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USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.
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Patented: University of North Texas’ Remote Smell Technology and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Dec 20, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. 125 patents granted for the week of Nov. 11 include: PurWorld Technologies' methods of chemically disinfecting a vehicle, University of North Texas' remote smell technology, Baxter Healthcare's renal therapy system and machine, RPOD Tech's offloading cargo from tank trailers, Toyota's vehicle noise reduction for vehicle occupants, United Services Automobile Association's distracted driving detection and mitigation, and more.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Dec 13, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. 127 patents granted for the week of Nov. 14 include: 7-Eleven’s method for determining an item count in a rack using magnetic sensors, Alcon’s multifocal lens having reduced visual disturbances, Curantis Solutions’ event-driven data processing system and method, Digital Seat Media’s interactive and dynamic digital event program, Inmar Rx Solutions’ medication inventory system including image based boundary determination for generating a medication tray stocking list and related methods, IBM’s cognitive industrial floor cleaning amelioration, Memory Medical Systems’ odular aligner devices and methods for orthodontic treatment, and Meta Platforms’ Device-side capture of data representative of an artificial reality environment.
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Dec 5, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. 161 patents granted include: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' managing remote therapy sessions, Amazon Technologies' remote hardware execution service with customer consented debugging, Badge's public/private key biometric authentication system, Bank of America's real-time assessment of authenticity of a resource using non-fungible tokens, Cryptosoft's assessment and verification of Software Bill of Materials and vulnerabilities across a software supply chain life cycle using blockchain, Nanohive Medical's three-dimensional lattice structures for implants, Neuromersive's neural pathways creation/reinforcement by neural detection with virtual feedback, Phoenix Biotechnology's compositions for treating Coronavirus infection, Toyota's exoskeleton wheelchair system, Textron Innovation's submersible drone delivery and recovery system using waterproof aerial drone, and USAA's asset sharing using distributed ledger techniques.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 15, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros, with 116 patents for the week of Oct. 31. Patents granted include: Bank of America's user authentication using tokens, Capital One Services' predictive engine for machine-learning failures, CommScope Technologies' DC power systems using communication networks, Dentsply Sirona's tooth attachment placement device, Hoya Optical Labs of America's easy-clean coating, Illumina's flexible seed extension for hash table genomic mapping, Juul Labs' concentrate adaptor for vaporizer device, Lennox Industries' occupancy tracking using user device detection, Stryker Corporation's battery management for patient support apparatuses, Texas Instruments' tamper detection, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America's electronic skin for vehicle components, United Services Automobile Association's virtual reality for catastrophe preparedness and response education, Walmart Apollo's product identification within an image, and West Pak Avocado's supply chain management system and method.
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U.S. Patent No. 11,788,241 (Road based electrical storage batteries) was assigned to Hunt Energy Enterprises, L.L.C.
Patented: Hunt Energy’s ‘Road‐Embedded’ Electrical Storage Batteries and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Nov 1, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of October 17. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's proactive request communication system with data prediction, Raytheon's laser weapon system with integrated targeting camera, Toyota's personalized adaptive cruise control that learns and mimics your driving style, Samsung's under-display smartphone camera for true full-screen experience, Intel's energy efficient bitcoin mining chip, NxGen Partners' miniaturized virus sterilization device using radio frequencies, Alcon's vision simulation for patients with eye conditions, Hunt Energy's road-embedded batteries, McAfee's methods and apparatus to defend against adversarial machine learning, Zengine's machine learning system for asymmetrical matching of medical providers and care receivers, and more.
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Patented: Adobe’s ‘Depicting Humans in Text-Defined Outfits’ and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 24, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 10, 2023: Patents granted include: Adobe's depicting humans in text-defined outfits, Bank of America's threat detection within information systems, Capital One's purchase recommendations based on responses to inquiries on product attributes, EllansaLabs' systems for authentication and related devices and methods, FeverTags' livestock health monitoring system and method of use, Illuma Labs' speaker authentication and identification, Linear Labs' multi-tunnel electric motor/generator, and Toyota's method for detecting objects left behind by using heated resistive filament in a vehicle.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 18, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros with 152 patents granted for the week of Oct. 3. Patents granted include: Patents granted include: Amazon's techniques for synchronizing communication across devices, Beta Air's predicting degradation of a battery for use in an electric vehicle, Essilor Laboratories of America's anti-soiling coating for an ophthalmic lens, Intuit's document classification using signal processing, Lennox Industries' predictive temperature scheduling for a thermostat using machine learning, Luminator Holding's system and method for wireless control of signs, Mary Kay's stable vitamin C compositions, Molocar's asset location system and method of use, Noble House Home Furnishing's modular furniture with tool-free assembly, Physmodo's system and method for human motion detection and tracking, State Farm's method and system for identifying biometric characteristics using machine learning techniques, Toyota's 3D magnesium battery and method of making the same, and USAA's biometric authentication on push notification.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 11, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros with 108 patents granted for the week of Sept. 26. Patents granted include: BNSF's Railroad Virtual Track Block System, Digital Seat Media's location-based individualized content and mobile wallet offers, Flex Ltd.'s bio-sensing integrated garment, Mary Kay's delivery of active ingredients from plant materials to skin, PACCAR's headlamp heater, Palantir Technologies Inc.'s automated risk visualization using customer-centric data analysis, and Toyota's structural energy storage with carbon fiber.
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U.S. Design Patent D1,000,000 (dispensing comb) was assigned to Agustina Huckaby of Fort Worth
USPTO Issues Milestone 1 Millionth Design Patent, and It Goes to a Fort Worth Entrepreneur
by Lance Murray | Oct 3, 2023
Granted to Agustina Huckaby, design patent 1 million is for the ornamental design for a dispensing comb, the U.S. Patent and Trade Office said. The agency said that Huckaby, a licensed cosmetologist, also holds another patent for a different comb design and markets her business under the federally registered trademark Pomp and Powder.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 27, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 182 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ARKH's spatially aware computing hub and environment, Bank of America's artificial intelligence reverse vendor collation, Lockheed Martin's workforce augmenting inspection device, Mary Kay's method for determining facial muscle responses, Match Group's method for matching using location information, Micron Technology's bank-to-bank data transfer, University of Arkansas' grape plant named A-1400, Toyota's parking spot and person detection, and USAA's autonomous vehicle haven seeking system and method.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 20, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. 144 patents granted include: Amazon's configuring virtual computer systems with a web service interface to perform operations in cryptographic devices, Bank of America's tamper-evident devices equipped with secure re-image file(s), Cancer Diagnostics Research Innovations' methods for diagnosing and treating gastric cancer using miRNA expression, Knightscope's autonomous data machines and systems, Lennox's occupancy tracking using sound recognition, Lintec of America's artificial muscle tentacles, Probe Technology Services' ccement bond evaluation, Solo Brands' cooking utensil, USAA's community-based digital transaction authentication, VenaResources' adaptive RFID inventory system, and more.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 13, 2023
Dallas Invents: 152 Patents Granted for Week of August 29. Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 152 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's control channel for UE power saving, Avrio Genetics's chemosensory disorder trigger and management system, Brain Games' conducting a game including a computer-controlled player, Cisco's automating and extending path tracing through wireless links, Citibank's microservices anomaly detection, LightSpeed Technologies' light-based heat in an object, Meta's modifying a safety boundary for virtual reality systems, Nike's footwear heel structure, Omnitracs' blockchain-based hours-of-service system, Pratt Corrugated's tamper-evident box, Raytheon's object recognition and detection using reinforcement learning, Texas Institute of Science's hearing aid and method for use of same, and YUM Connect's automated beverage production system.
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U.S. Patent No. 11,725,879 (Methods and configuration for retrofitting NGL plant for high ethane recovery) was assigned to Fluor Technologies Corporation.
Dallas Invents: 146 Patents Granted for Week of August 15
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Aug 23, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' reducing heat of an implantable medical device during wireless charging, Astrapi's polynomial symbol waveforms, Bank of America's executing a network of chatbots using a combination approach, Fluor's retrofitting natural gas liquids plant for high ethane recovery, Intellective AI's alert directives and focused alert directives in a behavioral recognition system, KPMG's generation of process graphs from multi-media narratives, McAfee's methods and apparatus to detect deepfake content, NTT Data's automated bot testing scenario simulations, SalesBoost's data analytics for generating sales tasks for sales representatives, Salesforce's object detection and image classification based optical character recognition, Skyhigh Security's cloud security system implementing service action categorization, State Farm's autonomous vehicle automatic parking, STMicroelectronics' detecting human presence based on depth sensing and inertial measurement, and Verity Instruments' signal conversion system for optical sensors.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 12, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 139 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Baylor Research Institute's vaccines against HPV- and HPV-related diseases, Better Vision Solutions' disinfecting contact lenses with a manganese-coated disc, FOI Group's automatic rotating agricultural system to irrigate, plant, gather forage, and/or harvest field and method for operating the system, Google's identifying a set of characters in a media file, Jpmorgan Chase Bank's system for integrating voice biometrics, Kyndryl's charging regulation model for electric vehicles on the road, Merative's determining drug effectiveness ranking for a patient using machine learning, Samsung's multi-sensor, multi-view, multi-frame, multi-task synthetic image fusion engine for mobile imaging system, State Farm's autonomous vehicle insurance based upon usage, Swiss-American CDMO's antimicrobial compositions that are non-toxic to mammals and plants, Thor Tech's mobile device tools for smart vehicle features operation and automatic wireless routing selection and methods of useAA's autonomous vehicle barricade, and Walmart Apollo's automatically annotating images.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 9, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's augmented reality dynamic authentication, Beauty Biosciences' handheld skin cleansing device, Biora Therapeutics' ingestible device for delivery of therapeutic agent to the GI tract, Capital One's asset tracking systems, Halliburton Energy's 3D printed tool with integral stress concentration zone, Lennox Industries' personalized indoor microclimates, Liveperson's automated response to queries made by interactive electronic chat, NxGen Partners' miniaturized device to sterilize surfaces, and Walmart Apollo's methods for automatically recommending an item to a customer while shopping at a retail store.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 2, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's augmented reality dynamic authentication, Beauty Biosciences' handheld skin cleansing device, Biora Therapeutics' ingestible device for delivery of therapeutic agent to the GI tract, Capital One's asset tracking systems, Halliburton Energy's 3D printed tool with integral stress concentration zone, Lennox Industries' personalized indoor microclimates, Liveperson's automated response to queries made by interactive electronic chat, NxGen Partners' miniaturized device to sterilize surfaces, and Walmart Apollo's methods for automatically recommending an item to a customer while shopping at a retail store.
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