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Patents
USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.
McWane, Inc. has received a newly granted patent for "Remote Monitoring of Water Distribution System," invented by Carrollton-based Brian Morrow and Colleyville-based Charles Kitowski. The patent describes a system that uses sensors on a fire hydrant to measure water characteristics and transmit data remotely over a network. [Image sources: USPTO Patent #12196736, istock background]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 7-Eleven's hand detection trigger for item identification
- Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' data labeling system and method operative with patient and clinician controller devices disposed in a remote care architecture
- American Heart Association's methods for predicting post-surgical cardiovascular events
- Bank of America's multi-computer system for performing vulnerability analysis and alert generation
- Catenate's personality analysis for selection of courses, colleges, and/or careers
- Docusign's blockchain-based network transitioned by a legal contract
- Frontier Communications' augmented reality environment for providing instructions for repairing a PON device
- Highway App's secured platform for managing transportation logistics
- Intellective AI's cognitive information security using a behavior recognition system
- KoiReader Technologies' yard mapping and asset tracking system
- Musarubra's system for detecting cyberattacks impersonating legitimate sources
- NCH's detecting biofilm growth in water systems
- Summer Institute of Linguistics' multilingual dialogue interactions using dynamic automatic speech recognition and processing
Patented: McWane’s Remote Monitoring of Water Distribution and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Feb 12, 2025
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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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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Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC has received a newly granted patent for "Evaluating Online Activity to Identify Transitions Along a Purchase Cycle," invented by Bo Hong, Matthew White, Peter Willard Shankel, Shanshan Wang, and Varadha Sundaram. The patent describes a system that uses metrics such as breadth, depth, and recency of online consumer interactions to detect change points indicating state transitions in the purchase cycle. [Images sources: USPTO Patent #12165161, Fig. 2E; DI Studio background]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Amazon Technologies' stylized text transcription for messaging
- Astrapi's polynomial symbol waveforms
- AT&T's controlling access to datasets described in a cryptographically signed record
- Blue Core Technologies' remediation of floodwater-damage
- BMIC's methods of forming an adhesive composition from asphalt shingle waste powder
- Capital One Services' vulnerability dashboard and automated remediation
- Counterfog's sampling air-borne particles
- Lennox Industries' programming products with software tokens
- Pratt Corrugated Holdings' method of using a tamper-evident box
- Qorvo US' high electron mobility transistors (HEMTS) including a yttrium (Y) and aluminum nitride (AIN) (YAIN) alloy layer
- Thumbtack's image recognition and report generation
- Verily Life Sciences' network-connected containers having medication stored therein
- Wing Aviation's autonomous control techniques for avoiding collisions with cooperative aircraft
Patented: Microsoft’s Identification of Purchase Cycle Transitions from Online Activity and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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Jan 8, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 3 with a total of 88 patents granted.
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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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AT&T Intellectual Property has been granted a newly issued patent for "Software Defined Metaverse Personality as a Service," invented by Hongyan Lei. The patent describes a system for managing metaverse experiences through dynamic user profiles, enabling personalized immersive media delivery based on real-time network adjustments. [Source image: USPTO Patent #12135753, Fig. 1]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Acquolina il Mondo's desalination of liquids
- Bank of America's systems for identifying and determining third party compliance
- Board of Regents, The University of Texas System's extrusion-based 3D printing of soft materials
- Dell Products' detection of indicators of attack
- Halliburton Energy Services' extending the life of downhole rechargeable batteries
- Qorvo US's electronic package with interposer between integrated circuit dies
- rewardStyle's affiliate link generation
- United Services Automobile Association's user-specific captchas
Patented: AT&T’s Metaverse Personality as a Service and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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Nov 13, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 29, with a total of 126 patents granted.
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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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This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Bear Robotics' system and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a robot
- CareView Communications' dual camera patient monitoring system
- Digit7 India's three camera retail self checkout unit
- Diodes' semiconductor device
- Discovery.com's transmitting interactive game features to multiple devices of a shared streaming media session
- The University of Texas System's digital light four-dimensional printing of programmable morphology and motion structures
Patented: Bank of America’s Enhanced NFT Authentication and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 16, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 1, with a total of 133 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 9, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 17, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 2, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 24, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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