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 November 8, 2022 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

157 patents granted
Ranked No. 8 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 10
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 16
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 2
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 8
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 7
G: PHYSICS 38
H: ELECTRICITY 62

DESIGN 14

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 23
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 9
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 5
Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID) 4
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 4
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 4
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 3
CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC) 3
Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano) 3

UNASSIGNED 22

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Rebecca Hadley (Flower Mound) 9
Boon Loong Ng (Dallas) 2
Clayton K. Redmon (Grand Prairie) 2
Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell) 2
Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney) 2
John D. Leidel (McKinney) 2
Micah Price (Plano) 2
Qiaochu Tang (The Colony) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Garment
Patent No. 11490668

Inventor(s): Jenny Ruth Lewis (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Stites Harbison, PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16923273 on 07/08/2020 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: A garment including a plurality of attached glove members having releasably attached glove bodies is provided. The garment includes a central portion and two opposed sleeve portions. Each attached glove member is attached to each opposed sleeve portion through the use of a retainer. The glove members may be used separately or together, allowing the user to deploy a combination of glove members simultaneously.

[A41D] OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES (eye or ear protectors A61F 9/00, A61F 11/00; sweating suits A61H 36/00)

Vehicle occupant health monitor system and method
Patent No. 11490843

Inventor(s): Mathew D. Gardner (Lewisville, TX), Robert D. Slater (Murphy, TX), Shingo Sugimoto (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16193512 on 11/16/2018 (1453 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for methods for monitoring the health status of a vehicle occupant by detecting when a triggering physiological condition is met, confirming the triggering physiological condition is real by identifying a separate vehicle triggering event, and automatically responding to minimize the potential impact of the triggering event.

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

Dental tool support
Patent No. 11490992

Inventor(s): Courtney Crosby (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16849964 on 04/15/2020 (937 days app to issue)

Abstract: A flexible support for a dental tool includes a distal holder configured to securely hold the dental tool which may be quickly released, the flexible support includes an anchoring member configured to fit snugly within a tool recess of a tool cradle, the flexible support includes a tightener member adapted to secure the anchoring member with the tool recess.

[A61C] DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE (non-driven toothbrushes A46B; preparations for dentistry A61K 6/00; preparations for cleaning the teeth or mouth A61K 8/00, A61Q 11/00)

Orthodontic treatment and associated devices, systems, and methods
Patent No. 11490995

Inventor(s): James Sylvester Wratten, Jr. (Waterville, NY), Seyed Mehdi Roein Peikar (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Brius Technologies, Inc. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Fortem IP LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17518549 on 11/03/2021 (370 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for orthodontic treatment planning and orthodontic treatment are disclosed herein. Various embodiments of the present technology, for example, are directed to a method of obtaining data characterizing movements of a patient”s teeth from original positions to desired, final positions. In some embodiments, the method can include identifying one or more components of the movements, evaluating the movements, and/or modifying the movements. A method in accordance with several embodiments of the present technology can comprise obtaining an orthodontic treatment plan, which can include one or more suggested interventions to accomplish the tooth movements, a design of such intervention(s), and/or other useful information regarding the orthodontic treatment. In some embodiments, a method of the present technology comprises evaluating an orthodontic treatment during and/or after implementation of the treatment, which can include obtaining data characterizing current positions of the patient”s teeth. Based on the evaluation, the method can include obtaining another orthodontic treatment plan and movement data characterizing movements of a patient”s teeth from their current positions to desired, final positions.

Carbon nanotube artificial muscle valve and connections
Patent No. 11491004

Inventor(s): Marcio Dias Lima (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): LINTEC OF AMERICA, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Greenblum Bernstein, P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16763166 on 10/26/2018 (1474 days app to issue)

Abstract: A carbon nanotube (CNT) artificial muscle valve includes a hollow CNT tube including: a plurality of CNT sheets wrapped in the form of a hollow tube; and a guest material disposed between the CNT sheets and that permeates the CNT sheets. At least one portion of the hollow CNT tube collapses in response to a pressure of a fluid in the hollow CNT tube exceeding a predetermined pressure. The at least one portion of the hollow CNT tube collapses because the at least one portion of the hollow CNT tube generates a torque non-uniformity relative of a remaining portion of the hollow CNT tube.

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

Nanoparticles containing extracellular matrix for drug delivery
Patent No. 11491115

Inventor(s): Connie Hsia (Dallas, TX), Kytai Nguyen (Grand Prairie, TX), Orson W. Moe (Dallas, TX), Yi Hong (Irving, 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: 15742842 on 07/08/2016 (2314 days app to issue)

Abstract: Nanoparticles coated with extracellular matrix (ECM) are provided, in some aspects, for the delivery of a therapeutic protein, nucleic acid, or drug. In some embodiments, the nanoparticles are delivered to a subject via inhalation or aerosol delivery. Also provided, in some aspects, are methods for treating acute lung injury comprising administering -Klotho (Klotho) protein or DNA to a subject.

[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)

Methods of treating glutathione deficiencies and deficiencies in glutathione synthetase activity
Patent No. 11491141

Inventor(s): Shawn Wells (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): NANJING NUTRABUILDING BIO-TECH CO., LTD. (Nanjing, , CN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17569563 on 01/06/2022 (306 days app to issue)

Abstract: Glutathione deficiencies and deficiencies in glutathione synthetase activity, and therapeutic methods for the treatment thereof.

AAV vectors targeted to the central nervous system
Patent No. 11491242

Inventor(s): Steven Gray (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16741324 on 01/13/2020 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention relates to chimeric AAV capsids targeted to the central nervous system, virus vectors comprising the same, and methods of using the vectors to target the central nervous system. The invention further relates to chimeric AAV capsids targeted to oligodendrocytes, virus vectors comprising the same, and methods of using the vectors to target oligodendrocytes.

Foldable push-up board
Patent No. 11491368

Inventor(s): Szu-Chia Hao (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17368510 on 07/06/2021 (490 days app to issue)

Abstract: A foldable push-up board includes a base plate, two handles that are each detachably fixed to the base plate, and at least one anti-slip plug detachably fixed to the base plate, the bottom portion of the anti-slip plug protruding from the bottom-facing surface of the base plate. The base plate has a first plate portion, a second plate portion, and a hinge connecting the first plate portion and the second plate portion. Each handle has a U-shaped connecting section having protruding posts configured to be detachably fixed to the base plate, and a holding section that closes an opening of the U-shaped connecting section.

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

Golf club
Patent No. 11491376

Inventor(s): John Kendall (Wylie, TX), Justin Honea (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC. (Carlsbad, CA)
Law Firm: Dawsey Co., LPA (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17215713 on 03/29/2021 (589 days app to issue)

Abstract: A golf club having unique mass properties and all the benefits afforded therefrom.

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

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

Vacuum spray apparatus and uses thereof
Patent No. 11491516

Inventor(s): Dennis Dehn (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ECP Incorporated (Woodridge, IL)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16682519 on 11/13/2019 (1091 days app to issue)

Abstract: Spray apparatus and uses thereof are described herein. A vacuum spray nozzle apparatus may include a first tube in fluid communication with a fluid source, a rotor coupled to the tube, a conduit in fluid communication with the passages of the first tube, and a second tube coupled to the conduit, the second tube being in fluid communication with a vacuum source. The rotor is in fluid communication with the pressurized fluid source. The conduit is substantially arched or angled such that an outlet of the conduit is offset a radial distance in a radial direction from the rotor axis, and when pressurized fluid is ejected from the outlet, during use, rotates the conduit. The vacuum spray nozzle apparatus is configured to remove components from a material through the second tube when a pressure of the system is reduced using the vacuum source.

[B08B] CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL (brushes A46; devices for domestic or like cleaning A47L; separation of particles from liquids or gases B01D; separation of solids B03, B07; spraying or applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05; cleaning devices for conveyors B65G 45/10; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C 7/00; inhibiting corrosion or incrustation in general C23; cleaning streets, permanent ways, beaches or land E01H; parts, details or accessories of swimming or splash baths or pools, specially adapted for cleaning E04H 4/16; preventing or removing electrostatic charges H05F)

Methods and apparatuses for assembling radiating structures for a base station antenna
Patent No. 11491593

Inventor(s): Kyle M. Walsh (Richardson, TX), Xiaoguang Zhu (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17038009 on 09/30/2020 (769 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radiating structure assembly system includes a movable conveyor that supports fixtures. Work stations are spaced about the conveyor such that the fixtures are moved sequentially to position the fixtures at the plurality of work stations. A first work station includes a loading assembly for loading the radiating elements on the fixtures. A second work station includes a first automated vertical assembly machine for mounting a first printed circuit board to the radiating element. A third work station includes a second automated vertical assembly machine for mounting a second printed circuit board to the radiating element to create a dipole assembly. A holding device is movable with the conveyor aligns and supports the first and second printed circuit boards relative to the radiating element. A fourth work station includes an unloading assembly for removing the dipole assembly from the conveyor.

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

Friction post socket tool holder
Patent No. 11491638

Inventor(s): Richard A. Heidelberger (Dallas, TX), Shawn D. Winnard (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Mechanic”s Time Savers, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Booth Albanesi Schroeder PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17357899 on 06/24/2021 (502 days app to issue)

Abstract: A socket organizer for releasably holding socket holders has a plurality of friction fit posts onto which sockets are positioned and held securely.

[B25H] WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT, e.g. FOR MARKING-OUT WORK; STORAGE MEANS FOR WORKSHOPS

Layered actuation structures comprising artificial muscles
Patent No. 11491646

Inventor(s): Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, 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: 17002379 on 08/25/2020 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: A layered actuation structure includes one or more actuation platforms interleaved with one or more mounting platforms to form one or more actuation cavities between platform pairs, each platform pair having an individual mounting platform and an individual actuation platform. The layered actuation structure also includes a support arm coupled to the one or more mounting platforms, an actuation arm coupled to the one or more actuation platforms, and one or more artificial muscles disposed in each of the one or more actuation cavities. The one or more artificial muscles each include an electrode pair that is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state to direct a dielectric fluid into an expandable fluid region of a housing of the artificial muscle, expanding the expandable fluid region thereby applying pressure to the one or more actuation platforms, generating translational motion of the one or more actuation platforms.

[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]

Artificial muscles comprising a gradient stiffened electrode pair and artificial muscle assemblies including same
Patent No. 11491647

Inventor(s): 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: 17168376 on 02/05/2021 (641 days app to issue)

Abstract: Artificial muscles are provided including a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, an electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode positioned in the electrode region of the housing, a dielectric fluid housed within the housing, and a stiffening member positioned between the housing and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode. The stiffening member increases a stiffness of the housing in a direction toward the expandable fluid region from an opposite edge of the electrode region. The electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into the expandable fluid region.

Lumber handling and cutting apparatus
Patent No. 11491681

Inventor(s): Mark K. Gipson (Justin, TX), Ronald E. Findley (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, IL)
Law Firm: Neal, Gerber Eisenberg LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16855473 on 04/22/2020 (930 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a lumber handling and cutting apparatus, including an incoming material conveyor assembly, a material infeed assembly adjacent to the incoming material conveyor assembly, a cutting assembly adjacent to the material infeed assembly, a material outfeed assembly adjacent to the cutting assembly, an outgoing material conveyor assembly adjacent to the cutting assembly, and a printer assembly adjacent to the incoming material conveyor assembly and the material infeed assembly.

[B27B] SAWS FOR WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; COMPONENTS OR ACCESSORIES THEREFOR (saws specially adapted for pruning or debranching A01G 3/08; sawing apparatus specially adapted for felling trees A01G 23/091; features not restricted to a particular type of wood saw B23D, e.g. attaching saw blades B23D 51/00; machine tool frames, beds, pillars or like members, in general B23Q 1/01) [5]

Tie down ratchet and strap
Patent No. 11491906

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Christie (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): FRIEND SUCCESS INC. (Corinth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16034893 on 07/13/2018 (1579 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tie down ratchet and strap includes, a ratchet shaft rotatably mounted in a ratchet body having a slot for receiving a wind-up strap therethough, a pair of ratchet wheels mounted on the ratchet shaft, a ratchet handle with a pawl engaging the ratchet wheels to rotate the ratchet shaft, a locking bar securing the ratchet wheels and ratchet shaft in position when the pawl is disengaged from the ratchet wheels, an anchor strap with a connector for securing the ratchet assembly to a first anchor point, and a wind-up strap including a non-metallic fabric strap with a braided metal outer cover extending continuously over the length of the non-metallic fabric strap.

[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)

Method of intelligently managing pressure within an evacuated transportation system
Patent No. 11492020

Inventor(s): Michael Albert Mancuso (Coppell, TX), Paul Matthew Hawkins (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Flowserve Management Company (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Maine Cernota Rardin (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16867049 on 05/05/2020 (917 days app to issue)

Abstract: A high-speed transportation system comprises an evacuated travel conduit divided into a plurality of segments by closable gates, and associated with corresponding segment pumps that maintain operating vacuums within the segments when vehicles are present. When a segment is unoccupied, energy is saved by closing the adjoining gates and deactivating the associated segment pump, thereby deactivating the segment and allowing the segment”s internal pressure to rise due to leakage. As a vehicle approaches, the segment pump is reactivated, lowering the internal pressure to the operating vacuum, and the gates are opened. Embodiments include a boom-tank system that can accelerate re-evacuation of a segment having an increased internal pressure by establishing fluid communication with at least one recently deactivated segment having a lower internal pressure. As a vehicle transits the conduit, a rolling, contiguous group of activated segments surrounding and in advance of the vehicle can be maintained.

[B61B] RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (lifts or hoists, elevators, escalators, moving walkways B66B) [4]

Long rail transport train
Patent No. 11492024

Inventor(s): Allison L. Bowker (Dallas, TX), James W. V. Tabije (Grand Prairie, TX), Roger W. Roby (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Logistics, LLC (Springdale, AR)
Law Firm: Dan Brown Law Office (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16419702 on 05/22/2019 (1266 days app to issue)

Abstract: A railcar consist of flatcars for transporting continuous rail sections configured for top loading and end unloading of the rail sections. The consist includes a tie-down flatcar and plural support flatcars. The tie-down flatcar includes a rail securement rack with plural removable rail clamping shelves that facilitate top loading and clamping of the rail sections in place. Each of the plural support flatcars have a roller rack fixed to it. The roller racks include plural roller shelves with rollers to support the rail sections. The roller shelves are pivotally mounted to the roller racks between a loading position that provides clearance for placement of the rail sections from above the consist, and a transport position that supports the rail sections.

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

Resin panel spacer block for energy absorption, load support, and gap prevention
Patent No. 11492051

Inventor(s): Christopher P. Sheehy (Ypsilanti, MI), Jonathan R. Young (Saline, MI), Naipaul D. Ramoutar (Ann Arbor, MI), Valerie Schnabelrauch (Ypsilanti, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16925293 on 07/09/2020 (852 days app to issue)

Abstract: A spacer for vehicle panels can be shaped such that it absorbs a substantial portion of a first load, the first load applied in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the exterior panel; controllably deforms along a second direction when a second load is applied substantially along the second direction; wherein the second direction is other than the first direction. The spacer need not deform along the second direction when the first load is applied. The spacer can have a shaped member having a channel extending through the spacer perpendicular from the exterior panel, such that the spacer can controllably deform along a width of the channel.

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

Trucks including externally mounted combination absorber and seal member
Patent No. 11492052

Inventor(s): Adam D. Holmstrom (Pinckney, MI), Ryan C. Harris (Saline, MI), Scott W. Shopoff (Ypsilanti, 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: 17218443 on 03/31/2021 (587 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pickup truck includes a passenger cabin including a rear wall. A truck bed includes a front wall that faces the rear wall of the passenger cabin. A space is provided between the rear wall of the passenger cabin and the front wall of the truck bed. A combination absorber and seal member is mounted to the rear wall of the passenger cabin. The combination absorber and seal member includes an extended portion having an elongated dimension extending at an oblique angle to a vehicle lateral direction. The combination absorber and seal member is formed from a sound absorbing material and extends outward from the rear wall of the passenger cabin in a vehicle longitudinal direction toward the front wall of the truck bed providing a clearance of no more than about 15 mm between the extended portion and the front wall of the truck bed.

Ducted proprotor systems having adaptive duct geometries
Patent No. 11492107

Inventor(s): Bradley Joseph Passe (Irving, TX), George Matthew Thompson (Lewisville, TX), Nicholas Ralph Carlson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16935751 on 07/22/2020 (839 days app to issue)

Abstract: A proprotor system for a ducted aircraft convertible between a vertical takeoff and landing flight mode and a forward flight mode includes a plurality of proprotor blades and a duct surrounding the proprotor blades. The duct includes an adaptive geometry device movable into various positions including a hover position and a cruise position. One or more actuators coupled to the adaptive geometry device are configured to move the adaptive geometry device between the hover position and the cruise position based on the flight mode of the ducted aircraft, thereby improving flight performance of the ducted aircraft.

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

Tiltrotor aircraft having tiltable forward and aft rotors
Patent No. 11492116

Inventor(s): Kip Gregory Campbell (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17545158 on 12/08/2021 (335 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tiltrotor aircraft has a vertical takeoff and landing flight mode and a forward flight mode. The aircraft includes an airframe having at least one wing. First and second oppositely disposed booms extend longitudinally from the at least one wing. Forward rotors are coupled to the forward ends of the booms and aft rotors are coupled to the aft ends of the booms. The forward rotors are reversibly tiltable between a vertical lift orientation, wherein the forward rotors are above the booms, and a forward thrust orientation, wherein the forward rotors are forward of the booms. The aft rotors are reversibly tiltable between a vertical lift orientation, wherein the aft rotors are below the booms, and a forward thrust orientation, wherein the aft rotors are aft of the booms.

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

Tiltrotor aircraft rotating proprotor assembly
Patent No. 11492131

Inventor(s): Brent Ross (Flower Mound, TX), Clegg Smith (Keller, TX), Michael Rinehart (Euless, TX), Nick Pravanh (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Timmer Law Group, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17306428 on 05/03/2021 (554 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft including a nacelle configured as a housing for an engine and disposed at a fixed location relative a wing member; a proprotor housing coupled to the nacelle, the proprotor housing configured to selectively rotate between a horizontal orientation and a non-horizontal orientation; a door hingedly coupled to the proprotor housing by a first hinge joint and hingedly coupled to the nacelle by a second hinge joint. An aspect includes an aircraft with a proprotor coupled to a wing member, the proprotor comprising a forward portion and an aft portion; wherein the forward portion is configured to selectively pivot between a horizontal orientation and a non-horizontal orientation about a conversion axis C; and wherein when the forward portion is in a non-horizontal orientation, the aft portion is in a horizonal orientation.

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

Spacecraft servicing pods configured to perform servicing operations on target spacecraft and related devices, assemblies, systems, and methods
Patent No. 11492148

Inventor(s): James Dulin Reavill (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16742603 on 01/14/2020 (1029 days app to issue)

Abstract: Spacecraft servicing devices or pods and related methods may be configured to be deployed from a carrier spacecraft and include at least one spacecraft servicing component configured to perform at least one servicing operation on the target spacecraft. The spacecraft servicing devices may be configured to be transported from an initial orbit to another orbit after the spacecraft servicing device is deployed from the carrier spacecraft.

[B64G] COSMONAUTICS; VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT THEREFOR (apparatus for, or methods of, winning materials from extraterrestrial sources E21C 51/00)

Reclosable bag and method to make same
Patent No. 11492178

Inventor(s): Michael A Ross (Eden Prairie, MN)
Assignee(s): Poly-America, L.P. (Grand Prairie, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16535915 on 08/08/2019 (1188 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements for shopping and merchandise bags with integral handles. Disclosed is a bag with integral handles and closure elements located below the integral handles. Further disclosed is a process for manufacturing a reclosable bag with integral handles. The handles and bag may be formed from a wave-cut polymeric tube. In addition, the handles of the bag may be formed from a wave-cut polymeric tube while the body of the bag is formed from a side-gusseted polymeric tube. The disclosed bags and methods to make such bags provide cost effective solutions for providing reclosable bags with integral handles.

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

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

Optimized AGA genes and expression cassettes and their use
Patent No. 11491241

Inventor(s): Steven James Gray (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16761290 on 03/22/2018 (1692 days app to issue)

Abstract: This invention relates to polynucleotides comprising optimized aspartylglucosaminidase (AGA) open reading frames and vectors and cells comprising the same. The invention further relates to methods of using the same for delivery of the open reading frame to a cell or a subject and methods for treating aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU) in a subject.

[C12N] MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF (biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing microorganisms, viruses, microbial fungi, enzymes, fermentates, or substances produced by, or extracted from, microorganisms or animal material A01N 63/00; medicinal preparations A61K; fertilisers C05F); PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C12Q 1/00) [3]

Pharmaceutical targeting of a mammalian cyclic di-nucleotide signaling pathway
Patent No. 11492368

Inventor(s): Chuo Chen (Dallas, TX), Heping Shi (Dallas, TX), Jiaxi Wu (Dallas, TX), Lijun Sun (Dallas, TX), Zhijian Chen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Fenwick West LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16903173 on 06/16/2020 (875 days app to issue)

Abstract: Cyclic-GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) and cyclic-GMP-AMP (cGAMP), including 23-cGAMP, 22-cGAMP, 32-cGAMP and 33-GAMP, are used in pharmaceutical formulations (including vaccine adjuvants), drug screens, therapies, and diagnostics.

[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]

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

Position-biased locking pin assembly for a ground engaging wear member
Patent No. 11492784

Inventor(s): Mohamad Youssef Bilal (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Hensley Industries, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16843623 on 04/08/2020 (944 days app to issue)

Abstract: A locking pin assembly for securing a wear member to a support structure may include a body portion and may include a shaft member partially disposed within and extending from the body portion and rotatable between a first position that mechanically inhibits removal of a ground engaging member from a support structure and a second position that permits removal of the ground engaging member from the support structure. A wear member for receiving a locking pin assembly may include a bore extending laterally through the bore member with a proximal opening and a distal opening, an installation ramp and a removal ramp may be disposed at the proximal opening for engaging a tang of a shaft member of the locking pin assembly.

[E02F] DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C 49/00)

Process for assembling a fireproof system within a stick build exterior dynamic curtain wall faade
Patent No. 11492799

Inventor(s): Arndt Andresen (North Richland Hills, TX), Chad Stroike (Roanoke, TX), Nathan Jennings (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Schaan, , LI)
Law Firm: Grneberg and Myers PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16610397 on 05/18/2018 (1635 days app to issue)

Abstract: An approved dynamic construction is used for effectively thermally insulating and sealing of a safing slot between a floor of a building and an exterior wall construction. The exterior wall construction includes a curtain wall configuration defined by an interior wall glass surface, including one or more aluminum framing members. In particular, a process is useful for assembling a fireproof system within a stick build exterior dynamic curtain wall faade, which includes glass, especially vision glass extending to the finished floor level below.

[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)

Steep slope roofing system
Patent No. 11492804

Inventor(s): Erica Sherman (Jersey City, NJ), Ming Shiao (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17713976 on 04/05/2022 (217 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a roofing system. In some embodiments, the roofing system comprises at least one steep slope roof substrate having a first region. In some embodiments, the first region comprises a plurality of shingles. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of shingles comprises at least one antimicrobial agent. In some embodiments, the at least one steep slope roof substrate also comprises a second region. In some embodiments, the second region comprises an antimicrobial scavenger layer that is configured to receive runoff from the first region of the steep slope roof substrate. In some embodiments, the runoff comprises an initial concentration of at least one antimicrobial agent and water. In some embodiments, the antimicrobial scavenger layer is configured to capture the at least one antimicrobial agent so as to reduce the initial concentration of the at least one antimicrobial agent in the runoff.

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

Membrane installation methods
Patent No. 11492805

Inventor(s): Brian A. Davis (Kennett Square, PA), Daniel Podewils (Evansville, IN), Eric R. Anderson (Montclair, NJ), Jeffrey Avitabile (Lodi, NJ), Joseph Nigro (Wayne, NJ), Li-Ying Yang (Whippany, NJ), Matthew Gimpert (Stewartsville,
Assignee(s): Building Materials Investment Corporation (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17156004 on 01/22/2021 (655 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining a roofing membrane. A first layer of the roofing membrane is applied along a length of a roofing substrate covering a first portion of the roofing substrate. At least a first edge of the first layer is fastened to the roofing substrate. A second layer of the roofing membrane is applied over the first layer along the length of the roofing substrate such that a first edge of the second layer overlies the second edge of the first layer. The first edge of the second layer and the second edge of the first layer are fastened to the roofing substrate using a second fastener in a fastening zone along the length the roofing substrate. The second layer is reoriented such that the second layer overlies the fastening zone and covers a second portion of the roofing substrate adjacent the first portion of the roofing substrate.

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

Post repair and reinforcement apparatus
Patent No. 11492818

Inventor(s): Julian McVay (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17222204 on 04/05/2021 (582 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of repairing and reinforcing a tubular fence post that is easy and safe to use, simple in design and inexpensive to manufacture, and is further portable, and highly efficient in repairing and reinforcing damaged posts, among other advantages. The method can include inserting a first stake having a plurality of vanes from a top open end of a tubular post, wherein the tubular post is damaged or compromised at a first location along its length. The method can further include positioning the first stake within the tubular post, such that the stake is positioned adjacent to the first location, thereby reinforcing the tubular post.

[E04H] BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL (foundations E02D) [4]

Buckle prevention ring
Patent No. 11492871

Inventor(s): Max White (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Harper Bates LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16875059 on 05/15/2020 (907 days app to issue)

Abstract: A buckle prevention ring assembly for use within a conduit, such as casing, having at least one buckle prevention ring may be provided. The buckle prevention ring may be bonded and may provide a fluid and gas tight seal to prevent fluid and gas from leaking out of the casing in a downhole environment.

[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]

Sand screen system with adhesive bonding
Patent No. 11492876

Inventor(s): Maxime P M Coffin (Frisco, TX), Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16326029 on 08/14/2018 (1547 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sand screen system includes a tubular. The tubular includes at least one through-port from an outer surface of the tubular to an inner surface of the tubular. Further, the sand screen system includes a filtering portion positioned over the at least one through-port on the outer surface of the tubular. A moldable material couples the filtering portion to the tubular.

Modular initiator
Patent No. 11492878

Inventor(s): Christopher Brian Sokolove (Midlothian, TX)
Assignee(s): Hunting Titan, Inc. (Pampa, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16636571 on 08/07/2018 (1554 days app to issue)

Abstract: A modular initiator assembly comprising a receptacle and connector combination adapted to shunt the electrical contacts of the initiator as a default condition and to only unshunt the electrical contacts coupled to the initiator when the receptacle and connector establish a fully seated connection.

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

Vent limiting device for use with fluid regulators
Patent No. 11493065

Inventor(s): Aaron J. Dowdell (Princeton, TX), Bret M. Kirchner (Dallas, TX), Christopher Sequeira (Addison, TX), David F. Graft (Flower Mound, TX), Hoden Ali Farah (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT REGULATOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Marshall, Gerstein Borun LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17084395 on 10/29/2020 (740 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vent limiting device adapted to be operably coupled to an exhaust vent of a fluid regulator. The vent limiting device includes a housing, a poppet disposed in the housing, and a retaining element arranged to retain the poppet in the housing. The housing has a fluid passageway extending between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The poppet is movably disposed in the housing, responsive to pressure at the fluid outlet, to control fluid flow through the fluid passageway. The housing includes one or more retaining features that engage the retaining element to retain the retaining element in the housing.

[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)

Mounting hardware
Patent No. 11493076

Inventor(s): Ian A. Hill (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC. (Cincinnati, OH)
Law Firm: Thompson Hine LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16722428 on 12/20/2019 (1054 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hardware component imitating a nut/bolt/washer connection for structural members includes a base portion with a disc-shaped base plate and a cylindrical member including an outer surface in the shape of a hex nut. The disc-shaped base plate extends radially to the cylindrical member and imitates a washer. The disc-shaped base plate includes a first opening having a first diameter and the cylindrical member includes a second opening having a second diameter, where the first and second openings are concentric and said second diameter is larger diameter than said first diameter. The first opening is sized to receive therethrough a shaft of a mounting device, and the second opening is sized to receive therein a head of said mounting device.

[F16B] DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D)

Gear systems having bearing flexure mounted thrust bearings
Patent No. 11493121

Inventor(s): Russell Lee Mueller (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17171206 on 02/09/2021 (637 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gear system includes a gear assembly having a shaft that is at least partially disposed within a housing of the gear system. A thrust bearing has inner and outer races with the outer race coupled to the housing. A bearing flexure is disposed between the inner race of the thrust bearing and the shaft. The bearing flexure includes a cylindrical cage having at least one shaft journal ring and a plurality of circumferentially distributed axially extending fingers coupled thereto with the shaft journal ring coupled to the shaft. A cylindrical bearing journal has inner and outer surfaces with the outer surface coupled to the inner race of the thrust bearing. Each of a plurality of circumferentially distributed radially extending struts extends between one of the fingers and the inner surface of the cylindrical bearing journal. The bearing flexure has an axial stiffness that is greater than its radial stiffness.

[F16H] GEARING

Density-based fluid flow control device
Patent No. 11493145

Inventor(s): Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX), Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16646018 on 10/17/2017 (1848 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fluid flow control device can include an inlet port and an outlet port. The fluid flow control device can also include a rotatable component for rotating about an axis in response to fluid flow from the inlet port. A float component positioned within the rotatable component can move between (i) an open position that enables fluid flow from the inlet port to the outlet port, and (ii) a closed position that restricts fluid flow from the inlet port to the outlet port. The float component can move from the open position to the closed position in response to a fluid from the inlet port having one density. The float component can move from the closed position to the open position in response to the fluid from the inlet port having another density.

[F16K] VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING

Demand flow for air cooled chillers
Patent No. 11493246

Inventor(s): Duane D. Warren (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16708817 on 12/10/2019 (1064 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system is provided for controlling air flow over a condenser. A fan is arranged to cause flow of air over the condenser. A meter is configured to determine energy used by an air cooled chiller, which includes the condenser. A controller is configured to control air flow caused by the fan as a function of the energy.

[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)

Methods and systems for operating HVAC systems in low load conditions
Patent No. 11493250

Inventor(s): Der-Kai Hung (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17156353 on 01/22/2021 (655 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system comprising a compressor, a first valve coupled to the compressor and to a first coil, a first expansion valve coupled to the first coil, and a second expansion valve. The second expansion valve coupled to a second coil. A second valve is coupled to the second coil and the compressor. A third valve is coupled to the compressor and a third coil. In response to receiving a heating demand that is below a threshold heating demand, a controller induces an artificial heating demand.

Refrigerated food pan cooling device
Patent No. 11493265

Inventor(s): Joseph F. Sanders (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC (Glenview, IL)
Law Firm: Thompson Hine LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17023558 on 09/17/2020 (782 days app to issue)

Abstract: A refrigerated food pan cooling device includes a food pan receiving well and a cooling system, wherein the cooling system includes a refrigeration system with a compressor, a condenser, a metering device and an evaporator. The evaporator includes at least one first refrigerant line downstream of the metering device and upstream of the compressor. The first refrigerant line runs along an external surface of at least one of the well walls. The condenser is configured as a hot wall condenser, that lacks any fan or blower, wherein the hot wall condenser includes at least one second refrigerant line downstream of the compressor and upstream of the metering device. The second refrigerant line runs, at least partly, along an internal surface of at least the first exterior sidewall to transfer heat through the first exterior sidewall to ambient air.

P H Y S I C S

Display case equipped with informational display and synchronized illumination system for highlighting objects within the display case
Patent No. 11490744

Inventor(s): Denise Lynn Merkle (Fort Worth, TX), Margaret Fraelich (Fort Worth, TX), Nelson Claytor (Fort Worth, TX), Timothy Cobb (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Fresnel Technologies Inc. (Forth Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Fortkort Houston PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16780836 on 02/03/2020 (1009 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for displaying a plurality of objects is provided. The system includes at least one display case which houses the plurality of objects such that each of the plurality of objects is visible from outside of the at least one display case; a lighting system; an electronic display; and a control system which causes each of said plurality of objects to be successively displayed on the electronic display, and which manipulates the lighting system such that, while each of the plurality of objects is being displayed on the electronic display, the object being displayed is simultaneously highlighted in the at least one display case by the lighting system.

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

Rear cabin thermal management systems and methods
Patent No. 11491843

Inventor(s): David W. Cosgrove (Milford, MI), Patrick P. Williams (Novi, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16411085 on 05/13/2019 (1275 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for mitigating a thermal impact on a vehicle cabin caused by a battery thermal-management system, include determining a status of vehicle climate control system; determining whether a battery thermal-management system of the vehicle is operating above a determined threshold; and if the vehicle climate control system is active and the battery thermal-management system of the vehicle is operating above the determined threshold, adjusting at least one of a plurality of cabin temperature control parameters to mitigate a thermal impact of the battery thermal-management system on a rear portion of the vehicle cabin.

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

Surface sensing method for corrosion sensing via magnetic modulation
Patent No. 11493478

Inventor(s): Christian Link (Plano, TX), Leonardo William Estevez (Rowlett, TX), Terry Lee Sculley (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16950227 on 11/17/2020 (721 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes pulsating a magnetic field at a first location associated with an external surface of a wall containing magnetic material. The method also includes measuring at least one characteristic of the pulsating magnetic field at a second location associated with the external surface of the wall. The at least one characteristic changes based on corrosion on an internal surface the wall between the first and second locations. The magnetic field could be pulsated by applying an AC signal to a conductive coil or by vibrating a magnet. The method could also include analyzing the at least one measured characteristic to identify an amount of the corrosion and/or a change in the amount of the corrosion. Use of the internal surface the wall could be modified based on the amount or change of the corrosion.

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

Systems and methods for depopulating pins from contactor test sockets for packaged semiconductor devices
Patent No. 11493535

Inventor(s): Hisashi Ata (Murphy, TX), Kay Chan Tong (Plano, TX), Thiha Shwe (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16718057 on 12/17/2019 (1057 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reduced pin count (RPC) device includes an electrical circuitry in a package with uniformly distributed leads, a subset of the leads being electrically disconnected form the circuitry. A contactor pin block with sockets corresponding to the uniformly distributed leads has the sockets corresponding to the leads with electrical connections filled with test pins suitable for contacting respective leads, and the sockets corresponding to the electrically disconnected leads voided of test pins. Dummy plugs are inserted into the voided sockets to block the sockets and prevent accidental insertions of test pins.

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

Methods of determining battery life in an implantable medical device
Patent No. 11493556

Inventor(s): Daran DeShazo (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16364918 on 03/26/2019 (1323 days app to issue)

Abstract: An implantable medical device (IMD), includes a processor for controlling the IMD; circuitry for providing therapeutic or diagnostic medical operations for a patient; wireless communication circuitry for conducting wireless communications; a non-rechargeable battery; and device power control circuitry. The device power control circuitry includes at least one capacitor; charging control circuitry for switching between charging the at least one capacitor using the non-rechargeable battery and discharging the at least one capacitor to provide power for device operations. The IMD is configured to maintain a count related to a number of times of discharge of the at least one capacitor to provide an end-of-life estimation for the non-rechargeable battery.

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

Dynamic noise shaping in a photon counting system
Patent No. 11493649

Inventor(s): Nagesh Surendranath (Bangalore, , IN), Rakul Viswanath (Bangalore, , IN), Ratna Kumar Venkata Parupudi (Bangalore, , IN), Sandeep Kesrimal Oswal (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17114962 on 12/08/2020 (700 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) generates an integrated signal in response to a current signal. A high pass filter is coupled to the CSA and receives the integrated signal and an inverse of an event signal, the high pass filter generates a coarse signal. An active comparator is coupled to the high pass filter and receives the coarse signal and a primary reference voltage signal, the active comparator generates the event signal.

[G01T] MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION (radiation analysis of materials, mass spectrometry G01N 23/00; tubes for determining the presence, intensity, density or energy of radiation or particles H01J 47/00)

Dynamic document updating application interface and corresponding control functions
Patent No. 11494056

Inventor(s): David Gerard Ledet (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC (Durham, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17214891 on 03/28/2021 (590 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user interface configuration may permit a user to make selections while the interface is dynamically adjusting and reconfiguring its layout and appearance for optimized user satisfaction. One example method of operation may include receiving an input command on a first menu displayed on a touch receptive surface of a user device and modifying a current view of the first menu by moving a menu item either upward or downward among a number of different menu options. The method may also include selecting the menu item responsive to the received input command and also receiving an additional input command to select a functionality to apply to the menu item, and applying the functionality to the menu item.

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

Translation lookaside buffer in memory
Patent No. 11494078

Inventor(s): John D. Leidel (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Brooks, Cameron Huebsch, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17119781 on 12/11/2020 (697 days app to issue)

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods related to a translation lookaside buffer in memory. An example method comprises receiving a command including a virtual address from a host translating the virtual address to a physical address on volatile memory of a memory device using a translation lookaside buffer (TLB).

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

Controller with caching and non-caching modes
Patent No. 11494224

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University City, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16882329 on 05/22/2020 (900 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a CPU core, a first cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core, and a second memory coupled to the cache subsystem. The first cache subsystem includes a configuration register, a first memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a request directed to an address in the second memory and, in response to the configuration register having a first value, operate in a non-caching mode. In the non-caching mode, the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory without caching data returned by the request in the first memory. In response to the configuration register having a second value, the controller is configured to operate in a caching mode. In the caching mode the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory and cache data returned by the request in the first memory.

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

Memory shapes
Patent No. 11494296

Inventor(s): Isom Crawford, Jr. (Royse City, TX), John D. Leidel (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Brooks, Cameron Huebsch, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17194020 on 03/05/2021 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user definition of a memory shape can be received and a multidimensional, contiguous, physical portion of a memory array can be allocated according to the memory shape. The user definition of the memory shape can include a quantity of contiguous columns of the memory array, a quantity of contiguous rows of the memory array, and a major dimension of the memory shape. The major dimension can correspond to a dimension by which to initially stride data stored in the memory shape.

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

Less-secure processors, integrated circuits, wireless communications apparatus, methods for operation thereof, and methods for manufacturing thereof
Patent No. 11494310

Inventor(s): Charles W. Brokish (Poynette, WI), Erdal Paksoy (Richardson, TX), Narendar Madurai Shankar (Dallas, TX), Olivier Schuepbach (Antibes, , FR), Steve Karouby (Antibes, , FR)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16512706 on 07/16/2019 (1211 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit ([b]122[/b]) includes an on-chip boot ROM ([b]132[/b]) holding boot code, a non-volatile security identification element ([b]140[/b]) having non-volatile information determining a less secure type or more secure type, and a processor ([b]130[/b]). The processor ([b]130[/b]) is coupled to the on-chip boot ROM ([b]132[/b]) and to the non-volatile security identification element ([b]140[/b]) to selectively execute boot code depending on the non-volatile information of the non-volatile security identification element ([b]140[/b]). Other technology such as processors, methods of operation, processes of manufacture, wireless communications apparatus, and wireless handsets are also disclosed.

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

Methods and systems for filtering vehicle information
Patent No. 11494442

Inventor(s): Avid Ghamsari (Plano, TX), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Jason Hoover (Grapevine, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16943845 on 07/30/2020 (831 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for filtering vehicle information. For instance, the method may include receiving a vehicle search request from a user device, the vehicle search request including conditions with corresponding weights. The method may also include, in response to receiving the vehicle search request, forming a search query based on the conditions and the weights of the vehicle search request; obtaining vehicle information; filtering the vehicle information based on the search query to obtain a result set and a partial match set; and transmitting a search result message based on the result set and the partial match set to the user device.

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

Integrated communication security
Patent No. 11494521

Inventor(s): Alistair Black (Los Gatos, CA), Ashitosh Swarup (Burbank, CA)
Assignee(s): Cuica LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Stevens Law Group (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17235840 on 04/20/2021 (567 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for integrated communication security are described. One aspect includes a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal at a first frequency, and a circuit utilizing the clock signal. The circuit may include a port configured to receive an encryption sequence at the first frequency, and a first unidirectional data path between the port and a memory configured to permit data transfer from the port to the memory. The memory may be configured to access the encryption sequence from the port via the first unidirectional data path and store the data. The circuit may further include a clock divider configured to divide the first frequency by a divisor deriving another clock signal at a second frequency, and an encryption/decryption module configured to read a portion of the encryption sequence from the memory, process input using the portion of the encryption sequence, and generate output responsive to the processing.

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

System for design visualization using actual product images
Patent No. 11494529

Inventor(s): Francisco Acosta (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ARCHITECTURAL SURFACES GROUP, LLC (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17001268 on 08/24/2020 (806 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a system for acquiring images of real stone slabs, visualize them virtually them in a 1:1. ratio, and design and view the final installation in 2D and 3D with the actual slabs instead of sample photography. This feat is achieved by the combination of multiple systems. Which include: 1.A process to take the photographies 2.A computer system to store and manage a virtual warehouse of actual slab images, 3.a 1:1 display system, 4.a catalog application and 5.a visualization tool.

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

Systems and methods for optimizing performance of machine learning model generation
Patent No. 11494587

Inventor(s): Tanvir Khan (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley Norton, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16168303 on 10/23/2018 (1477 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a trigger of machine learning model generation. In addition, the method includes algorithmically eliminating at least some of rows and at least some of columns of a training dataset, the algorithmically eliminating yielding a size-reduced training dataset. The method additionally includes generating, for a prediction target, a plurality of machine learning models via a plurality of machine learning algorithms. The method also includes measuring prediction accuracies of the plurality of machine learning models relative to the prediction target. Furthermore, the method includes selecting a particular machine learning model. Moreover, the method includes applying the particular machine learning model to a data source.

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

Systems and methods for energy-efficient analog matrix multiplication for machine learning processes
Patent No. 11494625

Inventor(s): Robert Michael Muchsel (Addison, TX), Sung Ung Kwak (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: North Weber Baugh LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16590272 on 10/01/2019 (1134 days app to issue)

Abstract: A novel energy-efficient multiplication circuit using analog multipliers and adders reduces the distance data has to move and the number of times the data has to be moved when performing matrix multiplications in the analog domain. The multiplication circuit is tailored to bitwise multiply the innermost product of a rearranged matrix formula to output the generate a matrix multiplication result in form of a current that is then digitized for further processing.

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

Outcomes and performance monitoring
Patent No. 11494724

Inventor(s): James Michael Hoxter, Jr. (Irving, TX), Jerry Shultz (Irving, TX), Patrick Cline (Irving, TX), Robert Nary (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Lightbeam Health Solutions, LLC (Iriving, TX)
Law Firm: Reising Ethington P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15212055 on 07/15/2016 (2307 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for selecting a health care provider and then monitoring and reporting the selected provider”s performance. A processor is programmed to retrieve from the internet and store in a database historical performance data on providers and healthcare data relating to the providers” historical performance. The processor determines which provider should be selected to perform a task, by assessing the providers” historical performances against each other; selecting a provider to perform a task, monitoring post-selection healthcare data relating to the provider”s performance of the task, and generating a reporting metric comprising a display of a trend in the selected provider”s historical performance and/or the provider”s current performance of the task.

[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]

Need-based inventory
Patent No. 11494732

Inventor(s): Ernest Bernard Williams, Jr. (Dallas, TX), H. Ramsey Bissex (Irving, TX), Zachary James Goodman (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17084688 on 10/30/2020 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system a computer program product, and a method that comprises predicting details associated with collected data of an activity by generating a simulated activity based on a result associated with a plurality of attributes within the collected data associated with the activity; simulating the activity within a virtual reality environment by generating virtual items for assistance with a performance of the simulated activity within the virtual reality environment; in response to receiving user feedback for each generated virtual item based on the simulated activity, generating a need-based inventory from user input based on an analysis of the received user feedback for each respective item associated with the simulated activity within the virtual environment; and automatically obtaining each respective item within the generated need-based inventory.

Electronic transaction verification system
Patent No. 11494767

Inventor(s): Snehal Desai (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16879520 on 05/20/2020 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and methods for facilitating management of information related to electronic transactions. More specifically, the methods and systems discussed herein related to electronic transaction verification techniques that employ distributed computation methods, such as blockchains, to store transactional data for various web-based interactions, and to verify a transaction source and generate customer offers for these transactions.

System for target online advertising using biometric information
Patent No. 11494809

Inventor(s): James G. Brooks, Jr. (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BioBrand LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitmyer IP Group LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17077452 on 10/22/2020 (747 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for providing customized advertisements includes a database that stores a plurality of electronic advertisements, receives biometric information of a client from at least one biometric device of the client, and receives receptivity information of the client responding to the plurality of electronic advertisements, as well as a processor that accesses the database, and maps the biometric information and the receptivity information and analyzes the mapped information to generate customized marketing data. The processor also calculates a receptivity probability for each of the plurality of electronic advertisements based on the customized marketing data by using current biometric state of the client, selects an electronic advertisement from the plurality of electronic advertisements based on the calculated receptivity probabilities, and outputs to the client the selected electronic advertisement.

Customizable state machine and state aggregation technique for processing collaborative and transactional business objects
Patent No. 11494815

Inventor(s): Chethan Gorur (Garland, TX), Ramkartik Mulukutla (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Blue Yonder Group, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Law Firm: Spencer Fane LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16687190 on 11/18/2019 (1086 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for aggregating state information associated with a composite business object representing at least one collaboration between business entities. The method includes retrieving the state information for the composite business object from a computer-readable medium and determining a state for the composite business object based on an assigned priority level for a state in a hierarchy of states associated with the composite business object, each state in the hierarchy of states having a corresponding assigned priority level.

Transaction arbiter system and method
Patent No. 11494819

Inventor(s): Jorge A. Maass (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): PRICE SETTER LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17749261 on 05/20/2022 (172 days app to issue)

Abstract: A transaction arbiter system and method is disclosed which incorporates a merchant function database under control of a transaction arbiter that permits merchants to interact in an automated way with bids generated by other merchants. Rather than utilizing fixed price schedules as taught by the prior art, the present invention permits each merchant to define a set of functions which describe how the merchant will respond to a customer request-for-quote for a given product or service. These merchant functions interact with both the customer request-for-quote and the results of other merchant functions to generate a dynamic real-time bidding system which integrates competition among merchant bidders to achieve an optimal consumer price for a given product or service.

Augmented reality automotive accessory customer collaborative design and manufacturing through 3D printing
Patent No. 11494820

Inventor(s): Anthony D. Sanor (Melissa, TX), David Kleiner (Plano, TX), Jamese Yarber (Carrollton, TX), Jazmieka T. Smith (Fairview, TX), Jessica K. Gambhir (Lewisville, TX), Mark Derickson (The Colony, TX), Smail Haddad (Plano, TX, U
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17538575 on 11/30/2021 (343 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that allow customers to collaborate with vehicle accessory manufacturers to design accessories in an augmented reality (AR) environment and manufacture the designed accessories through a rapid manufacturing technique, such as 3D printing. The disclosed systems and methods allow progression from augmented reality-designed accessories to 3D printed designs manufactured either at the dealer or at a regional printing center. The 3D printed designs may be installed on the customer”s vehicle, enabling a dealership to provide tailor-made, custom products designed through an AR application.

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

Image analysis and identification using machine learning with output estimation
Patent No. 11494838

Inventor(s): Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Jason Richard Hoover (Grapevine, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, TX), Stephen Michael Wylie (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17092578 on 11/09/2020 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for generating real-time quotes using machine learning algorithms. The system may include a processor in communication with a client device, and a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations including: receiving an image of a vehicle from the client device, extracting one or more features from the image, based on the extracted features and using a machine learning algorithm, identifying one or more attributes of the vehicle, based on the identified attributes of the vehicle, determining a make and a model of the vehicle, obtaining comparison information based at least in part on the determined make and model, estimating a quote for the vehicle based on the comparison information; and transmitting the estimated quote for display on the client device.

System and method for buying and selling stocks, fractional shares, shares, commodities, and other products listed on any stock exchange
Patent No. 11494840

Inventor(s): John Arthur Benson (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16698712 on 11/27/2019 (1077 days app to issue)

Abstract: An automated system and method for BUYING AND SELLING STOCKS, FRACTIONAL SHARES, SHARES, COMMODITIES, OR ANY OTHER PRODUCT LISTED ON ANY US OR GLOBAL STOCK EXCHANGES through a kiosk of debit card, credit card, or gift card. The kiosk having a housing to house electrical, network, and communication components; a user interface in communication with the kiosk, the user interface to receive user commands; the kiosk being managed and operated by an investment entity, the investment entity having the ability to buy or sell the one or more investments; and a gift card; the one or more investments include one or more stocks, fractional shares, shares, commodities, or any other product listed on any US or global stock exchanges; and the one or more user commands allow the user to purchase or sell the one or more investments via the kiosk.

Analysis of transport damage
Patent No. 11494847

Inventor(s): Anil Nagpal (Plano, TX), Neil Dutta (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16556190 on 08/29/2019 (1167 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a transport, a potential damage event, recording, by the transport, a first media file via at least one sensor on the transport, accessing, by the transport, a second media file on at least one other transport within a predefined distance of the transport, analyzing, by the transport, the first media file and the second media file to identify portions that correlate to the potential damage event, and determining an actual damage event has occurred based on the analysis.

Mobile legal counsel system and method
Patent No. 11494861

Inventor(s): Clayton K. Redmon (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee(s): Redmon Jeang LLC (Parker, TX)
Law Firm: Grable Martin Fulton PLLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15688764 on 08/28/2017 (1898 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Mobile Lawyer system includes a 360 degree HD video camera configured for mounting on a vehicle; a display screen configured for mounting inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle; and a Mobile Lawyer App downloaded and installed on a mobile telephone in communication with the video camera and display screen, configured, upon command from a user, to notify an attorney located remotely via a cellular and/or computer network, and to display a video image of the remote attorney on the display screen (or the screen of the mobile telephone), and to live-stream a 360 degree video captured by the video camera to the Internet for viewing by the remote attorney and for cloud storage. The introduction of a lawyer on-demand into a police encounter can help to defuse and de-escalate the situation. The lawyer can serve as a live observer, witness, and intermediary who can provide live legal guidance to the user.

Mobile legal counsel system and method
Patent No. 11494862

Machine-learned model based event detection
Patent No. 11494921

Inventor(s): Kirti Varun Munjeti (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsara Networks Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16395948 on 04/26/2019 (1292 days app to issue)

Abstract: Example embodiments described herein therefore relate to an object-model based event detection system that comprises a plurality of sensor devices, to perform operations that include: generating sensor data at the plurality of sensor devices; accessing the sensor data generated by the plurality of sensor devices; detecting an event, or precursor to an event, based on the sensor data, wherein the detected event corresponds to an event category; accessing an object model associated with the event type in response to detecting the event, wherein the object model defines a procedure to be applied by the event detection system to the sensor data; and streaming at least a portion of a plurality of data streams generated by the plurality of sensor devices to a server system based on the procedure, wherein the server system may perform further analysis or visualization based on the portion of the plurality of data streams.

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

Feature based abstraction and meshing
Patent No. 11494982

Inventor(s): Abinesh Thota (Mainville, OH), Debashis Basu (Cincinnati, OH), Harold Fogg (Cambridge, , GB), Jonathan Makem (Cambridge, , GB), Nilanjan Mukherjee (Cincinnati, OH)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17270615 on 09/21/2018 (1509 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods for CAD operations and corresponding systems ([b]2800[/b]) and computer-readable mediums ([b]2826[/b]) are disclosed herein. A method includes receiving ([b]502[/b]) a model ([b]600[/b]) of a part to be manufactured, wherein the model includes a plurality of original faces ([b]102, 104, 106, 112, 114[/b]). The method includes classifying ([b]510[/b]) each face in model according to a relative face curvature according to classifications that include at least a high-curvature classification ([b]702[/b]). The method includes classifying ([b]514[/b]) any sliver faces ([b]102, 104, 106, 112, 114[/b]) and narrow blend faces ([b]402, 404, 406, 408[/b]) of the plurality of faces. The method includes merging ([b]516[/b]) contiguous faces ([b]702[/b]) in each classification. The method includes detecting ([b]518[/b]) special faces ([b]1002, 1012[/b]) of the plurality of faces. The method includes restoring ([b]520[/b]) original faces in the high-curvature classification except for the special faces ([b]1002, 1012[/b]). The method includes processing ([b]522[/b]) shared edges of the restored original faces to produce merged faces ([b]802[/b]). The method includes merging together ([b]524[/b]) any merged faces that produce a locally narrow face ([b]302[/b]) or an isthmus ([b]202[/b]). The method includes storing ([b]526[/b]) a modified model of the part to be manufactured.

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

Aggregate monitor data in real-time by worker
Patent No. 11495098

Inventor(s): Tarun Kumar (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16815671 on 03/11/2020 (972 days app to issue)

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

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

Home health optimization
Patent No. 11495116

Inventor(s): Alexander Saunders Linn (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): SHIPSHAPE SOLUTIONS, INC. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Klintworth Rozenblat IP LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17215955 on 03/29/2021 (589 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention comprises a novel Virtual Facilities Manager architecture that optimizes home health by combining multiple prediction engines, fed by continuously monitored and processed sensor-based and environmental data (historical as well as current), with an integrated Homecare Network of homeowners and service and other providers. This enables a continuous feedback process in which abnormal conditions (symptoms of an underlying problem, including suboptimal performance) are detected and addressed by issuing contextual alerts with associated actions (related alert-action pairs) in an iterative manner over time. By maintaining a Home Health Record including Scores (e.g., reliability and energy efficiency) representing the systemic state of one or more homes, the present invention detects not only maintenance issues, but also suboptimal performance ”problems,” and addresses them with the same iterative troubleshooting approach until such scores return to an acceptable level.

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

Write interamble counter
Patent No. 11495281

Inventor(s): Daniel B. Penney (Wylie, TX), William C. Waldrop (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16834409 on 03/30/2020 (953 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that provide protection from undesired latching that may be caused by indeterminate interamble periods in an input/output data strobe (DQS) signal. Interamble compensation circuitry selectively filters out interamble states of the DQS signal to reduce provision of interamble signals to downstream components that use the DQS signal to identify data latching times.

[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)

Sense amplifier look-through latch for FAMOS-based EPROM
Patent No. 11495301

Inventor(s): David Joseph Toops (Dallas, TX), Xiaowei Deng (Plano, TX), Yunchen Qiu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17219092 on 03/31/2021 (587 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one example a semiconductor device has a data latch that includes first and second transmission gates and first and second inverters. The first inverter is connected between a first terminal of the first transmission gate and a first terminal of the second transmission gate. The second inverter is connected between a second terminal of the first transmission gate and a second terminal of the second transmission gate. The data latch is configured to store a datum received at the connection between the first transmission gate and the second inverter, and to store a datum received at the connection between the second transmission gate and the first inverter.

Non-volatile memory with erase verify skip
Patent No. 11495311

Inventor(s): Kazuhiko Sanada (Kanagawa, , JP)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17359208 on 06/25/2021 (501 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-volatile storage apparatus is configured to perform erase verify during an erase process in order to account for differences in erase speed. In order to reduce the time used to perform the erase process (which includes the erase verify), the erase verify operation is skipped for certain memory cells based on a system parameter. For example, when erasing a block of memory cells, a series of erase voltage pulses are applied to the NAND strings in outer sub-blocks and inner sub-blocks of the block. Erase verify is performed between erase voltage pulses for NAND strings in the outer sub-blocks while skipping erase verify for NAND strings in the inner sub-blocks. Performing erase verify between erase voltage pulses for NAND strings in the inner sub-blocks is started at a predetermined number of erase voltage pulses after the NAND strings in the outer sub-blocks successfully erase verify.

Configurable built-in self-repair chain for fast repair data loading
Patent No. 11495315

Inventor(s): Benoit Nadeau-Dostie (Gatineau, , CA), Wei Zou (Lake Oswego, OR)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17399104 on 08/11/2021 (454 days app to issue)

Abstract: A scan network configured to transport repair information between memories and a controller for a non-volatile storage device comprises: repair registers coupled in parallel to repair information generation circuitry for one of the memories and segment selection devices that divide the repair registers into repair register segments. Each of the segment selection devices comprises: a storage element configured to store a segment selection bit and segment selection bit generation circuitry configured to generate the segment selection bit based on the repair information. Each of the segment selection devices is configurable to include or not include the corresponding repair register segment in a scan path of the scan network in a shift operation based on the segment selection bit.

Method, apparatus, and computer readible media for artificial intelligence-based treatment guidance for the neurologically impaired patient who may need neurosurgery
Patent No. 11495353

Inventor(s): Mohamed Anver Jameel (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Rosenman LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16408709 on 05/10/2019 (1278 days app to issue)

Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media providing medical personnel artificial intelligence (AI)-derived data regarding a patient presenting neurological indications includes a guidance server. Preferably, the guidance server receives three or more of: (i) natural language input from medical personnel, (ii) real-time vital signs telemetry data, (iii) neurosurgical treatment database information, (iv) neurosurgical treatment guideline information, (v) clinical laboratory testing results, (vi) patient historical data, and (vii) patient imaging information. An imaging post-processor receives (i) patient imaging history information, (ii) and real-time patient imaging data, and provides to the guidance server the patient imaging information. The guidance server then provides one or more alerts (or other guidance) to the medical personnel. NULL

System and method to identify secure media streams to conference watchers in SIP messaging
Patent No. 11496531

Inventor(s): Carrie King (Dallas, TX), Christopher Haun (Richardson, TX), Tate Reimer (Wylie, TX), Thadeus Thigpen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Avaya Inc. (Durham, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 14044477 on 10/02/2013 (3324 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and method to send security status notifications within a SIP conference. A SIP conference server receives a from a SIP conference client a request for a SIP NOTIFY message, creates a SIP NOTIFY message including information about security status of a conference resource, and sends the SIP NOTIFY message to all SIP conference subscribers. Subscribers parse the NOTIFY message to find and save security status about individual links or the entire conference. The NOTIFY message may be sent in response to a SUBSCRIBE message or other client request. The security status may include a binary indicator and/or a security protocol.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Methods and apparatus to dynamically limit current
Patent No. 11493976

Inventor(s): Eric Beljaars (Garland, TX), Michael James Mills (Plano, TX), Mohammad Atiqur Rahman (Allen, TX), Nagesh Narayana Swamy (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16366819 on 03/27/2019 (1322 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to allow dynamic changing between current limiting methods. A power delivery controller comprising: a power control device; a first current control device, the first current control device to control the power control device when a current level associated with a current flowing between a first device and a second device exceeds a first adjustable current threshold value; a second current control device to control the power control device when the current level exceeds a second adjustable current threshold value; and a configuration manager to, during runtime, set a first configuration setting of the first current control device and a second configuration setting of the second current control device, the first configuration setting and second configuration setting based on a negotiated contract corresponding to the first device and the second device.

[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]

Interactive and dynamic digital event program
Patent No. 11494737

Inventor(s): Cameron Fowler (Fort Worth, TX), Matthew Sullivan (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): Digital Seat Media, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Vos-IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17660823 on 04/26/2022 (196 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for distributing an interactive digital event program to a plurality of user devices comprising: receiving a request for an interactive digital event program from a first user device, the request received in response to scanning a first tag having a machine-readable code with the first user device; determining that the first tag belongs to a first group of tags to which a first version of the interactive digital event program is to be distributed; providing the first user device with the first version of the interactive digital event program, the first version of the interactive digital event program to include at least one dynamic content element that is capable of being updated while an event is in progress; and updating the at least one dynamic content element in the first version of the interactive digital event program in response to a predefined trigger.

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

Suspended semiconductor dies
Patent No. 11495522

Inventor(s): Barry Jon Male (West Granby, CT), Marco Corsi (Scotts Valley, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17120941 on 12/14/2020 (694 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, an electronic device comprises a printed circuit board (PCB), an orifice extending through the PCB, and a semiconductor die suspended above the orifice by aluminum bond wires. The semiconductor die is vertically aligned with the orifice and the bond wires coupled to the PCB.

[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]

QFN device having a mechanism that enables an inspectable solder joint when attached to a PWB and method of making same
Patent No. 11495524

Inventor(s): Abram Castro (Carrollton, TX), Joe Adam Garcia (Royse City, TX), Mahmud Halim Chowdhury (Richardson, TX), Usman Chaudhry (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16411457 on 05/14/2019 (1274 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing an artificial standoff to the bottom of leads on a QFN device sufficient to provide a gap that changes the fluid dynamics of solder flow and create a unique capillary effect that drives solder up the of leads of a UN device when it is attached to a printed wiring board (PWB).

Electronic device with crack arrest structure
Patent No. 11495549

Inventor(s): Charles Allen Devries, Jr. (Winfield, IL), Michael Gerald Amaro (Naperville, IL), Naweed Anjum (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17185589 on 02/25/2021 (621 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged electronic device includes a multilayer lead frame with first and second trace levels, a via level, an insulator, a conductive landing pad and a conductive crack arrest structure, the conductive landing pad has a straight profile that extends along a first direction along a side of the multilayer lead frame, the conductive crack arrest structure has a straight profile along the first direction and the conductive crack arrest structure is spaced from the conductive landing pad along an orthogonal second direction.

[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)

Wire bonding between isolation capacitors for multichip modules
Patent No. 11495553

Inventor(s): Byron Lovell Williams (Plano, TX), Jeffrey Alan West (Dallas, TX), Thomas Dyer Bonifield (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16526765 on 07/30/2019 (1197 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged multichip device includes a first IC die with an isolation capacitor utilizing a top metal layer as its top plate and a lower metal layer as its bottom plate. A second IC die has a second isolation capacitor utilizing its top metal layer as its top plate and a lower metal layer as its bottom plate. A first bondwire end is coupled to one top plate and a second bondwire end is coupled to the other top plate. The second bondwire end includes a stitch bond including a wire approach angle not normal to the top plate it is bonded to and is placed so that the stitch bond”s center is positioned at least 5% further from an edge of this top plate on a bondwire crossover side compared to a distance of the stitch bond”s center from the side opposite the bondwire crossover side.

Semiconductor devices having through-stack interconnects for facilitating connectivity testing
Patent No. 11495577

Inventor(s): Christian N. Mohr (Allen, TX), Scott E. Smith (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16894568 on 06/05/2020 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: Semiconductor devices having through-stack interconnects for facilitating connectivity testing, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stack of semiconductor dies and a plurality of through-stack interconnects extending through the stack to electrically couple the semiconductor dies. The interconnects include functional interconnects and at least one test interconnect. The test interconnect is positioned in a portion of the stack more prone to connectivity defects than the functional interconnects. Accordingly, testing the connectivity of the test interconnect can provide an indication of the connectivity of the functional interconnects.

Multi-chip module including stacked power devices with metal clip
Patent No. 11495580

Inventor(s): Marie Denison (Sunnyvale, CA), Richard Saye (Greenville, TX), Satyendra Singh Chauhan (Murphy, TX), Takahiko Kudoh (Beppu, , JP)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16183913 on 11/08/2018 (1461 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Multi-Chip Module (MCM) package includes a substrate having a plurality of metal terminals and at least a first die attach area. An encapsulant is around the substrate including on at least a portion of the topside and at least a portion of the bottomside of the package. At least a first device including at least two device terminals is attached face up on the first die attach area. At least a second device including at least two device terminals is flip-chip attached and stacked on the first device. At least one of the first device and second device include a transistor. At least one metal clip is between the first device and second device including a plurality of clip portions isolated from one another connecting at least one device terminal of each of the first device and second device to respective metal terminals of the plurality of metal terminals.

Low-temperature passivation of ferroelectric integrated circuits for enhanced polarization performance
Patent No. 11495607

Inventor(s): Antonio Guillermo Acosta (Richardson, TX), Huang-Chun Wen (Dallas, TX), John A. Rodriguez (Dallas, TX), Kemal Tamer San (Plano, TX), Richard Allen Bailey (Richardson, TX), Scott Robert Summerfelt (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16056827 on 08/07/2018 (1554 days app to issue)

Abstract: Curing of a passivation layer applied to the surface of a ferroelectric integrated circuit so as to enhance the polarization characteristics of the ferroelectric structures. A passivation layer, such as a polyimide, is applied to the surface of the ferroelectric integrated circuit after fabrication of the active devices. The passivation layer is cured by exposure to a high temperature, below the Curie temperature of the ferroelectric material, for a short duration such as on the order of ten minutes. Variable frequency microwave energy may be used to effect such curing. The cured passivation layer attains a tensile stress state, and as a result imparts a compressive stress upon the underlying ferroelectric material. Polarization may be further enhanced by polarizing the ferroelectric material prior to the cure process.

Three-dimensional memory device including stairless word line contact structures for and method of making the same
Patent No. 11495612

Inventor(s): Akihiro Tobioka (Yokkaichi, , JP), Hideaki Hasegawa (Yokkaichi, , JP), Koichi Ito (Yokkaichi, , JP), Sung Tae Lee (Yokkaichi, , JP), Yoshinobu Tanaka (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16918463 on 07/01/2020 (860 days app to issue)

Abstract: An alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers is formed over a substrate. Memory openings and support openings are formed through the alternating stack, and memory opening fill structures and support pillar structures are formed in the memory openings and in the support openings, respectively. Via cavities extending to each of the sacrificial material layers are formed through the alternating stack without forming any stepped surfaces in the alternating stack. The via cavities may be formed in areas that do not overlap with the support pillar structures, or in areas that include at least one support pillar structure. Sacrificial via fill structures are formed in the via cavies, and the sacrificial material layers are replaced with electrically conductive layers. The sacrificial via fill structures are removed, and a combination of a tubular dielectric spacer and a contact via structure can be formed in the via cavities.

Three-dimensional memory device with high mobility channels and nickel aluminum silicide or germanide drain contacts and method of making the same
Patent No. 11495613

Inventor(s): Ashish Baraskar (Santa Clara, CA), Peter Rabkin (Cupertino, CA), Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16984950 on 08/04/2020 (826 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device can include a strained single-crystalline silicon layer and an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over the strained single-crystalline silicon layer. A memory opening fill structure extending through the alternating stack may include an epitaxial silicon-containing pedestal channel portion, and a vertical semiconductor channel, and a vertical stack of memory elements located adjacent to the vertical semiconductor channel Additionally or alternatively, a drain region can include a semiconductor drain portion and a nickel-aluminum-semiconductor alloy drain portion.

Multi-tier three-dimensional memory device with dielectric support pillars and methods for making the same
Patent No. 11495616

Inventor(s): Takuya Sakurai (Yokkaichi, , JP), Yoshitaka Otsu (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17012862 on 09/04/2020 (795 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate including a semiconductor material layer, a memory opening and a support opening extending through the alternating stack, a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a memory film and a semiconductor material portion in contact with the semiconductor material layer, and a support pillar structure located in the support opening. The support pillar structure lacks a semiconductor material portion which is in contact with the semiconductor material layer.

Hybrid high and low stress oxide embedded capacitor dielectric
Patent No. 11495658

Inventor(s): Elizabeth Costner Stewart (Dallas, TX), Jeffrey A. West (Dallas, TX), Thomas D. Bonifield (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16435095 on 06/07/2019 (1250 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device, e.g. integrated circuit, has top and bottom metal plates located over a substrate, the bottom plate located between the top plate and the substrate. A high-stress silicon dioxide layer is located between the bottom plate and the substrate. At least one low-stress silicon dioxide layer is located between the top plate and the bottom plate.

SOI FinFET transistor with strained channel
Patent No. 11495676

Inventor(s): John H. Zhang (Altamont, NY)
Assignee(s): STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16988206 on 08/07/2020 (823 days app to issue)

Abstract: Stress is introduced into the channel of an SOI FinFET device by transfer directly from a metal gate. In SOI devices in particular, stress transfer efficiency from the metal gate to the channel is nearly 100%. Either tensile or compressive stress can be applied to the fin channel by choosing different materials to be used in the gate stack as the bulk gate material, a gate liner, or a work function material, or by varying processing parameters during deposition of the gate or work function materials. P-gates and N-gates are therefore formed separately. Gate materials suitable for use as stressors include tungsten (W) for NFETs and titanium nitride (TiN) for PFETs. An optical planarization material assists in patterning the stress-inducing metal gates. A simplified process flow is disclosed in which isolation regions are formed without need for a separate mask layer, and gate sidewall spacers are not used.

Safe transport and storage of energy storage devices
Patent No. 11495862

Inventor(s): Chester Stanley Niziol (Pickering, , CA)
Assignee(s): Design Science Technology LLC (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller Larson, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17231724 on 04/15/2021 (572 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of transporting at least one energy storage device comprising the step of housing at least one energy storage device in a cassette comprising: a hollow casing for receiving at least one energy storage device; a top cap assembly received at one end of the hollow casing and an end cap assembly received at another end of the hollow casing; electronic circuitry housed within the end cap assembly, the electronic circuitry comprising at least one receptacle associated with each of the at least one energy storage devices, the at least one receptacle being reversibly mateable with at least one plug associated with an external device such that the cassette is received by the external in a first orientation and a second orientation; and electrically isolating the at least one energy storage devices from each other by individually coupling the at least one energy storage device to the electronic circuitry.

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

Single point heavy duty monopole platform
Patent No. 11495872

Inventor(s): Dale Richard Heath (Fort Worth, TX), Firoz Ahmed (Irving, TX), Jyoti Ojha (Euless, TX), Raphael J. de La Soujeole (Irving, TX), Robert Campbell (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16914952 on 06/29/2020 (862 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a brace for a mounting frame typically used for mounting antennas to a monopole tower. The brace may include a standoff connection comprising a first standoff bracket and a second standoff bracket; a first angled member attached to the first standoff bracket at a lower end of the first angled member, the first angled member also including a first handrail connector at an upper end of the first angled member; a second angled member attached to the second standoff bracket at a lower end of the second angled member, the second angled member also including a second handrail connector at an upper end of the second angled member; and a crossmember disposed between the upper end of the first angled member and the upper end of the second angled member.

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

Solar panel disconnect and reactivation system
Patent No. 11495973

Inventor(s): Il Han Kim (Allemn, TX), Xiaolin Lu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17409892 on 08/24/2021 (441 days app to issue)

Abstract: A photovoltaic system with an inverter, at least one solar panel for providing electrical power, and electrical wiring for coupling electrical power from the at least one solar panel to the inverter. Also included is a transmitter for transmitting a messaging protocol along the electrical wiring, where the protocol includes a multibit wireline signal. Also included is circuitry for selectively connecting the electrical power from the at least one solar panel along the electrical wiring to the inverter in response to the messaging protocol.

[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)

Dual role port automatic role reversal prevention
Patent No. 11495984

Inventor(s): Nagesh Narayana Swamy (Bangalore, , IN), Rahul Raj Sharma (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16732187 on 12/31/2019 (1043 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a circuit. In at least some examples, the circuit includes a dual-role port for transferring power to the circuit and from the circuit. The circuit also includes a micro-processing unit. The micro-processing unit is configured to control the circuit to operate as a sink device to receive power from a source device via the dual-role port when the power supply includes a first amount of stored energy, detect, at the dual-role port, a change in a termination resistance of the source device, and control the circuit to limit power transfer from the circuit to the power supply via the dual-role port when the power supply changes in status from a sourcing state to a sinking state.

Modular and efficient wireless power transfer systems with a wired charging mode
Patent No. 11495998

Inventor(s): Hengchun Mao (Allen, TX), Xuezhong Jia (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17194302 on 03/07/2021 (611 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device comprises a plurality of power converters, a resonator block and a connection block. The plurality of power converters is coupled to a power port having a voltage. Each power converter comprises a plurality of switch networks, and each switch network has a plurality of power switches. The resonator block comprises a plurality of resonators. Each resonator has a resonant capacitor and is coupled to one of the plurality of power converters. The connection block comprises a switching component and is coupled to one of the plurality of resonators, and the connection block and the said resonator are configured such that the device operates in a wireless charging mode with the resonator block activated or a wired charging mode with the connection block activated.

Gate driver for DC-DC converters
Patent No. 11496050

Inventor(s): Wei Zhao (Shanghai, , CN), Xufeng Wu (Shanghai, , CN), Yueming Sun (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17204360 on 03/17/2021 (601 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device includes a first FET coupled between first and drive terminals, and is configured to turn on/off responsive to a PWM signal having a first/second state, respectively. A second FET is coupled between the first and drive terminals and is configured to turn on responsive to the PWM signal having the first state, and turn off responsive to expiration of a particular delay after the second FET turns on. A third FET is coupled between drive and second terminals, and is configured to turn on/off responsive to the PWM signal having the second/first state, respectively. A fourth FET is coupled between the drive and second terminals, and is configured to turn on responsive to the PWM signal having the second state if a switching terminal has a first voltage, and turn off responsive to the PWM signal having the first state or the switching terminal having a second voltage.

[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]

DC transformer load regulation circuit
Patent No. 11496062

Inventor(s): Isaac Cohen (Dix Hills, NY)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17136356 on 12/29/2020 (679 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a transformer having first and second transformer inputs and first and second transformer outputs. The first transformer output can be adapted to be coupled through a capacitor to a first input of an output stage. The second transformer output can be adapted to be coupled to a second input of the output stage. The circuit also includes a switching system having first and second inputs and first and second switching outputs. The first input can be configured to receive a switching signal. The second input can be configured to receive an input voltage. The first and second switching outputs respectively can be coupled to the first and second transformer inputs.

Solar roof panel system with edge and surface treatments
Patent No. 11496087

Inventor(s): Cory Boudreau (Lake Elmo, MN), Daniel E. Boss (Murphy, TX), Daniel R. Nett (Sun Prairie, WI), David J. Gennrich (Fitchburg, WI), Kent J. Kallsen (Jefferson, WI), Sudhir Railkar (Wayne, NJ), Tommy F. Rodrigues (Nutley, NJ,
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16734768 on 01/06/2020 (1037 days app to issue)

Abstract: A roof-mounted solar power system for generating electrical power that includes a plurality of solar modules adapted for generating electrical power from sunlight, and with each of the plurality of solar modules having substantially the same size, aspect ratio and surface coloring. The plurality of solar modules are mounted on the deck of a roof to form a bank of solar modules having at least one irregular edge. The solar power system further includes one or more non-power generating edge treatments having substantially the same size, aspect ratio and surface coloring as the solar modules and that are adapted for installation along the irregular edge. Each edge treatment is adapted for a cutting away of at least one corner thereof to smooth the irregular edge of the bank of solar modules to a regular edge.

[H02S] Generation of electric power by conversion of infra-red radiation, visible light or ultraviolet light, e.g. using photovoltaic [PV] modules (solar heat collectors F24J 2/00; obtaining electrical energy from radioactive sources G21H 1/12; light sensitive inorganic semiconductor devices H01L 31/00; thermoelectric devices H01L 35/00; pyroelectric devices H01L 37/00; light sensitive organic semiconductor devices H01L 51/42) [2014.01]

Numerically-controlled oscillator with dithered coarse and fine splitter
Patent No. 11496124

Inventor(s): Srinivas Kumar Reddy Naru (Bangalore, , IN), Vinam Arora (Panchkula, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17488724 on 09/29/2021 (405 days app to issue)

Abstract: A numerically-controlled oscillator (NCO) includes a phase accumulator (PA) which has a first input adapted to receive a phase increment, a second input adapted to receive a clock signal, and a third input adapted to receive a reset signal. The PA provides an instantaneous phase at an output. The NCO includes a dithered splitter which has an input coupled to receive the instantaneous phase. The dithered splitter dithers the instantaneous phase using a pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) and provides a dithered course phase and a dithered fine phase. The NCO includes a polynomial approximation unit which has a first input coupled to receive the dithered course phase and a second input coupled to receive the dithered fine phase. The polynomial approximation unit provides a sequence of numbers representing a discrete sinusoidal signal.

Oscillator closed loop frequency control
Patent No. 11496140

Inventor(s): Danielle Lyn Griffith (Richardson, TX), Per Torstein Roine (Oslo, , NO)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17176329 on 02/16/2021 (630 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device comprises a regulator, and an oscillator and a resistor coupled to the regulator. The electronic device further comprises a feedback controller that includes a differential amplifier coupled between the oscillator, the resistor, and the regulator. The feedback controller is configured to apply a control voltage to the regulator in response to a resistor voltage upon the resistor and an oscillator voltage upon the oscillator. The feedback controller can be coupled to control a substantially equal voltage upon the resistor and the oscillator.

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

Efficient multi-band transmitter
Patent No. 11496164

Inventor(s): Sudipto Chakraborty (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: Tutunjian Bitetto, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17199998 on 03/12/2021 (606 days app to issue)

Abstract: Transmitters, sensor systems, and methods of transmission include a frequency adjuster coupled to a ring oscillator to reduce latency and power consumption and to receive a signal from the ring oscillator. The frequency adjuster includes logic circuits to adjust the signal to a selected transmission frequency band. A band switch is coupled to the ring oscillator and the frequency adjuster to select logic circuits within the frequency adjuster to determine the selected transmission frequency band from a set of output frequency bands. A first radio front end is coupled to the frequency adjuster to transmit the signal on the selected transmission frequency band.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Apparatus and method for conversion between analog and digital domains with a time stamp
Patent No. 11496173

Inventor(s): Benjamin J. Sheahan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16278357 on 02/18/2019 (1359 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed with some embodiments including an analog and time to digital converter (ATDC) including a receiver, the receiver for receiving an analog channel input for conversion to a digital data, the digital data having at least one bit, and a defined absolute reference time stamp, the defined absolute reference time stamp representing an absolute reference time associated with conversion of the analog channel input to the digital data and an analog-to-digital converter, the converter converting the analog channel input to the digital data.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Coexistence primitives in power line communication networks
Patent No. 11496184

Inventor(s): Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, TX), Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, TX), Tarkesh Pande (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16852700 on 04/20/2020 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for setting a carrier-sensing mechanism in a PLC node are disclosed. In a PLC standard, coexistence is achieved by having the nodes detect a common preamble and backing off by a Coexistence InterFrame Space (cEIFS) time period to help the node to avoid interfering with the other technologies. In one embodiment, a PHY primitive is sent from the PHY to the MAC know that there has been a preamble detection. A two-level indication may be usedone indication after receiving the preamble and other indication after decoding the entire frame. The MAC sets the carrier-sensing mechanism based on the preamble detection.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus to CSI reporting using multiple antenna panels in advanced wireless communication systems
Patent No. 11496195

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17175492 on 02/12/2021 (634 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback comprises a transceiver configured to receive, from a base station (BS), configuration information for the CSI feedback, the configuration information indicating a number of antenna panels (N[subscript]g[/subscript]) at the BS and a codebook mode, wherein N[subscript]g[/subscript]1 and each of the antenna panels comprises antenna ports with a first polarization (P[subscript]1[/subscript]) and antenna ports with a second polarization (P[subscript]2[/subscript]). The UE further comprises a processor operably connected to the transceiver, the processor configured to identify the number of antenna panels (N[subscript]g[/subscript]) at the BS, identify a codebook for the CSI feedback based on the codebook mode configured between a first codebook mode and a second codebook mode, and generate the CSI feedback using the identified codebook. The transceiver is further configured to transmit the generated CSI feedback to the BS.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Distributed simulcast architecture
Patent No. 11496212

Inventor(s): Arindam Roy (Plano, TX), Larry Emmett (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): E.F. Johnson Company (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17100213 on 11/20/2020 (718 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for providing communication in a distributed LMR system architecture is provided herein, wherein the system includes a plurality of LMR subsystems interconnected by a data network. In some embodiments, a subsystem may include a distributed simulcast architecture comprising a plurality of LMR sites, each site having a subsystem controller and a plurality of repeaters. In one embodiment, one subsystem controller operates in an active mode and the remaining subsystem controllers operate in standby to provide redundancy. The repeaters include integrated voter comparator and simulcast controller functionality and circuitry. In some embodiments, the repeaters are operable in an active or standby mode, wherein repeaters in the active mode perform voter comparator and simulcast controller functionality. The distributed simulcast architecture provides simulcast controller and voter comparator redundancy, network failure redundancy, and site redundancy.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for mapping resource blocks to network slices
Patent No. 11496230

Inventor(s): Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17301726 on 04/13/2021 (574 days app to issue)

Abstract: A RAN node may determine an aggregate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of each resource block of a plurality of resource blocks, where the aggregate SNR of a given resource block of the plurality of resource blocks is based on SNRs of subcarrier frequencies of the given resource block. The RAN node may determine, based on a type of network traffic on each network slice of a plurality of network slices, an index value of each network slice of the plurality of network slices. The RAN node may map, based on the aggregate SNR of each resource block, based on the index value of each network slice, and for each resource block of the plurality of resource blocks, a resource block of the plurality of resource blocks to a network slice of the plurality of network slices.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

HARQ operation and power control in sidelink
Patent No. 11496246

Inventor(s): Li Guo (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16736693 on 01/07/2020 (1036 days app to issue)

Abstract: User equipments (UEs) and methods for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) operation in a sidelink. A user equipment configured to receive a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) that includes a sidelink control information (SCI) format scheduling a reception of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) that includes a transport block (TB) and to provide HARQ-ACK information for the TB decoding in a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatus for adding and/or providing stir/shaken diversion information
Patent No. 11496307

Inventor(s): Michael Stovenour (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. (Westford, MA)
Law Firm: Straub Straub (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17120092 on 12/11/2020 (697 days app to issue)

Abstract: Communications methods and apparatus for providing and/or adding STIR/SHAKEN Diversion Information to requests. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: receiving at a second communications network a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Invite request from a first communications network, the SIP Invite request being directed to a first SIP address corresponding to a first user equipment device located within the second communications network, the SIP Invite request including a SIP Identity shaken header and one or more SIP Identity div headers; determining at the second communications network whether or not the received SIP Invite request was previously diverted by the second communications network to another network; and when the SIP Invite request is determined to have been previously diverted by the second communications network to another network, processing the SIP Invite request at the second communications network as a previously received and diverted SIP Invite request.

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

Identity management for software components using one-time use credential and dynamically created identity credential
Patent No. 11496322

Inventor(s): Jon Ferguson (Gloucester, , CA), Lucas J. Koops (Kanata, , CA), Thomas P. Chmara (Richmond, , CA)
Assignee(s): ENTRUST, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16157735 on 10/11/2018 (1489 days app to issue)

Abstract: One or more computing devices employs a method that includes requesting a transient credential (e.g., a one-time PKI certificate) as a first identity credential for an application component instance based on a unique identifier associated with the application component instance. The method includes requesting a dynamically-created second identity credential for the application component instance of the application using a request signed (e.g., using the public key of the first identity PKI certificate) based on the transient credential. The method includes receiving the dynamically-created second identity credential and using the dynamically-created second identity credential in a cryptographic function by the application component instance; and managing the replacement of this credential in environments without persistent archival storage accessible by the device/application.

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

Methods and apparatus to demodulate an input signal in a receiver
Patent No. 11496342

Inventor(s): Ariel Dario Moctezuma (Richardson, TX), Hasibur Rahman (Wylie, TX), Yang Xu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17319850 on 05/13/2021 (544 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a receiver operable to receive a modulated input signal at a receiver input and output a demodulated signal at a receiver output, the receiver comprising a switch having a first current terminal and a first control terminal, the first current terminal coupled to the receiver output. The example apparatus includes a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the second terminal coupled to the first control terminal and the first terminal coupled to the receiver input. The example apparatus includes a resistor having a third terminal and a fourth terminal, the fourth terminal coupled to the first control terminal. The example apparatus includes a voltage offset source having an input and an output, the output coupled to the third terminal. The example apparatus includes a current source coupled to the first current terminal.

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

Root cause analysis and automation using machine learning
Patent No. 11496353

Inventor(s): Jianzhong Zhang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15929951 on 05/29/2020 (893 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for discovering and diagnosing network anomalies. The method includes receiving key performance indicator (KPI) data and alarm data. The method includes extracting features based on samples obtained by discretizing the KPI data and the alarm data. The method includes generating a set of rules based on the features. The method includes identifying a sample as a normal sample or an anomaly sample. In response to identifying the sample as the anomaly sample, the method includes identifying a first rule that corresponds to the sample, wherein the first rule indicates symptoms and root causes of an anomaly included in the sample. The method further includes applying the root causes to derive a root cause explanation of the anomaly and performing a corrective action to resolve the anomaly based on the first rule.

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

Automated access to racks in a colocation data center
Patent No. 11496365

Inventor(s): Adam Scott Wayne (Keller, TX), David Hess (Arlington, TX), Jason Anthony Lochhead (Frisco, TX), Manikandan Subramanian (Flower Mound, TX), Michael Andra Ballard (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Cyxtera Data Centers, Inc. (Coral Gables, FL)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16695696 on 11/26/2019 (1078 days app to issue)

Abstract: Top-of-rack (TOR) switches are connected to a network fabric of a data center. Each TOR switch corresponds to a rack of the data center, and is configured to provide access to the network fabric for computing devices mounted in the rack. In one method, a TOR switch is mounted in a rack. The TOR switch is connected to a network fabric of a data center. A lock is used to control physical access to the rack. A request to physically access the rack is received from a computing device (e.g., a badge implementing a security token, or a mobile device). The request includes authentication credentials. The computing device is then authenticated. In response to authenticating the computing device, the lock is configured to provide physical access to the rack.

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

Task completion using a blockchain network
Patent No. 11496485

Inventor(s): Corey Clark (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Balanced Media Technology, LLC (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17301491 on 04/05/2021 (582 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for distributing tasks using a blockchain network. A method includes generating a task for completion via an interactive application and distributing, using the blockchain network, the task via a block in a blockchain associated with the blockchain network. The blockchain network includes a plurality of nodes and is accessible by a plurality of client devices associated with the interactive application. The method further includes receiving, from one or more of the client devices, data associated with results of processing the task via the interactive application and validating completion of the task based on the received data. Validating completion of the task may include receiving a set of user inputs from a set of the client devices, respectively, as to whether the task was completed and making a consensus determination as to whether the task was completed based on the received set of user inputs.

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

Cloud-based communication system for monitoring and facilitating collaboration sessions
Patent No. 11496530

Inventor(s): Mona Abou-Sayed (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Mitel Networks Corporation (Ottawa, , CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17182946 on 02/23/2021 (623 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cloud-based communication system for monitoring a collaboration session. Based on the monitoring, the system identifies a collaboration event that indicates desirability of a break or that a digression from a session topic has or is occurring. When a collaboration event is identified, a prompt is communicated to the facilitator of the collaboration session. The collaboration event may be defined in a variety of ways such as participant fatigue, participant distraction, or the like. The system provides the facilitator with actions to be initiated by the system (automatically or in response to facilitator/user input) to respond to an identified communication event. The actions include initiating a break, acting to avoid or reduce session digressions, and creating a highlight reel of the collaboration session, including a number of unique features enabling more efficient retrieval and/or review of data. A distracted or fatigued participant can be directed to access the highlight reel.

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

Offering media services through network edge
Patent No. 11496532

Inventor(s): Prakash Kolan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17225032 on 04/07/2021 (580 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a communication interface and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The communication interface receives, from an application provider, a signaling message for provisioning into a network-based media processing (NBMP) workflow manager. The processor assumes a role of the NBMP workflow manager. The processor also communicates with an edge configuration server and an edge enabler server in an edge network to determine functionality of edge media application functions in the edge network. The processor further provisions at least one media application function as at least one media processing entity in a workflow. In addition, the processor instructs a media source to provide content for processing to the at least one media processing entity and instructs the at least one media processing entity in the workflow to provide the processed content to a user equipment (UE).

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

Internet of things (”IoT”) versatile nodes
Patent No. 11496569

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17374052 on 07/13/2021 (483 days app to issue)

Abstract: IoT devices are usually single-purpose devices with a set of instructions and parameters. This disclosure relates to a versatile framework that overcomes technical challenges for repurposing nodes operating in an IoT environment. Specifically, this disclosure describes security and functionality adaptations for versatile nodes (”vnodes”) operating within an IoT environment. Vnodes may include segmented data storage locations that allow multiple set of instructions and parameters to be stored on the vnode. The multiple sets of instructions/parameters may allow a vnode to perform a wide range of activities in different IoT operating environments. For example, a vnode may attach to a car during a trip then attach itself to the garage door, then re-attach to the car in the morning. Data storage may be segmented and allow data sharing between segmented storage locations. Data storage may be segmented and not allow data sharing between storage locations and thereby increases data controls.

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

Network management data translation, querying, and discrepancy detection
Patent No. 11496610

Inventor(s): Srinivasu Narumanchi (Allen, TX), Syed Raza (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16913243 on 06/26/2020 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device receives a first configuration management message from a first network element, where the first configuration management message has a first data format. The network device translates the first configuration management message from the first data format to a Common Network Data (CND) model format to produce a first translated message, where the CND model format comprises a graph schema based on nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store configuration management message data. The network device stores the first translated message in a CND model format data structure for subsequent use in message querying, message comparison, message anomaly detection, or message discrepancy detection.

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

Telecommunication call management and monitoring system with voiceprint verification
Patent No. 11496621

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: 17195114 on 03/08/2021 (610 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a secure telephone call management system for authenticating users of a telephone system in an institutional facility. Authentication of the users is accomplished by using a personal identification number, preferably in conjunction with speaker independent voice recognition and speaker dependent voice identification. When a user first enters the system, the user speaks his or her name which is used as a sample voice print. During each subsequent use of the system, the user is required to speak his or her name. Voice identification software is used to verify that the provided speech matches the sample voice print. The secure system includes accounting software to limit access based on funds in a user”s account or other related limitations. Management software implements widespread or local changes to the system and can modify or set any number of user account parameters.

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

Systems and methods for collecting information regarding optical connections in a fiber distribution hub of a passive optical network
Patent No. 11496714

Inventor(s): Erwin Wardojo (McKinney, TX), Steven Smith (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC (Norwalk, CT)
Law Firm: Marshall, Gerstein Borun LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17718495 on 04/12/2022 (210 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for collecting information regarding optical connections in an FDH are disclosed. An example FDH includes: a bulkhead having a plurality of passive optical couplers, each of the plurality of passive optical couplers having a respective first port adapted to receive an end of a respective first optical fiber, a respective second port adapted to receive an end of a respective second optical fiber, and a respective passive optical activity indicator configured to expose (i) a portion of first light propagating in the respective first optical fiber when the first optical fiber is received in the first port, and (ii) a portion of second light propagating in the respective second optical fiber when the second optical fiber is received in the second port; and an image sensor configured to capture one or more images of the respective passive optical activity indicators of the plurality of passive optical couplers.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Image slicing to generate in put frames for a digital micromirror device
Patent No. 11496720

Inventor(s): Aravind Lakshminarayanan (Plano, TX), Daniel Jay Morgan (McKinney, TX), Vivek Kumar Thakur (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17545876 on 12/08/2021 (335 days app to issue)

Abstract: Example apparatus described herein include a first circuit configured to slice an input image frame into input image slices, the first circuit including first outputs configured to output the input image slices. Described example apparatus also include digital light processing controllers (DLPCs) including first inputs coupled to the first outputs, the digital light processing controllers configured to process the input image slices to produce output image slices, the digital light processing controllers including second outputs configured to output the output image slices. Described example apparatus further include a second circuit including second inputs coupled to the second outputs, the second circuit configured to combine the output image slices to generate image frame data to provide to an input of a digital micromirror device (DMD).

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

Systems and methods for improving communications network performance using video session data
Patent No. 11496811

Inventor(s): Robert W. Froehlich (McKinney, TX), Wing F. Lo (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NetScout Systems, Inc. (Westford, MA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17099256 on 11/16/2020 (722 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for assessing and improving network performance using video session data. Control plane signaling data comprising geographic location data from network monitoring equipment connected to a communications network is collected. Video session data comprising data of a plurality of video sessions from video monitoring equipment connected to the communications network is collected. The plurality of video sessions are associated with a plurality of mobile devices streaming videos on the respective mobile device across the communications network. The video session data and control plane signaling data within a cell of the communications network is correlated. The correlated data is provided to a communications network provider. The communications network is reorganized according to the correlated data.

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

Locating wireless devices
Patent No. 11496859

Inventor(s): Lakshmi Kuchipudi (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Omnitracs, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Arentfox Schiff LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17174074 on 02/11/2021 (635 days app to issue)

Abstract: First receiving a first location in a path of a wireless device and a second location in the path, a first odometer value associated with the device corresponding to the first location, and a second odometer value associated with the device corresponding to the second location, wherein the path comprises a set of ordered locations. Determining a recommended distance between the first location and the second location. Determining a magnitude of a difference between the first odometer value and the second odometer value. Determining that the magnitude is greater than a threshold. Identifying, in response to the third determining, at least one candidate missing jurisdiction. Presenting each candidate missing jurisdiction. Second receiving a selection of each presented identified candidate missing jurisdiction. First predicting at least one node in the path in the selected jurisdiction. Second predicting a missing path including the first location, each predicted node, and the second location.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Developing a fingerprint map for determining an indoor location of a wireless device
Patent No. 11496860

Inventor(s): Narciso Faustino (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Han Santos, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17183715 on 02/24/2021 (622 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for developing a fingerprint map that may be used for 3D indoor localization. In one example, a network server may leverage a building footprint from an open source database with signal measurements taken by probing user devices from signal sources such as access point (AP) devices. The network server may use the signal measurements to remotely calculate corresponding 3D positions of the AP devices in a particular building. Further, the network server may use the building footprint and the calculated 3D positions of the AP devices as references for developing the fingerprint map for 3D indoor localization.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Access to Wi-Fi networks via two-step and two-party control
Patent No. 11496902

Inventor(s): Adam R. Hotchkiss (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Plume Design, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: Clements Bernard Baratta (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17101301 on 11/23/2020 (715 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods include, responsive to a Wi-Fi client device providing a password for a zone of a Wi-Fi network, determining a status of the Wi-Fi client device; when the status is unknown, placing the client device in a holding area associated with the zone, wherein the client device is connected to the Wi-Fi network while in the holding area and has restricted access that is less than full access to the zone in an allowed zone; responsive to placing the client device in the holding area, causing a notification to an administrator that the client device is in the holding area; and with the client device in the holding area, one of moving the Wi-Fi client device to the allowed area, moving the client device to a rejected area for the zone, and leaving the client device in the holding zone, based on any input or lack thereof.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Resource reservation for shared spectrum systems
Patent No. 11496905

Inventor(s): Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16729042 on 12/27/2019 (1047 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and a network entity in a wireless communication system sharing spectrum resources. The method includes identifying a coordination phase to identify at least one neighboring network entity using the shared spectrum resources and perform reservation of the shared spectrum resources and transmitting, during the coordination phase, a coordination request message to the at least one neighboring network entity. The method further includes receiving, during the coordination phase, a coordination response message from the at least one neighboring network entity and determining an amount of the shared spectrum resources to reserve based on the coordination response message. The method further includes transmitting, to at least one terminal in a cell of the network entity, a data transmission using at least some of the determined amount of the reserved resources.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Computer-based systems configured for managing mesh networks having integrated roofing components and methods of use thereof
Patent No. 11496921

Inventor(s): Xavier Riley (San Jose, CA), Zachary Richard Campau (Novato, CA)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig LLP (19 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17868544 on 07/19/2022 (112 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable mesh network capacity management via network metering using a processor an integrated roofing mesh network node in a mesh network to receive and transmit data packets in the mesh network. Each data packet includes a source address, a destination address, and a payload of data. The processor determines passthrough traffic including a subset of data packets routed between radio nodes of the mesh network through the gateway based on the source address and the destination address of each data packet and an address associated with the gateway. The processor determines a passthrough data capacity based on the payload of each data packet in the subset and determines a metric based on the passthrough data capacity to signify an amount of mesh network bandwidth provided by the integrated roofing mesh network node.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for ad-hoc/network assisted device discovery protocol for device to device communications
Patent No. 11496948

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Dallas, 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: 14054544 on 10/15/2013 (3311 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for device to device (D2D) network-assisted device discovery are provided. The method includes initiating the D2D network-assisted device discovery of a receiving UE to enable a target UE and the receiving UE to establish a D2D communication. The method also includes performing a discovery feasibility measurement to determine whether a D2D communication between the target UE and the receiving UE is feasible. The method further includes transmitting a discovery setup message and receiving a discovery report from the target UE.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatus for discovery signals for LTE advanced
Patent No. 11496949

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Dallas, TX), Thomas 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: 16105816 on 08/20/2018 (1541 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for enhanced cell detection by a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The UE includes a transceiver configured to receive a discovery reference signal (DRS) occasion from at least one transmission point. The DRS occasion comprising a set of consecutive DRS sub-frames. The UE also includes processing circuitry configured to: in response to detecting a physical cell identity (PCID) of a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS)/Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS)/Cell-Specific Reference Signal (CRS) that is the same as a reference PCID for a configured Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resource, the processing circuitry attempts to detect or measure the CSI-RS using the timing obtained from the PSS/SSS/CRS; and in response to not detecting a PCID of PSS/SSS/CRS that is the same as the reference PCID for a configured CSI-RS resource (TP), the processing circuitry does not attempt to detect or measure the CSI-RS.

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

Establishing and controlling connection of user equipment to a heterogeneous network
Patent No. 11496959

Inventor(s): Leonid I. Popokh (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, TX)
Law Firm: Nolte Lackenbach Siegel (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16263073 on 01/31/2019 (1377 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for establishing and controlling a connection of a user equipment (UE) to a radio access network (RAN) included in a heterogeneous wireless network (HWN), including: selecting, via the UE, a RAN from a plurality of heterogeneous RANs detected by the UE based at least in part on a first set of parameters; establishing connection of the UE to the selected RAN; and determining, via a heterogeneous management controller, whether to persist connection of the UE to the selected RAN. Determining whether to persist connection of the UE to the selected RAN includes monitoring a plurality of attributes associated with at least one of the UE, the selected RAN, and the connection between the UE and the selected RAN; and evaluating the plurality of attributes based on a second set of parameters, the second set of parameters being different from the first set of parameters.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating radio control system operation with an ICS-capable wireless device
Patent No. 11496980

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Trop, Pruner Hu, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15880789 on 01/26/2018 (1747 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication operations with a wireless device that is ICS or DTM capable. Signaling protocols and apparatus are provided for operation of the wireless device when an ICS with the wireless device is ongoing, and the device leaves an area that provides for ICS as well as when the ICS can be provided using circuit-switched connections.

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

Managing local emergency numbers
Patent No. 11496982

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: 16383268 on 04/12/2019 (1306 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described herein is a system and method in a user equipment (UE) supporting registration using third generation partnership project (3GPP) access and using non-3GPP access, the method comprising storing, in a memory of the UE, first emergency information received using first registration procedures; receiving, by the UE, a REGISTRATION ACCEPT message using second registration procedures via non-3GPP access; and keeping, in the memory, the first emergency information after receiving the REGISTRATION ACCEPT message.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Text-walking violation citation system and method
Patent No. 11496991

Inventor(s): George Miller (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Patti Pershern, PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16936790 on 07/23/2020 (838 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is provided. A notice is received from a mobile device indicating that typing within a texting application has occurred substantially simultaneously as walking has been detected. The notice includes a timestamp of when the typing and the detection of walking occurred. A position of the mobile device is triangulated for the timestamp, and a determination is made as to whether the typing and the detection of walking occurred within a predetermined target area using at least a portion of data calculated from the step of triangulating.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Enhancements on synchronization, random access, and HARQ operation for non-terrestrial networks
Patent No. 11497008

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16946923 on 07/10/2020 (851 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user equipment (UE), a base station, and a method for managing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for downlink synchronization. The UE includes at least one transceiver configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and at least one processor operably connected to the at least one transceiver. The at least one processor is configured to determine, based on a first field in the DCI, whether a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback is disabled, and determine, if the HARQ feedback is disabled, a second field in the DCI to be one of a reserved field or a zero bitwidth field based on a format of the DCI.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for fast beam management
Patent No. 11497021

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16949246 on 10/21/2020 (748 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for fast beam selection. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information on a set of transmission configuration information (TCI) states. Each of the TCI states refers to at least one source reference signal (RS) with a corresponding quasi co-location (QCL) and is associated with downlink (DL) data and UE-specific DL control information (DCI). The method further includes receiving a TCI state update on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), decoding the TCI state update, and applying the TCI state update to a reception of DL data and a corresponding UE-specific DL assignment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Interference aware uplink cell selection
Patent No. 11497029

Inventor(s): Balamurali Natarajan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16951972 on 11/18/2020 (720 days app to issue)

Abstract: Solutions for interference aware uplink cell selection for a user equipment (UE) include: determining a path loss (PL) between the UE and a considered cell; determining a PL between the UE and a neighbor cell; based on at least the PL between the UE and the considered cell and the PL between the UE and the neighbor cell, determining a cell with an uplink frequency band having a minimum relative PL for the UE; and assigning, to the UE, the cell with the uplink frequency band having the minimum relative PL. In some examples, the network includes both 5G and 4G cells. Some examples include determining whether the PL for the cell having the minimum relative PL for the UE meets a PL threshold and if so, assigning, to the UE, the cell with the uplink frequency band having the minimum absolute PL for the UE.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Driver board assemblies and methods of forming a driver board assembly
Patent No. 11497112

Inventor(s): Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, MI), Hiroshi Ukegawa (Nisshin, , JP), Shohei Nagai (Toyota, , JP)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17119364 on 12/11/2020 (697 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate, a cooling assembly, an intermediate layer, one or more power devices, and a plurality of conductive layers arranged within the PCB substrate. The PCB substrate has a first surface and an opposite second surface that has a first electrical pattern. The cooling assembly is thermally coupled to the second surface of the PCB substrate. The intermediate layer is sandwiched between the PCB substrate and the cooling assembly. The one or more power devices are embedded within the PCB substrate. The plurality of conductive layers are configured to electrically couple the one or more power devices and thermally couple the one or more power devices to the cooling assembly. At least a portion of the intermediate layer has a second electrical pattern that is similarly patterned to the first electrical pattern of the second surface of the PCB substrate.

Composite material strand mounts and assemblies
Patent No. 11497129

Inventor(s): Dale Heath (Fort Worth, TX), Jacob Adams (The Colony, TX), Matthew Severin (Grapevine, TX), Robert Campbell (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17194490 on 03/08/2021 (610 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure describes strand mounts for small cell radios and/or antennas. A strand mount may include a plurality of polymeric mounting tubes configured such that one or more small cell radios and/or antennas can be mounted thereto, a pair of polymeric retaining members, each retaining member having a plurality of apertures sized and configured to receive a corresponding end of each mounting tube, and one or more mounting brackets configured to secure the strand mount on a cable strand. Stand mount assemblies are also described herein.

Absorption / desorption processes and systems for liquid immersion cooling
Patent No. 11497140

Inventor(s): Jacob Mertel (Plano, TX), John David Enright (Plano, TX), Taylor Monnig (Plano, TX), William Hadala (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TMGCORE, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17321938 on 05/17/2021 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: A two-phase liquid immersion cooling system is described in which heat generating computer components cause a dielectric fluid in its liquid phase to vaporize. Advantageously an absorption/desorption unit is employed having a carbon element and a controller configured to regulate the absorption unit.

DESIGN PATENTS

Rod holder
Patent No. D968860

Inventor(s): Charles C. Squires (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Lowndes (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29763949 on 12/27/2020 (681 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Pool noodle drink holder
Patent No. D968911

Inventor(s): Amanda E George (Dallas, TX), Jessica L. Smith (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29756220 on 10/27/2020 (742 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Leadframe
Patent No. D969093

Inventor(s): Li-Ju Huang (Tainan, , TW), Michael Yimin Zhang (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorported (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29814009 on 11/02/2021 (371 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969209

Inventor(s): Rebecca Hadley (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Goldstein Law Offices, P.C. (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29805139 on 08/25/2021 (440 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969210

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969211

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969212

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969213

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969214

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969215

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969216

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D969217

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Intraocular lens insertion device
Patent No. D969321

Inventor(s): Aaron Mays (Fort Worth, TX), Victoria Holderby (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 35512464 on 03/01/2021 (617 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Rail mounted slat
Patent No. D969414

Inventor(s): Jeffry L. Wilkerson (Grapevine, TX), Michael McGregor (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): DuraPlas, LP (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29734414 on 05/12/2020 (910 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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