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USPTO patent grants with a Dallas-Fort Worth connection.
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Patented: Omnitrac’s Blockchain‑Based Hours‐of‐Service System and More North Texas Inventive Activity
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.
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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U.S. Patent No. 11,710,110 (Utility), augmented reality dynamic authentication, was assigned to Bank of America Corporation.
Dallas Invents: 114 Patents Granted for Week of July 25
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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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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The G8RSkin PPE "balaclava" seen from multiple angles. [Image: G8RTech]
Dallas Startup Touts a Headgear Invention That Could Reduce Concussions in Contact Sports
by Glenn Hunter | 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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 28, 2023
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 21, 2023
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 10, 2023
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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U.S. Patent No. 11,655,772 (Takeoff power boost) was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc.
Dallas Invents: 152 Patents Granted for Week of May 23
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 31, 2023
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 24, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's topview item tracking using a sensor array, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' method for controlling neurostimulation according to user activity and automated rescheduling of stimulation programs, IBM's clustering a set of natural language queries based on significant events, Lennox Industries' error correction for predictive schedules for a thermostat, PWC's continuous machine learning method and system for information extraction, ShockWatch's impact indicator, Target's sports bra support testing, and Textron Innovations' aircraft for transporting and deploying UAVs.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 17, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: 7-Eleven's topview item tracking using a sensor array, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' method for controlling neurostimulation according to user activity and automated rescheduling of stimulation programs, IBM's clustering a set of natural language queries based on significant events, Lennox Industries' error correction for predictive schedules for a thermostat, PWC's continuous machine learning method and system for information extraction, ShockWatch's impact indicator, Target's sports bra support testing, and Textron Innovations' aircraft for transporting and deploying UAVs.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 10, 2023
Patents granted this week include: Bank of America's travel identity tokening, Floway Innovations' adaptive fluid switches for autonomous flow control, Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co.'s hybrid power devices, Intuit's automated field-mapping of account names for form population, Lennox Industries's method for identifying causes of HVAC system faults, Nice Ltd.'s methods for retrieving and presenting information using augmented reality, Norton Lifelock's protecting from automatic reconnection with Wi-Fi access points having bad reputations, Raytheon's image turbulence correction of moving targets, Skyhigh Security's security service for an unmanaged device, Unification Technologies' methods for identifying storage resources that are not in use, and USAA's call routing using artificial intelligence.
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