Beyond Dallas-based Island Technology, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

Alcon’s systems for using machine learning to predict contact lens compatibility
Bestow’s event sourcing
Botsitter’s remote monitoring of vegetation
Flash Seats’ paperless venue entry and location-based services
Ford Global Technologies’ automatic onboard validation of a newly trained vehicle machine learning model
GAD Research’s proof of play blockchain mining
Garner Development Services’ motorized surf board
Intellective AI’s cognitive neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system for multi-sensor data fusion
KPMG’s system for implementing a multimodal assistant using large language models
Kubota Corporation’s audio signaling system and method for autonomous vehicles
Monolithic 3D’s semiconductor device and structure with metal layers and memory cells
Orthofix US’s methods for remote measurement of cervical range of motion
SightGlass Vision’s ophthalmic lenses with light scattering for treating myopia
Spark Biomedical’s delivery of non-penetrating electrical neurostimulation therapy
Toyota’s artificial muscle lightweight seat massager and haptic response chair
Verily Life Sciences’ intraocular system for transmitting data and power optically to an implant
Worlds Enterprises’ methods for automatically clustering similar objects in images

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 11/11/25 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 19
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 8
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 2
E: Fixed Constructions 5
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 2
G: Physics 44
H: Electricity 46

DESIGN: 2

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 10
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 9
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 7
Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson) 4
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 4
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 3
Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock) 3
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 3
Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas) 3

Unassigned 8

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Haifeng Li (Richardson) 3
Kyeongin Jeong (Allen) 3
Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie) 3
Mohit Arora (Frisco) 3
Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen) 3
Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (McKinney) 3
Dimitri Azar (Chicago) 2
Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas) 2
John A. Sanders (Austin) 2
Joy Huang (Plano) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Hollow shaft injection drilling array
Patent No. 12464976

Inventor(s): John A. Sanders (Austin, TX), Mitchell J. NewDelman (Monte Carlo, MC)
Assignee(s): SUB-MERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Bailey Legal Services, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876597 on 07/29/2022 (1201 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hollow shaft injection drilling array enables sequential dispensing of a plurality of constituents at targeted depths. The hollow shaft injection drilling array includes an artificial intelligence (AI) robot ([b]1507[/b]C); a lens ([b]1405[/b]); a computer ([b]1511[/b]C); a programmable logic controller (PLC) ([b]1505[/b]C); one or more encoders ([b]1605[/b]B); one or more limit switches ([b]1809[/b]B); a sensor; a plurality of hollow shaft drill bits ([b]503[/b]); a plurality of guide rail(s) ([b]917[/b]); a plurality of matching platforms comprising elastomers ([b]903[/b], and [b]909[/b]), and granite ([b]905[/b]); and a plurality of lead screws ([b]913[/b]). The elastomers ([b]903[/b], and [b]909[/b]), granite ([b]905[/b]), and the lead screws ([b]913[/b]) enable sequential dispensing of the constituents within a plurality of different targeted depths controlled via the AI robot ([b]1507[/b]C), the lens ([b]1405[/b]), the computer ([b]1511[/b]C), the PLC ([b]1505[/b]C), the encoder ([b]1605[/b]B), the limit switch ([b]1809[/b]B), and the sensor. The limit switches ([b]1809[/b]B) and the encoders ([b]1605[/b]B) enable the hollow shaft injection drilling array to sequence the constituents to be injected at one or more specific depths.

[A01C] PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING (combined with general working of soil A01B 49/04; parts, details or accessories of agricultural machines or implements, in general A01B 51/00-A01B 75/00)

Device dispensing constituent materials by weight, volumes, flows, time intervals, depths through actuated dispenser openings connecting chambers and vessels
Patent No. 12464977

Inventor(s): John A. Sanders (Austin, TX), Mitchell J. NewDelman (Monte Carlo, , MC)
Assignee(s): SUB-MERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Bailey Legal Services, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876591 on 07/29/2022 (1201 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device disperses a plurality of constituent materials by one or more of weight, volume, flow, time interval, and depths through one or more actuated dispenser openings connected to one or more of a plurality of chambers and a plurality of vessels. The device includes a gate ([b]411[/b]B); an actuator a physical gate ([b]405[/b]B); one or more load cells ([b]605[/b]A, [b]605[/b]B. and [b]713[/b]); an artificial intelligence (AI) robot ([b]807[/b]C); a lens ([b]905[/b]); a computer ([b]811[/b]C); a programmable logic controller (PLC) ([b]805[/b]C); an encoder ([b]1005[/b]B); a limit switch ([b]1209[/b]B); and a sensor. The gate ([b]411[/b]B), the actuator a physical gate ([b]405[/b]B); and the load cell ([b]713[/b]) enable a sequential dispensing of one or more constituents at targeted depths via the AI robot ([b]807[/b]C), the lens ([b]905[/b]), the computer ([b]811[/b]C), the PLC ([b]805[/b]C); the encoder ([b]1005[/b]B), the limit switch ([b]1209[/b]B), and/the sensor. The gate ([b]411[/b]B), the actuator a physical gate ([b]405[/b]B); and the load cell ([b]713[/b]) are used to dispense by the load cell ([b]605[/b]A) measuring the constituents by weight.

[A01C] PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING (combined with general working of soil A01B 49/04; parts, details or accessories of agricultural machines or implements, in general A01B 51/00-A01B 75/00)

Vaccination identification button for electronic identification button tags to identify cattle as being inoculated against brucellosis, and kits and methods related thereto
Patent No. 12465016

Inventor(s): David McElhany (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Allflex USA LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17780730 on 12/15/2020 (1792 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one aspect, an EID button tag is provided herein for tagging and identifying cattle as being inoculated against brucellosis, the EID button tag including: a shell having a central opening; a transponder located in the shell; a male punch having a disc-shaped punch body and a stem extending distally therefrom, the stem having a head configured for irreversible insertion into the central opening, wherein a mounting opening is formed through the punch body with a mounting channel extending distally from the mounting opening and coaxially along the stem; and, a vaccination identification button having a disc-shaped visual identification body and a mounting stem extending distally therefrom, wherein the mounting stem is configured for irreversible insertion into the mounting channel. The punch body and the visual identification body are primarily tinted with different colors to provide visual identification of a head of cattle being inoculated against brucellosis.

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

Method of extrusion and making random extruded products
Patent No. 12465068

Inventor(s): Jorge C. Morales-Alvarez (Plano, TX), V.N. Mohan Rao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Frito-Lay North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18625444 on 04/03/2024 (587 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of making twisted collets includes providing a composition that incudes corn meal, feeding the composition into a single barrel that has more than one rotatable auger, and conveying the composition toward a die assembly through the more than one rotatable auger and through a transition piece having an interior flow path beginning adjacent to a downstream end of the augers and diverging to a wide output end with the die assembly comprising a stator and a rotor with a die gap there between, wherein the stator comprises a stator head downstream of the more than one rotatable auger and a stationary plate surrounding the output end of the transition piece and wherein the rotor is a rotatable plate downstream from the stator, the wide output end of the transition piece in communication with the stationary plate.

[A23L] FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES A21D OR A23B-A23J; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OF NUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT (shaping or working, not fully covered by this subclass, A23P); PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL

Systems and methods for using machine learning to predict contact lens compatibility
Patent No. 12465208

Inventor(s): Kevin Baker (Fort Worth, TX), Ramesh Sarangapani (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18584409 on 02/22/2024 (628 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a compatibility between a multi-focal contact lens and a patient seeking presbyopia vision correction include receiving, from a first device associated with a first eye-care professional (ECP), a request for selecting a contact lens for a consumer, wherein the request comprises biometric information associated with the consumer; obtaining a performance metric associated with the first ECP; determining, using the machine learning model and based on the performance metric, a customized compatibility index indicating a compatibility between a particular contact lens and the consumer for the first ECP; and presenting a report indicating the compatibility index on the first device. Additional systems, methods, and non-transitory machine-readable mediums are also provided.

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

Systems and methods for remote measurement of cervical range of motion
Patent No. 12465281

Inventor(s): Charles Conners (Lewisville, TX), John Lyon (Lewisville, TX), Lena Loutfy (Lewisville, TX), Sterling Denton (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Orthofix US LLC (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17873538 on 07/26/2022 (1204 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for performing range of motion measurements in an unsupervised manner. A user equipment with one or more cameras may be used with an application on the UE using the one or more cameras to measure range of motion of a user of the UE. The patient may record movement of the part of the body of interest, such as the head. The movement may be recorded in three dimensions (e.g., calculated from two dimensional coordinates of an image) and processed by the application, and the three rotational angles calculated corresponding to the difference between the final position of the head and the initial position of the head at the beginning of the recording. As a result, facial recognition is used to improve monitoring of range of motion during surgical recovery in an unsupervised environment.

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

Medical device placement assemblies and methods of using the same
Patent No. 12465356

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Clay (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Maple Grove, MN)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17756474 on 12/02/2020 (1805 days app to issue)

Abstract: A medical device that includes a shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, the shaft defining a lumen extending from the proximal end of the shaft to an opening on a side of the shaft. The medical device includes a grasping tool proximate to the distal end of the shaft and configured to fix the distal end relative to a target site. The medical device further includes a lock at the proximal end of the shaft and configured to fix the proximal end to an ancillary device.

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

Minimally invasive spinal instrument and method for use of same
Patent No. 12465396

Inventor(s): Stephen Courtney (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Eminent Spine LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17720696 on 04/14/2022 (1307 days app to issue)

Abstract: A minimally invasive spinal instrument and method for use of the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, a body includes an outer shaft and an inner shaft. A passageway accepts the inner shaft such that the outer shaft at least partially encloses the inner shaft. Each of the outer shaft and the inner shaft have spaced rings with locking grooves interleaved therewith. Each set of locking grooves is sized to accept a clamp such that the spaced rings mitigate longitudinal sliding of the clamp. A locking knob selectively secures the outer shaft and inner shaft thereto. A tip is removably secured to the inner shaft. In a single shaft configuration, in response to the locking knob being selectively disengaged from the outer shaft, the inner shaft and the locking knob are separated from the outer shaft such that the passageway is accessible to accept a metallic wire therethrough.

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

Orthodontic treatment and associated devices, systems, and methods
Patent No. 12465458

Inventor(s): James Sylvester Wratten, Jr. (Waterville, NY), Muhammad Fawwad (Carrollton, TX), Seyed Mehdi Roein Peikar (Carrollton, TX), Yuchen Xu (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Brius Technologies, Inc. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Fortem IP LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18049532 on 10/25/2022 (1113 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for orthodontic treatment planning and treatment are disclosed herein. Various embodiments of the present technology are directed to a method of obtaining data characterizing movements of a patient”s teeth from original positions to desired, final positions. In some embodiments, the method can include identifying one or more components of the movements, evaluating the movements, and/or modifying the movements. A method of the present technology can comprise obtaining an orthodontic treatment plan, which can include one or more suggested interventions to accomplish the tooth movements, a design of such intervention(s), and/or other useful information regarding the orthodontic treatment. In some embodiments, a method of the present technology comprises evaluating an orthodontic treatment during and/or after implementation of the treatment and, based on the evaluation, obtaining another orthodontic treatment plan and movement data characterizing movements of a patient”s teeth from their current positions to desired, final positions.

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

Hip off-loading device and method
Patent No. 12465492

Inventor(s): Brad Niese (Southlake, TX), Harry K.W. Kim (Dallas, TX), Mikhail L. Samchukov (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17433526 on 02/24/2020 (2087 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes a hip-off-loading device including a pelvic assembly including a pelvic base plate configured for attachment to a human pelvis; a distraction adjustment mechanism coupled to the pelvic base plate, wherein the distraction adjustment mechanism is lockable, to provide for adjusting the distal distraction of the hip-off-loading device; and at least a portion of a rotation mechanism to provide for internal or external rotation or both, and to provide for non-dynamic interoperative adjustment of abduction, adduction, or both; a link movably coupled to the pelvic assembly to provide for internal or external rotation or both; and a femoral assembly coupled to the link and including a femoral attachment mechanism for attachment to a femur to provide for flexion, extension, or both.

[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]

Orthopedic brace with custom-fitted framework of light-curable material
Patent No. 12465512

Inventor(s): Brian Lewis Hambrick (McKinney, TX), Brian Snow (Fairview, TX), Jeff King (Melissa, TX)
Assignee(s): Arctic Bracing LLC (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Alliance IP, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17800485 on 02/24/2021 (1721 days app to issue)

Abstract: An orthopedic brace is provided that includes one or more pad plates formed of a light-curable material and a hinge comprising one or more hinge framework elements connected to the one or more pad plates. The pad plates may include an elastomeric shell to contain the light-curable material. A rigid attachment member may be coupled to the elastomeric shell to couple to the hinge framework element.

Hybrid 2-port vitrectomy and combined treatment and infusion probe
Patent No. 12465521

Inventor(s): Paul R. Hallen (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18303105 on 04/19/2023 (937 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to microsurgical instruments for ophthalmic surgical procedures, and more particularly, methods and microsurgical instruments for vitreoretinal procedures. In certain embodiments described herein, a vitreoretinal procedure is performed utilizing two surgical instruments: 1) a treatment instrument configured to a) treat a target ophthalmic tissue (e.g., sever and remove the vitreous body), and b) infuse fluid into the intraocular space to maintain intraocular pressure (IOP); and 2) an illumination probe for providing illumination within the intraocular space. The combined treatment and infusion functionalities of the treatment instrument eliminate the need for a separate infusion cannula, thus enabling the vitreoretinal procedure to be performed with only two instruments and reducing the number of incisions made in the eye. Additionally, utilization of two instruments facilitates easier manipulation of the eye by a surgeon, as one of the two instruments can be used to ”steer” the eye during the procedure.

Artificial muscle light weight seat massager and haptic response chair
Patent No. 12465548

Inventor(s): Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, 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: 17365267 on 07/01/2021 (1594 days app to issue)

Abstract: An artificial muscle chair device includes a plurality of artificial muscles embedded in a chair. Each artificial muscle includes a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region. A first electrode and a second electrode each disposed in the electrode region of the housing. The artificial muscle chair device further includes a dielectric fluid disposed within the housing. The first and second electrodes electrostatically attract, inflating the expandable fluid region with dielectric fluid and thereby applying selective pressure to an outer surface of the chair.

[A61H] PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY (electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, radiation therapy, ultrasound therapy A61N)

UBE3A genes and expression cassettes and their use
Patent No. 12465655

Inventor(s): Steven James Gray (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17612833 on 05/22/2020 (1999 days app to issue)

Abstract: This invention relates to polynucleotides comprising UBE3A open reading frame (ORF) sequences, vectors comprising the same, and methods of using the same for delivery of the ORF to a cell or a subject and to treat disorders associated with aberrant expression of a UBE3A gene or aberrant activity of a UBE3A gene product in the subject, such as Angelman Syndrome.

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

Pill with needle delivery system having outwardly expanding mechanical actuation
Patent No. 12465737

Inventor(s): Annapurna Karicherla (Cupertino, CA), Eric Bennett (San Carlos, CA), Kassidy MacPhail (San Francisco, CA), Kimberly Kam (Orinda, CA), Martin Sheridan (Redwood City, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17381861 on 07/21/2021 (1574 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device can include a capsule containing an array of microneedles and a mechanical actuator. The device can be in an ingestible form for delivery to a duodenum or other target location within a subject and can release the mechanical actuator from constraint by the capsule in response to stimuli or conditions in or en route to the duodenum or other target location. The mechanical actuator upon release from constraint by the capsule can expand outwardly (e.g., responsive to a bias provided by a flexibly resilient material of the mechanical actuator) in a direction away from a central longitudinal axis of the mechanical actuator and drive the array of microneedles into penetrating engagement with a lining of the duodenum or other target location. The penetrating engagement can facilitate delivery of a biotherapeutic agent or other payload via the microneedles.

[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]

Delivery of non-penetrating electrical neurostimulation therapy
Patent No. 12465764

Inventor(s): Alejandro Covalin (Los Angeles, CA), Navid Khodaparast (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): SPARK BIOMEDICAL, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Finch Maloney PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18902006 on 09/30/2024 (407 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems include delivering neurostimulation therapy, including delivering a first pulse series including a) delivering a suprathreshold cathodic pulse to a first electrode to stimulate a first neural structure, thereby producing a corresponding anodic pulse on a second electrode, and b) delivering a charge-balancing subthreshold anodic pulse with reversed polarity of the suprathreshold cathodic pulse to the first electrode, thereby producing a corresponding cathodic pulse on the second electrode, and delivering a second pulse series including c) delivering a suprathreshold cathodic pulse to the second electrode to stimulate a second neural structure, thereby producing a corresponding anodic pulse on the first electrode, and d) delivering a charge-balancing subthreshold anodic pulse with reversed polarity of the suprathreshold cathodic pulse to the second electrode, thereby producing a corresponding cathodic pulse on the first electrode.

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

System and methods to deliver hyperpolarizing waveform
Patent No. 12465766

Inventor(s): Hyun-Joo Park (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: 17980325 on 11/03/2022 (1104 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method of providing a neurostimulation therapy to a patient, comprises: generating electrical pulses, by an implantable pulse generator (IPG), comprising respective bursts of a plurality of anodic pulses with each anodic pulse being separated by a time gap, wherein (1) the plurality of anodic pulses comprise successively increasing charge; (2) the plurality of anodic pulses are charge limited to be sub-threshold; (3) each burst of anodic pulses is followed by a discharge phase of intermittent time periods to discharge charge build up from the anodic pulses; and (4) each successive intermittent time period increases in time through the discharge phase to avoid action potential (AP) generation; and applying the generated electrical pulses to neural tissue of the patient to inhibit neural activity of the patient.

Golf swing training apparatus
Patent No. 12465832

Inventor(s): Todd Jensen (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17730139 on 04/26/2022 (1295 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments may include a golf swing training apparatus. The golf swing training apparatus may include a mount operable to couple with a fixed object. The golf swing training apparatus may include a mounting collar operable to couple with the mount. The golf swing training apparatus may include an arm operable to be pivotally coupled with the mounting collar. The golf swing training apparatus may include a clamp pivotally coupled with the arm, wherein the clamp is operable to be clamped about a shaft.

[A63B] APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

Removable trim cover with headrest guide
Patent No. 12466297

Inventor(s): Alexander W. Schuyler (Ann Arbor, MI), Emily M. Deming (Ann Arbor, MI), John D. Harkleroad (Ypsilanti, MI), Vasudeva S. Murthy (Ann Arbor, MI), William P. Dix (Highland Park, 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: 19002877 on 12/27/2024 (319 days app to issue)

Abstract: A removable trim cover described herein includes a headrest guide to ensure alignment of the removable trim cover to the seat. In one embodiment, the removable trim cover includes a material body sized to cover a front face of a backrest of a seat. The material body has apertures forming a headrest guide. The headrest guide is adapted to align with headrest sleeves in the backrest. The removable trim cover also includes a first zipper portion, disposed around a border of the material body, adapted to be joined with a second zipper portion affixed to the backrest.

[A47C] CHAIRS (seats specially adapted for vehicles B60N 2/00); SOFAS; BEDS (upholstery in general B68G)

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Automated geometry and crowning apparatus for use of mobile electric flash-butt welding of railroad rails and rail inserts
Patent No. 12466008

Inventor(s): Kris Koski (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): One Rail Group, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Braxton Perrone, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18418735 on 01/22/2024 (659 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Mobile Electric Flash-Butt (EFB) Welding apparatus that incorporates an automated geometry system which creates field/mobile EFB welds with proper vertical alignment, within a definable distance. The system has a first pair of adjustable reference points on a left side of a mobile welding apparatus. The system has a second pair of adjustable reference points on the right side of the welding apparatus. The system has a first lifting mechanism positioned between the first pair of adjustable reference points and a second lifting mechanism positioned between the second pair of adjustable reference points. The welding line is positioned between the first and second pair of adjustable reference points and is the location of the weld. The system allows for comparatively shorter inserts than previously utilized.

[B23K] SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM (making metal-coated products by extruding metal B21C 23/22; building up linings or coverings by casting B22D 19/08; casting by dipping B22D 23/04; manufacture of composite layers by sintering metal powder B22F 7/00; arrangements on machine tools for copying or controlling B23Q; covering metals or covering materials with metals, not otherwise provided for C23C; burners F23D)

Rieber sealing system with plastic retainer ring
Patent No. 12466123

Inventor(s): Guido Quesada (Santa Ana, , CR), Mark A. Weih (San Jose, , CR)
Assignee(s): SB Technical Products, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18337212 on 06/19/2023 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pipe belling process where a heated thermoplastic pipe end is forced over a sealing gasket on a forming mandrel, with the pipe being subsequently cooled to retain the gasket in an internal groove simultaneously formed in the pipe end. The sealing gasket is a two-component gasket with an elastic component and a plastic component. The elastic component is stretched over a portion of the plastic component during assembly with the plastic component acting as a belling ramp for the gasket during the subsequent pipe belling operation.

[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]

Adjustable caster mounting plate
Patent No. 12466213

Inventor(s): Dalton Pike (Red Oak, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18626944 on 04/04/2024 (586 days app to issue)

Abstract: A adjustable caster mounting plate for moving modular structures or other heavy materials with a mounting plate, a caster assembly attached to the bottom of the mounting plate, a primary guide tab attached to the top of the mounting plate, a secondary guide tab attached to the top of the mounting plate, and a mounting tab disposed on the top surface of the mounting plate.

[B60B] VEHICLE WHEELS (making wheels or wheel parts by rolling B21H 1/00, by forging, hammering or pressing B21K 1/28); CASTORS; AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION

Tailgate protector structure with modular accessory attachments
Patent No. 12466336

Inventor(s): Ryan C. Harris (Saline, MI), Scott L. Frederick (Brighton, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17744195 on 05/13/2022 (1278 days app to issue)

Abstract: The application generally relates to an apparatus comprising a tailgate protector having a base disposed atop a first portion of a tailgate, a support arm extending from a first edge of the base, and one or more mounting elements disposed within the base, wherein the one or more mounting elements are configured to removably couple an attachment via one or more attachment mounting elements includes in the attachment.

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

Augmented reality displayed keypad for authenticated keyless door access
Patent No. 12466362

Inventor(s): Avid Ghamsari (Carrollton, TX), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Qiaochu Tang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18631102 on 04/10/2024 (580 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive an indication of a code associated with granting authenticated access to a door. The device may transmit, to a user device, presentation information to cause an augmented reality image of an input pad to be displayed by the user device, wherein the augmented reality image is displayed over an area of an image of an exterior of the door via a user interface. The device may detect, via a camera device, one or more user inputs to the area of the exterior of the vehicle based on tracking a movement of a user. The device may identify an input code based on the one or more user inputs. The device may perform an action to cause the door to be unlocked based on the input code matching the code.

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

Trigger event personalized adaptive cruise control (P-ACC)
Patent No. 12466405

Inventor(s): Amr Abdelraouf (Redwood City, CA), Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, CA), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18438129 on 02/09/2024 (641 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for learning a driving behavior during a cut-in cut-out event or other triggering event to create a profile that adjusts operation of the adaptive cruise control (ACC) component of the vehicle to mimic the preferences of the driver. The profile may be based on data collected during a previous cut-in cut-out event or other triggering event. The data may be transmitted to an adaptive cruise control system that uses the data as input to a machine learning model. Output of the machine learning model may update the profile for the driver that operates the vehicle in ACC during the cut-in cut-out event. When the vehicle is operating in ACC and an event is within a threshold value of the cut-in cut-out event occurs at a later time, the vehicle may apply rules defined in the profile.

[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]

VTOL aircraft with tilting rotors and tilting ducted fans
Patent No. 12466553

Inventor(s): Daniel B. Robertson (Southlake, TX), Kirk L. Groninga (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19040517 on 01/29/2025 (286 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exemplary tiltrotor aircraft having a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight mode and a forward flight mode includes tiltable rotors located at forward boom ends, tiltable ducted fans located at wings aft of the forward boom ends, and aft rotors located on aft boom portions.

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

Apparatus, system, and method for automating parts unloading
Patent No. 12466711

Inventor(s): Andrew B. Novian (Winchester, KY), Annetta L. Allen (Trenton, MI), Bradley J. Garcia (Louisville, KY), Jeffrey L. James (Mount Sterling, KY), Lloyd R. Holland (Georgetown, KY), Michael C. Greenlee (Paris, KY), Ronnie G. K
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18126912 on 03/27/2023 (960 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for receiving a part from another system. An apparatus includes a platform configured to receive a first part and a second part to be unloaded from another apparatus. The apparatus further includes a first guide member and a second guide member. The first guide member and the second guide member are configured to engage with, respectively, a first engaging member and a second engaging member on another apparatus and enable the first part and the second part to be unloaded. The first guide member and the second guide member may be configured to contact, respectively, the first engaging member and the second engaging member to actuate a first gate member connected to the first engaging member and a second gate member connected to the second engaging member to move to open positions to enable the first part and the second part to be released.

[B66F] HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING, OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD (mounting artificial islands on piles or like supports E02B 17/00; scaffolds combined with lifting devices E04G 1/22, E04G 3/28; lifting devices for sliding forms E04G 11/24; lifting of buildings E04G 23/06; shores or struts E04G 25/00; lifts or other hoisting devices on ladders E06C 7/12; props for mining E21D 15/00)

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

Gas barrier laminate
Patent No. 12466170

Inventor(s): Takumi Furuya (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): LINTEC CORPORATION (Tokyo, , JP)
Law Firm: Element IP, PLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18709622 on 03/08/2023 (979 days app to issue)

Abstract: There is provided a gas barrier laminate capable of providing a singulated product in which occurrence of breakage of a gas barrier layer is suppressed when the gas barrier laminate is laminated on an adherend and singulated together with the adherend, the gas barrier laminate including a base material, the gas barrier layer, and a hardenable pressure sensitive adhesion agent layer in this order, wherein the hardenable pressure sensitive adhesion agent layer has a post-curing storage modulus E1 at 23 C. of 1.0 GPa or more.

[C09J] ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES (surgical adhesives A61L 24/00; adhesives on the basis of non specified organic macromolecular compounds used as bonding agents in layered products B32B; labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface using adhesives and thermo-activatable adhesives respectively B65C 5/02, B65C 5/04; preparation of glue or gelatine C09H; adhesive labels, tag tickets or similar identification of indication means G09F 3/10) [5]

Method for deposition of gallium-containing film with gallium precursors
Patent No. 12467134

Inventor(s): Ziyun Wang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): American Air Liquide, Inc. (Fremont, CA), L”Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l”Etude et l”Exploitation des Proceds Georges Claude (Paris, , FR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18570260 on 06/17/2022 (1243 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of deposition of a gallium-containing oxide film on a substrate comprises a) simultaneously or sequentially, exposing the substrate to a vapor of a gallium precursor, additional metal precursor(s) and an oxidizer; b) depositing at least part of the gallium precursor and at least part of the additional metal precursor(s) onto the substrate to form the gallium-containing oxide film on the substrate through a vapor deposition process, wherein the gallium precursor has the formula:

[C23C] COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL (applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05; making metal-coated products by extrusion B21C 23/22; covering with metal by connecting pre-existing layers to articles, see the relevant places, e.g. B21D 39/00, B23K; working of metal by the action of a high concentration of electric current on a workpiece using an electrode B23H; metallising of glass C03C; metallising mortars, concrete, artificial stone, ceramics or natural stone C04B 41/00; paints, varnishes, lacquers C09D; enamelling of, or applying a vitreous layer to, metals C23D; inhibiting corrosion of metallic material or incrustation in general C23F; treating metal surfaces or coating of metals by electrolysis or electrophoresis C25D, C25F; single-crystal film growth C30B; by metallising textiles D06M 11/83; decorating textiles by locally metallising D06Q 1/04; details of scanning-probe apparatus, in general G01Q; manufacture of semiconductor devices H01L; manufacture of printed circuits H05K) [4]

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

Boat dock cushion apparatus
Patent No. 12467217

Inventor(s): Roger Kieschnick (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Hall Estill Law Firm (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17857324 on 07/05/2022 (1225 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of installing a boat dock cushion apparatus for protecting a boat from damage when a boat contacts structural tubing used on a boat dock. The boat dock cushion apparatus includes a cushion portion for encapsulating at least a portion a tubing”s circumference and length. The cushion apparatus also includes an outer layer for covering the cushion apparatus and a portion of the tubing to protect the cushion apparatus from the elements. The cushion apparatus further includes a first support apparatus extending form the outer layer for supporting the cushion portion when the first support apparatus is disposed below the cushion portion.

[E02B] HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING (ship-lifting E02C; dredging E02F)

Systems and methods for forming multiple 3D structures from a circularly-packed network of structural elements
Patent No. 12467274

Inventor(s): Lingfeng Gao (East-Setauket, NY), Masato Tanaka (Nagoya, , JP), Shikui Chen (Stony Brook, NY), Xianfeng David Gu (Plainview, NY), Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, MI), Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, MI), Zhou Zhao (Stony Brook, NY)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18449293 on 08/14/2023 (820 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to multiple three-dimensional (3D) structures formation from a network of circularly-packed structural elements. In one embodiment, a system includes a circularly-packed network of structural elements that form multiple 3D structures. Diameters of the structural elements define a shape of the 3D structures. The circularly-packed network is adaptable to form 1) a first 3D structure and 2) a second 3D structure with a different shape than the first 3D structure. The system also includes a set of joints that connect adjacent structural elements.

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

Fairings for mobile downhole tools in producing wells
Patent No. 12467321

Inventor(s): Adan Herrera (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: The Hilton Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18990073 on 12/20/2024 (326 days app to issue)

Abstract: Mobile downhole tools with fairings and methods of using the same. A mobile downhole tool is introduced into a wellbore. The mobile downhole tool has a housing with a thickness sufficient to support a pressure differential between an interior surface of the housing and an exterior surface of the housing when the mobile downhole tool is disposed in the wellbore, and a fairing coupled to the exterior surface of the housing. The fairing is structurally distinct from the housing and is not connected to the interior surface of the housing. The fairing curves in a first direction that is away from the housing. The mobile downhole tool is propelled in the wellbore as the wellbore is produced such that the mobile downhole tool descends downhole against the upstream flow of a wellbore fluid.

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

Resettable latch assembly with energy transfer line(s) feed through
Patent No. 12467322

Inventor(s): Gary J. Geoffroy (Carrollton, TX), Gustavo Dias De Casto Cervo (Carrollton, TX), Jason P. Witte (Carrollton, TX), Kevin Harrell (Carrollton, TX), Tyson H. Eiman (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18500822 on 11/02/2023 (740 days app to issue)

Abstract: In general, in one aspect, embodiments relate to a resettable latch assembly for latching downhole to a mating mandrel; that comprises a mandrel, a latch collet disposed on the mandrel, wherein the latch collet is radially flexible with respect to the mating mandrel, and an energy transfer line extending a length of the mandrel; wherein the resettable latch assembly is latchable, releasable, and relatchable to the mating mandrel with translational movement.

Tubing pressure insensitive subsurface safety valve
Patent No. 12467336

Inventor(s): Andrew James Kelbie (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18434527 on 02/06/2024 (644 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a subsurface safety valve. The subsurface safety valve, in one aspect, includes a tubular housing having a longitudinal opening, and one or more openings extending into the tubular housing. The subsurface safety valve, in one aspect, further includes a longitudinal valve positioned within the longitudinal opening. In accordance with one aspect, the longitudinal valve includes a first piston having a first piston surface area (SA[subscript]P1[/subscript]) and a second piston having a second piston surface area (SA[subscript]P2[/subscript]), the first piston surface area (SA[subscript]P1[/subscript]) and the second piston surface area (SA[subscript]P2[/subscript]) being substantially identical, as well as a fluid flow path extending within and along the longitudinal valve, the fluid flow path entering the longitudinal valve between a first longitudinal valve end and the first piston and exiting the longitudinal valve between a second longitudinal valve end and the second piston.

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

Air, acoustic and/or fire sealing sleeve insert and air, acoustic and/or fire sealing device
Patent No. 12467559

Inventor(s): Joshua Vandertook (Frisco, TX), Kejriwal Akhil (Dallas, TX), Lukas Schwaiger (The Colony, TX), Tamara Sarg (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Schaan, , LI)
Law Firm: Grneberg and Myers PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348952 on 06/16/2021 (1609 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fire-protection apparatus contains a housing with a passage, and an insert containing a plurality of sections made of a flexible material.

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

Pan and tilt control of luminaire
Patent No. 12467614

Inventor(s): Michelle Kessler (Dallas, TX), Paul Koenig (Dallas, TX), Travis Reinert (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, , NL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18567209 on 06/02/2022 (1258 days app to issue)

Abstract: An automated luminaire includes a head that includes a light source. The head is rotatable about a tilt axis and about a pan axis. The automated luminaire further includes a first pan absolute encoder, a second pan absolute encoder, and a controller configured to determine a pan position of the head. The controller is configured to determine the pan position of the head based on first rotational position information received from the first pan absolute encoder and second rotational position information received from the second pan absolute encoder.

[F21V] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [7]

P H Y S I C S

Drone-based dehumidification treatment device
Patent No. 12467252

Inventor(s): Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, TX), Timothy Benjamin Czerlinsky (Dallas, 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: 18341140 on 06/26/2023 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dehumidification system that can be used during emergencies is disclosed. The system includes an autonomous vehicle carrying a dehumidification treatment device. In response to information about a water-related disaster at a specific location, the system will instruct the vehicle to travel to the location, enter a building, and dispense one or more applications of desiccant beads in the interior space of the building. The vehicle can navigate from room to room and determine whether moisture content levels exceed a specified threshold. In response, the vehicle can direct its dehumidification operation to these specific zones.

[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)

Elastomeric strain gauge load sensors
Patent No. 12467804

Inventor(s): David Frank Haynes (Arlington, TX), Philip Reese Boyer (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18234547 on 08/16/2023 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: A load sensor includes a compressible body positionable between two surfaces. The compressible body has a plurality of aligned layers including first and second outer shims with a middle shim positioned therebetween and with a resilient material interposed between each adjacent shim. The second outer shim has a gap that exposes an unsupported area of the middle shim. A strain gauge is coupled to the middle shim in the unsupported area. When the compressible body is uncompressed, the resilient material interposed between the first outer shim and the middle shim has a substantially uniform thickness. When the compressible body is compressed between the two surfaces, the resilient material aligned with the unsupported area and interposed between the first outer shim and the middle shim has a nonuniform thickness such that the middle shim deflects away from the first outer shim in the unsupported area, thereby deforming the strain gauge.

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

Method of operation utilizing venting for processing of blood to remove pathogen cells therein
Patent No. 12467844

Inventor(s): Dale B. Nixon (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17814548 on 07/25/2022 (1205 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for locating and venting pathogen cells in blood. A cassette has a plurality of thin holding chambers that are filled with blood drawn from a patient. A light source illuminates each of the holding chambers and passes light to an underlying sensor array such that the cells in the blood produce shadow images of the cells in the sensor array. A processor performs pattern recognition to identify and locate the pathogen cells by use of an image library. After the pathogen cells are located, a pump is operated to move the identified cells to a processing zone. When each identified cell reaches the processing zone, a control voltage is generated to open a valve to vent the identified pathogen cells. The pump refills the cassette holding chambers, returns the processed blood to the patient, and the procedure is repeated for a treatment time period.

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

Scan testing using scan frames with embedded commands
Patent No. 12467971

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18234003 on 08/15/2023 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: Testing of integrated circuits is achieved by a test architecture utilizing a scan frame input shift register, a scan frame output shift register, a test controller, and a test interface comprising a scan input, a scan clock, a test enable, and a scan output. Scan frames input to the scan frame input shift register contain a test stimulus data section and a test command section. Scan frames output from the scan frame output shift register contain a test response data section and, optionally, a section for outputting other data. The command section of the input scan frame controls the test architecture to execute a desired test operation.

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

Plasmonic borophene nanoribbon metal-insulator-metal structure for quantum imaging
Patent No. 12468074

Inventor(s): Yukihiro Tadokoro (Ann Arbor, MI), Ziqi Yu (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: 18389925 on 12/20/2023 (692 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein relate to implementing quantum imaging. In one embodiment, method includes forming a first substrate that is optically transparent and electrically conductive; forming a second substrate, residing on the first substrate, that is optically transparent and electrically insulative; forming a first borophene nanoribbon array electrically coupled to a first electrode, both residing on the second substrate; forming a third substrate, residing in the second substrate, that is optically transparent and electrically insulative; and forming a second borophene nanoribbon array electrically coupled to a second electrode, both residing on the third substrate.

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

Natural physio-optical user interface for intraocular microdisplay
Patent No. 12468150

Inventor(s): Dimitri Azar (Chicago, IL), Shungneng Lee (Sunnyvale, CA), Supriyo Sinha (Menlo Park, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18542170 on 12/15/2023 (697 days app to issue)

Abstract: An intraocular micro-display (IOMD) system includes an auxiliary head unit. The auxiliary head unit includes a frame for mounting to a head of a user, a scene camera module mounted in or on the frame in a forward-facing orientation, a gaze tracking module disposed in or on the frame and configured to monitor an eye of the user, and an auxiliary controller. The auxiliary controller includes for: acquiring a scene image with the scene camera module, determining a gazing direction of the eye based upon gaze direction data from the gaze tracking module, identifying a sub-portion of the scene image based upon the gazing direction, and wirelessly relaying the sub-portion of the scene image to an IOMD implant within the eye for displaying to a retina of the eye.

System and method for aerial light shows with occlusion and transparency
Patent No. 12468173

Inventor(s): Jennifer Alford (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Verge Inc. (Buda, TX)
Law Firm: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17969583 on 10/19/2022 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aerial light show system includes aerial vehicles configured to move along paths consisting of positions while emitting light beams to present an aerial light show of a virtual 3D scene. Each aerial vehicle includes a light source configured to project multiple light beams in multiple specified directions, respectively, wherein the brightness and/or color of each of the multiple light beams is independently controllable. The aerial light show system includes a control system configured to control the movement of the aerial vehicles, to modify the brightness and/or color of (e.g., dim or turn off) a light beam of each aerial vehicle at each position projected in a specified direction that is occluded by the virtual 3D scene, and to not modify the brightness and/or color of a light beam of each aerial vehicle at each position projected in a specified direction that is not occluded by the virtual 3D scene.

Ophthalmic lenses with light scattering for treating myopia
Patent No. 12468175

Inventor(s): Peter Hones (Menlo Park, CA), Thomas W. Chalberg, Jr. (Menlo Park, CA)
Assignee(s): SightGlass Vision, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18425813 on 01/29/2024 (652 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ophthalmic lens that includes a lens material having two opposing curved surfaces, the curved surfaces defining a lens axis; and a light scattering region surrounding a clear aperture. The clear aperture and the light scattering region are substantially centered on the lens axis, and the light scattering region has a plurality of spaced apart scattering centers (e.g., on a lens surface and/or embedded in the lens material) sized and shaped to scatter incident light, the scattering centers being arranged in a pattern that includes a random variation in spacing between adjacent dots and/or a random variation in dot size.

[G02C] SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES

Method and system for remote monitoring of vegetation
Patent No. 12468310

Inventor(s): Krystalk R. Womble (Dallas, TX), Robert L. Piccioni (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Botsitter LLC (Rowlett, TX)
Law Firm: Fulton Jeang PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17854657 on 06/30/2022 (1230 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for the remote care of an item of vegetation used as a potential source of food for an animal, to include at least one of a proximity tag, RFID tag, transponder device, a predetermined machine-readable pattern, and geo-location device associated with the item of vegetation, and an aerial drone. The aerial drone includes a microprocessor, a sensor coupled to the microprocessor and configured to detect the at least one of the proximity tag, RFID tag, transponder device, predetermined machine-readable pattern, and the geo-location device, and a carrier configured to carry a substance comprising at least one of a solid, gas, and liquid. The aerial drone is configured to act in response to instructions issued by the microprocessor.

Supply selection circuit with input noise suppression and wide operating range
Patent No. 12468324

Inventor(s): Carsten Ingo Stoerk (Freising, , DE), Damian Panter (Freising, , DE), Florian Neveu (Neufahrn, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18338824 on 06/21/2023 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, a method includes enabling a first voltage supply and a second voltage supply. The method also includes selecting, with a decision comparator, a selected voltage supply from either the first voltage supply or the second voltage supply based on which of the first voltage supply or the second voltage supply ramps up first. The method includes monitoring the selected voltage supply with the decision comparator. The method also includes, responsive to a voltage from the selected voltage supply dropping below a dropout voltage level of a low dropout regulator, switching to an other voltage supply with the decision comparator.

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

Systems and methods for secure storage of sensitive data
Patent No. 12468456

Inventor(s): Carla S. Erb (Flower Mound, TX), Samantha Bennett (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER LOCKE LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18602933 on 03/12/2024 (609 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system including: one or more processors; a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors are configured to cause the system to: receive a plurality of user names and a plurality of anonymized user identifiers; receive a plurality of user attributes associated with one or more users of the plurality of users; receive a first plurality of hash values that uniquely identify an association between each user attribute and one or more users; receive a first request for a listing of user names associated with a first user attribute; receive a first secret key; generate a second plurality of hash values; determine a first subset of the first plurality of hash values that match the second plurality of hash values; generate a first graphical user interface including the listing of user names; and transmit the first graphical user interface to the first user device.

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

Bandwidth management methods and systems based on client-side environment data
Patent No. 12468497

Inventor(s): Vidhya Seran (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17974999 on 10/27/2022 (1111 days app to issue)

Abstract: An illustrative content server system associated with a server domain may transmit, to a client device associated with a client domain, a data stream representing media content. The media content is represented at a first quality level for presentation within a presentation environment as the data stream is transmitted. Based on environment data captured in the client domain to represent real-time conditions of the presentation environment as the media content is presented, the content server system may determine an engagement parameter representing a real-time engagement level of a user with respect to the media content. Based on this engagement parameter, the content server system may adjust, in real time during the transmitting of the data stream and presentation of the media content, the data stream to represent the media content at a second quality level that is different from the first quality level. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

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

Containerized network function deployment during runtime resource creation
Patent No. 12468515

Inventor(s): Ravi Potluri (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17190507 on 03/03/2021 (1714 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a Specialized-Operator enabled with admission control functionalities and Custom Resource Definition (CRD) plugins responsible for improving the reliability of the CNF Lifecycle Management operations for deploying containerized workloads on any heterogeneous cloud platform or in multi-cluster environments. According to one implementation, a computing device includes a sensor Network Function Virtualization (NFV)-extension and an actuator NFV-extension. The sensor NFV-extension obtains, from a Container Infrastructure Service Manager (CISM), an event signal that indicates a deficiency with a customer Containerized Network Function (CNF) deployment; detects a current state for the CNF deployment; determines an intent for the CNF deployment; identifies, based on the intent, a desired state for the CNF deployment; and selects, from a group of available actuator NFV-extensions, the actuator NFV-extension corresponding to the desired state. The actuator NFV-extension may be configured to initiate remediation of the CNF deployment to the desired state.

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

Criteria modification of wireless network infrastructure software package validation
Patent No. 12468525

Inventor(s): Karupaiah Rajendran (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): Boost SubscriberCo L.L.C. (Englewood, CO)
Law Firm: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18496712 on 10/27/2023 (746 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for criteria modification of wireless network infrastructure software package validation are provided. A NodeB includes a network entity that is a central unit, distributed unit or radio unit. A computer system receives data representing a pre-installation reference parameter determined when the network entity is operated using a first software package and receives data representing a post-installation reference parameter determined when the network entity is operated using a second software package. The computer system stores a criterion for validating the second software package, identifies a difference between the post-installation and pre-installation reference parameters, modifies the criterion based on the difference and determines whether to validate the second software package based on the modified criterion. If validated, the computer system, sends a signal to the NodeB indicating the validation, and the NodeB causes the second software package to be installed on the network entity.

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

Automated system for restarting large scale cluster supercomputers
Patent No. 12468549

Inventor(s): Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18209012 on 06/13/2023 (882 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein an automated system for restarting large scale cluster supercomputers. The present disclosure is configured to receive a request to reboot a supercomputer cluster, wherein the request comprises a sequence of reboot instructions; determine, using a data integrity engine, whether a current state of the supercomputer cluster meets reboot requirements, wherein the reboot requirements are associated with a core logic of the data integrity engine; and execute the sequence of reboot instructions in an instance where the current state of the supercomputer cluster meets the reboot requirements.

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

Managing user personas using a management controller
Patent No. 12468553

Inventor(s): Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, TX), Mohit Arora (Frisco, TX), Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, TX), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18498302 on 10/31/2023 (742 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing data processing systems are disclosed. To manage a data processing of the data processing systems, the data processing system may be placed in a first operating state. To do so, first log in credentials may be obtained from a first user and may be used to obtain a first user persona from a server. The first user persona may be obtained via an out of band communication channel and may include a first set of configurations for the data processing system. The first set of the configurations may indicate preferences for operation of the data processing system associated with the first user. At least a portion of the first set of the configurations may be implemented by hardware resources of the data processing system and, therefore, computer-implemented services may be more likely to be provided as desired by the first user.

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

Parsing event logs for internet of things devices
Patent No. 12468618

Inventor(s): Charles W. Roark (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Zebra Technologies Corporation (Lincolnshire, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17732005 on 04/28/2022 (1293 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive an event log including event data associated with a plurality of events that were performed by one or more external devices including the IoT device. Accordingly, the system may parse the event log to identify activity data, from the event data, associated with at least one activity that includes one or more events of the plurality of events. The system may further generate a case associated with the at least one activity and including information generated based on the activity data and may perform a process mining operation on the case including the activity data.

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

Kernel-based protection of computer processes
Patent No. 12468802

Inventor(s): Dan Amiga (Ramat Hasharon, , IL), Gal Kaplan (Tel Aviv, , IL), Roi Leibovich (Tel Aviv, , IL), Yoav Orot (Somerville, MA)
Assignee(s): ISLAND TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: AlphaPatent Associates Ltd. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18522402 on 11/29/2023 (713 days app to issue)

Abstract: Computer security apparatus including a kernel driver configured to be executed by a computer in a kernel mode and to thereupon perform protecting a process of a first computer software application executed by the computer, where the protecting is performed in accordance with a protection policy, receiving an instruction from the process to modify the protection policy, modifying the protection policy in accordance with the instruction, and protecting the process in accordance with the protection policy after it has been modified in accordance with the instruction.

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

Automatic onboard validation of a newly trained vehicle machine learning model
Patent No. 12468964

Inventor(s): Srujan Reddy Maram (Princeton, TX)
Assignee(s): Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, MI)
Law Firm: Brooks Kushman P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18327209 on 06/01/2023 (894 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle system receives indication of a newly trained machine learning model designated for validation. The system load a copy of the model into shadow execution hardware, capable of background execution of the model and subscribes to one or more data topics to which input data for the model, gathered by a vehicle data gathering process, is published. The system executes the model in the background as the vehicle travels, using data published to the data topics and benchmarks output from the model to determine whether the model outperforms a prior version of the model, that represents the model prior to the model being newly trained, based on relative performance of both models compared to performance expectations defined in a configuration file stored by the vehicle. Also, the system, responsive to the model outperforming the prior version of the model based on the performance expectations defined by the configuration file, validates the model as suitable for deployment.

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

Methods for correlated histogram clustering for machine learning
Patent No. 12468969

Inventor(s): Brice Brosig (Denton, TX), Randal Allen (Orlando, FL)
Assignee(s): INCUCOMM, INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Boisbrun Hofman, PLLC (Local + 2 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17808093 on 06/21/2022 (1239 days app to issue)

Abstract: A methodology for correlated histogram clustering for machine learning which does not require a priori knowledge of cluster numbers, which extends beyond bimodal scenarios to multimodal scenarios, and does not need iterative optimization methods nor require powerful data processing.

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

Systems and methods of supply chain intelligence constructed on semantic supply chain model
Patent No. 12469004

Inventor(s): Christopher Duane Burchett (Lewisville, TX), 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: 18126153 on 03/24/2023 (963 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing supply chain intelligence based on a semantic supply chain model. The method includes building a semantic model of a supply chain, building goals and measures to construct measure graphs to represent supply chain scenarios, storing access and computation information for the measures, relating the measures to the supply chain goals, monitoring the measures associated with the supply chain goals; tuning the measures using machine learning models by tracking outcomes and user actions associated with the measures and goals to update the machine learning models based on the tracked outcomes and user actions, monitoring for abnormal patterns of the measures, triggering, based on a detection of an abnormal pattern, an alert and a resolution, and rendering an alert or a resolution in machine form to supply chain execution systems.

[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]

Methods and systems for creating reference image templates for identification of products on product storage structures of a product storage facility
Patent No. 12469005

Inventor(s): Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas, TX), Zhaoliang Duan (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Foley IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18158983 on 01/24/2023 (1022 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods of creating reference template images for detecting and recognizing products at a product storage facility include an image capture device having a field of view that includes a product storage structure of the product storage facility, and a computing device including a control circuit and being communicatively coupled to the image capture device. The computing device obtains images of the product storage structure captured by the image capture device, analyzes the obtained images to detect individual ones of the products located on the product storage structure. Then, the computing device identifies the individual ones of the products detected in the images and crops each of the individual ones of the identified products from the images to generate cropped images. The computing device then creates a cluster of the cropped images, and selects one of the cropped images as a reference template image of an identified individual product.

Computing device, method and computer program product for constructing a consolidated message
Patent No. 12469037

Inventor(s): James Donald Stillman (Worthington, OH), Stacy Hopkins (Loganville, GA)
Assignee(s): McKesson Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17205457 on 03/18/2021 (1699 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing device, method and computer program product are provided to construct a consolidated message. In the context of a computing device, the computing device includes a communication interface configured to receive first information regarding a product from a request processor in response to an inquiry from a source. The computing device also includes processing circuitry configured to determine whether the product is supported by one or more operational services. In an instance in which the product is supported by one or more operational services, the processing circuitry is configured to obtain second information regarding the one or more operational services to construct the consolidated message having a predefined message format and containing both the first information and the second information. The communication interface is also configured to cause the consolidated message containing both the first information and the second information to be provided to the source of the inquiry.

[G16H] HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA

Systems and methods for facilitating business prospecting in a tiered software framework
Patent No. 12469039

Inventor(s): Robin Alex (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Aambell PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18469702 on 09/19/2023 (784 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of a method for facilitating business prospecting in a tiered software framework include receiving third-party data associated with prospects in a geographic location; analyzing the third-party data of each prospect against a plurality of criteria; reducing a portion of the analysis results to numerical values represented by icons; listing, in a first window of a user interface, the prospects in rows with corresponding icons in columns; and responsive to a selection of one of the rows, automatically opening a second window including another portion of the analysis results, the another portion including results from the analysis against the plurality of criteria.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing real-time pricing information
Patent No. 12469040

Inventor(s): Keith Crozier (North Kingstown, RI), Mark Beers (Lilburn, GA), Scott Genone (Roswell, GA), Stacy McCrommon (Loganville, GA)
Assignee(s): McKesson Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18138414 on 04/24/2023 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for providing real-time or near real-time pricing information with improved efficiency. A special price may be returned in response to a prescription inquiry, and/or an alternative price obtained from stored prescription transactions. The prescription inquiry may be transmitted to a claims processor computer and/cash discount system in certain scenarios. If a response is not received within a time threshold, an estimated cost range may be determined. The real-time or near real-time pricing information is provided to a prescriber computer and may improve the efficiency of related systems, as well as prescription adherence by patients.

Item level data determination device, method, and non-transitory computer-readable media
Patent No. 12469070

Inventor(s): Sarah Olsen (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18435437 on 02/07/2024 (643 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for determining individual item-level details associated with a transaction. A plurality of purchase transactions associated with different merchants may be displayed via a user interface. Responsive to a user selection of a first transaction, of the plurality of transactions, a camera may capture an image of at least a portion of a user receipt associated with the first transaction. The image of the user receipt may be analyzed using one or more optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms to convert the image of the user receipt into textual data. One or more character strings associated with line item-level details may be extracted from the textual data associated with the first transaction. Additional information associated with the line item details may be determined and the line item details and the additional information may be displayed via a user interface.

Data retrieval and validation for asset onboarding and deriving asset characteristics
Patent No. 12469080

Inventor(s): Christian Gratton (Eaton Rapids, MI), Damien Patton (Plano, TX), Rish Mehta (Castro Valley, CA)
Assignee(s): TRETE Inc. (Prosper, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19259042 on 07/03/2025 (131 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for data retrieval and validation for asset onboarding and deriving asset characteristics. A first set of data associated with an asset is collected. Identifiers associated with the first set of data are created. A second set of data associated with the asset is collected based on the identifiers. The first set of data set and the second set of data are compared based on the identifiers. The first set of data is validated based on the comparison. An artificial intelligence module is trained as part of a continuous training cycle in view of validation findings. Concurrently with artificial intelligence module training, one or more characteristics of the asset are derived from the first set of data.

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

Event sourcing
Patent No. 12469084

Inventor(s): Eugene Tokarev (Austin, TX), Mikhail Katychev (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bestow Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18145795 on 12/22/2022 (1055 days app to issue)

Abstract: In general, this disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods including receiving a mutate command instructing the modification of an object from a first state to a second state and accessing an event log including an origin state of the object, and one or more previously executed mutation commands. The one or more previously executed mutation commands are applied to the origin state of the object to determine whether the first state is valid. In response to determining that the first state is valid, executing the mutate command on the object to place the object in the second state and recording the mutate command in the event log as an additional, previously executed, mutation command.

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

Parent-child cluster compression
Patent No. 12469178

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas, TX), Jonathan Lucas (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18760357 on 07/01/2024 (498 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a memory and a display. The system also includes a processor coupled to the memory and to the display. The processor is configured to obtain an image and determine a parent cluster of pixels of an image having a centroid. The processor is also configured to split the parent cluster into at least a first child cluster and a second child cluster and assign a pixel of the image to the first child cluster. Additionally, the pixel is configured to update a centroid of the first child cluster responsive to the pixel and replace the pixel in the image with the centroid of the first child cluster to produce a compressed image. Also, the processor is configured to store the compressed image in the memory, where the display is configured to display the compressed image.

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

Systems and methods for identifying different product identifiers that correspond to the same product
Patent No. 12469255

Inventor(s): Feiyun Zhu (Allen, TX), Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas, TX), Zhaoliang Duan (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Foley IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18168198 on 02/13/2023 (1002 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to processing captured images. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for processing captured images of objects at a product storage facility including a trained machine learning model; and a control circuit. The control circuit may group a plurality of product identifiers into one or more clusters based on at least one of visual similarity of corresponding images, textual similarity of corresponding associated descriptions, and associated relationships between product identifiers of the plurality of product identifiers; determine clusters having common elements that are at least within a similarity threshold of each other; merge the clusters with the common elements; and generate a mapping dataset used to retrain the trained machine learning model to identify a plurality of objects. The mapping dataset may include a plurality of associations of associated product identifiers to a single object.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Systems and methods for automatically extracting objects from images
Patent No. 12469275

Inventor(s): Paul Aarseth (Murphy, TX), Ross Bates (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Worlds Enterprises, Inc. (Colleyville, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18955602 on 11/21/2024 (355 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for identifying and extracting objects from a video frame includes accessing a video frame of a video. The method further includes analyzing the video frame to generate a plurality of masks. Each mask includes neighboring pixels that are determined to be related. The method further includes extracting a plurality of objects from the video frame based on the generated plurality of masks. The method further includes recursively extracting a plurality of nested objects from the video frame based on the generated plurality of masks. The method further includes creating a plurality of object images by combining the plurality of masks of the plurality of objects with image data of the video frame and combining the plurality of masks of the plurality of nested objects with the image data of the video frame. The method further includes displaying the plurality of object images in a graphical user interface.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Systems and methods for automatically clustering similar objects in images
Patent No. 12469276

Abstract: A method for automatically clustering similar objects in images includes accessing a plurality of video frames of a video. The method further includes identifying a plurality of objects from the plurality of video frames. The method further includes generating a plurality of composite vectors for the plurality of objects by: generating a plurality of vectors for each particular object of the plurality of objects extracted from the plurality of video frames; and generating a particular composite vector for each particular object by combining the plurality of vectors for the particular object. The method further includes determining, using the composite vectors for the plurality of objects, a plurality of similar objects. The method further includes displaying images of one or more of the plurality of similar objects in a graphical user interface.

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

Methods and systems for automated vehicle seat replacement
Patent No. 12469279

Inventor(s): Catherine Espel-Logan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, IL)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18416279 on 01/18/2024 (663 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically evaluating a vehicle seat replacement after a vehicle collision. Upon detecting a vehicle collision is detected, obtaining vehicle seat condition data from vehicle seat sensors and vehicle condition data from vehicle sensors. Analyzing the vehicle seat condition data and/or the vehicle condition data to detect one or more collision conditions indicating (i) the vehicle is not drivable, (ii) a vehicle door proximate the vehicle seat is damaged, (iii) an airbag of the vehicle is deployed, and/or (iv) the vehicle seat is visibly damaged. In response to detecting the one or more collision conditions, generating a recommendation to replace the vehicle seat and providing the recommendation to a user device.

System and method for implementing a multimodal assistant using large language models
Patent No. 12469292

Inventor(s): Viral Chawda (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): KPMG LLP (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18205698 on 06/05/2023 (890 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a multimodal assistant for mechanics and technicians in military warehouses using large language models. An exemplary system provides a conversational assistant to mechanics and technicians working in challenging environments, such as shop or warehouse floors with heavy industrial equipment and componentry. The innovative system may utilize multimodal large language models as well as image segmentation techniques to efficiently retrieve relevant information from asset reference materials, documentation and other sources of instructional information. The system may also use multimodal large language models to extract information from the retrieved documents and/or other data sources to provide guidance on performing discrete tasks related to the asset, such as routine maintenance, part replacement, services and/or other related actions.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Systems, devices, and methods for vehicle camera calibration
Patent No. 12469300

Inventor(s): Katsumi Nagata (Foster City, CA), Masashi Nakagawa (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17575291 on 01/13/2022 (1398 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for calibrating a camera of a vehicle. A system may include the camera configured to be attached to the vehicle and capture a video. The system may further include an output device having a display. The output device may be configured to receive the video and display the video, a first overlay over the video indicating a current center of field of view of the camera, and a second overlay over the video indicating an aligned center of field of view of the camera on the display. The first overlay may be aligned with the second overlay on the display of the output device or an aim of the camera may be manually changed until the first overlay aligns with the second overlay to calibrate the camera.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Paperless venue entry and location-based services
Patent No. 12469350

Inventor(s): Matthew Servant (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Flash Seats, LLC (Los Angeles, CA)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18602483 on 03/12/2024 (609 days app to issue)

Abstract: When attending an event at a venue, the attendee typically presents ticket information that is scanned by a venue scanner. In conventional systems, once validated, the scanner prints a paper stub that typically includes seat location data. Production of this paper stub can be dispensed with, and the associated data conveyed by the paper stub as well as additional information not contemplated or possible with paper stubs can be conveyed by an electronic stub or e-stub that resides on a device of the attendee, generally the same device employed to present the ticket information.

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

Proof of play blockchain mining
Patent No. 12469363

Inventor(s): William Blake Copeland (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): GAD Research, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18347307 on 07/05/2023 (860 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for proof of play (PoP) blockchain mining. In some implementations, a corresponding method may include providing a set of one or more task parameters for a group task to each of two or more users; responsive to a consensus among the two or more users, storing a start-task transaction that includes the set of one or more task parameters signed by each of the two or more users; storing an end-task transaction at an address of a blockchain; determining respective rewards for at least a subset of the two or more users based at least on the start-task transaction and the end-task transaction; and recording the respective rewards in the blockchain.

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

Interactive educational tool
Patent No. 12469403

Inventor(s): Brenda James (Fort Worth, TX), Holly L. Ware (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17592607 on 02/04/2022 (1376 days app to issue)

Abstract: An educational tool includes a housing that either encloses a visible three-dimensional object or has a geometric outline that resembles a particular shape. The common name of the object or shape is imprinted in large lettering on the front surface of the housing. When a child depresses the housing, an audible recording is emitted that describes the displayed object or shape.

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

System and method for color processing
Patent No. 12469475

Inventor(s): Gregory S. Pettitt (Durant, OK), Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18158119 on 01/23/2023 (1023 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a spatial light modulator (SLM) and a circuit including a processor. The SLM includes pixel elements. The circuit is configured to convert M primary video signals to N multi-primary video signals. The circuit is configured to use a first multi-primary video signal to derive a first additive offset to a first primary video signal, to use the first multi-primary video signal to derive a second additive offset to a second primary video signal of the M primary video signals, to add the first additive offset to the first primary video signal, to add the second additive offset to the second primary video signal, and to derive a bit plane based on the first primary signal having the first additive offset added thereto and to transmit the bit plane to the SLM to selectively control on and off states of the pixel elements of the SLM.

[G09G] ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F 3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F 9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H01L, H05B 33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N 1/00) [5]

Apparatus with refresh management mechanism
Patent No. 12469539

Inventor(s): David R. Brown (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18583527 on 02/21/2024 (629 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to managing operations performed in response to refresh management (RFM) commands. A controller generates the RFM command for coordinating a refresh management operation targeted for implementation at an apparatus. The apparatus tracks refresh target set that includes refresh management target locations within the apparatus. According to the tracked refresh management target set, the apparatus selectively implements the targeted refresh management operation and/or a response operation in addition to or as a replacement for the targeted refresh management operation.

[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)

UV exposure monitoring and alerts application
Patent No. 12469600

Inventor(s): Saura Agarwal (Plano, TX), Shriya Viswanathan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18199367 on 05/19/2023 (907 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one aspect, a computerized system comprising: a user-interface configured to: display a skin color selection, wherein the skin color selection comprises a plurality of skin pigments, receive a user skin color selection, display a skin cancer familial history input field, receive a skin cancer familial history input value, display a sun protection factor (SPF) input field, receive a SPF sunscreen input value selection for sunscreen being used; a sun exposure monitoring application operating in the computer system configured to: translate the skin color selection to a maxim sun exposure value, and computer a maximum sun exposure time using the user skin color selection, the skin cancer familial history input value, and the SPF selection for a sunscreen being used, monitor a sun exposure of the computer system, implement an alert signal when the maximum sun exposure time is reached.

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

Repeater scheme for inter-die signals in multi-die package
Patent No. 12469823

Inventor(s): Vijayakrishna J. Vankayala (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17887372 on 08/12/2022 (1187 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices related to techniques for repeating inter-die signals within a multi-die package of a memory device are disclosed. The multi-die package includes a memory stack including a first memory die handling interfacing with a host for the package and at least one second memory die coupled to and configured to communicate with the first memory die via an inter-die connection. A technique involves incorporating the use of a multiplexer positioned in front of the transmitter of each die to facilitate repetition of inter-die signals within the memory stack as needed depending on various factors associated with the memory stack, such as, but not limited to, the type of signal, the intended recipient of the inter-die signals, and the stack height of the memory stack.

Secure data processing using data packages generated by edge devices
Patent No. 12470552

Inventor(s): Jeff 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: 17874803 on 07/27/2022 (1203 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for secure data processing using data packages generated by edge devices. The techniques include generating a biometric signature using information captured by a computing device, and encrypting user data obtained via the computing device using the biometric signature and a device identifier of the computing device. A security token can be generated and utilized by the computing device to generate a data package, which is configured such that any change to the data package would cause a validation process of the data package using the security token to fail. The data package can be encrypted using various digital keys and provided to secondary computing systems.

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

Cognitive neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system for multi-sensor data fusion
Patent No. 12470580

Inventor(s): Aaron Poffenberger (Houston, TX), Alex David Hemsath (Houston, TX), Charles Richard Morgan (Katy, TX), David M. Solum (Houston, TX), Dennis G. Urech (Katy, TX), Duy Trong Nguyen (Friendswood, TX), Gang Xu (Katy, TX),
Assignee(s): Intellective Ai, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18641610 on 04/22/2024 (568 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments presented herein describe techniques for generating a linguistic model of input data obtained from a data source (e.g., a video camera). According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a sequence of symbols is generated based on an ordered stream of normalized vectors generated from the input data. A dictionary of words is generated from combinations of the ordered sequence of symbols based on a frequency at which combinations of symbols appear in the ordered sequence of symbols. A plurality of phrases is generated based an ordered sequence of words from the dictionary observed in the ordered sequence of symbols based on a frequency by which combinations of words in ordered sequence of words appear relative to one another.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Audio signaling system and method for autonomous vehicles
Patent No. 12466350

Inventor(s): Edwin Ernest Wilson (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Kubota Corporation (Osaka, , JP)
Law Firm: Hitchcock Evert LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18227150 on 07/27/2023 (838 days app to issue)

Abstract: An audio signaling system for automated machines facilitates action controls for a machine or fleet of machines. The audio signaling system may use audio tones and audio recognition for specified actions such as emergency stops. The system may include a field audio output system and onboard audio control systems. Audio control systems may include audio recognition and be integrated with automation control systems.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

3D semiconductor device and structure with metal layers and memory cells
Patent No. 12469735

Inventor(s): Brian Cronquist (Klamath Falls, OR), Deepak C. Sekar (Sunnyvale, CA), Zvi Or-Bach (Haifa, , IL)
Assignee(s): Monolithic 3D Inc. (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: PowerPatent/PatentPC (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18991504 on 12/21/2024 (325 days app to issue)

Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer and including first transistors each of which includes a single crystal channel; a first metal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer; a second level including second transistors and overlaying the second metal layer, each of first memory cells include at least one second transistor; a third level including third transistors and overlaying the second level; a fourth level including fourth transistors and overlaying the third level, each of second memory cells include at least one fourth transistor, where at least one of the second transistors includes a metal gate, where the first level includes memory control circuits which control writing to the second memory cells, and at least one of the second transistors includes a hafnium oxide gate dielectric.

[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]

Die attach film die pad isolation for semiconductor devices
Patent No. 12469772

Inventor(s): Francis Masiglat de Vera (Baguio City, , PH), Jeniffer Otero Aspuria (Baguio City, , PH), Jesus Bajo Bautista, Jr. (Baguio City, , PH), Jezreel Duane Caluza Aquino (Baguio City, , PH)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17828947 on 05/31/2022 (1260 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, an apparatus includes: a semiconductor die having a device side surface and an opposing backside surface, the backside surface mounted to a die pad of a lead frame using a die attach film; bond pads overlying the device side surface of the semiconductor die; bond wires electrically coupling the bond pads to leads of the lead frame spaced from the die pad; and mold compound covering the semiconductor die, the bond wires, and portions of the lead frame, where portions of the leads are exposed from the mold compound to form terminals of the packaged semiconductor device. The die attach film has a partially cut die attach film layer with a cut side edge normal to the backside surface, and the die attach film has an uncut die attach film layer with a torn side edge normal to the backside surface.

Electrolytes with low cationic mobility activation energies
Patent No. 12469884

Inventor(s): Hiroko Kuwata (Ann Arbor, MI), Oscar Tutusaus (Ann Arbor, MI), Rana Mohtadi (Northville, 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: 17846334 on 06/22/2022 (1238 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electrolyte includes a composite salt mixture formed from a halogen-free closo-borate salt and a halogenated closo-borate salt. The halogen-free closo-borate salt includes a first cation selected from Li[superscript]+[/superscript], Na[superscript]+[/superscript], Mg[superscript]2+[/superscript], or Ca[superscript]2+[/superscript], and a closo-borate anion with the structure [B[subscript]y[/subscript]H[subscript](yz)[/subscript]R[subscript]z[/subscript]][superscript]2[/superscript], [CB[subscript](y1)[/subscript]H[subscript](yz)[/subscript]R[subscript]z[/subscript]][superscript][/superscript], [C[subscript]2[/subscript]B[subscript](y2)[/subscript]H[subscript](yt1)[/subscript]R[subscript]t[/subscript]][superscript][/superscript], [C[subscript]2[/subscript]B[subscript](y3)[/subscript]H[subscript](yt)[/subscript]R[subscript]t[/subscript]][superscript][/superscript], or [C[subscript]2[/subscript]B[subscript](y3)[/subscript]H[subscript](yt1)[/subscript]R[subscript]t[/subscript]][superscript]2[/superscript], and a second cation selected from Li[superscript]+[/superscript], Na[superscript]+[/superscript], Mg[superscript]2+[/superscript], or Ca[superscript]2+[/superscript], and a halogenated closo-borate anion with the structure [B[subscript]y[/subscript]H[subscript](yzi)[/subscript]R[subscript]z[/subscript]X[subscript]i[/subscript]][superscript]2[/superscript], [CB[subscript](y1)[/subscript]H[subscript](yzi)[/subscript]R[subscript]z[/subscript]X[subscript]i[/subscript]][superscri

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

Differential wideband quadrature signal generation using over-coupled directional coupler
Patent No. 12469947

Inventor(s): Sun Hwan Jang (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18498547 on 10/31/2023 (742 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to quadrature signal generation, and more particularly, to wideband differential quadrature signal generation at millimeter-wave frequencies using over-coupled directional couplers. In an example, a quadrature signal generation sub-circuit includes two conductive strips arranged in parallel with respect to each other on different layers of a metal interconnect of a substrate (i.e., during a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication process) that form a directional coupler. Each conductive strip has a length and a width configured such that an input end of the first conductive strip and a coupled end of the second conductive strip, that are electromagnetically coupled together, produce an over-coupling factor. The input end may be configured to couple to a local oscillator, and the coupled end may be configured to couple to a mixer. The directional coupler may provide, to the mixer, an output of a desired bandwidth based on the over-coupling factor.

[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)

Active antenna units and base station antennas with heat dissipation members
Patent No. 12469948

Inventor(s): Bo Wu (Richardson, TX), Chengcheng Tang (Murphy, TX), Haifeng Li (Richardson, TX), Joy Huang (Plano, TX), Samantha Merta (Plano, TX), XiaoHua Hou (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18481459 on 10/05/2023 (768 days app to issue)

Abstract: Active antenna units and/or base station antennas are provided that include a reflector body with heat dissipation structures that can be directly exposed to environmental conditions during use. The heat dissipation structures have frequency selective surfaces and can be formed of sheet metal or provided as separate extruded or die cast members that can be coupled to the reflector body.

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

Base station antennas
Patent No. 12469960

Inventor(s): Calvin Dickerson (Garland, TX), Haifeng Li (Richardson, TX), Joy Huang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18324532 on 05/26/2023 (900 days app to issue)

Abstract: Base station antennas include a base station antenna housing with laterally extending struts laterally extending forward and rearward arms and with a reflector coupled therebetween and with longitudinally extending struts that couple to the laterally extending struts and extend in a longitudinal direction along a portion of a length of the base station antenna housing.

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

Base station antennas having an active antenna module(s) and related devices and methods
Patent No. 12469982

Inventor(s): Haifeng Li (Richardson, TX), Peter J. Bisiules (LaGrange Park, IL), Samantha Merta (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18630425 on 04/09/2024 (581 days app to issue)

Abstract: Base station antennas include an externally accessible active antenna module releasably coupled to a rear of the housing. The base station antenna housing has a passive antenna assembly that cooperates with the active antenna module.

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

Integrated and phase-compensated base station antenna phase shifter and calibration board
Patent No. 12469984

Inventor(s): Taehee Jang (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC (Liverpool, NY)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18028362 on 09/24/2021 (1509 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna having a plurality of radiator columns and an integrated phase shifter/calibration board. The radiator columns have radiator clusters that may be differentially phase to provide beam tilt. The input traces of each of the phase shifters is capacitively coupled to a Wilkinson power divider that sums the power of all the input signals, thereby providing a calibration function. The output traces of each of the phase shifters has a designated meander pattern that provides phase alignment for all the output signals to prevent phase mismatches between signals fed to the radiator clusters.

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

Multi-hybrid power generator system and method
Patent No. 12470071

Inventor(s): Deepak D. Jaisinghani (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Solairex Innovative Research Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Grogan, Tuccillo Vanderleeden, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18806891 on 08/16/2024 (452 days app to issue)

Abstract: A power generation system includes an extraction device configured to extract moisture from an ambient air surrounding the system, a first tank configured to store the moisture, an electrolyzer configured to receive the moisture and produce hydrogen by performing a chemical process, a second tank configured to store the hydrogen produced by the electrolyzer, a generator system configured to generate electrical power from the hydrogen, and a controller configured to control operation of the extraction device and the electrolyzer.

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

Motor/generator system and method
Patent No. 12470117

Inventor(s): Carl E. Copeland, Jr. (Burleson, TX)
Assignee(s): Prototus, Ltd. (San Pedro Town, , BZ)
Law Firm: DUNLAP CODDING, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17379390 on 07/19/2021 (1576 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electromagnetic motor/generator comprising a flux assembly having at least one coil and at least one magnetic field source separated by a first gap and a second gap and an interference drum which is movable relative to the at least one coil and to the at least one magnetic field source to alternatively position at least one first magnetically permeable section and at least one second magnetically permeable section inside the first and second gaps.

[H02K] DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H 53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power H02M 9/00)

Negative voltage generator
Patent No. 12470137

Inventor(s): Yalong Li (Allen, TX), Zhemin Zhang (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Infineon Technologies Canada Inc. (Ottawa, , CA)
Law Firm: WORKMAN NYDEGGER (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18493640 on 10/24/2023 (749 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit that is capable of generating a negative voltage on a negative voltage supply node. The circuit includes a negative voltage generation circuit, an oscillator and an oscillator control signal generator. The negative voltage generation circuit generates a negative voltage on the negative voltage supply node in response to receiving a signal from the oscillator. The negative voltage generated by the negative voltage generation circuit depends upon the frequency of the signal from the oscillator. The oscillator control signal generator controls the frequency of the signal from the oscillator by sensing the negative voltage present on the negative voltage supply node, and by increasing or decreasing the frequency of the signal from the oscillator accordingly. Thus, charge is replenished to the negative voltage supply node to more closely match the drawing of charge from that negative voltage supply node, thereby more accurately generating the negative voltage.

[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]

Oscillator apparatus and control method
Patent No. 12470173

Inventor(s): Yen-Chang Tung (HsinChu, , TW)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18626280 on 04/03/2024 (587 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first inverter having an input terminal and an output terminal, a first capacitive device connected between the input terminal and the output terminal of the first inverter, and a resistor network coupled to the first capacitive device, wherein the first inverter is configured as a negative amplifier, and the first capacitive device and the resistor network are configured to determine a frequency of an oscillator.

[H03B] GENERATION OF OSCILLATIONS, DIRECTLY OR BY FREQUENCY-CHANGING, BY CIRCUITS EMPLOYING ACTIVE ELEMENTS WHICH OPERATE IN A NON-SWITCHING MANNER; GENERATION OF NOISE BY SUCH CIRCUITS (generators specially adapted for electrophonic musical instruments G10H; masers or lasers H01S; generation of oscillations in plasma H05H)

Method and apparatus for calibration in distributed mimo networks
Patent No. 12470262

Inventor(s): Gilwon Lee (Dallas, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (Dallas, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX), Shadi Abu-Surra (Plano, TX), Yang Li (Plano, TX), Yeqing Hu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18330316 on 06/06/2023 (889 days app to issue)

Abstract: Calibration in distributed multiple input multiple output (MIMO) networks. A method performed by a first base station (BS) includes receiving a first uplink (UL) reference signal (RS) and determining, based on the first UL RS and a second UL RS, a first phase offset for transmission of a first downlink (DL) RS to a user equipment (UE). The second UL RS is associated with a second BS. The first phase offset of the first DL RS is relative to a second DL RS associated with the second BS. The method further includes transmitting the first DL RS with the first phase offset; receiving UE feedback associated with the first DL RS and the second DL RS; and determining, based on the first phase offset and the received feedback, for a DL data transmission to the UE, a second phase offset between transmissions of the first BS and the second BS.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Transmission modes and signaling for uplink MIMO support or single TB dual-layer transmission in LTE uplink
Patent No. 12470264

Inventor(s): Eko N. Onggosanusi (Allen, TX), Runhua Chen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18088021 on 12/23/2022 (1054 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for mapping data in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes circuitry for generating a precoding matrix for multi-antenna transmission based on a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback from at least one remote receiver where the PMI indicates a choice of precoding matrix derived from a matrix multiplication of two matrices from a first code book and a second codebook. The apparatus further includes circuitry for precoding one or more layers of a data stream with the precoding matrix and transmitting the precoded layers of data stream to the remote receiver.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Dynamic interference response in wireless local area networks
Patent No. 12470322

Inventor(s): Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18173502 on 02/23/2023 (992 days app to issue)

Abstract: An unsafe frequency report from a client device is received, the unsafe frequency report indicating that the client device is experiencing interference on a set of frequencies. A set of safe frequencies is identified, for the client device, based on interference indicated in the unsafe frequency report, and dynamic puncturing is performed based on the unsafe frequency report, comprising identifying an allocation of wireless resources for the client device during a transmission opportunity based on the set of safe frequencies, where the allocation of wireless resources punctures one or more of the set of frequencies, and communicating with the client device using the allocation of wireless resources.

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

Cross carrier beam indication
Patent No. 12470356

Inventor(s): Dalin Zhu (Allen, TX), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18068452 on 12/19/2022 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information for a list of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, a list of TCI state code points, and cross carrier scheduling and receiving a downlink control information (DCI) format including (i) a carrier indicator field and (ii) a transmission configuration indication field indicating a TCI state code point. The TCI state code point is from the list of TCI state code points and indicates a TCI state for a first carrier and a TCI state for a second carrier. The method further includes applying the indicated TCI state code point for a first carrier and a second carrier and receiving or transmitting, on the first carrier and the second carrier, downlink (DL) channels or uplink (UL) channels, respectively, based on quasi-co-location properties or spatial properties corresponding to the indicated TCI state code point.

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

Internal certificate authority for electronic control unit
Patent No. 12470406

Inventor(s): Mark R. Klausner (San Diego, CA), Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr. (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Aichi-Ken, , JP), TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17899722 on 08/31/2022 (1168 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes providing by a first electronic control unit (ECU) a fixed private key of a vehicle to a server; generating by the first ECU a limited life certificate based on the fixed private key, wherein the first ECU acts as a certificate authority; and providing the limited life certificate to a second ECU within the vehicle to allow the second ECU to securely communicate with the server.

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

Device-based conference profile configuration
Patent No. 12470420

Inventor(s): Petrus Jacobus Botes (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Zoom Communications, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Young Basile Hanlon MacFarlane, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18361206 on 07/28/2023 (837 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices connected to a user device and usable in configuring a conferencing application are identified. A selection of one of the devices is received. A conference profile that indicates to use the selected device is stored in association with a profile identification criterion. A request to connect the user device to a conference using the conferencing application is received. The profile identification criterion is determined to be satisfied based on receiving the request. In response to determining that the profile identification criterion is satisfied, the conference profile is retrieved. The conferencing application is configured, based on the conference profile, to use the selected device during the conference.

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

System for multimode geophysical data acquisition
Patent No. 12470429

Inventor(s): Frederick Hershel Savage (Austin, TX), John Bryant (Dallas, TX), Timothy Beets (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): EARTHSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES OPERATING LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Schultz Associates, P.C. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17658407 on 04/07/2022 (1314 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for a multichannel geophysical data acquisition system is provided in the field of electrical resistivity tomography. Individual and autonomous node operating systems are provided. Separate communication channels for upstream and downstream data transfer, high voltage transfer and synchronization signals are provided. The method provides for alternating node type assignments to change an array configuration without physically relocating nodes.

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

Selecting a communication method using a management controller of a data processing system
Patent No. 12470490

Inventor(s): Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, TX), Mohit Arora (Frisco, TX), Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, TX), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18649241 on 04/29/2024 (561 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing operations of a data processing system are disclosed. To manage operations of the data processing system, a management controller of the data processing system may obtain data to be provided to a remote device. The management controller may obtain a characteristic of the data. Based on at least the characteristic and a rule set for determining transmission paths for data, a determination may be made regarding a transmission path for the data. In a first instance of the determination in which the transmission path includes a broker, the data may be provided to the broker via an out-of-band communication channel using a broker communication protocol. In a second instance of the determination in which the transmission path does not include the broker, the data may be provided to the remote device via an out-of-band communication channel using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).

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

Managing operation of a data processing system using a management controller and a network module
Patent No. 12470499

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing a data processing system are disclosed. To manage the data processing system, a management controller may be included in the data processing system. The management controller may perform managerial functions for the data processing system regardless of whether in band components are compromised, depowered, and/or otherwise non-functional. In addition, to communicate with remote entities, the management controller may utilize a network module of the data processing system. The network module may direct network traffic between in band and out of band communication channels and may operate independently from hardware resources of the data processing system.

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

Anomaly detection relating to communications using information embedding
Patent No. 12470569

Inventor(s): Prince Paulraj (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17456520 on 11/24/2021 (1448 days app to issue)

Abstract: Anomalies associated with events relating to users or user accounts can be detected. An anomaly detection management component (ADMC) determines embedded arrays comprising data bit groups representative of groups of properties and groups of relationships between properties associated with users, based on analysis of data related to events associated with users. ADMC trains a neural network (NN) based on applying embedded arrays to NN, in accordance with an artificial intelligence (AI) analysis process. ADMC determines an embedded array comprising data bits representative of properties and relationships between properties associated with a user based on analysis of data associated with the user. Trained NN can determine a pattern relating to the properties and relationships associated with the user based on AI-based analysis of the embedded array. Trained NN can detect an anomaly in the pattern based on AI-based analysis of the pattern, wherein the anomaly relates to an event.

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

Use of connectors
Patent No. 12470639

Inventor(s): Ramanthan Sekkappan (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): DISH Wireless L.L.C. (Littleton, CO)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18452987 on 08/21/2023 (813 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method may include receiving request data associated with a service, the request data in a first format. The method may also include determining an endpoint of the service and a second format associated with the service. The method may include generating a service request based at least in part on the request data, the service request in the second format. The method may then include providing the service request in the second format to an orchestrator. The method may include transmitting, by the orchestrator, the service request to the endpoint of the service. The method may include receiving, by the orchestrator, response data from the service, the response data based at least in part on the service request. The method may include generating, by the orchestrator, a response based at least in part on the response data. The method may include providing, by orchestrator, the response to the user.

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

Systems and methods for network-based identification of priority services
Patent No. 12470654

Inventor(s): Danysel Barthelme (Frisco, TX), Ertao Li (Plano, TX), Gaurav Patel (McKinney, TX), Kashif Khan (Keller, TX), Ronald E. Collier, II (Arlington, TX), Steve L. Padilla (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17664740 on 05/24/2022 (1267 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device may receive, from a user device, a call associated with a telephone number, where the call is intended for a priority service associated with the telephone number. The network device may identify the call as a priority call based on the telephone number associated with the call, and may determine that a network overload condition exists. The network device may associate a priority tag with the call based on identifying the call as a priority call. The network device may cause the call to be provided preferential treatment, while the call is transmitted for the priority service during the network overload condition, based on the priority tag.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for enhancing audio for a video conferencing application
Patent No. 12470670

Inventor(s): Timothy M. Dwight (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17934879 on 09/23/2022 (1145 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device may receive a request for functionality to switch to wideband audio at a user device receiving over-the-top (OTT) video and OTT audio associated with a video conferencing application provided by an application server. The network device may switch from the OTT audio to the wideband audio, for the video conferencing application, based on receiving the request for the functionality. The network device may provide the wideband audio associated with the video conferencing application to the user device to cause the user device to provide the OTT video and the wideband audio independently.

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

Intraocular system for transmitting data and power optically to an implant
Patent No. 12470674

Inventor(s): Dimitri Azar (Chicago, IL), Supriyo Sinha (Menlo Park, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18192188 on 03/29/2023 (958 days app to issue)

Abstract: An intraocular system that includes a headset that optically transmits data and power to an implant. The headset includes a camera to capture image data that includes a visual representation of an environment of the headset and an optical transmitter to transmit the image data as an optical signal into a cornea of an eye of a user when the user is wearing the headset. The implant includes an optical receiver to receive the optical signal through the cornea and an image formation device orientated to present the image data from the optical signal onto a retina of the eye when the implant is inside the eye.

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

Optical diffractive display
Patent No. 12470688

Inventor(s): Clinton K. Landrock (North Vancouver, , CA), Milad Khoshnegar Shahrestani (Coquitlam, , CA)
Assignee(s): Authentix, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18257640 on 12/17/2021 (1425 days app to issue)

Abstract: A diffractive display for displaying multiple images, each at a unique view zone, includes multiple micro-pixels, each having micro-facets, each micro-facet having a surface normal non-parallel to the surface normal of other micro-facets of the micro-pixel, each micro-facet having a diffractive nano-structure array. Each diffractive nano-structure array has a viewing angle at which incident light is diffracted from the diffractive nano-structure array. The diffracted light has a hue and an intensity based on properties of the diffractive nano-structure array, and, for each of the images, each of the micro-pixels includes at least one diffractive nano-structure array for which the viewing angle corresponds to the view zone the image, such that each of the images is composed of the diffracted light from at least one diffractive nano-structure array from each of the micro-pixels.

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

Automotive display validation
Patent No. 12470691

Inventor(s): Aishwarya Dubey (Plano, TX), Alan Rankin (Murphy, TX), Peter Labaziewicz (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17674812 on 02/17/2022 (1363 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a system-on-a-chip (SoC) from a camera mounted on a vehicle, a first image and transmitting, by the SoC to a display circuit over an interface cable, the first image. The method also includes receiving, by the SoC from the display circuit, a feedback signature corresponding to the first image. Additionally, the method includes detecting, by the SoC, an error, in response to determining that the feedback signature does not match the transmission-side signature and transmitting, by the SoC to the display circuit, a second image, in response to determining that the feedback signature matches the transmission-side signature.

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

Compressed chip to chip transmission
Patent No. 12470725

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Matthew Kempf (Dallas, TX), Jeffrey Scott Farris (Flower Mound, TX), Jonathan Andrew Lucas (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18342389 on 06/27/2023 (868 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a method includes serializing, via a processor, image data for a first image to form serialized data mapped to RBG pixels of a second image, the image data in a format other than a RGB pixel format. The method also includes transmitting, by the processor, the serialized data via RGB signaling lines.

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

Sub-pictures for pixel rate balancing
Patent No. 12470727

Inventor(s): Minhua Zhou (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18242241 on 09/05/2023 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for decoding a compressed video bit stream in a video decoder to recover a video sequence, the video decoder including a plurality of decoder processing cores is provided. The method includes determining that a picture is encoded in the compressed bit stream as a pre-determined number of independently encoded sub-pictures, and dispatching a first encoded sub-picture of the pre-determined number of sub-pictures to a first decoder processing core of the plurality of decoder processing cores and a second encoded sub-picture of the pre-determined number of sub-pictures to a second decoder processing core of the plurality of decoder processing cores, wherein the first encoded sub-picture and the second encoded sub-picture are independently decoded in parallel on the respective first and second decoder processing cores.

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

Vertex motion vector coding and decoding
Patent No. 12470740

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: BROADVIEW IP LAW, PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18399323 on 12/28/2023 (684 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a communication interface configured to receive a compressed bitstream including a vertex motion vector information. The vertex motion vector information comprises one or more components. The apparatus comprises a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The processor is configured to cause parsing the compressed bitstream including the vertex motion vector information, selecting contexts for a plurality of bins of a first component of the vertex motion vector information, wherein a first prefix bin of the first component is coded based on a first context, remaining prefix bins of the first component are coded based on a second context, and one or more suffix bins of the first component are coded using bypass coding, and decoding the first component of the vertex motion vector information based on the selected contexts.

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

Systems and methods for multicast ad serving
Patent No. 12470760

Inventor(s): Emma Quinn (Guildford, , GB), Graham Andrew Heap (Godalming, , GB), Robert David Malcolm (Elgin, , GB), Thomas Huxter-Freer (Kingston upon Thames, , GB)
Assignee(s): Imagine Communications Corp. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18889302 on 09/18/2024 (419 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for serving advertisement in a video stream are disclosed. An example method includes: obtaining one or more advertisement (ad) orders; generating, by a traffic engine, a first temporal schedule indicating a start time and an end time for a video stream and one or more timing references, each of the timing references indicating a respective position in the video stream for advertisement placement; generating, by a playout engine, a broadcast manifest based on the first temporal schedule; processing, using a multicast video processing unit, the video stream using a video encoder to generate a transport stream based on the video stream, the transport stream comprising one or more data markers for placements of one or more advertisements; modifying the broadcast manifest based on one or more optimization criteria; and generating a video output feed using the transport stream and the broadcast manifest.

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

Hearing-assist systems and methods for audio quality enhancements in performance venues
Patent No. 12470869

Inventor(s): Barry Epstein (Dallas, TX), Christopher Ryan Knox (Erie, CO)
Assignee(s): The Epstein Hear Us Now Foundation (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18642581 on 04/22/2024 (568 days app to issue)

Abstract: To enable a patron of a venue attending a performance to feel as if he or she is front and center even if located much farther away or angled from a stage of the venue, system and methods that enhance audio quality of audio signals especially over the voice frequency spectrum to generate a processed audio signal including an increased voice frequency spectrum are provided. The processed audio signal may be communicated to a receiving system with a headset or other transducer (e.g., loudspeakers) that allows for ambient sounds to be heard by a patron and for the patron to control volume of the processed audio signal, thereby mixing the processed audio signal with the ambient sounds. The receiving system may be rented and an operator may control usage for both performance or long-term rentals using various control features of the processed audio signals and/or receiving system.

[H04R] LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K) [6]

User equipment and method for warning messages delivery in private networks
Patent No. 12470910

Inventor(s): Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS (US) LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17798394 on 02/10/2020 (2101 days app to issue)

Abstract: User equipment and method for receiving warning messages in a non-public mobile communications network. The user equipment accepts or ignores warning messages received in the non-public mobile communications network based on a warning messages reception configuration stored in a memory of the user equipment such as a memory of the mobile equipment part of the user equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Customer experience impact analysis from cell site-technology shutdowns
Patent No. 12470946

Inventor(s): Imran Kader (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, KS)
Law Firm: SHOOK, HARDY BACON L.L.P. (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18150343 on 01/05/2023 (1041 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for determining whether to decommission a particular cell site. Data is received corresponding to a plurality of user devices that have registered with the particular cell site and a determination is reached that a first set of user devices of the plurality of user devices utilizes the particular cell site as a home site. For each user device of the first set of user devices, a customer profile is determined. Based on the customer profile, radio access technology capabilities are determined for each user device of the first set of user devices, and based on the customer profile and the radio access technology capabilities of each user device of the first set of user devices, the particular cell site is ranked as a candidate to be decommissioned.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

QoS management aspects for NR sidelink to support advanced V2X use cases
Patent No. 12470974

Inventor(s): Kyeongin Jeong (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Law Firm: Fay Kaplun Marcin, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18668349 on 05/20/2024 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus of a first user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate a message for a second UE to configure a New Radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) link between the first UE and the second UE, wherein the message includes a Quality of Service (QoS) metric to encode a plurality of QoS parameters for the NR V2X link, and to encode a packet for the second UE according to the QoS parameter. The apparatus can include a memory to store the message.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Small cell with predefined handover parameters
Patent No. 12470993

Inventor(s): Awaiz Ahmad Khan (Milpitas, CA), Utsaw Kumar (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Fogg Powers LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17211980 on 03/25/2021 (1692 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radio node in a network (such as a small cell) that receives predefined handover parameters is described. During operation, the radio node may receive, from a computer (such as a controller), information specifying the predefined handover parameters, where the predefined handover parameters correspond to a density of radio nodes in the network. For example, the radio node may provide, to the computer, information specifying the density of radio nodes in the network. Moreover, the radio node may receive, from the electronic device, information specifying a communication-performance metric associated with the radio node. Next, the radio node may provide, to the electronic device, a recommendation for a handover from the radio node to another radio node in the network based at least in part on the predefined handover parameters, the communication-performance metric and a second communication-performance metric associated with the other radio node.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating resource detection and selection in relation to interruption-sensitive services
Patent No. 12470994

Inventor(s): Hongyan Lei (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17749191 on 05/20/2022 (1271 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments include identifying, by a processing system including a processor, a type of a communication service being provided to a communication device, wherein the communication service is facilitated via a first signal that is transmitted to the communication device, the first signal having a first frequency, determining, by the processing system, a degree of a mobility of the communication device relative to a communication range of a first frequency band, the first frequency included in the first frequency band, and causing, by the processing system and based on the type of the communication service and the degree of the mobility, a second signal to be transmitted to the communication device as part of the communication service, wherein the second signal has a second frequency included in a second frequency band that is different from the first frequency band.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Failure recovery for joint operation of conditional handover and conditional PSCell addition or change
Patent No. 12470995

Inventor(s): Kyeongin Jeong (Allen, TX), Shiyang Leng (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18174362 on 02/24/2023 (991 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for a joint operation of a conditional handover (CHO) and a conditional primary secondary cell group (SCG) cell (PSCell) addition/change (CPA/CPC) in a wireless communication system. A method of a UE comprises triggering a joint operation of a CHO and a CPC and determining whether the CHO fails while performing the joint operation of the CHO and the CPC. The method further includes halting a CPC execution condition evaluation or a CPC execution based on a determination that the CHO fails and performing a failure recovery procedure for the joint operation of the CHO and the CPC.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatus for UE power savings in initial downlink bandwidth part dedicated to redcap devices
Patent No. 12471102

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17814483 on 07/22/2022 (1208 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for operating in different bandwidth parts (BWPs). A method includes receiving a first synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block in a first BWP; determining, based on information provided by the first SS/PBCH block, a first control resource set (CORESET) in the first BWP; and receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the first CORESET. The PDCCH provides a first downlink control information (DCI) format that schedules a reception of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) providing a system information block (SIB1). The method further includes receiving the first PDSCH, determining a second BWP based on information provided by the SIB1, and receiving a second SS/PBCH block in the second BWP. The second BWP does not include a bandwidth of the first SS/PBCH block. The second BWP does not include a bandwidth of the first CORESET.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for managing wireless communication base station radio frequency (RF) band usage by network access devices
Patent No. 12471125

Inventor(s): Sanjay Baburao Waje (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, KS)
Law Firm: SHOOK, HARDY BACON L.L.P. (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18296252 on 04/05/2023 (951 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing wireless communication base station radio frequency (RF) band usage by network access devices are provided. One or more of the embodiments address the problem network service degradations caused by unauthorized relocation of fixed wireless access (FWA) devices. More specifically, one or more of the embodiments described herein provide for a guest network access device (GNAD) manager that may monitor usage of a base station coverage RF band layer and use network usage data to detect when a relocated FWA device may be causing a service quality degradation to other UE attached to that base station coverage RF band layer. When the GNAD manager determines that a relocated FWA device is potentially causing a service quality degradation, the GNAD manager may trigger a reconfiguration of the relocated FWA device that disables the ability of the relocated FWA device to attach to the coverage RF band layer.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

TDLS discovery process for multi-link operation
Patent No. 12471165

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Peshal Nayak (Plano, TX), Rubayet Shafin (Allen, TX), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: BROADVIEW IP LAW, PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18352562 on 07/14/2023 (851 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireless communication network includes an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) and a non-AP MLD. In an enhanced multi-link multi-radio (EMLMR) mode, a non-AP MLD may sequentially transmit one or more TDLS discovery request frames to an AP MLD to discover a TDLS peer STA via different EMLMR links. The AP MLD may transmit an initial frame via an EMLMR link to trigger TDLS discovery request frame from the non-AP MLD.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for inter-UE coordination in SL CA
Patent No. 12471183

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for inter-user equipment (UE) coordination in sidelink (SL) carrier aggregation (CA) in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a UE includes: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information about multiple SL carriers for a SL CA operation; determining whether a SL radio link failure (RLF) is detected for a SL carrier among the multiple SL carriers; and starting a timer for the SL carrier based on a determination that the SL RLF is detected, wherein an activation or a deactivation of the SL carrier is determined based on a status of the timer.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for a frameless modular electronic device
Patent No. 12471233

Inventor(s): Han Su (Ann Arbor, MI), Jian Li (Waltham, MA), Wenqian Hu (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): FutureWei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18457723 on 08/29/2023 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present technology discloses a frameless modular multi-functional electronic device. The electronic device includes a base module with a processor and multiple component modules, at least one of which is configured to connect directly in contact with the base module. The modules each include a connecting member to slidably align and mate the component modules together, and an electrical interface to transmit digital information and energy between connected base and component modules. The component modules are interchangeably connected directly in contact with each other and, when assembled, form the frameless modular multi-functional electronic device.

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

Vertical power semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
Patent No. 12471347

Inventor(s): Chiao-Shun Chuang (New Taipei, , TW), Ching-Wen Wang (New Taipei, , TW), Jie Li (New Taipei, , TW), Ming-Wei Tsai (New Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18969220 on 12/04/2024 (342 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface positioned on an opposite side of the substrate. A first gate structure is located above the first surface of the substrate and a second gate structure is located above the first surface of the substrate, adjacent to the first gate structure. A first dielectric layer covers the first gate structure, the second gate structure, and the first surface of the substrate. The first dielectric layer has a first opening between the first gate structure and the second gate structure. A current spreading layer is located at a bottom of the first opening. The current spreading layer has a first width approximately equal to a width of the bottom of the first opening. A conductive plug is located between the first gate structure and the second gate structure and in contact with the current spreading layer.

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Inventor(s): Steven Garner (Winnipeg, , CA)
Assignee(s): Garner Development Services, LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Law Office of Bill Naifeh (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29890995 on 04/28/2023 (928 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Patent No. D1102013

Inventor(s): David Justis (Stillwater, OK), Jared P. Aguillard (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): Alliance Sports Group, L.P. (Roanoke, TX)
Law Firm: Thorpe North Western, LLP. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29951653 on 07/10/2024 (489 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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