Patents

 USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.

Patented: DT Whisky Solutions’ Monitoring Weight Loss From Casks and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of April 9, 2024. 124 patents granted include: A. O. Smith Water Treatment (North America)’s liquid filtration systems, components, and methods, Avodah’s real-time gesture recognition method and apparatus, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s geographic population health information system, and Lennox Industries’ component tracking in automated manufacturing using digital fingerprints.
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Patented: Firehawk Aerospace’s Hybrid Rocket Engine Fuel Grains and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of April 2, 2024. 124 patents granted include: 7-Eleven’s system for determining an item count in a rack using magnetic sensors, Alcon’s methods for using machine learning to predict contact lens compatibility, American Airlines’ deep learning-based demand forecasting system, Bloodsolutions’ blood marketplace system, MedCognetics’ racially unbiased deep learning-based mammogram analyzer, Qorvo US’s semiconductor chip suitable for 2.5D and 3D packaging integration , and Raytheon Company’s metrics-based planning and scheduling system.
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Patented: Amazon’s Automated Item Handling Systems and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of March 26, 2024. 144 patents granted include: Aeris Communications' auto-immobilization of machines capable of moving, Smart Tracking Technologies' canine collar clip, Hunt Energy Enterprises' decentralized system and method for mitigation of climate change, 3M Innovative Properties Company's high transmission light control film, and Biora Therapeutics' ingestible device for delivery of therapeutic agent to the gastrointestinal tract.
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Patented: Alcon’s Vision Quality Assessment Through Machine Learning and Innovation, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of March 19, 2024. 169 patents granted include: Musarubra US’s risk analyzer for ascertaining a risk of harm to a network and generating alerts regarding the ascertained risk, United Airlines’ remote airline agent on-demand, and Yahoo Ad Tech’s systems and methods for monitoring the display of electronic content on client devices.
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Patented: Allstate’s Accident Re-Creation Using Augmented Reality and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of March 5, 2024. 159 patents granted include: Lennox Industries' predictive temperature scheduling for a thermostat using machine learning, Musarubra US's improved end-to-end cybersecurity machine learning and deployment, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company's senior living engagement and care support platforms, Tenfold Technologies' prevention or control of plant diseases methods and agricultural compositions, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America's 3D printed cold plates for cooling power devices embedded in 3D printed circuit boards, and Validator's dynamic templated data test generation and execution.
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Patented: USAA’s Unmanned Vehicle Morphing and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 27, 2024. 169 patents granted include: Adaptive 3D Technologies' use of occluding fluids to augment additive manufacturing processes, Apptricity's flexible radio beacons and flexible delivery structures, Intellective AI's unusual score generators for a neuro-linguistic behavioral recognition system, Micell Medtech Inc.'s polymer coatings containing drug powder of controlled morphology, Microsoft Technology Licensing's autonomous operation of edge-based deployments, and nMetric's cascading notification system.
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Patented: Lupagen’s Real-Time Modifications of Patient Cells and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. 156 patents granted for the week of Feb. 13 include: Alcon's 3D printing of an intraocular lens having smooth, curved surfaces; Amazon Technologies' anomaly prediction for electronic resources; ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems' signal light for a loading dock; and more.
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Patented: Apple’s Desktop Computer Housing and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. 156 patents granted for the week of Feb. 13 include: Alcon's 3D printing of an intraocular lens having smooth, curved surfaces; Amazon Technologies' anomaly prediction for electronic resources; ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems' signal light for a loading dock; and more.
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The Last Word: How the USPTO’s Resource Centers Are Empowering Innovation by Expanding Access

by | Feb 27, 2024
The downtown Dallas Public Library is the only public library in the state of Texas to offer a Patent and Trademark Resource Center from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. PTRCs are part of a national network of public, state, and academic libraries in partnership with the USPTO to offer trademark and patent assistance to the public. The USPTO aims to empower innovation by expanding access—so it recently put out a call to 600 libraries and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) around the country, inviting each institution to consider becoming PTRCs to assist their local innovators.
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Patented: UNTHSC’s Personalized Medicine Approach for Treating Cognitive Loss and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 30. 164 patents granted include: World’s Enterprises’ 2D detections and tracking, UNTHSC’s personalized medicine approach for treating cognitive loss, Toyota’s optical communication system for management of vehicle batteries, Overhead Door’s sliding barrier tracking system, 7-Eleven’s item identification using digital image processing, and more.
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Patented: Bank of America’s Resource Tracking System Using NFTs and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. 121 patents granted include: Mavenir Networks' method and apparatus for balancing server load in cloud RAN systems, Meta Platforms's selective offload of workloads to edge devices, Musarubra's system and method for detecting repetitive cybersecurity attacks constituting an email campaign, and National Tech Engineering Solutions of Sandia's secure authentication using recurrent neural networks.
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Patented: Textron Innovations’ VTOL Aircraft and More North Texas Invetive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. 129 patents granted for the week of 1/16/24 include: Equifax’s secure online access control to prevent identification information misuse, Musarubra’s system and method for automatically prioritizing rules for cyber-threat detection and mitigation, Max-IR Labs’ IR radiation and fluid channel to detect contaminants and salts in fluids, Meta Platforms’ systems and methods for determining hand poses in artificial reality environments, Textron’s VTOL aircraft with tilting rotors and tilting ducted fans.
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Patented: AR Startup ARKH’s Smart Ring and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 2, 2024. 170 patents granted include: Apogee Semiconductor's compact radiation-hardened integrated circuits, ARKH's smart ring, Firehawk Aerospace's additive manufactured hybrid rocket fuel grain, GF-17's system for creating and sharing bots, Lockheed Martin's ultrasonic cutting system, Musarubra's subscription-based malware detection, NCR Voyix's network-based work assignment platform, Palantir Technologies' systems for data entry, Scoot's dynamic virtual environment, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance's biometric characteristic application using audio/video analysis, United Services Automobile Association's unmanned vehicle security guard, and Waymo's LIDAR device having multiple receivers..
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Patented: USAA’s Automatic Problem Detection From Sounds and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 19, 2023. 101 patents granted include: 7-Eleven's detecting and identifying misplaced items using a sensor array, AiTax Corporation's tax planning using video-based graphical user interface and artificial intelligence, Bollinger Industries' portable power station, Discourse.AI's estimation of interlocutor intents and goals in turn-based electronic conversational flow, and Innomist's multi-mode fluid nozzles.
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Patented: UNT, InspectIR Systems’ Portable Breath Analysis System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 12, 2023. Patents granted include: Rochal Technologies' composition and kits for inhibition of pathogenic microbial infection, Alcon's pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses, Pratt Corrugated Holdings' tamper-evident box, BMIC's water-resistant acrylic coatings, AT&T's auto machine learning via optimal hybrid AI formulation from crowd, Capital One Services' pattern-level sentiment prediction, Toyota Motor North America's accessible ride hailing and transit platform, Kyndryl's artificial intelligence system for tasks, and more.
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Patented: Texas Instruments’ New RGB-Infrared Sensor Processing Tech and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. 153 patents granted for the week of Dec. 5 include: 7-Eleven’s network-enabled fuel dispensing system, Alcon’s retractable cap actuation for an intraocular lens cartridge, Apple’s TDM transmission for inter-RAT dual connectivity UE, Bank of America Corporation’s electronic system for data processing by a self-correcting, deep neural network integrated within a memory resource, Beta Air’s system and method for dynamic excitation of an energy storage element configured for use in an electric aircraft, Cisco Technology’s techniques for selecting network protocols, and more.
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