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 March 19, 2024| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 20
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 17
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 1
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 9
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 6
H: ELECTRICITY 53
G: PHYSICS 53

DESIGN: 10

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 11
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, VA) 8
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 5
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 5
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 4
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 4
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 4
Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland) 3

Unassigned 11

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano) 4
Federico G. Vierheller (Fort Worth) 3
Jacob Creech (McKinney) 3
Michael J. Williams (Colleyville) 3
Alan Ilango (Mckinney) 2
Alexander K. Maghsadi (Lewisville) 2
Chris Demchalk (Frisco) 2
Dana Patrice Morrow Branch (Celina) 2
Dinesh Sundaram (Plano) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Pet toy
Patent No. 11930788

Inventor(s): Josiah Wilhelm (Fort Worth, TX), Ronald Bagley (Dallas, TX), Sunil Pinto (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): PLUTO OPCO (CAYMAN), LLC (Grand Cayman, , KY)
Law Firm: GLOBAL IP COUNSELORS, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17409977 on 08/24/2021 (938 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pet toy includes a first deformable member and a second deformable member. The first deformable member has a first receiving opening and a second receiving opening. The second deformable member has a first end that is received in the first receiving opening. The second deformable member has a second end that is received in the second receiving opening of the first deformable member. The second deformable member is more deformable than the first deformable member.

[A01K] ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

Footwear insole with electrical stimulation
Patent No. 11930886

Inventor(s): Niameh Freeman (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Jeff Williams PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17496349 on 10/07/2021 (894 days app to issue)

Abstract: A footwear insole assembly includes individual electrodes situated within an insole configured to activate in response to applied pressure from a user”s foot. The insole includes a upper surface wherein a plurality of pockets are formed in the upper surface. A plurality of pressure sensors are located in the insole and are configured to detect a compressive force on the insole. A plurality of electrodes are located within at least one of the plurality of pockets and in communication with the plurality of pressure sensors. A power supply is configured to transmit power to the plurality of electrodes in response to detected pressure from the plurality of pressure sensors.

[A43B] CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR

Easy scoop
Patent No. 11930945

Inventor(s): Jordan Ahmad (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Jeff Williams PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16915265 on 06/29/2020 (1359 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention discloses a food serving apparatus such as scoop designed to be magnetically mounted on top or underneath of a metallic lid of containers. The scoop comprises a bowl and a handle. The handle comprises a cavity, which includes at least two magnets separated by a small distance. The magnets are mounted within the cavity to hold the scoop on out side or in side of the metallic lid of the container. During the molding process, the molten plastic flows over and under the magnets to hold them in place in the cavity of the handle. The plastic encapsulated magnets in the handle avoids trapping of germs and other harmful biological microorganisms, thereby making the scoop very safe for storage on top surface or inside of the product container lids. Further, the scoop is made from food grade plastic material.

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

Accessible tub and shower
Patent No. 11930968

Inventor(s): Donald H. Clarke (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): ROCA BATHROOM PRODUCTS INC. (Miami, FL)
Law Firm: NIXON PEABODY LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16746290 on 01/17/2020 (1523 days app to issue)

Abstract: A walk-in tub, or combination walk-in tub and shower, having a front wall with an outwardly swinging door permitting easy entry into and egress from the tub by a user and an electromagnetic door latch assembly further comprising a plurality of electromagnetic door latches that are operatively interconnected to an electrical controller, a power supply and a rapid-release touch switch that can be selectively manipulated to interrupt the power supply to the electromagnetic latches, thereby allowing the door to swing open under emergency conditions even when the tub is filled with water.

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

Half pipe cannula and methods of manufacturing and using half pipe cannula
Patent No. 11931070

Inventor(s): Jonathan H. Webb (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): HYBRID CANNULA LP (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17163140 on 01/29/2021 (1145 days app to issue)

Abstract: A half pipe cannula has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion, which includes a proximal end and an elongated tab along the length of the first portion, can be formed from a first material with a selected rigidity. The second portion, which includes a proximal end, a cannulated passage, and a distal end, can be formed from a second material with a selected flexibility. The second portion of the half pipe cannula partially or fully overlaps the elongated tab of the first portion of the half pipe cannula. The second portion of the half pipe cannula has surface features such as a thread or bumper feature. Each portion of the half pipe cannula may have one or more flanges on either end or both ends. The second portion of the half pipe cannula can be made of a flexible material such as thermoplastic elastomer.

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

Vision quality assessment based on machine learning model and wavefront analysis
Patent No. 11931104

Inventor(s): Mark VonTress (Arlington, TX), Ramesh Sarangapani (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17127693 on 12/18/2020 (1187 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of assessing vision quality of an eye is presented, with a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The controller is configured to selectively execute at least one machine learning model. Execution of the instructions by the processor causes the controller to: receive wavefront aberration data of the eye and express the wavefront aberration data as a collection of Zernike polynomials. The controller is configured to obtain a plurality of input factors based on the collection of Zernike polynomials. The plurality of input factors is fed into the at least one machine learning model, which is trained to analyze the plurality of input factors. The machine learning model generates at least one vision correction factor based in part on the plurality of input factors.

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

Packaging-integrated manually actuated intraocular lens cartridge
Patent No. 11931247

Inventor(s): Douglas Brent Wensrich (Bedford, TX), Sudarshan B. Singh (Euless, TX), Todd Taber (Keller, TX), Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: PATTERSON + SHERIDAN, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16999434 on 08/21/2020 (1306 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for storing and/or shipping an intraocular lens (IOL) cartridge are provided. A system comprises the IOL cartridge. The IOL cartridge comprises a nozzle and a compartment comprising an IOL. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the compartment. The IOL cartridge further comprises a dial disposed adjacent to the compartment, wherein an inner surface of the dial is exposed to the compartment. The dial is configured to fold the IOL upon rotation of the dial. The IOL cartridge further comprises a plunger case in fluid communication with the compartment, wherein a plunger is movably disposed within the plunger case. The IOL cartridge is configured to removably attach to a handpiece. The system further comprises a packaging comprising a base, wherein the IOL cartridge is disposed within the base; a first removable cover configured to cover a first portion of the IOL cartridge; and a second removable cover configured to cover a second portion of the IOL cartridge, wherein the second removable cover is locked in place by the dial when the dial is in a non-rotated position.

[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]

Intraocular lens having a capsular ring for inhibiting capsular opacification
Patent No. 11931248

Inventor(s): Douglas B. Wensrich (Bedford, TX), John Radle (Flower Mound, TX), Niranjana Nandakumar (Plano, TX), Stephen Collins (Fort Worth, TX), Stephen Van Noy (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: PATTERSON + SHERIDAN, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17015404 on 09/09/2020 (1287 days app to issue)

Abstract: An IOL system includes a capsular ring having a concave exterior surface extending around its circumference that is configured, upon insertion into a capsular bag of a patient”s eye, to engage an equatorial region of the capsular bag. The concave exterior surface extends between an anterior surface and a posterior surface of the capsular ring. A first one or more flaps are arranged on the anterior surface such that at least a portion of each of the first one or more flaps, upon insertion into the capsular bag of a patient”s eye, engages an anterior portion of the capsular bag. Similarly, a second one or more flaps are arranged on the posterior surface such that at least a portion of each of the second one or more flaps, upon insertion into a capsular bag of a patient”s eye, engages a posterior portion of the capsular bag.

Implant with independent endplates
Patent No. 11931266

Inventor(s): Jason Tinley (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): NANOHIVE MEDICAL LLC (Woburn, MA)
Law Firm: McDermott Will Emery LLP (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17964814 on 10/12/2022 (524 days app to issue)

Abstract: The biocompatible lattice structures and implants disclosed herein have an increased or optimized lucency, even when constructed from a metallic material. The lattice structures can also provide an increased or optimized lucency in a material that is not generally considered to be radiolucent. Lucency can include disparity, maximum variation in lucency properties across a structure, or dispersion, minimum variation in lucency properties across a structure. The implants and lattice structures disclosed herein may be optimized for disparity or dispersion in any desired direction. A desired direction with respect to lucency can include the anticipated x-ray viewing direction of an implant in the expected implantation orientation.

Adjustable brace and processes for making and using same
Patent No. 11931281

Inventor(s): Timothy John Skapek (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PROTECT3D, INC. (Durham, NC)
Law Firm: Husch Blackwell LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18148773 on 12/30/2022 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: An adjustable brace for stabilizing a body part of a patient and a method of fabricating such a brace is provided. In some embodiments, the adjustable brace comprises a first 3D printed stabilizer having a first exterior surface, a first interior surface, and a first thickness; a second stabilizer comprising a second exterior surface, a second interior surface, and a second thickness; one or more attachment points; and one or more selective engagement structures, wherein the first 3D printed stabilizer selectively engages with the second 3D printed stabilizer at common peripheries of the first 3D printed stabilizer and second 3D printed stabilizer via the one or more selective engagement structures, respectively; and a position of the first 3D printed stabilizer is adjustable in relation to the second 3D printed stabilizer.

Method and apparatus for spinal disc decompression
Patent No. 11931283

Inventor(s): Paul R. Montalvo (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Vertecore Technologies, LLC (Crosby, MS)
Law Firm: Butler Snow LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15092545 on 04/06/2016 (2904 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable spinal decompression device includes a top (thoracic) adjustable belt and bottom (lumbar) adjustable belt with a plurality of traction devices attached at set anchor points for applying traction forces to a body to facilitate spinal disc decompression and alleviate pain of users with spinal disorders. The portable device that fits various shapes and body sizes can be operated by a user without additional assistance and can be used while the individual is in numerous positions during his or her daily routine.

Herbal supplements and methods of use thereof
Patent No. 11931394

Inventor(s): Brandi M. Scott (Rowlett, TX), Kenneth Brown (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): KBS RESEARCH, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Rimon Law (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17168483 on 02/05/2021 (1138 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present application provides an herbal supplement and method for treating bloating, constipation and/or weight gain in a human subject comprising orally administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of the herbal supplement comprising a red quebracho extract. In other embodiments, the supplement may additionally include a triterpenoid saponin, an anti-spasmodic agent, or both.

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

Topical skin compositions for treating rosacea and skin redness
Patent No. 11931395

Inventor(s): David Gan (Southlake, TX), Geetha Kalahasti (Plano, TX), Tiffany Carle (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18100763 on 01/24/2023 (420 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of topically applying to skin a composition comprising a water soluble [i]Phoenix dactylifera [/i]seed extract, an essential oil from the leaves of tea tree, an aqueous [i]Myrothamnus flabellifolia [/i]leaf and stem extract, and a saccharide isomerate comprising an exopolysaccharide of [i]Vibrio alginolyticus [/i]is disclosed.

Diffuser
Patent No. 11931486

Inventor(s): Jake Dempsey (Argyle, TX)
Assignee(s): DEMPSEY HOLDINGS, LLC (Argyle, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17579374 on 01/19/2022 (790 days app to issue)

Abstract: An essential oil diffuser including multiple diffuser channels. Each diffuser channel includes an air pump and a cartridge assembly. The cartridge assemblies are removable receivable within a chassis assembly of the diffuser.

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

Method and apparatus for assisting a heart
Patent No. 11931563

Inventor(s): Aleksandra Borisovna Gruslova (San Antonio, TX), Anil Kottam (Cedar Park, TX), Clay Heighten (Dallas, TX), Drew R. Nolen (San Antonio, TX), John Porterfield (Austin, TX), Jonathan W. Valvano (Austin, TX), Marc David Feldm
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX), CardioVol, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17238191 on 04/22/2021 (1062 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for a heart of a patient having a cardiac assist device adapted to be implanted into the patient to assist the heart with pumping blood. The apparatus has a sensor adapted to be implanted into the patient. The sensor in communication with the cardiac assist device and the heart which measures native volume of the heart. Alternatively, the sensor monitors the heart based on admittance while the cardiac assist device. Alternatively, the sensor monitors the heart based on impedance.

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

System and method for providing transcutaneous or subcutaneous temporal interference spinal cord stimulation
Patent No. 11931572

Inventor(s): Erika Ross (Dallas, TX), Hyun-Joo Park (Frisco, TX), Simeng Zhang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17133985 on 12/24/2020 (1181 days app to issue)

Abstract: A noninvasive/minimally invasive neuromodulation system and method for providing therapy to a target neural tissue of a patient. In one arrangement, an example method comprises applying at least two input waveforms to respective pairs of electrodes affixed on the patient”s skin or subcutaneously disposed relative to the target neural tissue, wherein the frequencies of the input waveforms are configured such that they combine, when simultaneously applied, to generate a beat waveform having a beat frequency due to interference. The beat waveform is causative of a transcutaneous/subcutaneous temporal interference (T/STI) electric field generated in the patient body, the T/STI electric field including an interference region at least partially overlapping the target neural tissue of the patient, wherein the beat frequency is of a value operative to impart a therapeutic effect to the target neural tissue.

[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]

Implantable pulse generator with multiple stimulation engines
Patent No. 11931584

Inventor(s): Daran DeShazo (Lewisville, TX), Steven Boor (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17460227 on 08/29/2021 (933 days app to issue)

Abstract: An implantable medical device (IMD) includes multiple stimulation engines for independently stimulating respective electrode sets of a lead system while avoiding collisions and/or channel contention during stimulation delivery. A first voltage multiplier is configured to generate an adjustable target voltage having sufficient headroom at an output node that is commonly coupled to anodic nodes of respective stimulation engines. Each stimulation engine includes a secondary voltage multiplier to drive the respective anode and a current regulator powered by a floating voltage supply, wherein the current regulator is coupled to a cathodic node and configured to control how much stimulation current is pulled from the patient tissue.

Equipment carrying system
Patent No. 11931605

Inventor(s): Ron Covington (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Jeff Williams PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16732035 on 12/31/2019 (1540 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an equipment carrying system configured for sliding over a valveless end of a gas cylinder. The assembly includes a main body having a plurality of straps forming a webbing; a seat portion formed within the main body, the seat portion being configured to receive the valveless end of the gas cylinder; an auxiliary cylinder assembly coupled to the main body, the auxiliary cylinder assembly configured to hold a second gas cylinder; a handle coupled to the seat portion, the handle used to lift and carrying the main body; and wherein the main body, the auxiliary cylinder assembly, and the handle hang from the seat portion on the valveless end of the gas cylinder.

[A62B] DEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING (valves specially adapted for medical use A61M 39/00; composition of chemical substances used in respirators, gas-masks, breathing apparatus or the like A62D; rescuing from mountains or trees A63B 27/00, A63B 29/00; life-saving devices, apparatus or methods specially adapted for use in water B63C 9/00; divers’ equipment B63C 11/00; specially adapted for use with aircraft, e.g. parachutes or ejector seats, B64D; rescue devices peculiar to mining E21F 11/00)

System for dispensing flame retardant foam on exterior of a structure
Patent No. 11931608

Inventor(s): Brian Francisco Shipley (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18158877 on 01/24/2023 (420 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for dispensing flame retardant foam on the exterior of a structure. The structure has an opening that enables distribution of flame retardant foam onto the roof. The system includes a foam distribution system having a foam expansion chamber and a roof plenum for delivery through the roof opening. Foam solution and compressed air are combined in a conduit and supplied to the foam expansion chamber. The structure may have at least one wall. In that case, the system may have a wall plenum for delivery of flame retardant foam from the foam expansion chamber through a first wall-associated opening. Each such wall will have an opening associated with the wall that enables distribution of flame retardant foam onto that wall.

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

Tool holding system
Patent No. 11931882

Inventor(s): Guy Clapp (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17336727 on 06/02/2021 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tool holding system including a first tool holding mechanism. The first tool holding mechanism includes at least one first cavity, at least one second cavity, and a magnetic strip interposed between the at least one first cavity and the at least one second cavity. The first tool holding mechanism is coupled to a surface of the tool holding system.

[A47B] TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE (jointing of furniture F16B 12/00)

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

Tunable exterior paint color
Patent No. 11931773

Inventor(s): Lauren M. Abro (West Bloomfield, MI), Lindsay A. Babian (Canton, MI), Michelle R. Vargo (Plymouth, MI), Yuko N. Gidcumb (West Bloomfield, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17964733 on 10/12/2022 (524 days app to issue)

Abstract: The systems and methods utilize thermal energy linked to certain colors vehicles may be manufactured in a single color and changed to a specific color at a dealership before customer purchase and/or throughout the lifetime of the vehicle. A system for modulating vehicle paint of a vehicle includes a paint layer disposed on an exterior surface of the vehicle and a color modulator configured to radiate a light such that the paint layer reacts when the paint layer is exposed to the light.

[B05D] PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL (conveying articles or workpieces through baths of liquid B65G, e.g. B65G 49/02) [2]

Thermoplastic forming tool
Patent No. 11931971

Inventor(s): Charlie Falconer (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): THERMALOOP (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18053706 on 11/08/2022 (497 days app to issue)

Abstract: A thermoplastic forming tool includes a wand that includes a handle, a tip, and a conduit coupling the handle to the tip. The tip includes a heating element, a forming shoe, and a forming shoe support. During use, heat from the heating element heats the forming shoe to a temperature at or above the glass transition temperature of a thermoplastic polymer. The thermoplastic forming tool may be used to apply a thermoplastic material to a surface.

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

Rotor break effect by using electric distributed anti-torque generators and opposing electric motor thrust to slow a main rotor
Patent No. 11932125

Inventor(s): Andrew Haldeman (Fort Worth, TX), Eric A. Sinusas (Euless, TX), Frank Bradley Stamps (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17536561 on 11/29/2021 (841 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for slowing the rotation of a rotor using, for example, rotor brake system for a rotorcraft comprises: one or more generators connected to a main rotor gearbox; an electric distributed anti-torque system mounted on a tail boom of the rotorcraft comprising two or more electric motors connected to the one or more generators, wherein the two or more electric motors are connected to one or more blades; and wherein a rotation of the rotor is slowed by placing a drive load on the main rotor gearbox with the one or more generators to bleed the mechanical power from rotor into electrical power via the two or more electric motors, wherein the electric distributed anti-torque system generates thrust in opposing directions.

[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]

Mobile device tools for smart vehicle features operation and automatic wireless routing selection and methods of use
Patent No. 11932185

Inventor(s): Ciprian R. Sandu (Coppell, TX), Jason T. Kriesel (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee(s): Thor Tech, Inc. (Elkhart, IN)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18299186 on 04/12/2023 (342 days app to issue)

Abstract: Control methods and systems including a smart vehicle, a smart mobile device including a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and machine readable instructions stored in the memory that may cause a system to perform at least the following when executed by the processor: use the smart mobile device to automatically control functionality of smart features of the smart vehicle based on an applied control logic and environmental inputs and/or use the smart mobile device to automatically control a wireless routing selection between a local area network associated with the smart vehicle and a remote wide area network based on an application tool switch logic.

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

Digital key relay attack prevention systems and methods
Patent No. 11932197

Inventor(s): Nathan Humpal (San Antonio, TX), Russell K. Barker (Winnie, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17741232 on 05/10/2022 (679 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for preventing digital key relay attacks are provided. A method includes determining a threshold response time for a wireless communications device to process a challenge. Determining the threshold response time may include determining a benchmark response time for the wireless communications device to respond to the challenge based on one or more conditions of the wireless communications device, and setting the threshold response time to the benchmark response time. The method further includes sending the challenge to the wireless communications device. The method further includes receiving a response to the challenge from the wireless communications device within a response time. The method further includes authenticating the wireless communications device based on the response time being less than the threshold response time. Associated systems are also provided.

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

Vehicle gear selection control
Patent No. 11932230

Inventor(s): Bennet Langlotz (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Langlotz Patent Trademark Works, LLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18205823 on 06/05/2023 (288 days app to issue)

Abstract: A motor vehicle for operation by a driver has a frame with wheels and a motor connected to the frame. A steering control is connected to the wheels to establish a steering angle. A controller is operably connected to the steering control, to the motor, and to the wheels, and is operable to selectably drive the wheels in a forward direction in a drive mode and in a rearward direction in a reverse mode. The controller is operable to select a direction for driving the wheels in response to a pattern of steering angle movements, without operator indication of a direction.

[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]

Systems and methods for improving path selection for automated driving
Patent No. 11932245

Inventor(s): Rohit Pandita (Ann Arbor, MI), Ruiko Miyano (Toyota, , JP)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17008974 on 09/01/2020 (1295 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving identification of a path for an ego vehicle on a roadway. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to acquiring sensor data from at least one sensor of the ego vehicle about a surrounding environment, identifying roadway elements from the sensor data as cues about the path. The roadway elements include one or more of lane markers of the roadway and surrounding vehicles. The method includes grouping the roadway elements into two or more groups according to characteristics of roadway elements indicating common curvatures. The method includes analyzing the two or more groups according to a confidence heuristic to determine a priority group from the two or more groups that corresponds with a trajectory of the ego vehicle. The method includes providing an identifier for the priority group to facilitate at least path planning for the ego vehicle.

Vibration isolation systems for compound helicopters
Patent No. 11932380

Inventor(s): Bradley Joseph Passe (Irving, TX), Frank Bradley Stamps (Colleyville, TX), Michael Reaugh Smith (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17154925 on 01/21/2021 (1153 days app to issue)

Abstract: A compound helicopter includes a fuselage including a fuselage airframe, a translational thrust system coupled to the fuselage airframe and a pylon assembly subject to vibration. The pylon assembly includes a transmission and a rotor system having a main rotor assembly. The compound helicopter also includes a main rotor vibration isolation system including a plurality of augmented liquid inertia vibration eliminator units each having an isolation frequency and each coupled between the fuselage airframe and the pylon assembly to reduce transmission of the pylon assembly vibration to the fuselage airframe at the isolation frequency. Each augmented liquid inertia vibration eliminator unit includes at least one active tuning element movable to tune the isolation frequency thereof.

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

Collapsible spar mandrel
Patent No. 11932381

Inventor(s): Sven R. Lofstrom (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (Bethesda, MD)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18135253 on 04/17/2023 (337 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to an aspect, a method of assembling a mandrel includes assembling a plurality of members via interlocking features arranged at opposing edges of each member of the plurality of members to form a compartment, the assembled members having a collective outer surface that conforms to an inner surface of the spar. A support member is inserted into the compartment formed radially inward from the assembled members, the support member making contact with a portion of each member of the plurality of members.

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

Adaptive transition systems for VTOL aircraft
Patent No. 11932387

Inventor(s): John Robert Wittmaak, Jr. (Newark, TX), Russell C. Peters (Fort Worth, TX), Spencer Hancock (Irving, TX), William Alexander Dean (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17540539 on 12/02/2021 (838 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tailsitter aircraft includes an airframe, a thrust array attached to the airframe and a flight control system. The thrust array includes propulsion assemblies configured to transition the airframe from a forward flight orientation to a VTOL orientation at a conversion rate for an approach to a target ground location in a forward flight-to-VTOL transition phase. The flight control system implements an adaptive transition system including a transition parameter monitoring module configured to monitor parameters including a ground speed and a distance to the target ground location. The adaptive transition system includes a transition adjustment determination module configured to adjust the conversion rate of the airframe from the forward flight orientation to the VTOL orientation based on the ground speed and the distance to the target ground location such that the airframe is vertically aligned with the target ground location in the VTOL orientation of the forward flight-to-VTOL transition phase.

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

Wing shape control
Patent No. 11932390

Inventor(s): Deborah Bumgardner (Garden City, MI), Rikin Gupta (Ann Arbor, MI), Shardul Singh Panwar (Ann Arbor, MI), Taewoo Nam (Ann Arbor, MI), Yufei Zhu (Ypsilanti, 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: 17721793 on 04/15/2022 (704 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft can include a wing. A morphing member can be operatively connected to the wing. The morphing member can include a base and a shape memory material member operatively connected to the base. The base can be made of a flexible material. When the shape memory material member is activated, a shape of the morphing member can change. As a result, one or more aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft can be changed. In some arrangements, the flexible material can be a fabric, and the shape memory material member can be a shape memory alloy wire.

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

Rideshare adapter, a configurable-mass, distributed architecture rideshare dispenser for a rideshare adapter, and a method of operating the rideshare dispenser
Patent No. 11932425

Inventor(s): Daniel Lim (Chantilly, VA), Jason Armstrong (Chantilly, VA), Robert Spicer (Chantilly, VA)
Assignee(s): Xtenti, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16902865 on 06/16/2020 (1372 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure provides a configurable-mass rideshare dispenser for a rideshare adapter employable with a LV. In one example, the configurable-mass rideshare dispenser includes: (1) a modular chassis having a plurality of walls, wherein each of the plurality of walls includes multiple internal mounts operable to mount at multiple candidate locations a rideshare payload, its associated attachment/deployment mechanisms, signal processing circuitry, and at least one additional mass object, and (2) at least one door coupled to at least one of the plurality of walls, wherein the signal processing circuitry is operable to provide deployment sequencing that operates the at least one door.

[B64G] COSMONAUTICS; VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT THEREFOR (apparatus for, or methods of, winning materials from extraterrestrial sources E21C 51/00)

Mounts for unmanned aerial vehicles
Patent No. 11932429

Inventor(s): Isaac C. Dearmond (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): INDOOR ROBOTICS INC. (Wilmington, DE)
Law Firm: AlphaPatent Associates Ltd. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18193856 on 03/31/2023 (354 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a ceiling mounted unmanned aerial vehicle docking station for a premises including a ceiling grid and a support structure disposed above the ceiling grid is provided. The apparatus includes an unmanned aerial vehicle docking station mounting bracket including a top surface and a bottom surface which is configured to be affixed to an exposed surface of a ceiling element in the ceiling grid by a first plurality of fastening elements. The bottom surface of the bracket is configured to be affixed to the ceiling mounted unmanned aerial vehicle docking station. The apparatus further includes a panel including a top surface and a bottom surface which is configured to be affixed to a concealed surface of the ceiling element by the first plurality of fastening elements. The top surface of the panel includes at least one anchoring element physically coupling the panel to the support structure. NULL

Container
Patent No. 11932441

Inventor(s): Merrilee Kick (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18506811 on 11/10/2023 (130 days app to issue)

Abstract: A container for storing a liquid or a solid may include a container body having a container side wall and a container bottom and a container lid having a pop top arm to pivot and cooperate with a weakened area to provide access to the interior of the container body. The container body may be formed from plastic and the container lid is formed from metal, and the container body may include a vertical neck. The container body may include a lip, and the bottom wall may include a center protrusion. The bottom wall may include a depression, and the bottom wall may include a radial extending depression.

[B65D] CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES

Toilet hoist
Patent No. 11932521

Inventor(s): Carolyn R. Kistner (Midlothian, TX), Kenneth J. Kistner (Midlothian, TX)
Assignee(s): The Kistner Family Trust (Midlothian, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18458761 on 08/30/2023 (202 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for quickly and efficiently installing a toilet using a hoist. The toilet hoist includes a hoist base, at least one leg, a drive system, a power system, and at least one support mechanism. The at least one leg is coupled to the hoist base. The power system controls actuation of the drive system; when actuated, the drive system alters the vertical position of the support mechanism. The support mechanism is configured to secure a toilet for hoisting.

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

Isolated protrusion/recession features in microelectromechanical systems
Patent No. 11932529

Inventor(s): James Carl Baker (Coppell, TX), Patrick Ian Oden (McKinney, TX), Sandra Zheng (Plano, TX), William C. McDonald (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16814001 on 03/10/2020 (1470 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) includes a first element and a second element. The first element is mounted on a substrate and has a first contact surface. The second element is mounted on the substrate and has a second contact surface that protrudes from the second element to form an acute contact surface. The first element and/or the second element is/are operable to move in: a first direction, such that the first contact surface comes in contact with the second contact surface; and a second direction, such that the second contact surface separates from the first contact surface.

[B81B] MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS, e.g. MICROMECHANICAL DEVICES (piezo-electric, electrostrictive or magnetostrictive elements per se H01L 41/00) [7]

Apparatus for transporting and dispensing wire or cable from a barrel pack
Patent No. 11936169

Inventor(s): David Wayne Maxey (Gunter, TX), John Lamar Rhoads (The Colony, TX), Justin Abraham Hrbacek (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Encore Wireless Corporation (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Warren Rhoades LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17380484 on 07/20/2021 (973 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for the movement of a barrel pack containing spooled wire or cable. The apparatus comprising a frame, a handle attached to the frame, a plurality of wheels rotatably attached to the frame, securing structures attached to the frame, the securing structures securing the barrel pack to the frame and a footage counting assembly attached to the handle. The footage counting assembly counts the amount of footage of wire or cable passing through the footage counting assembly.

[B65H] HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

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

Carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic sheets for efficient microwave heating with dispersed wavy carbon nanotubes
Patent No. 11932736

Inventor(s): Piran R. Kidambi (Nashville, TN), Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmington Hills, MI), Yuyang Song (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: 17307611 on 05/04/2021 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-woven carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) composite object is formed by the variable frequency microwave (VFM) irradiation of a mixed fiber sheet of thermoplastic fibers, carbon fibers and wavy carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The mixed fiber sheets are prepared from a slurry of the thermoplastic fibers, carbon fibers, and wavy CNTs such that the wavy CNTs contact the carbon fibers and thermoplastic fibers. Upon irradiation with VFM radiation, the wavy CNTs generate heat and transfer the heat to the thermoplastic fibers, causing melting of the thermoplastic to form the matrix of the CFRTP composite object. The mixed fiber sheets can be combined alone or with other sheets to form laminar composites that are molded into objects and heated by VFM irradiation.

[C08J] WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H (working, e.g. shaping, of plastics B29) [2]

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

Methods of processing asphalt shingle waste
Patent No. 11932999

Inventor(s): Dale Kelley (Flower Mound, TX), James Svec (Kearney, NJ), Kirby Erickson (Waxahachie, TX), Kris Edelsward (Lockport, NY), Michael T. Ferraro (Savannah, GA), Paul Richardson (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18061895 on 12/05/2022 (470 days app to issue)

Abstract: Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating.

[E01C] CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR (forming road or like surfaces by compacting or grading snow or ice E01H)

Systems and methods for automating the application of friction-modifying coatings
Patent No. 11933001

Inventor(s): Jack D. Stone, Jr. (Dallas, TX), Jeff Rainwater (Midlothian, TX), Keith Rainwater (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): DeAngelo Contracting Services, LLC (Hazleton, PA)
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, L.L.P. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17973375 on 10/25/2022 (511 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for the application of friction-modifying coatings to roadways, walkways, pathways and other areas subject to vehicular, human or animal traffic, the system and method comprising the controlled, simultaneous application of binder and filler to a surface of a substrate, using a mobile device which passes over the substrate as the binder and filler are being applied. The system includes a mobile platform configured for being coupled to a vehicle. A binder applicator is mounted on the mobile platform and includes an array of spray nozzles coupled to a resin container. An air knife is mounted on the mobile platform and coupled to an air compressor for generating an air curtain. An aggregate dispenser bar including at least one aggregate dispenser is coupled to an aggregate bin and mounted on the mobile platform for dispensing aggregate.

Smart shower head
Patent No. 11933029

Inventor(s): Hiba Khan (Bedford, TX), Mirza Faizan (Irving, TX), Sidra Ambreen (Plano, TX), Syed Shah Ekramullah Alvi (Irving, TX), Zainab Khan (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17338252 on 06/03/2021 (1020 days app to issue)

Abstract: A smart shower head to regulate temperature of water being supplied is disclosed. The smart shower head comprises a showering section ([b]101[/b]) for showering water, a shower head arm connecting the showering section ([b]101[/b]) and supplying water to the showering section ([b]101[/b]), and at least one compartmentalized nero-thermal coil [b]103[/b] running through the length of the shower head arm ([b]102[/b]) and the showering section ([b]101[/b]).

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

Roofing material with patterned adhesive
Patent No. 11933050

Inventor(s): Daniel E. Boss (Morris Township, NJ), James A. Svec (Kearny, NJ), Li-Ying Yang (Whippany, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17960643 on 10/05/2022 (531 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a roofing system. In some embodiments, the roofing system includes a first roofing material, wherein the first roofing material comprises a top surface and a bottom surface. In some embodiments, the top surface of the first roofing material comprises a nail zone with a plurality of fines. In some embodiments, the roofing system includes a second roofing material, wherein the second roofing material comprises a top surface and a bottom surface. In some embodiments, the bottom surface of the second roofing material comprises a plurality of fines. In some embodiments, the roofing system comprises and a patterned adhesive, which directly contacts at least a portion of the plurality of fines in the nail zone and at least a portion of the plurality of fines on the bottom surface of the second roofing material.

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

Hydraulically powered centralizer device for borehole and method
Patent No. 11933112

Inventor(s): Dennis Roessler (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): GEODYNAMICS, INC. (Millsap, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius, LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17335351 on 06/01/2021 (1022 days app to issue)

Abstract: A centralizing device is configured to centralize/decentralize an associated tool in a well. The centralizing device includes a body that extends along a longitudinal axis X, the body having a bore that extends from one end to another end of the body; a first piston shaped as a cylinder and provided around a central portion of the body; a second piston shaped as a cylinder and provided around the central portion of the body; a bridge provided around the central portion of the body, between the first and second pistons; and a pair of arms, each arm being attached with one end to a corresponding one of the first and second pistons and with another end to each other. The second piston, the bridge, and the central portion of the body define a sealed chamber, which is sealed from the ambient.

[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]

Resettable telescoping plug retrieving tool
Patent No. 11933125

Inventor(s): Colby Munro Ross (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17849204 on 06/24/2022 (634 days app to issue)

Abstract: A plug retrieval tool includes a mandrel lowerable into a wellbore. A retrieval head is coupled to the mandrel for selectively latching onto a plug. A shroud is telescopically coupled to the mandrel about the retrieval head and moveable repeatedly between an extended position below the retrieval head for displacing debris on the plug and a retracted position for moving the retrieval head closer to the plug to latch onto the plug. A resistance mechanism provides a resistance to moving the shroud each time the shroud is moved toward the retracted position.

Pressure management sub-systems for subsea managed pressure operations
Patent No. 11933128

Inventor(s): Oscar R. Gabaldon (Frisco, TX), Patrick R. Brand (Anna, TX)
Assignee(s): BLADE ENERGY PARTNERS LTD. (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: THE WENDT FIRM, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18148485 on 12/30/2022 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and processes for subsea marine managed pressure operations. One system includes a modified riser joint configured to fluidly connect inline with one or more riser joints. The modified riser joint and the one or more riser joints are connected to form a riser connecting a floating vessel with a wellhead. The system further includes a subsea pressure management sub-system configured to be operatively and fluidly connected to the modified riser joint at a subsea location.

Tri-angled liner with jet shaper
Patent No. 11933148

Inventor(s): Shane Matthew Wilson (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): Hunting Titan, Inc. (Pampa, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17617886 on 06/12/2020 (1376 days app to issue)

Abstract: A shaped charge having a liner with three frustoconical segments and a bottom portion configured to provide consistent perforating holes over a range of distances from the shaped charge.

System and method for mag ranging drilling control
Patent No. 11933158

Inventor(s): Teddy C. Chen (Austin, TX), Todd W. Benson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17374632 on 07/13/2021 (980 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and method for controlling the drilling of a second wellbore in close proximity to a first well bore. A computer system obtains information regarding a previously drilled wellbore, as well as information regarding a second wellbore being drilled. Using information obtained from one or more magnetic sensors, the computer system determines an optimal target path for continued drilling of the second wellbore and may issue one or more control signals to one or more control systems coupled to a drilling rig to automatically drill in accordance with the selected path. The computer system can generate a plurality of potential paths using one or more cost curves and/or value curves to determine the optimal path for the second wellbore.

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

Universal torque indicator fitting with positive lock feature
Patent No. 11933339

Inventor(s): Nagarajan Ramaswamy (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Parker-Hannifin Corporation (Cleveland, OH)
Law Firm: Renner, Otto, Boisselle Sklar, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17878117 on 08/01/2022 (596 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fitting assembly includes an indicator assembly that provides a visual indication of torque value to verify when the desired operational torque value is achieved. The fitting assembly includes a nut, and a visual indicator assembly positioned on the nut which has a plurality of visual indicators that provide a visual indication of a torque level being applied. A sleeve is attached to the nut and includes a window through which a portion of the visual indicators is visible based on the torque level being applied. A resilient member couples the sleeve to the nut. As the nut is rotated to apply torque to the nut, the resilient member biases the sleeve in a fixed position and the nut rotates relative to the sleeve, whereby the visual indicator assembly rotates relative to the sleeve to alter which portion of the visual indicator assembly is visible through the window to provide a visual indication of when the operational torque level is being applied. The fitting assembly includes a positive locking feature that interacts with a serrated portion of a nipple fluid connection to positively lock a position of the nut to prevent nut loosening.

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

Device for making plumbing connections and a method of use thereof
Patent No. 11933432

Inventor(s): Brian B. Kim (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17841802 on 06/16/2022 (642 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for making plumbing connections is provided. The device includes a first compression nut, a second compression nut, a sleeve fitting body between the first compression nut and the second compression nut, a first ferrule between the first compression nut and the sleeve fitting body, and a second ferrule between the sleeve fitting body and the second compression nut. The first compression nut has a first narrow portion and a first threaded portion, the first narrow portion having a first internal cavity with a first diameter. The second compression nut has a second narrow portion and a second threaded portion, the second narrow portion having a second internal cavity with a second diameter. The sleeve fitting body has a threaded portion that respectively correspond to the first and second threaded portions, and a first cavity portion having the first diameter, and a second cavity portion having the second diameter.

[F16L] PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL

Integrating network devices with a provisioned mesh network for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems
Patent No. 11933512

Inventor(s): Elena Smirnova (Plano, TX), Mansoor Ahmed (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17005860 on 08/28/2020 (1299 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system that includes a plurality of controllers that are each controller is configured to operate at least a portion of a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The system further includes a network provisioning device that is configured to establish a peer-to-peer connection with a controller. The controller is not associated with any wireless networks. The device is further configured to send a request to the controller to identify a wireless network that is associated with the local area network and is in range of the controller. The device is further configured to obtain network credentials for the identified wireless network and to send the network credentials to the controller to join the provisioned mesh network. The controller is configured to use the network credentials to join a provisioned mesh network.

[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)

Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration protection system
Patent No. 11933530

Inventor(s): Rodney Minchey (Melissa, TX), Stephen T. Fasolino (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Tewksbury, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17573394 on 01/11/2022 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A HVACR protection system can include a pressure sensor to sense pressure within a refrigerant line coupled to a compressor; a timer; and a protection system controller. A compressor controller in communication with the protection system controller can control operation of the compressor and disable the compressor until successful completion of a vacuum test of the refrigerant line. The vacuum test can initiate upon the pressure sensor sensing the pressure being less than or equal to a vacuum test pressure, at which point the timer begins timing for a vacuum test time period. The vacuum test is successfully completed upon expiration of the vacuum test time period with the pressure remaining less than or equal to the vacuum test pressure for the vacuum test time period. The protection system controller can enable the compressor controller to operate the compressor upon successful completion of the vacuum test.

[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)

Thermal compensation layers with core-shell phase change particles and power electronics assemblies incorporating the same
Patent No. 11933546

Inventor(s): Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17345589 on 06/11/2021 (1012 days app to issue)

Abstract: A thermal compensation layer includes a metal inverse opal (MIO) layer that includes a plurality of core-shell phase change (PC) particles encapsulated within a metal of the MIO layer. Each of the core-shell PC particles includes a core that includes a PCM having a PC temperature in a range of from 100 C. to 250 C., and a shell that includes a shell material having a melt temperature greater than the PC temperature of the PCM. A power electronics assembly includes a substrate having a thermal compensation layer formed proximate a surface of the substrate, the thermal compensation layer comprising an MIO layer that includes a plurality of core-shell PC particles encapsulated within a metal of the MIO layer. The power electronics assembly further includes an electronic device bonded to the thermal compensation layer at a first surface of the electronic device.

[F28D] HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials C09K 5/00; fluid heaters having heat generating means and heat transferring means F24H; furnaces F27; details of heat-exchange apparatus of general application F28F); HEAT STORAGE PLANTS OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL [4]

Power charge ignition
Patent No. 11933595

Inventor(s): Johnny Covalt (Burleson, TX), Ty Edgar Stovall (Ennis, TX), Zachary James Taylor (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): Hunting Titan, Inc. (Pampa, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17632485 on 08/13/2020 (1314 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus for igniting a power charge in downhole wellbore using an ignition propellant mixed with a main propellant.

[F42D] BLASTING (fuses, e.g. fuse cords, C06C 5/00; blasting cartridges F42B 3/00)

P H Y S I C S

Systems and methods for auditing assets
Patent No. 11932290

Inventor(s): Devin Scott Wagner (Haltom City, TX), Jacob Scott Ford (Billings, MT), Philip Gerald Davis (Fort Worth, TX), Ross Aaron Springer (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17816580 on 08/01/2022 (596 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data associated with a railroad environment, extracting an asset from the first LiDAR data associated with the railroad environment, and superimposing the asset into a spatial model. The method also includes receiving a field indication associated with a modification to the railroad environment and modifying the spatial model in response to receiving the field indication associated with the modification to the railroad environment. The method further includes receiving second LiDAR data associated with the railroad environment and comparing the second LiDAR data to the modified spatial model.

[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

Methods and apparatus to determine a position of a rotatable shaft of a motor
Patent No. 11933645

Inventor(s): Jun Zhang (Shanghai, , CN), Kangcheng Xu (Shanghai, , CN), Lichang Cheng (Shanghai, , CN), Rujun Ji (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17346472 on 06/14/2021 (1009 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to determine a position of a rotatable shaft of a motor are disclosed. An example apparatus to determine a position of a rotatable shaft of a motor includes a sensor printed circuit board (PCB) structured to be mounted to a motor, the sensor PCB including a plurality of capacitive sensors, the plurality of capacitive sensors having respective ones of a plurality of capacitances that independently change as a conductor moves relative to the sensor PCB in conjunction with a rotatable shaft of the motor during an operation of the motor, and a controller electrically coupled to the sensor PCB, the controller configured to determine a position of the rotatable shaft based on the plurality of capacitances.

[G01D] MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; TRANSFERRING OR TRANSDUCING ARRANGEMENTS NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Methods and apparatus to detect infrared wavelengths using a mechanical resonator with an integrated plasmonic infrared absorber
Patent No. 11933670

Inventor(s): Bichoy Bahr (Allen, TX), Hassan Omar Ali (Murphy, TX), Jeronimo Segovia Fernandez (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17463013 on 08/31/2021 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a semiconductor substrate; a mechanical resonator supported by the substrate, the mechanical resonator including an array of capacitors; and a plasmonic infrared (IR) absorber including an array of metal structures. The mechanical resonator is between the substrate and the IR absorber.

[G01J] MEASUREMENT OF INTENSITY, VELOCITY, SPECTRAL CONTENT, POLARISATION, PHASE OR PULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF INFRA-RED, VISIBLE OR ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; RADIATION PYROMETRY [2]

Flight computer systems and methods to determine airspeed
Patent No. 11933814

Inventor(s): Kip Gregory Campbell (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Pramudji Law Group PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17562501 on 12/27/2021 (813 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method for determining airspeed for an unpowered vehicle is disclosed. The method includes: determining first and second body-fixed load factor measurements; determining a body Z-force coefficient based on an angle-of-attack parameter; and determining an airspeed value based on the second body-fixed load factor measurement and the body Z-force coefficient.

[G01P] MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF MOVEMENT; INDICATING DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT (measuring angular rate using gyroscopic effects G01C 19/00; combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement G01C 23/00; measuring velocity of sound G01H 5/00; measuring velocity of light G01J 7/00; determining direction or velocity of solid objects by reflection or reradiation of radio or other waves and based on propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time or direction of propagation, G01S; measuring speed of nuclear radiation G01T)

Methods and apparatus to compare voltages
Patent No. 11933823

Inventor(s): Anand Kumar G (Bangalore, , IN), Aravindhan Karuppiah (Bangalore, , IN), Veeramanikandan Raju (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17962139 on 10/07/2022 (529 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example device includes an analog comparator circuitry having a first input configured to couple to an input voltage and a second input configured to couple to a reference voltage, the analog comparator circuitry configured to output a digital value corresponding to a difference between the input voltage and the reference voltage and output sampler circuitry configured to: produce a plurality of samples of the difference, and count the number of samples in which the input voltage is greater than the reference voltage. The example device also includes reference adaption circuitry configured to: determine, based on the count, whether to adjust the reference voltage; responsive to a determination to adjust the reference voltage, determine, based on the count, an amount of adjustment; and responsive to a determination not to adjust the reference voltage, provide an indication of the reference voltage to processor circuitry.

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

Path based controls for ATE mode testing of multicell memory circuit
Patent No. 11933844

Inventor(s): Prakash Narayanan (Bangalore, , IN), Wilson Pradeep (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17330653 on 05/26/2021 (1028 days app to issue)

Abstract: A test override circuit includes a memory that includes multiple memory instances. A path selector receives a control signal from automatic test pattern generator equipment (ATE) to control data access to data paths that are operatively coupled between the memory instances and a plurality of logic endpoints. The path selector generates an output signal that indicates which of the data paths is selected in response to the control signal. A gating circuit enables the selected data paths to be accessed by at least one of the plurality of logic endpoints in response to the output signal from the path selector.

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

Multi-cell battery fault indicator
Patent No. 11933859

Inventor(s): Bradford Lawrence Hunter (Spicewood, TX), Eric Frank Estes (Rowlett, TX), Wallace Edward Matthews (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17363626 on 06/30/2021 (993 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, apparatus comprises a multiplexer (MUX) adapted to be coupled to a set of battery cells and configured to provide a voltage of a different battery cell in the set of battery cells based on a MUX control signal. Apparatus comprises a comparator coupled to the MUX and configured to compare a MUX output signal to a threshold voltage to provide a comparator output signal. Apparatus comprises a digital control circuit configured to provide the MUX control signal to the MUX, to store the comparator output signal, and to use a logic AND gate to provide an AND gate output signal based on the stored comparator output signal.

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

Passive radar receiver system
Patent No. 11933873

Inventor(s): Anand Ganesh Dabak (Plano, TX), Brian Ginsburg (Allen, TX), Matan Ben-Shachar (D.N. Emek Hefer, , IL), Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, , IL)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17696338 on 03/16/2022 (734 days app to issue)

Abstract: One example includes a passive radar receiver system including an RF receiver front-end to receive a wireless source signal and a reflected signal. An antenna switch of the front-end switches a first antenna to a receiver chain during a first time to generate first radar signal data based on a combined wireless signal comprising wireless source signal and the reflected signal, and switches a second antenna to the receiver chain during a second time to generate second radar signal data based on the combined wireless signal. A signal processor generates source signal data associated with the wireless source signal based on the first and second radar signal data and generates reflected signal data associated with the reflected signal based on the first and second radar signal data, and generates target radar data associated with a target based on the source and reflected radar signal data.

Method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a robot
Patent No. 11934203

Inventor(s): John Jungwoo Ha (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Bear Robotics, Inc. (Redwood City, CA)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17313215 on 05/06/2021 (1048 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for controlling a robot is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring information on a sound associated with a robot call in a serving place; determining a call target robot associated with the sound, among a plurality of robots in the serving place, on the basis of the acquired information; and providing feedback associated with the sound by the call target robot.

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

Fan control for computing devices
Patent No. 11934241

Inventor(s): David Patrick Anders (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): SOFTIRON LIMITED (London, , GB)
Law Firm: Slayden Grubert Beard PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17716551 on 04/08/2022 (711 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fan device used with respect to a computing device. The fan device includes at least two fans that provide airflow for the computing device and a controller that adjusts the fans” speeds in an attempt to avoid harmonic vibrations of the at least two fans. The fan device may include at least one sensor, and the controller may adjust the fans” speeds based at least on information from the sensor(s) in the attempt to avoid the harmonic vibrations. The attempt to avoid the harmonic vibrations may also attempt to mitigate one or more of turbulence, pressure, over-heating, power consumption, or noise in, by, or around the computing device. Reversal of airflow may also be used. A fan bar that enables isolation of ground return noise may also be used. The controller may use sums of primes calculations, phase analysis, common divisor calculations, and the like. Also, associated methods.

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

On-demand scanning for changes in cloud object storage systems
Patent No. 11934312

Inventor(s): Rajesh Kanna Durairaj (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17543941 on 12/07/2021 (833 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed are directed to a computing system that provides for on-demand scanning for changes in cloud-based object storage systems. The changes can include modifications, additions, or deletions of objects stored in a cloud-based object storage system. The computing system scans, at a first runtime, objects stored in a cloud-based object storage system. The computing system retrieves lookup information associated with a second runtime of a previous scan. Based on the lookup information, the computing system identifies a subset of the objects that were changed or added after the second runtime and before the first runtime. Subsequently, the computing system generates an electronic notification including a consolidated list of the subset of the objects.

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

Memory with improved command/address bus utilization
Patent No. 11934326

Inventor(s): Gary L. Howe (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Holland Hart LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17882550 on 08/06/2022 (591 days app to issue)

Abstract: Memory devices and systems with improved command/address bus utilization are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device comprises a plurality of external command/address terminals and a command decoder. The plurality of external command/address terminals are configured to receive a command as a corresponding plurality of command/address bits. A first set of the command/address bits indicate a read or write operation. A second set of the command/address bits indicate whether to execute a refresh operation. The memory device is configured to, in response to the first set of command/address bits, execute the read or write operation on a portion of a memory array. The memory device is further configured to, in response to the second set of command/address bits, execute the refresh operation to refresh at least one memory bank of the memory array when the second set of command/address bits indicate that the refresh operation should be executed.

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

Random access of a member file in a compressed tar archive
Patent No. 11934346

Inventor(s): Brendan M. Johnson (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Trend Micro Incorporated (Tokyo, , JP)
Law Firm: Beyer Law Group LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17967649 on 10/17/2022 (519 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cloud computing infrastructure hosts a web service with customer accounts. In a customer account, files of the customer account are listed in an index. Files indicated in the index are arranged in groups, with files in each group being scanned using scanning serverless functions in the customer account. The files in the customer account include a compressed tar archive of a software container. Member files of a compressed tar archive in a customer account are randomly-accessed by way of locators that indicate a tar offset, a logical offset, and a decompressor state for a corresponding member file. A member file is accessed by seeking to the tar offset in the compressed tar archive, restoring a decompressor to the decompressor state, decompressing the compressed tar archive using the decompressor, and moving to the logical offset in the decompressed data.

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

Autonomous supply chain data hub and platform
Patent No. 11934365

Inventor(s): Rubesh Mehta (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Blue Yonder Group, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Law Firm: Spencer Fane LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17562517 on 12/27/2021 (813 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of autonomous data hub processing that uses semantic metadata, machine learning models, and a permissioned blockchain to autonomously standardize, identify and correct errors in supply chain data is disclosed. Embodiments input supply chain data stored in a supply chain database, train with the machine learning model trainer, one or more machine learning models to identify one or more data errors in the supply chain data, clean the one or more identified data errors from the supply chain data, and store cleaned supply chain data. Embodiments also update one or more machine learning models to identify one or more data errors in cleaned supply chain data, and join and aggregate one or more sets of cleaned supply chain data.

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

Systems and methods for providing a nearest neighbors classification pipeline with automated dimensionality reduction
Patent No. 11934384

Inventor(s): Michael Langford (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18060737 on 12/01/2022 (474 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a system for providing a nearest neighbors classification pipeline with automated dimensionality reduction. The system may receive a dataset. The system may determine whether the dataset has a first dimensionality that exceeds a predetermined threshold. When dataset has a dimensionality that exceeds a predetermined threshold, the system may prompt a user to input an explained variance threshold ratio. The system may receive the explained variance threshold ratio. The system may iteratively perform a binary search on the dataset to determine a reduced dimensionality having a total explained variance ratio closest to but not less than the explained variance threshold ratio. The system may reduce the dataset to the reduced dimensionality to generate a reduced dataset. The system may train a machine learning model using the reduced dataset.

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

Transaction processing failover
Patent No. 11934388

Inventor(s): Jacob Creech (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18179081 on 03/06/2023 (379 days app to issue)

Abstract: Transaction processing systems in accordance with aspects of the invention may process a variety of transactions. Transaction processing systems may include a transaction processing device and a distributed processing system. The transaction processing device obtains transaction requests from a variety of client devices and process the transaction requests. The distributed processing system may also obtain the transaction requests and maintain a transaction history of the transaction requests obtained and/or processed by the transaction processing device. Both the distributed processing system and the transaction processing device may send a transaction succeeded event based on the transaction being processed successfully. The transaction processing device and distributed ledger may also maintain an indication of if a particular transaction has been processed. When the transaction processing device becomes available after a period of unavailability, the transaction history for both the transaction processing device and distributed ledger may be reconciled.

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

Techniques and systems for smart natural language processing of search results
Patent No. 11934413

Inventor(s): Chris Demchalk (Frisco, TX), Ryan M. Parker (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: KDW Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17530149 on 11/18/2021 (852 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, processes, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided method includes receiving a search query including one or more of a textual phrase, a document, or data including metadata from a user. For example, a processor may execute a theme-generating machine learning algorithm to generate a theme of the search query. Profiles of other users are identified as similar to a profile of the user may be located. A search history of each of the located other users may be located in the collected search history. Content in the searchable content that corresponds to the generated theme of the search query and according to a result of the evaluation of the located search history of each of the other users may be obtained. The obtained content may be scored based on a scoring algorithm and output a set of scored search results to the input/output device.

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

Agnostic image digitizer
Patent No. 11934447

Inventor(s): Marcus R. Matos (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17861379 on 07/11/2022 (617 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods for enhancing compatibility of a document of an entity with an organization”s database on a computer server. Methods may include using a computer hardware processor to digitize a document from a first format into a digital format, such as bytes, when the first format may not be compatible with the database. Methods may further include using a computer hardware processor to convert the document from a digital format into a second format, where the second format of the document may be compatible with the organization”s database. Methods may include using a computer hardware processor to populate the database on the computer server with data from the document in the second format. Methods may further include storing the populated database and the document in the second format on the computer server.

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

Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable mediums for SSVEP detection optimization
Patent No. 11934576

Inventor(s): Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Hossein Hamidi Shishavan (New Britain, CT), Insoo Kim (Avon, CT), Kia Golzari (Vernon, CT), Muhamed Farooq (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17575823 on 01/14/2022 (795 days app to issue)

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes measuring brain activity for a target frequency and a second harmonic frequency based on a default value of display parameters for a plurality of icons, determining whether a strength of the target frequency and the second harmonic frequency are below a threshold level, and modifying one or more display parameters in response to the strength of the target frequency and the second harmonic frequency being below the threshold level.

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

Generating sentiment analysis of content
Patent No. 11934778

Inventor(s): Abhay Dhundiraju Sastry (Plano, TX), Darpan Sharma (McKinney, TX), Harpreet Singh Hira (Frisco, TX), Jasen Paul Stine (Frisco, TX), Majo Paulose (Plano, TX), Nicholas Allen McHenry (Plano, TX), Priyadarshini Rajendran (Li
Assignee(s): Intuit, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Law Firm: PATTERSON + SHERIDAN, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17400023 on 08/11/2021 (951 days app to issue)

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing sentiment analysis of content. In order to determine the overall sentiment of content, a request is received by a sentiment analyzer, which then identifies a content identification number and retrieves comments associated with the content identification number. The sentiment analyzer pre-processes the comments, which includes removing all personal identifying information from the comments. The sentiment analyzer sends the pre-processed comments to a natural language processing service, and in turn, receives sentiment indications corresponding to the comments provided. Based on the sentiment scores, the sentiment analyzer generates a sentiment analysis and displays the sentiment analysis in the graphical user interface generated by the sentiment analyzer.

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

Stream data unit with multiple head registers
Patent No. 11934833

Inventor(s): Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17557712 on 12/21/2021 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: A streaming engine employed in a digital signal processor specifies a fixed read only data stream. Once fetched the data stream is stored in two head registers for presentation to functional units in the fixed order. Data use by the functional unit is preferably controlled using the input operand fields of the corresponding instruction. A first read only operand coding supplies data from the first head register. A first read/advance operand coding supplies data from the first head register and also advances the stream to the next sequential data elements. Corresponding second read only operand coding and second read/advance operand coding operate similarly with the second head register. A third read only operand coding supplies double width data from both head registers.

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

Shadow cache for securing conditional speculative instruction execution
Patent No. 11934836

Inventor(s): Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, IL)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17888410 on 08/15/2022 (582 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing device, having: a processor; memory; a first cache coupled between the memory and the processor; and a second cache coupled between the memory and the processor. During speculative execution of one or more instructions, effects of the speculative execution are contained within the second cache.

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

System and method for request isolation
Patent No. 11934858

Inventor(s): Timothy Austin Geldart (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): OPEN TEXT GXS ULC (Halifax, , CA)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17337266 on 06/02/2021 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for isolating requests that comprises, a shared command queue, a first virtual computational resource and a second virtual computational resources. The first virtual computational resources comprises a policy engine configured to access policies comprising criteria for assigning commands corresponding to requests from tenants to compartments, determine, according to the policies, compartments to which to assign the commands corresponding to the requests, produce the commands corresponding to the requests, and queue the commands in the shared command queue, each command comprising compartment assignment information. The second virtual computational resource comprises a command consumer configured to access a subscription to determine a subscribed compartment to which the second virtual computational resource is subscribed, select commands from the shared command queue according to selection criteria that include the subscribed compartment, and consume the selected commands from the shared command queue for processing by the second virtual computational resource.

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

Creating a machine learning policy based on express indicators
Patent No. 11934925

Inventor(s): Daniel Joseph Potkalesky (Garland, TX), Mark Stephen DeMichele (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): ZixCorp Systems, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17720737 on 04/14/2022 (705 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method performed by a classification scanner comprises receiving an electronic message and determining a classification that applies to the electronic message. The classification is determined based on an express indication from a user. The method further comprises providing a machine learning trainer with the electronic message and an identification of the classification that applies to the electronic message. The machine learning trainer is adapted to determine a machine learning policy that associates attributes of the electronic message with the classification.

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

Microservice management using machine learning
Patent No. 11934947

Inventor(s): Ramu Kannappan (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16677890 on 11/08/2019 (1593 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a computing device may implement a method that includes receiving microservice profile information at a microservice profiler, performing lexical analysis of the microservice profile information (where the lexical analysis produces tokenized information), generating microservice modification information by performing machine learning analysis of one or more inputs (where the one or more inputs comprise the tokenized information), and outputting the microservice modification information from the microservice profiler. The microservice profile information describes one or more characteristics of a microservice. The lexical analysis is performed by a lexical analysis engine of the microservice profiler, and the machine learning analysis is performed by a machine learning system of the microservice profiler.

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

Sentient optimization for continuous supply chain management
Patent No. 11934987

Inventor(s): Anand Iyer (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Blue Yonder Group, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Law Firm: Spencer Fane LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17872732 on 07/25/2022 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for incrementally adjusting a supply chain plan. The system includes a database operable to store data associated with one or more supply chain entities and a server system coupled with the database. The server system receives one or more perturbations in supply chain plan inputs from one or more of the supply chain entities, wherein the perturbations are received during a period of time separating a supply chain planning session from a subsequent supply chain planning session and accesses the data stored in the database associated with the one or more supply chain entities. The server system also incrementally and optimally adjusts the supply chain plan based on the one or more received perturbations and the data stored in the database and communicates the incrementally adjusted supply chain plan to the one or more supply chain entities.

[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]

Multi-lender platform that securely stores proprietary information for generating offers
Patent No. 11935002

Inventor(s): Alan Ilango (Mckinney, TX), Alex Baird (Carrollton, TX), Dinesh Sundaram (Plano, TX), Jacob Creech (Mckinney, TX), Jacques Morel (Colleyville, TX), Raman Bajaj (Frisco, TX), Sanjiv Yajnik (Dallas, TX), Thomas Sickert
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16881945 on 05/22/2020 (1397 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system and methods described herein allow users to apply for a purchase of a good from multiple providers using provider specific methodologies for generating offers for the product. For example, the system described herein may include a multi-layer architecture that includes interactive micro-services that communicate together in a bi-directional manner to create a normalized process for the purchase of a good, such as commercial goods/products (e.g. a vehicle) or real property. The micro-services may assess prequalification for a loan or financing for a good, followed by determining eligibility of the good for financing, and further followed by calculating pricing details for loans (e.g. for financing purchase of the good) that would be offered for a consumer”s particular financial credentials, for each of a plurality of lenders. Prequalification and pricing may be performed on a good by good basis, or for a plurality of goods near or substantially simultaneously.

Jailed environment restricting programmatic access to multi-tenant data
Patent No. 11935003

Inventor(s): Alan Ilango (Mckinney, TX), Avijit Sarkar (Mckinney, TX), Dinesh Sundaram (Plano, TX), Ishu Gupta (Mckinney, TX), Jacob Creech (Mckinney, TX), Jacques Morel (Colleyville, TX), Rajaboopathy Vijayaraghavan (Carrollton, TX,
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16882163 on 05/22/2020 (1397 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system and methods described herein allow users to give their applicant information when seeking to submit an inquiry associated with a product provided by at least one entity, and have various lender microservices run in parallel, segregated by entity, in a jailed and self-contained, autonomous environment. The result of these microservices may be returned as a response to the inquity, being determined autonomously for each respective entity based on one or more respective rule sets or executable logic for each respective entity. Payloads for multiple entities may be combined in a single output from the jailed and self-contained environment due to outputs from the environment being encrypted in a universal format, wherein the outputs are decrypted in a user session in an application, allowing the user to see the results of the respective responses of each of the at least one entity, to their inquiry.

Wired multi-factor authentication for ATMs using an authentication media
Patent No. 11935055

Inventor(s): Nia Mack (Prosper, TX), Ramkumar Korlepara (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17207893 on 03/22/2021 (1093 days app to issue)

Abstract: An Automated Teller Machine (ATM) terminal receives a transaction request from a user. The ATM terminal triggers a camera to capture a first image of the authentication media item presented by the user, where the first image of the authentication media item is embedded with a first unique code. The ATM terminal compares the first image of the authentication media item with a second image of the authentication media item that is associated with the user, where the second image of the authentication media item is embedded with a second unique code for verifying the user. The ATM terminal determines whether the first unique code corresponds to the second unique code. The ATM terminal conducts the transaction request if it is determined that the first unique code corresponds to the second unique code.

Remote airline agent on-demand
Patent No. 11935070

Inventor(s): Robert Bence (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): UNITED AIRLINES, INC. (Chicago, IL)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17673358 on 02/16/2022 (762 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system may automatically provide a remote airline agent to a user. A server device receives pending requests to communicate with a remote airline agent from users each attempting to modify a flight segment or obtain assistance related to the flight segment. For each of the requests, the server device obtains flight information for the flight segments to identify a flight urgency level or a flight criticality level for the flight segment. The server device assigns a priority level to each of the pending requests based on one or more attributes associated with each pending request, ranks the pending requests in accordance with the assigned priority levels, and automatically connects to a client device for a highest ranked request of the pending requests to initiate a video chat between the user and the remote airline agent.

Intelligent dealership recommendation engine
Patent No. 11935078

Inventor(s): Avid Ghamsari (Carrollton, TX), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Micah Price (The Colony, TX), Qiaochu Tang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17405794 on 08/18/2021 (944 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects described herein may provide an interface and/or search functionality for a dealership to determine vehicles a customer is most likely to purchase. A recommender system may generate vehicle recommendations for a dealership to sell to a customer based on customer information, vehicle information, and dealership information. Machine learning may be used to generate the recommendations. The recommendations may be based on the vehicle preferences of a customer.

Enhanced rebate program
Patent No. 11935089

Inventor(s): Jason Schwomeyer (Lewisville, TX), Rodney Mason (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Blackhawk Network, Inc. (Pleasanton, CA)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18128326 on 03/30/2023 (355 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing an enhanced rebate and marketing program which may automatically enroll a consumer in a loyalty programs after the consumer completes rebate form; filter consumer information to provide to customer relationship management campaigns; capture real-time consumer responses to queries; provide real-time and dynamic, targeted offers and other communications to consumers and recipients; and provide bonus added value to consumer received rebates.

Dynamic vehicle tags
Patent No. 11935093

Inventor(s): Adrian Lombard (New York, NY), John F. Daly (Frisco, TX), Paul Li (Mountain View, CA), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, CA), Satoshi Nagashima (Long Island, NY)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Aichi-Ken, , JP), TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18171352 on 02/19/2023 (394 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving an opt-in request to display information on a display of a vehicle configured to be viewed from outside of the vehicle, authenticating the request to allow displaying information on the display, determining information associated with the vehicle to be displayed on the display, determining misuse of the information displayed on the display based on a notification from another vehicle, and flagging the misuse.

Embeddable form for non-profit layer data capture for online donation transactions
Patent No. 11935096

Inventor(s): Raymond J. Gary, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): IDONATE LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18482373 on 10/06/2023 (165 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method according to which a donation transaction is conducted. The method includes providing, via a network, an embeddable form, wherein the embeddable form is associated with a non-profit, and wherein the embeddable form is adapted to be displayed on a graphical user interface to receive payment data and payment metadata associated with the payment data. The method also includes: transmitting, via the embeddable form and the network, the payment data to a third-party server for tokenization of the payment data; receiving, by a software development kit (”SDK”) and via the network, a unique token associated with the payment data, and the payment metadata associated with the payment data; executing, by the SDK, the donation transaction in accordance with the unique token and the payment metadata; and storing, by the SDK, the unique token associated with the payment data and the payment metadata.

Transport gait and gesture interpretation
Patent No. 11935147

Inventor(s): Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr. (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17503344 on 10/17/2021 (884 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a computer associated with a transport, a gait of an individual from at least one camera associated with the transport, validating, by the computer, the gait, receiving, by the computer, a gesture of the individual from the at least one camera, validating, by the computer, the gesture, and performing, by the computer, one or more functions based on the validated gait and the validated gesture.

Systems and methods for predicting depth using style transfer
Patent No. 11935254

Inventor(s): Kareem Metwaly (State College, PA), Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Rui Guo (San Jose, CA), Xuewei Qi (Dublin, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17342853 on 06/09/2021 (1014 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving depth prediction for objects within a low-light image using a style model. In one embodiment, a method includes encoding, by a style model, an input image to identify content information. The method also includes decoding, by the style model, the content information into an albedo component and a shading component. The method also includes generating, by the style model, a synthetic image using the albedo component and the shading component. The method also includes providing the synthetic image to a depth model.

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

Augmented reality support platform
Patent No. 11935293

Inventor(s): Samuel Waicberg (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): CareAR Holdings LLC (Norwalk, CT)
Law Firm: Fleit Intellectual Property Law (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17806177 on 06/09/2022 (649 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for providing device support to a user using an augmented reality (AR) interface includes establishing, by a computer system, a real-time communication session streaming audio and video between (i) a local application executing on a local user device and (ii) a remote application executing a remote user device. The method further includes transmitting, via the real-time communication session, images depicting equipment captured by the local application. Annotations to the images are received from the remote application. Each annotation is anchored to user-selected positions on the equipment. The annotations are presented on the remote user device overlaid on the equipment at the user-selected positions. The real-time communication session is used to transmit audio or video instructional information related to the equipment and referencing the annotations. The computing system stores a new session record that includes the images, the annotations, and the audio or video instructional information.

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

Method and system for surgical instrumentation setup and user preferences
Patent No. 11935383

Inventor(s): Richard A. Beutter (Argyle, TX), Sean Hastings (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Stryker Corporation (Kalamazoo, MI)
Law Firm: Morrison Foerster LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17807701 on 06/17/2022 (641 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of notifying personnel in an operating room of a potential hazard comprising, at a computing system: capturing at least one image of the operating room by at least one camera that can detect light outside of a visible spectrum; determining that at least one potential hazard is in the operating room based on analysis of the at least one image; and in response to determining that the at least one potential hazard is in the operating room, generating at least one notification for notifying the personnel in the operating room that there is the at least one potential hazard in the operating room.

[G08B] SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS

Wearable system for detection of environmental hazards
Patent No. 11935384

Inventor(s): Christopher Russell (The Colony, TX), Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX), Pooja Krishnaswamy (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18168006 on 02/13/2023 (400 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed wearable device systems include several features for alerting and guiding persons who are approaching or near to potentially hazardous or high-risk conditions in their nearby environment. Sensor data from wearable devices (also referred to herein as ”wearables”) are used to determine the presence of various unsafe environmental conditions and phenomenon, including dangerous terrain or other unusual conditions. The wearable would be used to warn a person, for example via auditory or haptic-based feedback, if the person is about to encounter an unsafe condition. In particular, the proposed systems can be of great benefit to the visually impaired, those persons with physical disabilities, or persons otherwise vulnerable to particular environmental conditions.

[G08B] SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS

Integrated congested mitigation for freeway non-recurring queue avoidance
Patent No. 11935404

Inventor(s): Baik Hoh (Mountain View, CA), Hao Yang (Aliso Viejo, CA), Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17211390 on 03/24/2021 (1091 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operating a traffic management system may comprise identifying a vehicle queue in a first lane of a road based on sensor data from one or more connected vehicles traveling along the road, determining driving instructions for a connected vehicle within a queue management region in a second lane, adjacent to the first lane, to create a gap in front of the connected vehicle for a vehicle in the vehicle queue to change lanes into the gap, and transmitting the driving instructions to the connected vehicle.

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

Systems and methods for cooperatively managing mixed traffic at an intersection
Patent No. 11935417

Inventor(s): Mehmet Ali Guney (Mountain View, CA), Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, CA), Rui Guo (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17229203 on 04/13/2021 (1071 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for cooperatively managing mixed traffic at an intersection are disclosed herein. One embodiment determines, at an autonomous sensor-rich vehicle, that one or more other vehicles are following in the same lane, the one or more other vehicles including at least one legacy vehicle; communicates with the one or more other vehicles to form a platoon; receives Signal Phase and Timing (SpaT) information from a roadside unit associated with an intersection toward which the platoon is traveling; calculates at the autonomous sensor-rich vehicle, based at least in part on the SPaT information and location information for the platoon, a speed profile and a trajectory for the autonomous sensor-rich vehicle that minimize a delay of the platoon in traversing the intersection while accounting for fuel consumption; and executes the speed profile and the trajectory to control indirectly the one or more other vehicles while the platoon traverses the intersection.

Cognitive analysis of public communications
Patent No. 11935522

Inventor(s): Chris Demchalk (Frisco, TX), Jacob Adair (Frisco, TX), Lokesh Vijay Kumar (Frisco, TX), Poornima Bagare Raju (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17745130 on 05/16/2022 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for categorizing customer complaints on social media using a model trained on customer voice calls or chats with agents. Additionally, users interested in monitoring regulatory compliance issues based on customer complaints can receive notifications regarding complaints that are linked to regulatory topic areas, without the need to manually scan vast numbers of social media postings.

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

Multi-tier rule and AI processing for high-speed conversation scoring and selecting of optimal responses
Patent No. 11935531

Inventor(s): Dana Patrice Morrow Branch (Celina, TX), Emad Noorizadeh (Plano, TX), Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17539262 on 12/01/2021 (839 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to assess a sentiment of an utterance expressed by a user during an interaction between an interactive response system and the user is provided. The methods may include a natural language processor processing the utterance to output an utterance intent. The methods may also include a signal extractor processing the utterance, the utterance intent and previous utterance data to output utterance signals. The methods may additionally include an utterance sentiment classifier using a hierarchy of rules to extract, from a database, a label, the extracting being based on the utterance signals. The methods may further include a sequential neural network classifier using a trained algorithm to process the label and a sequence of historical labels to output a sentiment score.

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

Methods and apparatus for leveraging an application programming interface (”API”) request for storing a list of sentiment values in real time interactive response systems
Patent No. 11935532

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to receiving a stateless application programming interface (”API”) request. The API request may store an utterance, previous utterance data and a sequence of labels, each label in the sequence of labels being associated with a previous utterance expressed by a user during an interaction. The previous utterance data may, in certain embodiments, be limited to a pre-determined number of utterances occurring prior to the utterance. Embodiments process the utterance, using a natural language processor in electronic communication with the first processor, to output an utterance intent, a semantic meaning of the utterance and an utterance parameter. The utterance parameter may include words in the utterance and be associated with the intent. The natural language processor may append the utterance intent, the semantic meaning of the utterance and the utterance parameter to the API request. A signal extractor processor may append the plurality of utterance signals to the API request.

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

Pseudo multi-plane read methods and apparatus for non-volatile memory devices
Patent No. 11935585

Inventor(s): Arka Ganguly (Scotts Valley, CA), Ohwon Kwon (Pleasanton, CA), Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17509725 on 10/25/2021 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a control circuit and a plurality of non-volatile memory cells arranged in a plane of a memory die. The plane includes a first word line including a first word line portion coupled to a corresponding first group of the non-volatile memory cells, and a second word line including a second word line portion coupled to a corresponding second group of the non-volatile memory cells, the second word line different from the first word line. The control circuit is configured to apply a first voltage to the first word line portion and apply a second voltage to the second word line portion to concurrently read the first group of the non-volatile memory cells and the second group of the non-volatile memory cells. The first group of the non-volatile memory cells and the second group of the non-volatile memory cells each store less than a page of data.

[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)

Dummy cell resistance tuning in NAND strings
Patent No. 11935593

Inventor(s): Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, CA), Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, CA), Yi Song (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17824143 on 05/25/2022 (664 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a control circuit configured to connect to memory cells connected in series in NAND strings. Each NAND string includes a plurality of data memory cells coupled to a plurality of data word lines in series with a plurality of dummy memory cells connected to a plurality of dummy word lines. The control circuit configured to apply a first dummy word line voltage to one or more dummy word lines of the plurality of dummy word lines in a verify step of a program operation to program data memory cells. The control circuit is configured to apply a second dummy word line voltage to the one or more dummy word lines in a read operation to read the data memory cells.

Burst programming of a NAND flash cell
Patent No. 11935599

Inventor(s): Fanglin Zhang (Fremont, CA), Hua-Ling Cynthia Hsu (Fremont, CA), Victor Avila (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17725911 on 04/21/2022 (698 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fast burst program sequence that reduces overall NAND flash programming time is disclosed. The burst program sequence includes maintaining a charge pump in an ON state and not fully discharging the WL/BLs at the conclusion of the programming phase of each program operation. As a result, the fast burst program sequence provides total program time savings over an existing cache program sequence by eliminating the full WL/BL discharge and charge pump reset that conventionally occurs after each program operation, which in turn, allows for the transfer of next page data from the page buffer to the data latches to be hidden within the program time of a prior/current program operation.

Programmable atomic operator resource locking
Patent No. 11935600

Inventor(s): Tony Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18117900 on 03/06/2023 (379 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices and techniques for programmable atomic operator resource locking are described herein. A request for a programmable atomic operator (PAO) can be received at a memory controller that includes a programmable atomic unit (PAU). Here, the request includes an identifier for the PAO and a memory address. The memory addressed is processed to identify a lock value. A verification can be performed to determine that the lock value indicates that there is no lock corresponding to the memory address. Then, the lock value is set to indicate that there is now a lock corresponding to the memory address and the PAO is invoked based on the identifier for the PAO. In response to completion of the PAO, the lock value is set to indicate that there is no longer a lock corresponding to the memory address.

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

Method for tuning an external memory interface
Patent No. 11935613

Inventor(s): Zachary John Brown (Sugar Land, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17390807 on 07/30/2021 (963 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device and method are presented. Largest and smallest successful values of a receive clock delay and a transmit clock delay are determined. A first set of parameters for an SPI coupled to a DDR flash memory are set, including the largest successful values of the transmit clock delay and the receive clock delay, and a first value of a RD cycle. A second set of parameters for the SPI are set, including the smallest successful value of the transmit clock delay and receive clock delay, and a second value of the RD cycle. One of the first and second sets of parameters is selected based on whether the first or second set of parameters results in successfully reading from the DDR flash memory over a larger range of operating temperatures. The SPI is programmed using the selected one of the first and second sets of parameters.

Free flow data path architectures
Patent No. 11935622

Inventor(s): Sajal Mittal (Bangalore, , IN), Sneha Bhatia (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17725441 on 04/20/2022 (699 days app to issue)

Abstract: A data path architecture and corresponding method of operation are disclosed that permit a first-in-first out (FIFO) buffer to immediately flush dataincluding potentially invalid initial byte(s)upon receipt of a high-speed clock signal, and according to which, a delay difference between a data path clock signal and a high-speed clock signal is compensated for at a controller side by, for example, adjusting RE latency to discard/ignore the initially invalid bytes rather than by modifying FIFO depth or varying a number of delay stages in the high-speed clock signal path in order to satisfy the FIFO depth. Because FIFO depth is not used to absorb the clock signal delay difference, there is no need to modify the architecture (e.g., change the depth of a FIFO) to accommodate variation in the clock signal delay difference across different products/product generations, thereby providing high scalability.

System and method for a digital consumer medical wallet and storehouse
Patent No. 11935657

Inventor(s): Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Reliant Immune Diagnostics, Inc. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17408698 on 08/23/2021 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are provided for collection and testing of a biologic sample. The system and method comprise collecting by a user of a testing device a biologic sample for use with the testing device, assigning correlative values as test results, and receiving the test results at a server disposed on a network. Some aspects further include presenting advertisements and other messages to users through a mobile application operating on a mobile device. These aspects take into account the results of the self-diagnostic test and present different advertisements to the user based on the results of the test.

[G06K] RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (printing per se B41J)

Systems and methods for monitoring the display of electronic content on client devices
Patent No. 11936547

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Dalton Porter (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17239574 on 04/24/2021 (1060 days app to issue)

Abstract: At times, it may be desirable to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content. One manner of making the determination may include accessing presentation time information that indicates the time(s) at which one or more client systems present particular dynamic content and accessing event time information indicating the time(s) at which one or more auditable events occur in the dynamic particular content. Based on the presentation time information and the event time information, it may be possible to determine that a client system is, or to determine the number of client systems that are, presenting particular dynamic content when an auditable event occurs in the dynamic content.

Risk analyzer for ascertaining a risk of harm to a network and generating alerts regarding the ascertained risk
Patent No. 11936666

Inventor(s): Ashar Aziz (Coral Gables, FL), Osman Abdoul Ismael (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee(s): Musarubra US LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Rutan Tucker, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17146417 on 01/11/2021 (1163 days app to issue)

Abstract: Computerized techniques to determine and verify maliciousness of an object are described. A malware detection system intercepts in-bound network traffic at a periphery of a network to capture and analyze behaviors of content of network traffic monitored during execution in a virtual machine. One or more endpoint devices on the network also monitor for behaviors during normal processing. Correlation of the behaviors captured by the malware detection system and the one or more endpoint devices may verify a classification by the malware detection system of maliciousness of the content. The malware detection system may communicate with the one or more endpoint devices to influence detection and reporting of behaviors by those device(s).

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Power electronics assembly having staggered and diagonally arranged transistors
Patent No. 11932114

Inventor(s): Danny J. Lohan (Ann Arbor, MI), Hitoshi Fujioka (Ann Arbor, MI), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17083471 on 10/29/2020 (1237 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems to provide for technology to that includes a first power electronics module including a plurality of first transistors that are diagonally offset from each other, and a second power electronics module stacked on the first power electronics module. The second power electronics module includes second transistors that are diagonally offset from each other. The second transistors are staggered relative to the first transistors.

[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]

Radio-access-technology-specific access restrictions
Patent No. 11932320

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, 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: 17693695 on 03/14/2022 (736 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate restriction on use. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from radio-access-technology-specific access restrictions. A method can include registering a user equipment with a network element. The registering can include identifying user equipment capabilities. The method can also include receiving a response from the network element indicating restriction on use of at least one radio access technology.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods to regulate joining and leaving a vehicular micro cloud
Patent No. 11935310

Inventor(s): Chang-Heng Wang (Mountain View, CA), Enes Krijestorac (Los Angeles, CA), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, CA), Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, CA), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17155744 on 01/22/2021 (1152 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to managing a vehicular micro cloud. A method may include determining join/leave protocols for a vehicular micro cloud and transmitting the join/leave protocols to a local vehicle in a vicinity of the vehicular micro cloud prior to the local vehicle joining the vehicular micro cloud. The join/leave protocols can define at least: 1) a procedure for the local vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud and contribute computing resources to a collaborative micro cloud task, and 2) a protocol for handing an incomplete task when the local vehicle leaves the vehicular micro cloud.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Dual gate dielectric layers grown with an inhibitor layer
Patent No. 11935740

Inventor(s): Damien Thomas Gilmore (Allen, TX), Mark Francis Arendt (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17730944 on 04/27/2022 (692 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer is formed by forming an inhibitor layer over a semiconductor material. The inhibitor layer includes at least silicon and nitrogen. The semiconductor material is heated in an oxygen-containing ambient which oxidizes the inhibitor layer and forms the first dielectric layer which includes the oxidized inhibitor layer, and oxidizes the semiconductor material to form the second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is thicker than, the first dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer each include at least 90 weight percent silicon dioxide and less than 1 weight percent nitrogen. The first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer may be used to form gate dielectric layers for a first MOS transistor and a second MOS transistor that operates at a higher voltage than the first MOS transistor.

Three-dimensional memory device containing self-aligned bit line contacts and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 11935784

Inventor(s): Fumitaka Amano (Yokkaichi, , JP), Kensuke Ishikawa (Yokkaichi, , JP), Masato Miyamoto (Yokkaichi, , JP), Mitsuteru Mushiga (Yokkaichi, , JP), Motoki Kawasaki (Yokkaichi, , JP), Shigehiro Fujino (Yokkaichi, , JP), Shinsuke Yada (Yokka
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17345315 on 06/11/2021 (1012 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vertical layer stack including a bit-line-level dielectric layer and an etch stop dielectric layer can be formed over an array region. Bit-line trenches are formed through the vertical layer stack. Bit-line-trench fill structures are formed in the bit-line trenches. Each of the bit-line-trench fill structures includes a stack of a bit line and a capping dielectric strip. At least one via-level dielectric layer can be formed over the vertical layer stack. A bit-line-contact via cavity can be formed through the at least one via-level dielectric layer and one of the capping dielectric strips. A bit-line-contact via structure formed in the bit-line-contact via cavity includes a stepped bottom surface including a top surface of one of the bit lines, a sidewall segment of the etch stop dielectric layer, and a segment of a top surface of the etch stop dielectric layer.

Method of floated singulation
Patent No. 11935789

Inventor(s): Chang-Yen Ko (Taipei, , TW), J K Ho (New Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17903709 on 09/06/2022 (560 days app to issue)

Abstract: A microelectronic device has a substrate attached to a substrate pad on a first face of the substrate, and a component attached to the substrate on the first face. The substrate has a component placement guide on the first face. The substrate has a singulation guide on a second face of the substrate, located opposite from the first face. The microelectronic device is formed by attaching the component to a substrate sheet which contains the substrate. The substrate sheet with the component is mounted on a singulation film so that the component contacts the singulation film. The singulation guide on the second face of the substrate is located opposite from the singulation film. The substrate is singulated from the substrate sheet. The substrate with the component is attached to the substrate pad on the first face of the substrate, adjacent to the component.

Quad flat no-lead package with wettable flanges
Patent No. 11935821

Inventor(s): Nazila Dadvand (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17210392 on 03/23/2021 (1092 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device and method for fabrication thereof is provided which results in corrosion resistance of metal flanges ([b]802[/b]) of a semiconductor package, such as a quad flat no-lead package (QFN). Using metal electroplating (such as electroplating of nickel (Ni) or nickel alloys on copper flanges of the QFN package), corrosion resistance for the flanges is provided using a process that allows an electric current to reach the entire backside of a substrate ([b]102[/b]) to permit electroplating. In addition, the method may be used to directly connect a semiconductor die ([b]202[/b]) to the metal substrate ([b]102[/b]) of the package.

Semiconductor device and method of the same
Patent No. 11935844

Inventor(s): Enis Tuncer (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17138903 on 12/31/2020 (1174 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor package and a method for forming a semiconductor package are disclosed. The semiconductor package includes a metallic pad and leads, a semiconductor die including a semiconductor substrate attached to the metallic pad, and a conductor including a sacrificial fuse element above the semiconductor substrate, the sacrificial fuse element being electrically coupled between one of the leads and at least one terminal of the semiconductor die, a shock-absorbing material over a profile of the sacrificial fuse element, and mold compound covering the semiconductor die, the conductor, and the shock-absorbing material, and partially covering the metallic pad and leads, with the metallic pad and the leads exposed on an outer surface of the semiconductor package. Either a glass transition temperature of the shock-absorbing material or a melting point of the shock-absorbing material is lower than a melting point of the conductor.

Power and temperature management for functional blocks implemented by a 3D stacked integrated circuit
Patent No. 11935869

Inventor(s): Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17408230 on 08/20/2021 (942 days app to issue)

Abstract: A three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit (3D SIC) having a non-volatile memory die, a volatile memory die, a logic die, and a thermal management component. The non-volatile memory die, the volatile memory die, the logic die, and the thermal management component are stacked. The thermal management component can be stacked in between the non-volatile memory die and the logic die, stacked in between the volatile memory die and the logic die, or both.

Thermally efficient battery cell assembly
Patent No. 11935996

Inventor(s): Phalgun Madhusudan (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lightfoot Alford PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17246702 on 05/02/2021 (1052 days app to issue)

Abstract: A battery cell assembly, including a rolled cell formed from a first electrode and a second electrode rolled together about a longitudinal axis. The rolled cell includes a primary section in which the first electrode and the second electrode overlap in a radial direction from the longitudinal axis, and a first extension end extending from a first longitudinal end of the primary section and formed from a first edge section of the first electrode. The first edge section includes a first folded portion folded to contact an adjacent portion of the first edge section. The battery cell assembly further includes a first end cap coupled to the rolled cell and contacting the first folded portion.

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

Emergency power supplying device
Patent No. 11936060

Inventor(s): Sayeef Rahim (Allen, TX), Snehal Desai (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17850002 on 06/27/2022 (631 days app to issue)

Abstract: A power supplying device that can be used during emergencies is disclosed. The device comprises multiple adjustable battery compartments that can be connected, via switches, to deliver power to an external device connected to at least one power delivery port of the power supplying device. Each adjustable battery compartment includes a fixed lead and a sliding lead so that the multiple different battery sizes can be inserted into the compartment and connected to the device. An external battery connection device or harness can also be used with the power supplying device. The external battery connection device can be used to connect various different kinds of batteries with the power supplying device, such as cordless power tool batteries, cordless appliance batteries, and batteries for radio controlled (RC) devices.

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

Low wind-load antenna
Patent No. 11936092

Inventor(s): Amit Kaistha (Coppell, TX), Joy Huang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17231447 on 04/15/2021 (1069 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reduced wind load antenna includes: a radome having front, rear, and side surfaces; upper and lower end caps attached to upper and lower ends of the radome to define an internal cavity; and radiating elements positioned within the internal cavity and configured to transmit and receive radio frequency (RF) signals. The antenna includes at least one airflow separation delaying feature selected from the group consisting of: large radiused corners on the lower end cap; a domed upper end cap; a domed lower end cap; a plurality of protuberances on the front surface; a plurality of protuberances on each of the side surfaces; spiral ridges on the front surface; and a continuous protuberance on each of the side surfaces.

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

Antenna system
Patent No. 11936094

Inventor(s): George Alexander Bednekoff (Plano, TX), Michael A. Neenan (Plano, TX), Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Parsec Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18301527 on 04/17/2023 (337 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provides an antenna and an antenna system. The antenna includes a body member, a head member integrally connected to a first edge of the body member, wherein the head member forms a fold having a first angle towards the front face of the body member, and a first arm member and a second arm member, wherein the first arm member and the second arm member are integrally connected to the body member corresponding to the second edge and the third edge of the body member, and wherein the set of arm members each form a fold having a second angle towards the front face of the body member.

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

Telecommunications antenna mounts and associated transition covers
Patent No. 11936095

Inventor(s): Jignesh Patel (Plano, TX), Richard Williams (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Claremont, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17023460 on 09/17/2020 (1279 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure describes antenna mounts. An antenna mount may include a mount plate, a base plate, and at least three support members. The mount plate is configured to be secured to an antenna. The base plate configured to be secured to a mounting structure. The base plate may include one or more apertures, each aperture sized to receive a plurality of cables. Each support member has opposing ends with one end coupled to the base plate and the other end coupled to the mount plate such that the base plate and the mount plate are spaced apart a distance. Antenna mount assemblies and antenna mount transition covers are also provided.

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

USB battery charging mode advertising and differentiation
Patent No. 11936229

Inventor(s): Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17485001 on 09/24/2021 (907 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes determining a charging port mode by receiving a data contact detect (DCD) Complete signal, reducing a voltage on a first data pin of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector of a portable device, and determining that a condition is true when a voltage on a second data pin of the USB connector is equal to or greater than 0.8 to 2.0 Volts (V), and is false otherwise. When the condition is true, a first signal is sent on a control circuit output indicating indicate that the PD is connected to a dedicated charging port (DCP) of Divider 0 mode. When the condition is false, a second signal is sent on the control circuit output indicating that the PD is connected to a DCP of 1.2V short mode.

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

Constant ripple algorithm in DCM for buck converter
Patent No. 11936284

Inventor(s): Asif Qaiyum (Freising, , DE), Martin Schneider (Kraiburg am Inn, , DE), Ruediger Kuhn (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17489494 on 09/29/2021 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: A ripple voltage detector circuit comprises a pulse generator, a direct current-to-direct current (DC-DC) converter coupled to the pulse generator, and a first control loop coupled to the pulse generator and the DC-DC converter. The first control loop is configured to measure an output voltage of the DC-DC converter, determine an output ripple voltage of the output voltage, determine a ripple coefficient based on the output ripple voltage, determine a reference peak inductor current based on the ripple coefficient, and determine a peak value of an inductor current during a switching cycle, and transition a switching state of the DC-DC converter based on the reference peak inductor current and the peak value of the inductor current.

[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]

Switched capacitor converter and control method
Patent No. 11936290

Inventor(s): Songnan Yang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Halo Microelectronics International (Campbell, CA)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17455860 on 11/19/2021 (851 days app to issue)

Abstract: A switched capacitor converter includes a first leg between ground and a first voltage node, a second leg between ground and a second voltage node, a first flying capacitor connected between a first switch common node and a third switch common node of the first leg, a second flying capacitor connected between a first switch common node and a third switch common node of the second leg, a third flying capacitor connected between the first voltage node and the second voltage node, a first upper switch connected between the first voltage node and ground, and a second upper switch connected between the second voltage node and an input terminal.

Compensation for historical error in dynamic observer-based ripple detection in brushed direct current motors
Patent No. 11936325

Inventor(s): Kaushik Alwala (Nalgonda, , IN), Venkata Naresh Kotikelapudi (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17680577 on 02/25/2022 (753 days app to issue)

Abstract: A motor control system and method for a brushed direct current (BDC) motor using a compensated and corrected ripple count. Motor control circuitry, for example implemented in digital logic such as a microcontroller, receives a coil current signal and a motor voltage signal. Discontinuities in the coil current signal, are counted to generate a ripple count. An observer function derives an angular frequency model estimate using a computational model for the motor applying motor parameters estimated in an initial estimation interval following startup of the motor. A corrected ripple count is generated based on a comparison of a commutation angle of the motor with an angular position based on the angular frequency model estimate. Compensation for cumulative error over the initial estimation interval is derived from a behavioral motor model applying the estimated motor parameters. A motor drive signal is adjusted based on the compensated corrected ripple count.

[H02P] CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS [4]

Dynamically biased power amplification
Patent No. 11936340

Inventor(s): Debapriya Sahu (Bangalore, , IN), Rohit Chatterjee (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18325396 on 05/30/2023 (294 days app to issue)

Abstract: One example includes a device that is comprised of a pre-power amplifier, a power amplifier, a signal path, and a dynamic bias circuit. The pre-power amplifier amplifies an input signal and outputs a first amplified signal. The power amplifier receives the first amplified signal and amplifies the first amplified signal based on a dynamic bias signal to produce a second amplified signal at an output thereof. The signal path is coupled between an output of the pre-power amplifier and an input of the power amplifier. The dynamic bias circuit monitors the first amplified signal, generates the dynamic bias signal, and outputs the dynamic bias into the signal path.

[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)

Programmable gain low noise amplifier
Patent No. 11936346

Inventor(s): Jagannathan Venkataraman (Bengaluru, , IN), Rahul Sharma (Bangalore, , IN), Sandeep Oswal (Bangalore, , IN), Visvesvaraya Appala Pentakota (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17231728 on 04/15/2021 (1069 days app to issue)

Abstract: A low noise amplifier for an RF sampling analog front end. The amplifier includes digital step attenuation for applying a selected attenuation to signals received at an input node, and a gain stage coupled to amplify the attenuated signal from the digital step attenuation circuit. In a differential amplifier implementation, a first input capacitor is coupled between a positive side input node and an output of the negative side digital attenuation circuit, and a second input capacitor is coupled between a negative side input node and an output of the positive side digital step attenuation circuit. In some embodiments, variable feedback circuits are coupled between each input node and an output of the corresponding gain stage, to selectively apply active termination at the input at high gain settings of the amplifier. Variable input and output resistors, and programmable noise filtering at the output, are provided in some embodiments.

Multiplying spread-spectrum generator
Patent No. 11936391

Inventor(s): Maciej Jankowski (Munich, , DE), Ruediger Kuhn (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876473 on 07/28/2022 (600 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a circuit includes a phase frequency detector (PFD) having a first input, a second input, and an output. The circuit also includes a control circuit having an input and an output, the control circuit input coupled to the output of the PFD. The circuit also includes a modulation circuit having an input and an output, the modulation circuit input coupled to the output of the control circuit. The circuit also includes an oscillator having an oscillator input and an oscillator output, the oscillator input coupled to the output of the modulation circuit and the output of the oscillator coupled to the second input of the PFD.

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

Digital-to-analog converter with digitally controlled trim
Patent No. 11936395

Inventor(s): Atul Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, , IN), Deepak Kumar Meher (Bangalore, , IN), Gautam Salil Nandi (Bangalore, , IN), Rishubh Khurana (Bangalore, , IN), Tanmay Neema (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17586179 on 01/27/2022 (782 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes an output, a ground, a reference voltage terminal, an input code terminal, multiple switches, multiple resistors, and a controller. The switches couple to the reference voltage terminal when activated and to the ground when deactivated. The resistors are variously coupled between corresponding ones of the switches and the output, so that activating the switches causes the DAC to output an output voltage. The controller is coupled to the input code terminal and coupled to control the switches. The controller generates an output code based on an input code in response to at least one differential nonlinearity error greater than one least significant bit voltage. The input code corresponds to a first ideal output voltage, the output code corresponds to a second, different ideal output voltage. The controller generates an output voltage by controlling the switches using the output code.

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

Passive optical network adaptor with wireless interface
Patent No. 11936424

Inventor(s): John Valdez (Copper Canyon, TX)
Assignee(s): FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18140385 on 04/27/2023 (327 days app to issue)

Abstract: The techniques described within this disclosure are directed to an in-line adaptor or coupling device of a PON that detects incoming optical signals (e.g., of different services) being delivered over the PON on different bands of wavelengths supported by an incoming optical fiber of the PON, converts (if necessary) any optical signals to suitable wavelength signals, and transmits the converted optical signals to a last mile termination unit via suitable output interfaces. At least a portion of the incoming optical signals are not converted by the in-line adaptor, and instead are passed-through the in-line adaptor to the last mile termination unit via an optical output interface. The in-line adaptor further includes one or more wireless interfaces via which information pertaining to the received optical signals and/or other information related to the in-line adaptor is transmitted to one or more recipient devices.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus for high resolution CSI codebook
Patent No. 11936449

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Gilwon Lee (McKinney, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17709115 on 03/30/2022 (720 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for high resolution CSI codebook is provided. The method includes receiving configuration information about a channel state information (CSI) report, the configuration information including a parameter d1, where d is a number of principal components; determining left principal component vectors; determining right principal component vectors; determining principal singular values; and transmitting the CSI report including a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), the PMI indicating the left principal component vectors, the right principal component vectors, and the principal singular values, wherein at least one of the left principal component vectors, the right principal component vectors, and the principal singular values are selected from adaptive codebooks.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus to enable high rank CSI reporting in wireless communication systems
Patent No. 11936457

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: 17810544 on 07/01/2022 (627 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information; determining, based on the CSI feedback configuration information, CSI feedback including, for each layer l of a total number of layers, an indicator i[subscript]1,8,l [/subscript]indicating an index of a strongest coefficient among K[subscript]NZ,l [/subscript]coefficients, wherein l[1, . . . , ] is a layer index, 1 is a rank value, and K[subscript]NZ,l [/subscript]is a number of non-zero coefficients for layer l; determining a payload of the indicator i[subscript]1,8,l [/subscript]for each layer l based on the rank value; and transmitting, to the BS, over an uplink (UL) channel, the CSI feedback including the indicator i[subscript]1,8,l [/subscript]for each layer l of the total number of layers.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Distributed land mobile radio architectures
Patent No. 11936466

Inventor(s): Arindam Roy (Plano, TX), Larry Emmett (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): E.F. Johnson Company (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17981070 on 11/04/2022 (501 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for providing communication in a distributed land mobile radio (LMR) system architecture. In some embodiments, the system includes a first controller associated with an LMR site. The first controller may be configured to control communication, via a communication channel, of a plurality of LMRs. In some embodiments, the system further includes a first repeater of a plurality of repeaters associated with the LMR site. The first repeater may include at least an active mode. The first repeater may be in the active mode to initiate a simulcast controller operation using the communication channel of the plurality of repeaters.

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

Redundant control for wireless devices in a home automation system
Patent No. 11936492

Inventor(s): Swapnil Bora (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Savant Systems, Inc. (Hyannis, MA)
Law Firm: Cesari and McKenna, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17018015 on 09/11/2020 (1285 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, an architecture for redundant control of wireless devices (e.g., wireless light fixtures, wireless light strips, wireless window shades, or other wireless devices) of a home automation system is provided that uses a combination of WLAN and WPAN communication. During normal operation of the home automation system, control commands generated in response to user input in a control application (app) on a control device (e.g., a remote control, mobile device, or other electronic device) are transmitted via a WLAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) to a bridge device (e.g., a lamp module or wireless keypad) proximate to the wireless device, which forwards the commands over a WPAN (e.g., BLE) to the wireless device. In the absence of an available WLAN connection (e.g., due to failure, prior to its configuration, etc.), the control device may send control commands via the WPAN (e.g., BLE) directly to the wireless device.

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

System and method for control signaling
Patent No. 11936584

Inventor(s): Bin Liu (San Diego, CA), Kunpeng Liu (Beijing, , CN), Xianda Liu (Beijing, , CN), Young Hoon Kwon (Laguna Niguel, CA)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18167144 on 02/10/2023 (403 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating an access node includes sending a configuration of one or more first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources and a configuration of one or more sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, generating first control information including an identifier of a SRS resource set that includes the one or more SRS resources precoded by one or more precoders, generating second control information including an identifier of the one or more first CSI-RS resources, wherein the one or more first CSI-RS resources are associated with the identified SRS resource set, wherein the one or more first CSI-RS resources convey a downlink reference signal (RS) used for making measurements, and wherein the one or more precoders are determined in accordance with measurements of the downlink RS, sending the first control information and the second control information, and sending the downlink RS.

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

Enhanced instant message handling and delivery
Patent No. 11936602

Inventor(s): Lemnyuy B. Nyuykongi (Coppell, TX), Romelia H. Flores (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: CUENOT, FORSYTHE KIM, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16275336 on 02/14/2019 (1860 days app to issue)

Abstract: Managing instant message delivery may include receiving, using a processor, an instant message, wherein the instant message is directed to a recipient, and responsive to receiving the instant message, determining, using the processor, a user profile for the recipient and an activity level of a client device of the recipient. The user profile may specify rules for delivering instant messages to the recipient from users. Responsive to receiving the instant message, a delivery policy for the instant message may be determined using the processor according to the user profile of the recipient and the activity level of the client device. The instant message may be sent to the client device of the recipient according to the delivery policy using the processor.

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

Homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment, system and methods
Patent No. 11936632

Inventor(s): Harsh Kupwade-Patil (Plano, TX), Ravi Seshadri (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NANTHEALTH, INC. (Culver City, CA)
Law Firm: STETINA BRUNDA GARRED BRUCKER (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18184353 on 03/15/2023 (370 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment is provided and includes receiving digital data over the healthcare network at a data custodian server in a plurality of formats from various data sources, encrypting the data according to a homomorphic encryption scheme, receiving a query at the data custodian server from a data consumer device concerning a portion of the encrypted data, initiating a secure homomorphic work session between the data custodian server and the data consumer device, generating a homomorphic work space associated with the homomorphic work session, compiling, by the data custodian server, a results set satisfying the query, loading the results set into the homomorphic work space, and building an application programming interface (API) compatible with the results set, the API facilitating encrypted analysis on the results set in the homomorphic work space.

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

Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to secure communications against early-detect-late-commit attacks
Patent No. 11936681

Inventor(s): Espen Wium (Oslo, , NO), Tomas Motos (Hamar, , NO)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17463297 on 08/31/2021 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example apparatus includes target signal generator circuitry to generate a target signal having a first center frequency and a bandwidth. The example apparatus additionally includes companion signal generator circuitry to generate a companion signal having a second center frequency that is less than (a) the first center frequency adjusted by a first threshold and greater than (b) the first center frequency adjusted by a second threshold, the first threshold being a first multiple of the bandwidth, the second threshold being a second multiple of the bandwidth, the first multiple different than the second multiple. In some examples, the example apparatus includes adder circuitry to combine the target signal and the companion signal to form a composite signal. Additionally, the example apparatus includes transmitter circuitry to transmit the composite signal to a target device.

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

Configuring service mesh networking resources for dynamically discovered peers or network functions
Patent No. 11936724

Inventor(s): Michael Anthony Brown (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC (Redmond, WA)
Law Firm: Ray Quinney Nebeker (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18074355 on 12/02/2022 (473 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for configuring service mesh networking resources for dynamically discovered external entities. The methods and systems create custom resource objects for services provided by the external entities and dynamically create service mesh network resources for the custom resource objects. The methods and systems enable communications with the external entities using the service mesh network resources.

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

Biometric reference template record
Patent No. 11936789

Inventor(s): Jeffrey J. Stapleton (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17886370 on 08/11/2022 (586 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving an update biometric reference sample and a user identifier by a computing system and retrieving a previous biometric reference template record in a storage location based on the user identifier by the computing system. The previous biometric reference template record includes a previous biometric reference template generated using a previous biometric reference sample. The method further includes comparing the update biometric reference sample to the previous biometric reference template by the computing system and, responsive to determining that a biometric data type of the update biometric reference sample is different than that of the previous biometric reference template, generating an update biometric reference template by the computing system. The method further includes generating an update biometric reference template record by the computing system. The method further includes receiving comparing the update biometric reference sample to the biometric authentication sample by the computing system.

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

Dynamic rewardable activity value determination and allocation
Patent No. 11936807

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Chernick (Venice Beach, CA), Mark Randall Goldston (Beverly Hills, CA), Paul Kats (Los Angeles, CA), Sohrab Pirayesh (Los Angeles, CA)
Assignee(s): DIGITAL REEF, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: RMCK Law Group, PLC (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17946379 on 09/16/2022 (550 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Sender Controlled Media (SCM) platform user is presented incentives for performing rewardable platform activities that result in accruing points in a user-specific account from which points can be redeemed by transfer or cryptocurrency conversion to an external user-designated wallet. A reward received for each instance of a rewardable platform activity is determined based on a range of platform context including a target average points payout, an aggregated total points payout over a distribution period, and a type of rewardable platform activity.

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

Method, system and apparatus for intra-prediction in a video signal processing
Patent No. 11936857

Inventor(s): Mahant Siddaramanna (Bengaluru, , IN), Naveen Srinivasamurthy (Bengaluru, , IN), Soyeb Nagori (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18123417 on 03/20/2023 (365 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to an aspect, a video encoder selects a block of intermediate size from a set of block sizes for intra-prediction estimation for encoding a video signal. A set of neighboring blocks with the intermediate size are tested for combining. If the set of neighboring blocks are determined to be combinable, the video encoder selects a larger block size formed by the tested neighboring blocks for encoding. On the other hand, if the set of neighboring blocks are determined to be not combinable, the video encoder selects a smaller block size from the set of tested neighboring blocks for prediction. According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the best mode for intra-prediction is determined by first intra-predicting a block with intermediate modes in a set of modes. Then the intra-predictions are performed for the neighboring modes of at least one intermediate mode.

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

System and method for transcoding media stream
Patent No. 11936923

Inventor(s): Bradley Reitmeyer (Allen, TX), Christopher Joel Ribble (Garland, TX), Paul Martel (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): RESI MEDIA LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17858033 on 07/05/2022 (623 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for transcoding a media stream includes at least one network interface; at least one memory; and at least one processor each coupled to one or more of the at least one network interface and one or more of the at least one memory. The at least one processor is configured to publish, via a messaging bus, a segment transcode request in a segment transcode request queue, retrieve the segment transcode request by a transcode worker thread, wherein the first transcode worker thread monitors the segment transcode request queue, transcode by a second transcode worker thread a segment referenced by the segment transcode request, determine by the manifest processor whether the second transcode worker thread has completed transcoding the segment and is still operating, and, if not, transcode the segment by a third transcode worker thread, and store the transcoded segment.

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

Ballasted telecommunications equipment mounts and assemblies
Patent No. 11937027

Inventor(s): Dale Heath (Fort Worth, TX), Jyoti Ojha (Southlake, TX), Michael Carnes (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17930557 on 09/08/2022 (558 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a telecommunications equipment mount. The mount includes a stabilization frame having a bottom and at least three sides, the bottom and sides defining an open interior cavity, at least one mounting member perpendicular to one of the sides of the stabilization frame and extending outwardly from the side of the stabilization frame a distance, and at least one brace member. The at least one brace member includes a first bracket coupled to one side of the stabilization frame and configured to be secured to the at least one mounting member and a second bracket extending outwardly from the same side of the stabilization frame at an angle. A first end of the second bracket is coupled to a lower end of the first bracket and a second opposing end of the second bracket is configured to be secured to the at least one mounting member at a different location than the first bracket. The stabilization frame is configured to ballast the mount on a mounting structure when telecommunications equipment is secured to the mount. Telecommunications equipment mount assemblies are also described herein.

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

Systems and method for secure updates of configuration parameters provisioned in user equipment
Patent No. 11937077

Inventor(s): Jennifer Liu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: ALSTON BIRD LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17252721 on 10/04/2019 (1628 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods that update configuration parameters on a UE using control plane functionalities. In one embodiment, an AMF element of a mobile network receives a control plane message from a UDM element that includes a UE configuration parameter update for the UE. The UE configuration parameter update is security protected via a secured packet, integrity protection, etc. The AMF element is configured to transparently send the UE configuration parameter update to the UE. Thus, AMF element inserts the UE configuration parameter update (that is security protected) in a container of a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message, and sends the NAS message to the UE. The UE may then update its configuration parameters based on the update when security checks are complete.

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

Method and apparatus for generating policies for improving network system performance
Patent No. 11937100

Inventor(s): Carlos Garcia Hernandez (Campbell, CA), Manikanden Balakrishnan (Foster City, CA), Ramya Bhagavatula (Mountain View, CA), Sungho Yun (San Jose, CA), Wooyul Lee (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee(s): DZS Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: North Weber Baugh LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16575101 on 09/18/2019 (1644 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described is a method performed by a computing device for generating policies for improving network system performance, the method comprising: receiving operational data from a network device; processing the operational data from the network device to generate a Wi-Fi management policy; merging the Wi-Fi management policy, a mobile device policy, and a user preference or user policy to generate a unified policy; and sending the unified policy to the network device for network management.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for fast beam measurement and reporting
Patent No. 11937107

Inventor(s): Dalin Zhu (Richardson, TX), 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: 17447807 on 09/15/2021 (916 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for beam measurement and reporting. A method of operating a user equipment includes receiving information indicating associations between a set of transmission configuration (TCI) states and reference signals (RSs) for beam measurement, respectively, receiving a TCI state from the set of TCI states for beam indication, and determining, in response to reception of the TCI state, a RS for beam measurement based on the TCI state and the information. The method further includes transmitting or receiving the RS for beam measurement, and based on the RS being a downlink (DL) RS, measuring the DL RS and determining a measurement report; and transmitting the measurement report.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for congestion control on mobile edge networks
Patent No. 11937123

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: 17550327 on 12/14/2021 (826 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device receives, from a congestion controller, traffic policy information associated with a data stream between a sender and a receiver, where the traffic policy information includes a maximum round trip delay time (RTT) and a maximum throughput rate (Rate). The network device obtains a receiver advertised window size (RWND) for the receiver for the data stream. The network device modifies the RWND based on the RTT and the Rate to produce a modified receiver window size (RWND) and sends the RWND to the sender for use in controlling congestion on the data stream between the sender and the receiver.

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

Systems and methods for exposing custom per flow descriptor attributes
Patent No. 11937127

Inventor(s): David Taft (Keller, TX), Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, TX), Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, 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: 17929864 on 09/06/2022 (560 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to establish a data traffic flow for a user equipment (UE) device and determine per flow descriptor attributes associated with the data traffic flow, wherein the per flow descriptor attributes identify at least a source, a destination, and a protocol associated with the data traffic flow. The processor may be further configured to determine at least one additional per flow descriptor attribute for the data traffic flow and send the per flow descriptor attributes and the at least one additional per flow descriptor attribute to a network exposure device of a core network, wherein the network exposure device is configured to communicate with servers outside the core network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for enabling optimized reporting related to policy control request triggers
Patent No. 11937171

Inventor(s): Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18173197 on 02/23/2023 (390 days app to issue)

Abstract: A first network device may receive, from a second network device, a first policy control create request and may provide, to the second network device, a common policy control request trigger. The first network device may receive a second policy control create request associated with a user equipment (UE) and may cause a UE policy to be provided to the UE. The first network device may receive, from a third network device, a third policy control create request and may provide a network device policy to the third network device. The first network device may receive, from the second network device, a policy control update request based on the common policy control request trigger and may generate an updated UE policy or an updated network device policy based on the policy control update request.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for handling non-integrity protected reject messages in non-public networks
Patent No. 11937177

Inventor(s): Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: ALSTON BIRD LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17949402 on 09/21/2022 (545 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for handling non-integrity protected reject messages in non-public networks. In some example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least: receive, from a network function in a standalone non-public network (SNPN), a reject message, wherein information in the reject message indicates that the apparatus is not allowed to access the SNPN by subscription; and add the identity of the SNPN in a list of forbidden SNPNs associated with an access via which the apparatus sent a request and subsequently received the reject message.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for designing network slices using extensible components
Patent No. 11937178

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: 18151251 on 01/06/2023 (438 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]

Reporting power headroom for aggregated carriers
Patent No. 11937190

Inventor(s): Sean McBeath (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18157487 on 01/20/2023 (424 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]

System and method for multi-carrier network operation
Patent No. 11937221

Inventor(s): Jun Li (Richardson, TX), Sean Michael McBeath (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17083749 on 10/29/2020 (1237 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for multi-carrier network operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing channel scrambling in a multi-carrier network, wherein the multi-carrier network includes a first component carrier (”CC”) and a second CC between a base station and a user equipment (”UE”) comprises receiving a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (”C-RNTI”) and a cell identification (”ID”) for at least one of the first CC and the second CC; and using the RNTI and the cell ID to perform scrambling of information transmitted on at least one of the first CC and the second CC.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Allocation and logical to physical mapping of scheduling request indicator channel in wireless networks
Patent No. 11937243

Inventor(s): Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, , FR), Tarik Muharemovic (Pearland, TX), Zukang Shen (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17176092 on 02/15/2021 (1128 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for allocating resources for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) is disclosed. An SRI cycle period for use by user equipment (UE) within a cell is transmitted from a NodeB in a cell to UE within the cell. The NodeB transmits a specific SRI subframe offset and an index value to the particular UE within the cell. The specific SRI subframe offset and the index value enable the UE to determine a unique combination of cyclic shift, RS orthogonal cover, data orthogonal cover, and resource block number for the UE to use as a unique physical resource for an SRI in the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Enhanced broadcast transmission in unslotted channel hopping medium access control
Patent No. 11937271

Inventor(s): Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, TX), Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18157944 on 01/23/2023 (421 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operating a mesh network is disclosed. The method includes joining a network as a child of a parent node and receiving a downlink broadcast channel from the parent node. The method further includes setting the downlink broadcast channel as an uplink broadcast channel in response to the step of receiving.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for beam management for mobility
Patent No. 11937282

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information on a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, receiving a TCI state indication associated with downlink (DL) transmissions in a plurality of downlink (DL) time slots, decoding the TCI state indication, and applying the TCI state indication to a reception of the DL transmissions in the plurality of DL time slots.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Signaling of random access preamble parameters in wireless networks
Patent No. 11937292

Inventor(s): Jing Jiang (Wellesley, MA), Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, , FR)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18059206 on 11/28/2022 (477 days app to issue)

Abstract: User equipment (UE)initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for cell size and to reduce signaling overhead. A fixed set of preamble parameter configurations for use across a complete range of cell sizes within the cellular network is established and stored within each UE. A UE located in a given cell receives a configuration number transmitted from a nodeB serving the cell, the configuration number being indicative of a size of the cell. The UE selects a preamble parameter configuration from the fixed set of preamble parameter configurations in response to the received configuration number and then transmits a preamble from the UE to the nodeB using the preamble parameter configuration indicated by the configuration number.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Multi-link selection based on transmit power control (TPC)
Patent No. 11937316

Inventor(s): Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17306729 on 05/03/2021 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: Multi-link selection based on Transmit Power Control (TPC) may be provided. A computing device may receive Multi-Link Device (MLD) association information associated with a client device. The MLD association information may describe MLD links the client device may require. A set of MLD links available on a network may be determined based on the MLD association information. The determined set of MLD links may then be sent to the client device.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Dual mode transmission in a controlled environment
Patent No. 11937318

Inventor(s): Stephen L. 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: 17991417 on 11/21/2022 (484 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dual-mode mobile device and a method for coordinating calls for the dual-mode mobile device over a first and second connection within a controlled environment is disclosed. The method includes communications between a monitoring server and the dual-mode mobile device over the first connection while the dual-mode mobile device conducts the call over the second connection. The monitoring server transmits control messages to the dual-mode mobile device to control operations of the dual-mode mobile device and establishment of the call and also monitors operations of the dual-mode mobile device as well as the communications transmitted and received by the dual-mode mobile device during the call.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

DESIGN PATENTS

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Patent No. D018082

Inventor(s): Site Li (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): LANDSCAPE FORMS, INC. (Kalamazoo, MI)
Law Firm: Heslin Rothenberg Farley Mesiti P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29792700 on 04/19/2022 (700 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Cargo protector
Patent No. D018299

Inventor(s): Jeffry Wilkerson (Argyle, TX), Paul Phillips (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): DuraPlas, LP (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29839240 on 05/19/2022 (670 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle differential cover
Patent No. D018382

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Trent Collins (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29852466 on 09/07/2022 (559 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
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Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt and Eldredge Law Firm (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29843624 on 06/22/2022 (636 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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