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 Sept. 6, 2022 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

113 patents granted
Ranked No. 11 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 5
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 11
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 3
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 6
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 6
G: PHYSICS 38
H: ELECTRICITY 41
DESIGN: 3

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas) 21
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) 4
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 4
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 4
Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) 3
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 2
Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA) 2
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Organ preservation system with automatic priming and air removal
Patent No. 11432543

Inventor(s): Kenneth E. Marte (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): BRIDGE TO LIFE LTD. (Northbrook, IL)
Law Firm: Jones Day (Local + 44 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17495765 on 10/06/2021 (335 days app to issue)

Abstract: An organ preservation system includes a housing, an organ perfusion circuit disposed within the housing, and a dual direction bubble trap disposed within the organ perfusion circuit. The dual direction bubble trap can include an upper interior chamber, a lower interior chamber, an air vent valve, and a hydrophobic membrane disposed between the upper interior chamber and the air vent valve. During operation, when fluid is pumped by a fluid pump into the dual direction bubble trap from either a retrograde or antegrade direction, air passes through the hydrophic membrane and is vented through the air vent valve until such time that the interior chamber is full of fluid which causes the air vent valve to close. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

[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)

Lotion application assembly
Patent No. 11432635

Inventor(s): Ojo Omodele (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17242480 on 04/28/2021 (496 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lotion application assembly includes a handle that is hollow and a roller that is rotatably coupled to the handle for rolling along a user”s skin. A conduit is integrated into the handle and the conduit is directed toward the roller. A container is insertable into the handle, the container contains a fluid lotion and the container is in fluid communication with the conduit when the container is inserted into the handle. A cap is removably attachable to the handle and a plunger is slidably integrated into the cap. The plunger is urgeable into the container to urge the fluid lotion outwardly through the conduit and onto the roller thereby facilitating the roller to apply the fluid lotion onto the user”s skin.

[A45D] HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; MANICURING OR OTHER COSMETIC TREATMENT (wigs, toupees, or the like A41G 3/00, A41G 5/00; hairdressers’ chairs A47C 1/04; hair cutting appliances, razors B26B)

Systems and methods of treating proprioceptive dysfunction and vestibular disorders
Patent No. 11432764

Inventor(s): James Walter Turner (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16657940 on 10/18/2019 (1054 days app to issue)

Abstract: The systems, methods, apparatuses, and articles disclosed herein provide a new approach to treatment symptoms, such as proprioceptive dysfunction and vestibular disorders, which may be caused by certain types of human ailments. According to the present disclosure, a wearable article may include one or more limb sections and a resilient member may be provided along a length of each of the one or more limb sections and configured to generate a resistance force. Adjustments to the resistance force provided by the resilient member(s) may be adjusted using cord locks. As a user wearing the wearable article moves, the resistance force is applied to the user”s limbs. Strain gauges may be provided to measure the resistance force(s), which enables verification that the resilient members are sized and configured to provide an appropriate amount of resistance force to a user and may improve programs and regimens designed to treat such ailments.

[A63B] APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

Self-distracting cage
Patent No. 11432939

Inventor(s): Naren Renganath (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. (Raynham, MA)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16736403 on 01/07/2020 (973 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various spinal implants and methods for stabilizing the spine are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a spinal implant is provided having an expandable container with an interior volume that is selectively expandable between a compressed condition and an expanded condition. The expandable container is coupled to a superior endplate member having a bone-contacting surface and an engagement surface effective to mate with a superior surface of the expandable container, and an inferior endplate member having a bone-contacting surface and an engagement surface effective to mate with an inferior surface of the expandable container. In addition, at least one inlet port is formed in the expandable container and is effective to communicate a fluid to at least one cavity disposed within the interior volume of the expandable container.

[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]

Live fire gaming system
Patent No. 11433313

Inventor(s): David Valdez (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Visual Shot Recognition Gaming, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Harper Bates LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17011572 on 09/03/2020 (733 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for live fire gaming wherein the system includes a camera, coupled to a server, for capturing images of a target onto which projectiles are being shot by a shooting device, a processing algorithm, implemented through the server, for identifying each single incremental change to the target associated with an initial and subsequent impact points of projectiles shot onto the target, each identification using only one captured image from the camera for each impact point, and a user-interface touch screen display, coupled to the server, for displaying and interfacing with one or more of: a representation of the target showing the impact points, marketing material, firearm safety information, and firearm training instructions.

[A63F] CARD, BOARD OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [5]

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

Hydrogen isotope separation methods and systems
Patent No. 11433353

Inventor(s): Josef A. Velten (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, SC), Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, GA), Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, SC)
Law Firm: Dority Manning, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16433500 on 06/06/2019 (1188 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for the separation of hydrogen isotopes from one another are described. Methods include utilization of a hydrogen isotope selective separation membrane that includes a hydrogen isotope selective layer (e.g., graphene) and a hydrogen ion conductive supporting layer. An electronic driving force encourages passage of isotopes selectively across the membrane at an elevated separation temperature to enrich the product in a selected hydrogen isotope.

[B01D] SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D, by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B, by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges B04B; vortex apparatus B04C; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B 9/02) [5]

Autonomous operation of vehicle vents
Patent No. 11433734

Inventor(s): John-Michael McNew (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16692661 on 11/22/2019 (1019 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vent control system for a vehicle includes one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The memory may store a vent control module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to autonomously control operation of a vehicle to open at least one vehicle vent when the vehicle is in a regular vent opening condition. Responsive to manual closure of the at least one vehicle vent within a predetermined time period after the at least one vehicle vent was autonomously opened, the regular opening condition may be updated to an updated regular opening condition. After updating the regular opening condition, operation of the vehicle may be autonomously controlled to open the at least one vehicle vent when the vehicle is subsequently in the updated regular opening condition.

[B60H] ARRANGEMENTS OR ADAPTATIONS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING, OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY FOR PASSENGER OR GOODS SPACES OF VEHICLES

Vehicle rooftop platform mounting systems with leveling systems
Patent No. 11433799

Inventor(s): Ryan C. Harris (Saline, MI), Scott L. Frederick (Brighton, 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: 17116636 on 12/09/2020 (636 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle rooftop platform mounting system includes a platform adjuster device that is configured to mount to a vehicle. The platform adjuster device includes a ball joint that rotatably connects a corner of a support platform to the platform adjuster device to adjust an angle of the corner of the support platform relative to a roof of the vehicle.

[B60P] VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G 3/00)

Systems and methods for long-term prediction of lane change maneuver
Patent No. 11433923

Inventor(s): Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, CA), Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, CA), Yongkang Liu (Plano, TX), Zhenyu Shou (Sunnyvale, CA), Ziran Wang (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16897386 on 06/10/2020 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method comprises making initial predictions of whether a first vehicle will perform a lane change at a plurality of future time steps based on sensor data captured by an egovehicle; and in response to making an initial prediction that the first vehicle will perform a lane change at a first one of the future time steps, making final predictions that the first vehicle will perform a lane change at each of a plurality of time steps subsequent to the first one of the future time steps.

[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]

System and method for controlling one or more vehicles with one or more controlled vehicles
Patent No. 11433924

Inventor(s): Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Yuta Kataoka (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16863214 on 04/30/2020 (859 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for controlling one or more vehicles with one or more controlled vehicles may include one or more processors and a memory in communication with the one or more processors. The memory may include one or more modules that cause the one or more modules to obtain a state of an environment having a universe of vehicles operating therein, identify one or more anomaly vehicles from the universe of vehicles operating in the environment, select one more actions to control a plurality of controlled vehicles to control the operation of one or more anomaly vehicles and direct the plurality of controlled vehicles execute the one or more actions. The selecting of one or more actions may be performed by utilizing a reinforcement-learning trained algorithm.

Lightweight low drag rotor pitch beam
Patent No. 11433996

Inventor(s): Joseph Nathan Hull (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (Bethesda, MD)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16747199 on 01/20/2020 (960 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pitch beam movable by a pitch change shaft to adjust a pitch of at least one rotor blade of a rotor system via a pitch linkage includes a first surface having a generally planar configuration, a smooth second surface disposed opposite the first surface, and a sidewall extending between the first surface and the second surface. A pitch linkage connection point is disposed at the sidewall to which the pitch linkage is attachable. An interior is defined between the first surface and the second surface and an opening extends through the first and second surface at a rotational axis of the rotor system to which the pitch change shaft is attached. Movement of the pitch change shaft moves the pitch beam and adjusts the pitch of the at least one rotor blade via the pitch linkage attached at the pitch linkage connection point.

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

Rotorcraft anti-torque systems and methods therefor
Patent No. 11433997

Inventor(s): Aaron A. Acee (Flower Mound, TX), Albert G. Brand (North Richland Hills, TX), Frank B. Stamps (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Timmer Law Group, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16399015 on 04/30/2019 (1225 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of providing an anti-torque force in a rotorcraft with an anti-torque system comprised of a primary ducted tail rotor system mechanically connected to an engine, and a secondary ducted tail rotor system electrically connected to an electric power supply. The method includes receiving an indication of a change in the operating condition of the anti-torque system based upon a change in a rotorcraft condition input, a feedback input associated with a primary ducted tail rotor system and/or a secondary ducted tail rotor system, and/or a pilot input; responsive to the indication of the change, determining, by a control system, an anti-torque control input including at least a secondary output command for controlling the secondary ducted tail rotor system; and transmitting the secondary output command to the secondary ducted tail rotor system to energize at least one ducted tail rotor assembly therein to provide the second anti-torque force.

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

Bottle cap and insert apparatus
Patent No. 11434053

Inventor(s): Michael J. Schuster (Shorewood, IL), Thomas R. Bajek (Naperville, IL)
Assignee(s): NCH Life Sciences LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Thomas | Horstemeyer, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17104017 on 11/25/2020 (650 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments of a bottle cap apparatus configured for dispensing fluids through a sealed channel. In one example, the bottle cap apparatus comprises a cap, an insert container, and a stem. The cap has a top platform with an aperture. The insert container has a first end and a second end. The first end has a first opening that is positioned adjacent to an underside of the top platform of the cap. The second end having a recessed bottom with a second opening. The stem having a platform between a first end and a second end. The second end of the stem is positioned within the recessed bottom of the insert container. The first end being extended through the aperture of the cap. A dispensing channel is formed from the components of the bottle cap apparatus and is configured to allow a fluid be extracted from a bottle.

[B65D] CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES

Flame resistant filter apparatus and method
Patent No. 11434068

Inventor(s): Jordan Salpietra (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): RESTAURANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Mendota Heights, MN)
Law Firm: Baker Botts, LLP (Local + 6 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16879523 on 05/20/2020 (839 days app to issue)

Abstract: A filter pad with a dry loft between approximately 0.15 and 0.5 inches includes at least a first fiber web comprising a plurality of oleophilic fibers, wherein the oleophilic fibers: have a linear density between approximately 2 and 9 denier; have a length between approximately 1 and 4 inches; and have been uploaded with flame resistant particles.

System and equipment for automatic unloading of parcels
Patent No. 11434090

Inventor(s): Luiz Carlos Harres (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Siemens Logistics LLC (DFW Airport, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17274343 on 11/06/2018 (1400 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for automatic unloading of parcels from a container or trailer includes a base belt ([b]310[/b]), a plurality of inserts ([b]320, 322, 420, 422, 520, 522[/b]) and an automated unloading apparatus ([b]200[/b]) with a ramp ([b]230[/b]) and a conveyor ([b]226[/b]). The ramp ([b]230[/b]) is configured to pass under the base belt ([b]310[/b]) and the conveyor ([b]226[/b]) is configured to remove a plurality of items ([b]370[/b]) when the automated unloading apparatus ([b]200[/b]) moves into an interior of the container or trailer ([b]350[/b]), and the base belt ([b]310[/b]) is configured to be installed in a first section ([b]360[/b]) of a floor ([b]356[/b]) of the container or trailer ([b]350[/b]), and the plurality of inserts ([b]320, 322, 420, 422, 520, 522[/b]) is configured to be installed in a second section ([b]362, 364[/b]) of the floor ([b]356[/b]) of the container or trailer ([b]350[/b]), such that the plurality of items ([b]370[/b]) is either located on the base belt ([b]310[/b]) or on the plurality of inserts ([b]320, 322, 420, 422, 520, 522[/b]).

[B65G] TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable or mobile lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F 9/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C 9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D)

Surface micromachined structures
Patent No. 11434130

Inventor(s): James Norman Hall (Parker, TX), Patrick Ian Oden (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16731997 on 12/31/2019 (980 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described examples include an apparatus having a substrate with a substrate surface. The apparatus also includes an element with a planar surface facing the substrate surface and with a nonplanar surface opposite the planar surface facing away from the substrate surface.

[B81C] PROCESSES OR APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS (making microcapsules or microballoons B01J 13/02; processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of piezo-electric, electrostrictive or magnetostrictive elements per se H01L 41/22) [7]

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

Substituted furanopyrimidine compounds as PDE1 inhibitors
Patent No. 11434247

Inventor(s): Aaron Burns (San Diego, CA), Andrew Kleinke (San Diego, CA), Brett Bookser (San Diego, CA), Brian Dyck (San Diego, CA), Dange Vijay Kumar (San Diego, CA), DeMichael Chung (San Diego, CA), Iriny Botrous (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): Dart Neuroscience LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16766258 on 11/26/2018 (1380 days app to issue)

Abstract:

[C07D] HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (macromolecular compounds C08) [2]

Multimodal polyalkylene terephthalate
Patent No. 11434326

Inventor(s): Chris DeArmitt (Cincinnati, OH), Mohammed Razeem (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Octal, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Maschoff Brennan (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17097965 on 11/13/2020 (662 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of forming a multimodal Polyalkylene Terephthalate (PAT) can include: providing a feed of a low molecular weight (LMW) PAT, the LMW PAT having a low average molecular weight; providing a feed of high molecular weight (HMW) PAT, the HMW PAT having a high average molecular weight, wherein the low average molecular weight is lower than the high average molecular weight; mixing the feed of LMW PAT with the feed of HMW PAT in a mixer to form a multimodal PAT; and providing the multimodal PAT as output. The multimodal PAT can include: a low average molecular weight of a low molecular weight (LMW) PAT; and a high average molecular weight of a high molecular weight (HMW) PAT mixed with the LMW PAT to form the multimodal PAT, wherein the multimodal PAT is devoid of talc.

[C08G] MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS (fermentation or enzyme-using processes to synthesise a desired chemical compound or composition or to separate optical isomers from a racemic mixture C12P) [2]

Optical adhesive for glass and polycarbonate
Patent No. 11434401

Inventor(s): Robert Valeri (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, , FR)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16607406 on 04/25/2018 (1595 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are UV curable adhesive compositions and methods to adhere polycarbonate substrates containing UV absorbers to glass for use in ophthalmic lenses.

[C09J] ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES (surgical adhesives A61L 24/00; adhesives on the basis of non specified organic macromolecular compounds used as bonding agents in layered products B32B; labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface using adhesives and thermo-activatable adhesives respectively B65C 5/02, B65C 5/04; preparation of glue or gelatine C09H; adhesive labels, tag tickets or similar identification of indication means G09F 3/10) [5]

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

Ember and flame resistant resettable automatic soffit vent
Patent No. 11434641

Inventor(s): Brannon Scott Thompson (Castle Hayne, NC), Steven Vonderlehr Boehling (Wilmington, NC)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16420423 on 05/23/2019 (1202 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ember and flame resistant resettable automatic soffit vent includes a tray with ventilation openings formed in its floor. A mesh screen resides on the floor of the tray spanning the ventilation openings. A flat slide resides atop the screen and also has ventilation openings that match those of the tray. The slide has an open position wherein its ventilation openings align with those of the tray to allow airflow through the vent and a closed position wherein its ventilation openings are misaligned with the ventilation openings of the tray to close off airflow through the vent. The vent can be manually moved between its open and closed positions and one or more tension springs and a thermal link assembly cooperate to move the slide to its closed position if the vent is exposed to a high temperature cause by a fire very near a home. The vent also can be manually closed by a homeowner when a fire is threatening and then manually reopened when the fire threat passes without destroying the automatic closing feature of the vent.

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

Drill bit
Patent No. 11434698

Inventor(s): Carl Aron Deen (Fort Worth, TX), Christopher M. Casad (Benbrook, TX)
Assignee(s): Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17014544 on 09/08/2020 (728 days app to issue)

Abstract: A drill bit including a body having a face and a bit axis. The face includes a cone region disposed about the bit axis, a nose region disposed radially outward from the cone region, and a shoulder region disposed radially outward from the nose region. The drill bit further includes a first plurality of cutters defining a first cutting profile, and a second plurality of cutters defining a second cutting profile different from the first cutting profile. The second plurality of cutters are not back-up cutters to the first plurality of cutters.

[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]

Tubular make-up and delivery system
Patent No. 11434705

Inventor(s): Kevin Bradley Jonah (Calgary, , CA), Mitchel D. Hansen (Aledo, TX)
Assignee(s): SUMMIT LAYDOWN SERVICES INC. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Jackson Walker LLP (Local + 3 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16950650 on 11/17/2020 (658 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for assembling drilling tubulars, comprising a tiering rack system configured to receive a plurality of sections of drilling tubulars and to selectively provide an individual drilling tubular section. A casing feed and bucking skid system coupled to the tiering rack system and configured to receive the individual drilling tubular section and to combine the individual drilling tubular section with a second individual drilling tubular section. A tubular delivery catwalk system coupled to the casing feed and bucking skid system and configured to receive the combined drilling tubular sections and to transport the combined drilling tubular sections to a drilling rig by elevating on at least two elevating supports.

Anchor slip assembly with independently deployable wedges
Patent No. 11434711

Inventor(s): Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX), Robert Travis Murphy (Van Alstyne, TX), Terapat Apichartthabrut (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17171070 on 02/09/2021 (574 days app to issue)

Abstract: A well tool may include a slip disposed about a mandrel and a plurality of individual wedge sections axially arranged adjacent one another between the mandrel and the slip. In at least one example, a gap is defined between adjacent wedge sections allowing a range of axial movement of one wedge section toward the other. A compliant member is disposed between the adjacent wedge sections resisting movement of the one toward the other. The compliant members may have different sizes and configurations to selectively yield at different axial loads, so that the wedge sections progressively load the slip.

Unibody bypass plunger and valve cage
Patent No. 11434733

Inventor(s): Garrett S. Boyd (Godley, TX), Mitchell A. Boyd (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): FLOWCO PRODUCTION SOLUTIONS, LLC (Spring, TX)
Law Firm: FisherBroyles, LLP (Local + 17 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17362563 on 06/29/2021 (434 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bypass plunger combines a unitary or one-piece hollow body-and-valve cage, retains a dart valve within the valve cage portion of the hollow body using a threaded retaining nut secured by crimple detents. A series of helical grooves surround the central portion of the outer surface of the hollow body of the plunger to control spin during descent. A canted-coil-spring disposed within the retaining nut functions as a clutch. The valve cage includes ports that may be configured to control flow through the plunger during ascent. Other embodiments include clutch assemblies using canted-coil springs with split bobbins, and valve stems surfaced to achieve specific functions. Combinations of these features provide enhanced performance, durability and reliability at reduced manufacturing cost, due primarily to the simplicity of its design.

Apparatus and method to detect foundation movement
Patent No. 11438740

Inventor(s): Arlon Hill (Van Alstyne, TX), Tony Cooper (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Foundation Monitoring Systems, LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16425522 on 05/29/2019 (1196 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the movement of a foundation may include an elevation sensor to detect changes in elevation of the foundation and positioned on the foundation to broadcast a signal responsive to the movement of the foundation; and a receiver to receive the signal responsive to the movement of the foundation and positioned off the foundation to provide a absolute measurement of the movement of the foundation.

[E02D] FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS (specially adapted for hydraulic engineering E02B); UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES [6]

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

Camera sweeper
Patent No. 11434881

Inventor(s): Marcio Dias Lima (Richardson, TX), Sergey Li (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): LINTEC OF AMERICA, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Greenblum Bernstein, P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16721179 on 12/19/2019 (992 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus and method of manufacturing an apparatus that includes a rectangular frame, a first load bearing conductive support bisecting the rectangular frame lengthwise, and two artificial muscle actuators disposed on the same sides of the rectangular frame as the first load bearing conductive support on opposite sides of the first load bearing conductive support is disclosed. The apparatus includes a non-conductive platform, where the width of the frame is sufficiently wide to prevent the non-conductive platform from touching the sides of the frame when rotated about the axis of the load bearing support. The apparatus includes a device disposed in the center of the non-conductive platform. Individual actuation of the artificial muscle actuators rotates the non-conductive platform about the axis of the first load bearing conductive support.

[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)

Valve assemblies, valve packing assemblies and related systems and methods
Patent No. 11434999

Inventor(s): Richard J. Gradle (Garner, NC)
Assignee(s): Flowserve Management Company (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Phillips Winchester (Local + 28 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16858360 on 04/24/2020 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: Valve stem packing assemblies may include at least one end ring and at least one sealing ring. The at least one end ring may include an inner ring and an outer ring. Valves include a valve body, a valve stem, and a valve stem packing assembly.

[F16J] PISTONS; CYLINDERS; PRESSURE VESSELS IN GENERAL; SEALINGS

Combination camp lantern and image projector
Patent No. 11435056

Inventor(s): Jian Zhu (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17370639 on 07/08/2021 (425 days app to issue)

Abstract: A camp lantern includes a housing having an outer wall, a lower surface, and an upper surface with an LED module positioned thereon. A U-shaped handle attached to opposing sides of the outer wall allows the lantern to be easily transported to remote locations. Removably superimposable on the LED module is a frosted, semispherical cover that allows the lantern to be used as a portable light source. Any one of a plurality of interchangeable, substantially opaque covers with transparent, thematic design elements can be substituted for the frosted cover to convert the camping lantern to an image projector. When the LED module is activated, light only passes through the transparent portions to project the design elements onto a tent or cabin ceiling.

[F21V] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [7]

Polygonal rotary projection lamp
Patent No. 11435060

Inventor(s): Cheng-Chun Zhang (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): GEMMY INDUSTRIES CORPORATION (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Hershkovitz Associates, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17709309 on 03/30/2022 (160 days app to issue)

Abstract: A polygonal rotary projection lamp has a base, a polygonal frame, a film set, a polygonal fixing frame, and an illumination set. The base has a disc configured to be driven to spin. The polygonal frame is mounted to the disc and has multiple bottom frame units. The film set is mounted to the polygonal frame and has multiple film units mounted to the polygonal frame and covering the multiple bottom frame units respectively. Each film unit is flat and has a pattern. The polygonal fixing frame is detachably mounted to the polygonal frame and has multiple top frame units respectively connected to the multiple bottom frame units to respectively fix the multiple film units. The illumination set is mounted within the base and emits light toward the polygonal frame. The light passes through each film unit with the pattern to project the pattern.

[F21V] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [7]

Air mover refrigerant leak detection and risk mitigation
Patent No. 11435101

Inventor(s): Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16583956 on 09/26/2019 (1076 days app to issue)

Abstract: An air mover system for use in an indoor unit of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a blower comprising a motor and a blower control unit configured to control operations of the motor. The blower control unit includes a controller and a sensor communicably coupled to the controller. The sensor is configured to sense air inside the indoor unit and to provide sensor information to the controller. The controller is configured to determine whether a refrigerant is present in the air based on the sensor information and to control the blower to move the air out of the indoor unit in response to determining that the refrigerant is present in the air.

[F24F] AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING (removing dirt or fumes from areas where they are produced B08B 15/00; vertical ducts for carrying away waste gases from buildings E04F 17/02; tops for chimneys or ventilating shafts, terminals for flues F23L 17/02)

Undulated surface enhancement of diffuser blades for round and rectangular ceiling diffuser
Patent No. 11435111

Inventor(s): Gary A. Minor (Flower Mound, TX), Mark J. Costello (Plano, TX), Ryan M. Perkinson (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): AIR DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGIES IP, LLC (Milwaukee, WI)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16370376 on 03/29/2019 (1257 days app to issue)

Abstract: A round or rectangular ceiling diffuser includes a blade. The blade includes a leading edge configured to face an incoming air flow and having an undulated contour extending along a closed-loop formed by the blade. The blade also includes a trailing edge opposite to the leading edge, where a width of the blade extends from the leading edge to the trailing edge and the undulated contour extends into and out of the width.

P H Y S I C S

Device and method of determining the force required to remove a projectile from an ammunition cartridge
Patent No. 11435171

Inventor(s): Lonnie Burrow (Carrollton, TX), Tucker Siuts (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): True Velocity IP Holdings, LLC (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Burdick Patents, P.A. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16270196 on 02/07/2019 (1307 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes a device for determining the force necessary for the separation of a bullet from an ammunition cartridge comprising a chamber housing having central bore extending from a lower housing end to an upper housing end and terminating at a upper aperture, wherein the central bore comprises a chamber diameter adapted to accept an ammunition cartridge and that the bullet partially extends from the upper aperture; a frustaconical shape shoulder in the central bore at the upper housing end to reduce the chamber diameter to mate to an ammunition cartridge shoulder; a neck that connects the upper aperture to the frustaconical shape shoulder adapted to accept an ammunition cartridge neck; a cartridge retention lip within the upper aperture adapted to contact an ammunition cartridge bullet aperture; a chamber mount adapted to connect the chamber housing and a testing device; a bullet securing device comprising a bullet securing end to secure the bullet and a bullet securing device mount adapted to connect to the testing device; a moving mechanism to move the bullet securing device away from the chamber housing; a sensor in communication with the moving mechanism to measure a force exerted by the moving mechanism; and a display in communication with the sensor to display and or record the force.

[G01L] MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE (weighing G01G) [4]

Non-planer measurement system and method of use
Patent No. 11435173

Inventor(s): Christopher B Gardner (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17017371 on 09/10/2020 (726 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-planer measurement system allows for a tape measure or ruler to nest in along the top surface of an object such as a roof panel. The tape has cutouts to fit the pattern so that the whole edge with the cutouts nests with the surface of the roof panel. The tape then allows for accurate distance measurements along the tape.

[G01B] MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS

Methods of treating patients at risk for renal injury and renal failure
Patent No. 11435364

Inventor(s): Alvaro F. Guillem (Lantana, TX), Donald Jeffrey Keyser (Southlake, TX), Richard A. Zager (Mercer Island, WA)
Assignee(s): RENIBUS THERAPEUTICS, INC. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Culhane Meadows, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16422156 on 05/24/2019 (1201 days app to issue)

Abstract: The p21 biomarker is utilized in the evaluation of whether a patient is suffering from kidney injury or failure, and can be used in methods of treating kidney injury or failure by determining the appropriateness of one or more of initiating renal replacement therapy, withdrawing delivery of compounds that are known to be damaging to the kidney, delaying or avoiding procedures that are known to be damaging to the kidney, and modifying diuretic administration.

[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)

Diagnostic analyzers with pretreatment carousels and related methods
Patent No. 11435372

Inventor(s): Brian L. Ochranek (Southlake, TX), David C. Arnquist (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, IL)
Law Firm: Hanley, Flight Zimmerman, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15493941 on 04/21/2017 (1964 days app to issue)

Abstract: Diagnostic analyzers with pretreatment carousels and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first carousel that includes a first annular array of slots to receive a first vessel. The example first carousel also includes a first track of rotation about the first carousel having a first diameter and a second track of rotation about the first carousel having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. The example apparatus includes a first diverter to move the first vessel from the first track to the second track. In addition, the example apparatus includes a second carousel coaxial with the first carousel. The example second carousel includes a second annular array of slots to receive a second vessel.

Real time chuck temperature monitoring
Patent No. 11435398

Inventor(s): Adi Irwan Herman (Selangor, , MY), Guan Da Lee (Melaka, , MY)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17113914 on 12/07/2020 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wafer probe test system includes a chuck to support a wafer, and a probe card having a first side to face the chuck, an opposite second side, and an aperture that extends between the first and second sides. The system also includes a probe head mounted to the first side of the probe card and having probe pins to contact a device under test of the wafer, and an infra-red thermal sensor facing the aperture of the probe card to sense a temperature of the wafer.

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

Apparatus and method for calibrating an aerial movement system
Patent No. 11435649

Inventor(s): Stephen Wharton (Claremore, OK)
Assignee(s): CABLECAM, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Schroeder Intellectual Property Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 12974733 on 12/21/2010 (4277 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aerial movement system and method for calibrating same includes, generally, registration points and wireless position transceivers proximate the registration points and the object that communicate with a computer and allow for the computer to determine the appropriate amount of support lines to draw in or release.

[G03B] APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR (optical parts of such apparatus G02B; photosensitive materials or processes for photographic purposes G03C; apparatus for processing exposed photographic materials G03D) [4]

Systems and methods for controlling operation of autonomous vehicle systems
Patent No. 11435740

Inventor(s): Kade L. Scott (The Colony, TX), Matthew T. Flachsbart (Fort Worth, TX), Richard Daniel Graham (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: 16784102 on 02/06/2020 (943 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may include one or more sensors configured to acquire data associated with a driver of a vehicle and a processor. The processor may receive the data and determine whether the data is within a baseline data associated with expected behavior of the driver. The processor may then control one or more operations of the vehicle in response to the data being outside the baseline data.

[G05D] SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES (for continuous casting of metals B22D 11/16; valves per se F16K; sensing non-electric variables, see the relevant subclasses of G01; for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F)

Voltage regulator and bandgap voltage reference with novel start-up circuit and seamless voltage reference switch over for PSR enhancement
Patent No. 11435767

Inventor(s): Anand Veeravalli Raghupathy (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Vidatronic, Inc. (College Station, TX)
Law Firm: Liang Legal Group, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16446488 on 06/19/2019 (1175 days app to issue)

Abstract: A voltage regulation loop includes a voltage reference generation block that includes a bandgap voltage reference circuit; a linear voltage regulator block that includes a first and second linear voltage regulators, wherein the first linear voltage regulator provides a first regulated power supply to the bandgap voltage reference circuit in the voltage reference generation block, and the second linear voltage regulator provides a second regulated power supply to a load; and a soft startup circuit connected between the voltage reference generation block and the linear voltage regulator block, wherein a selector functions with a control block to output a selected voltage reference to pass to the soft startup circuit, wherein the soft startup circuit smooths the selected voltage reference and produces a smoothed voltage reference to pass to the linear voltage regulator block to prevent overshoots at startup.

[G05F] SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING ELECTRIC OR MAGNETIC VARIABLES (regulating the timing or recurrence frequency of pulses in radar or radio navigation systems G01S; regulation of current or voltage, specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces G04G 19/02; closed-loop systems for regulating non-electric variables by electric means G05D; regulating power supply of digital computers G06F 1/26; for obtaining desired operating characteristics of electromagnets with armatures H01F 7/18; regulating electric power distribution networks H02J; regulating the charging of batteries H02J 7/00; regulating of the output of static converters, e.g. switching regulators, H02M; regulation of the output of electric generators H02N, H02P 9/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils H02P 13/00; regulating frequency response, gain, maximum output, amplitude or bandwidth of amplifiers H03G; regulating tuning of resonant circuits H03J; controlling generators of electronic oscillations or pulses H03L; regulating characteristics of transmission lines H04B; controlling electric light sources H05B 37/02, H05B 39/04, H05B 41/36; electric control of X-ray apparatus H05G 1/30) [5]

Fixed current-gain booster for capacitive gate power device with input voltage control
Patent No. 11435770

Inventor(s): Johan Tjeerd Strydom (Saratoga, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17138536 on 12/30/2020 (615 days app to issue)

Abstract: A current booster circuit, which can be coupled between a gate driver and a power switch, includes controlled current sources and current sensors to provide a scaled copy of the booster input current at the booster output while operating in a current-gain mode during on-to-off or off-to-on switching periods. During switched-on or switched-off periods, the booster can pull the output to the high or low rail, respectively, through low-impedance circuitry to hold the switch on or off. A voltage and/or current feedback path between the booster output and the booster input permits the booster to control the voltage input during switching operation. The current booster devices and methods can be compatible with both smart and conventional gate drivers of either the voltage-driven or current-driven variety.

Low dropout regulator (LDO) circuit with smooth pass transistor partitioning
Patent No. 11435771

Inventor(s): Joseph Alan Sankman (Dallas, TX), Raveesh Magod Ramakrishna (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16810108 on 03/05/2020 (915 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a battery. The system also includes a low dropout regulator (LDO) circuit with an input coupled to the battery and the LDO circuit. The system also includes a load coupled to an output of the LDO circuit. The LDO circuit includes an error amplifier and a control circuit coupled to the error amplifier. The LDO circuit also includes a first pass transistor coupled to the control circuit and configured to provide a first pass current as a function of load current according to a first continuous conduction curve. The LDO circuit also includes a second pass transistor coupled to the control circuit and configured to provide a second pass current as a function of load current according to a second continuous conduction curve.

Integrated smart graphical user interface for customer management systems
Patent No. 11435881

Inventor(s): Priyadarshini Badugu (Frisco, TX), William Daniel Farmer (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16915700 on 06/29/2020 (799 days app to issue)

Abstract: A customer management system can be designed to provide an integrated smart graphical user interface. For example, a computing device can receive information that includes a topic of conversation for a chat-based communication; initiate, via a first graphical user interface (GUI), the chat-based communication with another computing device after the information is received; display, via a second GUI, the user profile associated with the person, wherein the second GUI is displayed adjacent to and integrated with the first GUI; determine a relationship between one or more words or phrases received via the first GUI from the first computing device and the additional information in the user profile, where the relationship is determined in real-time or near real-time as the one or more words or phrases are received; and display a visual indicator in the second GUI that shows content in the second GUI that is relevant to the determined relationship.

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

Automated machine deployment and configuration
Patent No. 11435991

Inventor(s): Jeffrey David Moore (Croton on Hudson, NY), Joshua E Aaron (Plano, TX), Sean Eren Maloney (Shasta Lake, CA)
Assignee(s): Aiden Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: IP Spring (Local + 502 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16931441 on 07/16/2020 (782 days app to issue)

Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated computer configuration. In some implementations, a method includes providing a configuration tool on a computer. The method further includes accessing a configuration file that includes configuration settings, wherein the configuration file is a plain text file. The method further includes selecting particular settings for the computer from the configuration settings based at least in part on the configuration file and identification information of the computer. The method further includes automatically configuring the computer with particular software that is identified based on the particular settings.

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

Look-up table read
Patent No. 11436015

Inventor(s): Dheera Balasubramanian Samudrala (Richardson, TX), Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, TX), Naveen Bhoria (Plano, TX), Rama Venkatasubramanian (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instmments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16570874 on 09/13/2019 (1089 days app to issue)

Abstract: A digital data processor includes a multi-stage butterfly network, which is configured to, in response to a look up table read instruction, receive look up table data from an intermediate register, reorder the look up table data based on control signals comprising look up table configuration register data, and write the reordered look up table data to a destination register specified by the look up table read instruction.

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

Independent operation of an ethernet switch integrated on a system on a chip
Patent No. 11436024

Inventor(s): Denis Roland Beaudoin (Rowlett, TX), Gregory Raymond Shurtz (Houston, TX), Jason A. T. Jones (Richmond, TX), Jayant Thakur (Bengaluru, , IN), Mark Adrian Bryans (Dallas, TX), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, , IN), Santhanakri
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16700254 on 12/02/2019 (1009 days app to issue)

Abstract: An Ethernet switch and a switch microcontroller or CPU are integrated onto a system-on-a-chip (SoC). The Ethernet switch remains independently operating at full speed even though the remainder of the SoC is being reset or is otherwise nonoperational. The Ethernet switch is on a separated power and clock domain from the remainder of the integrated SoC. A warm reset signal is trapped by control microcontroller (MCU) to allow the switch CPU to isolate the Ethernet switch and save state. When the Ethernet switch is isolated and operating independently, the warm reset request is provided to the other entities on the integrated SoC. When warm reset is completed, the state is restored and the various DMA and flow settings redeveloped in the integrated SoC to allow return to normal operating condition.

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

Non-volatile memory compression for memory repair
Patent No. 11436090

Inventor(s): Devanathan Varadarajan (Allen, TX), Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian (Plano, TX), Varun Singh (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instmments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17125244 on 12/17/2020 (628 days app to issue)

Abstract: One example includes an integrated circuit (IC). The IC includes non-volatile memory and logic. The logic is configured to receive repair code associated with a memory instance and assign a compression parameter to the repair code based on a configuration of the memory instance. The logic is also configured to compress the repair code based on the compression parameter to produce compressed repair code and to provide compressed repair data that includes the compressed repair code and compression control data that identifies the compression parameter. A non-volatile memory controller is coupled between the non-volatile memory and the logic. The non-volatile memory controller is configured to transfer the compressed repair data to and/or from the non-volatile memory.

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

Memory access control through permissions specified in page table entries for execution domains
Patent No. 11436156

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: 17158979 on 01/26/2021 (588 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a computer system having a page table entry containing permission bits for predefined types of memory accesses made by executions of routines in predefined domains are described. The page table entry can be used to map a virtual memory address to a physical memory address. In response to a routine accessing the virtual memory address, a permission bit corresponding to the execution domain of the routine and a type of the memory access can be extracted from the page table entry to determine whether the memory access is to be rejected.

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

Digital bus activity monitor
Patent No. 11436170

Inventor(s): Gary Franklin Chard (Murphy, TX), Harshil Atulkumar Shah (Mckinney, TX), Tpinn Ronnie Koh (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16865606 on 05/04/2020 (855 days app to issue)

Abstract: One example relates to a device that includes an activity monitor. The activity monitor includes a bus interface having inputs coupled to receive signals from a bus and having outputs coupled to provide signals to an other device. The activity monitor monitors the bus for a message directed to a predefined address that is associated with the other device in response to detecting that the other device is a low power sleep mode, the activity monitor outputs the predefined address to the other device to enable the other device to capture the predefined address, via the bus interface, in response to the monitored address matching the predefined address that is associated with the other device.

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

Shared buffer for multi-output display systems
Patent No. 11436171

Inventor(s): Anish Reghunath (Allen, TX), Brian Chae (Duluth, GA), Chunheng Luo (Dallas, TX), Jay Scott Salinger (Framingham, MA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16704820 on 12/05/2019 (1006 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a display subsystem. The display subsystem includes a shared buffer having allocated portions, each allocated to one of a plurality of display threads, each display thread associated with a display peripheral. The display subsystem also includes a direct memory access (DMA) engine configured to receive a request from a main processor to deallocate an amount of space from a first allocated portion associated with a first display thread. In response to receiving the request, the DMA engine deallocates the amount of space from the first allocated portion and shifts the allocated portions of at least some of other display threads to maintain contiguity of the allocated portions and concatenate free space at an end of the shared buffer.

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

Method of notifying a process or programmable atomic operation traps
Patent No. 11436187

Inventor(s): Tony Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074779 on 10/20/2020 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, programmable atomic units, and machine-readable mediums that provide an exception as a response to the calling processor. That is, the programmable atomic unit will send a response to the calling processor. The calling processor will recognize that the exception has been raised and will handle the exception. Because the calling processor knows which process triggered the exception, the calling processor (e.g., the Operating System) can take appropriate action, such as terminating the calling process. The calling processor may be a same processor as that executing the programmable atomic transaction, or a different processor (e.g., on a different chiplet).

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

Asynchronous method for provisioning a service using file distribution technology
Patent No. 11436197

Inventor(s): Bryan Adam Joyner (Sachse, TX), Cara Joy Drye (Pensacola, FL), Dustin Stewart Silverman (Richardson, TX), Michael Patrick Bower (Milton, FL), Patrick Stephen Trantham (Sunnyvale, TX), Philippe-Jacques Thomas Green (Ann Arbor,
Assignee(s): ZixCorp Systems, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17080163 on 10/26/2020 (680 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a provisioning manager comprises an interface and processing circuitry. The interface is configured to obtain provisioning data from a provisioning database. The processing circuitry is configured to prepare one or more configuration files based on the provisioning data. The configuration file(s) indicate how to provision one or more service instances. The processing circuitry is further configured to commit the configuration file(s) to one or more repositories in order to make the configuration file(s) available to at least one of the service instances. The processing circuitry is further configured to send one or more notifications indicating to one or more of the service instances that the configuration file(s) have been committed to the one or more repositories.

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

Computer architecture for generating hierarchical clusters in a correlithm object processing system
Patent No. 11436515

Inventor(s): Pankaj Panging (Frisco, TX), Patrick N. Lawrence (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16208265 on 12/03/2018 (1373 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device comprising a cluster engine implemented by a processor. The cluster engine is configured to obtain a reference correlithm object and compute a set of Anti-Hamming distances between the reference correlithm object and the set of correlithm objects. The cluster engine is further configured to identify a subset of correlithm objects from the set of correlithm objects that are associated with an Anti-Hamming distance that is greater than a first bit threshold value. The cluster engine is further configured to compute a set of Hamming distances between the reference correlithm object and the subset of correlithm objects and to identify correlithm objects associated with a Hamming distance that exceeds a second bit threshold value. The cluster engine is further configured to remove the identified correlithm objects that are associated with a Hamming distance that exceeds the second bit threshold value and generate the cluster.

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

Systems and methods for bot-on-bot optimization
Patent No. 11436526

Inventor(s): Aananthanarayanan Pandian (Chennai, , IN), Dhurai Ganesan (Chennai, , IN), Sankar Chandrasekaran (Chennai, , IN)
Assignee(s): NTT DATA Services, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16286037 on 02/26/2019 (1288 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes deploying a learning bot onto a system of bots, where the learning bot monitors a first bot of the system of bots, the first bot executing a first automated process. The method further includes determining a learning phase of the learning bot. The learning bot utilizes a plurality of learning phases including a first learning phase, a second learning phase and a third learning phase. The method also includes, responsive to a determination that the learning bot is in the third learning phase, the learning bot: monitoring activity related to the first automated process; collecting data related to the monitored activity; analyzing at least a portion of the collected data; identifying an automatic tuning adjustment responsive to the analyzing; and automatically making the automatic tuning adjustment to the first automated process.

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

Techniques for parallel model training
Patent No. 11436533

Inventor(s): Bing Liu (Frisco, TX), Karthick Abiraman (Plano, TX), Paul Ponce Portugal (Plano, TX), Sang Jin Park (Allen, TX), Saranya Thangaraj (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: KDB (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16845597 on 04/10/2020 (879 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for an interactive element presentation process are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include logic operative to store a plurality of model specifications for computational models, monitor the object storage service for at least one model event using a first serverless computing service, provide the plurality of model specifications associated with the at least one model event to one of a plurality of serverless computing clusters, generate model data for each of the plurality of model specifications, store the model data for each of the plurality of computational models in the object storage service, monitor the object storage service for at least one data event associated with the model data using a second serverless computing service, cause the plurality of instances to generate a plurality of trained model specifications based on training of the plurality of computational models. Other embodiments are described.

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

Wearable device for operational compliance
Patent No. 11436547

Inventor(s): Anthony Pang Fang (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16021854 on 06/28/2018 (1531 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for a wearable device coded for user operational compliance. In this way, the invention comprises system integration of a wearable device for user performance and compliance of operational requirements within user obligations. The wearable device logs time of user initiation of obligations for timekeeping and is programmed for gatekeeping for physical and digital access to user authorized locations and data points. The wearable device codes for generating requests for access to non-authorized locations and data points for temporary needs of the user for obligation fulfillment.

[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]

Matching inventory characteristics and structure
Patent No. 11436561

Inventor(s): Brandon Drumheller (Plano, TX), Saman Baghestani (Plano, TX), Veerendra Jote (Frisco, TX), Walker Ramirez (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: 17104684 on 11/25/2020 (650 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an overall assessment of a combined inventory item and structure similarity to an initial inventory item and structure. A plurality of inventory items, stored in a database, maybe retrieved to generate a score value corresponding to each of the plurality of inventory items based on a plurality of facets describing the inventory item. Based on the generated score value, a subset of the plurality of inventory items may be determined based on data points representing the subset of the plurality of inventory items that are within a preconfigured Euclidean distance from a centroid representing a data point corresponding to the initial inventory item. One or more structures corresponding to the subset of the plurality of inventory items may be dynamically generated, and their combinations are scored for finding an alternate inventory item and structure.

Systems and methods for machine learning-based predictive order generation
Patent No. 11436632

Inventor(s): Neeraj Garg (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16297404 on 03/08/2019 (1278 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may use automated techniques, such as machine learning techniques, to identify products that a user may be interested in purchasing. For example, a model may be created for a user, and attributes of products available for sale may be compared to the model. When determining that a user may be interested in a particular product, a graphical user interface (”GUI”) may be pre-populated and presented to a device of the user, to facilitate the user purchasing the product with minimal interaction.

System and method for managing a product exchange
Patent No. 11436660

Inventor(s): Christian Briggs (Austin, TX), Robert K. Spitz (Nashua, NH), Todd Downing (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): AIBUY, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17112656 on 12/04/2020 (641 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment of this disclosure provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes a memory element configured to store a plurality of products and services and a processor. The processor is configured to receive profile information for a user accessing a plurality of video content. The processor is also configured to receive video content information for each of the plurality of video content being accessed by the user in a smart viewer. The video content information identifies at least one category associated with each of the plurality of video content. The processor is also configured to identify one or more of the plurality of products or services based on the profile information and the at least one category of the video content information. The processor is also configured to send the one or more of the plurality of products or services to the smart viewer.

Method for detecting trailer status using combined 3D algorithms and 2D machine learning models
Patent No. 11436835

Inventor(s): Jyotsna Prasad (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Zebra Technologies Corporation (Lincolnshire, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16788522 on 02/12/2020 (937 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods for determining a trailer status are disclosed herein. An example method includes capturing a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image. The three-dimensional image may comprise three-dimensional image data, and the two-dimensional image may comprise two-dimensional image data. The example method may further include determining a first trailer status based on the three-dimensional image data, and determining a second trailer status based on the two-dimensional image data. The example method may further include comparing the first trailer status to the second trailer status to determine a final trailer status. NULL

Secured tethering process between devices
Patent No. 11436883

Inventor(s): Jose Luis Vega (Plano, TX), Michael Krasnicki (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Hampton Products International Corporation (Foothill Ranch, CA)
Law Firm: Klein, O”Neil Singh, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16505398 on 07/08/2019 (1156 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for pairing electronic devices. One method includes generating a code sequence for pairing an electronic device with an application executed by a processor of a controller, the controller being remote to the electronic device, and the electronic device and the controller interfacing with a server via a network connection. The code sequence includes a configuration mode portion indicating a role for a user of the controller, an invitation sequence having invitation code for the user and a random code portion. The method further includes receiving the code sequence by the electronic device; validating the code sequence by the electronic device using a key data structure; and pairing the electronic device to the controller for enabling the application to monitor and command the electronic device.

[G07C] TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE (identification of persons A61B 5/117; indicating or recording apparatus for measuring in general, analogous apparatus but in which the input is not a variable to be measured, e.g. a hand operation, G01D; clocks, clock mechanisms G04B, G04C; time-interval measuring G04F; counting mechanisms per se G06M)

Visitor detection, facial recognition, and alert system and processes for assisting memory-challenged patients to recognize entryway visitors
Patent No. 11436906

Inventor(s): Sidhya V Peddinti (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Plager Schack LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16876729 on 05/18/2020 (841 days app to issue)

Abstract: A visitor detection, facial recognition, and alert system and processes for assisting memory-challenged patients to recognize entryway visitors are disclosed. The visitor detection, facial recognition, and alert system and processes assist a memory-challenged patient to distinguish between known and unknown visitors and inform a caretaker of such known and unknown visitors. The visitor detection, facial recognition, and alert system provides an assistive tool for Alzheimer”s patients to recognize their visitors using facial recognition technology.

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

Parking management systems and methods
Patent No. 11436924

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: 16778919 on 01/31/2020 (949 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]

Banner housing assembly
Patent No. 11436953

Inventor(s): David Richard Jones (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17513802 on 10/28/2021 (313 days app to issue)

Abstract: A marquee banner assembly includes one or more lightweight molding(s) that may be bowed under tension, at least one or more channels configured for the insertion of a flexible sign, and attachment brackets attachable to a substrate which may any vertical surface. The attachment brackets are angled to provide a curvature to the molding when the molding is attached to the brackets. The assembly may employ natural light alone, or any combination of natural light, artificial light.

[G09F] DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS

Torsional based tremolo system with a stationary bridge
Patent No. 11437003

Inventor(s): John Michael Kebrle (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17249403 on 03/01/2021 (554 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a torsion based tremolo apparatus that uses a cylinder assembly to rotate part of the tremolo apparatus relative to a baseplate. The baseplate is used to mount the tremolo apparatus to a musical instrument, such as a guitar. A bridge string support assembly is coupled to the baseplate and, combined with a string holder, supports a string of the musical instrument. A torsion device is positioned to impart torsional force on the cylinder assembly relative to the baseplate. The string holder is coupled to the cylinder assembly and rotates when the cylinder assembly is rotated.

[G10D] STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (non-musical aspects of musical toy instruments A63H 5/00; organs, harmoniums or like musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments G10H; instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means or electronic generators, or in which the tones are synthesised from a data store G10H)

Erase tail comparator scheme
Patent No. 11437110

Inventor(s): Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, CA), Fanqi Wu (Milpitas, CA), Huai-Yuan Tseng (San Ramon, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17212871 on 03/25/2021 (530 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of performing an erase operation on non-volatile storage is disclosed. The method comprises: applying, in a first erase loop of a plurality of erase loops of the erase operation, a first erase pulse to a first grouping of non-volatile storage elements; after applying the first erase pulse, determining an upper tail of a threshold voltage distribution of the first grouping of non-volatile storage elements; determining a difference between the upper tail of the first grouping of non-volatile storage elements and an upper tail of a threshold voltage distribution of a second grouping of non-volatile storage elements; and disabling, in a second erase loop of the plurality of erase loops, the erase operation on the first grouping of non-volatile storage elements if the difference is greater than or equal to the threshold amount.

[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)

System and method for counting fail bit and reading out the same
Patent No. 11437116

Inventor(s): Christian N. Mohr (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Dorsey Whitney LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16852239 on 04/17/2020 (872 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus may include a memory array, a test circuit coupled to the memory array, a counter circuit coupled to the test circuit and an input/output (I/O) circuit coupled to the counter circuit. During a test operation, the test circuit may receive blocks of data from the memory array and compare the data to detect errors in the blocks of data. The counter circuit may increment a count value in response to detection of an error by the test circuit, and the I/O circuit may provide the count value to an output. The test circuit may also provide test comparison data based on the received blocks of data, and the I/O circuit may provide one of the count value and the test comparison data to the output.

Biofluidic triggering system and method
Patent No. 11437142

Inventor(s): Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): RELIANT IMMUNE DIAGNOSTICS, INC. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16186518 on 11/10/2018 (1396 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of signaling a medical response action comprises receiving a biofluidic input from a client or application, by a logical testing unit, wherein the logical testing unit comprising a testing display and a persistent testing mechanism, further wherein the persistent testing mechanism comprising one or more analogical data processors, generating one or more logical results from the processing of biofluidic data from the biofluidic input, displaying, on the testing display of the logical testing unit, the one or more logical results, capturing the logical indicators on the testing display with a mobile computing unit, generating, by the mobile computing unit, a pixelated result and an action result, displaying, on the mobile display, the pixelated result and action result, responsive to a signaling input from the client or application, the mobile computing unit processes, by one or more processors, the signaling input and generating an action response packet.

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

Establishing cloud-to-cloud access for internet of things (IOT) devices
Patent No. 11438422

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: 17424116 on 02/14/2020 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for device to device communications in an Internet of Things (IoT) setting, via associated cloud services, are described. In an example, a procedure performed by a first IoT device, associated with a first domain or ecosystem, to communicate with a second IoT device, associated with a second domain or ecosystem, includes: obtaining communication information to communicate with a second service associated with the second device; providing the communication information to a first service associated with the first device; obtain service validation information, in response to the first service initiating the validation procedure with the second service; and providing the service validation information to the first service. This service validation information is used to enable a validated connection between the first service and the second service, to then communicate data or commands between the first device and the second device via the first and second remote services.

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

String processing of clickstream data
Patent No. 11438428

Inventor(s): Kenneth Edward Angel (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): TD Ameritrade IP Company, Inc. (Omaha, NE)
Law Firm: Harness, Dickey Pierce, P.L.C. (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17202847 on 03/16/2021 (539 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes assigning unique symbols respectively to potential interactions with a website. The method includes obtaining asserted interaction symbol sequences of multiple browsing sessions, respectively. Each browsing session corresponds to a visitor of the website. For each browsing session, the asserted interaction symbol sequence of the respective browsing session is a sequence of symbols, from among the unique symbols, that corresponds, respectively, to a sequence of asserted interactions with the web site visited during the respective browsing session by the corresponding visitor. The method includes generating a master string including the asserted interaction symbol sequences by concatenating the asserted interaction symbol sequences with sentinel symbols together such that at least one sentinel symbol exists between each consecutive pair of asserted interaction symbol sequences. The method includes generating a suffix array corresponding to the master string. The method includes generating a longest common prefix (LCP) array corresponding to the suffix array.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Method and apparatus for a compact and high resolution mind-view communicator
Patent No. 11432723

Inventor(s): Masoud Vaziri (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16908514 on 06/22/2020 (806 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment of a mind-view communication apparatus includes a first portable unit and a second portable unit. The first portable unit includes an eyeglass frame, at least one first optical unit disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing at least one scene image corresponding to a field of view of a user, and at least one second optical unit disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing at least one eye image corresponding to at least a portion of at least one eye of the user. The second portable unit is in communication with the first portable unit and includes at least one processor configured for receiving the at least one scene image and the at least one eye image, determining a direction within the field of view to which the at least one eye is directed based upon the at least one eye image, and generating a subset of the at least one scene image based on the determined direction.

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

Modular cable organization system
Patent No. 11432752

Inventor(s): Craig Marion (Livermore, CA), Emil Soleyman (Flower Mound, TX), Paul Simon (San Jose, CA), Tina Asher Marion (Livermore, CA)
Assignee(s): Pragmatic Medical Devices, LLC (Flower Mound, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17165459 on 02/02/2021 (581 days app to issue)

Abstract: An assembly for supporting and retracting machine cables, thereby protecting operational components attached to machine cables. A cable organization system includes at least one modular cable management module fixed to a mounting plate that allows mounting of the cable organization system to a machine or other surface. The system has clamps which secure machine cables. The clamps are supported on top of pivoting guide tubes. The cable management modules contain retraction systems which retract the machine cable clamps from an extended position. By utilizing retracting cable clamps on pivoting guide tubes, the system allows the use of operational components attached to secured machine cables, and organizes the machine cables, so that the machine cables do not extend out into the floor around the machine. The system redirects pulling force on the machine cables, so that operational components do not get pulled onto the floor if a passerby catches on a machine cable.

[H02G] INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES (insulated conductors or cables with arrangements for facilitating mounting or securing H01B 7/40; distribution points incorporating switches H02B; guiding telephone cords H04M 1/15; cable ducts or mountings for telephone or telegraph exchange installations H04Q 1/06)

System to generate an alert to wake a driver of a vehicle and a method thereof
Patent No. 11433916

Inventor(s): Abdullah Kabeer (Plano, TX), Adam Mhal (Plano, TX), Anish Bhattacharya (Frisco, TX), Ayra Iftikhar (Mckinney, TX), Manha Sadarulanam (Plano, TX), Mirza Faizan (Irving, TX), Tanish Prasad (Frisco, TX), Vivek Maranganti
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17373447 on 07/12/2021 (421 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system to generate an alert to wake a driver of a vehicle comprises at least one camera configured to sense EEG signals from the driver and a processing module, connected to the at least one camera, to process the EEG signals and to generate alarms.

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

Indoor drone flight awareness system
Patent No. 11434005

Inventor(s): Cory Matheson (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: BakerHostetler (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16913854 on 06/26/2020 (802 days app to issue)

Abstract: Unmanned vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. Unmanned vehicles may be used to survey a property in response to or in anticipation of a security threat or damage to the property. For example, an unmanned vehicle may analyze information about the property and based on the information provide graphics and information associated with the surveying of the property.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Embedded universal serial bus 2 repeater
Patent No. 11436173

Inventor(s): Bhupendra Sharma (Bangalore, , IN), Douglas Edward Wente (Murphy, TX), Huanzhang Huang (Plano, TX), Mustafa Ulvi Erdogan (Allen, TX), Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, TX), Win Naing Maung (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17233677 on 04/19/2021 (505 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method. In at least some examples, the method includes receiving, at a circuit, data via a differential input signal. The method further includes detecting a falling edge in the data received via the differential input signal. The method further includes holding an output of the circuit at a final logical value of the data. The method further includes disabling a transmitter of the circuit while holding the output of the circuit at the final logical value of the data. The method further includes releasing the output of the circuit from the final logical value of the data.

[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]

Three-dimensional memory device containing word lines formed by selective tungsten growth on nucleation controlling surfaces and methods of manufacturing the same
Patent No. 11437270

Inventor(s): Adarsh Rajashekhar (Santa Clara, CA), Fei Zhou (San Jose, CA), Fumitaka Amano (Yokkaichi, , JP), Genta Mizuno (Yokkaichi, , JP), Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, CA), Rahul Sharangpani (Fremont, CA), Senaka Krishna Kanakamedala
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16688290 on 11/19/2019 (1022 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of forming a memory device includes forming an alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers over a substrate forming memory stack structures through the alternating stack, forming a first backside trench and a second backside trench through the alternating stack, forming backside recesses by removing the sacrificial material layers, depositing a backside blocking dielectric layer after formation of the backside recesses, forming a liner that a lesser lateral extent than a lateral distance between the first backside trench and the second backside trench; and selectively growing a metal from surfaces of the liners while either not growing or growing at a lower rate the metal from surfaces of the backside recesses that are not covered by the liners.

[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]

Floated singulation
Patent No. 11437303

Inventor(s): Chang-Yen Ko (Taipei, , TW), J K Ho (New Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16273152 on 02/12/2019 (1302 days app to issue)

Abstract: A microelectronic device has a substrate attached to a substrate pad on a first face of the substrate, and a component attached to the substrate on the first face. The substrate has a component placement guide on the first face. The substrate has a singulation guide on a second face of the substrate, located opposite from the first face. The microelectronic device is formed by attaching the component to a substrate sheet which contains the substrate. The substrate sheet with the component is mounted on a singulation film so that the component contacts the singulation film. The singulation guide on the second face of the substrate is located opposite from the singulation film. The substrate is singulated from the substrate sheet. The substrate with the component is attached to the substrate pad on the first face of the substrate, adjacent to the component.

Packaged semiconductor device with a reflow wall
Patent No. 11437333

Inventor(s): Daniel Yong Lin (Plano, TX), Vikas Gupta (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15840497 on 12/13/2017 (1728 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged semiconductor device includes a lead frame and a semiconductor device. A solder joint is coupled between the lead frame and a terminal on the semiconductor device. A reflow wall is on a portion of the lead frame and is in contact with the solder joint. A molding compound covers portions of the semiconductor device, the lead frame, the solder joint, and the reflow wall.

Uniform implant regions in a semiconductor ridge of a FinFET
Patent No. 11437496

Inventor(s): Ming-Yeh Chuang (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17138647 on 12/30/2020 (615 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for fabricating an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method comprises forming a semiconductor ridge over a semiconductor surface of a substrate and forming an implant screen on a top and sidewalls of the semiconductor ridge. The implant screen is at least two times thicker on the top of the semiconductor ridge relative to the sidewalls of the semiconductor ridge. The method further comprises implanting a dopant into the top and sidewalls of the semiconductor ridge.

Controller and system
Patent No. 11437755

Inventor(s): Brian R. Wines (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): HOME THEATER DIRECT, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts, LLP (Local + 6 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16599238 on 10/11/2019 (1061 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controller may include a user interface that is operable to receive input from a user to control an electronic system to which the controller may be coupled either directly or indirectly. The user interface may comprise an interface housing to which the user interface is coupled, the interface housing having a front portion and a rear portion, the front portion of which may contain the user interface. A controller housing may be coupled to the rear portion of the interface housing, the controller housing having a smaller perimeter than the interface housing. The controller housing may be comprised of at least one sidewall and a rear wall. At least one magnet may be coupled to the controller housing. The magnet(s) may be operable to hold the controller in position using magnetic force when the controller housing is inserted into a mounting receptacle.

[H01R] ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS (switches, fuses H01H; coupling devices of the waveguide type H01P 5/00; switching arrangements for the supply or distribution of electric power H02B; installations of electric cables or lines, or of combined optical and electric cables or lines, or of auxiliary apparatus H02G; printed means for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits H05K)

Power systems with inverter input voltage control
Patent No. 11437823

Inventor(s): Dianbo Fu (Frisco, TX), Heping Dai (Plano, TX), Huibin Zhu (Plano, TX), Xiaolin Mao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16741259 on 01/13/2020 (967 days app to issue)

Abstract: A direct current (DC) bus voltage from a combined output of a plurality of DC power modules is controlled based on an alternating current (AC) voltage of a power grid. The DC bus voltage tracks the AC grid voltage to provide efficient conversion between the DC power sources and the AC grid, even when the amplitude of the AC grid voltage varies. In one example, a variable reference voltage is generated based on a detected AC grid voltage. The reference voltage increases and decreases in proportion to increases and decreases in the AC grid voltage. In this manner, large differences between the bus voltage and the grid voltage are avoided. By closely tracking the two voltages, efficiency in the modulation index for power conversion can be achieved.

[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)

Predictive synchronous rectifier sensing and control
Patent No. 11437917

Inventor(s): Manish Bhardwaj (Sugar Land, TX), Sheng-Yang Yu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16938757 on 07/24/2020 (774 days app to issue)

Abstract: For predictive synchronous rectifier sensing and control, an example apparatus includes an air core toroid having a voltage output, the air core toroid adapted to surround a portion of a current path and adapted to be coupled through the current path to a transformer, and a control logic circuit having a voltage input and a control output, the voltage input coupled to the voltage output, and the control output adapted to be coupled to a switch.

[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]

Switchover schemes for transition of oscillator from internal-resistor to external-resistor mode
Patent No. 11437955

Inventor(s): Aniruddha Roy (Bangalore, , IN), Nitin Agarwal (Bangalore, , IN), Preetham Narayana Reddy (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17510032 on 10/25/2021 (316 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, a system includes an oscillator circuit on a chip. The oscillator circuit includes a charging current generator including a current mirror and an amplifier, where the amplifier is coupled to a pin of the chip. The oscillator circuit also includes a first switch coupled to the pin, a second switch coupled to the pin and to a charging resistor, and a third switch coupled to the amplifier and an internal resistor, where the internal resistor is internal to the chip. The oscillator circuit includes a bias current source coupled to the current mirror. The system includes an external resistor coupled to the pin, where the external resistor is external to the chip. The system also includes an external capacitor coupled to the pin and coupled in parallel to the external resistor, where the external capacitor is external to the chip.

[H03B] GENERATION OF OSCILLATIONS, DIRECTLY OR BY FREQUENCY-CHANGING, BY CIRCUITS EMPLOYING ACTIVE ELEMENTS WHICH OPERATE IN A NON-SWITCHING MANNER; GENERATION OF NOISE BY SUCH CIRCUITS (generators specially adapted for electrophonic musical instruments G10H; masers or lasers H01S; generation of oscillations in plasma H05H)

Level shifter circuit
Patent No. 11437997

Inventor(s): Abhijit Kumar Das (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17491173 on 09/30/2021 (341 days app to issue)

Abstract: A level shifter circuit is provided. In some examples, the level shifter circuit includes a first set of transistors and a second set of transistors coupled between first and second power supply nodes. The control terminals of the first and second lower transistors are coupled to an input node. The level shifter circuit also includes a third set of transistors and a fourth set of transistors coupled between first and third power supply nodes. A control terminal of a third lower transistor is coupled to a second intermediate node, and a control terminal of a fourth lower transistor is coupled to a first intermediate node. Control terminals of the first upper transistor and the fourth upper transistor are coupled to a third intermediate node. Control terminals of the second upper transistor and the third upper transistor are coupled to a fourth intermediate node.

Gain mismatch correction for voltage-to-delay preamplifier array
Patent No. 11438001

Inventor(s): Chirag Chandrahas Shetty (Thane, , IN), Eeshan Miglani (Chhindwara, , IN), Narasimhan Rajagopal (Chennai, , IN), Neeraj Shrivastava (Bengaluru, , IN), Prasanth K (Ottapalam, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17133745 on 12/24/2020 (621 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of using an analog-to-digital converter system includes receiving a sampled voltage corresponding to one of an input voltage and a known voltage, causing preamplifiers to generate output signals based on the sampled voltage, generating first and second signals based on the output signals, causing a delay-resolving delay-to-digital backend to generate a single-bit digital signal representing an order of receipt of the first and second signals, and adjusting one or more of the preamplifiers based on the digital signal. The disclosure also relates to a system which includes a voltage-to-delay frontend and a delay-resolving backend, and to a method which includes causing a delay comparator to generate a single-bit digital signal representing an order of receipt of input signals, causing the comparator to transmit a residue delay signal to a succeeding comparator, and transmitting a signal to adjust one or more of the preamplifiers based on the digital signal.

[H03M] CODING, DECODING OR CODE CONVERSION, IN GENERAL (using fluidic means F15C 4/00; optical analogue/digital converters G02F 7/00; coding, decoding or code conversion, specially adapted for particular applications, see the relevant subclasses, e.g. G01D, G01R, G06F, G06T, G09G, G10L, G11B, G11C, H04B, H04L, H04M, H04N; ciphering or deciphering for cryptography or other purposes involving the need for secrecy G09C) [4]

Multi-beam CSI reporting
Patent No. 11438035

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17111567 on 12/04/2020 (641 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-beam Channel State Information (CSI) reporting are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a second node connected to a first node in a wireless communication network for reporting multi-beam CSI includes reporting a rank indicator and a beam count indicator in a first transmission to the first node. The method also includes reporting a cophasing indicator in a second transmission to the first node. The cophasing indicator identifies a selected entry of a codebook of cophasing coefficients where the number of bits in the cophasing indicator is identified by at least one of the beam count indicator and the rank indicator. In this way, feedback for both a rank indicator and a beam count indicator may be possible which may allow robust feedback and variably sized cophasing and beam index indicators.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Optical amplification in an optical network
Patent No. 11438086

Inventor(s): Youichi Akasaka (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, , JP)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16748076 on 01/21/2020 (959 days app to issue)

Abstract: An optical system, comprising a first wavelength conversion module to: adjust a power of a first pump wavelength; couple an input signal with the first pump wavelength to generate a first coupled signal; perform a first wavelength conversion of the first coupled signal to generate a first wavelength converted signal, the power of the first pump wavelength is adjusted such that the first wavelength conversion is performed with 0 dB conversion efficiency; the optical amplifier to amplify the first wavelength converted signal; a second wavelength conversion module to: adjust a power of a second pump wavelength; couple the amplified first wavelength converted signal with the second pump wavelength to generate a second coupled signal; perform a second wavelength conversion of the second coupled signal to generate a second wavelength converted signal with 0 dB conversion efficiency.

[H04J] MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION (peculiar to transmission of digital information H04L 5/00; systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal H04N 7/08; in exchanges H04Q 11/00)

System and method for mining digital currency in a blockchain network
Patent No. 11438142

Inventor(s): David A. Carlson (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): MARVELL ASIA PTE, LTD. (Singapore, , SG)
Law Firm: Hamilton, Brook, Smith Reynolds, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16544203 on 08/19/2019 (1114 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit and corresponding method enable mining for digital currency in a blockchain network. The circuit comprises a controller and at least one partial hash engine that (i) implements a hash function, partially, to compute a partial hash digest of a final hash digest for a block header of a block candidate and (ii) generates a notification based on determining that the partial hash digest satisfies a criterion. The controller includes a complete hash engine that implements the hash function, completely. In response to the notification generated, the controller activates the complete hash engine to compute, in its entirety, the final hash digest for the block header, effectuating a decision for submission of the block candidate with the block header to the blockchain network for mining the digital currency. Power savings and reduction in area are achieved relative to multiple hash engines that compute the entire final hash digest.

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

Provisioning of external functionality to transports
Patent No. 11438158

Inventor(s): Edward Allen Cain, Jr. (Plano, TX), Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17141798 on 01/05/2021 (609 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, at a transport, a key and data associated with an upcoming event from a server, verifying, by the transport, the data associated with the upcoming event based on current data acquired by the transport, responsive to a verification of the data associated with the upcoming event, receiving, at the transport, functionality configured to address the upcoming event, and unlocking the functionality on the transport by the key.

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

Methods and apparatus for providing blockchain participant identity binding
Patent No. 11438173

Inventor(s): Timothy Edward Moses (Ottawa, , CA)
Assignee(s): ENTRUST, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16915221 on 06/29/2020 (799 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus provides a blockchain that includes one or more blocks that contain a cryptographic binding of a signature-verification public key and/or a data encryption public key to the identity of the holder of the corresponding private key. The binding is performed by one or more key binding entities, referred to herein as a blockchain identity binder. Originators and recipients use the identity binding data to secure block chain transactions.

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

Adaptive equalizer with a real feedforward filter and a single complex feedforward tap
Patent No. 11438197

Inventor(s): Anand Dabak (Plano, TX), Mahmoud Abdelmoneim Abdelmoneim Elgenedy (Worcester, MA), Swaminathan Sankaran (Allen, TX), Timothy Mark Schmidl (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17096045 on 11/12/2020 (663 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples of a signal equalizer, a complex signal having a first signal component and a second signal component is received from a communication channel. Adaptive equalization of crosstalk between the first signal component and the second signal component is performed using a single complex tap of a feedforward equalizer. A feedforward filter with real only taps converts the channel into a minimum phase channel that has postcursor interference only so that a low complexity decision feedback filter with all complex taps can easily eliminate the postcursor interreference.

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

Method and apparatus for frequency reconstruction of gated in-phase and quadrature data
Patent No. 11438208

Inventor(s): Calvin A. Coffey (McKinney, TX), Christopher T. Osterwise (Greenville, TX)
Assignee(s): L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (Melbourne, FL)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17484293 on 09/24/2021 (347 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method comprises: digitizing a signal to produce a reference frame of amplitude samples in a time-domain; generating a spectrogram that includes energy content of the reference frame, represented by amplitude and phase, across frequency and time of the spectrogram; detecting regions of the spectrogram that have energy levels greater than a threshold level to produce detected regions; copying energy content from the detected regions into an energy vector; and performing an Inverse Fourier transform (IFT) based on the energy vector to transform the energy vector into in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) (IQ) samples in the time-domain.

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

Server-based local address assignment protocol
Patent No. 11438268

Inventor(s): Donald E. Eastlake, III (Milford, MA), Yan Zhuang (Nanjing, , CN), Yizhou Li (Nanjing, , CN)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17006554 on 08/28/2020 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus comprises: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: perform a random number generation; generate a host identifier (HID) based on the random number generation, wherein the HID is substantially unique within a local network; and generate, using the HID, an initial message requesting a local address. A method comprises: performing a random number generation; generating a host identifier (HID) based on the random number generation, wherein the HID is substantially unique within a local network; generating, using the HID, an initial message requesting a local address; and transmitting the initial message.

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

Device identification encryption
Patent No. 11438317

Inventor(s): David C. Williamson (Plano, TX), Lu Tian (Plano, TX), Mathew M. Kaippallimalil (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, TX)
Law Firm: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Patent Department (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15420865 on 01/31/2017 (2044 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system may comprise a a combination engine to combine an encrypted device identification and a routing indicator resulting in a combined device identification. The system may also include an encryption engine to encrypt the combined device identification and a transmission engine to transmit the encrypted combined device identification.

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

Systemized blockchain reconciliation in a hybrid distributed network ecosystem
Patent No. 11438327

Inventor(s): Norman R. Silverman (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): SpeedChain, Inc. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Baker McKenzie LLP (Local + 5 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17576852 on 01/14/2022 (235 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for use in a hybrid network ecosystem comprising an enterprise network and a reconciliation network is presented. The method comprises generating, by at least one first computing node in the enterprise network or the reconciliation network, a first digital facilitator, wherein the first digital facilitator provides one or more parameters for accessing or distributing data on a distributed ledger in the enterprise network, and wherein a private key is used for performing a computing operation, based on the data, in the enterprise network. The method also comprises generating, by the at least one first computing node in the enterprise network or the reconciliation network or at least one second computing node in the enterprise network or the reconciliation network, a second digital facilitator, wherein the second digital facilitator provides the one or more parameters for accessing or distributing the data in the reconciliation network.

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

Application programming interface platform management using machine learning
Patent No. 11438353

Inventor(s): Kannappan Ramu (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Ryan, Mason Lewis, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16669995 on 10/31/2019 (1041 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes monitoring and logging a plurality of transactions between one or more clients and an application programming interface gateway, and analyzing data corresponding to the plurality of transactions using one or more machine learning techniques. The method further includes determining, based on the analyzing, one or more issues corresponding to one or more application programming interfaces associated with the application programming interface gateway and resulting from one or more of the plurality of transactions. In the method, one or more corrective actions are performed to address the one or more issues.

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

Systems and methods for enhanced messaging for network- and user equipment-implemented call request handling
Patent No. 11438389

Inventor(s): Lulia Ann Barakat (McKinney, TX), Timothy M. Dwight (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16865614 on 05/04/2020 (855 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for handling call requests, prior to the performance of a call setup procedure, based on attributes of a calling User Equipment (”UE”) and/or a called UE. A Messaging Application Server may receive a call request, from the calling UE and to the called UE, identify a category or event type associated with the call request, and notify the called UE of the call request, including the category or event type. Different categories or event types may be associated with different sets of eligible actions to perform. The called UE may indicate a particular action, associated with the identified category or event type, and the MAS may handle the call request according to the particular action (e.g., reject the call request or proceed with a call setup procedure).

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

Managing unmanned aerial vehicle flight data
Patent No. 11438419

Inventor(s): Warren Westrup (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16841948 on 04/07/2020 (882 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device can be configured to receive flight data associated with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), at least some of the flight data being received from the UAV; store the flight data; receive, from a requesting device, a flight data request, the flight data request including information identifying the UAV or a flight of the UAV; determine response data based on the flight data request and based on an entity associated with the requesting device, the response data including a subset of the flight data, which is available to be accessed by the entity; and perform an action associated with the response data.

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

Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile internet activity
Patent No. 11438429

Inventor(s): Achilleas Papakostas (Dallas, TX), Michael Andrew Yonker (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Hanley, Flight Zimmerman, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17214765 on 03/26/2021 (529 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and processor circuitry to execute instructions to at least assign (i) a first port of a proxy server to a first mobile device associated with a first panelist and (ii) a second port of the proxy server to a second mobile device associated with a second panelist, in response to receiving an un-authenticated request for media from at least one of the first, second, or third mobile devices, service the un-authenticated request in response to determining that the un-authenticated request is from an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with an IP address range representative of devices on a cellular network, and, in response to servicing the un-authenticated request via the first port, store an association between the media and first panelist demographic information associated with the first mobile device.

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

Block artifact suppression in video coding
Patent No. 11438607

Inventor(s): Do-Kyoung Kwon (Allen, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17107996 on 12/01/2020 (644 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for encoding a video sequence in a video encoder is provided that includes adapting a quantization parameter of a block of pixels in a picture of the video sequence based on a transform block size of the block of pixels to determine a final quantization parameter, and quantizing transform coefficients of the block of pixels using the final quantization parameter.

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

SMS via NAS carried by non-cellular access
Patent No. 11438738

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: 16609435 on 05/08/2017 (1947 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for services, such as SMS, location services, and/or the like over the NAS through a non-cellular access. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, via a non-access stratum connection through a wireless local area network, a notification message; sending a service request message to request, via the non-access stratum connection through the wireless local area network, delivery of downlink data for a service; and receiving, via the non-access stratum connection through the wireless local area network, the downlink data for the service. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Steering of roaming in wireless communication networks
Patent No. 11438755

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17185761 on 02/25/2021 (558 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for steering of roaming (SOR) in wireless communication networks includes sending by a mobile equipment (ME) a registration message to a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN). The ME receives a first message from a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) through the VPLMN. The ME determines that the first message has failed a security check. In response to determining that the first message has failed the security check, the ME sends a second message to the VPLMN, the second message including an indication that the first message has failed the security check.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Mobile profile download via null-authenticated communications session
Patent No. 11438759

Inventor(s): Mun Wei Low (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17109532 on 12/02/2020 (643 days app to issue)

Abstract: An improved cellular network architecture enables the provisioning of mobile profiles on devices lacking bootstrap profiles. A mobile device transmits an attach request that includes a pre-configured mobile country code (MCC) and mobile network code (MNC) uniquely associated with an emergency data session. The mobile device is then null-authenticated with a subscriber database, and an emergency data session is established, the emergency data session allowing traffic to a mobile profile manager. The mobile device can then download a mobile profile from the mobile profile using the emergency data session. Thus, a mobile device does not require a provisioning profile to download a full (or provisioning) mobile profile from a cellular network as in existing solutions.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Apparatus, system and method for traffic data management in wireless communications
Patent No. 11438800

Inventor(s): Anthony C. K. Soong (Plano, TX), Kaippallimalil Mathew John (Carrollton, TX), Khosrow Tony Saboorian (Plano, TX), Zhixian Xiang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16788097 on 02/11/2020 (938 days app to issue)

Abstract: Traffic data is divided into data streams corresponding to workloads, and the data streams are multiplexed onto slice segments based on a multiplexing requirement or rule. Each slice segment is a physical or virtual processing element in a wireless network supporting network slicing. In one example, the data streams are multiplexed onto the slice segments such that data streams having different utility definitions are assigned to different slice segments. In another example, the data streams are multiplexed onto the slice segments such that workloads in the same cluster partitioned in a T-dimensional vector space are assigned to different slice segments.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Post-event modification of local clock values in water distribution system
Patent No. 11438844

Inventor(s): Tom Bohrer (Akron, OH)
Assignee(s): AMI Investments, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Haley Guiliano LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17161280 on 01/28/2021 (586 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hydrant apparatus may be employed to monitor a water distribution system, and may include a sensor, a processor, and a local clock source. The apparatus may wake from a low power mode to a sensing mode, receive the sensor data, associate the sensor data with a first local clock time, and return the apparatus to the low power mode from the sensing mode. The apparatus may subsequently wake to an operational mode, determine a second local clock time subsequent to the first local clock time, associate an external clock time with the second local clock time, determine an offset for the received sensor data based on the first local clock time and the association between the second local clock time and the external clock time, and transmit the sensor data and the offset to an external monitoring system.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

NLOS wireless backhaul uplink communication
Patent No. 11438882

Inventor(s): June Chul Roh (Allen, TX), Mohamed Farouk Mansour (Richardson, TX), Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, , FR), Srinath Hosur (Plano, TX), Vijay Pothukuchi (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16872135 on 05/11/2020 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for uplink (UL) wireless backhaul communication at a wireless backhaul remote unit in a radio access network comprising receiving a configuration for radio frames and a transmission schedule through a downlink (DL) physical layer broadcast channel, wherein the transmission schedule comprises a transmission allocation for the remote unit, generating a UL data frame, wherein generating the UL data frame comprises performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on a data bit stream to generate a plurality of FEC codewords, wherein performing the FEC encoding comprises performing Reed Solomon (RS) encoding on the data bit stream to generate a plurality of RS codewords, performing byte interleaving on the RS codewords, and performing Turbo encoding on the byte interleaved RS codewords to generate one or more Turbo codewords, wherein each Turbo codeword is encoded from more than one RS codeword, and transmitting the UL data frame according to the transmission allocation.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Frame structure in NR
Patent No. 11438905

Inventor(s): Salman Khan (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Law Firm: BakerHostetler (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17132026 on 12/23/2020 (622 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present application at least describes a frame structure in new radio. The frame structure includes a self-contained transmission time interval. The transmission time interval includes a control information region including plural beams. The interval also includes a downlink transmission channel region including plural beams. The frame structure is configured for downlink control information to be swept through the time interval. The frame structure is also configured for an uplink or downlink grant resource subsequently to be swept through the time interval. The present application is also directed to a method for configuring user equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Selectively enabling identifier resources for connections in a fifth generation (5G) or other next generation wireless network
Patent No. 11438940

Inventor(s): David Braunecker (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA), ATT MOBILITY II LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Amin, Turocy Watson, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16854350 on 04/21/2020 (868 days app to issue)

Abstract: Technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitating the allocation, scheduling, and management of network slice resources. According some embodiments, a system can facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include facilitating receiving information regarding a characteristic of a potential connection, by a user device, to respective network devices of a group of provider networks. The operations can further include facilitating selecting an identifier resource from a group of identifier resources, the group comprising the identifier resources available to the user device for a connection to a corresponding network device of a provider network from the respective network devices of the group of provider networks, resulting in a selected identifier resource. Further, the operations can include communicating the selected identifier resource to the user device for use by the user device to establish the connection to the corresponding network device.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Power optimization for LAA cells without neighbor cell measurement configuration
Patent No. 11438959

Inventor(s): Yang Li (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Law Firm: Fay Kaplun Marcin, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15993934 on 05/31/2018 (1559 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device and method for power optimization for a user equipment (UE) without neighbor cell measurement configuration. The UE may be configured with Connected Discontinuous Reception (C-DRX) functionality including a cycle with an onDuration. The UE may be configured with carrier aggregation (CA) in the unlicensed spectrum including a reference signal (DRS) monitoring timing configuration (DMTC) occasion that occurs outside of the onDuration. The UE determines at least one subframe of the onDuration for the UE to utilize an active mode of processing related to performing measurements corresponding to a cell utilizing the unlicensed spectrum. The UE determines to utilize a sleep mode of processing related to performing the measurements during the DMTC occasion based on detecting a first downlink signal transmitted by the cell during the at least one subframe of the onDuration.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Multi-string LED current balancing circuit with fault detection
Patent No. 11438983

Inventor(s): Collin Philip Wells (Richardson, TX), Garrett Warren Satterfield (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17071946 on 10/15/2020 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lighting device circuit comprising: a reference LED string, a mirror LED string coupled in parallel to the reference LED string, an operational amplifier based current mirror circuit coupled to the reference LED string and to the mirror LED string, and a window comparator circuit that includes only a single input that is coupled to a fault sense node. The fault sense node directly connects to a drain node of a transistor within the operational amplifier based current mirror and a LED within the mirror LED string.

[H05B] ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Interposer printed circuit boards for power modules
Patent No. 11439013

Inventor(s): Alok Kumar Lohia (Dallas, TX), John Andrew Trelford (Richardson, TX), Richard John Yeager (Rockwall, TX), Thang Danh Truong (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee(s): ABB POWER ELECTRONICS, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17209591 on 03/23/2021 (532 days app to issue)

Abstract: Interposer printed circuit boards for power modules and associated methods are disclosed. In at least one illustrative embodiment, a printed circuit board assembly may comprise a printed circuit board having a surface, an electrical component mounted on the surface, a pin mounted on the surface, and an interposer printed circuit board mounted on the surface. The electrical component may have a first height orthogonal to the surface. The pin may have a second height orthogonal to the surface, where the second height is greater than the first height. The interposer printed circuit board may comprise a pad and an outer solder bump positioned on the pad. The outer solder bump may be positioned at a third height orthogonal to the surface, where the third height is greater than the first height.

[H05K] PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS (details of instruments or comparable details of other apparatus not otherwise provided for G12B; thin-film or thick-film circuits H01L 27/01, H01L 27/13; non-printed means for electric connections to or between printed circuits H01R; casings for, or constructional details of, particular types of apparatus, see the relevant subclasses; processes involving only a single technical art, e.g. heating, spraying, for which provision exists elsewhere, see the relevant classes)

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Anti-wobble hitch insert
Patent No. D962831

Inventor(s): Douglas Wright (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Mesa Carriers, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Park, Vaughan, Fleming Dowler LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29786824 on 06/02/2021 (461 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body washer
Patent No. D963069

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29730221 on 04/02/2020 (887 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Allograft insertion device
Patent No. D963166

Inventor(s): Panayiotis S Shiakolas (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Nexsen Pruet, PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29692224 on 05/23/2019 (1202 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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