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USPTO Issues Milestone 1 Millionth Design Patent, and It Goes to a Fort Worth Entrepreneur

by | 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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Patented: USAA’s Autonomous Vehicle Haven-Seeking System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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Patented: Lintec of America’s Artificial Muscle Tentacles and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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Patented: Omnitrac’s Blockchain‑Based Hours‐of‐Service System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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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Dallas Invents: 146 Patents Granted for Week of August 15

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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Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of August 8
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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Dallas Invents: 103 Patents Granted for Week of August 1
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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Dallas Invents: 114 Patents Granted for Week of July 25
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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Dallas Invents: 89 Patents Granted for Week of July 11

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's banking as a service enabled virtual exchange computing platform, DocuSign's blockchain-based network transitioned by a legal contract, Dstillery's AI or ML models trained to predict user actions based on an embedding of network locations, Intellective AI's mapper component for a neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system, Minor IP's underwater wings for providing lift to boats, Acclarent's method of treating a deviated nasal septum and more, Adaptive 3D Technologies and UT Systems' sealed isocyanates resin composite, and Furka's bow tie fidget device.
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Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of July 4
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 149 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Wave Insurance Technologies's dynamic automated insurance application architecture, Abbott Laboratories' automated laboratory inventory management using RFID technology, Actimize's sentiment analysis of content using expression recognition, Beta Air's computing device for predicting battery temperature in an electric aircraft, Celanese EVA Performance Polymers' implantable device for sustained release of a macromolecular drug compound, Schneider Electric Buildings Americas' building energy management during power-loss event, MSP Solutions Group's user management system for computing support, Quest Resource Management's commercial recycling system Sercel's seismic vibrator with adjustable resonance frequency, Likewize's computer-readable storage media for real-time event management system for mobile devices, STMicroelectronics' atomic layer deposition of selected molecular clusters, UT Systems' quad-polymer precursor for producing carbon fiber, Toyota's aerial vehicle, and more.
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Dallas Invents: 145 Patents Granted for Week of June 27
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's message mapping via frequency and/or time indexing, AT&T's quantum security enhancement for IPsec protocol, BNSF's drone-based automated yard check, Digital Seat Media's wagering platforms and access derived from machine-readable codes, Frito-Lay's vision systems for robotic unloading, Fujitsu's digital representations of physical intelligent moving objects, Galaxy Unmanned Systems' unmanned airships, aerostats, and hybrid airship-aerostat systems, Schumacher Electric's battery charger with battery state detection, TeamOfDefenders' monitoring controlled spaces for transitory uses, and more.
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Dallas Startup Touts a Headgear Invention That Could Reduce Concussions in Contact Sports
by | Jun 29, 2023
College football player and third-generation inventor Carter Hogg says his G8RSkin “balaclava” has drawn interest from sports leagues, players associations, and college teams.
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Dallas Invents: 134 Patents Granted for Week of June 13

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: AT&T's text conversion to a numerical vector by mapping to a hypercube, Axon Healthcare systems management system for medical benefit prescriptions, Hedera Hashgraph's methods and apparatus for a distributed database including anonymous entries, IA Smart Start's method for self-assessment of drinking behavior, IBM's personalization of advertisement selection using data generated by IoT devices, Plainsight Corp.'s detection of fluid levels in tanks, Schumacher Electric's multifunctional battery booster, JPMorgan Chase's universal data ingestion, Stynger's cigar clamp holder, USAA's environmental conditions monitoring system, and Verizon's command center for drone management.
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Dallas Invents: 123 Patents Granted for Week of June 6
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include:  Amazon's detection of overfilled containers in sortation systems, Magic Leap's display device, American Airlines' fare classes with obscured demand, Thermomirror's infant observation mirror assembly with temperature display attachable to automobile seat, AiBUY's interactive product placement system, PlayMakar's massage gun acupressure tip, J. Hench Consulting's mastless wind turbine for power generation, Nike's sole structure with midsole protrusions and arced profile for forward momentum, World Bottling Cap's method of manufacturing ring pull bottle crowns, and Toyota's tunable loudspeaker absorber.
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Dallas Invents: 136 Patents Granted for Week of May 30
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 136 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Amtech Systems' vehicle tracking system using transponders, Capital One's augmented reality displayed keypad for authenticated keyless door access, ForceGenie's wind, wave, and water power generation system, H24US' hydrogen purification using molecular dynamics, IBM's intelligent hashing of sensitive information, Parsec Technologies' emergency portable hot spot with antennas built into cover, Segmint's pulling a credit offer on bank's pre-approved property, Sunshotz's sunscreen dosing device and sunscreen bottle, Tango Networks' automatic identification of a vehicle driver based on driving behavior, and Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America's on-demand roadside AI service.
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Dallas Invents: 152 Patents Granted for Week of May 23
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's authentication using blockchains, Apple's beam tracking using downlink data reception and motion sensing information, USAA's color-changing vehicle to improve visibility, American Security Products' keyless courier entry for safes, Toyota's LiDAR reflective fabric, Akamai Technologies' detecting internet eavesdroppers, Anametric's preservation of qubits, Textron's takeoff power boost, Magic Leap's controlling virtual image generation system using emotional states of user, and Accenture's utilizing machine learning to prevent intellectual property issues for content during different stages of a project lifecycle.
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