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Patents
USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- AnX Robotica's tether for a capsule endoscope
- Arcadia Biosciences' wheat with reduced lipoxygenase activity
- Baylor Research Institute's vaccines against HPV and HPV-related diseases
- Earthview's gas differentiating sensor suite
- Frito-Lay's automatic product dispenser
- Repairify's remote vehicle communications bitrate determination
- Samsung's extended field of view generation for split-rendering for virtual reality streaming
- Schumacher Electric's hybrid battery charger
- Spark Biomedical's solutions for treating motion sickness using electrical stimulation
- T-Mobile's 5G network slice device security protection
Patented: AT&T’s Streamlined Security System for Next-Gen 6G Networks and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 12, 2025
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.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 5, 2025
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 26, 2025
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 18, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 14 with a total of 154 patents granted.
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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- AT&T's autonomous aerial vehicle projection zone selection
- Blue Yonder's price-demand elasticity as feature in machine learning model for demand forecasting
- BNSF Railway's multi-objective systems for optimally assigning train blocks at a railroad merchandise yard
- Gemini IP's universal core blockchain wallets for accelerated network additions
- Kepler GTL's systems for producing sustainable aviation fuel
- McKesson's methods for automated prescription preparation
- Meta Platforms' remote radio unit with reduced volume and increased thermal efficiency
- PrivacyChain's peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed data management system
- T-Mobile's machine learning monitoring of wireless network infrastructure application servers
- Toyota's knowledge transfer for early unsafe driving behavior recognition
- USAA's self-charging unmanned vehicle
- Verily Life Sciences' intraocular micro-display system with intelligent wireless power delivery
- Wells Fargo's systems for determining a next action based on entities and intents
Patented: USAA’s Detection Systems for Fake Voice Commands to Smart Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Feb 5, 2025
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 29, 2025
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 22, 2025
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 15, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 10 with a total of 127 patents granted.
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Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America has received a newly granted patent for "Child Soothing Devices Comprising Artificial Muscles," invented by Erin J. Rutledge and Michael P. Rowe. The patent describes a device that uses artificial muscles to apply gentle, controlled pressure, offering a responsive soothing mechanism for children. [Image: USPTO Patent #12150493, Fig. 1A]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Amazon Technologies' methods to automate entry/exit operations at facilities
- BNSF Railway's remote device monitoring
- Cablecam's apparatus and method for calibrating an aerial movement system
- Calmwave's information management system
- Google's system on a chip
- Intelligent Communication Assistant's optimizing personal communications through objective alignment
- Juniper Networks' multi-stage virtual private network service provisioning for containerized routers
- 7-Eleven's diagnostic analysis of a toilet over time intervals
- Twisted X's footbed for footwear
Patented: Toyota’s Artificial Muscle-Based Child Soothing Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Dec 18, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 26, with a total of 95 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 11, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 19, with a total of 107 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 4, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 12, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 20, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 5, with a total of 85 patents granted.
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Apple Inc. has been granted U.S. patent #12124831 for "techniques for dynamically provisioning electronic subscriber identity modules to mobile devices," invented by Benjamin J. Livesay and Neal M. Flanagan. The patent describes a method where software applications "utilize an electronic Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM)" to access mobile network operator (MNO) services, including installing the application and launching it to access wireless services with restrictions based on eSIM parameters. [Image: BlackSalmon/istockphoto]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 7-Eleven's detection of object removal and replacement from a shelf
- Allegro Microsystems' magnetically-activated solid state switches
- ATT Intellectual Property and Emory University's method for mitigating international revenue share fraud
- Bank of America's ATM networks with a real time digital twin ecosystem for predicting failures/faults
- Cornami's method for compressing application data for operations on multi-core systems
- JPMorgan Chase Bank's systems for generation and use of a device wallet identifier
- Kyndryl's coordination and execution of actions on a plurality of heterogeneous AI systems during a conference call
- Sevis Systems' method for enabling trusted caller identity and spoofed call prevention
- SmartDrive Systems' systems for verifying whether vehicle operators are paying attention
- Texas Instruments' fault detection in a real-time image pipeline
Patented: Apple’s eSIM Technology for Dynamic Mobile Connectivity and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Nov 6, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 22, with a total of 125 patents granted.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 30, 2024
Solidion—an advanced battery tech solutions provider headquartered in Dallas with production facilities in Dayton, Ohio—said its newly patented technology uses a graphene-based heat spreader to quickly move heat from a battery to warm it up before or during fast charging, and a cooling system that kicks in when the battery is in use.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 30, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 15, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 23, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 8, with a total of 120 patents granted.
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