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 October 25, 2022 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 12
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 13
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 4
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 7
G: PHYSICS 36
H: ELECTRICITY 37

DESIGN 5

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 10
Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 9
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 8
Sandisk Technologies Llc (Addison) 6
Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID) 4
Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco) 3
Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano) 3
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 3
Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (Plano) 2

UNASSIGNED 6

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

John Richard McCullough (Weatherford) 3
Matthew John Hill (Keller) 3
Sung Kyun Kim (Bedford) 3
Rakesh Goel (Irving) 2
Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Pest control and detection system with conductive bait matrix
Patent No. 11477973

Inventor(s): Daniel W. Engels (Colleyville, TX), Kenneth Lauffenburger (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BASF CORPORATION (Florham Park, NJ)
Law Firm: Marshall, Gerstein Borun LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16388401 on 04/18/2019 (1286 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pest control and/or detection system generally includes an electrically conductive bait matrix including at least one carrier material that is at least one of palatable, a phagostimulant and/or consumable and/or displaceable by pests, and a plurality of electrically conductive particles. The electrically conductive particles are substantially randomly interspersed throughout the at least one carrier material. The at least one carrier material includes a thermoplastic material and/or a resin.

[A01M] CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS (appliances for catching swarms or drone-catching A01K 57/00; fishing A01K 69/00-A01K 97/00; biocides, pest repellants or attractants A01N); APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS

Ophthalmic artery therapy under reverse flow
Patent No. 11478249

Inventor(s): Michael Calhoun (Lighthouse Point, FL), Robert Vidlund (Forest Lake, MN)
Assignee(s): J.D. Franco Co., LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16282939 on 02/22/2019 (1341 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method may include positioning a first device within an internal carotid artery of a subject and impeding antegrade blood flow in the internal carotid artery. Additionally, the method may include delivering a pharmaceutical agent through an external carotid artery for passage into an ophthalmic artery of the subject.

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

Stretch cord assemblies
Patent No. 11478372

Inventor(s): Nathan Joseph Sutti (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Miller IP LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16288853 on 02/28/2019 (1335 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for supporting a plantar flexion ridge. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: a sheath; a stretch cord extending along an interior of the sheath from a first end of the sheath to a second end of the sheath; a first buckle attached to a first end of the stretch cord; a first sleeve configured to cover at least a portion of the first end of stretch cord; a second buckle attached to a second end of the stretch cord; and a second sleeve configured to cover at least a portion of the second end of stretch cord.

[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]

Inhibitors of short-chain dehydrogenase activity for promoting neurogenesis and inhibiting nerve cell death
Patent No. 11478458

Inventor(s): Andrew Pieper (Iowa City, IA), Joseph Ready (Carrollton, TX), Sanford Markowitz (Pepper Pike, OH)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Dallas, TX), CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, OH), THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA (Iowa City, IA)
Law Firm: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell Tummino LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16995878 on 08/18/2020 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of promoting neuroprotection in a subject from axonal degeneration, neuronal cell death, and/or glia cell damage after injury, augmenting neuronal signaling underlying learning and memory, stimulating neuronal regeneration after injury, and/or treating a disease, disorder, and/or condition of the nervous system in a subject in need thereof includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a 15-PGDH inhibitor.

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

Formulations of 4-(7-Hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile
Patent No. 11478480

Inventor(s): Joseph Paul Bullock (Fort Worth, TX), Michela Montecchi-Palmer (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Novartis AG (Basel, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16789976 on 02/13/2020 (985 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides formulations of 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile (compound I) and methods for treating ocular surface pain by administering such formulations. The present invention also provides methods for treating dry eye disease and ocular hyperemia by administering formulations of 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile.

Systems and methods for DC protection in implantable pulse generators
Patent No. 11478644

Inventor(s): Daran DeShazo (Lewisville, TX), Steven Boor (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ADVANCED NEUROMODULATION SYSTEMS, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16855212 on 04/22/2020 (916 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for circuitry for an implantable pulse generator (IPG) of a neurostimulation system. The circuitry includes at least one anode node, at least one cathode node, a plurality of switching circuits, each switching circuit coupled to the at least one anode node and the at least one cathode node, and a plurality of output channels, each output channel coupled between an associated switching circuit and at least one electrode. The circuitry further includes a first DC blocking capacitor coupled between the at least one anode node and the plurality of switching circuits, a second DC blocking capacitor coupled between the at least one cathode node and the plurality of switching circuits. The circuitry further includes mitigation circuitry operable to limit DC leakage from the plurality of switching circuits through the plurality of output channels.

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

System and method for controlling neurostimulation according to user activity and automated balancing of stimulation program duration
Patent No. 11478645

Inventor(s): Christopher S. L. Crawford (Sunnyvale, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17139961 on 12/31/2020 (663 days app to issue)

Abstract: This application is generally related to systems and methods for providing a medical therapy to a patient by tracking patient activity and adjusting medical therapy based on occurrence of different types of activities performed by the patient while automatically balancing stimulation program duration.

Exercise system
Patent No. 11478676

Inventor(s): Matthew Fisher (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): OFFSET VENTURES, LLC (Whitestone, NY)
Law Firm: Akerman LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17486336 on 09/27/2021 (393 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to one example, an exercise system includes a vertical housing, a first weighted touchpoint coupled to the vertical housing and configured to allow a user to exercise one or more muscles on a first side of the user, a first weight system coupled to the first weighted touchpoint, a second weighted touchpoint coupled to the vertical housing and configured to allow the user to exercise one or more muscles on a second side of the user, and a second weight system coupled to the second weighted touchpoint. The exercise system further includes a control system configured to cause the first weight system to automatically provide a first heavier weight to the first weighted touchpoint for a first exercise and further cause the second weight system to automatically provide a second lighter weight to the second weighted touchpoint for the first exercise.

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

Iron-type golf club head
Patent No. 11478685

Inventor(s): Bryan Seon (Garland, TX), Jeffrey T. Halstead (Plano, TX), Justin Girard (Dallas, TX), Michael Scott Burnett (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)
Law Firm: Dawsey Co., LPA (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17355277 on 06/23/2021 (489 days app to issue)

Abstract: An iron-type golf club incorporating an aperture extending through the shell on the sole. The location and size of the aperture selectively increase deflection of the face.

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

Quasi cloud rendering technique for legacy databases using game engines
Patent No. 11478701

Inventor(s): Abhishek Verma (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Law Firm: Suiter Swantz pc llo (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17091705 on 11/06/2020 (718 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rendering system includes a cloud component and a local edge component. The cloud component receives or retrieves legacy data from various sources and preprocesses the data into a format. The local edge component receives the preprocessed data from the cloud component and performs local rendering steps necessary to place the preprocessed data into a form suitable for a game engine. The game engine utilizes the preprocessed data to render an image stream. The system is embodied in a flight simulator.

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

Vibration powered toy
Patent No. 11478720

Inventor(s): David Anthony Norman (Greenville, TX), Douglas Michael Galletti (Allen, TX), Raul Olivera (Health, TX), Robert H. Mimlitch, III (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Innovation First, Inc. (Greenville, TX)
Law Firm: Much Shelist, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16708554 on 12/10/2019 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, a rotational motor situated within the housing, an eccentric load adapted to be rotated by the rotational motor, and a plurality of legs each having a leg base and a leg tip at a distal end relative to the leg base. The legs are coupled to the housing at the leg base and include at least one driving leg constructed from a flexible material and configured to cause the apparatus to move in a direction generally defined by an offset between the leg base and the leg tip as the rotational motor rotates the eccentric load.

[A63H] TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS, BUILDING BLOCKS

OX2R compounds
Patent No. 11479560

Inventor(s): Daniel Rosenbaum (Dallas, TX), Jef De Brabander (Dallas, TX), Qiren Liang (Dallas, TX), Wentian Wang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17100810 on 11/20/2020 (704 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and compositions for agonizing a type-2 orexin receptor (OX2R) in a cell determined to be in need thereof, including the general method of (a) administering to a subject a cyclic guanidinyl OX2R agonist and (b) detecting a resultant enhanced wakefulness or increased resistance to diet-induced accumulation of body fat, or abbreviated recovery from general anesthesia or jet lag.

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

Filter interlock with tabs mating with a pedestal or a housing
Patent No. 11478733

Inventor(s): Darrell Lee Morehouse, III (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, IL)
Law Firm: Law Office of Kurt J. Fugman LLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17102831 on 11/24/2020 (700 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pedestal for use with a canister filter system and a filter element for positioning and retaining the filter element in the canister filter system includes an at least partially annular body defining a longitudinal axis, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction. Also, the pedestal includes an annular wall that terminates at a bottom free end, and that defines a slot that extends axially upwardly and circumferentially from the bottom free end. A flow aperture extends through the annular wall that is disposed axially above the slot.

[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]

Selectively attachable and detachable axial hub motor
Patent No. 11479107

Inventor(s): Joshua D. Payne (Ann Arbor, MI), Nathan C. Westover (New Hudson, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16588195 on 09/30/2019 (1121 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other implementations described herein relate to a hub motor for a wheel of a vehicle. In one embodiment, the hub motor includes a cylindrical rotor and a cylindrical stator coaxially spaced from the cylindrical rotor along an axle. The cylindrical rotor includes a rotor attachment to selectively couple the cylindrical rotor to the axle. The cylindrical stator is disposed between the cylindrical rotor and the wheel and includes stator attachments to selectively couple the cylindrical stator to an outer wheel surface of the wheel. The cylindrical rotor and the cylindrical stator are selectively attachable to the axle and the outer wheel surface, respectively, without removing the wheel from the vehicle.

[B60K] ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES [2006.01]

Optimized regenerative braking control of electric motors using look-up tables
Patent No. 11479124

Inventor(s): Aravind Samba Murthy (Atlanta, GA), David Patrick Magee (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17352436 on 06/21/2021 (491 days app to issue)

Abstract: A regenerative braking controller for an AC motor. To determine an electromagnetic torque for slowing or stopping the motor, the regenerative braking controller accesses a lookup table to retrieve a braking torque value corresponding to a current estimate of rotor velocity. The retrieved braking torque may correspond to a maximum or minimum torque level at which regenerative braking will occur at the current rotor velocity, or to a torque level at which charging current during regenerative braking will be maximized. If an external mechanical brake is present, the regenerative braking controller can forward an external braking torque signal to a controller so that the mechanical brake can apply the remainder of the braking force beyond that indicated by the regenerative braking torque. A method for establishing the braking torques to be stored in the lookup table is also disclosed.

[B60L] PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K 1/00, B60K 6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K 17/12, B60K 17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C 15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D 1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H 1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES [4]

Autonomous control of vehicle driving modes in certain traffic situations
Patent No. 11479268

Inventor(s): Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, 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: 16943014 on 07/30/2020 (817 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicular hazard mitigation system includes one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled to the processors. The memory may store a vehicular hazard mitigation module including computer-readable instructions that when executed by the processors cause the processors to determine a base vehicle currently driving in an enhanced response driving mode. After determining the base vehicle, at least one alert zone of the base vehicle is determined. A determination is then made as to whether at least one other vehicle is currently in the at least one alert zone of the base vehicle. If at least one other vehicle is currently in the at least one alert zone of the base vehicle, the vehicular hazard mitigation module may autonomously control operation of the base vehicle to shift the driving mode of the base vehicle from the enhanced response driving mode to a non-enhanced response driving mode.

[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]

Active vehicle interface for crosswind management
Patent No. 11479308

Inventor(s): Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, MI), Michael Paul Rowe (Pinckney, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmington Hills, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16243562 on 01/09/2019 (1385 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dynamic interface between a vehicle windshield and a structure (e.g., an A-pillar) is provided. The dynamic interface can be actively managed to allow its configuration to be selectively changed based on real-time driving environment conditions. The interface can include one or more actuators that can be selectively activated or deactivated to change the aerodynamic characteristics of the interface. When a crosswind activation condition is detected, the actuator(s) can be activated. The actuator(s) can be soft-bodied structures. The actuator(s) can include a bladder defining a fluid chamber filled with a dielectric fluid. A first conductor and a second conductor can be operatively positioned on opposite portions of the bladder. When electrical energy is supplied to the conductors, they can become oppositely charged. As a result, the conductors can be electrostatically attracted toward each other, displacing some of the dielectric fluid to an outer peripheral region of the fluid chamber.

[B62D] MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS (steering, or guiding on a desired track, of agricultural machines or implements A01B 69/00; wheels, castors, axles, increasing wheel adhesion B60B; vehicle tyres, tyre inflation or tyre changing B60C; connections between vehicles of a train or the like B60D; vehicles for use on rail and road, amphibious or convertible vehicles B60F; suspension arrangements B60G; heating, cooling, ventilating or other air treating devices B60H; windows, windscreens, non-fixed roofs, doors or similar devices, protective coverings for vehicles not in use B60J; propulsion plant arrangements, auxiliary drives, transmissions, controls, instrumentation or dashboards B60K; electric equipment or propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L; power supply for electrically-propelled vehicles B60M; passenger accommodation not otherwise provided for B60N; adaptations for load transportation or to carry special loads or objects B60P; arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general B60Q; vehicles, vehicle fittings or vehicle parts, not otherwise provided for B60R; servicing, cleaning, repairing, supporting, lifting, or manoeuvring, not otherwise provided for B60S; brake arrangements, brake control systems or parts thereof B60T; air-cushion vehicles B60V; motorcycles, accessories therefor B62J, B62K; testing of vehicles G01M)

Ducted fan assembly with blade in leading edge
Patent No. 11479338

Inventor(s): Michael Reaugh Smith (Colleyville, TX), Timothy Brian Carr (Fort Worth, TX), William Anthony Amante (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17037082 on 09/29/2020 (756 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a ducted fan assembly includes a housing that further includes a rotor. The ducted fan assembly also includes a rim that extends around at least a portion of a perimeter of the ducted fan assembly, where the rim defines an opening surrounding at least a portion of the housing. The ducted fan assembly also includes a skin that is attached to the rim and extends around the at least a portion of a perimeter of the ducted fan assembly to form a leading edge of the ducted fan assembly. The ducted fan assembly also includes a blade positioned on the rim underneath the skin.

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

Power management systems for multi engine rotorcraft
Patent No. 11479348

Inventor(s): William Mathisen Gons (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16558064 on 08/31/2019 (1151 days app to issue)

Abstract: A power management system for a multi engine rotorcraft having a main rotor system with a main rotor speed. The power management system includes a first engine that provides a first power input to the main rotor system. A second engine selectively provides a second power input to the main rotor system. The second engine has at least a zero power input state and a positive power input state. A power anticipation system is configured to provide the first engine with a power adjustment signal in anticipation of a power input state change of the second engine during flight. The power adjustment signal causes the first engine to adjust the first power input to maintain the main rotor speed within a predetermined rotor speed threshold range during the power input state change of the second engine.

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

Tip gap monitoring systems for ducted aircraft
Patent No. 11479350

Inventor(s): George Matthew Thompson (Lewisville, TX), Jonathan Andrew Knoll (Burleson, TX), Nicholas Ralph Carlson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16907067 on 06/19/2020 (858 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tip gap monitoring system for a ducted aircraft having a proprotor system including a duct and a plurality of proprotor blades includes sensors coupled to the proprotor system. The sensors are configured to detect one or more parameters of the proprotor system to form a plurality of sensor measurements. The tip gap monitoring system also includes a flight control computer in data communication with the sensors. The flight control computer includes a tip gap measurement module configured to determine a tip gap distance between the duct and the proprotor blades based on the sensor measurements.

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

Tailsitting biplane aircraft having a coaxial rotor system
Patent No. 11479352

Inventor(s): John Richard McCullough (Weatherford, TX), Lynn Francis Eschete (Arlington, TX), Matthew John Hill (Keller, TX), Sung Kyun Kim (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16879070 on 05/20/2020 (888 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft operable to transition between thrust-borne lift in a VTOL orientation and wing-borne lift in a biplane orientation. The aircraft has an airframe including first and second wings with a fuselage extending therebetween. A propulsion assembly is coupled to the fuselage and includes a counter-rotating coaxial rotor system that is tiltable relative to the fuselage to generate a thrust vector. A flight control system is configured to direct the thrust vector. In the VTOL orientation, the first wing is forward of the fuselage, the second wing is aft of the fuselage and the coaxial rotor system is configured to provide thrust in line with a yaw axis of the aircraft. In the biplane orientation, the first wing is below the fuselage, the second wing is above the fuselage and the coaxial rotor system is configured to provide thrust in line with a roll axis of the aircraft.

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

Distributed elevon systems for tailsitting biplane aircraft
Patent No. 11479353

Inventor(s): John Richard McCullough (Weatherford, TX), Matthew John Hill (Keller, TX), Sung Kyun Kim (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16879074 on 05/20/2020 (888 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft includes an airframe with first and second wings having a fuselage extending therebetween. A propulsion assembly is coupled to the fuselage and includes a counter-rotating coaxial rotor system that is tiltable relative to the fuselage to generate a thrust vector. Tail assemblies are coupled to wingtips of the first and second wings each having an elevon that collectively form a distributed array of elevons. A flight control system is configured to direct the thrust vector of the coaxial rotor system and to control movements of the elevons such that the elevons collectively provide pitch authority and differentially provide roll authority for the aircraft in the biplane orientation. In addition, when the flight control system detects an elevon fault, the flight control system is configured to perform corrective action responsive thereto at a distributed elevon level or at a coordinated distributed elevon and propulsion assembly level.

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

Thrust vectoring coaxial rotor systems for aircraft
Patent No. 11479354

Abstract: A propulsion assembly for an aircraft operable to transition between thrust-borne lift in a VTOL orientation and wing-borne lift in a biplane orientation. The propulsion assembly includes a housing coupled to the fuselage of the aircraft. A coaxial rotor system includes a first rotor assembly and a second rotor assembly that are rotatable about a common axis of rotation. The first rotor assembly counter-rotates relative to the second rotor assembly. A motor assembly is operably associated with the coaxial rotor system. The motor assembly provides torque and rotational energy to the first rotor assembly and the second rotor assembly. A gimbal assembly couples the coaxial rotor system to the housing such that the coaxial rotor system is tiltable relative to the fuselage to generate a thrust vector.

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

Detection and removal of unstable parcel mail from an automated processing stream
Patent No. 11479418

Inventor(s): John M. Zatopek (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Krber Supply Chain LLC (DFW Airport, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17054328 on 05/14/2019 (1260 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for removing unstable articles from an automated processing stream includes an automated processing stream with a plurality of processing units including a flow diverter and configured to carry a stream of articles, a vision system, and a control system interfacing with the automated processing stream and the vision system, wherein the vision system is configured to detect positions of an article and to transmit position data to the control system, and wherein the control system is configured, through operation of a processor, to determine an expected position of the article based on a first detected position, compare the expected position to a second detected position of the article, determine a deviation of the second detected position from the expected position, and control the flow diverter to divert the article based on the deviation.

[B07C] POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING (specially adapted for a specific purpose covered by another class, see the relevant place, e.g. A43D 33/06, B23Q 7/12)

Nanofiber structure applicator
Patent No. 11479438

Inventor(s): Jordan Benson (Garland, TX), Nicklas Keller (Plano, TX), Raquel Ovalle-Robles (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): LINTEC OF AMERICA, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Greenblum Bernstein, P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16849046 on 04/15/2020 (923 days app to issue)

Abstract: A nanofiber structure applicator is described that can remove two substrates from opposing major surfaces of a nanofiber structure. The two substrates can have differing adhesive strengths with the nanofiber forest. This difference in adhesive strength can be used to reorient nanofibers that form the nanofiber structure relative to the final surface on which they are applied. This reorienting of the individual nanofibers within a nanofiber structure can be used to tailor some of the properties of the nanofiber structure. Furthermore, the nanofiber structure applicator is configured can improve the convenience with which a nanofiber structure can be transported and applied to an application surface.

[B65H] HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

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

Power tailgate having manual operation feature
Patent No. 11480002

Inventor(s): Jun Kobayashi (Novi, MI), Norman C. Kerr (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16674041 on 11/05/2019 (1085 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tailgate control system for a vehicle includes a spindle and a coupling member fixedly coupled to a tailgate of the vehicle, the coupling member having a slot formed therein. A portion of the spindle is coupled to the coupling member via the slot so as to enable relative movement between the portion of the spindle and the coupling member along the slot, and such that extension of the spindle causes a force on the coupling member which causes a closing motion of the tailgate. The portion of the spindle is also coupled to the coupling member such that a manually-generated closing motion of the tailgate causes a change in a position of the portion of the spindle along the slot.

[E05F] DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING

Drill bit
Patent No. 11480016

Inventor(s): Alfred Harold Skinner (Aledo, TX), Benjamin Chrest (Fort Worth, TX), Jorge Arthur Silveus, III (Fort Worth, 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: 16676913 on 11/07/2019 (1083 days app to issue)

Abstract: A drill bit including a body having a face and a plurality of blades disposed on the face of the body. Each of the plurality of blades may have a row of cutters disposed thereon, and the rows of cutters may collectively define a cutting profile of the drill bit. At least some of the cutters along the cutting profile may have alternating positive back rake angles. The difference between a majority of back rake angles on adjacent cutters along the cutting profile may be less than 20.

[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]

In-line treatment cartridge and methods of using same
Patent No. 11480041

Inventor(s): Billy Dale Peters (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): CARBO CERAMICS INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16725143 on 12/23/2019 (1037 days app to issue)

Abstract: An in-line treatment cartridge and methods of using same are disclosed. The in-line treatment cartridge can include a cylindrical body configured to allow fluid to flow therethrough and a plurality of particulates contained within the body. At least one particulate of the plurality of particulates can include a chemical treatment agent. The at least one chemical treatment agent can separate from the at least one particulate upon contact with a fluid.

Sparse acoustic reflector
Patent No. 11482203

Inventor(s): Hideo Iizuka (Ann Arbor, MI), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16875073 on 05/15/2020 (893 days app to issue)

Abstract: A broadband sparse acoustic reflector includes a periodic array of laterally spaced apart unit cells, each unit cell having a plurality of longitudinally positioned Helmholtz resonators. Each unit cell includes a Helmholtz resonator having a neck that places the resonator interior in fluid communication with an ambient fluid, in the lateral direction. Each Helmholtz resonator of the unit cell has a different resonance frequency, providing broadband reflection.

[E04B] GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS (border constructions of openings in walls, floors, or ceilings E06B 1/00)

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

Stator and duct ring structural fittings
Patent No. 11480072

Inventor(s): Elizabeth Feeley (Dallas, TX), Joseph Richard Carpenter, Jr. (Kennedale, TX), Karl Schroeder (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lightfoot Alford PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16732094 on 12/31/2019 (1029 days app to issue)

Abstract: A duct for a ducted-rotor aircraft includes a hub, a duct ring, and a plurality of stators that extend outward from the hub. The duct ring defines a trailing edge. The duct includes one or more fittings, such as a system of fittings. Each fitting has a body that defines a first attachment interface that is configured to couple to structure of the duct ring and a second attachment interface that is configured to couple to one of the plurality of stators. The first and second attachment interfaces are spaced from each other such that when the fittings are coupled to the duct ring and the plurality of stators, all or substantially all of each of the plurality of stators are located aft of the trailing edge of the duct ring.

[F01D] NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES (combustion engines F02; machines or engines for liquids F03, F04; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D)

Systems and methods for engine coalescer exhaust extraction
Patent No. 11480079

Inventor(s): David Wright (Fort Worth, TX), Stephen Kocienski (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Transportation IP Holdings, LLC (Norwalk, CT)
Law Firm: McCoy Russell LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17445703 on 08/23/2021 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for engine coalescer exhaust extraction are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises an engine including a crankcase fluidly coupled to a coalescer, a muffler adapted to receive combustion exhaust gases from the engine, and a coalescer exhaust passage fluidly coupling the coalescer to the muffler. The coalescer exhaust passage includes an inlet arranged upstream of the muffler adapted to flow a motive fluid to the coalescer exhaust passage to increase a flow speed of coalescer exhaust through the coalescer exhaust passage.

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

Support for reciprocating pump
Patent No. 11480170

Inventor(s): Edward C. Kotapish (Willow Park, TX), Jacob A. Bayyouk (Richardson, TX), Joseph H. Byrne (Hudson Oaks, TX), Lawrence Waweru (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): SPM Oil Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17321483 on 05/16/2021 (527 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gearbox is coupled to a power end housing of a reciprocating pump, where the gearbox includes at least one support member having a first end securely affixed to the gearbox, and the at least one support member having a second end securely affixed to an immobile part of the reciprocating pump for supporting the gearbox and resisting movement of the gearbox relative to the reciprocating pump.

[F04B] POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F; crankshafts, crossheads, connecting-rods F16C; flywheels F16F; gearings for interconverting rotary motion and reciprocating motion in general F16H; pistons, piston-rods, cylinders, in general F16J; ion pumps H01J 41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K 44/02)

Emergency lubrication system for tiltrotor aircraft
Patent No. 11480245

Inventor(s): Douglas Robert Mueller (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Pramudji Law Group PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16201748 on 11/27/2018 (1428 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to an emergency lubrication system for a tiltrotor aircraft. The emergency lubrication system includes a pressurized material chamber, a lubrication chamber, a first valve between the pressurized material chamber and the lubrication chamber, a gearbox, and a second valve between the lubrication chamber and the gearbox. The first valve is configured to operate in a first mode when the emergency lubrication system is in a first configuration and a second mode when the emergency lubrication system is in a second configuration.

[F16H] GEARING

System and method for protection of under-slab utilities from changes in soil volume
Patent No. 11480267

Inventor(s): Benchmark Harris (Aledo, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17512612 on 10/27/2021 (363 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention relates to a utility support framing system and method of use for structurally suspended concrete slabs of slab-on-voidform foundations. The inventive utility support framing system and method of use isolates utilities, hanger assemblies, and framing system components from soil so as to avoid problems created by volumetric soil changes which otherwise would damage utility lines under foundation systems. The inventive utility support framing system permits suspending utility pipes under a slab of a slab-on-voidform foundation while avoiding the problems of the prior art. The invention also relates to a novel mountable pipe clamp and method of use and a novel protective utility counterweight and method of use for transitioning a utility system from a suspended condition to a soil supported condition.

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

Peak demand response operation of HVAC system with face-split evaporator
Patent No. 11480353

Inventor(s): Rakesh Goel (Irving, TX), Vijaykumar Sathyamurthi (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16543082 on 08/16/2019 (1166 days app to issue)

Abstract: An HVAC system includes a face-split evaporator. The face-split evaporator includes a top evaporator circuit positioned above a bottom evaporator circuit. The system includes a first compressor associated with the top evaporator circuit, a second compressor associated with the bottom evaporator circuit, and a controller communicatively coupled to the first and second compressors. The controller receives a demand request, which includes a command to reduce power consumption by the HVAC system by a predefined percentage. In response to receiving the demand request, the second compressor is turned off thereby decreasing power consumption by at least the predefined percentage. A portion of a liquid condensate formed on a surface of the top evaporator circuit is allowed to fall on a surface of the bottom evaporator circuit such that a portion of a flow of air passing across the bottom evaporator is evaporatively cooled by the portion of the liquid condensate.

[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)

Sensor validation
Patent No. 11480371

Inventor(s): Edward Robinson (Irving, TX), Patric Ananda Balan Thobias (Chennai, , IN), Rakesh Goel (Irving, TX), Siddarth Rajan (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16804496 on 02/28/2020 (970 days app to issue)

Abstract: An HVAC system includes a compressor, condenser, and evaporator. A sensor measures a value associated with the refrigerant in the condenser or the evaporator, and a controller is communicatively coupled to the compressor and the sensor. The controller determines, based on an operational history the compressor, that pre-requisite criteria are satisfied for entering a sensor validation mode. After determining the pre-requisite criteria are satisfied, an initial sensor measurement value is determined. Following determining the initial sensor measurement value, the compressor is operated according to a sensor-validation mode. Following operating the compressor according to the sensor-validation mode for at least a minimum time, a current sensor measurement value is determined. The controller determines whether validation criteria are satisfied for the current sensor value. In response to determining that the validation criteria are satisfied, the controller determines that the sensor is validated.

P H Y S I C S

Volumetric budget based irrigation control
Patent No. 11477950

Inventor(s): Blake Snider (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Rain Bird Corporation (Azusa, CA)
Law Firm: Fitch, Even, Tabin Flannery LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17314830 on 05/07/2021 (536 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present embodiments provide systems, processes and/or methods of controlling irrigation. In some embodiments, methods are provided that receive ([b]4112[/b]) water usage information corresponding to a first volumetric water usage at a site location having an irrigation controller ([b]130[/b]), wherein the first volumetric water usage corresponds to volumetric water usage from a beginning of a budget period of time to a first time within the budget period of time; determine ([b]4114[/b]) automatically whether a volumetric water budget at the site location will be met for the budget period of time based on at least the first volumetric water usage, the volumetric water budget corresponding to a specified volume of water for use during the budget period of time; determine ([b]4116[/b]) automatically, in the event the volumetric water budget will not be met, an adjustment to the irrigation by the irrigation controller; and output ([b]4118[/b]) signaling to effect the adjustment.

[G05B] CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (fluid-pressure actuators or systems acting by means of fluids in general F15B; valves per se F16K; characterised by mechanical features only G05G; sensitive elements, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. G12B, subclasses of G01, H01; correcting units, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. H02K)

Automatic tote accumulator with cam-actuated stack retaining latch
Patent No. 11479420

Inventor(s): Lelan D. Warren (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Krber Supply Chain LLC (DFW Airport, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16984296 on 08/04/2020 (812 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tote accumulator includes stack retaining latches that are configured to be acted on by a cam and follower mechanism and additionally by a holding mechanism. The cam and follower mechanism is configured to act on the stack retaining latches when the stack of totes is moved vertically by a lifting member, to move the stack retaining latches into an active dwell wherein the stack retaining latches are engaged with the stack of totes. The holding mechanism is configured to be activated to extend the active dwell after the cam and follower mechanism ceases to act on the stack retaining latches. The active dwell is extended even further by a mechanical interlocking feature between the latches and the totes. In various implementations, the design of the cam and follower arrangement and the activation timing of the holding mechanism may be adapted to execute a stacking or an unstacking operation.

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

Binocular display with digital light path length modulation
Patent No. 11480784

Inventor(s): D. Scott Dewald (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Avegant Corp. (San Mateo, GA)
Law Firm: Nicholson De Vos Webster Elliott LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16726224 on 12/23/2019 (1037 days app to issue)

Abstract: A near-eye display system comprising a image source, a modulation stack, and an imaging assembly. The modulation stack, in one embodiment, comprises one or more digital light path length modulators.

[G02B] OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS (G02F takes precedence; optical elements specially adapted for use in lighting devices or systems thereof F21V 1/00-F21V 13/00; measuring-instruments, see the relevant subclass of class G01, e.g. optical rangefinders G01C; testing of optical elements, systems, or apparatus G01M 11/00; spectacles G02C; apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them G03B; sound lenses G10K 11/30; electron and ion “optics” H01J; X-ray “optics” H01J, H05G 1/00; optical elements structurally combined with electric discharge tubes H01J 5/16, H01J 29/89, H01J 37/22; microwave “optics” H01Q; combination of optical elements with television receivers H04N 5/72; optical systems or arrangements in colour television systems H04N 9/00; heating arrangements specially adapted for transparent or reflecting areas H05B 3/84) [7]

Non-volatile memory with memory array between circuits
Patent No. 11481154

Inventor(s): Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, CA), James Kai (Santa Clara, CA), Jian Chen (San Jose, CA), Johann Alsmeier (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17149867 on 01/15/2021 (648 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated memory assembly comprises a memory die and a control die bonded to the memory die. The memory die comprises a three dimensional non-volatile memory structure and a first plurality of sense amplifiers. The first plurality of sense amplifiers are connected to the memory structure and are positioned on a substrate of the memory die between the memory structure and the substrate such that the memory structure is directly above the first plurality of sense amplifiers. The control die comprises a second plurality of sense amplifiers that are connected to the memory structure. The first plurality of sense amplifiers and the second plurality of sense amplifiers are configured to be used to concurrently perform memory operations.

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

Separate branch target buffers for different levels of calls
Patent No. 11481221

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: 16029135 on 07/06/2018 (1572 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing device (e.g., a processor) having a plurality of branch target buffers. A first branch target buffer in the plurality of branch target buffers is used in execution of a set of instructions containing a call to a subroutine. In response to the call to the subroutine, a second branch target buffer is allocated from the plurality of branch target buffers for execution of instructions in the subroutine. The second branch target buffer is cleared before the execution of the instructions in the subroutine. The execution of the instructions in the subroutine is restricted to access the second branch target buffer and blocked from accessing branch target buffers other than the second branch target buffer.

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

Virtual machine register in a computer processor
Patent No. 11481241

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a virtual machine register in a computer processor are described. For example, a memory coupled to the computer processor can store instructions of routines of predefined, non-hierarchical domains. The computer processor can store, in the virtual machine register, an identifier of a virtual machine for which the processor is currently executing instructions in a current domain in the set of domains. For example, the processor can implement resource restriction/mapping and/or perform address translation for the virtual machine based on the identifier stored in the virtual machine register.

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

MCU-independent primary-secondary PMIC sequencing and centralized fault management
Patent No. 11481280

Inventor(s): Alaa Eldin Y El Sherif (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NXP USA, Inc. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17228967 on 04/13/2021 (560 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a distributed power system, including: a primary power management integrated circuit (PMIC) configured to receive a source voltage and connected to a primary communication bus, wherein the primary PMIC produces a secondary voltage on a voltage line, wherein the primary PMIC communicates with a microcontroller unit (MCU) via the primary communication bus; and a plurality of secondary PMICs connected to the primary PMIC via the voltage line, a secondary communication bus, and a fail line, wherein the plurality of secondary PMICs are configured to produce a pulsed signal on the fail line when a secondary PMIC fails, wherein the pulsed signal produced by each of the plurality of secondary PMICs have a unique pulse width that indicates to the primary PMIC the identity of the failed secondary PMIC.

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

Streaming engine with flexible streaming engine template supporting differing number of nested loops with corresponding loop counts and loop offsets
Patent No. 11481327

Inventor(s): Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17146576 on 01/12/2021 (651 days app to issue)

Abstract: A streaming engine employed in a digital data processor specifies a fixed read only data stream defined by plural nested loops. An address generator produces address of data elements for the nested loops. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. A stream template specifies loop count and loop dimension for each nested loop. A format definition field in the stream template specifies the number of loops and the stream template bits devoted to the loop counts and loop dimensions. This permits the same bits of the stream template to be interpreted differently enabling trade off between the number of loops supported and the size of the loop counts and loop dimensions.

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

Using a directory-based cache coherence system to regulate snooping
Patent No. 11481328

Inventor(s): Gary Gostin (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Patent Department (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16925870 on 07/10/2020 (837 days app to issue)

Abstract: A technique includes, in response to a cache miss occurring with a given processing node of a plurality of processing nodes, using a directory-based coherence system for the plurality of processing nodes to regulate snooping of an address that is associated with the cache miss. Using the directory-based coherence system to regulate whether the address is included in a snooping domain is based at least in part on a number of cache misses associated with the address.

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

Transporting request types with different latencies
Patent No. 11481343

Inventor(s): Tony M. 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: 17459525 on 08/27/2021 (424 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes multiple memory-compute nodes coupled to one another over a scale fabric, where each memory-compute node includes a hybrid threading processor; a memory controller; a fabric interface; and a network on chip (NOC) that provides communication between the hybrid threading processor, the fabric interface, and the memory controller, wherein the fabric interface supports a first virtual channel (VC0), and a second virtual channel (VC1) to the NOC, and supports the first virtual channel (VC0), the second virtual channel (VC1), and a third virtual channel (VC2) to the scale fabric.

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

Split direct memory access (DMA) with streaming interconnect
Patent No. 11481345

Inventor(s): Brian Jason Karguth (Van Alstyne, TX), Charles Lance Fuoco (Allen, TX), Michael Anthony Denio (Allen, TX), Samuel Paul Visalli (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17099896 on 11/17/2020 (707 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes first and second memory devices and a bridge. The IC also includes a first interconnect segment coupled between the first memory device and the bridge. The IC further includes a second interconnect segment coupled between the first and second memory devices, and a third interconnect segment coupled between the bridge and the second memory device. The IC includes a first DMA circuit coupled to the first interconnect segment, and a second DMA circuit coupled to the second interconnect segment. A fourth interconnect segment is coupled between the first and second DMA circuits.

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

Detecting and using mood-condition affinities
Patent No. 11481453

Inventor(s): Krish Anant Prabhu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Hartman Citrin LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16180063 on 11/05/2018 (1450 days app to issue)

Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for detecting and using mood-condition affinities. A processor that executes an affinity service or affinity application can obtain collected data associated with a user device. The collected data can include sensor readings collected by the user device. The processor can determine a condition at the user device and a mood associated with the condition. The processor can generate an affinity that defines a relationship between the condition and the mood and store the affinity at a data storage device.

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

Concept networks and systems and methods for the creation, update and use of same to select images, including the selection of images corresponding to destinations in artificial intelligence systems
Patent No. 11481461

Inventor(s): Chao Pan (Austin, TX), Melanie Tosik (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): REALPAGE, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17097895 on 11/13/2020 (711 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for concept based searching or recommendation are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of a concept based approach to the search and analysis of data, including the creation, update or use of concept networks in searching and analyzing data are disclosed, including embodiments of the usage of such concept networks in artificial intelligence systems that are capable of utilizing concepts expressed by users to return or evaluate associated images.

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

Systems and methods for generating an inventory of software applications for optimized analysis
Patent No. 11481493

Inventor(s): Stephen Pettit (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16696254 on 11/26/2019 (1064 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive data identifying applications, wherein each application includes files and each file includes functions and lines of code. The device may generate file hashes for the files, line hashes for the lines of code, and function hashes for the functions. The device may store, in a data structure, data identifying one or more of the applications, the files, the lines of code, the functions, the file hashes, the line hashes, and the function hashes. When scanning a new application, the device may generate a hash associated with one of the files of the new application, and may determine that the hash associated with the file of the new application matches one of the file hashes. The device may refrain from performing a scan of the file of the new application based on determining that the hash of the file matches one of the file hashes.

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

Conditional processing of annotated documents for automated document generation
Patent No. 11481545

Inventor(s): Donald Thomas Smith (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee(s): Orbis Technologies, Inc. (Annapolis, MD)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17359854 on 06/28/2021 (484 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer system conditionally processes a template document to produce one or more finished documents. Annotations in the template document are identified, each annotation indicating an instruction name and a portion of the template document to which the annotation is applied. The template document is processed using one or more structured data feeds that indicate, for each annotation, instructions for transforming the portion of the template document associated with the annotation, wherein the instructions are indicated by the instruction name of the annotation. Finished documents are generated by executing the instructions to transform the template document into each finished document, wherein transforming includes: replacing data in the template document, adding data to the template document, and removing data from the template document. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for conditionally processing content in an annotated document in substantially the same manner described above.

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

Transportation device sharing system
Patent No. 11481695

Inventor(s): Katsumi Nagata (Foster City, 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: 16440019 on 06/13/2019 (1230 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and devices related to a transportation device sharing system including vehicles with integrated docking ports are disclosed. In one embodiment, a vehicle includes a docking system for a transportation device, including a docking port, adapted to receive the transportation device and secure the transportation device, a communication device to wirelessly transmit and receive data, one or more processors, and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing a status module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to determine whether the transportation device is present in the docking port and cause the communication device to transmit location data indicating a location of the vehicle, and status data, indicating at least the presence or absence of the transportation device in the docking port, to an external receiver.

[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]

Worksite information management system
Patent No. 11481702

Inventor(s): Luis A. Uriarte (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): MiView Integrated Solutions, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17351982 on 06/18/2021 (494 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method implements a worksite information management system. A selection that includes a task block is received. A task corresponding to a worksite is updated to include the task block. The task is presented to one of a worker interface, a trade interface, and a builder interface. An update to the task block is received. The task is updated using the update to generate an updated task. The updated task is presented to one of the trade interface and the builder interface.

Oil maintenance monitoring
Patent No. 11481736

Inventor(s): William Daryl Cammack (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16700339 on 12/02/2019 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: To monitor lubrication maintenance of an automotive vehicle a signal is generated by a sensor that is indicative of exposure of a lubrication system access port through which automotive lubricant is accessed. Performance of a lubrication maintenance operation is determined from the signal and lubrication maintenance information is transmitted externally to the vehicle, where the lubrication maintenance information includes an indication of the performance of the lubrication maintenance operation.

Communications platform for linking rules with independently defined rewards
Patent No. 11481794

Inventor(s): Dan D. Hoffman (Flower Mound, TX), David R. Jenness (Flower Mound, TX), Erika D. Lambert (Flower Mound, TX), James L. Rockett, Jr. (Carrollton, TX), Randy M. Whelan (Coppell, TX), Robert M. Beaty (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): RedCritter Corp. (Flower Mound, TX)
Law Firm: Kirton McConkie (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17028750 on 09/22/2020 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: As part of implementing a recognition and reward system, a communications platform can employ a unique set of data structures, APIs and a rules engine that abstract the definition of rewards from the definition of rules for determining when the rewards should be made available. Accordingly, boosters may interface directly with the communications platform to offer rewards to participants but need not be aware of or involved in the process of defining the rules that will be used to distribute the rewards. Likewise, administrators may interface directly with the communications platform to define rules for making rewards available without needing to be aware of the rewards themselves. In this way, a communications platform can integrate boosters and their rewards into a recognition and rewards system without requiring tight coupling between the rules for determining when rewards should be made available and the rewards themselves.

Delivery of dynamic content based upon predetermined thresholds
Patent No. 11481807

Inventor(s): Cameron Fowler (Fort Worth, TX), Matthew Sullivan (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): Digital Seat Media, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Vos-IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17660672 on 04/26/2022 (182 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for creating a unique digital experience based upon meeting a predefined threshold of users within a system comprising: detecting a machine-readable code with a user device and determining an identification of a user, the user device, or both; determining whether the identification of the user device contains a unique ID by querying a server; wherein if no unique ID is identified, issuing the unique ID to the user device; storing the unique ID within a database; determining a threshold of users for the system, wherein unique digital coupons are held until the meeting of said threshold; meeting said threshold and generating a unique digital coupon, said digital coupon being unique to the unique ID; and delivering the unique digital coupon to said user device.

Transport sharing and ownership among multiple entities
Patent No. 11481836

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Risberg (Flower Mound, TX), Eric Randell Schmidt (Northville, MI), Evan A. Vijithakumara (Frisco, TX), James H. Kikuma (Plano, TX), Mathew Gardner (Lewisville, TX), Nutonya L. Parker (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16446367 on 06/19/2019 (1224 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of applying a user profile to one or more transports and a transport management database, monitoring user requirements and user usage of the one or more transports over a period of time, identifying a plurality of transport profiles stored in a transport availability pool of the transport management database, identifying a proposed fractional ownership of one or more of a plurality of transports identified in the transport availability pool based on the monitored user requirements and user usage of the one or more transports, and providing the proposed fractional ownership of the one or more of a plurality of transports identified in the transport availability pool to a user device associated with the user.

Media verification system
Patent No. 11482049

Inventor(s): Daniel Joseph Serna (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16847962 on 04/14/2020 (924 days app to issue)

Abstract: A media verification device receives baseline media, which includes videos confirmed to include a target subject. The device determines, based on the baseline media for the target subject, a set of baseline features associated with the target subject. A baseline profile is determined for the target subject based on the set of baseline features. When test media which includes a video purported to include the test subject is received, test features are determined for the test media. A test profile is determined for the test media based on the set of test features. The test profile is compared to the baseline profile for the test subject. Based on this comparison, a confidence score is determined. If the confidence score is not greater than a threshold value, the test media is determined to include a synthetic video of the target subject, and an alert is provided.

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

Cryptocurrency transactional systems and methods
Patent No. 11482074

Inventor(s): Matthew Dickson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Newman Law, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16868530 on 05/06/2020 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: A secure cryptocurrency transfer system between an electronic gaming machine and a cryptowallet.

[G07F] COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D 3/00; coin testing G07D 5/00) [7]

Aggregate monitor data in real-time by worker
Patent No. 11482084

Inventor(s): Tarun Kumar (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17212869 on 03/25/2021 (579 days app to issue)

Abstract: A worker monitoring system. The system comprises a processor, a display, a data store, a non-transitory memory, and an application stored in the non-transitory memory. The application stores definitions of associations of electronic monitors to workers in the data store, receives information from the electronic monitors via a wireless communication link, based on accessing the data store, analyzes information from a plurality of electronic monitors associated with one of the workers, corroborates information from a first electronic monitor associated with the one or the workers using information from a second electronic monitor associated with the one of the workers, and based on the corroboration of the information from the first electronic monitor, and presents an alarm indication on the display.

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

Alert system
Patent No. 11482087

Inventor(s): Ricky Philippi (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17208522 on 03/22/2021 (582 days app to issue)

Abstract: An alert system includes a bladder having an interior area to hold a gas or a liquid; a control system in communication with the bladder; an alert device in communication with the bladder; pressure applied to the bladder causes the gas or the liquid to pass to the control system; and the gas or the liquid causes the alert device to provide an alert based on a command from the control system.

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

Systems and methods for automatically determining compliant operation of a power supply panel integrated in a fire alarm system design
Patent No. 11482093

Inventor(s): Eugene R. Reichert, Jr. (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): GREAT SOUTHWESTERN FIRE SAFETY, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts, LLP (Local + 6 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17362106 on 06/29/2021 (483 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for automatically determining compliant operation of a power supply panel integrated in a fire alarm system, the method including the steps of receiving a first input in a first selectable field relating to a manufacturer type of the fire alarm system; receiving a second input in a second selectable field relating to a circuit class associated with circuits of the fire alarm system; receiving a third input in a third selectable field relating to an end-of-line resistor size; receiving one or more additional inputs relating to at least one of the power supply panel or the fire alarm system; and performing one or more calculations based on the first, second, and third inputs and the one or more additional inputs to generate outputs for determining compliant operation of the power supply panel integrated in the fire alarm system.

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

Cooperative vehicle monitoring
Patent No. 11482109

Inventor(s): Hao Yang (Aliso Viejo, CA), Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENG MFG NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: VLP Law Group LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16806907 on 03/02/2020 (967 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, a method captures, at a first connected vehicle situated in a travel path segment, first sensor data describing an environment proximate to the first connected vehicle. The environment includes a first unconnected vehicle. The method wirelessly receives, via a communication network at the first connected vehicle from a second connected vehicle situated in the travel path segment, second sensor data describing one or more operating characteristics of the first unconnected vehicle. The method estimates, using the first sensor data and the second sensor data, a vehicle action of the first unconnected vehicle.

[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)

Systems and methods for determining actual operating conditions of fleet cars
Patent No. 11482110

Inventor(s): Felipe G. Salles (Garland, TX), Joshua V. Marasigan (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16189068 on 11/13/2018 (1442 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining actual wear and tear of fleet cars is provided. The method includes at a cloud server comprising a processor, a memory and a database, receiving, from a first fleet car, first data streams generated by a first group of sensors mounted on the first fleet car, receiving from a second fleet car second data streams generated by a second group of sensors mounted on the second fleet car, and determining, with the processor, actual wear and tear of the first fleet car and the second fleet car based on the first wear and tear element and the second wear and tear element.

[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]

Devices and methods for providing tactile feedback
Patent No. 11482132

Inventor(s): Carlo Cruz (Cincinnati, OH)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15421912 on 02/01/2017 (2092 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for providing a tactile feedback includes an imaging device configured to capture an image of a face of a subject, a tactile feedback device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the imaging device and the tactile feedback device. The controller comprising at least one processor and at least one memory storing computer readable and executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the controller to: process the image, determine a type of a facial expression based on the processed image, determine a level of a facial expression of the type based on the processed image, determine a tactile feedback intensity of the tactile feedback device based on the level of the facial expression, and control the tactile feedback device to provide a tactile feedback having the tactile feedback intensity.

[G09B] EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS

Per pin Vref for data receivers in non-volatile memory system
Patent No. 11482262

Inventor(s): Anil Pai (San Jose, CA), Jang Woo Lee (Seongnam-si, , KR), Srinivas Rajendra (Milpitas, CA), Venkatesh Ramachandra (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348904 on 06/16/2021 (496 days app to issue)

Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for per pin internal reference voltage generation for data receivers in non-volatile memory systems. A receiving circuit may have an on-die voltage generator that has inputs to receive a separate voltage magnitude select signal for each data receiver on the receiving circuit. The on-die voltage generator provides a separate reference voltage for each data receiver. This allows the reference voltage for each data receiver to be calibrated separately. A separate reference voltage for each data receiver compensates for variations between data paths, and provides for a wider data valid window than if the same reference voltage were used for all data receivers. Generating the different reference voltages on-die can potentially require a large area, as well as consume considerable power and/or current. A voltage divider and multiplexers may provide the different reference voltages, which saves space and is power and current efficient.

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

Write leveling
Patent No. 11482265

Inventor(s): Daniel B. Penney (Wylie, TX), Gary L. Howe (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17486481 on 09/27/2021 (393 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device includes a command interface configured to receive a write command and internal write adjust (IWA) circuitry. The IWA circuitry is configured to receive the write command from the command interface, generate an internal write signal (IWS) based upon the received write command and train a data strobe (DQS) signal to generate a DQS signal having a set amount of phase alignment with a clock (CLK) of the memory device to capture a data signal (DQ) using the IWS.

[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)

Application based verify level offsets for non-volatile memory
Patent No. 11482289

Inventor(s): Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, CA), Anubhav Khandelwal (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17192090 on 03/04/2021 (600 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of memory cells. Each of the plurality of memory cells is connected to one of a plurality of word lines and is arranged in one of a plurality of blocks. Each of the plurality of memory cells is configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to one of a plurality of data states. A control circuit is coupled to the plurality of word lines and is configured to detect at least one use characteristic of the memory apparatus. The control circuit adjusts a verify voltage level by one of a plurality of verify level offsets based on the at least one use characteristic that is detected. The verify voltage level is applied to the one of the plurality of word lines selected for programming following an application of a program voltage during a program operation.

ECC in integrated memory assembly
Patent No. 11482296

Inventor(s): Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, , IL), Idan Alrod (Herzliya, , IL)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16891336 on 06/03/2020 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: Technology for error correcting data stored in memory dies is disclosed. Codewords, which may contain data bits and parity bits, are stored on a memory die. The memory die is bonded to a control die through bond pads that allow communication between the memory die and the control die. The codewords are decoded at the control die based on the parity bits. If the control die successfully decodes a codeword, the control die may send the data bits but not the parity bits to a memory controller. By not sending the parity bits to the memory controller, substantial bandwidth is saved. Also, substantial power may be saved. For example, the interface between the control die and the memory controller could be a high speed interface.

Pharmaceutical transport system including RFID based lock operation and related methods
Patent No. 11482314

Inventor(s): Jared O. Santibanez (Forney, TX)
Assignee(s): INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC. (Ft. Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt + Gilchrist, P.A. Attorney at Law (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17226809 on 04/09/2021 (564 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pharmaceutical transport system may include an authentication server for storing authorized user identifications (IDs), and a pharmaceutical transport device movable within a pneumatic network. The transport device may include a container, a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader configured to obtain a user identification (ID) based upon a user RFID transmitter being presented adjacent thereto, and wireless communications circuitry to wirelessly communicate the obtained user ID to the authentication server. The pharmaceutical transport device may also include an electronic lock configured to unlock the container responsive to an unlock command via the wireless communications circuitry and from the authentication server based upon a match between the obtained user ID and one of the plurality of authorized user IDs. NULL

System and method for point of care based on real-time prediction of addiction triggers
Patent No. 11482330

Inventor(s): Annette Bosworth (Tea, SD)
Assignee(s): Approved Assessments LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dorsey Whitney LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16101174 on 08/10/2018 (1537 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system comprising an assessment engine configured to asynchronously transmit assessment questions to a user and, in response, receive a plurality of personal data from a user. A behavior module communicatively coupled to the assessment engine and operable to generate a behavior profile associated with the user based, at least in part, on the plurality of personal data. The behavior profile configured to identify one or more addiction habits of the user and respective one or more triggers operable to induce the user to desire the one or more addiction habits. A plurality of sensors positioned proximate the user to provide real-time measurements of one or more biological conditions of the user body. A prediction module communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors, the prediction module operable to predict occurrence of the one or more triggers based on the behavioral profile and the real-time measurements of the one or more biological conditions of the user body. NULL

Enhancing network services based on edge clouds
Patent No. 11483379

Inventor(s): Oliver Spatscheck (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17099313 on 11/16/2020 (708 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for supporting services for customer traffic using edge clouds are disclosed. For example, a processing system may receive an indication of a set of customer devices of a customer of a network provider and an indication of a service of an edge cloud to be applied to customer traffic of the customer devices, support configuration of a network of the network provider to support a customer segment for the customer including configuration of a gateway of the network and a switch of the network that is associated with the edge cloud, support configuration of a virtual network between the switch and an edge cloud element supporting the service, and support configuration of the switch to support an association of the customer segment and the virtual network for supporting routing of the customer traffic to the service via the virtual network.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Graphite oxide and polyacrylonitrile based composite
Patent No. 11482348

Inventor(s): Richard Stoltz (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Asbury Graphite of North Carolina, Inc. (Lumberton, NC)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15580475 on 03/31/2016 (2399 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present method includes graphene, preferably in the form of flat graphene oxide flakes with, by mass, preferably between 0.5% and 35% PAN. The graphene oxide and conductive-polymer PAN is in a co-suspension in water and is co-deposited on a surface. The deposited PAN with a high-percentage graphene-oxide layer is dried. Our tests have produced electrical conductivities 1000 times more conductive than the PAN by itself. Our testing indicates that using flakes that are flat is essential to getting very high conductivity, and that controlled oxidation is very important in suspending graphene oxide in water.

[H01B] CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES (selection for magnetic properties H01F 1/00; waveguides H01P)

Subring for semiconductor dies
Patent No. 11482442

Inventor(s): Dave Charles Stepniak (Allen, TX), Genki Yano (Oita, , JP), Matthew John Sherbin (Dallas, TX), Michael Todd Wyant (Dallas, TX), Sada Hiroyuki (Oita-Prefectur, , JP), Shoichi Iriguchi (Oita-Prefectur, , JP)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17184553 on 02/24/2021 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: A subring for holding tape connected to semiconductor dies and spanning a passage in a frame having a first diameter includes a base. An opening extends through the base and has a second diameter at least as large as the first diameter. A projection extends from the base to ends positioned on opposite sides of the base. The projection is adapted to clamp the tape to the frame and adapted to prevent relative movement between the tape, the subring, and the frame.

[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]

Packaged electronic device with suspended magnetic subassembly
Patent No. 11482477

Inventor(s): Joyce Mullenix (San Jose, CA), Vijaylaxmi Khanolkar (Pune, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16236730 on 12/31/2018 (1394 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged electronic device includes a die pad directly connected to a first set of conductive leads of a leadframe structure, a semiconductor die attached to the conductive die pad, a conductive support structure directly connected to a second set of conductive leads, and spaced apart from all other conductive structures of the leadframe structure. A magnetic assembly is attached to the conductive support structure, and a molded package structure that encloses the conductive die pad, the conductive support structure, the semiconductor die, the magnetic assembly and portions of the conductive leads, the molded package structure including a top side, and an opposite bottom side, wherein the lamination structure is centered between the top and bottom sides.

Three-dimensional memory device including multi-bit charge storage elements and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 11482531

Inventor(s): Dana Lee (San Jose, CA), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, CA), Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, CA), Ramy Nashed Bassely Said (San Jose, CA), Senaka Kanakamedala (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17169987 on 02/08/2021 (624 days app to issue)

Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack. Each of the memory stack structures includes a vertical semiconductor channel, a tunneling dielectric layer, and a vertical stack of memory elements located at levels of the electrically conductive layers between a respective vertically neighboring pair of the insulating layers. Each of the memory elements includes a first memory material portion, and a second memory material portion that is vertically spaced from and is electrically isolated from the first memory material portion by at least one blocking dielectric material portion.

Three-dimensional memory device including metal silicide source regions and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 11482539

Inventor(s): Adarsh Rajashekhar (Santa Clara, CA), Fei Zhou (San Jose, CA), Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, CA), Rahul Sharangpani (Fremont, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17082629 on 10/28/2020 (727 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a memory film, a vertical semiconductor channel, a source region containing a metal silicide material contacting a first end of the vertical semiconductor channel, and a drain region containing a doped semiconductor material contacting a second end of the vertical semiconductor channel, and a source contact layer contacting the source region.

Atomic layer deposition of selected molecular clusters
Patent No. 11482608

Inventor(s): John H. Zhang (Altamont, NY)
Assignee(s): STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17119867 on 12/11/2020 (683 days app to issue)

Abstract: Energy bands of a thin film containing molecular clusters are tuned by controlling the size and the charge of the clusters during thin film deposition. Using atomic layer deposition, an ionic cluster film is formed in the gate region of a nanometer-scale transistor to adjust the threshold voltage, and a neutral cluster film is formed in the source and drain regions to adjust contact resistance. A work function semiconductor material such as a silver bromide or a lanthanum oxide is deposited so as to include clusters of different sizes such as dimers, trimers, and tetramers, formed from isolated monomers. A type of Atomic Layer Deposition system is used to deposit on semiconductor wafers molecular clusters to form thin film junctions having selected energy gaps. A beam of ions contains different ionic clusters which are then selected for deposition by passing the beam through a filter in which different apertures select clusters based on size and orientation.

Hybrid active-field gap extended drain MOS transistor
Patent No. 11482613

Inventor(s): John Lin (San Jose, CA), Sameer P. Pendharkar (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16272025 on 02/11/2019 (1352 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes an extended drain MOS transistor with parallel alternating active gap drift regions and field gap drift regions. The extended drain MOS transistor includes a gate having field plates over the field gap drift regions. The extended drain MOS transistor may be formed in a symmetric nested configuration. A process for forming an integrated circuit containing an extended drain MOS transistor provides parallel alternating active gap drift regions and field gap drift regions with a gate having field plates over the field gap drift regions.

Equation based state estimate for air system controller
Patent No. 11482719

Inventor(s): Daniel Folick (Long Beach, CA), Jared Farnsworth (Roseville, CA), Naoki Tomi (Aichi, , JP), Shigeki Hasegawa (Aichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15836743 on 12/08/2017 (1782 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for providing oxygen to a fuel cell circuit includes a compressor and a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cells. The system also includes a plurality of pipes and a pressure sensor designed to detect pressure at a first location. The system also includes a memory to store a model of the fuel cell circuit and an ECU. The ECU determines a control signal corresponding to desirable operation of the compressor and determines flow values of the gas through each component based on the detected pressure and the model of the fuel cell circuit. The ECU also determines pressure values of each component based on the determined flow values and the model of the fuel cell circuit. The ECU also controls operation of the compressor based on the control signal, at least one of the flow values, and at least one of the pressure values.

[H01M] PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY [2]

Sensor based monitoring system for wireless communication networks
Patent No. 11482769

Inventor(s): Ameenuddin Habeeb (Richardson, TX), Gayatri Sirure (Richardson, TX), Manik Arora (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Verveba Telecom LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16688769 on 11/19/2019 (1071 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sensor based monitoring system (SBMS) for a wireless communications network, a monitoring device for the SBMS, and a SBMS server are provided herein. In one example, the SBMS includes: (1) a monitoring device configured to collect antenna data of an antenna mounted on a communications structure of a wireless communications network and communicate the antenna data over a wireless network, and (2) a SBMS server configured to provide actionable intelligence based on the antenna data and system data of the wireless communications network from at least one other data source.

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

Base station antennas having an active antenna module and related devices and methods
Patent No. 11482774

Inventor(s): Haifeng Li (Richardson, TX), Mohammad Vatankhah Varnoosfaderani (Richardson, TX), Samantha Merta (Richardson, TX), Xiaohua Hou (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17209562 on 03/23/2021 (581 days app to issue)

Abstract: Base station antennas include an externally accessible active antenna module releasably coupled to a recessed segment that is over a chamber in the base station antenna and that is longitudinally and laterally extending along and across a rear of a base station antenna housing. The base station antenna housing has a passive antenna assembly that cooperates with the active antenna module.

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

Systems and methods for wireless vehicle power transfer to vehicle devices using misalignment sensors
Patent No. 11482892

Inventor(s): Chungchih Chou (Ann Arbor, MI), Yanghe Liu (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17167825 on 02/04/2021 (628 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more low load devices and a plurality of magnetic sensors operable between a misalignment detection mode for measuring a magnetic field of a power transmitting pad and obtaining magnetic field data, and a power receiving mode for wirelessly transmitting energy from the power transmitting pad to the one or more low load devices. The vehicle also includes one or more processors and one or more memory modules including a computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive the magnetic field data from the plurality of magnetic sensors, and estimate a lateral misalignment of the plurality of magnetic sensors with respect to a magnetic axis of the power transmitting pad.

[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)

Method of calibrating a variable-speed blower motor
Patent No. 11482909

Inventor(s): Austin Clay Styer (Melissa, TX), Nasim Rahman (Allen, TX), Palanivel Subramaniam (Richardson, TX), Stephen J. Vendt (Lewisville, TX), Sunil K. Khiani (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16903434 on 06/17/2020 (860 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of calibrating a motor assembly includes selecting an electric motor and a motor controller for the motor assembly, obtaining at least one electric motor parameter of the electric motor, determining a correction factor for the electric motor based upon the at least one electric motor parameter, and programming the motor controller with the correction factor.

[H02K] DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H 53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power H02M 9/00)

Self-powered high voltage isolated digital input receiver with low voltage technology
Patent No. 11482937

Inventor(s): Anant Shankar Kamath (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16804352 on 02/28/2020 (970 days app to issue)

Abstract: An isolation circuit for electrically isolating a first circuit operating at a first voltage from a second circuit operating at a second voltage that is different than the first voltage is provided. The isolation circuit includes: a first voltage source that operates at the first voltage, the first voltage source having a first supply rail and a second supply rail; an isolation device having a first input, a second input, a first output and a second output, the second input coupled to a first ground potential and the second output coupled to a second ground potential that is electrically isolated from the first ground potential by the isolation device; a first resistor coupled between the first supply rail and the first input of the isolation device; a second resistor coupled to the first input of the isolation device and the second input of the isolation device; and wherein the first output of the isolation device is coupled to the second circuit.

[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]

AC to DC converter with parallel converter
Patent No. 11482944

Inventor(s): Heping Dai (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: 16007731 on 06/13/2018 (1595 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus having an AC rectifier configured to generate one or more rectified signals from an alternating current (AC) signal, bus having a positive line and a negative line, parallel converter connected between the positive line and the negative line, and bulk capacitor coupled to the parallel converter. The bus is connected to the AC rectifier to receive a first of the rectified signals between the positive line and the negative line. The apparatus has a controller configured to operate the parallel converter in a first mode in which energy from a second of the rectified signals from the AC rectifier is stored in the bulk capacitor and a second mode in which the energy stored in the bulk capacitor is discharged to the bus to increase a voltage on the bus during at least an initial portion of the second mode.

Method and apparatus for explicit CSI reporting in advanced wireless communication systems
Patent No. 11483040

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17222744 on 04/05/2021 (568 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for a channel state information (CSI) feedback comprises receiving CSI feedback configuration information for the CSI feedback including a spatial channel information indicator based on a linear combination (LC) codebook, wherein the spatial channel information comprises at least one of a downlink channel matrix, a covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix, or at least one eigenvector of the covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix; deriving the spatial channel information indicator using the LC codebook that indicates a weighted linear combination of a plurality of basis vectors or a plurality of basis matrices as a representation of at least one of a downlink channel matrix, a covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix, or at least one eigenvector of the covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix; and transmitting over an uplink channel, the CSI feedback including the spatial channel information indicator.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus for SCell beam failure recovery configuration
Patent No. 11483054

Inventor(s): Chia-Hao Yu (Yilan, , TW), Chia-Hung Wei (Hsinchu, , TW)
Assignee(s): Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Cole Schotz, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16791778 on 02/14/2020 (984 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for SCell BFR performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first SCell BFR configuration corresponding to a first SCell, the first SCell BFR configuration including at least one of a resource list for BFD and a resource list for NBI; detecting a beam failure condition in the first SCell by measuring at least one BFD reference signal; determining a first new candidate beam index for the first SCell based on the first SCell BFR configuration; and transmitting a beam failure recovery request that includes a cell index of the first SCell in which beam failure occurs and the determined first new candidate beam index.

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

Intelligent encryption based on user and data properties
Patent No. 11483147

Inventor(s): Manu J. Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16750545 on 01/23/2020 (1006 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a data store, memory, and hardware processor. The data store includes a dataset with first and second blocks of data. The memory stores first and second encryption algorithms. The processor receives a request to transmit the dataset to a first user”s device. The processor encrypts the dataset by applying the first encryption algorithm to the first block and the second encryption algorithm to the second block, in response to determining a first level of security for the first block and a second level of security for the second block. The processor also applies an access control to the encrypted dataset, based on a characteristic of the first user, and transmits the encrypted dataset to the first user. The access control prevents a second user with a characteristic incompatible with the characteristic of the first user from accessing the encrypted dataset.

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

Method and system for computing large-degree isogenies with an odd degree
Patent No. 11483151

Inventor(s): Brian Craig Koziel (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): PQSecure Technologies, LLC (Boca Raton, FL)
Law Firm: Johnson Dalal (Local + 77 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17611297 on 07/16/2021 (466 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for computing large-degree isogenies of a base degree raised to a power of form

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

High-performance systems to validate isogeny-based cryptography keys
Patent No. 11483152

Inventor(s): Brian C. Koziel (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): PQSecure Technologies, LLC (Boca Raton, FL)
Law Firm: Johnson Dalal (Local + 77 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17641698 on 12/30/2020 (664 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer processing system for validating isogeny-based cryptography keys having an electronic computing device with an isogeny-based cryptosystem operably configured to validate public keying material including an elliptic curve by simultaneously computing an elliptic curve supersingularity check along with an elliptic curve public point check.

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

Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms
Patent No. 11483160

Inventor(s): Madhusudhan Reddy Alla (Allen, 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: 17018872 on 09/11/2020 (774 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed examples include accessing impression data collected at a media device by a collector installed with an application, the impression data including a first identifier, a second identifier, and a media identifier, the first identifier to identify at least one of the media device or a user of the media device to a first database proprietor, and the second identifier to identify the at least one of the media device or the user of the media device to a second database proprietor, the collector to obtain the first and second identifiers from a memory of the media device; requesting first demographic information from the first database proprietor based on the first identifier and second demographic information from the second database proprietor based on the second identifier; and storing at least some of the first or second demographic information in association with the media identifier in a data store.

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

Isolated bidirectional communication circuit
Patent No. 11483181

Inventor(s): Kashyap Jayendra Barot (Bengaluru, , IN), Sreeram Nasum Subramanyam (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17246867 on 05/03/2021 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bidirectional capacitive isolator includes a capacitive isolation network, a first transceiver circuit, and a second transceiver circuit. The capacitive isolation network includes a first port and a second port. The first transceiver circuit is coupled to the first port of the capacitive isolation network, and includes circuitry configured to cancel signal transmitted by the first transceiver circuit from signal received by the first transceiver circuit. The second transceiver circuit is coupled to the second port of the capacitive isolation network, and includes circuitry configured to cancel signal transmitted by the second transceiver circuit from signal received by the second transceiver circuit.

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

Method and apparatus of NR RMSI CORESET configuration in MIB
Patent No. 11483193

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX), Young-Han Nam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16946963 on 07/13/2020 (834 days app to issue)

Abstract: Configuring control information comprises determining a frequency offset including an RB and RE level frequency offset, where the frequency offset is determined based on a lowest RE of an SS/PBCH block and a lowest RE of CORESET for RMSI, jointly configuring, using a first field of 4 bits, the RB level frequency offset with a multiplexing pattern of the SS/PBCH block and the CORESET, a BW of the CORESET, and a number of symbols for the CORESET for a combination of a SCS of the SS/PBCH block and a SCS of the CORESET, configuring using a second field of the 4 bits generating an MIB including the RB level frequency offset and the RE level frequency offset; and transmitting, to a UE, the MIB over a PBCH.

[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)

Systems and methods for next generation mobile network optimized media path selection
Patent No. 11483356

Inventor(s): Amir Saghir (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17160805 on 01/28/2021 (635 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device receives a first message that includes an identifier (ID) of a first User Plane Function (UPF), serving a first device, in a wireless network, where the first message invites a second device to engage in a session with the first device and where the first UPF supports packet routing and forwarding within the wireless network. The network device extracts the ID of the first UPF from the first message and determines a closest media resource function (MRF) to the first UPF, where the MRF processes and routes media streams between devices. The network device assigns the determined MRF as an anchor, in a network path between the first device and the second device, for processing and routing of media streamed between the first device and the second device.

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

Message exchange
Patent No. 11483433

Inventor(s): David Woody (Allen, TX), Stephen Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Value-Added Communications, Inc. (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16550633 on 08/26/2019 (1156 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a voice message exchange system and method for improving communication between an inmate and a third party by enabling the inmate to leave a message when a call is not answered and further allowing the third party who receives the message to reply with a message to the inmate. Additionally, outside parties that meet the institution”s requirements can leave messages for inmates at any time. The present invention can be used as an add-on to legacy inmate call management systems or incorporated internally into an inmate call management system. The system also provides monitoring, controlling, recording, and billing means.

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

Selected forwarding between serially chained devices
Patent No. 11483517

Inventor(s): David Rosselot (Atlanta, GA), Vijaya Ceekala (San Jose, CA), Xin Liu (Saratoga, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16997216 on 08/19/2020 (797 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a receiver includes a receiver input adapted to receive input data. A selector is coupled to an output of the receiver and is configured to generate a destination indication at an output of the selector. A switch is coupled to the receiver input. The switch is adapted to generate a first transmission at a switch local output in response to an indication of the selector output and the input data. The switch is further adapted to generate a second transmission at a switch system output in response to the input data. The switch local output is adapted to be coupled to a first destination node, and the switch system output is adapted to be coupled to a second destination node.

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

Stereoscopic mobile retinal imager
Patent No. 11483537

Inventor(s): Ankur Sudhir Gupta (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Spect Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: Cooley LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16681273 on 11/12/2019 (1078 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods for generating stereoscopic views of the eye (or any desired anatomic structure) using a dual-camera portable computing device. The locations of the two cameras are fixed, and the camera lenses may have different focal lengths. For example, the focal length of the second camera lens may be longer than the focal length of the first camera lens. One variation of a detachable imaging system comprises an objective lens and a relay lens that are disposed over the two cameras. The relay lens may be disposed over the first and second cameras, and have a focal length that is greater than the focal length of the first camera lens and less than or equal to the focal length of the second camera lens.

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

Systems and methods for asynchronous group consumption of streaming media
Patent No. 11483603

Inventor(s): Brian F. Roberts (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Discovery.com, LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17587227 on 01/28/2022 (270 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing asynchronous consumption of streaming media are disclosed. One computer-implemented method may include: receiving, from a first user device associated with a first user, a request to share a multimedia content with a second user, the request identifying the multimedia content, a first user profile associated with the first user, and data associated with the second user; retrieving a second user profile associated with the second user based on the received request; causing to be displayed, on a second user device associated with the second user, a notification alerting the second user of the request; receiving, from the second user device, a response accepting the request; and linking the first user profile with the second user profile for the shared multimedia content to enable viewing activity of both the first user and the second user to be shared and synced with one another.

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

Ballasted telecommunications equipment mounts and assemblies
Patent No. 11483632

Inventor(s): Dale Heath (Fort Worth, TX), Jyoti Ojha (Southlake, TX), Michael Carnes (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17027837 on 09/22/2020 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a telecommunications equipment mount. The telecommunications equipment mount includes a stabilization frame having a plurality of lower rails, a plurality of vertical rails, and a plurality of upper rails, the lower, vertical, and upper rails forming a top, a bottom, and at least sides of the stabilization frame to define an open interior cavity; at least one mounting member extending outwardly from, and perpendicular to, one of the sides of the stabilization frame a distance; at least one brace member coupled to the stabilization frame and configured to support the at least one mounting member; and at least one mounting pipe secured to the at least one mounting member. The stabilization frame is configured to ballast the mount on a mounting structure when telecommunications equipment is secured to the at least one mounting pipe. Telecommunications equipment mount assemblies are also described herein.

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

Transporting a multi-transport network context-identifier (MTNC- ID) across multiple domains
Patent No. 11483733

Inventor(s): Kaippallimalil Mathew John (Carrollton, TX), Young Lee (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16840113 on 04/03/2020 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method performed by a Next Generation Node B (gNB) in a communications system implementing User Datagram Protocol (UDP) comprises indicating that a data packet comprises a multi-transport network context-identifier (MTNC-ID) corresponding to a forwarding path and being associated with a set of resource provisioning requirements for one or more transport networks on the forwarding path to provision transport resources for traffic forwarding on the forwarding path, inserting the MTNC-ID into a Generic UDP Encapsulation (GUE) header of the data packet, and transmitting the data packet to a network element (NE) in the communications system based on the forwarding path corresponding to the MTNC-ID.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

User plane function (UPF) load balancing based on network data analytics to predict load of user equipment
Patent No. 11483738

Inventor(s): Ashish Bansal (Frisco, TX), Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): DISH Wireless L.L.C. (Englewood, CO)
Law Firm: VLP Law Group LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17458117 on 08/26/2021 (425 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for user plane function (UPF) and network slice load balancing within a 5G network. Example embodiments include systems and methods for load balancing based on current UPF load and thresholds that depend on UPF capacity; UPF load balancing using predicted throughput of new UE on the network based on network data analytics; UPF load balancing based on special considerations for low latency traffic; UPF load balancing supporting multiple slices, maintaining several load-thresholds for each UPF and each slice depending on the UPF and network slice capacity; and UPF load balancing using predicted central processing unit (CPU) utilization and/or predicted memory utilization of new UE on the network based on network data analytics.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Baseband and method for selecting a co-ordination set of neighboring basebands in a centralized radio access network (C-RAN)
Patent No. 11483745

Inventor(s): Adrian Ha (Plano, TX), Namit Singh (McKinney, TX), Narendra Tilwani (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16956136 on 12/19/2017 (1771 days app to issue)

Abstract: A baseband and method in a centralized radio access network (C-RAN) are described herein that are configured to dynamically select an ”X” number of neighboring basebands to be assigned to a co-ordination set of the baseband based at least in part on measurement reports received from a plurality of user equipments (UEs).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Scheduling for power saving state in next generation wireless networks
Patent No. 11483773

Inventor(s): Chie-Ming Chou (Hsinchu, , TW), Tsung-Hua Tsai (Hsinchu, , TW), Wan-Chen Lin (Hualien, , TW), Yu-Hsin Cheng (Hsinchu, , TW)
Assignee(s): Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Cole Schotz, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16739780 on 01/10/2020 (1019 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some of the present implementations provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for receiving a power saving signal. The method receives, from a base station, a power saving signal comprising a minimum applicable K0 (K0min) that indicates a minimum scheduling offset restriction between a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The method determines an application delay based on a predefined value. The method then applies the minimum scheduling offset restriction after the application delay.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatuses for collision control of sidelink communications in wireless communication systems
Patent No. 11483782

Inventor(s): Chie-Ming Chou (Hsinchu, , TW), Tsung-Hua Tsai (Hsinchu, , TW), Yu-Hsin Cheng (Hsinchu, , TW), Yung-Lan Tseng (Hsinchu, , TW)
Assignee(s): Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Cole Schotz, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16710666 on 12/11/2019 (1049 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method performed by a wireless communication device includes determining whether to transmit a first Sidelink Synchronization Signal (SLSS) according to a priority parameter when an occasion of the first SLSS collides with a Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) that carries Sidelink Feedback Control Information (SFCI). The priority parameter is associated with a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) that corresponds to the PSFCH.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for network positioning of devices in a beamformed communications system
Patent No. 11483791

Inventor(s): Aimin Justin Sang (San Diego, CA), Bin Liu (San Diego, CA), Jian Luo (Munich, , DE), Nathan Edward Tenny (San Diego, CA), Pengfei Xia (San Diego, CA), Richard Stirling-Gallacher (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16703449 on 12/04/2019 (1056 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for receiving device position determination includes receiving beamformed position reference signals (BF-PRSs) on a plurality of communications beams from at least two transmitting devices in accordance with a BF-PRS configuration, making at least one observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) measurement in accordance with the BF-PRSs on the plurality of communications beams, and transmitting OTDOA feedback including the at least one OTDOA measurement.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Terminal device, network device and methods therein
Patent No. 11483875

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Nicholson De Vos Webster Elliott LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17430320 on 01/10/2020 (1019 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method in a terminal device. The method includes determining a DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS) configuration for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and transmitting to a network device the PUSCH using the DMRS configuration along with a preamble, in a random access message.

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

System and method for encoding of local bandwidth conditions into tunneling message
Patent No. 11483882

Inventor(s): Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16911587 on 06/25/2020 (852 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium provide for encoding a general packet radio service (GPRS)-tunnel endpoint identifier (GTP-TEID) with data identifying radio frequency (RF) bandwidths supported in a local radio environment (LRE) from which a user equipment (UE) device accesses the wireless access station; sending, via a signaling channel, the GTP-TEID to a core network device; notifying one or more core network devices of an RF bandwidth category level corresponding to the identified RF bandwidths; and applying at least one of a policy rule or a charging rule to a packet data unit (PDU) session for the UE device, based on the RF bandwidth category level.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods of forming power electronic assemblies with cooling channels and integrated electrodes
Patent No. 11483951

Inventor(s): Gaurav Singhal (Maharashtra, , IN), Julia Kohanek (Champaign, IL), Paul Braun (Champaign, IL), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16696425 on 11/26/2019 (1064 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for forming an assembly is provided. The method includes depositing a colloidal template onto a substrate, wherein the colloidal template is porous, depositing a metal layer onto and within the colloidal template, depositing a cap structure onto the colloidal template opposite of the substrate, and removing the colloidal template from between the substrate and the cap structure to form a metal inverse opal structure disposed therebetween. The method continues by depositing an electrical isolation layer in contact with the cap structure opposite the metal inverse opal structure, and attaching the electrical isolation layer to a cooling device.

[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)

DESIGN PATENTS

Shoe tote
Patent No. D967627

Inventor(s): James Leaks, Jr. (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): SHOE PAC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Goodhue, Coleman Owens, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29737323 on 06/08/2020 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Metal detector
Patent No. D967719

Inventor(s): Anthony H. Tran (Richardson, TX), Brent C. Weaver (Heath, TX), Robert J. Podhrasky (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Garrett Electronics, Inc. (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Dan Brown Law Office (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29734388 on 05/12/2020 (896 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Smart chip housing
Patent No. D967785

Inventor(s): Stephen William O”Brien (Fort Worth, TX), Todd Michael Coleman (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): AC Avalanche LLC (Valley View, OH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29739078 on 06/22/2020 (855 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Pet toy
Patent No. D968039

Inventor(s): Jun Hao (Frisco, TX), Steven Ho (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Natural Polymer International Corporation (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29762092 on 12/15/2020 (679 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Pet chew
Patent No. D968040

Inventor(s): James W. Gick (Irvine, CA)
Assignee(s): DOSKOCIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: Global IP Counselors, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29771286 on 02/22/2021 (610 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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