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USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.
U.S. Patent No. 11,798,065 (Tool for generating a virtual store that emulates a physical store) was assigned to 7-Eleven Inc.
Patented: 7-Eleven’s Tool for Generating a Virtual Store and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Nov 8, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's tool for generating a virtual store that emulates a physical store, AT&T's autonomous aerial vehicle-assisted viewing location selection for event venue, Avery Dennison Retail Information Services' RFID wristband, Badge Inc.'s biometric public key system providing revocable credentials, Galaxy Unmanned Systems' hybrid airship-aerostat, Hedera Hashgraph's distributed database within a network, and Toyota's omnidirectional structural color made from metal and dielectric layers.
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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U.S. Patent No. 11,763,190 (Abstracted interface for gamification of machine learning algorithms) was assigned to Balanced Media Technology, LLC.
Patented: Balanced Media Technology’s Interface for Gamification of ML Algorithms and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 4, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 19. Patents granted include: Balanced Media Technology's abstracted interface for gamification of machine learning algorithms, Walmart Apollo's monitoring product placement within a shopping facility, Textron Innovations' augmented reality system for pilot and passengers, Capital One Services's augmented reality vehicle search assistance, Intuit's detection of blanks in documents, AiBUY's dynamic binding of video content, UT System's leptin antibodies, Apple's LTE NR power control for EN-DC, ADT Security's unmanned aerial vehicle transport devices, American Airlines' virtual measurement system for baggage management, and Cisco Technology's wireless LAN public identity federation trust architecture.
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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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U.S. Patent No. 11,735,304 (Robotic dispensary system and methods) was assigned to McKesson Corporation.
Patented: McKesson’s Robotic Dispensary System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Aug 30, 2023
Dallas Invents: 127 Patents Granted for Week of August 22. Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: American Airlines' virtual automated real-time assistant, UT System's obesity and/or diabetes treated by partially inhibiting circulating leptin , Citicorp Credit Services' mutable access tokens, Lennox's pccupancy tracking using wireless signal distortion, Lynk Technology's organizer platform for speed dating events, Match Group's matching process system and method, McKesson's robotic dispensary system and methods, Samsung's frequency tuning method in rotary-based oscillator, and Textron's fleet scheduler.
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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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U.S. Patent No. D992242 (Body cooling article of clothing) was assigned to Below Zero Sport LLC.
Dallas Invents: 158 Patents Granted for Week of July 18
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 26, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 1974 Productions delivering music content to a smart phone, Amazon's answer time prediction in a contact center service of a provider network, Anaplan's system for creating and maintaining a data hub in a distributed system, AT&T, Emory University's method for mitigating international revenue share fraud, Below Zero Sport's body cooling article of clothing, Forcepoint's fuzzy matching and alias matching for streaming data sets, Global Tel*Link's personalized chatbots for inmates, and Siemens Industry Software's message monitoring.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 19, 2023
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 12, 2023
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 5, 2023
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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