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USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.
A patent for health analysis based on ingestible sensors was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. [Sources: USPTO/U.S. Patent No. 12,080,399 B1; DI Studio]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- • Aeris Communications' pair-the-plan system for devices and method of use
- • Bank of America's instant activation digital payment system with seamless digital wallet integration
- • Berkshire Biomedical's computerized oral prescription administration devices and associated systems and methods
- • Harman International's two-way in-vehicle virtual personal assistant
- • Microsoft's establishment of trust for disconnected edge-based deployments
- • Rain Bird's volumetric budget based irrigation control
- • Schneider Electric's systems and methods for building energy management during power-loss event
Patented: CVS Pharmacy’s Health Analysis Using Ingestible Sensors and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Sep 18, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 3, with a total of 151 patents granted.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 11, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of August 27, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 4, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of August 20, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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![A Cruise robotaxi, pictured in Downtown Dallas in June 2024, could potentially benefit from U.S. Patent No. 12062290. Recently granted to GM Cruise Holdings and invented by Dallas’s Clifton Trigg Hutchinson, the patent describes a system for dynamically dispatching autonomous vehicles. This technology enables real-time route adjustments based on user location updates, enhancing urban transport efficiency. [Photo: Cruise]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Cruise-robotaxi_Dallas-970x464-1-360x203.jpg)
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 28, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of August 13, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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U.S. Patent No. 12,047,852, Automatic Identification of a Vehicle Driver Based on Driving Behavior, was assigned to Tango Networks. [Sources: Tango Networks/USPTO; DI Studio]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Osteal Therapeutics' antibiotic delivery system and method for treating an infected synovial joint during re-implantation of an orthopedic prosthesis
- Dstillery's artificial intelligence and/or machine learning models trained to predict user actions based on an embedding of network locations
- T-Mobile USA's autonomous inspection system and method
- Global Business Software Development Technologies' clearing house validation
- Apple's computer housing
- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company's method for using electronic metadata to verify insurance claims
- McAfee's multi-dimensional malware analysis
- pHase Pharmaceuticals' sublingual epinephrine tablets
- Pioneer Natural Resources USA's subterranean capture of produced gas lost in gas enhanced hydrocarbon recovery
- ATT Intellectual Property's system and method for remote configuration of scalable datacenter
- Capital One Services' system for managing access to a vehicle by a service provider that is to provide a service associated with the vehicle
- Shock Watch's tilt indicator
- Texas Instruments' wireless battery management system setup
Patented: Tango Networks’ Driver Identification Based on Driving Behavior and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Aug 14, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of July 23, with a total of 134 patents granted.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 7, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of July 16, 2024. 120 patents granted include: Azitra's therapeutic treatment of skin disease with recombinant commensal skin microorganisms, BuzzBallz's container apparatus, Compass Datacenters' sidewall-connected HVAC units for modular datacenter facilities, Elevance Health's systems and methods for automated cloud provisioning, Husqvarna's rake, KidStrong's door frame exercise system, and Malikie Innovations' increasing battery performance for a device that uses power saving features.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 31, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of July 9, 2024. 122 patents granted include: K2M's expandable spinal implants, Nice Ltd.'s systems and methods for detecting complaint interactions, Plainsight Technologies' system and method of detecting gas leaks, Reddy Ice's bagged ice dispensing machine, Roku's centralized mediation between ad-replacement platforms, Spark Biomedical's wearable auricular neurostimulator and methods of use, VPAY's system and method for virtual payment fraud detection.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 24, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of July 2, 2024. 122 patents granted include: Auradine's innovative heat management in cryptomining operations, Huawei's semantic addressing in resource-aware network forwarding, Samsung’s dynamic gesture recognition using mmWave radar, Texas Instruments’ high speed differential ROM technology, and Toyota’s remote vital sign monitoring systems in vehicles.
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Apple Inc. has secured Patent No. 12016123 for high-capacity computer modules, invented by Michael D. McBroom of Celeste, TX. The patent details modules that simplify computer system design, utilize system resources in a highly configurable manner, offer versatile functionality, and can be easily inserted into or removed from a computer system.[Image: CryptoFX/Shutterstock]
Patented: Apple’s High-Capacity Computer Modules and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 10, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 18, 2024. 102 patents granted include: Google's selecting and presenting representative frames for video previews, Halliburton Energy Services' downhole chemical reactor and gas generator with passive or active control, Intel Corporation's technologies for managing interoperable high definition maps for autonomous vehicles, Pieces Technologies' creating multiple prioritized clinical summaries using artificial intelligence, Sandisk Technologies' adaptive semi-circle select gate bias, and Texas Instruments' integrated current sensor with magnetic flux concentrators.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 26, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 11, 2024. 156 patents granted include: Digital Seat Media's systems and methods for delivering augmented reality content, Electronic Caregiver's remote physical therapy and assessment of patients, HighLevel's systems and methods for building funnel websites using artificial intelligence in a tiered software framework, Linear Labs' multi-tunnel electric machine, SmartDrive Systems' systems and methods for comparing driving performance for simulated driving, and Toyota Motor North America's autonomous seat sanitizing system for a vehicle.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 19, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 4, 2024. 153 patents granted include: 7-Eleven's feedback and training for a machine learning algorithm configured to determine customer purchases during a shopping session at a physical store, Apple's enhanced RACH (random access channel) design for 5G CIoT (cellular internet of things), ATT Intellectual Property I's facilitation of voice over new radio for 5G or other next generation network, Avohdah's automated gesture identification using neural networks, Bank of America's dynamic unauthorized activity detection, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 12, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 28, 2024. 133 patents granted include: 7-ELEVEN's anomaly detection and controlling fuel dispensing operations using fuel volume determinations, ATT Intellectual Property I, ATT Mobility II's method and apparatus for indoor mapping and location services, Capital One Services' systems and methods for artificial intelligence-based personalized purchase recommendations, Mavenir Systems' method and apparatus for survival time handling for time sensitive connections, Miovision Technologies' location-based message distribution, Musarubra US's attribute-controlled malware detection, and Paragon Furniture's furniture with organizational frame.
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Dr. Ruediger Nigbur (left) and Ray Bengermino [Photos and background: AnX Robotica]
AnX Robotica Appoints Industry Veterans to Leadership Team, Continues Innovation in Gastrointestinal Diagnostics
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 31, 2024
Ruediger Nigbur has been promoted to VP and general manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and Ray Bengermino has been appointed VP of U.S. sales. Their leadership comes at a pivotal time for AnX Robotica, said the company, which holds over 200 patents in advanced medical technology.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 29, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 14, 2024. 114 patents granted include: Amazon Technologies' speech signal bandwidth extension using cascaded neural networks, Bank of America's hash-based transaction tagging, Bear Robotics' non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a serving robot, IBM's inline detection and prevention of adversarial attacks, Texas Instruments' streaming engine with short cut start instructions, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America's tow hitch connector cover system, and Walmart Apollo's systems, and methods for automatically annotating images.
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by Sandra Engelland |
May 22, 2024
The USPTO anticipates three upcoming vacancies for each committee. Selected members will serve a three-year term beginning Dec. 1, 2024, and can participate in the committees remotely. Nominations must be submitted online on or before July 5.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 22, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 7, 2024. 116 patents granted include: AmplifAI Solutions' use of multiple AI engines to determine a next best action for professional development of employees, ATT's configuring a federated blockchain network, Charles Machine Works' virtual path guidance system, Dell Products' cloud provisioning readiness verification, Discourse.AI's computer-based interlocutor understanding using classifying conversation segments, Futurewei Technologies' primary preview region and gaze-based driver distraction detection, Hewlett Packard's automatic notifications for expired subscriptions, and more.
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