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 February 28, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 9
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 12
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 4
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 10
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 8
G: PHYSICS 40
H: ELECTRICITY 42
DESIGN: 7

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 23
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 9
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 5
Board of Regents, UT System (Austin) 4
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 4
Commscope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC) 3
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 3
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 3
Capital One Services Llc (McLean, VA) 2
UNASSIGNED 4

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Boon Loong Ng (Plano) 2
Brian P. Johnson (Dallas) 2
Fei Zhou (San Jose, CA) 2
Gregory T. Ellson (Dallas) 2
Janne Matias Pahkala (Oulu, , FI) 2
Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI) 2
Michael Folkerts (Carrollton) 2
Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, MI) 2
Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, CA) 2
Rahul Sharangpani (Fremont, CA) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Retractable storage devices
Patent No. 11589679

Inventor(s): Adrian F. G. Botran (Key Biscayne, FL), Alison A. Palmer (Henrico, VA), Colleen L. Casey (Grapevine, TX), David G. Walter (Aubrey, TX), Jeff E. Dusek (Arlington, MA), Riley F. Keen (Plano, TX), Sabrina Tamames (Key Biscay
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16506358 on 07/09/2019 (1330 days app to issue)

Abstract: A retractable storage device for an armrest of a chair, including a vertically extending arm assembly including a first distal end and a second distal end, a horizontally extending arm assembly including a first distal end and a second distal end, a middle connector, and a storage container. The second distal end of the vertically extending arm assembly is pivotally secured to the middle connector, and the first distal end of the horizontally extending arm assembly is pivotally secured to the middle connector. The retractable storage device is moveable between a stowed position and a raised position. The storage container is coupled to the second distal end of the horizontally extending arm assembly, where the storage container is stowed beneath the armrest when the retractable storage device is moved to the stowed position.

[A47C] CHAIRS (seats specially adapted for vehicles B60N 2/00); SOFAS; BEDS (upholstery in general B68G)

Magnetic coolie beverage holder
Patent No. 11589696

Inventor(s): Stefan Leimer (Balch Springs, TX)
Assignee(s): Best Promotions, LLC (Balch Springs, TX)
Law Firm: Thorpe North Western, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16990671 on 08/11/2020 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: A beverage holder with an insulating sleeve holds a beverage container and a magnetic mount to magnetically secure the insulating sleeve with the beverage container therein to a ferromagnetic support structure. The magnetic mount comprises an exterior housing located outside the insulating sleeve and on a lateral wall of the insulating sleeve. A magnet is carried by the exterior housing and located outside of the insulating sleeve. An interior backing is located on an interior of the insulating sleeve and fastened to the exterior housing through the insulating sleeve. The exterior housing and the interior backing sandwich a portion of the lateral wall of the insulating sleeve.

[A47G] HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT (book-ends A47B 65/00; knives B26B)

Method and system for measuring binocular alignment
Patent No. 11589745

Inventor(s): Aric Plumley (Huntington Beach, CA), Jeffrey P. Krall (Mitchell, SD)
Assignee(s): Neurolens, Inc. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16579826 on 09/23/2019 (1254 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method to determine a binocular alignment, the method comprising: measuring a disassociated phoria of a first eye and a second eye of a patient at an apparent distance; and determining an accommodative convergence of the first eye and the second eye at the apparent distance using the measured disassociated phoria. In other embodiments, a system to determine a binocular alignment comprises a stereo display, for a projection of images for a first eye and a second eye; an accommodation optics, to modify the projection of the images according to an apparent distance; an eye tracker, to track an orientation of the first eye and the second eye; and a computer, coupled to the stereo display, the accommodation optics and the eye tracker, to manage a determination of the binocular alignment.

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

Pharmaceutical compositions of lipoic acid choline ester salts and methods of treatment using same
Patent No. 11590158

Inventor(s): Cale Ry McAlister (Bedford, TX), Malay Ghosh (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Novartis AG (Basel, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17463391 on 08/31/2021 (546 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides salts of lipoic acid choline ester (LACE), crystalline forms thereof, and methods of use thereof. The present disclosure further provides pharmaceutical compositions of LACE salts and methods of use thereof.

[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)

Topical skin compositions for treating rosacea and skin redness
Patent No. 11590194

Inventor(s): David Gan (Southlake, TX), Geetha Kalahasti (Plano, TX), Tiffany Carle (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17374549 on 07/13/2021 (595 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of reducing the appearance of skin redness is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to reddened skin an effective amount of a composition that includes a water soluble [i]Phoenix dactylifera [/i]seed extract, an essential oil from the leaves of tea tree, an aqueous [i]Myrothamnus flabellifolia [/i]leaf and stem extract, and a saccharide isomerate comprising an exopolysaccharide of [i]Vibrio alginolyticus[/i], wherein the appearance of skin redness is reduced.

Systems for treating dermal inflammatory conditions
Patent No. 11590211

Inventor(s): Arthur Clapp (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Nuvothera, Inc. (Colleyville, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17068722 on 10/12/2020 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel systems and methods for treating dermal inflammatory disorders, such as psoriasis.

Composition and kits for pseudoplastic microgel matrices
Patent No. 11590259

Inventor(s): Ann Beal Salamone (San Antonio, TX), Eunna Chung (Seoul, , KR), Joseph Charles Salamone (San Antonio, TX), Katelyn Elizabeth Reilly (San Antonio, TX), Kelly Xiaoyu-Chen Leung (San Antonio, TX), Laura Jean Suggs (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): ROCHAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Duane Morris LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348468 on 06/15/2021 (623 days app to issue)

Abstract: This invention relates generally to water-insoluble but water-swellable and deformable crosslinked PEGylated microgel particles of proteins and protein-based macromolecules that are pseudoplastic (shear thinning) and flow in aqueous media under shear and which can be injected or made to flow, wherein said microgel particles can reform as a cluster of microgel particles when shearing forces are removed. The microgel particles function as a matrix to support cell growth, viability, and proliferation.

[A61L] METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES (preservation of bodies or disinfecting characterised by the agent employed A01N; preserving, e.g. sterilising, food or foodstuffs A23; preparations for medical, dental or toilet purposes A61K) [4]

Assessing treatment parameters for radiation treatment planning
Patent No. 11590363

Inventor(s): Michael Folkerts (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Varian Medical Systems International AG (Cham, , CH), Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17362694 on 06/29/2021 (609 days app to issue)

Abstract: Information associated with a radiation treatment plan includes, for example, values of dose per voxel in a target volume, values of dose rate per voxel in the target volume, and values of parameters used when generating the values of dose per voxel and the values of dose rate per voxel. Renderings that include, for example, a rendering of an image of or including the target volume, and a rendering of selected values of the radiation treatment plan, are displayed. When a selection of a region of one of the renderings is received, a displayed characteristic of another one of the renderings is changed based on the selection.

[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]

Material inserts for radiation therapy
Patent No. 11590364

Inventor(s): Michael Folkerts (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Varian Medical Systems International AG (Cham, , CH), Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH Co. KG (Troisdorf, , DE), Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16436671 on 06/10/2019 (1359 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for treating a patient during radiation therapy is disclosed. The system includes a shell, a plurality of material inserts disposed in the shell, where each material insert of the plurality of material inserts respectively shapes a distribution of a dose delivered to the patient by a respective beam of a plurality of beams emitted from a nozzle of a radiation treatment system, and a scaffold component disposed in the shell that holds the plurality material inserts in place relative to the patient such that each material insert lies on a path of at least one of the beams.

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

Multi-mode fluid nozzles
Patent No. 11590518

Inventor(s): Xinqi Rong (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Innomist LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17220264 on 04/01/2021 (698 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-mode fluid nozzle includes a generally-cylindrical mixing chamber with a stream mode fluid inlet connected to one side of the chamber, a fluid outlet connected to the opposite side of the chamber and a plurality of mist mode fluid inlets connected to the periphery of the chamber. The discharge pattern of the multi-mode fluid nozzle is dependent upon the inlets from which fluid enters the mixing chamber such that when the fluid enters the mixing chamber through the stream mode fluid inlet, the fluid exits the fluid outlet in a stream flow discharge pattern, when the fluid enters the mixing chamber through the mist mode fluid inlets, the fluid exits the fluid outlet in a mist flow discharge pattern and when the fluid enters the mixing chamber through the stream mode and the mist mode fluid inlets, the fluid exits the fluid outlet in a droplet flow discharge pattern.

[B05B] SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES (spray-mixers with nozzles B01F 5/20; processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces by spraying B05D) [2]

Apparatuses and systems for the automated retrieval and transport of articles
Patent No. 11590666

Inventor(s): Rich Herrschaft (West Chester, PA)
Assignee(s): MCKESSON CORPORATION (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Ballard Spahr LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16831998 on 03/27/2020 (1068 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus for dispensing and retrieving products is provided. A system may include: a grasping head; first and second grasping members, each grasping member comprising: a top member; a post member; and first and second grasping fingers, where the first and second grasping fingers extend from the post member and are spaced apart from the top member by a predetermined distance, where the first and second grasping members are connected to the grasping head, where at least one of the first and second grasping members is movably connected to the grasping head, where the at least one of the first and second grasping members is movable relative to the other of the first and second grasping members.

[B25J] MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES (robotic devices for individually picking fruits, vegetables, hops or the like A01D 46/30; needle manipulators for surgery A61B 17/062; manipulators associated with rolling mills B21B 39/20; manipulators associated with forging machines B21J 13/10; means for holding wheels or parts thereof B60B 30/00; cranes B66C; arrangements for handling fuel or other materials which are used within nuclear reactors G21C 19/00; structural combination of manipulators with cells or rooms shielded against radiation G21F 7/06) [5]

Systems and methods with dual function coil providing in-vehicle wireless power
Patent No. 11590850

Inventor(s): Chungchih Chou (Ann Arbor, MI), Mengqi Wang (Troy, MI), Qunfang Wu (Westland, MI), Weiyang Zhou (Westland, MI), Yanghe Liu (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: 17165463 on 02/02/2021 (756 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle power system includes a coil that, in a first operational mode, receives power wirelessly from an external source, a first battery connected to the coil to receive power transferred from the coil while the coil is in the first operational mode, a second battery that receives power from the first battery, and a switch that switches the coil between the first operational mode and a second operational mode in which the coil receives power from the second battery and wirelessly transfers power from the second battery to an electrical load in the vehicle.

[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]

Magnetic fastener for cargo retention
Patent No. 11590878

Inventor(s): Josh T. Etzkorn (Commerce, TX)
Assignee(s): ETZKORN ENTERPRISES, LLC (Commerce, TX)
Law Firm: Michael S. Young IP Law LLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16820591 on 03/16/2020 (1079 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method of using the apparatus and system may generally include a strap or retention device. A first end of a fastener is operatively coupled to the strap that is configured to retain a cargo contactingly adjacent a cargo support surface. A second end of the fastener is operatively coupled to the first end. The second end has a double rod formation. A magnet may be supported in a housing in the second end. The magnet may be held in position within a recess feature of the housing. A support structure [b]212[/b] may be disposed between the double rod formation to provide additional strength and stability. The support structure may be made of metal, polymer, or other suitable material. The magnet that is configured to support the second end adjacent a side of the cargo support surface, wherein the side does not produce its own magnetic field.

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

Methods and systems for controlling operating conditions of vehicle components
Patent No. 11590933

Inventor(s): Derek A. Thompson (Ypsilanti, MI), Krishna V. Buddharaju (Northville, 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: 17011117 on 09/03/2020 (908 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of controlling an operating condition of a seat belt warning mechanism and a power window of the vehicle is provided. The method, implemented by a computing device of the vehicle, includes detecting, using a sensor of the vehicle, an animal in an interior of the vehicle, activating, automatically and without user intervention, an operating mode for the vehicle responsive to detecting the animal, and controlling, based on the operating mode, an operating condition of a seat belt warning mechanism of the vehicle and an operating condition of a power window of the vehicle.

[B60R] VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for vehicles A62C 3/07)

Active proprotor-blade retention systems
Patent No. 11591069

Inventor(s): Kyle Thomas Cravener (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17554949 on 12/17/2021 (438 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for retaining a folded proprotor blade in flight. The system includes a rotary actuator mechanism operable to generate torque via a shaft that rotates about an axis generally parallel to a chordwise direction of the folded proprotor blade, a pair of clamping arms movable in a direction generally parallel to a beamwise direction of the folded proprotor blade, a pair of linkage arms interoperably responsive to the rotary actuator mechanism and coupled between the rotary actuator mechanism and the pair of clamping arms, and a first guide rod extending between the pair of clamping arms in the direction generally parallel to the beamwise direction.

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

Inflatable drone with shape memory alloy wires
Patent No. 11591076

Inventor(s): Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, MI), Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmington Hills, MI), Yuyang Song (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: 16453510 on 06/26/2019 (1343 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a drone is provided with several inflatable tubes that each connect a propeller component to a body of the drone. In order to increase the handling of the drone, a patch is placed on the top surface of each inflatable tube that includes some number of shape memory alloy wires. The shape memory alloy wires shrink and become rigid when an electric current is applied to them. The optimal locations on each tube to place the patches, and the shape of the patches, is determined using a topology optimization. Later, the wires in the patches can be selectively activated or deactivated by an operating entity to provide an additional means to control the drone. Additionally, the drone is equipped with several landing arms which may include a shape memory alloy torsion coil spring to help the arm deployment during landing.

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

Drive tube and swashplate trunnion assembly with cylindrical bearings
Patent No. 11591079

Inventor(s): Bryan Baskin (Arlington, TX), Ken Shundo (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17081423 on 10/27/2020 (854 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a drive tube and swashplate trunnion assembly. The drive tube and swashplate trunnion assembly includes a drive tube having a plurality of grooves formed on an outer surface of the drive tube; a swashplate trunnion having a plurality of grooves formed on an inner surface of the swashplate trunnion, wherein individual grooves of the plurality of grooves on the swashplate trunnion mate with individual grooves of the plurality of grooves on the drive tube to form a plurality of channels; and a plurality of cylindrical bearings, wherein each of said cylindrical bearings is disposed within an individual channel of the plurality of channels.

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

Vertical-lift augmentation system
Patent No. 11591081

Inventor(s): Christopher M. Johnson (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16896082 on 06/08/2020 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a vertical-lift augmentation system for an aircraft includes a fan bank mounted to the aircraft in proximity to a wing of the aircraft, where the fan bank may include at least one fan. The vertical-lift augmentation system also includes a panel movably attached to the aircraft in relation to the fan bank, where the panel is adjustable between at least a first position in which the panel encloses the fan bank in the aircraft and a second position in which the panel at least partially exposes the fan bank.

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

Method and system for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle
Patent No. 11591088

Inventor(s): George A. Miller (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Patti Pershern, PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16936894 on 07/23/2020 (950 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is provided. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is operated. A position of the UAV is determined while in flight, and a nonce is generated. A Merkel root is generated based at least in part on a timestamp and the position of the UAV. A current block is calculated based at least in part on a previous block, the Merkel root, and the nonce, and the current block, the timestamp, the nonce, the prior block, and the position of the UAV are transmitted.

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

Vat resin with additives for thiourethane polymer stereolithography printing
Patent No. 11591485

Inventor(s): Benjamin R. Lund (Wylie, TX), Gregory T. Ellson (Dallas, TX), Walter Voit (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Adaptive 3D Technologies (Dallas, TX), Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17723966 on 04/19/2022 (315 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of three-dimensional stereolithography printing a thiourethane polymer part using the vat resin. Adding a resin to a vat of a three-dimensional stereolithography printer, the resin a liquid mixture including: a first type of monomer including two or more thiol functional groups, a second type of monomer including two or more isocyanate functional groups, a photolatent base, an anionic step-growth polymerization reaction inhibitor and a light absorber. The photolatent base is decomposable upon exposure to a light to form a non-nucleophillic base catalyst having a pKa greater than 7. The anionic step-growth polymerization reaction inhibitor has an acidic group configured to form an acid-base pair with the non-nucleophillic base. The light absorber has an absorbance in the liquid mixture that is greater than an absorbance of the photolatent base at a wavelength of the light used for the exposure.

[B29C] SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B 11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B 37/00-B32B 41/00) [4]

Methods and apparatus for multi-segment illumination of spatial light modulators
Patent No. 11592154

Inventor(s): Akeem Whitehead (Garland, TX), Gavin Perrella (Dallas, TX), Shashank Dabral (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17565688 on 12/30/2021 (425 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example headlight includes: a multi-segment illumination source comprising: a first illumination source segment; and a second illumination source segment; driver circuitry coupled to the multi-segment illumination source, the driver circuitry comprising: a first driver coupled to the first illumination source segment, the first driver configured to generate a first drive signal to cause the first illumination source segment to produce a first light having a first brightness; and a second driver coupled to the second illumination source segment, the second driver configured to generate a second drive signal to cause the second illumination source segment to produce a second light having a second brightness; and a spatial light modulator (SLM) optically coupled to the multi-segment illumination source, the SLM configured to: receive the first light; modulate the first light to produce first modulated light; receive the second light; and modulate the second light to produce second modulated light.

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

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

Compositions and methods for organ specific delivery of nucleic acids
Patent No. 11590085

Inventor(s): Daniel J. Siegwart (Dallas, TX), Qiang Cheng (Dallas, TX), Tuo Wei (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17572615 on 01/10/2022 (414 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions which shown preferential targeting or delivery of a nucleic acid composition to a particular organ. In some embodiments, the composition comprises a steroid or sterol, an ionizable cationic lipid, a phospholipid, a PEG lipid, and a permanently cationic lipid which may be used to deliver a nucleic acid.

[C07H] SUGARS; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; NUCLEIC ACIDS (derivatives of aldonic or saccharic acids C07C, C07D; aldonic acids, saccharic acids C07C 59/105, C07C 59/285; cyanohydrins C07C 255/16; glycals C07D; compounds of unknown constitution C07G; polysaccharides, derivatives thereof C08B; DNA or RNA concerning genetic engineering, vectors, e.g. plasmids, or their isolation, preparation or purification C12N 15/00; sugar industry C13) [2]

Small molecule inducers of autophagy
Patent No. 11591319

Inventor(s): Beth Levine (Dallas, TX), Jef De Brabander (Dallas, TX), Qiren Liang (Dallas, TX), Wei-Chung Chiang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17714131 on 04/05/2022 (329 days app to issue)

Abstract: Small molecule disruptors of Beclin-1/Bc1-2 protein-protein interactions induce autophagy and hence are useful for treating a variety of indications where stimulation of autophagy is therapeutically useful, including cancer, infection immunity, neurodegeneration, longevity.

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

CD73 inhibitors and uses thereof
Patent No. 11591355

Inventor(s): Bin Wang (Dallas, TX), Paul Wehn (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Peloton Therapeutics Inc. (Kenilworth, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17338802 on 06/04/2021 (634 days app to issue)

Abstract: wherein R[superscript]1[/superscript], R[superscript]2[/superscript], R[superscript]3[/superscript], R[superscript]4[/superscript], R[superscript]5[/superscript], W[superscript]1[/superscript], W[superscript]2[/superscript], W[superscript]3[/superscript], X, Y, and A are as described herein. The disclosed compounds modulate CD73 activity. The present disclosure also provides, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and methods of using these compounds for treating diseases associated with CD73 activity.

[C07F] ACYCLIC, CARBOCYCLIC, OR HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING ELEMENTS OTHER THAN CARBON, HYDROGEN, HALOGEN, OXYGEN, NITROGEN, SULFUR, SELENIUM OR TELLURIUM (metal-containing porphyrins C07D 487/22; macromolecular compounds C08)

Luminescent group 1A copper halides and uses thereof
Patent No. 11591516

Inventor(s): Rachel M. Roccanova (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
Law Firm: Dunlap Codding, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17063438 on 10/05/2020 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract: High photoluminescence, high stability, inorganic perovskite compounds comprising an alkali metal selected from potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), and cesium (Cs); copper (Cu); and at least one halogen selected from chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), and iodine (I). The perovskites may be free of lead (Pb). The inorganic perovskite compound may be used in an optoelectronic device. The optoelectronic device optionally contains a phosphor such as a blue-emitting phosphor. The inorganic perovskite compound may be used as an anti-counterfeiting nanotaggant applied on or within an object that susceptible to counterfeiting to enable confirmation of an authentic object.

[C09K] MATERIALS FOR APPLICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

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

Mobile segmental rail foundation system
Patent No. 11591766

Inventor(s): Matthew John Garry (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): FOUNDATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Lawrenceville, GA)
Law Firm: Thomas | Horstemeyer, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17091720 on 11/06/2020 (844 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various examples are provided related to mobile segmental rail foundation systems, and their assembly, deployment and use. In one example, among others, a mobile rail foundation system includes a segmental rail foundation including a plurality of anchor assemblies and at least one sectional spacer rail assembly configured to detachably attach adjacent anchor assemblies to form the segmental rail foundation. The anchor assemblies can be coupled to soil anchor assemblies and/or hold down assemblies to secure the segmental rail foundation in position. The soil anchor assemblies can include helical pile soil anchor assemblies and the hold down assemblies can include forked hold down plate or brackets secured by anchor bolts.

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

Composite conduit formwork structure and method of fabrication
Patent No. 11591793

Inventor(s): Scott Armstrong (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Forma Technologies Inc. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Schultz Associates, P.C. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16949683 on 11/10/2020 (840 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure presents a composite conduit formwork structure which includes a cylindrical outer casing adapted to bond with a cylindrical inner casing which are maintained at a fixed distance apart by a plurality of radial stanchions. The inner casing and outer casing form an interior void which is filled with concrete during manufacture. The outer casing and inner casing remain in place to protect the structure once completed. A novel method of assembly is also provided whereby radial stanchions are rotated between the outer casing and inner casing. All of the components in a preferred embodiment are formed of a fiberglass material.

[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)

Systems and methods for an indicator system in firestop protection systems
Patent No. 11591812

Inventor(s): Lucas Ackerman (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Schaan, , LI)
Law Firm: Leydig, Voit Mayer, Ltd. (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16953119 on 11/19/2020 (831 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a lead-sleeve coupled to a platform. The platform attaches to a sheet metal having alternating peaks and valleys, and the platform includes a block-out component that conforms to a valley of the sheet metal. The system also includes an indicator system coupled to a cap of the lead-sleeve, where the indicator system protrudes through the concrete after the concrete is poured and solidified around the lead-sleeve.

[E04G] SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR OTHER BUILDING AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS

Storage container securing system
Patent No. 11591826

Inventor(s): Craig A. Smith (Argyle, TX), Sean Brennan (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Bell Nunnally Martin LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15997494 on 06/04/2018 (1730 days app to issue)

Abstract: A storage container securing system, in one embodiment, may include a base for receiving at least a portion of a storage container, such as a cooler, and a shelf adjustably positioned within the base to adjust the location of the storage container. In another embodiment, a storage container securing system is described having slidable inserts configured to matingly engage a slot in a storage container. In another embodiment, a storage container securing system is described having a receiving slot configured to receive a protrusion of a storage container.

[E05B] LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS

Surface equipment protection from borehole pulsation energies
Patent No. 11591859

Inventor(s): Cersten Jantzon (Kingwood, TX), Gregg Mathiak (Plano, TX), John Thomas Rogers (Garland, TX), Lucas Love (Spring, TX)
Assignee(s): Performance Pulsation Control, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17450673 on 10/12/2021 (504 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pulsation and acoustic energy reduction dampener for installation within well piping between a standpipe and a swivel includes a body formed from a union connection sub providing a threaded male connection at one end of the body and welded to a union connection nut providing a threaded female connection at the other end, each for connection to the well piping. A flow restriction orifice assembly is secured by welding or gluing within the union connection sub and includes a replaceable wear component such as an annular ceramic insert with a tapered or cylindrical interior through-hole.

[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]

Setting tool for downhole applications
Patent No. 11591872

Inventor(s): Antony F. Grattan (Mansfield, TX), Douglas J. Streibich (Fort Worth, TX), Mark Lancaster (Alvarado, TX), Michael C. Robertson (Arlington, TX), Roy L. Sparkman (Haltom City, TX)
Assignee(s): Robertson Intellectual Properties, LLC (Mansfield, TX)
Law Firm: McCutcheon Joseph, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17157750 on 01/25/2021 (764 days app to issue)

Abstract: A setting tool having a tool body, a chamber configured to contain a non-explosive fuel configured to generate gas and plasma, a cavity, a bleed sub located between the chamber and the cavity. The bleed sub is configured to bleed pressure from the chamber to the cavity after the non-explosive fuel has been initiated. The setting tool also includes a piston disposed within the cavity oriented to stroke in a first direction after the non-explosive fuel has been initiated. The piston may divide the cavity into an upper volume that may receive the pressure increase from the bleed sub and a lower volume. The setting tool may also include a shaft mechanically connected to the piston within the lower volume of the cavity. The shaft may include a dampening conduit configured to drain a fluid from the lower volume after the non-explosive fuel has been initiated.

High-expansion well sealing using seal seat extender
Patent No. 11591873

Inventor(s): Adam J. Milne (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17384321 on 07/23/2021 (585 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sealing tool, system and method for sealing a wellbore achieves increased expansion with the use of a seal seat extender. In one example, a seal seat (e.g., a ball seat) defines an axial flow bore in fluid communication with the wellbore to be sealed, a sealing profile for receiving a loose sealing element (e.g., a ball or dart) to close the axial flow bore, and a tapered outer profile. The seal seat extender is initially disposed against the seal seat and is expandable against the seal seat in response to an axial setting force, such as by sliding up the tapered outer profile of the seal seat and/or buckling outwardly, in response to a setting force. A compliant annular packing element disposed against the seal seat extender is deformable outwardly into sealing engagement with the wellbore in response to the axial setting force.

Thermoplastic with swellable metal for enhanced seal
Patent No. 11591879

Inventor(s): Brandon T. Least (Carrollton, TX), Michael L. Fripp (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17161902 on 01/29/2021 (760 days app to issue)

Abstract: Swellable metal assemblies that have a reactive metal and a polymer, and are located around or inside an oilfield tubular. The oilfield tubular and the swellable metal assembly can be provided in a wellbore to form a seal therein.

Diverter informed adaptive well completion system
Patent No. 11591882

Inventor(s): Frederic D. Sewell (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Zipfrac LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Carrington, Coleman, Sloman Blumenthal, L.L.P. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17732829 on 04/29/2022 (305 days app to issue)

Abstract: An oil or gas production method forms a wellbore in a rock formation, wherein the wellbore including a lateral portion, and the method introduces a plurality of perforation diverters into the wellbore, wherein each perforation diverter in the plurality of diverters includes circuitry for determining a pressure proximate the perforation diverter, and the method measures a respective pressure proximate each perforation diverter and within the lateral portion.

Shuttle valve assembly for gas compression and injection system
Patent No. 11591892

Inventor(s): Jimmie Robert Williamson, Jr. (Carrollton, TX), Joseph Steven Grieco (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg, LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16301702 on 06/03/2016 (2461 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gas separation and injection system includes a lower separator that receives and separates a production stream into higher and lower density streams, a turbine-compressor including a turbine that receives the lower density stream to rotate a shaft that drives a compressor and subsequently recombines the lower and higher density streams into a recombined production stream. An upper separator receives the recombined production stream and includes a gas inlet tube that conveys a gas stream to the compressor to produce a compressed gas stream. A shuttle valve assembly axially interposes the upper separator and the turbine-compressor and includes a mandrel assembly received within a body and having the gas inlet tube extending within the mandrel assembly, a valve seat secured to the gas inlet tube, a piston movably arranged within the inner annulus between closed and open positions, and a shuttle valve operatively coupled to the piston.

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

Shape-memory material actuators
Patent No. 11592010

Inventor(s): Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Shardul S. Panwar (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17747638 on 05/18/2022 (286 days app to issue)

Abstract: An actuator that includes a shell, a ring structure within the shell, a shape-memory material wire fixed at opposite points of the ring structure to extend in a first direction across a width of the ring structure, and a cooling fluid provided within the shell and in fluid communication with the shape-memory material wire. When the shape-memory material wire is heated, the shape-memory material wire contracts in the first direction to reduce the width of the ring structure and increases a height of the ring structure extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

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

Fluid exchange devices and related controls, systems, and methods
Patent No. 11592036

Inventor(s): A. K. Necioglu (Macungie, PA), Christopher Shages (Bethlehem, PA), Nathan Terwilliger (Bethlehem, PA), Neil Havrilla (Coplay, PA), Scott Judge (Bethlehem, PA)
Assignee(s): Flowserve Management Company (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: PCFB LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16678998 on 11/08/2019 (1208 days app to issue)

Abstract: Pressure exchange devices, systems, and related methods may include a tank, a piston, a valve device, and one or more sensors for monitoring a position of the piston in the tank.

[F04F] PUMPING OF FLUID BY DIRECT CONTACT OF ANOTHER FLUID OR BY USING INERTIA OF FLUID TO BE PUMPED (containers or packages with special means for dispensing liquid or semi-liquid contents by internal gaseous pressure B65D 83/14); SIPHONS [2]

Hybrid actuation devices including alignment aids
Patent No. 11592037

Inventor(s): Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI), Max Herzog (Fenton, MI), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (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: 17545027 on 12/08/2021 (447 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid actuation device that includes a first plate coupled to a second plate, a shape memory alloy wire coupled to the first plate, and an artificial muscle positioned between the first plate and the second plate. The artificial muscle includes a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, a first electrode and a second electrode each disposed in the electrode region of the housing and a dielectric fluid disposed within the housing. The expandable fluid region of the housing is positioned apart from a perimeter of the first plate and the second plate. A first alignment aid is positioned between the first plate and the first electrode, the first alignment aid having an inner surface facing the first plate and an outer surface facing the first electrode.

[F15B] SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (motors, turbines, compressors, blowers, pumps F01-F04; fluid dynamics F15D; fluid clutches or brakes F16D; fluid springs F16F; fluid gearing F16H; pistons, cylinders, packing F16J; valves, taps, cocks, actuating-floats F16K; safety valves with auxiliary fluid operation of the main valve F16K 17/10; fluid-operating means for valves F16K 31/12; pipes, pipe joints F16L; lubricating F16N)

Pipe fitting with positive installation indicator
Patent No. 11592127

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Brian Shaffer (Lipan, TX)
Assignee(s): ASC Engineered Solutions, LLC (Portsmouth, NH)
Law Firm: Taylor English Duma LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17210966 on 03/24/2021 (706 days app to issue)

Abstract: An indicator assembly includes a fastener defining a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and an axis extending from the first end to the second end; a first indicator positioned radially outwardly of the fastener relative to the axis of the fastener; and a second indicator positioned radially outwardly of the fastener relative to the axis of the fastener, wherein the second indicator is axially in between the first indicator and the second end of the fastener upon the fastener being oriented in a first position, and wherein the second indicator is radially inwardly or radially outwardly of the first indicator upon the fastener being oriented in a second position.

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

Systems, apparatuses and methods for improved rotating detonation engines
Patent No. 11592183

Inventor(s): Andrew R. Mizener (Euless, TX), Frank K Lu (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Thomas Horstemeyer, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17022616 on 09/16/2020 (895 days app to issue)

Abstract: Rotating detonation engines are provided with various improvements pertaining to performance and reliability. Improvements pertain to, for example, a fluidic valve/premixing chamber, injection/swirl, flow control and turning, ignition, and cooling. A rotating detonation engine can include a cylindrical inner shell within an outer housing, a cylindrical outer shell positioned between the inner shell and the outer housing, an annular gap between the outer shell and the outer housing functioning as a detonation chamber.

[F23R] GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS (fluidised bed combustion apparatus specially adapted for operation at superatmospheric pressures F23C 10/16)

Method and system for the heat-pump control to reduce liquid refrigerant migration
Patent No. 11592225

Inventor(s): Eric Berg (The Colony, TX), Jeff Mangum (Carrollton, TX), Srini Natarajan (Carrollton, TX), Umesh Gokhale (Irving, TX), Wenqian Liu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17102660 on 11/24/2020 (826 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of mitigating liquid-refrigerant migration includes comparing a requested compressor speed of a variable-speed compressor to a pre-defined threshold and, responsive to a determination that the requested compressor speed is greater than the pre-defined threshold, operating the variable-speed compressor at a first compressor speed that is less than the requested compressor speed.

[F25B] REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS, OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials, e.g. refrigerants, or materials for the production of heat or cold by chemical reactions other than by combustion C09K 5/00; pumps, compressors F04; use of heat pumps for domestic or space-heating or for domestic hot-water supply F24D; air-conditioning, air-humidification F24F; fluid heaters using heat pumps F24H)

Flash directed reactive target and method of manufacture
Patent No. 11592269

Inventor(s): Daniel Hill Meeker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): I P Creations Limited (Swindon, , GB)
Law Firm: Schultz Associates, P.C. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16723170 on 12/20/2019 (1166 days app to issue)

Abstract: A concealed amalgamated neutralizer device covertly combines neutralizer material of inert materials such as calcium carbonate or silicates with common energetic material for the prevention of malicious use of the energetic material. The concealed amalgamated neutralizer device may vary in shape, size, and color and is therefore adaptable to varying methods of containment. The neutralizer material mimics the energetic material without detection. Upon disassembly of the concealed amalgamated neutralizer device, the neutralizer material is mixed with and neutralizes the energetic material rendering the energetic material useless. A container is provided which has a bottom section having an interior surface including a plurality of integrally formed recesses that are filled with the energetic material which allow manipulation of flash direction and intensity upon detonation.

[F41J] TARGETS; TARGET RANGES; BULLET CATCHERS

Multi-piece polymer ammunition cartridge nose
Patent No. 11592270

Inventor(s): Christopher William Overton (Wylie, TX), Lonnie Burrow (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): TRUE VELOCITY IP HOLDINGS, LLC (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Burdick Patents, P.A. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16800189 on 02/25/2020 (1099 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer nose for a polymeric ammunition cartridge having a generally cylindrical neck having a projectile aperture at a first end, a shoulder comprising a shoulder top connected to the generally cylindrical neck opposite a shoulder bottom, a side wall extending from the shoulder, a groove positioned around the side wall, a skirt connected circumferentially about the groove to extend away from the groove, wherein the groove and the skirt are adapted to mate to a polymer cartridge.

[F42B] EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING; FIREWORKS; AMMUNITION (explosive compositions C06B; fuzes F42C; blasting F42D) [5]

P H Y S I C S

Methods and systems for improving human facial skin conditions by leveraging vehicle cameras and skin data AI analytics
Patent No. 11589803

Inventor(s): Alexander T. Pham (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16865984 on 05/04/2020 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: Facial skin analysis methods and systems for improving facial skin conditions using vehicle cameras of vehicles having onboard communication modules. Each vehicle is equipped to analyze the facial skin images over time periods and compare the images to determine skin conditions. Based on the facial skin conditions, a treatment recommendation can be transmitted to a seat occupant. Each vehicle is operatively connected to a facial skin analysis application in a data center. The facial skin analysis application includes a registration module which registers each vehicle. Additionally, a vehicle user may register with the facial skin analysis application to have his/her facial skin analyzed when travelling in any of the plurality of vehicles. The facial skin analysis application is operatively connected to a skin data AI analytics module and data lake and searches a plurality of databases for information related to the facial skin conditions to improve the treatment recommendation.

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

Vehicle systems for verifying passenger protective equipment and methods for using the same
Patent No. 11590930

Inventor(s): Daniel C. Bracken (Frisco, TX), Joshua Batie (Frisco, TX), Michael D. Dorazio (Santa Monica, CA), Randy Kaushek (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17459990 on 08/27/2021 (550 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle system includes a detection device structurally configured to capture an image, a door lock, where the door lock is positionable between a locked position and an unlocked position, a controller communicatively coupled to the detection device and the door lock, the controller including a processor and a non-transitory computer readable and executable instruction set, which when executed, causes the processor to receive a captured image of a user from the detection device, determine whether the captured image of includes protective equipment worn by the user, and direct the door lock to move into the unlocked position in response to determining that the protective equipment in the captured image meets a configurable protective equipment baseline. NULL

Method and system for distributed detection of road conditions and damage
Patent No. 11592309

Inventor(s): Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17158744 on 01/26/2021 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for distributed detection of road conditions and damage are described. In one embodiment, a method for distributed detection of road conditions and damage is provided. The method includes receiving, from one or more mobile devices, a plurality of reports of anomalies associated with roads in a geographic area. The method also includes storing the received reports of anomalies in a database and comparing each report of an anomaly to stored reports of previous anomalies in the database. The method further includes determining whether each report of an anomaly indicates road damage or a temporary problem. The method includes generating a prioritized list of locations of anomalies associated with one or more roads that have been determined to have road damage that needs maintenance and/or repair.

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

Systems and methods for mechanosynthesis
Patent No. 11592463

Inventor(s): Tait Takatani (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CBN Nano Technologies Inc. (Ottawa, , CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17474472 on 09/14/2021 (532 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for performing mechanosynthesis, including those that involve bulk chemical preparation of tips, multiple tips for supplying feedstock, and use of sequential tips such as in a thermodynamic cascade; such features may simplify starting requirements, increase versatility, and/or reduce complexity in the mechanosynthesis equipment and/or process.

[G01Q] SCANNING-PROBE TECHNIQUES OR APPARATUS; APPLICATIONS OF SCANNING-PROBE TECHNIQUES, e.g. SCANNING-PROBE MICROSCOPY [SPM] [2010.01]

Compressed scan chain diagnosis by internal chain observation, processes, circuits, devices and systems
Patent No. 11592483

Inventor(s): Arvind Jain (Karnataka, , IN), Prakash Narayanan (Karnataka, , IN), Rubin A Parekhji (Karnataka, , IN), Sundarrajan Subramanian (Karnataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17396079 on 08/06/2021 (571 days app to issue)

Abstract: Electronic scan circuitry includes a decompressor ([b]510[/b]), a plurality of scan chains ([b]520[/b].i) fed by the decompressor ([b]510[/b]), a scan circuit ([b]502, 504[/b]) coupled to the plurality of scan chains ([b]520[/b].i) to scan them in and out, a masking circuit ([b]590[/b]) fed by the scan chains ([b]520[/b].i), and a scannable masking qualification circuit ([b]550, 560, 580[/b]) coupled to the masking circuit ([b]590[/b]), the masking qualification circuit ([b]550, 560, 580[/b]) scannable by scan-in of bits by the decompressor ([b]510[/b]) along with scan-in of the scan chains ([b]520[/b].i), and the scannable masking qualification circuit ([b]550, 560, 580[/b]) operable to hold such scanned-in bits upon scan-out of the scan chains through the masking circuit ([b]590[/b]). Other scan circuitry, processes, circuits, devices and systems are also disclosed.

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

Dynamic security protection in configurable analog signal chains
Patent No. 11592484

Inventor(s): Anand Kumar G (Bengaluru, , IN), Christy Leigh She (Allen, TX), Veeramanikandan Raju (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17165326 on 02/02/2021 (756 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for dynamically protecting against security vulnerabilities in a reconfigurable signal chain. The system includes a signal chain formed from at least a first component connected with a second component. The first component has a set of source outputs and a first authentication block, and the second signal chain component has a set of destination inputs and a second authentication block. The system also includes a signal chain configurator that populates the first authentication block with at least one validated endpoint from the set of destination inputs. A signal chain integrity block, which is communicatively coupled with the first authentication block and the second authentication block, identifies a source-destination pair from one or more endpoint pairs formed from the at least one validated endpoint and the set of source outputs. The signal chain integrity block propagates the source-destination pair to the first authentication block and the second authentication block. The second authentication block authenticates any received input using the source-destination pair.

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

Component adjustment in a signal path of an integrated sensor
Patent No. 11592502

Inventor(s): Ann Gabrys (Woodside, CA), Roozbeh Parsa (Portola Valley, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15647466 on 07/12/2017 (2057 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated sensor includes a sensor cell, a signal source, an input optical rotator, and a signal detector. The integrated sensor includes a positioner for a signal-processing component. The positioner may be a linear positioner for the signal-processing component, such as a signal source or a signal detector, or may be a rotational positioner for the signal-processing component, such as a polarizer or a polarized signal source. The signal-processing component is located on a signal path of the integrated sensor. A method of adjusting a linear position or rotational position of a signal-processing component is also disclosed. A linear position or a rotational position of the signal-processing component may be adjusted to improve performance of the integrated sensor.

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

Methods and systems for diagnosing magnetic sensors
Patent No. 11592511

Inventor(s): Harish Kumar (Frisco, TX), Srinivasan Venkataraman (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17161009 on 01/28/2021 (761 days app to issue)

Abstract: A magnetic sensor circuit includes a plurality of magnetic sensors having bias input and bias output terminals and first and second measurement terminals. The circuit includes a diagnostic sensor having bias input and bias output terminals and first and second measurement terminals. The circuit includes a first multiplexer configured to selectively couple a current source to the bias input terminals of the magnetic sensors or to the bias input terminal of the diagnostic sensor and includes a second multiplexer configured to selectively couple the bias output terminals of the magnetic sensors or the bias output terminal of the diagnostic sensor to a first terminal of a switch. The circuit includes a third multiplexer configured to selectively couple the measurement terminals of the magnetic sensors or the measurement terminals of the diagnostic sensor to differential input terminals of an amplifier.

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

Frequency modulated continuous wave LIDAR with locked dual lasers
Patent No. 11592560

Inventor(s): Paul Donald Schmalenberg (Ann Arbor, MI), Yasuo Uehara (Gotemba, , JP)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16844452 on 04/09/2020 (1055 days app to issue)

Abstract: A frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LIDAR can be configured to reduce re-reflection and cross-coupling in the FMCW LIDAR. A first laser can be configured to generate a ranging signal, and a second laser can be configured to generate a local oscillator signal. A feedback control can be configured to maintain an offset between the ranging signal and the local oscillator signal. The offset can be a non-zero value. A transmit portion configured to emit a reference laser signal based on the ranging signal into an environment. A receiver portion can be configured to receive a return laser signal from the environment. The return laser signal can be a reflected version of the reference laser signal. A receiver photodetector can be configured to combine the return laser signal and the local oscillator signal.

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

Anti-reflective sputtering stack with low Rv and low Ruv
Patent No. 11592597

Inventor(s): Narendra Borgharkar (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, , FR)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15560119 on 03/25/2015 (2897 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides a UV antireflective coating stack for ophthalmic lenses. The antireflective coating stack is deposited by sputtering, which lowers the reflectivity of the antireflective stack in the UV range and maintains low reflectivity in the visible range. The antireflective coating stack offers improved thermo-mechanical performance as compared to evaporation-based UV antireflective stacks.

[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]

Heat management systems for enclosures for power and optical fiber networks
Patent No. 11592638

Inventor(s): Willis F. James (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17328443 on 05/24/2021 (645 days app to issue)

Abstract: A thermal management system for a power and fiber splice enclosure that includes a housing including electrical components is provided. The thermal management system includes a solar shield disposed external to the housing and covering at least a major portion of the housing. The thermal management system includes a vent disposed in the housing for venting hot air from the enclosure. The thermal management system includes a condenser thermally coupled to a heat conducting component of the enclosure for cooling at least the heat conducting component.

Image enhanced liquid crystal display devices
Patent No. 11592710

Inventor(s): John K. Roberts (Durham, NC)
Assignee(s): Brightplus Ventures LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Ascenda Law Group, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17168594 on 02/05/2021 (753 days app to issue)

Abstract: Backlighting panels for LCD displays are described herein which, in some embodiments, enhance contrast ratio, spatial resolution and/or chromaticity differentiation in images output by the LCD displays. In one aspect, an electronic display device comprises a LCD panel comprising pixels, and a backlighting panel comprising an array of solid state lighting devices of differing color. A color management unit is configured to generate color management signals for controlling chromaticity and/or luminance output of the solid state lighting devices, wherein a ratio of the solid state lighting devices to the pixels of the LCD panel is greater than 1.

[G02F] DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH IS MODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THE DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY, COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g. SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS [4]

Camera-assisted arbitrary surface characterization and correction
Patent No. 11592732

Inventor(s): Jaime Rene De La Cruz (Carrollton, TX), Jefferey Mathew Kempf (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16867390 on 05/05/2020 (1029 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a geometric progression of structured light elements is iteratively projected for display on a projection screen surface. The displayed progression is for determining a three-dimensional characterization of the projection screen surface. Points of the three-dimensional characterization of a projection screen surface are respaced in accordance with a spacing grid and an indication of an observer position. A compensated depth for each of the respaced points is determined in response to the three-dimensional characterization of the projection screen surface. A compensated image can be projected on the projection screen surface in response to the respaced points and respective compensated depths.

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

Linear voltage regulator
Patent No. 11592854

Inventor(s): Avinash Shreepathi Bhat (Tucson, AZ)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17364259 on 06/30/2021 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: A linear voltage regulator includes a voltage input and a voltage output. The linear voltage regulator includes a buffer having a voltage node, an input node, an output node and a control node and a power transistor having a control node coupled to the output node of the buffer, an input node coupled to the voltage input and an output node coupled to the voltage output. The linear voltage regulator includes a dropout detection module having a control node coupled to the control node of the power transistor, a voltage input node coupled to the voltage input, a voltage output node coupled to the voltage output and an output node. The linear voltage regulator includes a feedforward module having an input node coupled to the output node of the dropout detection module and an output node coupled to the control node of the buffer.

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

Methods and apparatuses for providing procedure guidance
Patent No. 11592897

Inventor(s): Mohamed Fayez Taha (Campbell, TX)
Assignee(s): WEST TEXAS TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS, LLC (Waco, TX)
Law Firm: Whiteford, Taylor Preston, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17001652 on 08/24/2020 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of operating the same are described. An apparatus including a display, an input device, and a processing device coupled to the display and the input device. The processing device may send an output to the display. The output may include a graphical object associated with a first step of a user-implemented procedure. The processing device may receive an input from the input device. The input may indicate a progress on an execution of the first step by an operator. The processing device may determine whether the input indicates that the operator has completed the first step. The processing device may determine whether the first step is a final step in the user-implemented procedure. The processing device may identify a second step in the user-implemented procedure when the input indicates that the operator has completed the first step and the first step is not a final step.

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

Command selection policy with read priority
Patent No. 11593027

Inventor(s): Patrick A. La Fratta (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Brooks, Cameron Huebsch, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17127850 on 12/18/2020 (802 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods related to command selection policy for electronic memory or storage are described. Commands to a memory controller may be prioritized based on a type of command, a timing of when one command was received relative to another command, a timing of when one command is ready to be issued to a memory device, or some combination of such factors. For instance, a memory controller may employ a first-ready, first-come, first-served (FRFCFS) policy in which certain types of commands (e.g., read commands) are prioritized over other types of commands (e.g., write commands). The policy may employ exceptions to such an FRFCFS policy based on dependencies or relationships among or between commands. An example can include inserting a command into a priority queue based on a category corresponding to respective commands, and iterating through a plurality of priority queues in order of priority to select a command to issue.

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

Instruction packing scheme for VLIW CPU architecture
Patent No. 11593110

Inventor(s): Alexander Tessarolo (Lindfield, , AU), Saya Goud Langadi (Bangalore, , IN), Venkatesh Natarajan (Karnataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17143989 on 01/07/2021 (782 days app to issue)

Abstract: A processor is provided and includes a core that is configured to perform a decode operation on a multi-instruction packet comprising multiple instructions. The decode operation includes receiving the multi-instruction packet that includes first and second instructions. The first instruction includes a primary portion at a fixed first location and a secondary portion. The second instruction includes a primary portion at a fixed second location between the primary portion of the first instruction and the secondary portion of the first instruction. An operational code portion of the primary portion of each of the first and second instructions is accessed and decoded. An instruction packet including the primary and secondary portions of the first instruction is created, and a second instruction packet including the primary portion of the second instruction is created. The first and second instructions packets are dispatched to respective first and second functional units.

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

System and method for instruction unwinding in an out-of-order processor
Patent No. 11593116

Inventor(s): David A. Carlson (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. (Singapore, , SG)
Law Firm: Hamilton, Brook, Smith Reynolds, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17246428 on 04/30/2021 (669 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and corresponding method unwind instructions in an out-of-order (OoO) processor. The system comprises a mapper. In response to a restart event causing at least one instruction to be unwound, the mapper restores a present integer mapper state and present floating-point (FP) mapper state, used for mapping instructions, to a former integer mapper state and former FP mapper state, respectively. The mapper stores integer snapshots and FP snapshots of the present integer and FP mapper state, respectively, to expedite restoration to the former integer and FP mapper state, respectively. Access to the FP snapshots is blocked, intermittently, as a function of at least one FP present indicator used by the mapper to record presence of FP registers used as destinations in the instructions. Blocking the access, intermittently, improves power efficiency of the OoO processor.

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

Surrogate process creation technique for high process-per-server scenarios
Patent No. 11593183

Inventor(s): David Solt (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17190086 on 03/02/2021 (728 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for launching parallel processes on a server configured to process a number of parallel processes. A request is received from a parallel application to start a number of parallel processes. In response to this request a launcher creates a surrogate. The surrogate inherits communications channels from the launcher. The surrogate then executes activities related to the launch of the parallel processes, and then launches the parallel processes. The parallel processes are launched and the surrogate is terminated.

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

Configurable integrated circuit (IC) with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) arbitration
Patent No. 11593195

Inventor(s): Jacco van Oevelen (Niederaichbach, , DE), Kevin William Brandon (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17128595 on 12/21/2020 (799 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes: a storage having a storage interface and addressable bytes, the storage interface coupled to first and second sets of peripheral terminals; control circuitry having control circuitry inputs and control circuitry outputs, the control circuitry inputs coupled to the storage interface and configured to receive configuration bits provided by the storage responsive to a control circuitry update trigger, and the control circuitry outputs coupled to first and second sets of peripheral outputs; and a cyclic-redundancy check (CRC) engine coupled to the storage interface, the CRC engine configured to distinguish between purposeful updates to the data in the storage and bit errors in the data in the storage.

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

Processor with debug pipeline
Patent No. 11593241

Inventor(s): Armin Stingl (Erding, , DE), Christian Wiencke (Garching, , DE), Ralph Ledwa (Buching, , DE), Shrey Bhatia (Freising, , DE), Wolfgang Lutsch (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): Texas Instmments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17146584 on 01/12/2021 (777 days app to issue)

Abstract: A processor includes an execution pipeline that includes a plurality of execution stages, execution pipeline control logic, and a debug system. The execution pipeline control logic is configured to control flow of an instruction through the execution stages. The debug system includes a debug pipeline and debug pipeline control logic. The debug pipeline includes a plurality of debug stages. Each debug pipeline stage corresponds to an execution pipeline stage, and the total number of debug stages corresponds to the total number of execution stages. The debug pipeline control logic is coupled to the execution pipeline control logic. The debug pipeline control logic is configured to control flow through the debug stages of debug information associated with the instruction, and to advance the debug information into a next of the debug stages in correspondence with the execution pipeline control logic advancing the instruction into a corresponding stage of the execution pipeline.

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

Systems and methods for a multi-hierarchy physical storage architecture for managing program and outcome data
Patent No. 11593401

Inventor(s): Andreas Buchmann (Stuttgart, , DE), Derek Howard (Columbia, MO), Krista Galyen (Columbia, MO), Ned Stone (Dallas, TX), Paxton Riter (Dallas, TX), Sam Foster (Dallas, TX), Whitney Kilgore (Valley View, TX)
Assignee(s): iDesignEDU, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17686298 on 03/03/2022 (362 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for data storage and retrieval from a computer memory. A computing device may store a first hierarchical data structure having a first sequence of sub-data structures and a second hierarchical data structure having a second sequence of sub-data structures in memory. The computing device may link the first hierarchical data structure and the second hierarchical data structure together. The computing device may link the first hierarchical data structure and the second hierarchical data structure by inserting an identifier of a sub-data structure of the second sequence in the first sequence.

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

Historical augmentation of electronic maps
Patent No. 11593411

Inventor(s): Chaithra Mysore Nagaraj (Coppell, TX), Huida Liu (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16569868 on 09/13/2019 (1264 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method to annotate electronic maps with historical data, the method comprising: receiving a first query from a user, wherein the first query includes a request for historical data of a mapped area. The method also comprises retrieving a plurality of references, wherein each reference includes a location reference, and each reference is related to the mapped area. The method further comprises normalizing each location reference to a common coordinate system. The method also comprises ranking each of the plurality of references. The method further comprises generating a first result, wherein the first result is responsive to the first query, and the first result is based on the ranking. The method further comprises determining a confidence score for the first result, and returning the first result to the user.

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

System for monitoring networked computing devices with integrated electronic data encryption and decryption mechanism
Patent No. 11593494

Inventor(s): Mousumi Chatterjee (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16891933 on 06/03/2020 (1000 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for monitoring networked computing devices with integrated electronic data encryption and decryption mechanism is provided. In particular, the system may comprise one or more host applications which may interact with an API layer to transmit encrypted host-related data through a secure data rails to a consolidated data repository. One or more downstream monitoring applications may retrieve and decrypt the host-related data from the consolidated data repository for analysis. In this way, the system may provide a secure, scalable way to monitor host computing systems and flow of sensitive electronic data.

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

Systems and methods for determining consensus values
Patent No. 11593555

Inventor(s): Preeti Duraipandian (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, CA)
Law Firm: DLA Piper LLP (US) (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17662638 on 05/09/2022 (295 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to determine consensus values for duplicate fields in a document or form.

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

Convolution streaming engine for deep neural networks
Patent No. 11593637

Inventor(s): Chenchi Luo (Plano, TX), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, TX), Manish Goel (Plano, TX), Yuming Zhu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16399928 on 04/30/2019 (1400 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, an electronic device, and computer readable medium are provided. The method includes receiving an input into a neural network that includes a kernel. The method also includes generating, during a convolution operation of the neural network, multiple panel matrices based on different portions of the input. The method additionally includes successively combining each of the multiple panel matrices with the kernel to generate an output. Generating the multiple panel matrices can include mapping elements within a moving window of the input onto columns of an indexing matrix, where a size of the window corresponds to the size of the kernel.

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

Systems and methods of product recognition through multi-model image processing
Patent No. 11593783

Inventor(s): Priyanka Paliwal (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Fitch, Even, Tabin Flannery LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17240424 on 04/26/2021 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.

[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]

System, method and computer-accessible medium for resource centric authorization in multi partner ecosystem
Patent No. 11593796

Inventor(s): David Gillam (The Colony, TX), Nag Prajval Bindumalyam Chandrashekar (Little Elm, TX), Pedro Betancourt (McKinney, TX), Satish Kesiboyana (Plano, TX), Suresh Pandey (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17018089 on 09/11/2020 (900 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exemplary system, method and computer accessible medium can include receiving an authorization token related to a customer(s), determining a client identification (ID) associated with the customer(s) based on the authorization token, and determining access to a microservices(s) based on the client ID. An application for a loan(s) from the customer (s) can be received based on the client ID and the loan(s) can be associated with an application ID(s). A further authorization token related to a further customer(s) can be received, a further client ID can be determined based on the further authorization token, a determination can be made as to whether the further client ID has access to the application, and access to the application can be granted to the further customer(s) if the further client ID is determined to have access to the application.

Information security system and method for multi-factor authentication for ATMS using authentication media
Patent No. 11593807

Inventor(s): Nia Mack (Prosper, TX), Ramkumar Korlepara (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17208024 on 03/22/2021 (708 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for verifying a user operating an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) sends an authentication media item to a user device associated with the user when the ATM receives a transaction request. The system receives, from the ATM, a first image of the authentication media item when the authentication media item is presented to the ATM. The system compares the first image of the authentication media item with a second image of the authentication media item stored in a user profile associated with the user. The system extracts a first unique code from the first image of the authentication media item, and a second unique code from the second image of the authentication media item. The system determines whether the first unique code corresponds to the second unique code. The system approves the transaction request if it is determined that the first unique code corresponds to the second unique code.

Real-time virtual try-on item modeling
Patent No. 11593868

Inventor(s): Harish Kantamneni (Plano, TX), Pratima Adusumilli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Mirelz Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16731716 on 12/31/2019 (1155 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes generating, based on user images, a user 3-D model. The method proceeds with obtaining, via a user interface, a request to graphically represent an accessory on to a user graphical representation. This user graphical representation is generated using the user 3-D model. In response to this request, an accessory 3-D model is obtained. Further, the method includes positioning, via the user interface and based on parameters of the user 3-D model and of the accessory 3-D model, an accessory graphical representation on to the user graphical representation. The method further includes updating, in response to detecting user movement, the user 3-D model and the accessory 3-D model and presenting, via the user interface and based on these updated 3-D models, the accessory graphical representation and the user graphical representation in accordance with the user movement.

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

Digital fingerprints generated from coil brazing
Patent No. 11593929

Inventor(s): Satish Seshayya (Plano, TX), Vinay R. Thatigutla (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17644132 on 12/14/2021 (441 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system is configured to receive video footage of evaporator coil slabs after they exit an automated coil brazer. The system is further configured to convert the video footage to greyscale. The system is further configured to isolate frames from the greyscale video footage. Each frame comprises an image of a different evaporator coil slab. The system is further configured to identify a plurality of feature points in a first frame and a plurality of feature points in a second frame. The system is then configured to determine that a subset of features points in each frame are rotationally invariant. The system is further configured to generate a first digital fingerprint for each frame from a binary feature vector for each point in the subset of feature points determined to be rotationally invariant.

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

Attribute transfer in V-PCC
Patent No. 11593967

Inventor(s): Hossein Najaf-Zadeh (Allen, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17118431 on 12/10/2020 (810 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for point cloud decoding includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding the bitstream into multiple frames that include pixels. Certain pixels of the multiple frames correspond to points of a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. The multiple frames include a first set of frames that represent locations of the points of the 3D point cloud and a second set of frames that represent attribute information for the points of the 3D point cloud. The method further includes reconstructing the 3D point cloud based on the first set of frames. Additionally, the method includes identifying a first portion of the points of the reconstructed 3D point cloud based at least in part on a property associated with the multiple frames. The method also includes modifying a portion of the attribute information. The portion of the attribute information that is modified corresponds to the first portion of the points.

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

Method for determining correct scanning distance using augmented reality and machine learning models
Patent No. 11594045

Inventor(s): Daniel Martinez (Plano, TX), Jonathan Castaneda (Plano, TX), Staevan Duckworth (The Colony, TX), William Hardin (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17666256 on 02/07/2022 (386 days app to issue)

Abstract: A smart device is provided with an application program for displaying a video feed received from the smart device”s camera. The application can determine the coordinates for an intersection point, which is a point on the ground where the smart device is pointing at. The application can display a target on the visual representation of the intersection point. Based on whether the smart device is at an appropriate distance from the intersection point, the user interface can superimpose an indicator on the video feed received from the camera. This can inform the user whether the smart device is at an optimal scan distance from the intersection point (or an object) so that the object can be identified by a machine learning model. NULL

Emergency response and crime-reducing lighting system
Patent No. 11594112

Inventor(s): Dante Wesley (Cedar Hill, TX), Renetta LaTrece Wesley (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Kir (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17721523 on 04/15/2022 (319 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lighting assembly is configured to create an emergency notification. The lighting assembly has a housing with a housing first surface and a housing second surface. A plurality of strobe lights is arranged into at least one row and at least four columns. A direct current power system is joined to the plurality of strobe lights and further comprising a printed circuit board electrically coupled to radio frequency relay switch, and a battery. A wireless remote is communicatively coupled to the radio frequency relay switch. Activating the wireless remote directs the printed circuit board to provide power to the plurality of strobe lights creating the emergency notification.

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

Systems and methods for a traffic flow monitoring and graph completion system
Patent No. 11594126

Inventor(s): Ahmed H. Sakr (Mountain View, CA), Hongsheng Lu (San Jose, CA), Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, CA), Rui Guo (San Jose, 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: 17005824 on 08/28/2020 (914 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving monitoring of traffic flows. In one embodiment, a method includes aggregating perception data associated with a road network from information sources to a server over a network. The method also includes generating a graph structure from the perception data in association with a neural network model. The graph structure is an incomplete representation of the road network in view of missing data. The method also includes completing the graph structure using the neural network model that forms a graph model of the traffic flows to de-noise the graph structure according to road constraints between two points in the road network. The method also includes communicating the graph model of the traffic flows to a vehicle to navigate traffic in the road network.

[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]

Generating multi-monitor recommendations
Patent No. 11594192

Inventor(s): Jason Todd Miller (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products, L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16880388 on 05/21/2020 (1013 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating multi-monitor recommendations. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: collect window information during use of the IHS; and create a multi-monitor recommendation based, at least in part, upon the window information.

[G09G] ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F 3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F 9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H01L, H05B 33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N 1/00) [5]

Apparatus including parallel pipeline control and methods of manufacturing the same
Patent No. 11594265

Inventor(s): Kallol Mazumder (Dallas, TX), Navya Sri Sreeram (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17466052 on 09/03/2021 (543 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to coordinating a set of timing-critical operations across parallel processing pipelines are described. The coordination may include selectively using (1) circuitry associated with a corresponding pipeline to generate enable signals associated with the timing critical operations when a separation between the operations corresponds to a number of pipelines or (2) circuitry associated with a non-corresponding or another pipeline when the separation is not a factor of the number of pipelines.

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

System and method for advertising in response to diagnostic test results
Patent No. 11594337

Inventor(s): Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): RELIANT IMMUNE DIAGNOSTICS, INC. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15842727 on 12/14/2017 (1902 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are provided for collection and testing of a biologic sample. The system and method comprise collecting by a user of a testing device a biologic sample for use with the testing device, assigning correlative values as test results, and receiving the test results at a server disposed on a network. Some aspects further include presenting advertisements and other messages to users through a mobile application operating on a mobile device. These aspects take into account the results of the self-diagnostic test and present different advertisements to the user based on the results of the test. NULL

Methods and apparatus to determine main pages from network traffic
Patent No. 11595275

Inventor(s): Achilleas Papakostas (Dallas, TX), Travis Berthelot (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Hanley, Flight Zimmerman (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17364399 on 06/30/2021 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to determine main pages from network traffic are disclosed. A disclosed example non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions which, when executed, cause at least one processor to determine patterns of uniform resource identifiers (URIs) with corresponding main pages, parse data from network traffic, identify at least one of the main pages from the data based on the patterns, and provide the identified at least one of the main pages for crediting thereof.

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

Interaction driven artificial intelligence system and uses for same, including travel or real estate related contexts
Patent No. 11595333

Inventor(s): Kyle W. Kothe (Austin, TX), Richard Lawrence Stillwell, Jr. (Austin, TX), Steven Anderson Taylor (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): REALPAGE, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17696544 on 03/16/2022 (349 days app to issue)

Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems utilizing a chat driven interface that includes a chat portion and a display portion are disclosed. The user may interact with the chat portion of the interface in a human understandable and comfortable manner (e.g., through natural language). The artificial intelligence system uses the context of the interactions in the chat portion of the interface to drive the presentation of content in the display portion interface and the chat portion such that the content presented in the display portion of the interface reflects the intents or concepts expressed in the chat portion of the interface, and the chat portion and the display portion of the interface are kept in synchronicity.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

System and method for locational image processing
Patent No. 11589691

Inventor(s): William J. Johnson (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): BILLJCO LLC (Flower Mound, TX)
Law Firm: Saul Ewing LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17392725 on 08/03/2021 (574 days app to issue)

Abstract: Mobile data processing Systems (MSs) interact with systems in their vicinity, and with each other, in communications and interoperability. Graphical objects are recognized in an image field of view, for example to calculate, determine, or confirm location information.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Cable for distributing network power and data
Patent No. 11594348

Abstract: A power cable or a hybrid power-data cable includes power conductors and a plurality of continuity wires positioned radially outside of the power conductors. The continuity wires are positioned relative to the power conductors such that a cut in the cable will sever one of the plurality of continuity wires before a cut into the power conductors can occur.

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

Bondwire protrusions on conductive members
Patent No. 11594474

Inventor(s): Enis Tuncer (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17246568 on 04/30/2021 (669 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a semiconductor package comprises a semiconductor die; a conductive member coupled to the semiconductor die; and a wirebonded protrusion coupled to the conductive member. A physical structure of the wirebonded protrusion is determined at least in part by a sequence of movements of a wirebonding capillary used to form the wirebonded protrusion, the wirebonded protrusion including a ball bond and a bond wire, and the bond wire having a proximal end coupled to the ball bond. The bond wire has a distal end. The package also comprises a mold compound covering the semiconductor die, the conductive member, and the wirebonded protrusion. The distal end is in a common vertical plane with the ball bond and is not connected to a structure other than the mold compound.

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

Three-dimensional memory device including molybdenum carbide or carbonitride liners and methods of forming the same
Patent No. 11594490

Inventor(s): 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: 17155541 on 01/22/2021 (767 days app to issue)

Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, and memory stack structures vertically extending through the alternating stack. Each of the memory stack structures includes a respective vertical semiconductor channel and a respective vertical stack of memory elements located at levels of the electrically conductive layers. Each of the electrically conductive layers includes a respective conductive liner comprising molybdenum carbide or carbonitride, and a respective molybdenum metal fill material portion.

Nickel alloy for semiconductor packaging
Patent No. 11594504

Inventor(s): Christopher Daniel Manack (Flower Mound, TX), Nazila Dadvand (Richardson, TX), Salvatore Frank Pavone (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17234429 on 04/19/2021 (680 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged semiconductor die includes a semiconductor die coupled to a die pad. The semiconductor die has a front side containing copper leads, a copper seed layer coupled to the copper leads, and a nickel alloy coating coupled to the copper seed layer. The nickel alloy includes tungsten and cerium (NiWCe). The packaged semiconductor die may also include wire bonds coupled between leads of a lead frame and the copper leads of the semiconductor die. In addition, the packaged semiconductor die may be encapsulated in molding compound. A method for fabricating a packaged semiconductor die. The method includes forming a copper seed layer over the copper leads of the semiconductor die. In addition, the method includes coating the copper seed layer with a nickel alloy. The method also includes singulating the semiconductor wafer to create individual semiconductor die and placing the semiconductor die onto a die pad of a lead frame.

On-chip heater temperature calibration
Patent No. 11594532

Inventor(s): Chengxi Liu (Austin, TX), Roy Hastings (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16914822 on 06/29/2020 (974 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for calibrating a heater used to heat an adjustable resistance network during a trimming procedure. In one example, a circuit is provided that includes an adjustable resistance network including first resistance segments; a heater element thermally coupled to the adjustable resistance network; a calibration resistor including second resistance segments thermally coupled to the first resistance segments; and interface circuitry coupled to the calibration resistor.

Three-dimensional ferroelectric memory device containing lattice-matched templates and methods of making the same
Patent No. 11594553

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 Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17150561 on 01/15/2021 (774 days app to issue)

Abstract: A ferroelectric memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and containing a vertical stack of memory elements and a vertical semiconductor channel. Each memory element within the vertical stack of memory elements includes a crystalline ferroelectric memory material portion and an epitaxial template portion.

Rugged LDMOS with reduced NSD in source
Patent No. 11594630

Inventor(s): Henry Litzmann Edwards (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17329334 on 05/25/2021 (644 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit has a P-type substrate and an N-type LDMOS transistor. The LDMOS transistor includes a boron-doped diffused well (DWELL-B) and an arsenic-doped diffused well (DWELL-As) located within the DWELL-B. A first polysilicon gate having first sidewall spacers and a second polysilicon gate having second sidewall spacers are located over opposite edges of the DWELL-B. A source/IBG region includes a first source region adjacent the first polysilicon gate, a second source region adjacent the second polysilicon gate, and an integrated back-gate (IBG) region located between the first and second source regions. The first source region and the second source region each include a lighter-doped source sub-region, the IBG region including an IBG sub-region having P-type dopants, and the source/IBG region includes a heavier-doped source sub-region.

Methods of RF compliance for terminal
Patent No. 11594807

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Jianhua Mo (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16848693 on 04/14/2020 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and electronic device for applying a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) operation on the electronic device. The electronic device includes a plurality of antenna arrays and a processor operably connected to the plurality of antenna arrays. The processor is configured to detect a MPE condition for radio frequency exposure and apply a MPE operation, from among a plurality of MPE operations, to at least one of the plurality of antenna arrays to modify the radio frequency exposure. The MPE operation includes coordination of at least two antenna arrays for signal transmission.

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

Polarization shifting devices and systems for interference mitigation
Patent No. 11594821

Inventor(s): Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ISCO International, LLC (Schaumburg, IL)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17859620 on 07/07/2022 (236 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a polarization shifter including a lower substrate having disposed thereon first and second transmission lines for coupling to a feed network, an upper substrate having disposed thereon third and fourth transmission lines for respective communicative coupling to orthogonally-polarized elements of a radiating element, and a dielectric layer residing between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, the upper substrate being configured to mechanically couple to the radiating element, the dielectric layer coupling the first transmission line with the third transmission line and coupling the second transmission line with the fourth transmission line, the upper substrate being rotatable relative to the lower substrate to effect polarization adjusting for the radiating element to facilitate avoidance of interference or passive intermodulation (PIM). Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Wireless charging transmitter system and method for controlling same
Patent No. 11594918

Inventor(s): Songnan Yang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Halo Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (Foshan, , CN)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17520240 on 11/05/2021 (480 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wireless charging transmitter system and its control method. The system includes at least two transmit coils, configured to simultaneously transmit power; at least two transmit circuits, wherein each of the transmit circuits is electrically connected to each of the transmit coils, and is configured to supply a current to the transmit coil; and at least one decoupling circuit, wherein the decoupling circuit is connected to any two coupled transmit coils of the at least two transmit coils. By controlling N switches in a first compensation circuit and/or M switches in a second compensation circuit in the decoupling circuit, compensation capacitors connected in parallel with two terminals of a first inductor and a second inductor are controlled such that the equivalent mutual-inductance of the decoupling circuit may be adjusted to improve decoupling precision and reduce power loss caused by coupling between transmit coils.

[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)

Switched capacitor circuit with passive charge recycling
Patent No. 11594959

Inventor(s): John Russell Broze (Dallas, TX), Orlando Lazaro (Cary, NC), Timothy Bryan Merkin (Princeton, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17515387 on 10/29/2021 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: A switched capacitor voltage multiplication device has a rectifier with a DC input terminal and a DC output terminal and two pulse input terminals. A first flying capacitor is coupled to one of the pulse input terminals, while a second flying capacitor is coupled to the other pulse input terminal. A recycle resistor is coupled across the rectifier with a first resistor terminal coupled to one pulse input terminal and a second resistor terminal coupled to the other pulse input terminal.

[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]

Control circuit for on-time generation during output voltage scaling for buck converter
Patent No. 11594960

Inventor(s): Janne Matias Pahkala (Oulu, , FI), Juha Olavi Hauru (Oulu, , FI)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17314205 on 05/07/2021 (662 days app to issue)

Abstract: A controller includes a phase frequency detection circuit which has a first input coupled to receive a reference clock input, a second input coupled to receive a high-side active output, and an output configured to provide a PFD output. The controller includes a control loop filter which has a first input coupled to receive a slew rate input, a second input coupled to receive the PFD output, and an output configured to provide a high-side length output. The controller includes a pulse generation circuit which has a first input coupled to receive the high-side active output, a second input coupled to receive the high-side length output, and an output configured to provide a fine pulse output. The controller includes a latch configured to provide the high-side active output responsive to a comparison output and the fine pulse output.

Degauss time detection in electric motors
Patent No. 11594987

Inventor(s): Ganapathi Hegde (Bangalore, , IN), Krushal Shah (Dallas, TX), Venkata Pavan Mahankali (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17514171 on 10/29/2021 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: Example systems and processes compare sampled values of a floating phase voltage and/or outgoing phase current of an electric motor with a corresponding reference to identify a degauss time period. Post degauss time period identification, sampled values are compared with a threshold to identify a settling time period following the degauss time period. The threshold used to identify the settling time period depends on a slope of a floating phase voltage after the degauss time period, a modulation scheme being used, and a pulse width modulation ON/OFF state of the electric motor. When the threshold comparison test is not met, it is determined whether the slope of the floating phase voltage has inverted. Based on such processing, a back-electromotive force (BEMF) zero-crossing (ZC) is detected or estimated with respect to a floating phase voltage of the electric motor.

[H02P] CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS [4]

Slew boost circuit for an operational amplifier
Patent No. 11595011

Inventor(s): Nitin Agarwal (Bengaluru, , IN), Suresh Mallala (Hyderabad, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17146523 on 01/12/2021 (777 days app to issue)

Abstract: A differential input stage of a circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. Drains of the first and third transistors couple together at a first node, and drains of the second and fourth transistors couple together at a second node. A first slew boost circuit includes a fifth transistor and a first current mirror. A gate of the fifth transistor couples to the second node. A source of the fifth transistor couples to the first node. The first current mirror couples to the fifth transistor and to the second node. A second slew boost circuit includes a sixth transistor and a second current mirror. A gate of the sixth transistor couples to the first node. A source of the sixth transistor couples to the second node. The second current mirror couples to the sixth transistor and to the first node.

[H03F] AMPLIFIERS (measuring, testing G01R; optical parametric amplifiers G02F; circuit arrangements with secondary emission tubes H01J 43/30; masers, lasers H01S; dynamo-electric amplifiers H02K; control of amplification H03G; coupling arrangements independent of the nature of the amplifier, voltage dividers H03H; amplifiers capable only of dealing with pulses H03K; repeater circuits in transmission lines H04B 3/36, H04B 3/58; application of speech amplifiers in telephonic communication H04M 1/60, H04M 3/40)

Comparator architecture for reduced delay and lower static current
Patent No. 11595033

Inventor(s): Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bangalore, , IN), Vishnuvardhan Reddy Jaladanki (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17515018 on 10/29/2021 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described embodiments include a comparator circuit comprising an input voltage terminal, a reference voltage terminal, and a rising edge decode circuit having inputs coupled to the input voltage terminal and the reference voltage terminal. The rising edge output provides a rising edge decode signal indicating the input signal transitioned from being smaller than the reference voltage signal to being larger than the reference voltage signal. A falling edge decode circuit has inputs coupled to the input voltage terminal and the reference voltage terminal, and a falling edge output providing a falling edge decode signal indicating that the input signal transitioned from being larger than the reference voltage signal to being smaller than the reference voltage signal. Also, a decode logic circuit provides a comparator output in response to the rising edge decode signal and the falling edge decode signal.

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

Fault voltage scaling on load switch current sense
Patent No. 11595034

Inventor(s): Cameron Wayne Phillips (Red Oak, TX), Md Abidur Rahman (Richardson, TX), Tianhong Yang (Dallas, TX), Wenchao Qu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17538547 on 11/30/2021 (455 days app to issue)

Abstract: A load switch includes a switch input, a switch output, a first field-effect transistor (FET), and a second FET. The switch input is adapted to be coupled to a controller output of a controller. The switch output is adapted to be coupled to a controller input of the controller. The first FET has a gate and a source. The gate of the first FET is coupled to the switch input. The second FET has a gate and a source. The gate of the second FET is coupled to the source of the first FET. The source of the second FET is coupled to the switch output.

Time-to-digital converter stop time control
Patent No. 11595046

Inventor(s): Marius Moe (Fetsund, , NO), Tarjei Aaberge (Oslo, , NO)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17515598 on 11/01/2021 (484 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, an electronic circuit for determining a phase difference between a first clock signal and a second clock signal includes a timer circuit, circuitry for generating a selectively delayed transition of the second clock signal, and phase determination circuitry. The timer circuit produces an elapsed time between a transition of the first clock signal and the selectively delayed transition of the second clock signal. The circuitry for generating the selectively delayed transition of the second clock signal generates the selectively delayed transition in response to a random selection of a respective output from a plurality of second clock signal delay stages. The phase determination circuitry provides the phase difference in response to the elapsed time and the random selection of a respective output from a plurality of second clock signal delay stages.

[H03L] AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES (of dynamo-electric generators H02P) [3]

Period error correction in digital frequency locked loops
Patent No. 11595049

Inventor(s): Janne Matias Pahkala (Oulu, , FI)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17710650 on 03/31/2022 (334 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a digital frequency locked loop (DFLL) device includes a phase frequency detector (PFD) configured to receive a reference clock signal and an indicator of a primary clock signal and to determine differences between periods of the reference clock signal and the indicator. The DFLL also includes a controller coupled to the PFD. The controller is configured to store digital signals indicating a first and a second of the differences determined by the PFD, determine a period error by subtracting the second difference from the first difference, and compare the period error to a programmed threshold. The DFLL also includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) coupled to the controller, the DCO configured to provide the primary clock signal having a frequency adjusted based on the comparison.

[H03L] AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES (of dynamo-electric generators H02P) [3]

Analog-to-digital converter with interpolation
Patent No. 11595053

Inventor(s): Rishi Soundararajan (Bengaluru, , IN), Visvesvaraya Pentakota (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17366506 on 07/02/2021 (606 days app to issue)

Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including: a signal input adapted to receive an analog signal; a first reference voltage input adapted to receive a first reference voltage; a second reference voltage input adapted to receive a second reference voltage, the second reference voltage is different than the first reference voltage; a first delay circuit having a first delay input coupled to the signal input, a second delay input coupled to the first reference voltage input, a first delay output and a second delay output; a second delay circuit having a third delay input coupled to the signal input, a fourth delay input coupled to the second reference voltage input; a third delay output and a fourth delay output; a first comparator having a first comparator input coupled to the first delay output, a second comparator input coupled to the second delay output and a first comparator output; and a second comparator having a third comparator input coupled to the third delay output, a fourth comparator input coupled to the fourth delay output and a second comparator output.

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

Clock recovery and cable diagnostics for ethernet phy
Patent No. 11595064

Inventor(s): Gaurav Aggarwal (Rohini Delhi, , IN), Raghu Ganesan (Bengaluru, , IN), Rallabandi V Lakshmi Annapurna (Bengaluru, , IN), Saravanakkumar Radhakrishnan (Aruppukottai, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17401398 on 08/13/2021 (564 days app to issue)

Abstract: A receiver circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a decision feedback equalizer (DFE), a slicer, and a timing error detector (TED). The DFE is coupled to the ADC, and includes a first tap and a second tap. The slicer is coupled to the DFE. The TED is coupled to the slicer. The TED is configured to initialize timing of a sampling clock provided to the ADC while initializing the second tap of the DFE and holding the first tap of the DFE at a constant value.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Interference mitigation with multi-band digital pre-distortion
Patent No. 11595066

Inventor(s): Shavantha Kularatna (Flower Mound, TX), Tian He (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17471893 on 09/10/2021 (536 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method comprising determining a plurality of digital pre-distortion engines, determining signals for the pre-distortion engines, determining terms for a matrix and filter the matrix, based on the filtered matrix, determining correlation matrixes, obtaining pre-distorted signals from the digital pre-distortion engines, wherein the pre-distorted signals are pre-distorted based on the determined correlation matrixes, and combining the pre-distorted signals to a combined pre-distorted signal.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Unified communications link status analyzer apparatus for agile control in contested environments
Patent No. 11595141

Inventor(s): Ian P. Difranco (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Law Firm: Suiter Swantz pc llo (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17220558 on 04/01/2021 (698 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for communications link status analysis is disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes a radio systems interface (RSI) for listening to communications assets of a ground-based or mobile host platform. Radio data on communications traffic and their originating platforms is stored and analyzed to determine the link status of current communications links to other platforms. A link record is updated with the current links and associated platform information. A propagation analyzer forecasts future link statuses for identified current links based on the available platform data and forwards the propagation forecasts to operators of the host platform.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Multi-beam MIMO antenna systems and methods
Patent No. 11595238

Inventor(s): Igor Timofeev (Dallas, TX), Serguei Matitsine (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Matsing, Inc. (Irvine, CA)
Law Firm: Fish IP Law, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17313942 on 05/06/2021 (663 days app to issue)

Abstract: This application proposes multi-beam antenna systems using spherical lens are proposed, with high isolation between antenna ports and compatible to 22, 44, 88 MIMO transceivers. Several compact multi-band multi-beam solutions (with wideband operation, 40%+, in each band) are achieved by creating dual-band radiators movable on the track around spherical lens and by placing of lower band radiators between spherical lenses. By using of secondary lens for high band radiators, coupling between low band and high band radiators is reduced. Beam tilt range and side lobe suppression are improved by special selection of phase shift and rotational angle of radiators. Resultantly, a wide beam tilt range (0-40 degree) is realized in proposed multi-beam antenna systems. Each beam can be individually tilted. Based on proposed single- and multi-lens antenna solutions, cell coverage improvements and stadium tribune coverage optimization are also achieved, together with interference reduction.

[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 dynamically allocating resources based on configurable resource priority
Patent No. 11595251

Inventor(s): Anil K. Guntupalli (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17399116 on 08/11/2021 (566 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for the dynamic selection of configurable resources in an environment that includes a hierarchical or otherwise differentiated arrangement of configurable resources. The environment may include, or may be implemented by, a Distributed Resource Network (”DRN”), which may include hardware or virtual resources that may be configured, including the instantiation of containers, virtual machines, Virtualized Network Functions (”VNFs”), or the like. The DRN may be hierarchical in that some resources of the DRN may provide services to, and/or may otherwise be accessible to, a greater quantity of elements of the DRN or some other network.

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

System for automated cross-network monitoring of computing hardware and software resources
Patent No. 11595324

Inventor(s): Mark Anthony Hendricks (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17492115 on 10/01/2021 (515 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system is provided for automated cross-network monitoring of computing hardware and software status. In particular, the system may track the status of various computing resources using process automation-based operations to simulate calls made by users to the various resources that the users are authorized to access. Based on said operations, the system may assess whether the authorized pathways to the resources and/or their respective components are properly functioning by capturing information regarding the resource, its associated components, and the current status of the resource. The results of these operations may be aggregated to provide an overview of which resources and/or systems are functioning and which are not. In this way, the system may provide a detailed view of the statuses of the individual resources and components within an entity”s complex computing network.

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

Multi-dimensional/multi-actor conversational bot
Patent No. 11595326

Inventor(s): Maruthi Z. Shanmugam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17738101 on 05/06/2022 (298 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for encouraging dialogue between, and promoting transparency of said dialogue, a plurality of telecommunicators is provided. The plurality of telecommunicators may include an end user and an agent. The method includes receiving a request for a dialogue from the end user. The request includes a set of end user log-in credentials associated with the end user. The method further includes identifying the agent associated with a set of agent log-in credentials. The agent may respond to the request. The method also distinguishes the end user from the agent based on the set of end user log-in credentials and the set of agent log-in credentials and then instantiates an instance of telecommunications between the end user and the agent based, at least in part, on the distinguishing. Finally, the method includes monitoring the instantiation and displaying to the agent a live customer sentiment score based on a sentiment model.

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

MIPI translation in GMSL tunnel mode
Patent No. 11595504

Inventor(s): Paul Fuller (Frisco, TX), Prem Ramachandran Nayar (Dallas, TX), Yan Yan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: North Weber Baugh LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17375154 on 07/14/2021 (594 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods provide secure, end-to-end high-speed data encoding and communication. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by modifying a header portion of a data packet received from a first device and complying with a one Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) protocol to create a modified data packet that complies with a faster MIPI protocol. The header portion of the modified data packet is validated during a tunnel mode operation using an error detection process to validate the modified data packet, which can then be securely transmitted to a second device that complies with the faster MIPI protocol.

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

Site link tester via unique phone emulation
Patent No. 11595513

Inventor(s): John Nixon (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Broomfield, CO)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17122798 on 12/15/2020 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: Remote on-demand site link testing is provided. A site link tester (SLT) system includes an SLT connected to a customer”s VoIP phone system. The SLT is configured to communicate with a front end client application operating remotely on a user”s computing device. The packet-capture application receives instructions from the client application to perform a packet capture in association with the SLT”s network interface and/or to operate as an emulated VoIP endpoint and conduct a test call (e.g., to confirm the customer”s VoIP system”s compliance with 911-associated legislation or to troubleshoot a VoIP issue). Results of the packet capture may be sent to the client application and analyzed for remotely diagnosing and troubleshooting VoIP-related problems. Using the SLT system, the technician is enabled to perform 911-associated legislation compliance and diagnose VoIP issues on-demand from a remote location, which can reduce or eliminate the need for a technician to be on-site.

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

System for communicating event and location information
Patent No. 11595521

Inventor(s): Monica Rose Martino (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): K.Mizra LLC (Cape Coral, FL)
Law Firm: Kinney Lange, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17402106 on 08/13/2021 (564 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for initiating and handling an emergency IP request using an IP enabled device having GPS capability. The IP enabled device is monitored for one or more emergency criteria. If the emergency criteria are satisfied, global positioning data is obtained using the GPS capability and the emergency IP request is sent to an address server. The address server receives the emergency IP request, obtains local emergency services data based on the global positioning data, dials a call center station based on the local emergency services data and passes an emergency call from the IP enabled device to the call center station. This invention can be implemented as a computer program embedded in a computer readable medium wherein the steps are performed by one or more code segments.

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

Dynamic routing for communication systems
Patent No. 11595527

Inventor(s): Ashwini Patil (Richardson, TX), Devanshu Mukherjee (Frisco, TX), Donatus Asumu (Mckinney, TX), Emad Noorizadeh (Plano, TX), Ion Gerald McCusker (Allen, TX), Priyank R. Shah (Plano, TX), Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony,
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17203059 on 03/16/2021 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device that is configured to assign users to an issue cluster based on issue types for the users. The device is further configured to identify available agents and to assign each available agent to one or more knowledge area clusters based on knowledge scores. A knowledge score indicates an expertise level for an agent in a knowledge area. The device is further configured to identify an issue cluster that is associated with an issue type and to identify a user from the issue cluster. The device is further configured to identify a knowledge area cluster that is associated with the issue type and to identify an agent from the knowledge area cluster. The device is further configured to establish a network connection between a user device associated with the user and a user device associated with the agent.

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

Systems and methods for a video sharing service within controlled environments
Patent No. 11595701

Inventor(s): Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16556653 on 08/30/2019 (1278 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for a video sharing service for inmates in correctional facilities is disclosed. The system includes an inmate device of an inmate, a database storing inmate profiles, and a video sharing server configured to receive a registration request from the inmate device for registration of an inmate for the video sharing service, the registration request including user credentials of the inmate, retrieve an inmate profile of the inmate from the database, authenticate the inmate based on the user credentials and the inmate profile, create an account for the inmate for the video sharing service in response to authentication of the inmate, receive an upload request to upload a video from the inmate device, analyze the video for restricted content, and assign a rating to the video based on the analysis.

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

Allocating resources to internet of things equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks
Patent No. 11595825

Inventor(s): Shomik Pathak (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT MOBILITY II LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Amin, Turocy Watson, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17186291 on 02/26/2021 (732 days app to issue)

Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitate allocating resources to zones for IOT equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method discussed herein includes identifying, by carrier allocation equipment, carrier transmission information corresponding to transmission of a first carrier signal configured to support Internet of things equipment. The method can further comprise analyzing, by the carrier allocation equipment, the carrier transmission information to determine coverage information corresponding to a potential for coverage, by the first carrier signal, of an Internet of things equipment support zone corresponding to a geographic area. The method can further include, based on the coverage information, facilitating configuring transmission parameter information, representative of a transmission parameter applicable to the coverage of the Internet of things equipment support zone by the first carrier signal.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Multi-beam base station antennas having wideband radiating elements
Patent No. 11595827

Inventor(s): Joy Huang (Plano, TX), Xiangyang Al (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17241271 on 04/27/2021 (672 days app to issue)

Abstract: A twin beam base station antenna includes a first array that has a plurality of columns of first frequency band radiating elements, the first array configured to form a first antenna beam that provides coverage throughout a first sub-sector of a three-sector base station. The radiating elements in a first of the columns in the first array have a first azimuth boresight pointing direction and the radiating elements in a second of the columns in the first array have a second azimuth boresight pointing direction that is offset from the first azimuth boresight pointing direction by at least 10. The radiating elements in the second of the columns in the first array are electrically steered.

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

Edge computing platform based on wireless mesh architecture
Patent No. 11595850

Inventor(s): Muhammad Ahsan Naim (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): L3VEL, LLC (Wilmington, DE)
Law Firm: Lee Sullivan Shea Smith LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17506594 on 10/20/2021 (496 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an architecture for an edge computing platform based on an underlying wireless mesh network. The architecture includes nodes installed with equipment for operating as part of a wireless mesh network, including (1) a first tier of one or more Point of Presence (PoP) node, (2) a second tier of one or more seed nodes that are each directly connected to at least one PoP node via a PoP-to-seed wireless link, and (3) a third tier of one or more anchor nodes that are each connected to at least one seed node either (i) directly via a seed-to-anchor wireless link or (ii) indirectly via one or more intermediate anchor nodes, one or more anchor-to-anchor wireless links, and one seed-to-anchor wireless link, where at least one node in each of these tiers is further installed with equipment for operating as part of an edge computing platform.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

User plane function (UPF) load balancing supporting multiple slices
Patent No. 11595851

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: 17458889 on 08/27/2021 (550 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]

Enforcing unique handover trigger thresholds for user equipment
Patent No. 11595865

Inventor(s): Rakesh Sai Srirambhatla (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17225426 on 04/08/2021 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate enforcing unique handover trigger thresholds for user equipment (UE) based on UE identity and/or UE group type. In one instance, a method is provided that may include provisioning a plurality of handover profiles for a plurality of user equipment for a mobile network in which each corresponding handover profile includes a profile identifier and one or more handover thresholds. The method may further include determining that a particular user equipment seeks a connection to the mobile network; identifying a particular handover profile for the particular user equipment, wherein the particular handover profile includes a particular profile identifier; providing the particular profile identifier to a radio access network node of the mobile network; identifying one or more particular handover thresholds for the particular user equipment based on the particular profile identifier; and providing one or more particular handover thresholds to the particular user equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Gateway selection controlled by network
Patent No. 11595885

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P. C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17110040 on 12/02/2020 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, computer program product and a user equipment (UE) are provided for assisting a user equipment (UE) in selecting a network function. A first message is received from the UE. The first message includes UE request capabilities. A second message is sent to the UE. The second message includes an indication that promotes the UE attempting to connect to a particular Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) using a network function belonging to the particular PLMN.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Mobile ground equipment location monitoring systems and methods
Patent No. 11595932

Inventor(s): Arul Anand (Frisco, TX), Chandrajeet Patil (Carrollton, TX), Deepak Mani (Irving, TX), Javeed Shaik (Frisco, TX), Jose Vazquez (Bedford, TX), Lucas Warner Lemasters (Argyle, TX), Michael Alan Humphrey (Corinth, TX), M
Assignee(s): AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17104669 on 11/25/2020 (825 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system that includes a plurality of IoT devices associated with ground equipment items, a plurality of gateways to receive data from the IoT devices, and an application that receives the data from the IoT devices, is used to manage mobile ground equipment within an airport and track flight data to match available, working equipment with turnarounds and/or flights based on flight data requirements, predicted turn time, gate position, required special needs equipment, and working/failed equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods of UL TDM for inter-eNodeB carrier aggregation
Patent No. 11595954

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Thomas David Novlan (Dallas, TX), Young-Han Nam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16505538 on 07/08/2019 (1331 days app to issue)

Abstract: One or more embodiments provide a method implemented in a user equipment (UE) used in a wireless communications system. The method includes transmitting an indication to a base station that the UE is capable of transmitting on a single uplink carrier frequency and downlink carrier aggregation. The method also includes receiving an uplink carrier frequency switching pattern from the base station. The method also includes switching uplink carrier frequencies based on the uplink carrier frequency switching pattern.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Electrical devices with electrodes on softening polymers and methods of manufacturing thereof
Patent No. 11596072

Inventor(s): Gregory T. Ellson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16591002 on 10/02/2019 (1245 days app to issue)

Abstract: Flexible electrical devices comprising electrode layers on softening polymers and methods of manufacturing such devices, including lift-off processes for forming electrodes on softening polymers, processes for forming devices with a patterned double softening polymer layer, and solder reflow processes for forming electrical contacts on softening polymers.

[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)

Asymmetric configurable double-sided manifold micro-channel cold plates
Patent No. 11596088

Inventor(s): Dragan Maksimovic (Boulder, CO), Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, MI), Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, MI), Robert Erickson (Boulder, CO), Vivek Sankaranarayanan (Boulder, CO), Yucheng Gao (Boulder, C
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17162371 on 01/29/2021 (760 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cold plate having a manifold includes a recess extending from a first side to a second side of the manifold, where the recess includes openings to the recess positioned lengthwise along the first side and a single opening to the recess on the second side, an inlet and an outlet fluidly coupled to the recess, a plurality of plates fastened to the first side enclosing the openings, a heat sink fastened to the second side enclosing the single opening on the second side, and a plurality of fluid cores one of each positioned between each of the plurality of plates and the heat sink. The plurality of fluid cores include a flow distribution insert, a first plate fin positioned between the flow distribution insert and the heat sink fastened to the second side, and a second plate fin positioned between the flow distribution insert and the heat sink.

DESIGN PATENTS

Garment with cannabis leaves
Patent No. D979182

Inventor(s): Brian K. Reaux (Red Oak, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29793108 on 05/20/2021 (649 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Wearable foot garment
Patent No. D979219

Inventor(s): Aiesha Ashby (Fort Worth, TX), Kaycee Jones (Atlanta, GA)
Assignee(s): Apolla Performance Wear LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29728898 on 03/23/2020 (1072 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Musical instrument sling
Patent No. D979224

Inventor(s): Clem Kwok (Fort Worth, TX), Nathan Mark Dooly (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Win-D-Fender, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: Yee Associates, P.C. (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29770188 on 02/10/2021 (748 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Compact brush
Patent No. D979254

Inventor(s): Jenny DeMarco Staab (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29772144 on 02/26/2021 (732 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Adult portable sound machine
Patent No. D979537

Inventor(s): Brian P. Johnson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Perch Acquisition Co. 36, LLC (Boston, MA)
Law Firm: Wolf, Greenfield Sacks, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29766592 on 01/15/2021 (774 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Baby portable sound machine
Patent No. D979538

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Illuminating bollard
Patent No. D979825

Inventor(s): Carol Acedo (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): HLI Solutions, Inc. (Greenville, SC)
Law Firm: Michael Best Friedrich LLP (10 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29798981 on 07/12/2021 (596 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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