Patented: Microsoft’s Anomaly Detection in Post‑Authentication User Behavior and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 24 with a total of 133 patents granted.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC has received a newly granted patent for "Systems and Methods for Detecting Anomalous Post-Authentication Behavior with Respect to a User Identity," invented by Sachse-based Shinesa Elaine Cambric. The patent describes a system that analyzes user actions with an anomaly prediction model to detect security threats and trigger mitigation steps. [Image sources: Amir Ali/ Nobi_Prizue/istockphoto, DI Studio]

This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • 7-Eleven's item identification using multiple cameras
  • Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' method for controlling neurostimulation according to user activity detected through patient use of icon driven user interface
  • Bank of America's building and training a network of chatbots
  • Capital One's systems for augmented reality navigation
  • Digital Porpoise's modeling a network data center architecture
  • Global Tel*Link's system for analyzing and investigating communication data from a controlled environment
  • Huawei's blockchain enhanced route authorization
  • Reliance Jio's cloud automation microbots
  • Siemens Healthineers' cardio AI smart assistant for semantic image analysis of medical imaging studies
  • USAA's systems for titles and title insurance for non-fungible tokens
  • Verily Life Sciences' methods for using image processing to generate inferences of biomarker for immunotherapy
  • Verizon's systems for indicating and managing a validation of a caller identification to prevent identity spoofing
  • Wells Fargo's quantum and classical cryptography (QCC) for data encryption and data decryption

Dallas Fort Worth: U.S. Patents Granted in the Dallas Fort Worth region.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 indicate 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 12/24/24  |  Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 

133 patents granted    
Ranked No. 11 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 12
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 19
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 2
E: Fixed Constructions 4
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 3
G: Physics 42
H: Electricity 44

Design: 6
Reissue: 1

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 17
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 6
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 5
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 5
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 4
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 3
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 3
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.) 3
Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas) 3

Unassigned 12

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS) 

Robert Allen Cocanougher Jr. (North Richland Hills) 3
Emad Noorizadeh (Plano) 2
Eric R. Anderson (Montclair, N.J.) 2
Matt Kovacevich (Carlsbad, Calif.) 2
Michael Hallack (Carlsbad, Calif.) 2
Mohamed Seck (Aubrey) 2
Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony) 2
Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound) 2

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Patent information is provided by Joe Chiarella, founder of patent analytics company Patent Index and publisher of The Inventiveness Index. For additional details on the patents granted below, search the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database. 

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