold the upper and lower shells together and, when tightened, secure the left guidance sphere and right guidance sphere into selected positions.

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

Intraocular lens injector
Patent No. 11571294

Inventor(s): Kyle Brown (Fort Worth, TX), Stephen J Van Noy (Southlake, TX), Tu Cam Tran (Grapevine, TX), Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16750140 on 01/23/2020 (1111 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for implanting an intraocular lens into an eye are described. For example, an intraocular lens injector may include a passage formed in a distal end portion of the intraocular lens injector. The passage may define an interior surface, and a ramp may be formed on the interior surface so as to cause a leading haptic of an intraocular lens (IOL) being advanced through the passage to lift above a surface of an optic of the IOL to ensure proper folding of the IOL.

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

Apparatus and method for securing ocular tissue and providing surgical tool positioning points
Patent No. 11571333

Inventor(s): David G. Ozinga (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Refocus Group, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16876642 on 05/18/2020 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device includes a body configured to be placed on an eye and multiple tine assemblies configured to secure the body to and release the body from the eye. The body includes multiple corners and multiple sides. Each corner includes a passage through the corner. Each side connects an adjacent pair of corners. Each tine assembly includes a twist pick configured to be inserted through one of the passages. Bottom surfaces of the sides are raised relative to bottom surfaces of the corners such that the bottom surfaces of the sides are spaced apart from the eye when the bottom surfaces of the corners are resting on the eye. Each of at least one side includes multiple openings configured to allow manipulation of a position of the body and a groove configured to receive a projection from a surgical tool in order to position the surgical tool on the eye.

Intraluminal tubes with deployable structures and related methods
Patent No. 11571365

Inventor(s): Steven G. Leeds (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BAYLOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15510161 on 09/09/2015 (2708 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure includes intraluminal tubes comprising: an elongated tube (e.g., having a proximal portion, a distal portion configured to be disposed inside of an internal cavity of a patient, and a sidewall defining a lumen extending from the proximal portion to the distal portion, the distal portion defining one or more openings in fluid communication with the lumen) and a plurality of deployable tines, each coupled to the tube and disposed outside the sidewall of the distal portion, where each tine is movable from a collapsed state to a deployed state in which a portion of the tine extends laterally away from the distal portion of the tube. In some of the present intraluminal tubes, the sidewall of the distal portion defines a plurality of longitudinal grooves, and each tine is disposed in a different one of the grooves when the tines are in the collapsed state.

[A61J] CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE

Implantable peripheral nerve stimulation lead
Patent No. 11571572

Inventor(s): Aaron Raines (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17227185 on 04/09/2021 (669 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a stimulation lead for providing stimulation signals to nerve tissue and improved methods for constructing and manufacturing such a stimulation lead. The stimulation lead and/or methods includes a lead with a cable disposed within. At each end of the lead body a portion of the cable is exposed, and a metal ferrule is securely attached to the exposed cable portion. An electrode/contact is then securely attached to the metal ferrule such that the electrode covers the metal ferrule, a portion of the lead body, and a transition point where the exposed cable exits the lead body. A tine component may be swaged around a portion of the term end, configured to provide a retaining force against an force acting upon the stimulation lead, while allowing insertion of the stim end of the stimulation lead during implantation, and extraction of the stim end during explantation.

[A61N] ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY (measurement of bioelectric currents A61B; surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body A61B 18/00; anaesthetic apparatus in general A61M; incandescent lamps H01K; infra-red radiators for heating H05B) [6]

System and software for challenge-based matchmaking
Patent No. 11571629

Inventor(s): Mark Twomey (Mesquite, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16986794 on 08/06/2020 (915 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable instructions for managing a challenge-based matchmaking session comprising a plurality of sequential video game matches between two or more players pursuant to rules set by a host. Players participating in the session may submit challenges (e.g., performance ratings, monetary value, etc.), and the players are sorted into a ranked queue based on their respective challenges. The ranked queue is preferably re-sorted in response to challenge submissions, revisions, or withdrawals. For each match of the matchmaking session, at least two players are selected from the ranked queue and a match is initialized between the players. At the end of each match, one player is designated as a winner and the other designated as a loser, and portions of the challenge received from each losing player is allocated for distribution (e.g., transfer, deposit, etc.) to an account corresponding to each winning player.

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

Sensor systems for syncing operational data for heavy equipment
Patent No. 11573570

Inventor(s): Kevin Gregory (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Paravit, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: TechLaw Ventures, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17220824 on 04/01/2021 (677 days app to issue)

Abstract: Sensor systems for communications between heavy equipment machines during tree felling operations. A system includes a first heavy equipment comprising a first winch and a second heavy equipment comprising a second winch. The system includes a first cable attached to the first winch and a fulcrum roller and a second cable attached to the second winch and the fulcrum roller. The system is such that the first heavy equipment communicates with the second heavy equipment by way of long-range radio signals.

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

Configurable steel form system for fabricating precast panels
Patent No. 11571834

Inventor(s): Jonathan White (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17110540 on 12/03/2020 (796 days app to issue)

Abstract: A configurable steel form system for creating precast concrete panels is disclosed. The configurable steel form system can be used to create precast panels for both commercial tilt panels and highway noise barrier walls, among other applications. A plurality of steel form system sections are preferably fabricated from steel plate bent into a J-channel member. The configurable steel form system can be designed in sections that are quickly assembled. To suit a particular application, a section can be extended by sequentially attaching extension members to a primary member. A quick-release mechanism can be implemented for ease and speed of connection. Each section can have the panel depth and contour fabricated into the steel form profile. Anchoring holes and corner miters can also be cut into the form”s framework.

[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)

Clipboard and key organizer with tape dispenser
Patent No. 11571922

Inventor(s): Olga Leticia Johnson (Burleson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16994545 on 08/14/2020 (907 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable multipurpose clipboard box equipped for securing and sectioning documents, holding keys, and dispensing tape.

[B42F] SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING (reading desks A47B 19/00; book rests A47B 23/00)

External communication suppression device for driving automation
Patent No. 11571969

Inventor(s): Benjamin P. Austin (Saline, MI), John K. Lenneman (Okemos, MI), Joshua E. Domeyer (Madison, WI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16892919 on 06/04/2020 (978 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, system and non-transitory computer readable medium for suppressing autonomous vehicle external human machine interface (eHMI) notifications to prevent confusion or distraction of a road user. The suppression conditions are based on situations where the eHMI notification is redundant, not necessary, can be simplified or should be modified due to weather or light intensity. The eHMI notifications can be suppressed on selected displays and enhanced on others. The eHMI notifications can include text and icons, flashing lights, color or light patterns, which can be modified or suppressed based on the determination that the eHMI notification will confuse or distract the road user. At a four-way stop intersection, the eHMI notification can be suppressed until the autonomous vehicle has the right-of-way. The autonomous vehicle can form a mesh network with connected vehicles at the intersection and broadcast a group eHMI while requesting that the connected vehicles suppress their eHMIs.

[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]

Systems and methods for mobile charging of electric vehicles
Patent No. 11571974

Inventor(s): Geoffrey D. Gaither (Brighton, MI), Josh D. Payne (Ann Arbor, MI), Nathan C. Westover (New Hudson, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16539936 on 08/13/2019 (1274 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer readable medium for managing recharging of a shared electric vehicle are provided. The method includes determining whether an energy storage device of the electric vehicle requires charging, identifying a charging method based on a plurality of parameters including an ambient temperature, a current state of charge, a current load, and a power estimate for a planned route, altering the planned route of the electric vehicle to enable charging based on the identified method, and charging a second energy storage device associated with a second electric vehicle during transit via the electric vehicle. The charging method includes swapping electric vehicles, exchanging the energy storage device, and charging via a charging bot.

[B60L] PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K 1/00, B60K 6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K 17/12, B60K 17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C 15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D 1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H 1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES [4]

Distance-based energy transfer from a transport
Patent No. 11571983

Inventor(s): Norman Lu (Fairview, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16821923 on 03/17/2020 (1057 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining an estimated arrival time of a first transport to a charging station, determining an estimated remaining stored transport energy at the estimated arrival time of the first transport, notifying the first transport to provide a portion of the determined remaining stored transport energy and when a next transport is delayed to the charging station, notifying the first transport to provide an additional portion of the determined remaining stored transport energy based on the delay.

Load effects on transport energy
Patent No. 11571984

Inventor(s): Norman Lu (Fairview, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16854866 on 04/21/2020 (1022 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of providing to a charging station a distance desired to be driven by a transport and determining, by the charging station, an amount of energy to retrieve from the transport such that a residual amount of energy in the transport is equivalent to the distance desired to be driven.

Recovery unit for recovering vehicles
Patent No. 11572005

Inventor(s): James D. Bennett, Jr. (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): CGB Holdings, L.L.C. (Kennedale, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17337953 on 06/03/2021 (614 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle recovery unit for use with an operating vehicle. The vehicle recovery unit has a frame, a mounting system coupled to the frame, a boom assembly, a pivoting horse head assembly coupled to the boom assembly, a winch, and a cable wound upon the winch. The frame has an angled front plate and a rear plate. The mounting system is configured for releasable attachment to the operating vehicle. The boom assembly is coupled to the frame and extends beyond the front plate of the frame.

[B60P] VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G 3/00)

Trailing vehicle positioning system based on detected lead vehicle
Patent No. 11572068

Inventor(s): Tenghua Shieh (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMFRICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17065294 on 10/07/2020 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for controlling platooning by a following vehicle includes a sensor located in or on the following vehicle configured to detect data corresponding to a shape of a leading vehicle. The system further includes an electronic control unit (ECU) located in or on the following vehicle, coupled to the sensor, and configured to determine an optimal distance from the following vehicle to the leading vehicle based on the shape of the leading vehicle, the optimal distance corresponding to a distance at which drag applied to the following vehicle is reduced based on a pressure wake from the leading vehicle.

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

Electric aerial sky tram
Patent No. 11572086

Inventor(s): Carlos Alexander Fenny (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16791108 on 02/14/2020 (1089 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aerial sky tram system includes a plurality of towers, a cable track suspended from the plurality of towers by a support cable, and a sky tram coupled to the cable track. The sky tram includes a plurality of rotors that propel the sky tram along the cable track.

[B61B] RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (lifts or hoists, elevators, escalators, moving walkways B66B) [4]

Rotorcraft having propeller generated power during autorotations
Patent No. 11572155

Inventor(s): Aaron Alexander Acee (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16666347 on 10/28/2019 (1198 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotorcraft having pusher propeller generated power during autorotations. The rotorcraft has an engine powered mode and an autorotation mode. The rotorcraft includes an engine and a drivetrain configured to receive torque and rotational energy from the engine in the engine powered mode. A main rotor system is coupled to the drivetrain and is rotatable to generate lift and forward thrust for the rotorcraft in the engine powered mode. A pusher propeller is coupled to the drivetrain and is rotatable to generate forward thrust for the rotorcraft in the engine powered mode. In the autorotation mode, the pusher propeller is aerodynamically driven responsive to airflow therethrough and the drivetrain is configured to receive torque and rotational energy from the pusher propeller, thereby providing power to the main rotor system.

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

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

Molds that include a ceramic material surface, and related methods for making and using the molds
Patent No. 11572298

Inventor(s): Christopher James Yannetta (Fort Worth, TX), Troy Scoggins (Decatur, TX)
Assignee(s): ENTEGRIS, INC. (Billerica, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16392132 on 04/23/2019 (1386 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described are molds that include a ceramic material at a surface, as well as methods of forming the molds, and methods of using the molds; the ceramic material is constituted substantially, mostly, or entirely of three elemental components designated M, A, and X; the ”M” component is at least one transition metal; the ”A” component is one or a combination of Si, Al, Ge, Pb, Sn, Ga, P, S, In, As, Tl, and Cd; and the ”X” component is carbon, nitrogen, or a combination thereof.

[C03B] MANUFACTURE OR SHAPING OF GLASS, OR OF MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL; SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES IN THE MANUFACTURE OR SHAPING OF GLASS, OR OF MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL (surface treatment C03C)

Expandable metal slurry for wellbore isolation and sealing
Patent No. 11572496

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: 17120946 on 12/14/2020 (785 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes providing an expandable metal slurry downhole in a wellbore. The expandable metal slurry includes granules of an expandable metal material suspended or dispersed in a fluid. Further, the method includes positioning the expandable metal slurry within the wellbore such that the granules of the expandable metal material in the expandable metal slurry are activatable to expand and form a seal within the wellbore.

[C09K] MATERIALS FOR APPLICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

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

Collision energy absorbing apparatus, systems, and methods
Patent No. 11572724

Inventor(s): Eric M. Botten (Grosse Ile, MI), Kimberly A. Strigle (Ann Arbor, MI), Peter J. Finnie (Ann Arbor, MI), Prashant K. Deore (Canton, MI), Robert Charles Steinbrecher (Dexter, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16675760 on 11/06/2019 (1189 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for absorbing energy in a hinge are provided. An apparatus may include a first portion, a second portion coupled to the first portion to move relative to the first portion, and a tab configured relative to the first and second portions to absorb energy imparted to the second portion during a collision. The tab may be bendable via rotation as the second portion moves towards the first portion during the collision. The first portion may be a hinge bracket securable to a vehicle body. The second portion may be a hinge arm securable to a vehicle hood. The tab may be positioned at least partially between the first portion and the second portion for selective interference of the tab with one of the first portion and the second portion.

[E05D] HINGES OR OTHER SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS, OR WINGS (pivotal connections in general F16C 11/00)

Recyclable plastic man-door
Patent No. 11572736

Inventor(s): Eddie Johnston (Dalton, OH), Phillip Dailey (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): DURASERV CORP. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17062838 on 10/05/2020 (855 days app to issue)

Abstract: A recyclable polyethylene man-door comprises an interior panel and an exterior door panel, each panel having a horizontal pattern of cut-outs and optionally comprising a blend of mineral additives that do not adversely affect the recyclability of the finished product.

[E06B] FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES, OR LIKE ENCLOSURES, IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES (shades or blinds for greenhouses A01G 9/22; curtains A47H; lids for car boots or bonnets B62D 25/10; sky-lights E04B 7/18; sunshades, awnings E04F 10/00)

Rigid riser adapter for offshore retrofitting of vessel with flexible riser balconies
Patent No. 11572745

Inventor(s): Michael Eugene Hogan (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Oil States Industries, Inc. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: Polsinelli PC (Local + 15 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17223503 on 04/06/2021 (672 days app to issue)

Abstract: Rigid riser adapter operable to be at least partially installed into a lower riser balcony. The rigid riser adapter includes a receptacle support structure. Additionally, the rigid riser adapter also includes an adapter tube extending from the receptacle support structure substantially along a vertical direction, the adapter tube operable to be inserted through a lower riser balcony. The rigid riser adapter can also include a rigid riser receptacle coupled to the receptacle support structure, wherein the rigid riser receptacle is angled between six degrees and twenty degrees in relation to the vertical direction.

[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]

Non-expanding liner hanger
Patent No. 11572749

Inventor(s): Abdol Reza Gharesi (Carrollton, TX), Emile Edmund Sevadjian (Carrollton, TX), Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: McGuireWoods LLP (Local + 9 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17124217 on 12/16/2020 (783 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for positioning a non-expandable liner hanger in a wellbore. A liner is coupled to the liner hanger, wherein the liner hanger comprises: a conduit body; and a reactive metal sealing element disposed on the conduit body, wherein the reactive metal sealing element comprises a reactive metal having a first volume. An example method includes contacting the reactive metal with a fluid that reacts with the reactive metal to produce a reaction product having a second volume greater than the first volume; and contacting a surface adjacent to the reactive metal sealing element with the reaction product to form a seal against the surface and to anchor the liner hanger from the surface, wherein anchoring the liner hanger to the surface suspends the liner in the wellbore.

Gravel pack particles containing mud filter cake dissolving materials
Patent No. 11572769

Inventor(s): Terrence Palisch (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CARBO CERAMICS INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16776334 on 01/29/2020 (1105 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gravel pack containing a substrate particle coated with an inducibly degradable and a porous particle having an internal interconnected porosity that is at least partially infused with an inducer material for dissolving of a layer of filter cake disposed between the gravel pack and a subterranean formation.

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

Vehicular mounted rail system
Patent No. 11572021

Inventor(s): Gavin Stener (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Wild West Investments, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17027603 on 09/21/2020 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicular mounted rail system may provide a rail, base(s), and rail adapter that are configured to be assembled and mounted to a structural member (e.g., dashboard) of a vehicle so as to enable a user to support an electronic device by the structural member.

[F16M] FRAMES, CASINGS, OR BEDS, OF ENGINES OR OTHER MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO AN ENGINE, MACHINE, OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS OR SUPPORTS

Electric heating systems and methods for gas turbine engines and jet engines
Patent No. 11572836

Inventor(s): Bob Burkett (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17586715 on 01/27/2022 (376 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for gas turbine or jet engines may include, among other things, one or more electric heating elements located within a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine, a combustion chamber of a jet engine, or an afterburner of a jet engine. A combustion chamber and/or an afterburner may be configured to generate heated gas by using the one or more electric heating elements to heat gases within the combustion chamber and/or afterburner. A combustion chamber and/or an afterburner may be configured to generate an exhaust output based on the heated gas. The exhaust output may drive a turbine which generates electricity or mechanical energy. Thrust from the exhaust output from a jet engine may propel a vehicle.

[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)

Sound-based HVAC system, method and device for diagnostics analysis
Patent No. 11573022

Inventor(s): Eric Berg (The Colony, TX), Glenn William Kowald (Carrollton, TX), Janathkumar Manohararaj (McKinney, TX), Jeffrey Fontenault (McKinney, TX), Payam Delgoshaei (Addison, TX), Sridhar Venkatesh (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17183228 on 02/23/2021 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device configured to operate a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system and to receive an audio signal from a microphone while operating HVAC system. The device is further configured to generate a representation of the audio signal, to compare one or more audio signatures to the representation of the audio signal, and to determine that an audio signature from among the one or more audio signatures is not present within the representation of the audio signal. The device is further configured to determine a fault type that is associated with the audio signature that is not present within the representation of the audio signal, to identify a component identifier for a component of the HVAC system that is associated with fault type, and to output the component identifier.

[F24F] AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING (removing dirt or fumes from areas where they are produced B08B 15/00; vertical ducts for carrying away waste gases from buildings E04F 17/02; tops for chimneys or ventilating shafts, terminals for flues F23L 17/02)

Methods and systems for operating HVAC systems in low load conditions
Patent No. 11573038

Inventor(s): Der-Kai Hung (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17376392 on 07/15/2021 (572 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system comprising a compressor, a first valve coupled to the compressor and coupled to a first coil, a first expansion valve coupled to the first coil, a second coil, and a second expansion valve. The second expansion valve coupled to a third coil, a second valve coupled to the compressor and the third coil. A controller operable to operate the first valve, the first expansion valve, the second expansion valve, and the second valve. The second coil is coupled to the compressor and the refrigerant flows from the second coil to the compressor.

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

P H Y S I C S

Hydraulic system for ultrasonic flow measurement using direct acoustic path approach
Patent No. 11573107

Inventor(s): Hans Martin Hilbig (Tiefenbach, , DE), Johann Reinhold Zipperer (Unterschleissheim, , DE), Peter Wongeun Chung (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16892561 on 06/04/2020 (978 days app to issue)

Abstract: A flow meter for determining the flow rate of a fluid through a conduit, including an upper body having an inlet chamber, an acoustic channel, an outlet chamber, a sound wave generator, and a sound wave receiver. The inlet chamber, acoustic channel, and outlet chamber are fluidly connected together and are oriented so as to create a symmetrical fluid pathway through the inlet chamber, the acoustic channel the outlet chamber. The sound wave generator and the sound wave receiver are aligned along a longitudinal axis of the acoustic channel and the sound wave generator is creates a sound wave that moves along the longitudinal axis of the acoustic channel as fluid flows through the acoustic chamber. The receiver detects that sound wave that has moved through the acoustic channel and such information is used to determine the flow rate of the fluid through the flow meter.

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

High sensitivity silicon piezoresistor force sensor
Patent No. 11573136

Inventor(s): Richard Alan Davis (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16573500 on 09/17/2019 (1239 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for sensing a force using a sense die are provided. The sense die may include a slab die; an actuation element configured to contact the slab die and apply a force to the slab die; and one or more sense elements supported by the slab die.

[G01L] MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE (weighing G01G) [4]

Ultrasound-switchable fluorescence imaging having improved imaging speed
Patent No. 11573181

Inventor(s): Baohong Yuan (Arlington, TX), Tingfeng Yao (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Nexsen Pruet, PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17286126 on 10/01/2019 (1225 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of imaging described herein comprises (a) disposing ultrasound-switchable fluorophores within an environment; (b) exposing the environment to ultrasound to create a first activation region within the environment; (c) disposing the fluorophores within the first activation region to switch the fluorophores from an off state to an on state; (d) irradiating the environment to excite the fluorophores within the first activation region; (e) detecting photoluminescence from the excited fluorophores at a first optical spot on an exterior surface of the environment; (f) subsequently creating a second activation region within the environment; (g) switching fluorophores within the second activation region to an on state; (h) exciting the fluorophores in the on state within the second activation region; and (i) detecting photoluminescence from the excited fluorophores within the second activation region at a second optical spot on the exterior surface, wherein the first and second optical spots are optically resolvable.

[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)

Humidity sensor
Patent No. 11573203

Inventor(s): Enis Tuncer (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17027592 on 09/21/2020 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, an apparatus includes: at least one electrode having a base on a first surface of a substrate and extending away from the base to an end; a counter-electrode spaced from the end of the at least one electrode, having a first conductive surface facing the end; and a package having a cavity containing the at least one electrode, the substrate, and the counter-electrode, the package having at least one opening configured to allow an atmosphere to enter the cavity.

Electronic device temperature test on strip film frames
Patent No. 11573266

Inventor(s): Dale Ohmart (Richmond, TX), Marshall Worrall (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17029988 on 09/23/2020 (867 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a platform and a contactor. The platform has a side configured to support a frame with a carrier structure and electronic devices each having first and second sides and a terminal, the first side positioned on the carrier structure, and the terminal exposed in a first portion of the second side. The contactor has first and second sides, a contact and a heater. The contact is exposed on the first side of the contactor to contact the terminal in a first portion of the second side of a selected one of the electronic devices, and the heater is exposed on the first side of the contactor to apply heat to a second portion of the second side of the selected one of the electronic devices.

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

Time of flight based rotary speed sensor with early fault detection
Patent No. 11573303

Inventor(s): Cheng Peng (Plano, TX), Xiaoyong Yang (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): STMicroelectronics, Inc. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Crowe Dunlevy (Local + 7 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16719004 on 12/18/2019 (1147 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for detecting rotational speed and early failures of an electronic device. The system includes a rotating disk affixed to a rotating shaft of the electronic device. The rotating disk has projections extending from its periphery. A time of flight ranging system determines distance to the projections extending from the rotating disk. Processing circuitry determines a rotational speed of the rotating shaft from the determined distances to the projections extending from the rotating disk, and detects whether the electronic device is undergoing an early failure from the determined distances to the projections extending from the rotating disk. Rotational speed is determined from the time between successive peaks in the determined distances, and early failures (for example, due to wobble of the shaft) are determined where the peaks vary unexpectedly in magnitude.

[G01S] RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES

Lidar imaging receiver
Patent No. 11573324

Inventor(s): Sreenivasan K. Koduri (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16203170 on 11/28/2018 (1532 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described examples include a receiver having a beam splitter arranged to receive reflected light from a scene illuminated by a transmitted light signal, the beam splitter structured to provide at least two copies of the reflected light including at least two regions having sub-regions, wherein the sub-regions are not adjacent to each other. The receiver also includes a first sensor array arranged to receive one region of the reflected light and provide an output representative of that region of the reflected light. The receiver also includes a second sensor array arranged to receive the other region of the reflected light and provide a second output representative of the second region of the reflected light. The receiver also includes a combiner arranged to receive the outputs of the sensor arrays to provide a combined representation of the reflected light.

Optical engine
Patent No. 11573387

Inventor(s): Karlheinz Muth (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16836815 on 03/31/2020 (1043 days app to issue)

Abstract: An optical engine. In some embodiments, the optical engine includes an electronic interfacing component including: an upper surface having a plurality of conductors for forming a corresponding plurality of connections to a host board, a lower surface having a plurality of conductors for forming a corresponding plurality of connections to one or more optoelectronic elements, and a plurality of vias extending from the lower surface to the upper surface.

[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]

Multi-axis gimbal extended pixel resolution actuator
Patent No. 11573396

Inventor(s): Steven Edward Smith (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16198973 on 11/23/2018 (1537 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-axis gimbal actuator includes a first tilt frame tiltably coupled to a second tilt frame. The second frame is tiltably coupled to a reference frame. The first tilt frame is offset from the second tilt frame and approximately parallel to the second tilt frame while in a neutral position. An optical element is mounted on the first tilt frame.

Discrete power control of components within a computer system
Patent No. 11573622

Inventor(s): Laurent Geffroy (Saint Laurent du Var, , FR), Robert J. Nychka (Wills Point, TX), Sonu Arora (Karnataka, , IN), Vipin Verma (Karnataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16441294 on 06/14/2019 (1334 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for discrete power control of components within a computer system are described herein. Some illustrative embodiments include a system that includes a subsystem with a plurality of components (configurable to operate at one or more power levels), a control register (coupled to the plurality of components) including a plurality of bits (each uniquely associated with a one of the plurality of components), and a power controller coupled to, and configurable to cause, the plurality of components to operate at the one or more power levels. The power controller asserts a signal transmitted to the subsystem, commanding the subsystem to transition to a first power level. A first of the plurality of components, associated with an asserted bit of the control register, operates at a second power level corresponding to a level of power consumption different from that of the first power level indicated by the power controller.

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

Conditional branching control for a multi-threaded, self-scheduling reconfigurable computing fabric
Patent No. 11573796

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: 17399427 on 08/11/2021 (545 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)

User mode event handling
Patent No. 11573802

Inventor(s): Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17079038 on 10/23/2020 (837 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes asserting a field of an event flag mask register configured to inhibit an event handler. The method also includes, responsive to an event that corresponds to the field of the event flag mask register being triggered: asserting a field of an event flag register associated with the event; and based the field in the event flag register being asserted, taking an action by a task being executed by the data processor core.

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

Computational partition for a multi-threaded, self-scheduling reconfigurable computing fabric
Patent No. 11573834

Abstract: Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. A representative system includes an asynchronous packet network; a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array, each configurable circuit coupled to the asynchronous packet network and adapted to perform a plurality of computations; and a dispatch interface circuit adapted to partition the plurality of configurable circuits into one or more separate partitions of configurable circuits and to load one or more computation kernels into each partition of configurable circuits. The dispatch interface circuit may load balance across the partitions of configurable circuits by starting threads for execution in the partition having the highest number of available thread identifiers. The dispatch interface may also assert a partition enable signal to merge the one or more separate partitions and assert a stop signal to all configurable circuits of the one or more separate partitions of configurable circuits.

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

Systems and methods for virtual machine resource optimization using tree traversal techniques representing alternate configurations
Patent No. 11573841

Inventor(s): Brian A. Ward (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17142854 on 01/06/2021 (762 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems described herein may allow for the intelligent configuration of containers onto virtualized resources. Different configurations may be generated based on the simulation of alternate placements of containers onto nodes, where the placement of a particular container onto a particular node may serve as a root for several branches which may themselves simulate the placement of additional containers on the node (in addition to the container(s) indicated in the root). Once a set of configurations are generated, a particular configuration may be selected according to determined selection parameters and/or intelligent selection techniques.

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

Streaming engine with deferred exception reporting
Patent No. 11573847

Inventor(s): Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, TX), Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, CA), Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16988500 on 08/07/2020 (914 days app to issue)

Abstract: This invention is a streaming engine employed in a digital signal processor. A fixed data stream sequence is specified by a control register. The streaming engine fetches stream data ahead of use by a central processing unit and stores it in a stream buffer. Upon occurrence of a fault reading data from memory, the streaming engine identifies the data element triggering the fault preferably storing this address in a fault address register. The streaming engine defers signaling the fault to the central processing unit until this data element is used as an operand. If the data element is never used by the central processing unit, the streaming engine never signals the fault. The streaming engine preferably stores data identifying the fault in a fault source register. The fault address register and the fault source register are preferably extended control registers accessible only via a debugger.

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

Distributed architecture for fault monitoring
Patent No. 11573877

Inventor(s): Ali M. Bazzi (South Windsor, CT), Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Krishna Pattipatti (Storrs, CT), Lingyi Zhang (Willington, CT), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, MI), Weiqiang Chen (Willington, CT)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17378230 on 07/16/2021 (571 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting an anomaly in a power semiconductor device are disclosed. A system includes a server computing device and one or more local components communicatively coupled to the server computing device. Each local component includes sensors positioned adjacent to the power semiconductor device for sensing properties thereof. Each local component receives data corresponding to one or more sensed properties of the power semiconductor device from the sensors and transmits the data to the server computing device. The server computing device utilizes the data, via a machine learning algorithm, to generate a set of eigenvalues and associated eigenvectors and select a selected set of eigenvalues and associated eigenvectors. Each local component conducts a statistical analysis of the selected set of eigenvalues and associated eigenvectors to determine that the data is indicative of the anomaly.

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

Apparatus, system, and method for managing commands of solid-state storage using bank interleave
Patent No. 11573909

Inventor(s): Bert Lagerstedt (Pleasant Grove, UT), David Flynn (Sandy, UT), John Strasser (Syracuse, UT), Jonathan Thatcher (Liberty Lake, WA), Michael Zappe (Arvada, CO)
Assignee(s): Unification Technologies LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17343116 on 06/09/2021 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for efficiently managing commands in a solid-state storage device that includes a solid-state storage arranged in two or more banks. Each bank is separately accessible and includes two or more solid-state storage elements accessed in parallel by a storage input/output bus. The solid-state storage includes solid-state, non-volatile memory. The solid-state storage device includes a bank interleave that directs one or more commands to two or more queues, where the one or more commands are separated by command type into the queues. Each bank includes a set of queues in the bank interleave controller. Each set of queues includes a queue for each command type. The bank interleave controller coordinates among the banks execution of the commands stored in the queues, where a command of a first type executes on one bank while a command of a second type executes on a second bank.

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

Nonconsecutive mapping scheme for data path circuitry in a storage device
Patent No. 11573914

Inventor(s): Hiroki Yabe (Yokohama, , JP), Masahito Takehara (Yokohama, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17206864 on 03/19/2021 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A data storage system includes a storage medium including a plurality of columns of memory cells, a storage controller coupled to the storage medium, and data path circuitry including a data bus coupled to the storage controller, the data bus configured to receive a plurality of bytes of data to be written to the plurality of columns of memory cells; a block of data latches having a pitch equal to a first number of bit lines of the plurality of columns of memory cells; and column redundancy circuitry configured to pass the plurality of bytes of data to the block of data latches via the plurality of columns in accordance with a nonconsecutive mapping scheme. The nonconsecutive mapping scheme includes mapping each group of three bytes to two columns by splitting one byte of each group of three bytes into two nibbles.

[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)

Multi-slave serial communication
Patent No. 11573919

Inventor(s): Ishtiaque Amin (Farmers Branch, TX), Kuang Yu Chiang (Plano, TX), Rakesh Raja (Allen, TX), Ryan Kehr (Fairview, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15985284 on 05/21/2018 (1723 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for synchronous serial communication includes encoding, by a master device, a header field to be initially transmitted in a frame with a header identification code and a slave count value that defines a number of slave devices communicatively coupled to the master device. A plurality of address fields to be transmitted in the frame are also encoded by the master device. Each of the address fields corresponding to a different one the slave devices. A first of the address fields to be transmitted in the frame corresponds to a last of the slave devices to receive the header field, and a last of the address fields to be transmitted in the frame corresponds to a first of the slave devices to receive the header field. The frame is transmitted to the slave devices by the master device.

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

Database creation using table type information
Patent No. 11573956

Inventor(s): Dennis J. Mire (Dallas, TX), Oron Hazi (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16848114 on 04/14/2020 (1029 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for proving feedback on database instructions, identifying, for example, existing patterns and providing suggested replacement instructions. This may have the effect of improving the efficiency of instructions used to create and/or manipulate databases. According to some aspects, these and other benefits may be achieved by parsing received instructions into an organizational structure, traversing the organizational structure for known patterns, and suggesting replacement patterns. In implementation, this may be effected by receiving one or more sets of known patterns and corresponding replacement patterns, parsing received instructions, comparing the known patterns with the parsed instructions, and providing suggested replacement patterns based on one or more known patterns matching the parsed instructions. A benefit of may include reducing Cartesian products during the merging of tables.

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

Malicious code scanning of remotely-located files
Patent No. 11574058

Inventor(s): Brendan Matthew Johnson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Trend Micro Incorporated (Tokyo, , JP)
Law Firm: Beyer Law Group LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17110703 on 12/03/2020 (796 days app to issue)

Abstract: A file is stored in a public cloud storage. A serverless computing platform receives an event notification that the file has been stored and, in response, creates an instance of an ephemeral environment wherein a security module is executed. The security module creates a memory-mapped space with memory locations that are mapped to the entire content of the file but does not allocate memory for all of the memory locations. Instead, the security module retrieves sections of the file from the public cloud storage as these sections are accessed in their designated memory locations in accordance with the memory mapping, allocates memory for the retrieved sections, stores the retrieved sections in their designated memory locations, and scans the retrieved sections in their designated memory locations for malicious code. The security module continues scanning the file in sections until relevant sections of the file have been scanned.

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

Reliability of information security controls for attack readiness
Patent No. 11574071

Inventor(s): Martin A. Carmichael (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16941093 on 07/28/2020 (924 days app to issue)

Abstract: A target device stores secure information and one or more security tools configured to protect against unauthorized access of the secure information. A first database stores profiles for each of a set of predefined attack groups. Each profile includes a set of attack techniques used by the corresponding attack group and, for each attack technique, a corresponding set of mitigations. A second database stores control policies. Each control policy is associated with a set of security tools that protect against unauthorized access of the secure information stored by the target device. A controls monitor determines an attack controls superset based on the profiles and control policies. A controls health dashboard receives a user query and provides a representation of a portion of the attack controls superset that is associated with the received query.

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

Simulation framework
Patent No. 11574099

Inventor(s): Lakshmanan Balasubramanian (Karnataka, , IN), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Karnataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17393263 on 08/03/2021 (553 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method comprises creating an electronic module design having a plurality of electronic components and defining a model of functional behavior of a subset of the plurality of electronic components, the subset of the plurality of electronic components excluding a first electronic component. Functional behavior of the first electronic component is defined in a user-defined functional design intent file based on a first template, and a power behavior of the first electronic component is defined in a user-defined power design intent file based on a second template. A simulation file is generated based on the model of functional behavior and based on the functional behavior and the power behavior of the first electronic component. The simulation file is run to simulate operation of the electronic module design. A performance status is determined of the electronic module design in response to running the simulation file.

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

Machine learning based identification and classification of database commands
Patent No. 11574217

Inventor(s): James D. Ilmonen (McKinney, TX), Mayakoothan Krishnan (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16910852 on 06/24/2020 (958 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a machine learning based identification and classification of database commands. A computing platform may retrieve, by a computing device and from a first database of a plurality of databases, a database command. Subsequently, the computing platform may identify, by the computing device and for the database command and based on a machine learning model, one or more database commands from the plurality of databases, wherein the one or more database commands perform operations similar to the database command. Then, the computing platform may determine, by the computing device and for the database command, a security score indicative of a level of vulnerability associated with the database command. Subsequently, the computing platform may provide, via an interactive graphical user interface, the database command and the security score.

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

Providing identification information during an interaction with an interactive computing environment
Patent No. 11574299

Inventor(s): Anand Krishnaswamy (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16160639 on 10/15/2018 (1576 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects and examples are disclosed for facilitating transactions with an interactive computing environment provided by a host system. In one example, a processing device receives a data network identifier or other identifier from an interactive computing environment. The data network identifier or other identifier can be associated with a mobile device conducting a transaction with the interactive computing environment. The processing device can also obtain a credential associated with the mobile device using the data network identifier. The processing device can additionally retrieve identification information from a credit file associated with the credential. The identification information can be useable for completing the transaction. The processing device can further transmit the identification information to a host server system executing the interactive computing environment.

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

System and method for dynamic creation of product links from a web browser application
Patent No. 11574344

Inventor(s): Alexei Stoliartchouk (Kensington, CA), Baxter Box (Dallas, TX), Forrest Jordan (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): rewardStyle, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17661630 on 05/02/2022 (281 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system is provided for facilitating affiliate link generation using a web browser application. A publisher enables the system by identifying a webpage on an affiliate web site. The system performs an initial assessment of the page to extract webpage information, which is compared to information stored in a database. If the extracted information matches stored information, a record of the webpage is displayed and an affiliate link is dynamically generated for immediate use. If the extracted information does not match stored information, a new record of the webpage is created. If the webpage contains product-specific data, a product-specific record is stored. If the webpage does not contain product-specific data, a non-product record is stored. An affiliate link is then dynamically created. The new record of the product and dynamically created affiliate link is added to the database for immediate use.

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

Systems and methods for product ordering and delivery for inmates
Patent No. 11574356

Inventor(s): Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16985825 on 08/05/2020 (916 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system that includes an order processing subsystem and a delivery processing subsystem comprising at least one database and one or more processors. The one or more processors of the delivery processing subsystem is configured to receive a request for a user to access the delivery processing subsystem and a scanning device, authenticate the user by verifying the request with user credentials stored in the at least one database, provide the user with access to the delivery processing subsystem and the scanning device, receive scanned data from the scanning device, retrieve package data regarding a package for an inmate based on the scanned data from the scanning device, and generate, based on the package data, a route in the correctional facility for delivery of the package to the inmate in the correctional facility, wherein the route does not include an identity of the inmate.

AI-based vehicle support system and method for use therewith
Patent No. 11574362

Inventor(s): Saurabh Sarkar (Mason, OH), Zhi (James) Li (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Tricolor Holdings, LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Garlick Markison (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17196104 on 03/09/2021 (700 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle transaction support system operates by: generating, based on customer prequalification data and extended bureau data and utilizing a customer grading engine having a first artificial intelligence model trained via machine learning, a customer grade that predicts a likelihood of transaction default associated with a customer; generating, based on customer profile data that includes the customer grade and other customer profile data and utilizing a vehicle recommendation engine having a second artificial intelligence model trained via machine learning, vehicle options data that indicates vehicles selected from a vehicle database; and generating, based on at least a portion of the customer profile data and the vehicle options data and utilizing a transaction recommendation engine having a third artificial intelligence model trained via machine learning, terms data associated with each of the vehicles selected from the vehicle database.

System for embedding searchable information, encryption, signing operation, transmission, storage database and retrieval
Patent No. 11574379

Inventor(s): Frederick J. Murphy (Falmouth, MA), Michael F. Malone (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): MyPort IP, Inc. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17517261 on 11/02/2021 (462 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cell phone is disclosed for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto. A capture device captures information from an external source. A processor is provided for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that the representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information. The processor also places the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information. A transmitter transmits the transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to the receiving facility. An encryptor encrypts the augmented captured information with a symmetrical encryption algorithm to provide encrypted augmented captured information in the transmission with the subscriber information.

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

Game live auction system and method of operation
Patent No. 11574526

Inventor(s): Charles B. Humphreyson (Dallas, TX), Emmitt J. Smith, III (Dallas, TX), Haroon I. Alvi (Dallas, TX), Richard L. Lackey (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PROVA GROUP, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Jackson Walker LLP (Local + 3 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17170423 on 02/08/2021 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for conducting a raffle comprising reading an item identifier from an identification tag affixed to an item at an equipment management system, prior to an event related to the item. The raffle notification data is then transmitted to users after the event has occurred. A plurality of raffle ticket purchase requests are then received from the plurality of devices and are processed. The raffle tickets are then delivered to the plurality of devices, such as in electronic form. One of the raffle tickets is then selected, and winning notification data is transmitted to the associated device. The winner can authenticate the winning item by reading the identification tag affixed to the item after the event at the equipment management system.

[G07F] COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D 3/00; coin testing G07D 5/00) [7]

Transport dangerous location warning
Patent No. 11574543

Inventor(s): Jay Bartholomew (McKinney, TX), Lucas Smith (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16827465 on 03/23/2020 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, first data from a transport experiencing a near accident with a device external to the transport, the first data comprising a location of the transport and information related to a maneuvering of the transport, determining, by the server, that the location of the transport is a dangerous location and the maneuvering of the transport constitutes the near accident based on the first data, and sending a first notification, by the server, to another transport proximate to the dangerous location, the first notification comprises information related to the dangerous location and the near accident.

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

Acoustic structure for beaming soundwaves
Patent No. 11574619

Inventor(s): Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, MI), Xiaoshi Su (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: 17036538 on 09/29/2020 (861 days app to issue)

Abstract: An acoustic structure for beaming soundwaves from a first direction toward a second direction, may include a plurality of phononic crystals. The plurality of phononic crystals have an outer border, an internal cavity and a channel extending between the outer border and the internal cavity, wherein the channel defines an opening within the outer border. The phononic crystals are disposed such that the opening faces the second direction. Soundwaves from the first direction are beamed to the second direction by the plurality of phononic crystals.

[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]

Shared command shifter systems and methods
Patent No. 11574661

Inventor(s): Kallol Mazumder (Dallas, TX), Navya Sri Sreeram (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17501812 on 10/14/2021 (481 days app to issue)

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein involve a device that may receive a plurality of commands and generate a common command indicative of matching data signals between each of the plurality of commands. The device may include a first latch that receives a shifted flag and outputs a shifted command in response to a first enable signal. The device may include shifters, where a first shifter may receive the common command, and a last shifter may couple to the first latch. The last shifter may receive a shifter common command and may generate the first enable signal using the shifted common command.

Memory apparatus and method of operation using periodic normal erase dummy cycle to improve stripe erase endurance and data retention
Patent No. 11574693

Inventor(s): Anubhav Khandelwal (San Jose, CA), Chin-Yi Chen (San Jose, CA), Dengtao Zhao (Kumar, CA), Muhammad Masuduzzaman (Chandler, AZ), Ravi Kumar (Redwood City, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17347772 on 06/15/2021 (602 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells connected to one of a plurality of word lines and arranged in strings and configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to one of a plurality of memory states. A control circuit is coupled to the plurality of word lines and strings and is configured to erase the memory cells using a stripe erase operation in response to determining a cycle count is less than a predetermined cycle count maximum threshold. The control circuit is also configured to perform a dummy cycle operation in response to determining the cycle count is not less than the predetermined cycle count maximum threshold.

Remote health assertion verification and mortality prediction system
Patent No. 11574714

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: 17144579 on 01/08/2021 (760 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing system can implement a health verification and prediction service by generating an interactive user interface through which users can provide responses to health assertions in one or more trivia sessions. Each of the health assertions can include a correlation value to actual health outcomes based on responses received from individuals a control group and the known health outcomes of those individuals. Based on the responses from the user, the computing system can generate a health profile for the user. NULL

Authentication of medication delivery vehicle to facilitate medication release
Patent No. 11574735

Inventor(s): Ira L. Allen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Kyndryl, Inc. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Calderon Safran Cole, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16787969 on 02/11/2020 (1092 days app to issue)

Abstract: A delivery device includes a circuit for receiving an authentication signal. The delivery device contains a substance encapsulated therein. The delivery device determines whether a user is authenticated based upon the authentication signal and an identifier stored within the delivery device. The delivery device heats, responsive to determining that the user is not authenticated within a predetermined time period after the delivery device being ingested by the user, the substance encapsulated within the delivery device. NULL

Clamp for power transistor device
Patent No. 11574902

Inventor(s): Eung Jung Kim (Allen, TX), Kyle Clifton Schulmeyer (Plano, TX), Md Abidur Rahman (Richardson, TX), Sualp Aras (Dallas, TX), Xiaochun Zhao (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16264065 on 01/31/2019 (1468 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a clamp network coupled between an input and an output and configured to clamp a voltage between the input and the output to a first clamp voltage based on the presence of a trigger signal and to a second clamp voltage based on the absence of the trigger signal. The second clamp voltage is greater than the first clamp voltage and the first clamp voltage is less than a breakdown voltage of the power transistor device. A detector circuit is coupled to the input and the output. A power transistor device may also be coupled between the input and the output. The detector circuit is configured to detect a pulse signal at the input or the output while the power transistor device is off and to generate the trigger signal for a time interval based on detecting the pulse signal.

[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]

Motor driver controller analysis device
Patent No. 11575342

Inventor(s): Harvey Veselka (Carrollton, TX), Jose Sandoval (The Colony, TX), Palanivel Subramaniam (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17028808 on 09/22/2020 (868 days app to issue)

Abstract: A motor driving system includes motor driving circuitry configured to operate an electric motor. The system further includes a controller that is configured to send a signal to energize the electric motor and to measure a back electromotive force voltage of the electric motor. The controller is further configured to determine a temperature value based on the measured back electromotive force voltage using a back electromotive force voltage mapping that maps back electromotive force voltages to temperature values. The controller is further configured to determine an expected winding resistance value based on the determined temperature value using a resistance mapping that maps winding resistance values to temperature values. The controller is further configured to measure a winding resistance of the electric motor, to compare the measured winding resistance of the electric motor to the expected winding resistance value, and to output a match result indication based on the comparison.

[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 providing additional functionality to existing software in an integrated manner
Patent No. 11576046

Inventor(s): Rashmi Hiremath (Allen, TX), Satish Gundabathula (Irving, TX), Sivakumar Chaturvedi (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): DAMAKA, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17109488 on 12/02/2020 (797 days app to issue)

Abstract: An improved system and method are disclosed for improving functionality in software applications. In one example, the method includes a computing entity having a network interface, a processor, and a memory configured to store a plurality of instructions. The instructions include instructions for a superblock application having instructions for a function block included therein. The function block is configured to provide functions that are accessible to the superblock application via an application programming interface (API). The functions are provided within the superblock application itself and are accessible within the superblock application without switching context to another application on the computing entity.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Dynamic wireless power transfer base pad
Patent No. 11571975

Inventor(s): Abhilash Kamineni (North Logan, UT), Reebal Nimri (Logan, UT)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17022905 on 09/16/2020 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dynamic wireless power transfer base pad can include a housing, a first conductor, a second conductor, and a third conductor. The first conductor can be disposed within the housing substantially along a circumference and can be configured to conduct a first current to produce a first magnetic field. The second conductor can be disposed at a first end within the housing and can be configured to conduct a second current to produce a second magnetic field. A magnetic field at the first end can include a constructive superimposition of the first magnetic field with the second magnetic field. The third conductor can be disposed at a second end within the housing and can be configured to conduct a third current to produce a third magnetic field. A magnetic field at the second end can include a constructive superimposition of the first magnetic field with the third magnetic field.

[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)

Homogenous atomic pattern for double, add, and subtract operations for digital authentication using elliptic curve cryptography
Patent No. 11573769

Inventor(s): Eric Thierry Peeters (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16825647 on 03/20/2020 (1054 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of performing finite field addition and doubling operations in an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) authentication scheme as a countermeasure to side-channel attack. The addition and doubling operations are executed using atomic patterns that involve the same sequence and number of operation types, so that the noise consumption and electromagnetic emanation profile of circuitry performing the operations is identical regardless of operation. A subtraction operation using such an atomic pattern is also disclosed.

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

Package with dies mounted on opposing surfaces of a leadframe
Patent No. 11574855

Inventor(s): Makoto Shibuya (Beppu, , JP), Noboru Nakanishi (Beppu, , JP)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17399018 on 08/10/2021 (546 days app to issue)

Abstract: A package includes a leadframe having first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the leadframe forming a plurality of leads, a first semiconductor die mounted on the first surface of the leadframe and electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of leads, a second semiconductor die mounted on the second surface of the leadframe, wire bonds electrically connecting the second semiconductor die to the leadframe, and mold compound at least partially covering the first semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die and the wire bonds.

[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]

Multi-function bond pad
Patent No. 11574884

Inventor(s): John Paul Tellkamp (Rockwall, TX), Suvadip Banerjee (Horamavu, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17162189 on 01/29/2021 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device includes one or more multinode pads having two or more conductive segments spaced from one another on a semiconductor die. A conductive stud bump is selectively formed on portions of the first and second conductive segments to program circuitry of the semiconductor die or to couple a supply circuit to a load circuit. The multinode pad can be coupled to a programming circuit in the semiconductor die to allow programming a programmable circuit of the semiconductor die during packaging. The multinode pad has respective conductive segments coupled to the supply circuit and the load circuit to allow current consumption or other measurements during wafer probe testing in which the first and second conductive segments are separately probed prior to stud bump formation.

Flip chip backside mechanical die grounding techniques
Patent No. 11574887

Inventor(s): James Fred Salzman (Anna, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16828268 on 03/24/2020 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit attached to a chip carrier in a flip chip configuration. A substrate extends to a back surface of the integrated circuit, and an interconnect region extends to a front surface of the integrated circuit. A substrate bond pad is disposed at the front surface, and is electrically coupled through the interconnect region to the semiconductor material. The chip carrier includes a substrate lead at a front surface of the chip carrier. The substrate lead is electrically coupled to the substrate bond pad. An electrically conductive compression sheet is disposed on the back surface of the integrated circuit, with lower compression tips making electrical contact with the semiconductor material in the substrate. The electrically conductive compression sheet is electrically coupled to the substrate lead of the chip carrier by a back surface shunt disposed outside of the integrated circuit.

Positive strike SCR, negative strike SCR, and a bidirectional ESD structure that utilizes the positive strike SCR and the negative strike SCR
Patent No. 11574903

Inventor(s): Akram A. Salman (Plano, TX), Henry Litzmann Edwards (Garland, TX), Md Iqbal Mahmud (Waterford, NY)
Assignee(s): Texas Instmments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15665575 on 08/01/2017 (2016 days app to issue)

Abstract: A first silicon controlled rectifier has a breakdown voltage in a first direction and a breakdown voltage in a second direction. A second silicon controlled rectifier has a breakdown voltage with a higher magnitude than the first silicon controlled rectifier in the first direction, and a breakdown voltage with a lower magnitude than the first silicon controlled rectifier in the second direction. A bidirectional electrostatic discharge (ESD) structure utilizes both the first silicon controlled rectifier and the second silicon controlled rectifier to provide bidirectional protection.

High voltage isolated microelectronic device
Patent No. 11574995

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Alan West (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instmments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17138059 on 12/30/2020 (769 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method forms a first voltage node of a high voltage component of a microelectronic device. The method also forms a plurality of dielectric layers. The method also forms a second voltage node of the high voltage component of the microelectronic device in a fourth position such that the plurality of dielectric layers is between the first voltage node and the second voltage node. During the forming a second voltage node step, a portion of a third layer in the plurality of dielectric layers, in a region outwardly positioned relative to the second voltage node, is removed to expose the second layer, in the plurality of dielectric layers, in the region.

High voltage field effect transistors with self-aligned silicide contacts and methods for making the same
Patent No. 11575015

Inventor(s): Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Yokkaichi, , JP), Jun Akaiwa (Yokkaichi, , JP), Masashi Ishida (Yokkaichi, , JP), Mitsuhiro Togo (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348328 on 06/15/2021 (602 days app to issue)

Abstract: A field effect transistor includes a source region and a drain region formed within and/or above openings in a dielectric capping mask layer overlying a semiconductor substrate and a gate electrode. A source-side silicide portion and a drain-side silicide portion are self-aligned to the source region and to the drain region, respectively.

Mechanical tilt mounting system for a base station antenna
Patent No. 11575195

Inventor(s): Khanh Duy Tran (Rowlett, TX), Michel Dembinski (Dallas, TX), Paul D. Everest (Flower Mound, TX), Samantha L. Merta (Richardson, TX), Steven Rogers (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17108655 on 12/01/2020 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mechanical tilt mounting system for a base station antenna includes a fixed pivot that connects the antenna to a support structure. The antenna is rotatable about the fixed pivot. An adjustable control arm has a first end connected to the antenna and a second end connected to the support structure. Extension and contraction of the adjustable arm rotates the antenna about the fixed pivot to change the angle of inclination of the antenna.

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

Actuators for controlling multiple phase shifters of remote electronic downtilt base station antennas
Patent No. 11575201

Inventor(s): Amit Kaistha (Coppell, TX), Chih Lin Lin Chou (Allen, TX), Paul Everest (Flower Mound, TX), Richard English (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16746387 on 01/17/2020 (1117 days app to issue)

Abstract: Multi-RET actuators include a plurality of shafts that have respective axially-drivable members mounted thereon. Each of axially-drivable member is mechanically linked to a respective one of a plurality of phase shifters. The multi-RET actuator further includes a motor having a drive shaft and a gear system that is configured to selectively couple the motor to the respective shafts. The gear system is configured so that rotation of the drive shaft in a first direction creates a mechanical linkage between the motor and a first of the shafts [b]1340/1342[/b], and rotation of the drive shaft in a second direction that is opposite the first direction rotates the first of the shafts.

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

Reconfigurable multi-band base station antennas having self-contained sub-modules
Patent No. 11575217

Inventor(s): Amit Kaistha (Coppell, TX), Gangyi Deng (Allen, TX), Joy Huang (Plano, TX), Sammit Patel (Dallas, TX), XiaoHua Hou (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17218601 on 03/31/2021 (678 days app to issue)

Abstract: Base station antennas include a main module that has a first backplane that includes a first reflector. A vertically-extending array of first radiating elements is mounted to extend forwardly from the first reflector, and at least one first RF port is coupled to the vertically-extending array of first radiating elements. These antennas further include a sub-module that is attached to the first backplane. The sub-module includes a second backplane that has a second reflector that is separate from the first reflector. A vertically-extending array of second radiating elements is mounted to extend forwardly from the second reflector and is transversely spaced-apart from the vertically-extending array of first radiating elements. A plurality of second RF ports are coupled to the vertically-extending array of second radiating elements. The vertically-extending array of first radiating elements and the vertically-extending array of second radiating elements are configured to serve a common sector of a base station.

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

Pass-through plug
Patent No. 11575226

Inventor(s): Meridith Martin (Richardson, TX), Staci Mininger (Richardson, TX), Timothy Wayne Terleski (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TXS INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Westman, Champlin Koehler, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17173403 on 02/11/2021 (726 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present application provides a pass-through plug, including: a first housing, comprising a plurality of sockets; a second housing, configured to be connected with the first housing; and a tamper resistant assembly, trapped between the first housing and the second housing and configured to selectively block the plurality of sockets when the plurality of sockets are not simultaneously operated. The provided pass-through plug can reduce the potential risk of people accidentally inserting conductive objects into the socket holes.

[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)

Autonomous mode transition for multimode operation in boost PFC converters
Patent No. 11575314

Inventor(s): Laszlo Balogh (Merrimack, NH), Philomena Brady (Farmers Branch, TX), Saad Pervaiz (Dallas, TX), Sombuddha Chakraborty (Redwood City, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17334651 on 05/28/2021 (620 days app to issue)

Abstract: A controller for a boost power factor correction (PFC) converter. The controller is configured to operate the boost PFC converter in multiple operating modes, including a continuous conduction mode (CCM), a transition mode (TM), and a hybrid mode in which the controller operates the converter in both CCM and TM within a same line cycle. An example controller includes a current control loop and a mode transition circuit. The current control loop is configured to compute an inductor current for each of first and second operation modes, based on a current sample taken, for example, during a boost synchronous rectifier conduction period of the converter. The mode transition circuit includes digital logic circuitry and is configured to generate a pulse indicating that one, two or all three of: zero-voltage switching (ZVS) has been achieved; the synchronous rectifier conduction period is active; and/or one of TM or hybrid mode is active.

[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]

Input voltage adaptive jitter power converter
Patent No. 11575316

Inventor(s): Feng-Jung Huang (Taoyuan, , TW), Wei Chuan Su (Taipei, , TW), Yuan-Hung Lo (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17515761 on 11/01/2021 (463 days app to issue)

Abstract: A power converter includes a power switch controlling current flow in the power converter and a variable capacitance coupled in parallel to the power switch. The variable capacitance is configured to add a frequency jitter to the power converter.

Low complexity non-linear modelling techniques for wireless technologies
Patent No. 11575350

Inventor(s): Shavantha Kularatna (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16499806 on 04/05/2017 (2134 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various communication devices may benefit from the appropriate use of modeling techniques. For example, devices that include components that may be driven into non-linear ranges of operation may benefit from low complexity non-linear modelling techniques. Such devices may be used, for example, in wireless communication systems. A method can include obtaining a sample of a signal representative of power consumed by a device while the device is operating in a non-linear range while being driven according to a driving signal. The method can also include computing a correction to the driving signal based on the sample. The correction can be calculated based on a plurality of non-overlapped non-linear sections corresponding to a response of the device. The method can further include applying the correction to adjust the driving signal. The correction can be configured to adjust the power to a desired value of power.

[H03F] AMPLIFIERS (measuring, testing G01R; optical parametric amplifiers G02F; circuit arrangements with secondary emission tubes H01J 43/30; masers, lasers H01S; dynamo-electric amplifiers H02K; control of amplification H03G; coupling arrangements independent of the nature of the amplifier, voltage dividers H03H; amplifiers capable only of dealing with pulses H03K; repeater circuits in transmission lines H04B 3/36, H04B 3/58; application of speech amplifiers in telephonic communication H04M 1/60, H04M 3/40)

High voltage gate driver current source
Patent No. 11575372

Inventor(s): Justin Patrick Vogt (Plano, TX), Michael James Mills (Plano, TX), Sujan Kundapur Manohar (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16877128 on 05/18/2020 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: A power supply system for USB Power Delivery includes a current source drive circuit to control a power FET to regulate the supply of power along a power path. The current source drive circuit includes a cascode current source and a cascode protection circuit formed by a source follower and a feedback voltage divider. The source follower can be a transistor with its gate connected to a cascode node between upper- and lower-stage transistors of the cascode current source. The divider node of the voltage divider is connected to the gate of the lower-stage transistor. The current source drive circuit can operate within the gate-source voltage specifications of 30-volt DEPMOS devices, and can provide high output impedance to the gate of power FET and a current limit circuit during current limiting operation, without requiring an extra high-voltage mask during fabrication.

[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]

Switch circuitry
Patent No. 11575373

Inventor(s): Charles Forrest Campbell (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Qorvo US, Inc. (Greensboro, NC)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, P.L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16213185 on 12/07/2018 (1523 days app to issue)

Abstract: Switch circuitry is disclosed having a series stack of transistors coupled between first and second port terminals. A string of gate resistors having a common gate terminal is coupled to gates of the series stack of transistors. A bias control transistor has a bias control terminal and first and second current terminals. The second control terminal is coupled to a switch control terminal configured to receive on-state and off-state control voltages that transition the series stack of transistors between passing a radio frequency signal and blocking the radio frequency signal from passing between the first and second port terminals, respectively. A string of diodes is coupled between the common gate terminal and the first current terminal, and a common gate resistor is coupled between the common gate terminal and the switch control terminal. The diodes contribute to actively generating additional negative gate bias as RF power level increases.

PIM cancellation
Patent No. 11575400

Inventor(s): Aaron Mullins (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Tong, Rea, Bentley Kim, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17388070 on 07/29/2021 (558 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals using a radio system coupled to an external antenna via an additional combiner or diplexer, means for receiving one or more reference signals usable for measurement of passive intermodulation from one or more nodes provided in a signal path external to the radio system, a first one of said nodes being associated with a signal path between the additional combiner or diplexer and the external antenna, and means for performing passive intermodulation cancellation based on the received one or more reference signals, including a first reference signal from the first node.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Dynamic virtual environment
Patent No. 11575531

Inventor(s): Edward Allen Stevens (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Preciate Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17337293 on 06/02/2021 (615 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for conducting a virtual event are described. One example method includes displaying, on a display screen of a computing device, a plurality of icons, each icon representing a different virtual event participant, wherein the plurality of icons includes a first icon representing a virtual event participant associated with the computing device; receiving, from an input device of the computing device, input representing a direction of movement for the first icon; and in response to receiving the input, moving the first icon on the display screen in the direction represented by the input.

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

Error sampler circuit
Patent No. 11575546

Inventor(s): Abishek Manian (San Jose, CA), Nithin Sathisan Poduval (Sunnyvale, CA), Roland Nii Ofei Ribeiro (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17193067 on 03/05/2021 (704 days app to issue)

Abstract: An error sampler circuit includes a differential input voltage input, a differential reference voltage input, a master latch circuit, and a slave latch circuit. The master latch circuit includes a slicer circuit. The slicer circuit includes a first input, a second input, and a differential output. The first input is coupled to the differential input voltage input. The second input is coupled to the differential reference voltage input. The slave latch includes a differential input coupled to the differential output of the slicer circuit.

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

System and method for improving machine learning model performance in a communications network
Patent No. 11575583

Inventor(s): Mayuresh Hooli (Dallas, TX), Narendra Tilwani (McKinney, TX), Nirav Gohel (Southlake, TX), Pulin Chhatbar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Christopher Weisberg, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17312408 on 11/13/2019 (1182 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method and non-transitory computer readable media for optimizing input data for an ML model associated with a communications network. In one implementation, example ML model(s) may be trained using a modified dataset obtained for a plurality of cellular aggregation units (CAUs) of the RAN infrastructure(s), wherein the modified dataset is derived from data collected for individual CAUs over a data collection period with respect to a plurality of KPI variables. The modified data set is optimized by replacement of null values of variables with corresponding modal values of the variables. The trained ML model may be used for predicting one or more KPIs based on a set of test data associated with the RAN infrastructure(s).

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

Controlling socket receive buffer for traffic optimization
Patent No. 11575621

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: 17369136 on 07/07/2021 (580 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device includes a network interface for establishing a communication session with another network device, a memory to store instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions. The processor may, for each time period during the communication session, adjust a size of a receive buffer of a socket. When the processor adjusts the size, the processor, if a utilization number of the receive buffer is greater than a high threshold: may determine a first new size for the receive buffer, and set a size of the receive buffer to the first new size. If the utilization number is less than a low threshold, the processor may determine a second new size for the receive buffer; and set the size of the receive buffer to the second new size.

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

Website verification service
Patent No. 11575666

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: 16710303 on 12/11/2019 (1154 days app to issue)

Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a website verification service. A system can receive, from a web server that hosts a website, a query for a set of authentication credentials (”credentials”) to be used to verify that the website is trustworthy. The system can generate and provide the credentials to the web server. The web server can, in turn, provide the credentials to a web browser device for presentation to a user via a web browser application executing on the web browser device. The system also can provide the credentials to a verifier device. The verifier device can present the credentials to the user via a verifier application executing on the verifier device. The user can compare the credentials presented via the web browser application to the credentials presented via the verifier application executing on the verifier device to determine whether the website can be trusted.

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

System and method for secure communications
Patent No. 11575667

Inventor(s): William Page (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee(s): Charles Schwab Co., Inc. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Innovations Partners LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16653885 on 10/15/2019 (1211 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method provides security features for inter-computer communications. A user identifier of the user that cannot be used to log the user in to a data consolidating system is received by a matching system from the data consolidating system. The validity of the user is checked at the matching system and, in response to the checking, the user identifier is converted to a different user identifier and the different user identifier is provided to a data providing system by the matching system. The data providing system provides the data of the user in response, and the matching system forwards the data to the data consolidating system.

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

Agentless access control system for dynamic calibration of software permissions
Patent No. 11575679

Inventor(s): Genaro Signo (Keller, TX), Hieu Xuan Hoang (Grand Prairie, TX), Ronald David Pfiester (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17176720 on 02/16/2021 (721 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for efficient and automated control of software permissions and access to network resources across a complex enterprise environment. User access is may be governed by software bundles. Such bundles and bundles may or may not include all programs or access to all systems needed by the user. An access request management tool is provided that includes new process flows and artificial intelligence for automated refining of software access across a complex and large network of computer servers. The management tool may eliminate conventional intermediary systems needed when utilizing centralized access request management. The management tool may check which user has access to a software bundle and may assign the bundle to other users. The management tool may revoke or grant access to a software bundle.

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

Automated enforcement of security policies in cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments
Patent No. 11575712

Inventor(s): Lisun Joao Kung (Dallas, TX), Sarowar Golam Sikder (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): FireEye Security Holdings US LLC (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Hanley, Flight Zimmerman, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16908681 on 06/22/2020 (960 days app to issue)

Abstract: To prevent un-authorized accesses to data and resources available in workloads on an organization”s or enterprise”s computer network, various improvements to automated computer network security processes to enable them to enforce network security policies using native network security mechanisms to control communications to and/or from workload units of applications running on different nodes within hybrid computer network infrastructures having both traditional hardware resources and virtual resources provided by private and public cloud infrastructure services.

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

Providing session initiation protocol request contents method and system
Patent No. 11575718

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17322411 on 05/17/2021 (631 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment provides a user equipment that includes a processor configured to receive a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) NOTIFY message transmitted by a network component as a result of a registration event. The SIP NOTIFY message contains at least a portion of information included in a first SIP message sent between a first user equipment and the network component. Another embodiment provides method and apparatus for a network node to determine whether filter criteria include one or more indicators that specify the need for information, and including in a second SIP message the information specified by the one or more indicators.

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

Customizable router for managing traffic between application programming interfaces
Patent No. 11575765

Inventor(s): Nagaraja R Kamireddy (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Home Depot Product Authority, LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17166608 on 02/03/2021 (734 days app to issue)

Abstract: A customizable router manages traffic between application programming interfaces (APIs) of microservice applications (apps) that make up various features of a website. Various datastores may also be used to store information, such as information related to certain products, pricing, users, etc. In order for the website to function properly, the microservice apps communicate with one another and with the datastores. The customizable router is used to manage and route traffic between the microservice apps and/or datastores. The customizable router may, for example, route a universal resource indicator (URI) request for a webpage of a website to particular versions or revisions of a microservice app based on rules established for the customizable router. For example, a certain percentage of traffic may be routed to a first version of a microservice app, while a different percentage of traffic may be routed to a second version of the microservice app.

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

Simplified context selection for entropy coding of transform coefficient syntax elements
Patent No. 11575946

Inventor(s): Vivienne Sze (Cambridge, MA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15427961 on 02/08/2017 (2190 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for entropy encoding syntax elements of transform coefficient levels in a video encoder to generate a compressed video bit stream is provided that includes selecting a context for a first significant coefficient flag corresponding to a first transform coefficient level in a 3232 transform block, wherein the first transform coefficient level is at a lowest frequency position in the 3232 transform block, entropy encoding the first significant coefficient flag using the context, selecting the context for a second significant coefficient flag corresponding to a second transform coefficient level in a 1616 transform block, wherein the second transform coefficient level is at a lowest frequency position in the 1616 transform block, and entropy encoding the second significant coefficient flag using the context.

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

Residual entropy compression for cloud-based video applications
Patent No. 11575947

Inventor(s): Akshay Malhotra (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Adobe Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Finch Maloney PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17338764 on 06/04/2021 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: Residual vectors are compressed in a lossless compression scheme suitable for cloud DVR video content applications. Thus, a cloud DVR service provider can take many copies of the same file stored in the cloud and save storage space by compressing those copies while still maintaining their status as distinct copies, one per user. Vector quantization is used for compressing already-compressed video streams (e.g., MPEG streams). As vector quantization is a lossy compression scheme, the residual vector has to be stored to regenerate the original video stream at the decoding (playback) node. Entropy coding schemes like Arithmetic or Huffman coding can be used to compress the residual vectors. Additional strategies can be implemented to further optimize this residual compression. In some embodiments, the techniques operate to provide a 25-50% improvement in compression. Storage space is thus more efficiently used and video transmission may be faster in some cases.

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

System and method to identify an item depicted when media content is displayed
Patent No. 11575971

Inventor(s): Steven M. Belz (Sunnyvale, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property 1, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17492337 on 10/01/2021 (494 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a media device, media content from a media content server. A portion of the media content includes a first item concurrently depicted with a second item. The method includes receiving an input indicating a selection of the second item within the media content. The method includes, in response to the input, sending an identification request for information corresponding to the second item to an identification server in response to the input. The identification request includes data relating to a depiction of the second item. The method also includes receiving the information from the identification server in response to the identification request. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Smart cascading security functions for 6G or other next generation network
Patent No. 11576019

Inventor(s): Sangar Dowlatkhah (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA), ATT MOBILITY II LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Amin, Turocy Watson, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17187415 on 02/26/2021 (711 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a 6G network, microservices can be utilized in the absence of a core network. For example, after a mobile device has authenticated, through its carrier network, with a transport service layer, microservices can be allocated to the mobile device without having to be transmitted via the core network. Thus, removing the core network from the process can generate a direct line of microservices from the transport layer to the end-user. Furthermore, additional microservices and/or resources can be access through a microservices library. Consequently, packets can be securely transmitted be a wireless network facilitating sending packet profile data from one to many node devices in anticipation of the packet traversing the various node devices.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Uplink signaling for cooperative multipoint communication
Patent No. 11576035

Inventor(s): Anthony Ekpenyong (Farmers Branch, TX), Ralf Bendlin (Plano, TX), Runhua Chen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16588231 on 09/30/2019 (1226 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed (FIG. [b]6[/b]). The method includes receiving a virtual cell identification (VCID) parameter ([b]600[/b]) from a remote transmitter. A base sequence index (BSI) and a cyclic shift hopping (CSH) parameter ([b]604,606[/b]) are determined in response to the VCID. A pseudo-random sequence is selected in response to the BSI and CSH ([b]610,612[/b]). A reference signal is generated using the selected pseudo-random sequence ([b]614[/b]).

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

Method and apparatus for indexing of SS/PBCH block in unlicensed spectrum
Patent No. 11576051

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17075509 on 10/20/2020 (840 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block; determining whether a shared spectrum channel access is enabled; determining a first index of the SS/PBCH block as a candidate SS/PBCH block index (I[subscript]SSB1[/subscript]) based on a number of candidate SS/PBCH blocks in a half frame; and determining a second index of the SS/PBCH block as an SS/PBCH block index (I[subscript]SSB2[/subscript]) based on a quasi-co-location (QCL) parameter (Q) indicated by a PBCH in the SS/PBCH block, wherein the SS/PBCH block index (I[subscript]SSB2[/subscript]) is determined as: I[subscript]SSB2[/subscript]=I[subscript]SSB1 [/subscript]mod Q based on a determination that the shared spectrum channel access is enabled, where mod is a modular operation; or I[subscript]SSB2[/subscript]=I[subscript]SSB1 [/subscript]based on the determination that the shared spectrum channel access is not enabled.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Dynamically controlling a local buffer of a modem of a wireless device
Patent No. 11576074

Inventor(s): Vijay Lewis (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): Skylo Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17307464 on 05/04/2021 (644 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamically controlling a local buffer of a modem of a wireless device are disclosed. One method includes receiving and queuing transmission packets in the local buffer of the modem of the wireless device for wireless transmission to a receiving device, purging each transmission packet from the local buffer after receiving an acknowledgement of reception of the transmission packet from the receiving device, and requesting acknowledgement from the receiving device when a queue of the transmission packets within the local buffer exceeds a threshold level, wherein the receiving device aggregates acknowledgment responses to a plurality of unpurged transmission packets in the local buffer and transmits an aggregated acknowledgment to the modem.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for detecting and acting upon a violation of terms of service
Patent No. 11576107

Inventor(s): Mark Austin (Allen, TX), Rajeev Garg (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA), Cricket Wireless LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17400835 on 08/12/2021 (544 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a past throughput of past traffic communicated between a communication device and a communication network meets a first threshold value, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the past throughput meets the first threshold, transmitting an instruction to the communication device to restrict a first subsequent throughput of first subsequent traffic to no greater than a second threshold value; determining whether the first subsequent throughput has been restricted, resulting in a second determination; and responsive to the second determination being that the first subsequent throughput has not been restricted, taking one or more actions to enforce a second subsequent throughput of second subsequent traffic to no greater than a third threshold value, wherein the third threshold value is lower than the second threshold value. Other embodiments are disclosed.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for designing network slices using extensible components
Patent No. 11576115

Inventor(s): Viswanath Kumar Skand Priya (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17088362 on 11/03/2020 (826 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may include one or more devices that with processors. The processors are configured to: receive instructions to assemble a slice service design for a network using slice design components; store the slice service design; and receive a request to deploy a slice service specified by the slice service design. The processors may be configured to: deploy the slice service in subnets of the network; or deploy services defined by portions of the slice service design in some of the subnets of the network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for uplink timing synchronization in conjunction with discontinuous reception
Patent No. 11576120

Inventor(s): James Earl Womack (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD. (Dongguan, , CN)
Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner, L.L.P. (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17139732 on 12/31/2020 (768 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Reporting power headroom for aggregated carriers
Patent No. 11576132

Inventor(s): Sean Michael McBeath (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17207217 on 03/19/2021 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for dynamic selection of a physical uplink control channel format
Patent No. 11576182

Inventor(s): Maulik Shah (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17184180 on 02/24/2021 (713 days app to issue)

Abstract: A base station may receive uplink data identifying uplink performance indicators associated with user equipment connected to the base station, and may receive tuning factors associated with shared channel traffic received by the user equipment and quality of service requirements of the user equipment. The base station may determine a total score associated with utilizing a long duration physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format for uplink control information based on the uplink data and the tuning factors. The base station may determine that the total score satisfies a threshold score and may switch to the long duration PUCCH format for the uplink control information based on the total score satisfying the threshold score. The base station may perform one or more actions based on switching to the long duration PUCCH format for the uplink control information.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Group-based dynamic beam indication mechanism
Patent No. 11576184

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: 17238063 on 04/22/2021 (656 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information about a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state indication, the configuration information including a set of TCI states and information for configuring a medium for the TCI state indication; receiving, based on the configuration information, the TCI state indication via the configured medium, wherein the TCI state indication indicates M1 TCI states; determining M beams based on the M TCI states, applying at least one of the M beams for a reception of a downlink (DL) data channel, and applying a control beam determined based on the M beams for a reception of a DL control channel.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Signaling in a high efficiency wireless network
Patent No. 11576207

Inventor(s): Dae Won Lee (Lake Forest, CA), Yong Ho Seok (Lake Forest, CA), Yujin Noh (Lake Forest, CA)
Assignee(s): ATLAS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17020524 on 09/14/2020 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract:

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for enhanced PRACH preamble
Patent No. 11576214

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17249554 on 03/04/2021 (705 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for an enhanced physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble. A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving a set of higher layer parameters over a downlink channel and determining, from the set of higher layer parameters, a numerology for a PRACH preamble. The numerology includes an extended cyclic prefix (CP) length. The method further includes determining, from the set of higher layer parameters, a PRACH preamble format that is based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols with the extended CP length.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for network address translation
Patent No. 11576231

Inventor(s): David Taft (Keller, TX), Edward G. Leyton (Grapevine, TX), Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, TX), Maqbool Chauhan (Keller, TX), Parry Cornell Booker (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16907638 on 06/22/2020 (960 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packet destined for a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) network is received at a wireless station from a user device. A serving gateway (SGW) receives the packet from the wireless station via an S1U GTP tunnel and assigns an uplink S1U General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP) tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) to the packet. The SGW performs a network address translation (NAT) function on the packet based on the uplink S1U GTP TEID assigned to the packet to form a translated packet. The SGW transmits the translated packet to the MEC network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

DESIGN PATENTS

Bottle
Patent No. D977338

Inventor(s): Rick Nechio (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Appellation Brands, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29747757 on 08/25/2020 (896 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle wheel
Patent No. D977396

Inventor(s): Alberto Echazabal (Prosper, TX), Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29747034 on 08/19/2020 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent No. D977495

Inventor(s): Ben Cline (Salt Lake City, UT), Daniel Hall (Dallas, TX), John Weston Pierce (Salt Lake City, UT), Louie Solomon (Richardson, TX), Tuhin Diptiman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29760877 on 12/04/2020 (795 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Pet toy
Patent No. D977755

Inventor(s): Vung Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh, , VN)
Assignee(s): DOSKOCIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: Global IP Counselors, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29722876 on 02/03/2020 (1100 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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