Patents

Samsung's newly granted patent describes a radar-based system designed to turn "any display device" — including, the patent notes, "a wall or any projector screen" — into a virtual touchscreen, with the radar transceiver's field of view serving as a sensing zone for hand and finger gestures. Fig. 2C illustrates the projector-screen use case: a standalone radar peripheral, wirelessly connected to a host device, sits in view of an image cast onto a wall, with the radar's field of view (FoV) overlapping the projected display area. Named inventors are North Texas-based: Vutha Va and Boon Loong Ng of Plano, Anum Ali of Frisco, and Jianzhong Zhang of Dallas. [Composite image: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12601813, Fig. 2C; DI Studio]

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]

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]

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