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USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.
Verily Life Sciences LLC has been granted U.S. patent #12127976 for an eye-mountable therapeutic device, invented by Christian Gutierrez. The device uses sensors to monitor eye conditions and delivers targeted treatment for glaucoma based on real-time measurements and a temporal delivery model. [Sources: USPTO Patent #12127976, Fig. 6a; DI Studio]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 7-Eleven's reducing a search space for item identification using machine learning
- Apple's power headroom reporting with dual connectivity
- Bank of America's blockchain management platform for performing asset adjustment, cross sectional editing, and bonding
- Beta Air's systems for predicting degradation of a battery for use in an electric vehicle
- Capital One Services' methods for providing an autonomous vehicle vendor lot
- CollabIP's automated conversation monitoring and control
- Cooper Health and Fitness Applications' fitness systems and methods
- Electronic Caregiver's systems for mitigating the spread of infectious diseases
Patented: Verily Life Sciences’ Eye-Mountable Therapeutic Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | 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.
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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Dallas-based Worlds Inc. has secured U.S. patent #12106569 for a system that tracks 2D objects in a virtual 3D space, invented by Nik Willwerth, Paul Aarseth, Ross Bates, and Ruben Luna. The technology integrates sensor data to create a virtual 3D environment that mirrors real-world movements, enhancing operational capabilities for industries such as logistics, security, manufacturing, and defense. [Image: USPTO patent Fig. 2; DI Studio]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- BMIC's cryptographically-secured systems configured to execute events-based communication protocols and architectures
- CareView Communications' surveillance system and method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns
- Celanese EVA Performance Polymers' implantable device for sustained release of a macromolecular drug compound
- Crown Laboratories' probiotic skin formulations
- Lennox Industries' occupancy tracking using environmental information
- Match Group's matching process
- Protect Animals With Satellites' corrective collar utilizing geolocation technology
- Rad AI's workflow management and image review
- Textron Innovations' high-speed VTOL drive-shaft systems
- The University of Texas System's treatment of viral infections targeting TRIM7
- Verily Life Sciences' step-based system for robot-assisted surgery providing surgical intraoperative cues
Patented: Dallas-Based Worlds’ Object Tracking in a Virtual 3D Space and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 25, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 10, with a total of 146 patents granted.
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[Image: Valentina Burdina/istockphoto]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- • ADT's customer experience diagnostics in premises monitoring systems
- • AT&T's framework for a 6G ubiquitous access network
- • Bank of America's geolocation security using biometric analysis
- • Capital One's automated vehicle trade-in with limited human interaction
- • Electrolux's system for integrated device connectivity and agile device control for dynamic object tracking and management
- • Forescout Technologies' AI-driven classifier using a defined taxonomy framework
- • Lasso Technologies' through-the-wall tank level measurement with telemetry and millimeter wave radar
- • McWane's remote monitoring of water distribution system
- • Micron's cloud-service on-boarding without prior customization of endpoints
- • Oracle's future transaction processing
- • Palantir Technologies' fault-tolerant and highly available configuration of distributed services
- • Surgisil's lip implant
Patented: Alcon’s Voice‑Controlled Surgical System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 21, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of August 6, with a total of 122 patents granted.
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Kenneth Douglas of Dallas is among the inventors of a space transportation system. The patented system uses tethers made of advanced materials like carbon nanotubes, equipped with electromagnets and tapering profiles, to transport passengers and cargo via electromagnetic levitation. Energy is generated from solar panels and vehicle movement. Fig. 3 shows the initial deployment of the counterweight and unspooling of the primary rail line by a de-spooling drone. [Sources: Illustration, USPTO Patent No. 12037144 Fig. 3; Background DI Studio]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- 7-Eleven's data prediction and proactive request system using artificial intelligence
- BuzzBallz's container apparatus
- Compass Datacenters' sidewall-connected HVAC units for modular datacenter facilities
- Elevance Health's automated cloud provisioning
- Husqvarna's rake
- KidStrong's door frame exercise system
- OxeFit's motorized strength training apparatus with integrated content and settings stream
- Phanes Therapeutics' anti-DLL3 antibodies and uses thereof
- Playful's method for content streaming interactivity
- T-Mobile Innovations' software development project infrastructure builder tool
- T-System's systems and methods for coding data from a medical encounter
- Texas Instruments' adaptive frequency hopping in a wireless battery management system
- Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children's device and method for treating osteonecrosis
- Toyota's remote control of vehicle via smartphone and gesture input
- Verizon's methods for utilizing models to identify location spoofing by user equipment
Patented: A ‘Space Railway’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 17, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of June 25, 2024. 150 patents granted include: Amazon's grip aid, AT&T's frequency-aware cellular communication network, Bank of America's ATM leveraging edge devices for offline processing, Enseo's geolocationing system, HighLevel's systems and methods for building funnel websites using artificial intelligence in a tiered software framework, Intel Corporation's technologies for managing interoperable high definition maps for autonomous vehicles, and Linear Labs' reluctance synchronous machines without permanent magnets.
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