Patents

Fort Worth-based American Airlines received a patent for a system designed to reduce delays at the gate. [Photo: American Airlines]

A Toyota patent is designed to detect whether a vehicle passenger is experiencing motion sickness by comparing vehicle movement with head movement measured by a radar sensor. The system then activates "mitigation control," according to the abstract. The inventors are John D. Harkleroad (Ypsilanti, Michigan) and Vasudeva S. Murthy (Ann Arbor, Michigan), with Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. in Plano as the assignee. [Composite illustration: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12589769, Fig. 4A; DI Studio]

A newly patented IBM technology authenticates access to a system by using "a simulated state of a digital twin" to derive a password — in one example, using a vehicle's operational data such as its odometer reading. Mansfield inventor Jian Wu is named on the patent. [Composite illustration: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12561425-B2, Fig. 4; Aleksei Cheremisinov/istockphoto; DI Studio]

An eye implant that projects laser images onto the retina is the concept behind a new patent from Dallas-based Verily Life Sciences. The system pairs an intraocular implant with a head-worn camera that captures and transmits scenes to the eye in real time. Dallas law firm Haynes and Boone prosecuted the patent. [Composite illustration: Sources, U.S. Patent No. 12529886, Fig. 1 and 3; DI Studio]