Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can be an indicator of future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. By tracking both inventors and assignees in the region, we aim to provide a broader view of the region’s inventive activity. Listings are organized by Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of June 20, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

113 patents granted
Ranked No. 10 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 13
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 7
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 1
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 6
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 6
G: PHYSICS 35
H: ELECTRICITY 37
Design: 8

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas) 16
Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA) 5
Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA) 4
Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano) 3
International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) 3
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) 3
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 2
Classic Auto Air Manufacturing LP (Chagrin Falls, OH) 2
Eternatear, Inc. (Raleigh, NC) 2
UNASSIGNED 5

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Anthony C. K. Soong (Plano) 2
Daniel E. Boss (Morris Township, NJ) 2
Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco) 2
Lee D. Whetsel (Parker) 2
Michael W Rejkowski (Carrollton) 2
Niraj Nandan (Plano) 2
Ralph P. Stone (Fort Worth) 2
Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

H U M A N N E C E S S I T I E S

Smart lawnmower with development of mowing policy and system and method for use of same
Patent No. 11678604

Inventor(s): David J. Melbourne (Arlington, TX), Ross A. Melbourne (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Sensori Robotics, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18069378 on 12/21/2022 (181 days app to issue)

Abstract: A smart lawnmower and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the smart lawnmower, in a real world-to-simulated world (”real-to-sim”) training phase, the smart lawnmower constructs a simulated environment corresponding to a mowing-relevant portion of a real-world environment relative to semantic information, which may include received location signalization at an antenna In a simulated world-to-real world (”sim-to-real”) mowing phase, a mowing policy is applied to control the cutting subsystem and the drive subsystem in response to the semantic information, which may include the location signalization. In each of the real-to-sim training phase and the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may provide a user interface including the simulated environment. Further, in the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may synchronize the real world and the simulated world.

[A01D] HARVESTING; MOWING

Pet carrier
Patent No. 11678642

Inventor(s): Charles Lin (Zhongshan, , CN), Jack Renforth (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): DOSKOCIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: Global IP Counselors, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17141502 on 01/05/2021 (896 days app to issue)

Abstract: A carrier for an animal includes a plurality of panels, a wire frame, a clip and an iso clip. The plurality of panels are configured to form a hollow enclosure for housing the animal. The wire frame supports at least one of the panels so as to maintain the shape of the enclosure. The clip is on a front surface of the carrier, and configured to receive a belt portion of a seat belt of a vehicle. The iso clip is on at least one of a rear surface and a bottom surface of the carrier, and configured to couple to an iso anchor of the vehicle.

[A01K] ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

Devices, systems, and methods for modeling ocular translaminar pressure gradients
Patent No. 11678658

Inventor(s): Abbot Frederick Clark (Fort Worth, TX), Colleen Mary McDowell (Fort Worth, TX), Husain Lohawala (Fort Worth, TX), Tasneem Putliwala Sharma (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER (Ft. Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16395610 on 04/26/2019 (1516 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, systems, and methods for modeling ocular translaminar pressure gradients ex vivo. A first fluid pressure level can be applied to a first side of a wall of donor eye cup (e.g., a posterior human eye cup) to simulate intracranial pressure (ICP), for example around the optical nerve head (ONH), and a second fluid pressure level can be applied to a second side of the wall of the donor eye cup to simulate intraocular pressure (IOP). These devices, systems, and methods are unique in that they allow ex vivo modeling of dynamic changes in translaminar pressure gradients.

[A01N] PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF (preservation of food or foodstuff A23); BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES (preparations for medical, dental or toilet purposes which kill or prevent the growth or proliferation of unwanted organisms A61K); PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS (mixtures of pesticides with fertilisers C05G)

Minimally invasive compressor / distractor
Patent No. 11678912

Inventor(s): Joel Gambrell (Carlsbad, CA), Keith Klausman (Carlsbad, CA), Thomas Purcell (Carlsbad, CA)
Assignee(s): Astura Medical Inc (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16581724 on 09/24/2019 (1365 days app to issue)

Abstract: A compressor/distractor instrument that provides internal set screw engagement for threaded reduction capabilities while also providing bending support of the screw extenders during compression or distractor manipulation. Threaded reduction is performed by engaging compressor/distractor support tubes at the proximal end with a compressor/distractor driver. A removable locking pull pin secures the left and right handles of the compressor/distractor driver together during use, and removal of the pin releases the compression and tension built up in the device for ease of removal.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

Therapeutic garment for treatment of over-shunting headaches and method for use of same
Patent No. 11678947

Inventor(s): Fredrick H. Sklar (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16996587 on 08/18/2020 (1036 days app to issue)

Abstract: A therapeutic garment for treatment of over-shunting headaches and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the therapeutic garment includes a waistband and an abdominal portion that extends from the waistband to encircle the abdomen and hips from the groin to the costal margin of a person wearing the therapeutic garment. A binder portion, having open and closed positions, is coincident to the abdominal portion. In the closed position, the binder distends the epidural venous plexus of the person wearing the therapeutic garment. A closure mechanism is configured to selectively alternate the binder between the open and closed positions. The therapeutic garment may further be fashioned into a brief, a tank top, or include leg extensions.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

Haptic optic management system utilizing rotary arms
Patent No. 11678977

Inventor(s): Sudarshan B. Singh (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16705861 on 12/06/2019 (1292 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for inserting an intraocular lens (IOL) assembly into an eye may be provided. An example optic management system may include a housing having a first end and a second end and a first side extending between the first end the second end. The housing may include a cavity formed in the first side of the housing and configured to accommodate an intraocular lens, wherein the cavity comprises a first end portion, a second end portion, and a central portion. The housing may further include a bore formed in the housing, wherein a first portion of the bore extends from the first end to the cavity. The haptic optic management system may further include a ceiling disposed on the first side of the housing. The haptic optic management system may further include arms pivotably coupled to the housing in the cavity.

[A61F] FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) [2006.01]

Implants for spinal fixation and or fusion
Patent No. 11678997

Inventor(s): Isador H. Lieberman (Plano, TX), Jeffrey B. Phelps (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): SI-Bone Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Shay Glenn LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17649265 on 01/28/2022 (508 days app to issue)

Abstract: Bone implants, including methods of use and assembly. The bone implants, which are optionally composite implants, generally include a distal anchoring region and a growth region that is proximal to the distal anchoring region. The distal anchoring region can have one or more distal surface features that adapt the distal anchoring region for anchoring into iliac bone. The growth region can have one or more growth features that adapt the growth region to facilitate at least one of bony on-growth, in-growth, or through-growth. The implants may be positioned along a posterior sacral alar-iliac (”SAI”) trajectory. The implants may be coupled to one or more bone stabilizing constructs, such as rod elements thereof.

[A61B] DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (analysing biological material G01N, e.g. G01N 33/48)

Bone graft material loading assembly and associated devices, systems, and methods
Patent No. 11679002

Inventor(s): Stephen Vincent Blake (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Orthofix US LLC (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17343389 on 06/09/2021 (741 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bone graft loading device includes a syringe comprising a nozzle at a distal portion of the syringe and an opening at a proximal portion of the syringe, and a plunger configured to force bone graft material from the reservoir through the nozzle. The plunger comprises a plunger body positioned at least partially within the syringe and defining a lumen. A tamp is positioned within the lumen of the plunger body and is configured to protrude distally of the plunger through the nozzle. The plunger mates with an inner wall of the syringe and the tamp to block passage of the bone graft material into the lumen of the plunger body. The plunger can be rotated to guide the bone graft material into the cannula, and the tamp can be periodically actuated to clear clogs that form at or near the nozzle.

Pressure modulating soft actuator array devices and related systems and methods
Patent No. 11679047

Inventor(s): Muthu Wijesundara (Arlington, TX), Wei Carrigan (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16606627 on 04/20/2018 (1887 days app to issue)

Abstract: Pressure modulating soft actuator array devices and related systems and methods. One example of the present systems comprises: a device having a body that defines a plurality of cavities; a pressure source configured to be in fluid communication with the plurality of cavities; a plurality of sensors configured to capture data indicative of pressure within the plurality of cavities; and one or more controllers configured to actuate the pressure source to move fluid toward and/or away from one or more of the plurality of cavities in response to data captured by the plurality of sensors; wherein the device is configured to be disposed between a user and a surface on which the user is seated upon.

[A61G] TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H 3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N 1/00)

Ophthalmic formulations and related methods
Patent No. 11679078

Inventor(s): Ralph P. Stone (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): ETERNATEAR, INC. (Raleigh, NC)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17689212 on 03/08/2022 (469 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to ophthalmic suspensions for dry eye and other ocular indications that provide long-lasting on eye benefits. The disclosure provides methods of increasing lipid layer thickness and methods of lubricating an eye. The disclosure also provides methods of maintaining integrity of an eye”s tear film layers which increases the eye”s lipid layer thickness and methods of recreating or building one or more layers of an eye”s tear film.

[A61P] SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS [7]

Ophthalmic formulations and related methods
Patent No. 11679079

Inventor(s): Ralph P. Stone (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): ETERNATEAR, INC. (Raleigh, NC)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg, LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17895513 on 08/25/2022 (299 days app to issue)

[A61P] SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS [7]

Systems and methods for burst waveforms with anodic-leading pulses
Patent No. 11679264

Inventor(s): Erika Ross (Dallas, TX), Filippo Agnesi (Plano, TX), Hyun-Joo Park (Frisco, TX), Simeng Zhang (Frisco, TX), Yagna Pathak (Skokie, IL)
Assignee(s): ADVANCED NEUROMODULATION SYSTEMS, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17082299 on 10/28/2020 (965 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating burst waveforms. An implantable neurostimulation system includes an implantable stimulation lead including a plurality of contacts, and an implantable pulse generator communicatively coupled to the stimulation lead. The pulse generator is configured to generate a waveform including a burst that includes a leading anodic pulse followed by alternating cathodic pulses and anodic pulses, each cathodic pulse in the burst having a greater amplitude than the previous cathodic pulse.

[A61N] ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY (measurement of bioelectric currents A61B; surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body A61B 18/00; anaesthetic apparatus in general A61M; incandescent lamps H01K; infra-red radiators for heating H05B) [6]

Skin care formulations
Patent No. 11679284

Inventor(s): David Gan (Southlake, TX), Dawn Burke-Colvin (Dallas, TX), Michelle Hines (Hickory Creek, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17836260 on 06/09/2022 (376 days app to issue)

Abstract: A topical skin care composition including an effective amount of palmitoyl tetrapeptide 7, retinol, and a base that includes botanical oils is disclosed. The botanical oils include sesame oil, [i]Helianthus annuus [/i]seed oil, jojoba oil, and [i]Macadamia ternifolia [/i]nut oil. The topical skin care composition is anhydrous.

[A61K] PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms A61J 3/00; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for deodorisation of air, for disinfection or sterilisation, or for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; soap compositions C11D)

O P E R A T I O N S & T R A N S P O R T

Power end hub puller kit apparatus and methods
Patent No. 11679456

Inventor(s): Ethan Anderson (Fort Worth, TX), Miles Baker (Sanger, TX), Thomas Craig (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): Forum US, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16881925 on 05/22/2020 (1124 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hub puller kit for pulling hubs off of power ends of frac pumps, and a method of removing a hub from a pinion shaft of a power end using the hub puller kit. The hub puller kit has an adapter flange formed out of a monolithic body with fastener openings, and a hydraulic actuator coupled to the adapter flange. The adapter flange has a stepped surface formed on a first surface and a recessed surface formed in a second surface, and a central opening having a threaded flange portion that extends from the stepped surface to the recessed surface. The hydraulic actuator has a hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic plunger disposed at least partially within the hydraulic cylinder, and a threaded actuator portion that engages the threaded flange portion to couple the hydraulic actuator to the adapter flange.

[B23P] OTHER WORKING OF METAL; COMBINED OPERATIONS; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS (arrangements for copying or controlling B23Q)

Seat back energy absorber
Patent No. 11679701

Inventor(s): Francisco Salcedo (Argyle, TX), Kevin Waters (Denton, TX), Nahum Madrid (Denton, TX), Solomon Livingston (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): Safran Seats USA LLC (Gainesville, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17494939 on 10/06/2021 (622 days app to issue)

Abstract: A passenger seat for a passenger vehicle including but not limited to an aircraft may include a seat base, a seat back, and an energy absorption system. The energy absorption system is spherically coupled to the seat base and spherically coupled to the seat back, and includes a dampening member and a support assembly. The dampening member is movable relative to the support assembly responsive to a load applied on the seat back such that engagement between the support assembly and the dampening member dampens the load.

[B64D] EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT

Retractable vehicle light assemblies for tailgates
Patent No. 11679712

Inventor(s): Skylar C. Watson (Williamston, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17218995 on 03/31/2021 (811 days app to issue)

Abstract: A light assembly for a tailgate of a vehicle, including a housing, and a light source. The housing is pivotally coupled to the tailgate for movement of the housing between a use positon and a stowed position. The light source is coupled to the housing. In the use position the light source is positioned outside of the tailgate. In the stowed position the light source is positioned within the tailgate.

[B60Q] ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL [4]

Systems and methods for vehicle lane estimation
Patent No. 11679768

Inventor(s): Colin Das (Ann Arbor, MI), Emily Lerner (Brighton, MI), Matthew Hill (Ann Arbor, MI), Ryan M. Wiesenberg (Ann Arbor, MI), William Fanelli (Ypsilanti, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074043 on 10/19/2020 (974 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for determining a scene representation for a vehicle are provided. A disclosed method includes acquiring data from one or more sensors of the vehicle. The method further includes detecting, using processing circuitry, one or more objects in a surrounding of the vehicle based on the acquired data; determining whether an object of the detected one or more objects intersects with a vehicle lane of travel; determining whether the object is in a lane of travel of the vehicle; determining inter-vehicle gaps and cut-ins between the object and the vehicle; and rendering a scene representation including the inter-vehicle gaps and cut-ins between the object and the vehicle.

[B60W] CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT [2006.01]

Hopper railcar composite partition
Patent No. 11679789

Inventor(s): Codrington E. Barzey (Melbourne, FL), Kenneth W. Huck (Fairview, TX), Ricky A. Cribbs (Ovilla, TX), Scott M. Lewit (Indialantic, FL)
Assignee(s): TRINITY RAIL GROUP, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16984698 on 08/04/2020 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a railcar comprises at least two hoppers for transporting a commodity. Each hopper comprises a pair of side walls and a floor. The railcar further comprises a composite partition separating the hoppers. The composite partition comprises a frame comprising a first material coupled to the pair of side walls and the floor at a location separating hoppers. The frame comprises a center opening. The frame is configured to provide structural support for structural loads exerted on the pair of side walls and the floor. The composite partition further comprises a composite section comprising a second material coupled to the frame and covering the central opening of the frame. The composite section is configured to withstand loads exerted on the composite section by the commodity transported in the hoppers.

[B61D] BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES (vehicles in general B60; adaptation of vehicles to special systems B61B; underframes B61F)

Vertical take off and landing closed wing aircraft
Patent No. 11679877

Inventor(s): Andrew James Zahasky (North Richland Hills, TX), Carlos Alexander Fenny (Fort Worth, TX), Rohn Lee Olson (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17136585 on 12/29/2020 (903 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing, stationary flight and forward flight, includes a closed wing that provides lift whenever the aircraft is in forward flight, a fuselage at least partially disposed within a perimeter of the closed wing, and one or more spokes coupling the closed wing to the fuselage. One or more motors are disposed within or attached to the spokes. Three or more propellers are proximate to a leading edge of the one or more spokes, distributed along the one or more spokes, and operably connected to the one or more motors to provide lift whenever the aircraft is in vertical takeoff and landing and stationary flight and provide thrust whenever the aircraft is in forward flight.

[B64C] AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS (air-cushion vehicles B60V)

Shopping facility assistance systems, devices and methods
Patent No. 11679969

Inventor(s): Shuvro Chakrobartty (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Fitch, Even, Tabin Flannery LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17346954 on 06/14/2021 (736 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, components and methods are provided herein useful to provide assistance to customers and/or workers in a shopping facility. In some embodiments, a shopping facility personal assistance system comprises: a plurality of motorized transport units located in and configured to move through a shopping facility space; a plurality of user interface units, each corresponding to a respective motorized transport unit during use of the respective motorized transport unit; and a central computer system having a network interface such that the central computer system wirelessly communicates with one or both of the plurality of motorized transport units and the plurality of user interface units, wherein the central computer system is configured to control movement of the plurality of motorized transport units through the shopping facility space based at least on inputs from the plurality of user interface units.

[B66F] HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING, OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD (mounting artificial islands on piles or like supports E02B 17/00; scaffolds combined with lifting devices E04G 1/22, E04G 3/28; lifting devices for sliding forms E04G 11/24; lifting of buildings E04G 23/06; shores or struts E04G 25/00; lifts or other hoisting devices on ladders E06C 7/12; props for mining E21D 15/00)

C H E M I S T R Y & M E T A L L U R G Y

Methods, apparatus, and systems for detecting and removing microplastics from water
Patent No. 11679993

Inventor(s): Aiza Fernanda Jose Sanchez (Frisco, TX), Carlos Alberto Hernandez Gutierrez (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): AIZACO LIMITED COMPANY (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Cole Schotz, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17701499 on 03/22/2022 (455 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for detecting and removing microplastics from wastewater effluent. Both, automatic/remote and manual monitoring and sampling components are included to detect the presence of microplastics. The automatic monitoring and sampling component includes a TSS sensor and associated apparatus calibrated to account for non-plastic solids present in the wastewater and, thereby, more accurately determine the presence of microplastics. Efficient separation and removal of microplastics from wastewater effluent is performed by a specialized capture net apparatus having multiple sized mesh components and optional diffuser devices which perform size exclusion filtration of microplastics from the water. In an exemplary embodiment, the methods generally include diverting treated wastewater effluent from a wastewater treatment facility”s main line into a wastewater sampling mechanism via an intake pipe, and then into a solids monitoring and separation mechanism which includes the specialized capture net apparatus.

[C02F] TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE (processes for making harmful chemical substances harmless, or less harmful, by effecting a chemical change in the substances A62D 3/00; separation, settling tanks or filter devices B01D; special arrangements on waterborne vessels of installations for treating water, waste water or sewage, e.g. for producing fresh water, B63J; adding materials to water to prevent corrosion C23F; treating radioactively-contaminated liquids G21F 9/04) [3]

F I X E D C O N S T R U C T I O N S

Systems and methods for post-tensioning in concrete support systems
Patent No. 11680407

Inventor(s): Bryant Morgan (Maryland Heights, MO), Evan Langston (Fort Worth, TX), Jeffrey Alan Cook (Dripping Springs, TX)
Assignee(s): Nicor Inc. (Dripping Springs, TX), POST TECH MANUFACTURING, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17445411 on 08/19/2021 (670 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for post-tensioning in masonry-based system, especially concrete support systems. In one embodiment, a system is presented that can include an anchor, pocket-former, and bolt, wherein the pocket-former can be configured to engage each of the anchor and bolt to facilitate securing of the system to a form. In another embodiment, a method of post-tensioning is presented, wherein a tendon can be suspended at the live end via connections facilitated by a pocket-former. In another embodiment, a system and method of post-tensioning is presented that prevents a pocket and anchor from being contaminated with debris that could ultimately compromise the integrity of the tensioned material.

[E04C] STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS (for bridges E01D; specially designed for insulation or other protection E04B; elements used as building aids E04G; for mining E21; for tunnels E21D; structural elements with broader range of application than for building engineering F16, particularly F16S)

Roofing materials with synthetic roofing granules and methods of making thereof
Patent No. 11680409

Inventor(s): Daniel E. Boss (Morris Township, NJ), Luis Duque (Hackensack, NJ), Ming Shiao (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Venable LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17696007 on 03/16/2022 (461 days app to issue)

Abstract: This invention, in embodiments, relates to a roofing material comprising (a) a coated substrate having a top surface and a back surface, and (b) a plurality of roofing granules applied to the top surface of the coated substrate. The plurality of roofing granules comprises from 50% to 100% of unitary, uncoated, non-mineral based particles. This invention, in embodiments, further relates to a method of preparing such roofing material.

[E04D] ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS (coverings of outer walls by plaster or other porous material E04F 13/00)

Roofing systems with improved wind performance of roofing tiles and methods of installing thereof
Patent No. 11680410

Inventor(s): Brian Lee (Linden, NJ), Daniel E. Boss (Morris Township, NJ), Ming-Liang Shiao (Basking Ridge, NJ), Ramil Marcelo L. Mercado (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Venable LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17580800 on 01/21/2022 (515 days app to issue)

Abstract: This invention, in embodiments, relates to a roofing system comprising (a) a roofing substrate having a roofing surface, (b) a first roofing tile overlying the roofing surface, the first roofing tile having a front surface, a back surface, a top edge, and a bottom edge, and (c) a second roofing tile overlying the first roofing tile, the second roofing tile having a front surface, a back surface, a top edge, and a bottom edge. At least one sealant line is applied to (i) the back surface of the second roofing tile in an area that overlays the first roofing tile, (ii) the front surface of the first roofing tile in an area in which the second roofing tile overlays the first roofing tile, or (iii) both (i) and (ii). The at least one sealant line is configured to adhere the second roofing tile to the first roofing tile.

[E04D] ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS (coverings of outer walls by plaster or other porous material E04F 13/00)

Extruded aluminum canopy with hidden fasteners
Patent No. 11680412

Inventor(s): Curtis Herron (Fort Worth, TX), Jeffrey S. Kenny (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17029859 on 09/23/2020 (1000 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for fabricating canopies featuring extruded members coupled together with fasteners that are hidden and are retained by multiple tracks located in the extruded members. Prefabricated corners of extruded members allow fabricators to build the canopy on site by attaching straight members to form a canopy from the four prefabricated corners. Prefabricated facial members allow fabricators to quickly change the appearance of the assembled canopy or to retrofit pre-existing canopies.

[E04F] FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS (windows, doors E06B)

Multi-gun cluster carrier
Patent No. 11680468

Inventor(s): Dennis Roessler (Fort Worth, TX), John Hardesty (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): GEODYNAMICS, INC. (Millsap, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17293545 on 11/05/2019 (1323 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gun assembly for perforating a well, the gun assembly including a single carrier; a first gun cluster, the first gun cluster including first plural shaped charges; and a second gun cluster, the second gun cluster including second plural shaped charges. The first gun cluster and the second gun cluster are placed in the single carrier.

[E21B] EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING (mining, quarrying E21C; making shafts, driving galleries or tunnels E21D); OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS [5]

Flow control system
Patent No. 11680470

Inventor(s): Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX), Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17346002 on 06/11/2021 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: A flow control system selectively regulates production of a fluid from a well. The flow control system includes a plurality of flow control devices, each flow control device rotatable by a portion of the fluid and selectively directing the portion of the fluid through an outlet of the flow control device based on the density of the fluid. The system further includes a regulator valve controlled at least in part by the portion of fluid exiting the outlet of the flow control device. The regulating valve regulates production of a remaining portion of the fluid from the well.

M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G
LIGHTING | HEATING | WEAPONS | BLASTING

Ultrasonic additive manufacturing of cold plates with pre-formed fins
Patent No. 11679445

Inventor(s): James S. Wilson (Dallas, TX), Robert Arthur Condie (Dallas, TX), Travis Lee Mayberry (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: Bachman LaPointe, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17095878 on 11/12/2020 (950 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for making a cold plate includes the steps of positioning a finstock structure in a cavity of a substrate; and applying a cover to the finstock structure and substrate, wherein the applying step comprises ultrasonically additive manufacturing the cover to the substrate and the finstock structure, whereby the cover joins with the substrate and the finstock structure. The resulting cold plate assembly includes a substrate having a cavity, a finstock structure within the cavity, and a cover closing the finstock structure within the cavity, the cover being integrally joined to the substrate and to the finstock structure.

[F28F] DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE OR HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials C09K 5/00; water or air traps, air venting F16)

Oil country tubular goods casing coupling
Patent No. 11680451

Inventor(s): Bowman A. Urech (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): OCTG Connections, LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Husch Blackwell LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17233888 on 04/19/2021 (792 days app to issue)

Abstract: A threaded coupling comprising a first end, a second end, a first portion of the threaded coupling defining a first thread profile, a second portion of the threaded coupling defining a second thread profile different from the first thread profile, where at least two threads of the second thread profile proximate to the second end are reduced in height according to an extra machining angle.

[F16L] PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL

Oil filter with impending and full-bypass indicators
Patent No. 11680500

Inventor(s): Scott David Poster (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17164136 on 02/01/2021 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: A removable oil filter system includes an oil filter mount, an oil filter element removably connected to the oil filter mount, an impending-bypass indicator connected to the oil filter mount and in fluid communication with an oil in the oil filter system, and a full-bypass indicator in fluid communication with the oil filter mount. The impending-bypass indicator is capable of reporting an impending-bypass condition of the oil filter system. The full-bypass indicator is capable of reporting a full-bypass condition of the oil filter system.

[F01M] LUBRICATING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; LUBRICATING INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRANKCASE VENTILATING [2]

Turbine-compressor assembly and method
Patent No. 11680517

Inventor(s): Najeeb Kuzhiyil (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Transportation IP Holdings, LLC (Norwalk, CT)
Law Firm: The Small Patent Law Group LLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17836015 on 06/09/2022 (376 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and a turbine-compressor assembly of a system having a turbine-compressor device fluidly coupled with a heat source, a compressor, and a turbine via plural valves. A power device may be coupled with the turbine-compressor device. A controller may control operation of the plural valves to control movement of fluids within the assembly to selectively switch between the turbine-compressor device operating in one of plural modes. In a turbine mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device may generate electrical power and direct the electrical power to the power device. In a compressor mode of operation, the turbine-compressor device may receive electrical power from the power device to consume the electrical power.

[F02B] INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL (cyclically operating valves therefor F01L; lubricating internal-combustion engines F01M; gas-flow silencers or exhaust apparatus therefor F01N; cooling of internal-combustion engines F01P; internal-combustion turbines F02C; plants in which engines use combustion products F02C, F02G)

Artificial muscles and hybrid actuation devices including artificial muscles having reinforcing threads to prevent permanent deformation
Patent No. 11680559

Inventor(s): Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, MI), Shardul S. Panwar (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17714578 on 04/06/2022 (440 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid actuation device including an artificial muscle is disclosed. The artificial muscle includes a housing including a first reinforcing thread extending across an expandable fluid region of the housing, an electrode pair positioned in an electrode region of the housing, and a dielectric fluid housed within the housing. The electrode pair includes a first electrode positioned adjacent a first surface of the housing and a second electrode positioned adjacent a second surface of the housing. The electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into the expandable fluid region. The first reinforcing thread restricts expansion of the expandable fluid region when the electrode pair is in the actuated state.

[F03G] SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA, OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER-PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (arrangements in connection with power supply in vehicles from force of nature B60K 16/00; electric propulsion with power supply in vehicles from force of nature B60L 8/00)

Pump gear
Patent No. 11680631

Inventor(s): Chandu Kumar (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): SPM Oil Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16766837 on 12/06/2018 (1657 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bull gear is provided for a reciprocating pump. The bull gear includes a hub extending around an axis of rotation of the bull gear. The bull gear includes a rim having a plurality of helical gear teeth extending along a circumference of the rim. The rim extends a width along the axis of rotation from a first side portion to a second side portion that is opposite the first side portion. The bull gear includes a web connecting the hub to the rim. The web extends a radial length from the first side portion of the rim to the hub.

[F16H] GEARING

P H Y S I C S

System and method for verifying roads
Patent No. 11680804

Inventor(s): Jason Schell (Dallas, TX), Jay Bartholomew (McKinney, TX), John Kenney (Santa Clara, CA), Michael C. Edwards (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16700793 on 12/02/2019 (1296 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for verifying a state of a road. The system includes a sensor of a vehicle configured to detect sensor data associated with the road. The system also includes a memory of the vehicle configured to store map data. The system also includes an electronic control unit (ECU) of the vehicle connected to the sensor and configured to determine road data or maneuvering data associated with the road based on the sensor data, and update the map data with the determined road data or maneuvering data.

[G01C] MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)

Technologies using surface-modified pseudo-graphite
Patent No. 11680923

Inventor(s): Jeremiah D. Foutch (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, , CH), UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO (Moscow, ID)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16292325 on 03/05/2019 (1568 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, electrodes, and electrochemical devices using surface-modified pseudo-graphite are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a method may include depositing a pseudo-graphite material onto a surface of an electrode substrate to produce a pseudo-graphite material surface. The method may also include modifying the pseudo-graphite material surface to alter electrochemical characteristics of the electrode.

[G01N] INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q)

Systems and methods for determining wind velocity
Patent No. 11680959

Inventor(s): Brian J. Dumont (Royal Oak, MI), Corey D. Wills (Berryton, KS), Corey T. Pasta (Topeka, KS), Dennis W. Morgart (Topeka, KS), James Paul (Carmel, CA), Matthew Fleming (Ypsilanti, MI), Paul Harris (Canton, MI), Paul K.
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17188157 on 03/01/2021 (841 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a vehicle, one or more probes coupled to the vehicle, and a controller. The vehicle is operable to traverse a distance. The one or more probes are operable to measure wind pressure and generate one or more wind pressure measurements. The controller is operable to receive the one or more wind pressure measurements from the one or more probes, determine a wind angle relative to the vehicle using the one or more wind pressure measurements, and determine a wind speed relative to the vehicle using the one or more wind pressure measurements and the wind angle.

[G01P] MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF MOVEMENT; INDICATING DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT (measuring angular rate using gyroscopic effects G01C 19/00; combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement G01C 23/00; measuring velocity of sound G01H 5/00; measuring velocity of light G01J 7/00; determining direction or velocity of solid objects by reflection or reradiation of radio or other waves and based on propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time or direction of propagation, G01S; measuring speed of nuclear radiation G01T)

Test access port with address and command capability
Patent No. 11680981

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17522477 on 11/09/2021 (588 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure provides a novel method and apparatus for inputting addresses to devices to select the device TAP for access. Further, the disclosure provides a novel method and apparatus for inputting addresses for selecting device TAPs and for inputting commands for commanding circuitry within the device. The inputting of addresses or the inputting of addresses and commands is initiated by a control bit input on TDI that is recognized during the Run Test/Idle, Pause-DR or Pause-IR TAP states.

[G01R] MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES (indicating correct tuning of resonant circuits H03J 3/12)

Control data registers for scan testing
Patent No. 11680984

Inventor(s): Aravinda Acharya (Bangalore, , IN), Nikita Naresh (Bangalore, , IN), Wilson Pradeep (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17683126 on 02/28/2022 (477 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a circuit includes a custom control data register (CCDR) circuit having a scan path. The CCDR circuit includes a shift register and an update register. The shift register is configured to receive scan data from a scan data input (CDR_SCAN_IN) on a first clock edge responsive to a scan enable signal (CDR_SCAN_EN) being enabled. The update register is configured to receive data from the shift register on a second clock edge after the first clock edge when the scan enable (CDR_SCAN_EN) is enabled. The update register data is asserted as a scan data output (CDR_SCAN_OUT). The second scan path includes the scan data input, the shift register, the update register, and the scan data output.

[G01R] MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES (indicating correct tuning of resonant circuits H03J 3/12)

Falling clock edge JTAG bus routers
Patent No. 11680985

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17158438 on 01/26/2021 (875 days app to issue)

Abstract: A falling edge controller includes a controller having an inverted TCK (Test Clock) input, a TMS (Test Mode Select) input, a shift register control output, an update register control output, and a shift output; a shift register having a TDI (Test Data In) input, a shift register control input coupled to the shift register control output, address inputs, a select input, address and select outputs, and a TDO (Test Data Out) output; an update register having address and select inputs coupled to the address and select outputs, an update register control input coupled to the update register control output, address outputs coupled to the address inputs, and a select output coupled to the select input; and address circuitry having address inputs coupled to the address outputs, and having an enable output.

[G01R] MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES (indicating correct tuning of resonant circuits H03J 3/12)

Method and apparatus for vector based finite impulse response (FIR) filtering
Patent No. 11681526

Inventor(s): Asheesh Bhardwaj (Allen, TX), Mujibur Rahman (Plano, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instmments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16878606 on 05/20/2020 (1126 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is provided that includes performing, by a processor in response to a vector finite impulse response (VFIR) filter instruction, generating of a plurality of filter outputs using a plurality of coefficients and a plurality of sequential data elements, the plurality of coefficients specified by a coefficient operand of the VFIR filter instruction and the plurality of sequential data elements specified by a data operand of the VFIR filter instruction, and storing the filter outputs in a storage location specified by the VFIR filter instruction.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Method for forming constant extensions in the same execute packet in a VLIW processor
Patent No. 11681532

Inventor(s): Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, TX), Joseph Raymond Michael Zbiciak (San Jose, CA), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16846686 on 04/13/2020 (1163 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a very long instruction word (VLIW) central processing unit instructions are grouped into execute packets that execute in parallel. A constant may be specified or extended by bits in a constant extension instruction in the same execute packet. If an instruction includes an indication of constant extension, the decoder employs bits of a constant extension instruction to extend the constant of an immediate field. Two or more constant extension slots are permitted in each execute packet, each extending constants for a different predetermined subset of functional unit instructions. In an alternative embodiment, more than one functional unit may have constants extended from the same constant extension instruction employing the same extended bits. A long extended constant may be formed using the extension bits of two constant extension instructions.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Method and system for boot time optimization of embedded multiprocessor systems
Patent No. 11681534

Inventor(s): Kedar Satish Chitnis (Bangalore, , IN), Rishabh Garg (Bangalore, , IN), Yogesh Vikram Marathe (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17209333 on 03/23/2021 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embedded multiprocessor system is provided that includes a multiprocessor system on a chip (SOC), a memory coupled to the multiprocessor SOC, the memory storing application software partitioned into an initial boot stage and at least one additional boot stage, and a secondary boot loader configured to boot load the initial boot stage on at least one processor of the multiprocessor SOC, wherein the initial boot stage begins executing and flow of data from the initial boot stage to the at least one additional boot stage is disabled, wherein the application software is configured to boot load a second boot stage of the at least one additional boot stage on at least one other processor of the multiprocessor SOC and to enable flow of data between the initial boot stage and the second boot stage.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Executing computing modules using multi-coring
Patent No. 11681559

Inventor(s): Sravankumar Karanam (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17035031 on 09/28/2020 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described herein is a system for identifying controls not aligned with updated compliance data. The system may scrub external data sources for updated compliance data. The system may detect and extract the updated compliance data from the external data sources. The system may identify and correlate controls of compliance applications currently using compliance data which has now been updated. The system determines whether a control exists to cover the updated compliance data. In the event, a control does not exist or an existing control does not cover the updated compliance data, a requirement may be generated for generating a new control or modifying an existing control for the updated compliance data.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Performing conditional snapshot creation during continuous data protection age-out
Patent No. 11681588

Inventor(s): Sangeetha Seshadri (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: Zilka-Kotab, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17409491 on 08/23/2021 (666 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes creating a log of one or more events occurring during a performance of continuous data protection (CDP) for an instance of data; in response to identifying a conclusion of the performance of CDP for the instance of data, determining a value for the one or more events within the log; and conditionally creating and storing a snapshot of the instance of data, based on a comparison of the value for the one or more events to a predetermined threshold.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Multi-lane solutions for addressing vector elements using vector index registers
Patent No. 11681594

Inventor(s): Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17738986 on 05/06/2022 (410 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are vector index registers for storing or loading indexes of true and/or false results of conditional operations using multiple lane processing in vector processors. Each of the vector index registers store multiple addresses for accessing multiple positions in operand vectors in various types of operations that can leverage multi-lane processing.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Method and apparatus to facilitate low latency fault mitigation, QoS management and debug of a processing pipeline
Patent No. 11681598

Inventor(s): Brijesh Jadav (Karnataka, , IN), Kedar Chitnis (Karnataka, , IN), Mihir Mody (Karnataka, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX), Rajat Sagar (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17135481 on 12/28/2020 (904 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for an example event processor are disclosed to retrieve an input event and an input event timestamp corresponding to the input event, generate an output event based on the input event and the input event timestamp, in response to determination that an input event threshold is exceeded within a threshold of time, and an anomaly detector to retrieve the output event, determine whether the output event indicates threat to functional safety of a system on a chip, and in response to determining the output event indicates threat to functional safety of the system on a chip, adapt a process for the system on a chip to preserve functional safety.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Systems, methods, and media enabling streamlined user experiences across progressive web applications
Patent No. 11681772

Inventor(s): Jonathan Ricklis (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17401960 on 08/13/2021 (676 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media enabling a progressive web application (PWA) across a web domain are provided. The PWA may be enabled by web applications among a plurality of web applications executing respective portions of the PWA functionality via linking a root level web page to a manifest. The manifest may contain metadata describing a PWA architecture across the web domain. Enabling the PWA may further include executing, by a root service worker, one or more scripts configured to enable registration by one or more component service workers according the manifest To enable the PWA, applications among a plurality of web applications, and registering, by the one or more component service workers, the web applications among the plurality of web applications.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Augmented reality generated human challenge
Patent No. 11681791

Inventor(s): Jayaraman Ganeshmani (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17091474 on 11/06/2020 (956 days app to issue)

Abstract: A human challenge can be presented in an augmented reality user interface. A user can use a camera of a smart device to capture a video stream of the user”s surroundings, and the smart device can superimpose a representation of an object on the image or video stream being captured by the smart device. The smart device can display in the user interface the image or video stream and the object superimposed thereon. The user will be prompted to perform a task with respect to one or more of these augmented reality objects displayed in the user interface. If the user properly performs the task, e.g., selects the correct augmented reality objects, the application will validate the user as a person.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Methods and apparatus for efficiently implementing a distributed database within a network
Patent No. 11681821

Inventor(s): Leemon C. Baird, III (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Hedera Hashgraph, LLC (Las Vegas, NV)
Law Firm: Cooley LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17674345 on 02/17/2022 (488 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor and a memory operatively coupled to the processor and associated with an instance of a distributed database at a first compute device. The processor is configured to select an anonymous communication path. Each blinded public key from a sequence of blinded public keys associated with the anonymous communication path is associated with a pseudonym of a compute device from a set of compute devices that implement the anonymous communication path. The processor is configured to generate an encrypted message encrypted with a first blinded public key. The processor is configured to generate an encrypted data packet including the encrypted message and a compute device identifier associated with a second compute device. The encrypted data packet is encrypted with a second blinded public key. The processor is configured to send the encrypted data packet to a third compute device.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Systems and methods for protection of data across multiple users and devices
Patent No. 11681826

Inventor(s): Tuan Dao (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig LLP (19 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17109001 on 12/01/2020 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for protection of data across multiple users and devices are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in privacy server comprising at least one computer processor, a method for protection of data across multiple users and devices may include: (1) receiving, from a first user device, a data sharing permission for the first user device and a data sharing permission for a second user device, the first user device and the second user device associated with the same user; (2) provisioning the data sharing permission for the second user device; and (3) communicating the provisioned data sharing permission to the second user device, wherein the second user device shares data with the first user device according to the provisioned data sharing permission.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Input data compression for machine learning-based chain diagnosis
Patent No. 11681843

Inventor(s): Gaurav Veda (Hillsboro, OR), Kun-Han Tsai (Lake Oswego, OR), Mason Chern (Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, , TW), Shi-Yu Huang (Hsinchu, , TW), Wu-Tung Cheng (Lake Oswego, OR), Yu Huang (West Linn, OR)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16248849 on 01/16/2019 (1616 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosed technology relate to machine learning-based chain diagnosis. Faults are injected into scan chains in a circuit design. Simulations are performed on the fault-injected circuit design to determine test response patterns in response to the test patterns which are captured by the scan chains. Observed failing bit patterns are determined by comparing the unloaded test response patterns with corresponding good-machine test response patterns. Bit-reduction is performed on the observed failing bit patterns to construct training samples. Using the training samples, machine-learning models for faulty scan cell identification are trained. The bit reduction comprises pattern-based bit compression for good scan chains or cycle-based bit compression for the good scan chains. The bit reduction may further comprise bit-filtering. The bit-filtering may comprises keeping only sensitive bits on faulty scan chains for the training samples construction.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Intelligent signal matching of disparate input data in complex computing networks
Patent No. 11681938

Inventor(s): Greg Ellis (Plano, TX), Heidi D. E. Wilton (Toronto, , CA), Jeremy S. Antoniuk (Plano, TX), John R. Rothwell (Plano, TX), Melanie D. Courtright (Plano, TX), Michael D. Bigby (Plano, TX), Vincent P. Derobertis (Plano, TX
Assignee(s): RESEARCH NOW GROUP, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Baker McKenzie LLP (Local + 5 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17397825 on 08/09/2021 (680 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an apparatus for intelligent matching of disparate input data received from disparate input data systems in a complex computing network for establishing targeted communication to a computing device associated with the intelligently matched disparate input data.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Computer vision grouping recognition system
Patent No. 11681997

Inventor(s): Andrei Khaitas (McKinney, TX), Evgeny Shevtsov (Frisco, TX), Yevgeni Tsirulnik (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Tokyo, , JP)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17490565 on 09/30/2021 (628 days app to issue)

Abstract: Computer vision grouping recognition is provided by receiving training images that include unpackaged items; identifying, by a computer vision model, a candidate identities for unpackaged items in a given training image; receiving, from a human user, a selected identity for the unpackaged item as feedback for the candidate identity; constructing a confusion matrix tallying matches and mismatches between candidate identities and the selected identities as analyzed across the training images for each unpackaged item; identifying at least one product category that includes at least a first unpackaged item and a second unpackaged item that the confusion matrix indicates as being misidentified for each other by the computer vision model; and reconfiguring the computer vision model to identify the product category instead of the first unpackaged item or the second unpackaged item when analyzing a given image including one or more of the first unpackaged item or the second unpackaged item.

[G06Q] DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [2006.01]

Systems and methods for implementing a sponsor portal for mediating services to end users
Patent No. 11682046

Inventor(s): Arun Pimpalapure (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): FINANCENINJA, LLC (Overland Park, KS)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17576709 on 01/14/2022 (522 days app to issue)

Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) for a sponsor portal system includes a first display area that persistently displays a list of a plurality of tabs and a second display area. When the GUI is executed by a computing device of a sponsor of the plurality of sponsors, the second display area is dynamically updatable to display a scrollable list of customers of the sponsor, a list of vendors approved by the sponsor, and a list of active offers. In response to selection of an active offer, the GUI is configured to display a draft offer message and an approval control. In response to selection of the approval control, the sponsor engine is configured to transmit an interactive graphic to mobile computing devices, the interactive graphic configured to communicate information to the mobile computing devices for display on a screen of limited size.

Decision-making system and method based on supervised learning
Patent No. 11682074

Inventor(s): Estela Alvarez Navas (Madrid, , ES), Florian Lyonnet (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): GDS Link LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: The Danamraj Law Group, P.C (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15953029 on 04/13/2018 (1894 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, apparatus, user equipment, and associated computer program and computing methods are provided for facilitating efficient decision-making with respect to a subject entity. In one aspect, a labeled training dataset containing N records respectively corresponding to N entities is provided for training a decision engine based on performing supervised learning. Responsive to receiving a plurality of attribute values for the subject entity requiring a decision relative to an estimate of a performance variable based on at least a portion of the attribute values, the trained decision engine is configured to determine a decision score as a function obtained as a set of linearly decomposed constituent components corresponding to the attribute values of the subject entity, thereby effectuating an objective determination of which attributes contribute to what portions of the decision score in a computationally efficient manner.

Systems and methods for processing items in a queue
Patent No. 11682075

Inventor(s): Drake R. Sanderson (Flower Mound, TX), Sarita Ayyalasomayajula (Frisco, TX), Taylor Geron (Plano, TX), Thomas Busath (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17725278 on 04/20/2022 (426 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for processing items in a queue, a system including one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations including: analyzing training data to build a predictive model; applying the predictive model to items in a queue to determine scores of the items based on respective probabilities of an entity completing an action for each item; listing the items, sorted by the scores, in a first display view; identifying a first and a second item, respectively having highest and next highest scores; grouping, with each of the first and second items, items that satisfy a grouping condition based on characteristic information of the items; and listing the groups of items including the first and second items, sorted based on the scores of the first and second items, in a second display view.

Document term recognition and analytics
Patent No. 11682093

Inventor(s): Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Jason Hoover (Grapevine, TX), Micah Price (Anna, TX), Olalekan Awoyemi (Prosper, TX), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, TX), Staevan Duckworth (The Colony, TX), Stephen Wylie (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17451856 on 10/22/2021 (606 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device receives image data of a contractual document that includes an offer including terms of a proposed transaction, converts the image data to text data that identifies text within the contractual document, and receives preferences information for a recipient of the offer. The device identifies key terms within the contractual document by using term identification to analyze the text. The key terms may include a first key term that identifies subject matter of the proposed transaction and other key terms that are part of the offer. The device determines term scores that correspond to likelihoods of the other key terms being favorable to the recipient by using a data model to analyze the key terms and the preferences information. The device, based on the term scores, generates and provides another device with a recommendation to be used in determining whether the accept the offer.

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

Hardware accelerator for integral image computation
Patent No. 11682099

Inventor(s): Aishwarya Dubey (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17462493 on 08/31/2021 (658 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hardware accelerator for computing integral image values of an image is provided that includes a plurality of row computation components configurable to operate in parallel to compute row sum values of respective rows of a row block of the image. The hardware accelerator is further configured to compute integral image values for the row block using the row sum values and block pivots.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

Information weighted rendering of 3D point set
Patent No. 11682142

Inventor(s): Allen Hainline (Rowlett, TX), Stephen J. Raif (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17020195 on 09/14/2020 (1009 days app to issue)

Abstract: Subject matter regards colorizing a three-dimensional (3D) point set. A method of colorizing a 3D point can include voxelizing 3D points including the 3D point into voxels such that a voxel of the voxels including the 3D point includes a voxel subset of the 3D points, projecting the voxel subset to respective image spaces of first and second images used to generate the 3D points, and associating a color value, determined based on a respective number of pixels of the first and second images to which the voxel subset projects, with the 3D point.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

System and method for audiovisual response to retail diagnostic product
Patent No. 11682207

Inventor(s): Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): RELIANT IMMUNE DIAGNOSTICS, INC. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17468991 on 09/08/2021 (650 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are provided for presenting self-diagnostic test instructions in the form of audiovisual messages. The system and method include collecting by a user of a testing device a biologic sample for use with a testing device, assigning correlative values as test results, and receiving the test results at a server disposed on a network. Some aspects of the system and method present test instructions to the user in the form of audiovisual messages. The audiovisual messages are provided to the user as a response to an interaction with a retail diagnostic product. In some aspects, the complete audiovisual message is presented before the user may complete a self-diagnostic test.

[G06K] RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (printing per se B41J)

Hierarchical data organization for dense optical flow processing in a computer vision system
Patent No. 11682212

Inventor(s): Anish Reghunath (Plano, TX), Hetul Sanghvi (Murphy, TX), Michael Peter Lachmayr (Boxford, MA), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17086560 on 11/02/2020 (960 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer vision system is provided that includes an image generation device configured to capture consecutive two dimensional (2D) images of a scene, a first memory configured to store the consecutive 2D images, a second memory configured to store a growing window of consecutive rows of a reference image and a growing window of consecutive rows of a current image, wherein the reference image and the current image are a pair of consecutive 2D images stored in the first memory, a third memory configured to store a sliding window of pixels fetched from the growing window of the reference image, wherein the pixels in the sliding window are stored in tiles, and a dense optical flow engine (DOFE) configured to determine a dense optical flow map for the pair of consecutive 2D images, wherein the DOFE uses the sliding window as a search window for pixel correspondence searches.

[G06T] IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL [2006.01]

System and method for generating an alert based on noise
Patent No. 11682286

Inventor(s): Andrew Schulz (Dallas, TX), David Krauss (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): NoiseAware Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17217860 on 03/30/2021 (812 days app to issue)

Abstract: A noise monitoring device and a method of monitoring a location are disclosed. In one example, the noise monitoring device includes: (1) a microphone configured to detect noise proximate the noise monitoring device and derive raw data therefrom, and (2) a processor configured to determine when at least a portion of the raw data exceeds a threshold during a time period. In one example, the method of monitoring a location includes: (1) deriving raw data from noise proximate a noise monitoring device at the location, (2) comparing, for a designated period of time, at least a portion of the raw data to a threshold, and (3) determining an occurrence of an event at the location based on the comparing.

[G08B] SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS

Systems and methods for integrated traffic incident detection and response
Patent No. 11682289

Inventor(s): Hollie Ilene King (Frisco, TX), Nicholas C. Wheeler (The Colony, TX), Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, TX), Samantha Elizabeth Taylor (Frisco, TX), Victor Kwak (Frisco, TX), Yogen Rai (Plano, TX), Zachery C. Lake (Aubrey,
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16940026 on 07/27/2020 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device receives operational data indicative of an operational characteristic of a vehicle from a sensor of the electronic device, a sensor of the vehicle, and/or images/videos captured by a camera. The electronic device determines that the vehicle has had a potential incident and a likelihood that the potential incident has actually occurred based on analysis of the operational data. The electronic device also receives risk management data associated with the vehicle from a database, and determines a severity level for the potential incident based on the operational data and the risk management data. The electronic device then sends a notification indicative of the potential incident based on the likelihood that the potential incident has actually occurred and the severity level for the potential incident to a third-party remote system (e.g., of a towing service, an emergency service, or both) to request assistance.

[G08B] SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS

Systems and methods for processing emergency alert notifications
Patent No. 11682292

Inventor(s): Kartik S. Soni (Allen, TX), Rajesh K. Singh (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Fitch, Even, Tabin Flannery, LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17963525 on 10/11/2022 (252 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for managing emergency notifications and incident reports at a commercial facility. A graphical interface enables a worker associated with a facility to input information regarding an ongoing/impending emergency event, e.g., Active Threat, Acts of Violence, Fire/Explosion, Injury, Power Failure, Missing Child, Severe Weather, Robbery, Hazmat, Bomb Threat, Covid-19, Store Closure, Special Events etc. This information is processed via an analytical engine that evaluates the entered information in view of various business rules in order to identify the appropriate workers to notify, and generates and transmits the notifications to the employees determined to be suitable for receiving a notification. In response to the generation of the emergency notification, an incident report engine evaluates the entered emergency, and automatically generates an incident report, which may be later accessed and/or modified by workers having a suitable employee access level.

[G08B] SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS

Parking management systems and methods
Patent No. 11682303

Inventor(s): Brian F. Shipley (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17673665 on 02/16/2022 (489 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle parking management system includes one or more processors configured to receive data indicative of one or more characteristics of one or more parking locations. The one or more processors is also configured to determine one or more recommended parking locations of the one or more parking locations based on the data and based on an input related to a vehicle. The one or more processors is further configured to output a recommendation of the one or more recommended parking locations via a display screen to a driver of the vehicle.

[G08G] TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems or lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S 13/91, G01S 15/88, G01S 17/88; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems or lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S 13/93, G01S 15/93, G01S 17/93; control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, not being specific to a traffic environment G05D 1/00) [2]

Forced current access with voltage clamping in cross-point array
Patent No. 11682442

Inventor(s): Michael Grobis (Campbell, CA), Michael Nicolas Albert Tran (San Jose, CA), Nathan Franklin (Belmont, CA), Ward Parkinson (Boise, ID)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17846678 on 06/22/2022 (363 days app to issue)

Abstract: Technology for limiting a voltage difference between two selected conductive lines in a cross-point array when using a forced current approach is disclosed. In one aspect, the selected word line voltage is clamped to a voltage limit while driving an access current through a region of the selected word line and through a region of the selected bit line. The access current flows through the memory cell to allow a sufficient voltage to successfully read or write the memory cell, while not placing undue stress on the memory cell. In some aspects, the maximum voltage that is permitted on the selected word line depends on the location of the selected memory cell in the cross-point memory array. This allows memory cells for which there is a larger IR drop to receive an adequate voltage, while not over-stressing memory cells for which there is a smaller IR drop.

[G11C] STATIC STORES (information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B; semiconductor devices for storage H01L, e.g. H01L 27/108-H01L 27/11597; pulse technique in general H03K, e.g. electronic switches H03K 17/00)

Senior living engagement and care support platforms
Patent No. 11682489

Inventor(s): Nirav Patel (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, IL)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17744079 on 05/13/2022 (403 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein is an engagement and care support platform (”ECSP”) computer system including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device for facilitating senior user engagement. The processor is programmed to: (i) register a user through an application, (ii) register a caregiver associated with the user through the application, (iii) generate a senior profile based upon user personal and scheduling data, (iv) build a daily interactive user interface that reflects the senior profile, (v) display the daily interactive user interface at a first client device associated with the user, (vi) cause the first client device to initiate a daily interaction prompt to the user, (vii) determine whether any user interaction was received in response to the daily interaction prompt, and (viii) transmit a daily update message to a second client device associated with the caregiver, including an indication of whether any user interaction was received. NULL

Pellicle removal tool
Patent No. 11682573

Inventor(s): Hilario Ar-Miguel Alvarez (Flower Mound, TX), Jesse Eugene Williams, II (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): PHOTRONICS, INC. (Brookfield, CT)
Law Firm: Amster, Rothstein Ebenstein LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17390018 on 07/30/2021 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pellicle removal tool including a stage that holds a photomask and an associated pellicle, two or more arms positioned around the stage and configured to engage pellicle side wells of the pellicle, and two or more actuators each configured to adjust at least a vertical position of a corresponding one of the two or more arms so as to apply a lifting force to the pellicle for removal of the pellicle from the photomask.

[G03F] PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR (phototypographic composing devices B41B; photosensitive materials or processes for photographic purposes G03C; electrography, sensitive layers or processes G03G)

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Controlled scope of authentication key for software update
Patent No. 11681513

Inventor(s): Barak Cherches (Ramat Ha”Kovesh, , IL), Eric Thierry Jean Peeters (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instmments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15931794 on 05/14/2020 (1132 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for updating a client device are provided that include receiving, by a client device, a software update and a certificate associated with the software update, verifying, by the client device, the certificate associated with the software update based on a stored public key of the client device, extracting an update scope value from the certificate, comparing the update scope value against a corresponding attribute of the update, and either applying the software update based on the comparing, or rejecting the software update based on the comparing.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Method and apparatus for creating and using quantum resistant keys
Patent No. 11681783

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Daly (Dallas, TX), Max Fleming (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): AMERA IOT INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17713436 on 04/05/2022 (441 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system is disclosed for securely communicating between a user device and a target device, which includes a user input receiving user inputs and a user device memory for storing at least one fixed dataset having a plurality of data bits and an inherent entropy. At least one predetermined harvest process is stored in ser device memory, which is operable within a main harvest process to distill the dataset to a predetermined bit length to define a private key of the user at a predetermined key length. A processor operates to execute the main harvest process to receive a unique user Personal Information Number (PIN) acquired by the user and having a plurality of digits associated therewith, and wherein the at least one predetermined harvest process is dependent on the user PIN and the value of at least one of the digits therein, such that the at least one predetermined harvest process is parameterized by the value of the at least one of the digits and operates differently for each value of the at least one of the digits. The processor applies the at least one predetermined harvest process to the dataset to distill the dataset down to the predetermined key length to define the private key, and then stores the private key to the user device. A target device memory and an encryption engine on the target device interface with a proximity-based link. The private key is transferred to the target device via the proximity-based link and an interface on the target device stores the tran

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Cleaning system with in-line SPM processing
Patent No. 11682567

Inventor(s): Brian K. Kirkpatrick (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17346116 on 06/11/2021 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cleaning system for processing a substrate after polishing includes a sulfuric peroxide mix (SPM) module, at least two cleaning elements, and a plurality of robots. The SPM module includes a sulfuric peroxide mix (SPM) cleaner having a first container to hold a sulfuric peroxide mix liquid and five to twenty first supports to hold five to twenty substrates in the liquid in the first container, and a rinsing station having a second container to hold a rinsing liquid and five to twenty second supports to hold five to twenty substrates in the liquid in the second container. Each of the at least two cleaning elements are configured to process a single substrate at a time. Examples of a cleaning element include a megasonic cleaner, a rotating brush cleaner, a buff pad cleaner, a jet spray cleaner, a chemical spin cleaner, a spin drier, and a marangoni drier.

[H01L] SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (use of semiconductor devices for measuring G01; resistors in general H01C; magnets, inductors, transformers H01F; capacitors in general H01G; electrolytic devices H01G 9/00; batteries, accumulators H01M; waveguides, resonators, or lines of the waveguide type H01P; line connectors, current collectors H01R; stimulated-emission devices H01S; electromechanical resonators H03H; loudspeakers, microphones, gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers H04R; electric light sources in general H05B; printed circuits, hybrid circuits, casings or constructional details of electrical apparatus, manufacture of assemblages of electrical components H05K; use of semiconductor devices in circuits having a particular application, see the subclass for the application) [2]

Three-dimensional functional integration
Patent No. 11682609

Inventor(s): Sreenivasan K. Koduri (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16457941 on 06/29/2019 (1452 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged electronic device includes a package structure with opposite first and second sides spaced apart from one another along a first direction, and opposite third and fourth sides spaced apart from one another along a second direction, as well as first and second leads. The first lead includes a first portion that extends outward from the third side of the package structure and extends downward toward a plane of the first side and away from a plane of the second side. The second lead includes a first portion that extends outward from the third side of the package structure, and the second lead extends upward toward the plane of the second side and away from the plane of the first side to allow connection to another circuit or component, such as a second packaged electronic device, a passive circuit component, a printed circuit board, etc.

Photon detector array assembly
Patent No. 11682745

Inventor(s): Eduardo Bartolome (Dallas, TX), Rakul Viswanath (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16884812 on 05/27/2020 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, an apparatus includes: a photon detector array with a first signal output pad coupled to a photon detector array pixel; a die carrier comprising a readout integrated circuit (ROIC) die and a conductor layer having conductors that couple a first signal input pad on the conductor layer to an input signal lead of the ROIC die; and the first signal output pad coupled to the first signal input pad.

RF waveguide housing including a metal-diamond composite-base having a waveguide opening formed therein covered by a slab
Patent No. 11682814

Inventor(s): James S. Wilson (Hurst, TX), Joshua Lamb (Garland, TX), Karl L. Worthen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: Cantor Colburn LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17349018 on 06/16/2021 (734 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) waveguide housing includes a metal-diamond base with a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The metal-diamond base includes an opening through a thickness of the metal-diamond base, and the opening includes a first side on a side of the first surface of the metal-diamond base and a second side on a side of the second surface of the metal-diamond base. The RF waveguide housing also includes an insert to be inserted in the opening and affixed to the metal-diamond base. The insert defines an interior volume within the opening of the metal-diamond base and a shape of the insert at the first side of the opening is configured to match an end of an RF waveguide coupled to the RF waveguide housing.

[H01P] WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE (operating at optical frequencies G02B)

Radio frequency circuit board interconnect assembly
Patent No. 11682848

Inventor(s): Brian L. Taylor (Anna, TX), David M. Dyer (Prosper, TX), Steven Sprinkle (Van Alstyne, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17523406 on 11/10/2021 (587 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) circuit connection assembly comprises a RF circuit board and a RF connector. The RF circuit board has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. A RF circuit is located on the first side and an aperture extends through the RF circuit board from the first side to the second side. The RF connector comprises a barrel having a socket configured to receive a RF bullet, a flange having a mounting surface, and a RF connector pin extending laterally from the barrel. The barrel of the RF connector extends through the aperture of the RF circuit board such that the mounting surface of the flange is seated against the first side of the RF circuit board, and the RF connector pin is electrically coupled to the RF circuit on the first side of the RF circuit board.

[H01Q] AERIALS (radiators or aerials for microwave heating H05B 6/72)

Current sharing power stage for phase multiplication applications
Patent No. 11682900

Inventor(s): Matthew John Ascher Schurmann (Manchester, NH), Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bangalore, , IN), Rajesh Venugopal (Nashua, NH), Rengang Chen (Center Valley, PA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17339576 on 06/04/2021 (746 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a first power stage circuit having a first PWM input, a first voltage input and a first power output. The first power stage circuit is configured to provide a first current at the first power output responsive to a PWM signal at the first PWM input, and configured to receive a voltage at the first voltage input. The system includes a second power stage circuit having a second PWM input, a second voltage input and a second power output. The second voltage input is coupled to the first voltage input, and the second power stage circuit is configured to provide a second current at the second power output responsive to the PWM signal at the second PWM input. The second power stage circuit is configured to receive the voltage at the second voltage input, the voltage representing an average of the first current and the second current.

[H02J] CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY (power supply circuits for apparatus for measuring X-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation or cosmic radiation G01T 1/175; electric power supply circuits specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/00; for digital computers G06F 1/18; for discharge tubes H01J 37/248; circuits or apparatus for the conversion of electric power, arrangements for control or regulation of such circuits or apparatus H02M; interrelated control of several motors, control of a prime-mover/generator combination H02P; control of high-frequency power H03L; additional use of power line or power network for transmission of information H04B)

Current regulator system
Patent No. 11682961

Inventor(s): Erich-Johann Bayer (Freising, , DE), Ivan Shumkov (Freising, , DE), Ruediger Ganz (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17136442 on 12/29/2020 (903 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example of a power supply system includes a switching voltage regulator comprising at least one switch configured to conduct an input current to generate an output voltage responsive to a switching signal and based on an input voltage. The system also includes a current regulator configured to generate a current sample voltage based on an amplitude of the input current relative to a reference current defining a maximum average amplitude setpoint of the input current to set a switching time defining a switching period of the at least one switch. The system also includes a switch controller configured to provide the switching signal to control the at least one switch based on an amplitude of the output voltage relative to a reference voltage and based on the switching time.

[H02M] APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (conversion of current or voltage specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/02; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables in general, e.g. using transformers, reactors or choke coils, combination of such systems with static converters G05F; for digital computers G06F 1/00; transformers H01F; connection or control of one converter with regard to conjoint operation with a similar or other source of supply H02J; dynamo-electric converters H02K 47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P; pulse generators H03K) [5]

Voltage regulator with on-time extension
Patent No. 11682969

Inventor(s): Dan Li (Beijing, , CN), Guoyang Wu (Beijing, , CN), Liang Zhang (Beijing, , CN), Weibing Jing (Beijing, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17110504 on 12/03/2020 (929 days app to issue)

Abstract: A voltage regulator circuit includes a high side (HS) transistor having a control input and a low side (LS) transistor having a control input. The LS transistor is coupled to the HS transistor at a switching terminal. A comparator has first and second inputs and an output. A first resistor is coupled to the switching terminal. A second resistor is coupled between the first resistor and the second input of the comparator. A capacitor is coupled between a second resistor terminal of the second resistor and ground. A switch has first and second switch terminals and a control input. The first switch terminal is coupled to the first resistor terminal of the second resistor, and the second switch terminal is coupled to the second resistor terminal. A delay circuit has an input and an output. The output of the delay circuit is coupled to the control input of the switch.

4-phase buck-boost converter
Patent No. 11682971

Inventor(s): Ivan Shumkov (Freising, , DE), Johann Erich Bayer (Freising, , DE), Rdiger Ganz (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16992612 on 08/13/2020 (1041 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system has an input and an output. The system includes a voltage converter, including first transistor coupled to the input and to a first switching node, second transistor coupled to the first switching node and to ground, third transistor coupled to a second switching node and to the output, fourth transistor coupled to the second switching node and to ground, and an inductor having a first terminal coupled to the first switching node and a second terminal coupled to the second switching node. The system also includes a controller coupled to the voltage converter, the controller including a state machine and a plurality of drivers to control the transistors of the voltage converter. The state machine is adaptable to cause the second and fourth transistors to conduct and the first and third transistors not to conduct, in response to current through the inductor being less than a current threshold.

Advanced constant off-time control for four-switch buck-boost converter
Patent No. 11682973

Inventor(s): Bo Yang (Allen, TX), Xiaoyu Xi (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): M3 Technology Inc. (Taipei, , TW)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17378111 on 07/16/2021 (704 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first timer configured to determine a turn-off time of a first high-side switch of a buck-boost converter, and a second timer configured to determine a turn-off time of a second low-side switch of the buck-boost converter based on a comparison between a first signal and a second signal, the first signal being proportional to an input voltage of the buck-boost converter, and the second signal being generated based on a signal proportional to an output voltage of the buck-boost converter.

Calibrating signal currents in a radio frequency signal generator
Patent No. 11683026

Inventor(s): Sudipto Chakraborty (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: Ryan, Mason Lewis, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17898695 on 08/30/2022 (294 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are provided for calibrating signal currents in a radio frequency signal generator system, such as an arbitrary waveform generator system. A device comprises a current measurement circuit and a current imbalance correction circuit. The current measurement circuit is configured, during a calibration process, to measure a first current in a first signal path of a radio frequency signal generator, and to measure a second current in a second signal path of the radio frequency signal generator. The current imbalance correction circuit is configured to adjust a current level in at least one of the first signal path and the second signal path of the radio frequency signal generator to correct for an imbalance between the measured first current and the measured second current.

[H03K] PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D 3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M) [4]

Apparatuses and methods for compensating for crosstalk noise at input receiver circuits
Patent No. 11683033

Inventor(s): Daniel B. Penney (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Dorsey Whitney LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17687959 on 03/07/2022 (470 days app to issue)

Abstract: An input receiver circuit for a signal line may receive inputs from other signal lines to mitigate crosstalk noise present on the signal line. In some examples, the input receiver circuit may include a transistor with a programmable width. In some examples, the input receiver circuit may include a bias current generator with a programmable current. The width and/or current may be programmed based on an amount of crosstalk noise introduced by the other signal line. In some examples, the input receiver circuit may include a resistance and/or a capacitance. In some examples the resistor and/or capacitor may be programmable. The resistance and/or capacitance may be programmed based on a duration of the crosstalk noise on the signal line.

Touch or proximity sensing system and method
Patent No. 11683035

Inventor(s): Jun Zhang (Shanghai, , CN), Yaohua Pan (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17687768 on 03/07/2022 (470 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for sensing touch or proximity include: a first number of input terminals configured to couple one or more capacitive sensors, a second number of transferring units configured to transfer charges from the one or more capacitive sensors through the first number of input terminals in transferring phases of cycles of the one or more capacitive sensor, wherein at least one of the first and second numbers is equal to or greater than two, and a first switching unit, coupled between the first number of input terminals and the second number of transferring units, configured to selectively electrically couple any one of the first number of input terminals to any one of the second number of transferring units in the transferring phases.

Reconfigurable amplifier
Patent No. 11683062

Inventor(s): Mehmet Ipek (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Loza Loza LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17404948 on 08/17/2021 (672 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reconfigurable amplifier includes a first transistor having a gate coupled to an input of the reconfigurable amplifier, and a source coupled to a ground. The reconfigurable amplifier also includes a gate control circuit, and a second transistor having a gate coupled to the gate control circuit, a source coupled to a drain of the first transistor, and a drain coupled to an output of the reconfigurable amplifier, wherein the gate control circuit is configured to output a bias voltage to the gate of the second transistor in a cascode mode, and output a switch voltage to the gate of the second transistor in a non-cascode mode. The reconfigurable amplifier further includes a load coupled to the output of the reconfigurable amplifier.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Transceiver with auxiliary receiver calibration apparatus and methodology
Patent No. 11683066

Inventor(s): Debapriya Sahu (Bangalore, , IN), Rohit Chatterjee (Bangalore, , IN), Srinivas Venkata Veeramreddi (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348817 on 06/16/2021 (734 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireless transceiver. The transceiver includes: (i) a transmit signal path; (ii) a calibration path, comprising a conductor to connect a calibration tone into the transmit signal path; (iii) a receive signal path, comprising a first data signal path to process a first data and a second data signal path, different than the first data signal path, to process a second data; (iv) a first capacitive coupling to couple a response to the calibration tone from the transmit signal path to the first data signal path; and (v) a second capacitive coupling to couple a response to the calibration tone from the transmit signal path to the second data signal path.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Variable coherence adaptive antenna array
Patent No. 11683078

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Coats Bennett, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17852466 on 06/29/2022 (356 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) transmits over multiple antenna ports and receives a control message from a base station in a wireless communication network. The control message comprises a precoding matrix indication field configurable to a first, second, and third configuration. The first configuration identifies precoding matrices in both a first set of precoding matrices and a second set of precoding matrices. The second configuration identifies precoding matrices in the second set of precoding matrices but not in the first set of precoding matrices. The third configuration identifies precoding matrices in a third set of precoding matrices in addition to the first and second sets. The precoding matrices in the sets are precoding matrices for transmissions from the UE. Each set of precoding matrices corresponds to a respective coherence capability. For a maximum of four spatial layers, the first, second, and third configurations occupy 5, 4, and 6 information bits, respectively.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Mechanisms for reduced density CSI-RS
Patent No. 11683079

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Baker Botts, L.L.P. (Local + 6 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16991195 on 08/12/2020 (1042 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node of transmitting channel slate information reference signals (CSI-RS) comprises: transmitting, to the wireless device, an indication of the subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS; and transmitting CSI-RS on the indicated subset of PRBs. According to some embodiments, a method for use in a wireless device of receiving CSI-RS comprises: receiving an indication of a subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS associated with an antenna port; and receiving CSI-RS on the indicated subset of PRBs. In some embodiments, the indication of the subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS comprises a density value and a comb offset.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Laser-based enhancement of signal propagation path for mobile communications
Patent No. 11683090

Inventor(s): Scott Probasco (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17577795 on 01/18/2022 (518 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system uses pulsed lasers to enhance a signal propagation path in a telecommunications network. The system can estimate a signal propagation path, which varies based on a current location of a mobile device relative to a base station. The system can detect a propagation loss due to a condition of a propagation medium including the signal propagation path and determine whether the mobile device is in Line-of-Sight (LOS) of a laser emitter. In response to detection of the propagation loss, the laser emitter can emit a pulsed laser that can enhance signal propagation by mitigating the propagation loss on the signal propagation path. The pulsed laser has a propagation path overlapping the signal propagation path when the mobile device is in LOS of the laser emitter, which is mounted on the base station.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

System and method for a long-term evolution (LTE)-compatible subframe structure for wideband LTE
Patent No. 11683132

Inventor(s): Anthony C. K. Soong (Plano, TX), Carmela Cozzo (San Diego, CA), Lukasz Krzymien (Rolling Meadows, IL), Philippe Sartori (Plainfield, IL), Qian Cheng (Naperville, IL), Vipul Desai (Palatine, IL), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estat
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17391605 on 08/02/2021 (687 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of scheduling transmissions. A wireless device such as an eNodeB (eNB) may schedule a transmission of a wideband (WB) signal on a micro-frame selected from a plurality of WB micro-frames of a WB carrier. A narrowband (NB) subframe may span a portion of the selected WB micro-frame in the frequency-domain, and the selected WB micro-frame may overlap at least a portion of the NB subframe in the time-domain. The WB signal and an NB signal may be transmitted over the WB micro-frame and the NB subframe in accordance with a first numerology and a second numerology, respectively. A WB subframe may be divided into a plurality of micro-frames. The transmission direction of the WB micro-frame may be scheduled according to a transmission rule based on the contents of a payload in the NB subframe.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method of deriving QCL assumption in multi-panel transmission and related device
Patent No. 11683142

Inventor(s): Chia-Hao Yu (Yilan, , TW), Yu-Hsin Cheng (Hsinchu, , TW)
Assignee(s): Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Cole Schotz, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16842642 on 04/07/2020 (1169 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of deriving a Quasi-CoLocation (QCL) assumption for a user equipment (UE) in multi-panel transmission is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of control resource set (CORESET) groups from a network of the wireless communication system, determining a default QCL assumption for demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) port(s) of at least one physical downlink share channel (PDSCH), reception scheduled by a scheduling physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to a CORESET of one of the plurality of CORESET groups when a time offset between a reception of downlink control information (DCI), in the scheduling PDCCH and the at least one PDSCH reception is less than a threshold, wherein at least one of the plurality of CORESET groups includes at least one CORESET for indicating a QCL assumption, and applying the default QCL assumption for reception of the DM-RS port(s) of the at least one PDSCH.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Quantum key distribution networking as a service
Patent No. 11683165

Inventor(s): Daniel Solero (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Hartman Citrin LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17107818 on 11/30/2020 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to quantum key distribution (”QKD”) networking as a service. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a microservices controller can establish a plurality of quantum connections with a plurality of virtual quantum connection managers (”vQCMs”) deployed in association with a set of quantum user nodes (”QUNs”) in a QKD network. The microservices controller can receive a request to initialize the QKD network. The microservices controller can coordinate with the plurality of vQCMs to handle initialization of the QKD network. The microservices controller can receive a QKD service request from a QKD network operator. The microservices controller can invoke a plurality of microservices to handle the QKD service request.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Entity certification management
Patent No. 11683185

Inventor(s): Igor Anatolyevich Naumov (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16784231 on 02/06/2020 (1230 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a certificate issuer node, an asset certification request from an asset producer node over a blockchain, generating, by the certificate issuer node, a digital certificate linked to the asset certification request and assigned to the asset producer node, linking, by the certificate issuer node, the digital certificate to an authority of the certificate issuer node, and signing, by the certificate issuer node, the digital certificate to ensure origin and integrity of the asset.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

System and method for communications beam recovery
Patent No. 11683215

Inventor(s): Bin Liu (San Diego, CA), Pengfei Xia (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16820283 on 03/16/2020 (1191 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating an access node includes generating a configuration message including information specifying a set of reference signals of a first reference signal type and a set of reference signals of a second reference signal type used to identify a new beam, and information specifying random access channel resources allocated for transmitting preamble sequences, wherein each random access channel resource is associated with a reference signal of the first reference signal type, sending, to one or more user equipments (UEs), the configuration message, receiving, from a UE, a preamble sequence on one of the random access channel resources, and determining an identity of the UE in accordance with the preamble sequence and the one of the random access channel resources.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Intelligent and assisted intent builder
Patent No. 11683240

Inventor(s): Manish Srivastava (Frisco, TX), Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17471364 on 09/10/2021 (648 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a network tool that discovers device configurations for selected enterprise sites and automatically organizes the data to assist users, so they can build intents for network function policies in enterprise networks. An intent builder performs device discovery of network function (NF) instances in a customer network; retrieves configuration elements from the NF instances; normalizes the configuration elements; and generates a graphical user interface with rule paths based on the configuration elements. The network device receives, via the graphical user interface, user input to map source Internet protocol (IP) addresses in the rule paths to a user label and to map destination IP address in the rule paths to an application label. Based on the user input, the network device presents, via the graphical user interface, consolidated intents and generates vendor-agnostic policy rules from the consolidated intents.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Systems and methods for building wireless mesh networks
Patent No. 11683259

Inventor(s): Muhammad Ahsan Naim (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): L3VEL, LLC (Wilmington, DE)
Law Firm: Lee Sullivan Shea Smith LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17676626 on 02/21/2022 (484 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system comprising a set of wireless communication nodes that are configured to operate as part of a wireless mesh network. Each respective wireless communication node may be directly coupled to at least one other wireless communication node via a respective short-hop wireless link, and at least a first pair of wireless nodes may be both (a) indirectly coupled to one another via a first communication path that comprises one or more intermediary wireless communication nodes and two or more short-hop wireless links and (b) directly coupled to one another via a first long-hop wireless link that provides a second communication path between the first pair of wireless communication nodes having a lesser number of hops than the first communication path. A fiber access point may be directly coupled to a first wireless communication node of the set of wireless communication nodes.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Artificial intelligence vendor similarity collation
Patent No. 11683335

Inventor(s): Ghada I. Khashab (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17149846 on 01/15/2021 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (”AI”) apparatus and method are provided that correlate and consolidate operation of discrete vendor tools for detecting cyberthreats on a network. An AI engine may filter false positives and eliminate duplicates within cyberthreats detected by multiple vendor tools. The AI engine provides machine learning solutions to complexities associated with translating vendor-specific cyberthreats to known cyberthreats. The AI engine may ingest data generated by the multiple vendor tools. The AI engine may classify hardware devices or software applications scanned by each vendor tool. The AI engine may decommission vendor tools that provide redundant cyberthreat detection. The AI engine may display operational results on a dashboard directing cyberthreat defense teams to corroborated cyberthreats and away from false positives.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Managing and distributing content in a plurality of observation platforms
Patent No. 11683357

Inventor(s): Guy R. VanBuskirk (Grapevine, TX), Ravi Shankar Kumar (Richardson, TX), Shiva Cheedella (Dallas, TX), Steve Lucy (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Theatro Labs, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17698325 on 03/18/2022 (459 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a method for managing and distributing content in a plurality of observation platforms, a message is generated with employment related content at a cloud based component of a content distribution manager in response to user interaction via an interface of the content distribution manager presented on a computer system. Responsive to the user interactions and to interactions of third party software via an application program interface with the cloud based component, delivery of the message is scheduled and a plurality of specified devices belonging to a specified class of employees are specified for delivery in a plurality of observation platforms at a designated time and location via the cloud based component. The message is delivered and the delivery and response to the message are measured to the plurality of observation platforms which relay the message to the plurality of specified devices at the designated time and the designated location.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

System and method for using a mobile device as an input device for surveys at a live event
Patent No. 11683414

Inventor(s): Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TESLA LABORATORIES, LLC (Jackson, WY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17319535 on 05/13/2021 (768 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is provided for interacting with audience members in an event, each of the potential attendees having available thereto a unique identifier. The method comprises creating, for an attendee, a unique ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of inputting to the MWD one of the unique identifiers, combining the obtained unique identifier with a UID time stamp at the time of creation of the UID; receiving with a server on a first wireless channel communications from the MWD; registering the UID at the physical location of the event; generating a visual query; displaying on the MWD response indicators; receiving at the server from the registered attendee a response, to the query over the first wireless channel; and storing in a database on the server the received response in association with the displayed query.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for unified autodial campaign management
Patent No. 11683418

Inventor(s): Ashish Koul (San Jose, CA), Ashok Raj Susairaju (Chennai, , IN)
Assignee(s): ACQUEON TECHNOLOGIES INC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Galvin Patent Law LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17901598 on 09/01/2022 (292 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for unified autodial campaign management, comprising a campaign management console, a data services engine, a traffic shaper, an agent desktop, Control agent desktop, an auto-dialer, and a simple dialer which allows enterprises to conduct unified communications campaigns without differentiating between prior expressed written consent consumers, and those who have not provided prior expressed written consent, to being autodialed or receiving artificial or pre-recorded voice messages, allowing for compliance with regulations regarding such consent without splitting or bifurcating or otherwise hampering communications campaigns for the enterprise customers.

[H04M] TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)

Geolocationing system and method for use of same
Patent No. 11683534

Inventor(s): Thomas R. Miller (Plano, TX), Vanessa Ogle (Fairview, TX), William C. Fang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Enseo, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17562959 on 12/27/2021 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: A geolocationing system and method for providing awareness in a multi-space environment, such as a hospitality environment or educational environment, are presented. In one embodiment of the geolocationing system, a vertical and horizontal array of gateway devices is provided. Each gateway device includes a gateway device identification providing an accurately-known fixed location within the multi-space environment. Each gateway device includes a wireless transceiver that receives a beacon signal from a proximate wireless-enabled personal locator device. The gateway devices, in turn, send gateway signals to a server, which determines an estimated location of the wireless-enabled personal locator device.

[H04N] PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION [4]

Telecommunications panel with patching device installation features
Patent No. 11683613

Inventor(s): Brian J. Fitzpatrick (McKinney, TX), Yi Teh Shih (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17576465 on 01/14/2022 (522 days app to issue)

Abstract: A telecommunications panel has various features for removably mounting patching devices to the panel. The telecommunications panel includes mounting flanges and ramp elements for facilitating mounting and removal of patching devices. The ramp element is associated with a receptacle opening of the panel and configured to contact a flexible latch of the patching device and depress the flexible latch as the patching device is received in the receptacle opening.

[H04Q] SELECTING (switches, relays, selectors H01H; wireless communication networks H04W) [2009.01]

Short message service over non-access stratum with home-routed model
Patent No. 11683667

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16476769 on 01/10/2018 (1987 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate handling of messages. For example, certain fifth generation communication systems may benefit from short message service over non-access stratum with a home-routed model. A method can include receiving a request, at a short message service function, to associate an access management function to the short message service function. The method can also include accepting the request.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Trusted IoT device configuration and onboarding
Patent No. 11683685

Inventor(s): David J. McCall (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16957684 on 09/28/2018 (1726 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various systems and methods for testing devices, issuing certificates, and managing certified devices, are discussed herein. A system is configured for using platform certificates to verify compliance and compatibility of a device when onboarding the device into an internet of things (IoT) network. The system may use an approved product list to verify compliance and compatibility for the device. When the device is certified, the system may use an onboarding tool to onboard the device into the IoT network.

[H04L] TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) [4]

Hybrid hierarchical parameter tracking for CSI estimation
Patent No. 11683712

Inventor(s): Jianzhong Zhang (Plano, TX), Junmo Sung (Allen, TX), Yang Li (Plano, TX), Yeqing Hu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348621 on 06/15/2021 (735 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for hybrid hierarchical parameter tracking for CSI estimation in a wireless communication system. The methods and apparatuses include receiving uplink signals comprising a channel state information (CSI) report or a sounding reference signal (SRS); performing a channel parameter tracking operation to determine channel parameters that change less than a first threshold amount based on the received uplink signals; performing a channel parameter prediction operation to determine the channel parameters that change greater than a second threshold amount on an output of the channel parameter tracking operation; and performing a channel prediction operation for downlink channels based on an output of the channel parameter tracking operation and the channel parameter prediction operation.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for data channel transmission and reception
Patent No. 11683788

Inventor(s): Anthony C. K. Soong (Plano, TX), Fredrik Berggren (Kista, , SE), Philippe Sartori (Plainfield, IL)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15438009 on 02/21/2017 (2310 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes allocating, by a communications controller, a first set of resource blocks to an enhanced physical downlink shared channel (ePDSCH), where the ePDSCH has a first starting point and allocating, by the communications controller, a second set of resource blocks to an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH). The method also includes identifying, by the communications controller, a second starting point for the ePDSCH, where the second starting point for the ePDSCH is located within a legacy control region, where the first starting point of the ePDCCH is located within the legacy control region, and where the second starting point of the ePDSCH is different than the first starting point of the ePDCCH. Additionally, the method includes signaling, by the communications controller to a user equipment (UE) the second starting point and a number of the second set of resource blocks allocated to the ePDSCH.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

DESIGN PATENTS

Shoe stretcher
Patent No. D989470

Inventor(s): Richard James Reister (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): THE MODERN GENTLEMAN, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29789927 on 10/25/2021 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Belt-attached item holder
Patent No. D989475

Inventor(s): Glyn Robert Chambers (Granbury, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: QuickPatents, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29821239 on 12/28/2021 (539 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Healthcare glassboard
Patent No. D989497

Inventor(s): Dony Dawson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29732313 on 04/23/2020 (1153 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Food processor
Patent No. D989577

Inventor(s): Ana Paula Perez Cerezo (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Regal Ware, Inc. (Kewaskum, WI)
Law Firm: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29762840 on 12/18/2020 (914 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Grip device
Patent No. D989599

Inventor(s): Troy Mangone (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29809446 on 09/28/2021 (630 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Ground anchor
Patent No. D989614

Inventor(s): Kinsey Harris (West Palm Beach, FL), Swastic Srihari (Addison, TX), Zorin Abraham (Sunnyvale, TX)
Assignee(s): Pure Global Brands, Inc. (Mesquite, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29811521 on 10/14/2021 (614 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vent accessory for vehicle heating and air conditioning systems
Patent No. D989928

Inventor(s): Franklin Hauser (Bedford, TX), Michael W Rejkowski (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): CLASSIC AUTO AIR MANUFACTURING LP (Chagrin Falls, OH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29813932 on 11/02/2021 (595 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vent accessory for vehicle heating and air conditioning systems
Patent No. D989929

Inventor(s): Michael W Rejkowski (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Classic Auto Air Manufacturing LP (Chagrin Falls, OH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29813935 on 11/02/2021 (595 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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