Patents

 USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.

T-Mobile USA has received a newly granted patent for "Autonomous Delivery to a Dynamic Location," invented by Prosper-based Sathyaraj Kolandasamy. The patent describes a system that enables an autonomous vehicle to update its delivery destination in real time by tracking the changing location of a user's wireless device—allowing items to be delivered even as the recipient moves. [Source image: USPTO Patent #12282888, Fig. 1; background by DI Studio]

This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • CBRE's system and method for forecasting real estate solutions
  • Toyota's systems for pod movers
  • o9 Solutions' distributed data processing and machine learning workload scaling
  • VARIDESK's quick assemble wall system, and related methods
  • 4WEB's implants having bone growth promoting agents and methods of using such implants to repair bone structures
  • ATOS Public Safety's method and system for automatically prioritizing emergency calls based on health data
  • Wing Aviation's semantic abort of unmanned aerial vehicle deliveries
  • Yokogawa Electric's robot staging area management


Patented: T-Mobile’s Autonomous Delivery to Dynamic Locations and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 22 with a total of 110 patents granted.
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A newly granted patent for "Systems and Methods for Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading" has been assigned to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and Southern Methodist University, the patent outlines a system that enables distributed energy resources to be traded peer-to-peer across a power network
Patented: UT System, SMU Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 15 with a total of 84 patents granted.
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Patented: Apple’s Dynamic Network Hardware Activation System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 8 with a total of 132 patents granted.
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Plano-based inventor Swaminathan Balasubramanian has received a newly granted patent for an "Energy Efficient Legged Mobile Robot." The patent describes a robot with a non-inverted pendulum body and articulated leg system designed to move like a humanoid, carry heavy loads, and minimize joint strain using a self-compensating mass structure. [Source images: USPTO Patent #12263899, left to right: Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 4; DI Studio background]
Patented: ‘Energy Efficient Legged Mobile Robot’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 1 with a total of 111 patents granted.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • 7-Eleven's system for determining product theft information using magnetic sensors
  • Alcon's full depth of focus intraocular lens
  • AT&T's systems and devices for configuring a federated blockchain network
  • Coinbase's systems and methods for performing two-tiered multi-party computation signing procedures to perform blockchain operations
  • First Orion's IP-enabled information delivery
  • General Electric's aircraft conflict detection and resolution
  • Huawei Technologies' semiconductor laser with a mode expansion layer
  • OL Security's system and method for migrating agents between mobile devices
  • OxeFit's pacing lighting system for strength training apparatus
  • Reliance Jio Infocomm USA's automated bot for error-free racking-stacking
  • State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance's senior living engagement and care support platforms
  • The University of Texas at Dallas' nanowire-based interconnects for sub-millimeter wave integrated circuit applications


Patented: Bank of America’s System for Navigating a Virtual Lounge in the Metaverse and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 18 with a total of 109 patents granted.
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Patented: RO5’s Feedback-Driven Automated Drug Discovery System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 11 with a total of 97 patents granted.
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Patented: Osteal Therapeutics’ Treatment System for Joint Infections and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 4 with a total of 135 patents granted.
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Patented: Island Technology’s Web Browser Data Deletion and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 25 with a total of 124 patents granted.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • Alert The Mechanism's system and method for emergency vehicle detection and alerting
  • Amera IoT's method and apparatus for using a picture and shared secret to create replicable high quality pools of entropy for keys for encryption, authentication and one time pads for images, data and message encoding
  • Bank of America's data security in virtual-world systems
  • Capital One's systems and methods for measuring document legibility
  • Citibank's end-to-end measurement, grading and evaluation of pretrained artificial intelligence models via a graphical user interface
  • Hitrust Services' risk modeling for cyberspace control implementation deficiencies
  • Hunt Energy Enterprises' coating of electrode materials for energy storage devices
  • RO5's system and method for molecular reconstruction from molecular probability distributions
  • SmartDrive Systems' systems and methods for using risk profiles based on previously detected vehicle events to quantify performance of vehicle operators
  • Texas Instruments' hardware protection of inline cryptographic processor
  • Toyota's analysis of transport damage
  • Verizon's systems and methods for device grouping based on quantum resistant encryption capability
  • Wing Aviation's semantic adjustment of unmanned aerial vehicle delivery points


Patented: 7-Eleven’s Sensor Array for Detecting Misplaced Items and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 11 with a total of 122 patents granted.
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Patented: AT&T’s Streamlined Security System for Next-Gen 6G Networks and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 4 with a total of 167 patents granted.
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Patented: Amida Technology Solutions’ Hardware Trojan Security System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 28 with a total of 152 patents granted.
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Patented: Game Changer Patch Co.’s Transdermal Patches for Hangover Minimization and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 21 with a total of 138 patents granted.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • 1A Smart Start's calculating a recidivism probability score for compliance-based ignition interlock device removal
  • Berkshire Biomedical's computerized oral prescription administration with refillable medication dispensing devices
  • Capital One's real-time dynamic conversational responses during conversational interactions using machine learning models
  • Forcepoint Federal's security analytics system for performing a risk analysis operation taking into account social behavior peer grouping
  • Lockheed Martin's plasma engine with leptonic energy source
  • o9 Solutions' protocol buffer trie packing and streaming updates
  • OxeFit's motorized pilates reformer
  • Sabre's computer program product for reservations, inventory control, shopping, and booking with attribute-based pricing
  • Verily Life Sciences' scene-adaptive image quality in surgical video
  • Verizon's predictive modeling of energy consumption in a cellular network


Patented: American Airlines’ Virtual Measurement System for Baggage Management and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 7 with a total of 156 patents granted.
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Patented: USAA’s Detection Systems for Fake Voice Commands to Smart Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 31 with a total of 163 patents granted.
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Patented: Microsoft’s Anomaly Detection in Post‑Authentication User Behavior and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 24 with a total of 133 patents granted.
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Patented: Toyota’s Emotion-Aware Smart Refrigerator and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 17 with a total of 95 patents granted.
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