Patents

 USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.

A patented golf ball from Dallas-based Topgolf International comprises "piezoelectric material and a wireless transmitter" along with an integrated gyroscope, magnetometer, and Bluetooth radio, designed to relay speed, spin, and location data without the sensor infrastructure that RFID-based systems require. [Composite illustration. Sources: U.S. Patent No. 12,564,768, Fig. 1A; DI Studio]

Patented: Topgolf’s Golf Ball With Electrical Components—and More North Texas Inventive Activity

by | Apr 1, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 3 with a total of 102 patents granted.
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Patented: IBM’s Simulated State of a Digital Twin as Password and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Mar 25, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 24 with a total of 142 patents granted.
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Patented: Rapid Generation of Custom-Fit Garment Patterns From 3D Body Scans and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Mar 18, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 17 with a total of 147 patents granted.
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Patented: Toyota’s Vehicle Heart Rate Detection Device and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Mar 11, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 10 with a total of 180 patents granted.
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Dallas inventor Manu Kurian developed Bank of America's newly issued patent for guarding automated chatbots against AI infiltration — deploying what Patent No. 12537825 describes as an "AI auditor application" that monitors each input, compares it against trained data, and can pause or terminate a session when artificial intelligence involvement is detected.[Illustration: Adeel Anjum/istockphoto; DI Studio]

Patented: Bank of America’s Securing Interactive Response Systems from AI Infiltration and More North Texas Inventive Activity

by | Feb 25, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 27 with a total of 121 patents granted.
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Patented: Verily Life Sciences’ Intraocular Laser Projection System and Other North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Feb 18, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 20 with a total of 104 patents granted.
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Patented: SC Autosports’ Solar Roof for Golf Carts and Other North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Feb 11, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 13 with a total of 142 patents granted.
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Patented: Synergen Technology Labs’ Baby Monitor That Responds to Infant Vitals with Sound and Light, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Feb 4, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 6 with a total of 141 patents granted.
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[Illustration: Alona Horkova/istockphoto]

Patented: Spark Biomedical’s Devices for Treating Stress, Improving Alertness Using Electrical Stimulation and More North Texas Inventive Activity

by | Jan 21, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 23, 2025 with a total of 83 patents granted.
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Patented: Treatment of Depression Using Machine Learning and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Jan 14, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 9 with a total of 100 patents granted.
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Patented: Making a Degradable Ice Straw and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Jan 7, 2026
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 2, 2025, with a total of 134 patents granted.
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Patented: Bank of America’s Quantum Reflection Access Credentialing and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Dec 31, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 25 with a total of 135 patents granted.
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[Image: Foryou13/istockphoto]

Patented: Island Technology’s Kernel-Based Protection of Computer Processes and More North Texas Inventive Activity

by | Dec 17, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 11 with a total of 128 patents granted.
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Patented: Nanoscope Therapeutics’ Optogenetic Vision Restoration and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Dec 10, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 4 with a total of 156 patents granted.
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Patented: Tango Networks’ Automatic Driver Identification Based on Driving Behavior and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Dec 3, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 28 with a total of 103 patents granted.
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Patented: Allstate’s Accident Re-Creation Using Augmented Reality and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by | Nov 26, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 21 with a total of 136 patents granted.
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