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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of October 24, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 12
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 14
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 4
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 14
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 9
G: PHYSICS 47
H: ELECTRICITY 54
DESIGN: 12

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 25
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 18 Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 5
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 4
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 4
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 3
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston) 3
Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson) 3

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Hongbo Si (Plano) 2
Juan Alejandro Herbsommer (Allen) 2
Manu Kurian (Dallas) 2
Umesh Gokhale (Irving) 2
Vijay Lewis (Wylie) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Locking case system and method for cosmetic products
Patent No. 11793329

Inventor(s): Nick Farinola (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): WALGREEN CO. (Deerfield, IL)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17826827 on 05/27/2022 (515 days app to issue)

Abstract: A locking case system for cosmetic products includes a fixture adapted to receive cosmetic products and a locking case adapted to be coupled to the fixture. Upon coupling the locking case to the fixture, at least one snap member of at least one side wall of the locking case is snapped into at least one receiving portion of the at least one side wall of the fixture. In addition, at least one snap member of a rear wall of the locking case is snapped into at least one receiving aperture in a top edge of a rear wall of the fixture. Further, at least one snap member of a front member of the locking case is snapped into the at least one receiving aperture of a front wall of the fixture to secure the cosmetic products to the fixture.

[A47F] SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS, OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS

Hot food holding station with multi-functional ramp
Patent No. 11793354

Inventor(s): Jay Mitchell Kratzer (Mesquite, TX)
Assignee(s): HK INTERNATIONAL (Mesquite, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17126885 on 12/18/2020 (1040 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hot food holding station is a device that can keep food warm, especially food that has been deep fried or cooked, thereby providing consumers convenience of serving heated ready-to-eat food. The device further ensures that edibles that are being held are evenly heated across the storage unit. In order to accomplish this, the device uses a heated airflow system that includes multiple air flow passages and a multi-functional grease tray ramp. The heated airflow system includes an air blower unit, an airflow unit, a heated air chamber and a food holding compartment that are fluidly communicated with one another. Further, the device utilizes fresh air from the atmosphere for heating the food, thereby preventing recirculation of air within the system.

[A47J] KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES [6]

All in one plate holder and spring loaded awl
Patent No. 11793558

Inventor(s): Stephen Tolhurst (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): K2M, Inc. (Leesburg, VA)
Law Firm: Lerner David LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17003243 on 08/26/2020 (1154 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a system that includes a plate holder and an awl. The plate holder has a first end and a second end with an engagement feature at the second end that is engageable with a bone plate. The awl is releasably engaged to the plate holder and includes a locking mechanism adjustable from a first setting to a second setting and a tip. When the locking mechanism is in the first setting, the awl is fixed relative to the plate holder and the tip is disposed within the plate holder. When the locking mechanism is in the second setting, the awl is axially translatable relative to the plate holder such that the tip of the awl extends out of the second end of the plate holder.

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

Directional kyphoplasty device and method of using such a device
Patent No. 11793560

Inventor(s): Carlton Craig Cranford (Sherman, TX), Wael Abo-Auda (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Cardio Voyage Innovations, LLC (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: The Webb Law Firm (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16957413 on 12/28/2018 (1761 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for correcting a compression-type fracture including a housing at a proximal end of the device, a cannula extending from the housing and through a directional balloon, and a tip at a distal end of the cannula, wherein the cannula has an outer tube for supplying fluid to the balloon and an inner tube positioned within the outer tube for supplying cement through at least one opening in the distal end of the cannula. A method of using the device where the device is inserted into a fracture site, the balloon is inflated to elevate fragments of the fracture, cement is injected into the opening created by elevating the fragments of the fracture and the device is removed from the fracture site. The balloon may be deflated before the injection of the cement or simultaneous with the injection of the cement.

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

Cold therapy device and method
Patent No. 11793670

Inventor(s): Douglas R. Harsy (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Dan Brown Law Office (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16898543 on 06/11/2020 (1230 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cold therapy apparatus includes a thermal body wrap with umbilical to a control unit with pump for circulating a thermal fluid to remove heat from a body. A coolant heat exchange assembly includes a coolant tank that is filled with a coolant and has a heat exchanger inside that is immersed in the coolant. The heat exchanger is coupled to the control unit to circulate the thermal fluid through the thermal body wrap. The coolant heat exchange assembly is removed from the control unit and placed in a cold environment to chill the coolant, and is then re-coupled during cold therapy. The process is repeated form extended therapy periods.

[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]

Percussion massager having variable and selectable stroke length
Patent No. 11793713

Inventor(s): Federico G. Vierheller (Fort Worth, TX), Michael J. Williams (Colleyville, TX), Wesley A. Coleman (N. Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): PlayMakar, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Bey Cotropia PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17524732 on 11/11/2021 (712 days app to issue)

Abstract: An adjustable stroke length percussion massage device includes a stroke arm connected to a piston which is connected to a massage tool for providing a massage to a user. The stroke arm is secured to a crank pin of a crank mechanism which includes a rotatably connected crank housing and crank base, the crank pin being movably secured between the crank housing and crank base such that the crank pin moves from a first end to a second end of a sliding groove located in the cam housing when a rotation direction of the single unit is reversed by a motor. When the crank pin is moved from the first end to the second end of the sliding groove, a stroke length of the piston is changed.

[A61H] PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY (electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, radiation therapy, ultrasound therapy A61N)

Retractable pacifier system
Patent No. 11793730

Inventor(s): Jennifer Wynh (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Rhema Law Group, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17156550 on 01/23/2021 (1004 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus can include: a shield; a shaft coupled to the shield; a nipple coupled to the shaft; and a membrane coupled between the shield and the shaft, the membrane providing a retracted configuration creating a storage cavity for the nipple based on the shaft being pulled away from the shield, and the membrane providing an extended configuration with the nipple exposed and extended past the shield based on the shaft being pressed toward the shield and the membrane inverting from the retracted configuration.

[A61J] CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE

Glyceryl and glycol acid compounds
Patent No. 11793737

Inventor(s): Anton A. Mentlik (Dallas, TX), James Swanzy (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17158619 on 01/26/2021 (1001 days app to issue)

Abstract:

[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)

Compounds comprising conductive oligomers, materials formed therefrom, and methods of making and using same
Patent No. 11793893

Inventor(s): Jian Yang (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, , PA)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16337469 on 10/03/2017 (2212 days app to issue)

Abstract: A compound comprising an oligomer formed from a biocompatible multifunctional carboxylic acid comprising a hydroxyl group and at least one carboxylic acid, an polyol (e.g., an aliphatic diol), and a linker. One or more conductive oligomers (e.g., polyanilines) are covalently bonded to the oligomer. The compounds can have various forms (e.g., articles of manufacture, films, scaffolds, and the like). The compounds have various uses. For example, the compounds are used in photoacoustic imaging methods.

Support devices including electrical stimulation systems and methods for using the same
Patent No. 11794008

Inventor(s): Dario Jose Villarreal Suarez (Farmers Branch, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16906841 on 06/19/2020 (1222 days app to issue)

Abstract: A support device includes a base portion structurally configured to support a user, one or more engagement members coupled to the base portion and engagable with a surface, a distance sensor, a power source electrically coupled to one or more electrical stimulation electrodes, and a controller communicatively coupled to the distance sensor and the power source, the controller including a processor and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium including a computer readable and executable instruction set, which, when executed, causes the processor to receive a signal from the distance sensor indicative of a detected distance traveled by the support device, and send a signal to the power source to engage the one or more electrical stimulation electrodes based at least in part on the detected distance traveled by the support device.

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

Golf putting training system and method
Patent No. 11794086

Inventor(s): Jake Jones (McKinney, TX), Ron Hollomon (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Bell Nunnally Martin LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17736983 on 05/04/2022 (538 days app to issue)

Abstract: A putting training device and method for monitoring and tracking a golfer”s putting activities.

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

Method and apparatus for retaining eyeglasses
Patent No. 11796834

Inventor(s): Gregory W. Carr (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: CARR Law Firm PLLC (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17211709 on 03/24/2021 (944 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes an apparatus and a method for retaining eyeglasses on a remote panel with a holding element positioned on the remote panel and a temple element positioned on the eyeglasses.

[A45F] TRAVELLING OR CAMP EQUIPMENT; SACKS OR PACKS CARRIED ON THE BODY [2006.01]

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

Copper solder formulation
Patent No. 11794286

Inventor(s): Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16998022 on 08/20/2020 (1160 days app to issue)

Abstract: Bulk copper solder is highly desired as a solder compound because it is very electrically conductive and has a high melting point relative to other solders. A composition for a copper solder includes copper(II) oxide powder in the range of 37-53% by mass, silicon carbide (SiC) powder in the range of 8-14% by mass, and a flux in the range of 35%-53% by mass. Energy in the form of microwave energy can be applied to the copper solder to convert the Cu(II)O to Cu, for a Cu product conversion of 93%.

[B23K] SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM (making metal-coated products by extruding metal B21C 23/22; building up linings or coverings by casting B22D 19/08; casting by dipping B22D 23/04; manufacture of composite layers by sintering metal powder B22F 7/00; arrangements on machine tools for copying or controlling B23Q; covering metals or covering materials with metals, not otherwise provided for C23C; burners F23D)

Auxiliary power controller
Patent No. 11794587

Inventor(s): James Taylor (Shady Shores, TX), Michael Cleveland (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: WHITAKER CHALK SWINDLE SCHWARTZ PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16704852 on 12/05/2019 (1419 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by an auxiliary power controller, a first selection of one or more power input sources from a plurality of power input sources. The method also includes determining, by the auxiliary power controller, a first selection of one or more power consuming devices from a plurality of power consuming devices. The method further includes managing, by the auxiliary power controller, transfer of auxiliary power from the first selection of the one or more power input sources to the first selection of the one or more power consuming devices.

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

Systems and methods for isolating compartments of a vehicle
Patent No. 11794678

Inventor(s): Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17155436 on 01/22/2021 (1005 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to isolating a compartment. In one embodiment, a method includes isolating airflow to an occupant by actuation of a partition in response to a signal indicating a risk and the partition utilizes an inflatable bladder to seal an area of a compartment in a vehicle. The method also includes communicating a precaution associated with the actuation to occupants.

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

Deployable decoy vehicle system
Patent No. 11794686

Inventor(s): Joseph T. Conners (Royal Oak, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17083157 on 10/28/2020 (1091 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle is provided that includes an airbag stored within an onboard compartment and inflatable by an onboard inflator. When inflated, the airbag extends from an outer surface of the vehicle, and has a shape that is recognizable, to a sensor on an approaching second vehicle, as at least a portion of a solid structure of the vehicle. The airbag is also configured to absorb at least some energy from a collision between the vehicle and the approaching second vehicle.

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

Vehicles and vehicle systems for operating powered door locks in an alarm deterrent mode
Patent No. 11794691

Inventor(s): Alexander L. Paradis (Ann Arbor, MI), Clinton Williams (Saline, 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: 17494403 on 10/05/2021 (749 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle including powered door locks, a motor for positioning the powered door locks between a locked position and an unlocked position, one or more sensors for detecting an unauthorized event around the vehicle, and a controller configured to operate the motor to repeatedly move the powered door locks in a predetermined pattern based on speed in response to the one or more sensors detecting an unauthorized event around the vehicle.

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

Approximating a time of an issue
Patent No. 11794764

Inventor(s): Brian D. McFarland (Allen, TX), Edward Allen Cain, Jr. (Plano, TX), Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, TX), Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr. (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17129478 on 12/21/2020 (1037 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a transport, that an issue will soon occur, determining, by the transport, a time the issue will occur, and displaying, by the transport, the time the issue will occur. The issue is based on sensor data approaching a threshold within a period of time that is faster than an average period of time.

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

Systems and methods to increase driver awareness of exterior occurrences
Patent No. 11794772

Inventor(s): Alexander L. Paradis (Ann Arbor, MI), Frank A. Richards (Ann Arbor, 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: 17576823 on 01/14/2022 (648 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for increasing driver awareness of external audible and visual alerts. The external alerts may be detected by external sensors of a vehicle. Systems may use internal sensors to determine whether a driver of the vehicle appears aware of the external alert or whether the external alert is detectable inside the vehicle. If the driver does not appear aware of the external alert, or the external alert is not detectable inside the vehicle, the vehicle may broadcast an internal alert to the driver. The internal alert may be one or more of a visual alert, an audible alert, or a tactile alert.

Wind turbine blade reaction fixture for railway transport
Patent No. 11794790

Inventor(s): Allison L. Bowker (Dallas, TX), Andrew J. Sullivan (Bedford, TX), John L. Ferris (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Logistics , LLC (Springdale, AR)
Law Firm: Dan Brown Law Office (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17082546 on 10/28/2020 (1091 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fixture system for rail transport of wind turbine blades upon a consist of flatcars using a root-support fixture, a blade-support fixture, and first and second guide post that intermittently engage the tip-end portion of the wind turbine blade to limit lateral movement thereof, such that movement of the consist around a curved railway section urges the wind turbine blade against the first or second guide posts, which urges the wind turbine blade to urge the blade-support fixture to move laterally, thereby laterally reorienting the blade upon the consist.

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

Wheel well fairing for an aircraft
Patent No. 11794875

Inventor(s): Eric A. Ahlstrom (South Willard, UT)
Assignee(s): Aero Design Labs LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17821412 on 08/22/2022 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wheel well fairing for reducing drag on an aircraft fuselage configured with an open wheel well for stowing landing gear of the aircraft. The wheel well fairing includes a Coanda fairing having a convex-shaped lower portion and an upper portion. The upper portion is configured for positioning adjacent an interior vertically-orientated sidewall of the wheel well, and the convex-shaped lower portion has a bottom surface configured to extend substantially parallel to and positioned adjacent with an outer hull surface of the fuselage. The convex-shaped lower portion is curved inwardly within the wheel well between the upper portion and bottom surface. The Coanda fairing is positioned at an aft portion of the wheel well to redirect airflow out of the wheel well in a rearward direction along the bottom hull surface of the fuselage.

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

System and method for maintaining and configuring rotorcraft
Patent No. 11794926

Inventor(s): Daniel Wesley Rowe (Mansfield, TX), Jeremy Robert Chavez (Colleyville, TX), Mark Howard Thomson (Arlington, TX), Peter Shultz (Hurst, TX), Thomas Kurt Schneider (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17227844 on 04/12/2021 (925 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: collecting usage and maintenance data for a rotorcraft at a computer of the rotorcraft; sending the usage and maintenance data to a fleet management server; generating individualized equipment data for the rotorcraft according to the usage and maintenance data at the fleet management server, the individualized equipment data including a lightweight digital representation of the rotorcraft and technical publications for the rotorcraft, the lightweight digital representation including mesh-based 3D visualizations of each component of the rotorcraft, the technical publications having views referencing the mesh-based 3D visualizations; sending the individualized equipment data to the computer of the rotorcraft; and persisting the individualized equipment data at the computer of the rotorcraft.

[B64F] GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Vomit bag with anti-nausea aroma dispenser
Patent No. 11794990

Inventor(s): Bennet K. Langlotz (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Langlotz Patent Trademark Works, LLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17189393 on 03/02/2021 (966 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vomit receptacle that includes a nausea relief substance that may be released on demand to relieve the nausea of a user who also must be prepared to contain a vomiting event. The receptacle may be a flexible bag, and the relief substance may be contained in a sealed packet in the bag, or in a kit with the bag. The substance may be an aromatic essential oil such as peppermint oil.

[B65F] GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE (disinfecting refuse A61L; refuse disintegrators B02C; sorting refuse B03B, B07B; handcarts for transporting refuse receptacles B62B; sack holders B65B 67/00; converting refuse into fertilisers C05F; converting refuse into solid fuels C10L; sewers, cesspools E03F; arrangements in buildings for the disposal of refuse E04F 17/10; refuse-consuming furnaces F23G)

Vehicle wheel torque braces and methods of inhibiting vehicle wheel rotation
Patent No. 11796018

Inventor(s): Billy D. Dooley (Irvine, KY), Brian McElroy (Winchester, KY), David A. Britton (Florence, KY), Robert Aaron Allex (Ewing, KY), Ronald Scott Friend (Jeffersonville, KY)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17717348 on 04/11/2022 (561 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle wheel torque brace for inhibiting rotation of a vehicle wheel includes a brace body including a relatively thick stopper portion and a relatively thin wedge portion that is stepped down in thickness relative to the wedge portion. The wedge portion decreases in thickness from one side of the brace body to an opposite side of the brace body. A contact pad is carried by the wedge portion. The contact pad and wedge portion are shaped and sized to be wedged between a tire of the vehicle wheel and a strut assembly to inhibit rotation of the vehicle wheel.

[B60T] VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL (control of electrodynamic brake systems B60L 7/00; conjoint control of brakes and other drive units of vehicles B60W); ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES [2006.01]

Carbon capture adapter
Patent No. 11799661

Inventor(s): Robert Craig Davidoff (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Wilson Dutra, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17982493 on 11/07/2022 (351 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a carbon capture adapter that may attach to high air flow systems. A carbon capture adapter may utilize the air flow foundations of a high air flow system to allow for capture of unfiltered ambient air, allowing for carbon removal and the scrubbing of the unfiltered ambient air. The carbon capture adapter may comprise of carbon sensors that may detect carbon levels of the air before and after the carbon has been scrubbed or removed from the ambient air. The carbon capture adapter may capture and transform the carbon into secondary substances that may be useful unto itself, even further limiting waste and environmental damage. The carbon capture adapter will have all inputs, outputs, processes, and flows that meet all aspects of a closed loop system that is specifically designed for CCS.

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

Method of formulating perovskite solar cell materials
Patent No. 11800726

Inventor(s): Jerred A. Chute (Dallas, TX), Michael D. Irwin (Heath, TX), Vivek V. Dhas (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CubicPV Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17970465 on 10/20/2022 (369 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for preparing photoactive perovskite materials. The method comprises the steps of preparing a bismuth halide precursor ink. Preparing a bismuth halide precursor ink comprises the steps of introducing a bismuth halide into a vessel; introducing a first solvent to the vessel; and contacting the bismuth halide with the first solvent to dissolve the bismuth halide to form the bismuth halide precursor ink; depositing the bismuth halide precursor ink onto a substrate; drying the bismuth halide precursor ink to form a thin film; annealing the thin film; and rinsing the thin film with a solvent comprising: a second solvent; a first salt selected from the group consisting of methylammonium halide, formamidinimum halide, guanidinium halide, 1,2,2-triaminovinylammonium halide, and 5-aminovaleric acid hydrohalide; and a second salt selected from the group consisting of methylammonium halide, formamidinimum halide, guanidinium halide, 1,2,2-triaminovinylammonium halide, and 5-aminovaleric acid hydrohalide.

[B05D] PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL (conveying articles or workpieces through baths of liquid B65G, e.g. B65G 49/02) [2]

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

Hardening asphalt for roofing applications
Patent No. 11795328

Inventor(s): Denis Tibah (Waxahachie, TX), Kevin Carr (Dallas, TX), Ramil Marcelo L. Mercado (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Venable LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17973277 on 10/25/2022 (364 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method comprising one or more of the following steps: obtaining asphalt, obtaining at least one hardening agent, mixing the at least one hardening agent with the asphalt, so as to form a hardened asphalt, obtaining at least one polymer, mixing the at least one polymer with the hardened asphalt, so as to form a polymer modified asphalt, obtaining at least one filler, mixing the at least one filler with at least one of the hardened asphalt, the polymer modified asphalt, or any combination thereof, so as to form a filled coating, obtaining a roofing substrate, and applying the filled coating to the roofing substrate, so as to form a roofing shingle.

[C08L] COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS (compositions based on polymerisable monomers C08F, C08G; artificial filaments or fibres D01F; textile treating compositions D06) [2]

Black titanium dioxide LiDAR reflecting particles and vehicles comprising the same
Patent No. 11795329

Inventor(s): Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, MI), Kan Huang (Farmington Hills, MI), Songtao Wu (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: 17093737 on 11/10/2020 (1078 days app to issue)

Abstract: Black titanium dioxide has a crystalline titanium dioxide core and an amorphous titanium dioxide shell that encompasses the crystalline titanium dioxide core. The black titanium dioxide has a reflectivity of electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum that is less than or equal to 15% and a reflectivity for near-IR and LiDAR electromagnetic radiation that is greater than or equal to 10%. The black titanium dioxide has a band gap from greater than or equal to 1.0 eV to less than or equal to 2.0 eV.

[C09D] COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR (cosmetics A61K; processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces, in general, B05D; staining wood B27K 5/02; glazes or vitreous enamels C03C; natural resins, French polish, drying-oils, driers, turpentine, per se, C09F; polishing compositions other than French polish, ski waxes C09G; adhesives or use of materials as adhesives C09J; materials for sealing or packing joints or covers C09K 3/10; materials for stopping leaks C09K 3/12; processes for the electrolytic or electrophoretic production of coatings C25D) [5]

Systems, methods and apparatus for producing sustainable aviation fuel
Patent No. 11795402

Inventor(s): Brent Nelson (Southlake, TX), Jason Dvorin (Southlake, TX), Michael G. Smith (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Kepler GTL LLC (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17495335 on 10/06/2021 (748 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations an apparatus to produce SAF from dry natural gas includes a natural gas reforming area that receives the dry natural gas and that produces synthetic gas from the dry natural gas, a Fischer-Tropsch conversion area that is operably coupled to the natural gas reforming area and that receives the synthetic gas and produces a hydrocarbon chain from the synthetic gas and a product upgrading area that is operably coupled to the Fischer-Tropsch conversion area that receives the hydrocarbon chain and that produces the SAF from the hydrocarbon chain.

[C10G] CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION (cracking to hydrogen or synthesis gas C01B; cracking or pyrolysis of hydrocarbon gases to individual hydrocarbons or mixtures thereof of definite or specified constitution C07C; cracking to cokes C10B); RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES [6]

Compositions and methods for treatment of Friedreich”s Ataxia
Patent No. 11795457

Inventor(s): David Corey (Dallas, TX), Liande Li (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17486136 on 09/27/2021 (757 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described are compounds and methods useful for the treatment and investigation of Friedreich”s Ataxia.

[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

Methods of forming asphalt coatings from asphalt shingle waste
Patent No. 11795630

Inventor(s): Dale Kelley (Flower Mound, TX), James Svec (Kearney, NJ), Kirby Erickson (Waxahachie, TX), Kris Edelsward (Lockport, NY), Michael T. Ferraro (Savannah, GA), Paul Richardson (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18062493 on 12/06/2022 (322 days app to issue)

Abstract: Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating.

[E01C] CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR (forming road or like surfaces by compacting or grading snow or ice E01H)

Position-biased locking pin assembly for a ground engaging wear member
Patent No. 11795665

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: 17547921 on 12/10/2021 (683 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)

Method and arrangement for constructing and interconnecting prefabricated building modules
Patent No. 11795680

Inventor(s): NejeebKhan Rayamarakkar (Austin, TX), Nic Brathwaite (Danville, CA), Patrick Meagher (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): Renu, Inc. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Haverstock Owens, A Law Corporation (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17678635 on 02/23/2022 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: A modular building system allows for quickly and easily erecting prefabricated wall panels on a building foundation at a construction site. The system allows for manufacturing and installing, at a high level, complete budding componentsing steps that are highly repeatable and scalable, resulting in construction that is quick and efficient, and easily performed at many types and locations of construction sites. A system in accordance with the invention comprises a wad panel, a floor panel and a roof panel. The wad panel comprises a horizontal member supported along a bottom horizontal edge, and a plurality of vertical studs integral to the horizontal member and extending vertically downward from the horizontal member. A floor panel comprises a rail disposed rigidly fixed to the foundation and defining an enclosure to receive the plurality of vertical studs of the wall panel to thereby vertically position the wall panel upon the foundation.

[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)

Asphalt shingle waste coatings in roofing materials
Patent No. 11795691

Inventor(s): Matti Kiik (Dallas, TX), Richard A. Nowak (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18331806 on 06/08/2023 (138 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to asphalt shingle waste coatings in roofing shingles of roofing systems. A roofing system comprises a plurality of roofing shingles. The plurality of roofing shingles, when installed on a roof substrate, comprises exposed surfaces and unexposed surfaces. The plurality of roofing shingles comprises asphalt shingle waste coatings on or only on at least one of the unexposed surfaces. The plurality of roofing shingles comprises asphalt coatings on or only on at least one of the exposed surfaces.

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

Structural fuse with integral spacer plates
Patent No. 11795721

Inventor(s): Samuel T. Hensen (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. (Pleasanton, CA)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17382555 on 07/22/2021 (824 days app to issue)

Abstract: A structural fuse is disclosed including a fuse base and a fuse plate extending from the fuse base. The fuse plate may include a reduced diameter yield section configured to yield at loads on the structural fuse above a threshold. The reduced diameter yield section includes a pair of slots on either side of the yield section, which slots receive a pair of spacers. The spacers are integrally formed as part of the fuse plate, and remain attached to the fuse plate during fabrication of the structural fuse.

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

Systems and methods for flood prevention
Patent No. 11795723

Inventor(s): Gerry Graham (Fort Worth, TX), Jonathon Weiss (Fort Worth, TX), Stephen Graham (Houston, TX)
Assignee(s): GHW SOLUTIONS, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Crain Caton and James (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348495 on 06/15/2021 (861 days app to issue)

Abstract: A comprehensive dry flood proofing solution to mitigate inland flooding risk for existing or new homes and small buildings. This family of integrated systems of the present disclosure each leverage the building”s structure to offer practical and affordable flood protection for those buildings constructed with slab-on-grade foundations. This family of solutions includes pluggable weep holes, entry door/garage door/window protectors, wall appurtenances and penetration protection, house wrap and debris barrier system for wall protection and sewage anti-backflow protection. The components of the solution are reusable, easy to deploy, and do not detract from the building”s permanent appearance. Furthermore, the solution allows for ingress/egress during flood events and can protect the building from standing water incursion up to 24 above slab elevation. The pre-flood design and preparation, the deployment immediately preceding flooding event and the subsequent removal after flooding event has passed is provided by both contractors and homeowners.

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

Lubricator assembly and method for servicing tubular members
Patent No. 11795766

Inventor(s): Robert Donnally (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): National Oilwell Varco, L.P. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17285713 on 10/15/2019 (1470 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lubricator assembly for servicing a tubular member includes a mounting base, a lubricant housing movably coupled to the mounting base and configured to receive lubricant from a lubricant source, a guide pin slidably disposed in the lubricant housing, a first seal positioned between the guide pin and the lubricant housing and a second seal positioned between the guide pin and the lubricant housing, and a first chamber extending between the first seal and the second seal, wherein the guide pin is configured to direct lubricant disposed in the first chamber against the tubular member in response to the tubular member engaging the guide pin.

[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]

Real-time influx management envelope tool with a multi-phase model and machine learning
Patent No. 11795771

Inventor(s): Adan H. Herrera (Carrollton, TX), Yan Luo (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17550774 on 12/14/2021 (679 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of managing an influx encountered during a drilling operation conducted with respect to a wellbore includes drilling a wellbore into a subterranean formation. Drilling the wellbore includes circulating a drilling fluid through a wellbore while operating a drill bit and monitoring one or more parameters associated with the drilling operation for indicia of the influx within the wellbore. The method also includes, upon detecting the indicia of the influx, determining, via an influx management model, an initial influx volume.

Segmented retainer for high pressure barriers
Patent No. 11795777

Inventor(s): Matthew Arran Willoughby (Plano, TX), Richard Decena Ornelaz (Frisco, TX), Ryan T. Humphrey (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17179973 on 02/19/2021 (977 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for securing a component, such as a sealing element, to a tubular member, such as a mandrel, of a downhole tool. In at least one example, a retaining ring is used to secure the component to a mandrel. The retaining ring is secured to the mandrel with a plurality of discrete retention segments disposed within a channel at least partially defined by an internal groove on the retaining ring and an external groove on the mandrel. The retention segments are individually insertable into the channel through an access opening on the retaining ring. A compression spring may be provided in the channel to provide compressive engagement of the retention segments. Various closure configurations are also disclosed for closing the access opening once the retention segments have been inserted.

Swaged in place continuous metal backup ring
Patent No. 11795778

Inventor(s): Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15779499 on 10/26/2016 (2554 days app to issue)

Abstract: Example systems, apparatus, and methods are described for providing continuous backup rings that are swaged into closed gland seal grooves to reduce extrusion of elastomeric sealing elements in packers. In an example embodiment, the closed gland sealing system includes a mandrel body having a cylindrical outer surface. A seal mandrel portion of the mandrel body is defined by an annular recess in the mandrel body that extends radially around the substantially cylindrical outer surface to form a closed gland groove. A sealing element is positioned in the closed gland groove and extends radially around the seal mandrel portion. Further, a continuous backup ring is positioned in contact with the sealing element in the closed gland groove that also extends radially around the seal mandrel portion.

Micro-controller-based switch assembly for wellbore systems and method
Patent No. 11795792

Inventor(s): Brad Perry (Santo, TX), Jason Ansley (Bedford, TX), Roger Archibald (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): GEODYNAMICS, INC. (Millsap, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17835353 on 06/08/2022 (503 days app to issue)

Abstract: A switch assembly, which is part of a chain of switch assemblies. The switch assembly includes a micro-controller PB that has no address, a thru-line switch, and a detonator switch. The micro-controller PB is configured to directly communicate with an upstream or downstream switch assembly through a pulsing scheme, and the micro-controller PB receives no command from a surface controller.

Gas-lift system with paired controllers
Patent No. 11795794

Inventor(s): Jason Williams (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Epic Lift Systems LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Park, Vaughan, Fleming Dowler LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17521520 on 11/08/2021 (715 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling operation of a well, of which the method includes receiving an operation setting for operation of a system that provides lift gas into and produces gas from the well, monitoring operation of the system using a first controller, determininging the first controller, that the system is not operating at the operation setting, and in response to determining that the system is not operating at the operation setting, sendinging a two-way communication link from the first controller to a second controller, a control signal to the second controller. The control signal is configured to cause the second controller to modify an operation of a compressor of the system.

Compound electro-hydraulic frac pumping system
Patent No. 11795799

Inventor(s): Edwin E. Wilson (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Twin Disc, Inc. (Racine, WI)
Law Firm: Boyle Fredrickson S.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17824485 on 05/25/2022 (517 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electrically driven oilfield pumping system may include a compound electro-hydraulic fracturing (frac) pump system that has a primary electric motor that selectively delivers power to one or more of at least two fracturing (frac) pumps. The primary electric motor may be a constant speed alternative current (AC) motor with a fixed rated speed.

Apparatus and methods for uninterrupted drilling
Patent No. 11795806

Inventor(s): An Binh Ho (Lewisville, TX), John Jeremy Cantwell (Fredericksburg, TX), William Edward Weideman (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17812850 on 07/15/2022 (466 days app to issue)

Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a control system may include a processor coupled to the database. The control system may include a memory accessible to the processor and storing instructions executable by the processor for: during slide drilling, detecting an increase to a first differential pressure (P) that is greater than a first threshold pressure. In at least one embodiment, the control system may responsive to detecting the first P, determining a time duration for which the first P exceeds the first threshold pressure. In at least one embodiment, the control system may responsive to the first P exceeding the first threshold pressure for less than a first threshold time, continuing the slide drilling without modifying a drilling parameter.

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

Hybrid actuation device including fluidly cooled SMA wires
Patent No. 11795924

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: 18059484 on 11/29/2022 (329 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid actuation device includes an artificial muscle, a first plate coupled to a second plate, and a shape memory alloy wire. The artificial muscle includes a housing, a first electrode and a second electrode, and a dielectric fluid. The housing includes a first film layer, a second film layer, an electrode region, and an expandable fluid region. The first electrode and the second electrode are each disposed in the electrode region of the housing. The dielectric fluid is disposed within the housing. The first plate and the second plate are positioned within the housing, the first plate positioned between the first film layer and the first electrode, and the second plate positioned between the second film layer and the second electrode. The shape memory alloy wire extends from the first plate to the second plate and through the dielectric fluid.

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

Tube shielding system
Patent No. 11796117

Inventor(s): Brian Bender (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17223882 on 04/06/2021 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tube shielding system prevents pests such as rodents and insects from damaging tubes or pipes, particularly those made of plastics or other soft materials. The tubes are wrapped with a protective barrier that has a pest control layer. The pest control layer a deterrent that could be physical or chemical. Examples of deterrents are steel mesh, sand, peppermint and capsaicin.

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

Lighting device having a vivid and dulling light source with controlled duty cycling thereof
Patent No. 11796140

Inventor(s): Todd Lee Marcucci (Mansfield, TX), Wallace Andrew Kluck (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Alliance Sports Group, L.P. (Roanoke, TX)
Law Firm: Thorpe North Western, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17888032 on 08/15/2022 (435 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lighting device is disclosed operating a vivid source having a first duty cycle and a dulling source with second duty cycle. The vivid source and the dulling source operate at alternating time intervals where the intensity of one wavelength segment or block is emphasized in the vivid source and absent or de-emphasized in the dulling source. The operation provides the user with an emphasis on objects that reflect or absorb the emphasized wavelength segment.

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

Shelf activated airflow control in multizone oven
Patent No. 11796183

Inventor(s): Lee VanLanen (McKinney, TX), Philip McKee (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Alto-Shaam, Inc. (Menomonee Falls, WI)
Law Firm: Boyle Fredrickson S.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17038804 on 09/30/2020 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-compartment oven provides removable shelves receiving separated streams of heated air providing heating for different oven cavities above and below the shelves. The shelves communicate with an operator automatically closing ducts providing air to the shelves when the shelves are removed.

[F24C] OTHER DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION (radiator stoves of the fluid-circulating type F24H)

Refrigerant leak detection and mitigation system and method
Patent No. 11796200

Inventor(s): Douglas Hiram Morse (Decatur, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17734406 on 05/02/2022 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: A refrigerant leak detection and mitigation system/method for use in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems that incorporates a refrigerant gas sensor (RGS), sensor signal conditioner (SSC), alarm status indicator (ASI), and digital control processor (DCP) is disclosed. The RGS detects ambient refrigerant gas (ARG) and indicates this as a refrigerant sensor voltage (RSV) to the SSC. The DCP and SSC form a closed control loop (CCL) in which the SSC electrical characteristics are adjusted by the DCP such that the RSV is continuously and dynamically recalibrated to account for background refrigerant gas levels, changes in ambient air conditions, RGS manufacturing tolerances, and other field-specific operational conditions that impact the RGS detection capabilities. The DCP is configured to log alarms to the ASI if a RGS refrigerant leak is detected and optionally shutdown one or more HVAC system components such as a specific air handler leaking refrigerant.

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

HVAC sensor validation while HVAC system is off
Patent No. 11796201

Inventor(s): Amita Brahme (Dallas, TX), Umesh Gokhale (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17235186 on 04/20/2021 (917 days app to issue)

Abstract: An HVAC system includes a suction-side sensor, a liquid-side sensor, an outdoor temperature sensor, and a controller. The controller determines that initial criteria are satisfied for initiating validation of the suction-side sensor and the liquid-side sensor. After determining that the initial criteria are satisfied, a suction-side property value, liquid-side property value, and outdoor temperature value are received. The controller determines whether a first validation criteria and a second validation criteria are satisfied. If both the first validation criteria and the second validation criteria are satisfied, the suction-side sensor, the liquid-side sensor, and the outdoor temperature sensor are determined to be functioning properly. Otherwise, the controller determines which one or more of the sensors are malfunctioning.

Method and apparatus for preventing component malfunction using accelerometers
Patent No. 11796237

Inventor(s): Eric Berg (The Colony, TX), Umesh Gokhale (Irving, TX), Wenqian Liu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17346656 on 06/14/2021 (862 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of minimizing components of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system from malfunctioning, the method includes measuring, by an accelerometer associated with at least one component of the HVAC system, vibration of the at least one component and receiving, by a controller, actual vibration data reflective of the measured vibration. The method further includes determininging the controller, whether the actual vibration data is greater than pre-defined acceptable baseline vibration data by more than a pre-defined acceptable amount and responsive to a positive determination in the determining step, adding, by the controller, as a deadband frequency, an operational frequency of the at least one component corresponding to the actual vibration data.

[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)

Slide assembly for a firearm
Patent No. 11796264

Inventor(s): Anthony Joseph Ribic (Richardson, TX), Richard Trevor Simpson Roe (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Shadow Systems LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Taylor English Duma LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17339313 on 06/04/2021 (872 days app to issue)

Abstract: A slide assembly for a firearm comprising a slide and an extractor assembly is provided. The slide includes a mounting recess about a top side of the slide, and a housing recess about a proximal end of the slide. The extractor assembly is mounted within the housing recess and includes a distal end for engaging a cartridge and a proximal end opposite the distal end. The proximal end terminates at a position adjacent about a mid-portion of the mounting recess. One or more retaining holes are provided within a proximal region of the mounting recess spaced from the proximal end of the extractor assembly. Firearm sights are attachable to the mounting recess via fasteners engaging the retaining holes. The retaining holes are arranged such that they do not interfere with the extractor assembly or other components within the housing recess of the slide.

[F41A] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE [5]

Auto-loading firearm with selectable live fire and training modes
Patent No. 11796275

Inventor(s): Brian Bascom (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Mustang Industrial Design, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Booth Albanesi Schroeder, PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17665569 on 02/06/2022 (625 days app to issue)

Abstract: An auto-loading firearm having a live fire mode, in which the firearm operates to discharge, and a training mode in which the firearm does not discharge. In the training mode, the firearm provides for resetting the trigger after simulated firing of the firearm.

[F41A] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE [5]

P H Y S I C S

Method and system for optimized notification of detected event on vehicles
Patent No. 11796345

Inventor(s): Masashi Nakagawa (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17401665 on 08/13/2021 (802 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method comprises receiving, at a vehicle system of a vehicle, sensor data from one or more sensors; detecting an object based on the sensor data; determining whether a dynamic map maintained by a remote computing device includes the detected object; upon determination that the dynamic map includes the detected object, determining a remaining time-to-live associated with the detected object based on data associated with the dynamic map; and transmitting data about the detected object to the remote computing device if the determined remaining time-to-live associated with the detected object is less than a predetermined threshold time.

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

Fluid level and composition sensor
Patent No. 11796376

Inventor(s): Bobby David Strong (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): Tigmill Technologies, LLC (Farmers Branch, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17648751 on 01/24/2022 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fluid sensor system comprises a radio frequency transmitter with adjustable output power, a radio frequency detector proximal to the radio frequency transmitter; a constant current source, and a switch coupled between the radio frequency detector and the constant current source. A method of determining the identity of a fluid using the fluid sensor system includes immersing the sensor system in a first fluid, increasing a transmit power of a radio frequency (RF) transmitter of the fluid sensor system until an RF signal is detected by a RF detector of the fluid sensor system, and determining the transmit power of the RF transmitter that first resulted in a detection of the RF signal by the RF detector to be the transmit power that is required for detecting the RF signal in the first fluid.

[G01F] MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW, OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME [5]

Remote contactless liquid container volumetry
Patent No. 11796377

Inventor(s): Matthias Odisio (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: MINTZ LEVIN COHN FERRIS GLOVSKY AND POPEO, PC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17345431 on 06/11/2021 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a volumetry method is provided. The method can include receiving one or more 2D images of a site including one or more containers configured to hold a liquid, the 2D images being acquired at a first time. The method can also include identifying a container within the 2D images. The method can further include selecting an identified container within the 2D images for volumetric analysis based upon a degree of occlusion of its front facing surface. The method can additionally include classifying a portion of the selected container containing the liquid. The method can further include determining the volume of liquid held within the container based upon the classified portion.

[G01F] MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW, OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME [5]

Automated functional testing systems and methods of making and using the same
Patent No. 11796423

Inventor(s): Myung Ki Kim (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: EcoTech Law Group, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17986025 on 11/14/2022 (344 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods relating to TSP, camera, and audio robots, and their controllers, taken individually or in combination, for automatic testing of device functionalities are also described.

[G10L] SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING [4]

Direct current measurement of 1/f transistor noise
Patent No. 11796588

Inventor(s): Jerry Doorenbos (Tucson, AZ), Steven Loveless (Sachse, TX), Tathagata Chatterjee (Allen, TX), Yuguo Wang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17537007 on 11/29/2021 (694 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system comprises a noise generator circuit and a noise envelope detector circuit. The noise generator circuit comprises a first amplifier including a single transistor pair that is operable to generate 1/f noise, an output amplifier coupled to the first amplifier and configured to generate a 1/f noise signal as a function of the 1/f noise. The noise envelope detector circuit comprises a low pass filter operable to pass low frequency signals of the 1/f noise signal as a filtered 1/f noise signal, and a second amplifier or a comparator coupled to the low pass filter and operable to output a direct current (DC) voltage signal according to an envelope of the filtered 1/f noise signal, where the DC voltage signal is a function of an envelope of the filtered 1/f noise signal.

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

Fault tolerant synchronizer
Patent No. 11796592

Inventor(s): Denis Roland Beaudoin (Rowlett, TX), Samuel Paul Visalli (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17573683 on 01/12/2022 (650 days app to issue)

Abstract: A synchronization circuit includes a first synchronizer, a second synchronizer, and selection circuitry. The first synchronizer is configured to synchronize a received signal to a clock signal. The second synchronizer is disposed in parallel with the first synchronizer and configured to synchronize the received signal to the clock signal. The selection circuitry is coupled to the first synchronizer and the second synchronizer. The selection circuitry is configured to provide an output value generated by the first synchronizer at an output terminal of the synchronization circuit based on the output value generated by the first synchronizer being the same as an output value generated by the second synchronizer.

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

Pin-leakage compensation scheme for external resistor-based oscillators
Patent No. 11796606

Inventor(s): Aniruddha Roy (Bangalore, , IN), Nitin Agarwal (Bangalore, , IN), Preetham Narayana Reddy (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17509836 on 10/25/2021 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, a system includes an oscillator circuit on a chip. The oscillator circuit includes a charging current generator including a current mirror and an amplifier, where the amplifier is coupled to a pin on the chip, and where the pin is adapted to be coupled to an external resistor, where the external resistor is external to the chip. The oscillator circuit also includes oscillator circuitry coupled to the charging current generator, where the oscillator circuitry includes a comparator, a phase generator, a first capacitor coupled to a first switch, and a second capacitor coupled to a second switch. The oscillator circuit includes leakage circuitry coupled to the current mirror, where the leakage circuitry is configured to draw a current from the current mirror proportional to a leakage current flowing through the external resistor from circuitry internal to the chip.

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

Distributed radar signal processing in a radar system
Patent No. 11796628

Inventor(s): Brian Paul Ginsburg (Allen, TX), Jasbir Singh Nayyar (Bangalore, , IN), Murtaza Ali (Plano, TX), Sudipto Bose (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17330604 on 05/26/2021 (881 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cascaded radar system is provided that includes a first radar system-on-a-chip (SOC) operable to perform an initial portion of signal processing for object detection on digital beat signals generated by multiple receive channels of the radar SOC, a second radar SOC operable to perform the initial portion of signal processing for object detection on digital beat signals generated by multiple receive channels in the radar SOC, and a processing unit coupled to the first radar SOC and the second radar SOC to receive results of the initial portion of signal processing from each radar SOC, the processing unit operable to perform a remaining portion of the signal processing for object detection using these results.

[G01S] RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES

Field monitoring of analog signals in a radar system
Patent No. 11796634

Inventor(s): Brian P. Ginsburg (Allen, TX), Indu Prathapan (Karnataka, , IN), Karthik Ramasubramanian (Karnataka, , IN), Karthik Subburaj (Karnataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17513931 on 10/29/2021 (725 days app to issue)

Abstract: A FMCW radar system with a built-in self-test (BIST) system for monitoring includes a receiver, a transmitter, and a frequency synthesizer. A FMCW chirp timing engine controls timing of operations at least one radar component. The BIST system includes at least one switchable coupling for coupling a first plurality of different analog signals including from a first plurality of selected nodes in the receiver or transmitter that are all coupled to a second number of monitor analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The second number is less than () the first plurality of different analog signals. The BIST system includes a monitor timing engine and controller operating synchronously with the chirp timing engine, that includes a software configurable monitoring architecture for generating control signals including for selecting using the switchable coupling which analog signal to forward to the monitor ADC and when the monitor ADC samples the analog signals.

Barometric sensor calibration with locations determined using corrective signals
Patent No. 11796681

Inventor(s): Jerry Gamble, Jr. (Grapevine, TX), Matthew W. Turlington (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17222007 on 04/05/2021 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for calibrating barometric sensors and/or determining altitudes of devices are provided. In an example, one or more barometric pressure measures are determined using a barometric sensor of a device. One or more locations of the device are determined based upon one or more global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals and one or more corrective signals associated with the one or more GNSS signals. One or more reference values are determined based upon the one or more locations. A barometric offset is determined based upon the one or more barometric pressure measures and the one or more reference values. A first barometric measurement is performed using the barometric sensor to determine a first barometric pressure measure. An adjusted barometric pressure measure and/or an altitude of the device are determined based upon the first barometric pressure measure and the barometric offset.

Omnidirectional structural color made from metal and dielectric layers
Patent No. 11796724

Inventor(s): Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, MI), Masahiko Ishii (Okazaki, , JP), Minjuan Zhang (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: 16692692 on 11/22/2019 (1432 days app to issue)

Abstract: A high-chroma omnidirectional structural color multilayer structure is provided. The structure includes a multilayer stack that has a core layer, a dielectric layer extending across the core layer, and an absorber layer extending across the dielectric layer. An interface is present between the dielectric layer and the absorber layer and a near-zero electric field for a first incident electromagnetic wavelength is present at this interface. In addition, a large electric field at a second incident electromagnetic wavelength is present at the interface. As such, the interface allows for high transmission of the first incident electromagnetic wavelength and high absorption of the second incident electromagnetic wavelength such that a narrow band of reflected light is produced by the multilayer stack.

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

Fiber optic module, fiber optic module kit, and optical patch panel
Patent No. 11796752

Inventor(s): Darshan Suresh Patell (Plano, TX), Min Ma (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik Gmbh Co. KG (Fridolfing, , DE)
Law Firm: Randall Danskin P.S. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17364255 on 06/30/2021 (846 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fiber optic module for installation within patch panel, the fiber optic module comprising a first outer wall with a first rail profile on its outside surface, a second outer wall with a second rail profile on its outside surface, and at least one optical connector. The first outer wall and the second outer wall run parallel to each other. The at least one optical connector is arranged between the first outer wall and the second outer wall. The first rail profile and the second rail profile are complementary to each other such that the fiber optic module may be coupled to an adjacent fiber optic module, wherein the first rail profile of the fiber optic module may be coupled to the second rail profile of the adjacent fiber optic module.

Wavefront error correction of a conformal optical component using a planar lens
Patent No. 11796797

Inventor(s): Don A. Larson (Kennedale, TX), Robert J. McCarty (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION (Bethesda, MD)
Law Firm: Beusse Sanks, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16812975 on 03/09/2020 (1324 days app to issue)

Abstract: The embodiments relate to systems and methods for wavefront error (WFE) correction of a conformal optical component using a planar lens. The embodiments include a conformal optical component transmissive to electromagnetic radiation (EMR), which is propagated through the conformal optical component along a path axis. The conformal optical component is rotationally asymmetric about the path axis. A planar corrector lens is configured to correct a WFE of the conformal optical component. The planar corrector lens defines a lens axis. Accordinglye of a single planar corrector lens for WFE correction of a conformal optical component reduces bulk and manufacturing complexity.

Autonomous vehicle positioning system
Patent No. 11797006

Inventor(s): Scott R. Meyer (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17569409 on 01/05/2022 (657 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to implementing a set of instructions related to a vehicle configuration template at a vehicle. Vehicle configuration templates may define instructions for automated vehicle driving parameters within a particular road region. The set of instructions within the first road region may correspond with a vehicle transition sequence based on the vehicle configuration template, where the vehicle transition sequence adjusts at least one of a vehicle position and dynamics to achieve a desired traffic flow.

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

System and method for reducing power consumption of an incinerator toilet
Patent No. 11797072

Inventor(s): Kevin Roberts (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): RESEARCH PRODUCTS/BLANKENSHIP (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Gray Reed (Local + 20 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17655976 on 03/22/2022 (581 days app to issue)

Abstract: An improved control box for an incinerator toilet that improves efficiency of energy utilization through enhanced temperature regulation. Uses multiple cycle timers and temperature switches to ensure safe and effective operating temperatures are maintained without expending excess power in a heating element.

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

Method for securely configuring an information system
Patent No. 11797313

Inventor(s): Jacob Minnis (Plano, TX), Mickey J. Malone, II (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): FORCEPOINT FEDERAL HOLDINGS LLC (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Jackson Walker LLP (Local + 3 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16921101 on 07/06/2020 (1205 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are provided for configuring an information computing machine during execution of a kernel image. The system can create a file system from a base file system image in system memory of the computing system, apply configuration files from a bundle image to the file system in memory, copy files from a persistent file system stored in the storage resource to memory, validate the files from the persistent file system, and apply validated files to the file system in memory. The base file system image and bundle image can be verified by comparing a signed hash of the image with a hash generated by the initial file system and checking the hash signature against a public certificate included in the initial filesystem. The system can further execute /sbin/init and start application services.

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

Systems and methods to manage screen sharing of displayed local system windows
Patent No. 11797320

Inventor(s): Daniel Thomas Daugherty (Plano, TX), Jonathan Nathan Yanez (Allen, TX), Ricardo Antonio Ruiz (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Egan, Enders Huston LLP. (10 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17398110 on 08/10/2021 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to manage screen sharing of local system windows from a local information handling system to other remote information handling systems by a screen sharing application. In one example, the disclosed systems and methods may be implemented to allow selected local system window/s to continue to remain visible to a local user on the local display screen of a local information handling system that is executing a screen sharing application, while at the same time blocking or otherwise preventing the selected local system window/s from being shared by the screen sharing application across a network with other remote information handling systems, e.g., that are participating with the local information handling system in a common web conference session.

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

Systems and methods for lossless network restoration and syncing
Patent No. 11797388

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX), William August Stahlhut (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17859293 on 07/07/2022 (474 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for lossless restoration of a digital system are provided. A method may include creating a digital twin of the digital system. Creating the digital twin may include constructing a digital model that replicates hardware and software components and performance metrics of the digital system. The components and the performance metrics may be detected via a plurality of edge devices. The digital model may be configured to be run on a processor to simulate performance of the digital system. The method may include receiving an indication that the digital system is disconnected from a central server, syncing the digital twin with the digital system while the digital system is disconnected from the central server, and, in response to an indication that the digital system has reconnected with the central server, syncing the central server with the digital twin.

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

Systems and methods for high availability distributed ledger system with caching
Patent No. 11797443

Inventor(s): Abdul Raheem (Irving, TX), Ahmed A. Khan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17661759 on 05/03/2022 (539 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may receive a proposed interaction with a distributed ledger, including a reference to a value that has been previously recorded to the distributed ledger. The system may attempt to obtain the value from an associated cache. If the value is unable to be obtained from the cache, the system may communication with an external device via a network to obtain the value. The system may execute the proposed interaction based on the obtained first value. The system may receive a finalized block based on the executed interaction, and may update the cache based on one or more values included in the finalized block.

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

Methods and apparatus for a distributed database within a network
Patent No. 11797502

Inventor(s): Leemon C. Baird, III (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Hedera Hashgraph, LLC (Las Vegas, NV)
Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16430646 on 06/04/2019 (1603 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, an instance of a distributed database can be configured at a first compute device within a set of compute devices that implements the distributed database via a network. A database convergence module can define a first event linked to a first set of events and receive, from a second compute device from the set of compute devices, a second event (1) defined by the second compute device and (2) linked to a second set of events. The database convergence module can define a third event linked to the first event and the second event. The database convergence module can identify an order associated with a third set of events based at least on the first set of events and the second set of events, and store in the instance of the distributed database the order associated with the third set of events.

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

Method and system for vehicle security data release to a vehicle security professional
Patent No. 11797691

Inventor(s): David Stovall (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17345862 on 06/11/2021 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Secure Access Gateway and Registry is provided for secure access to security related service information, to operate a security feature of a motor vehicle, by a validated Individual. The system is implemented with a general purpose computer, internet, mobile device, and secure data release Registry software application. An Individual is employed as a vehicle service professional. The Individual inputs a Registry Application data. The Registry uses the Registry Application data to generate a background search result data. The Registry uses the search result data to determine eligibility, and assign a Registered Vehicle Service Professional Identification code. The Individual uses the Registered Vehicle Service Professional Identification code to input a Form D1 authorization data, and to access an Automaker website. The Registry uses the D1 authorization data to determine a legal possessory interest in a motor vehicle, to be serviced. The Automaker uses the Automaker motor vehicle data-base, and the D1 authorization data, to generate Automaker security related service information being specific to the motor vehicle. The Automaker security related service information is output to the Individual. The individual uses the Automaker security related service information data to access a security related feature of the motor vehicle.

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

Automated analog and mixed-signal circuit design and validation
Patent No. 11797732

Inventor(s): Ashish Khandelwal (Frisco, TX), Nikhil Gupta (Plano, TX), Sreenivasan K. Koduri (Dallas, TX), Timothy W. Fischer (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17245000 on 04/30/2021 (907 days app to issue)

Abstract: A technique for designing circuits including receiving a data object representing a circuit for a first process technology, the circuit including a first sub-circuit, the first sub-circuit including a first electrical component and a second electrical component arranged in a first topology; identifying the first sub-circuit in the data object by comparing the first topology to a stored topology, the stored topology associated with the first process technology; identifying a first set of physical parameter values associated with first electrical component and the second electrical component of the first sub-circuit; determining a set of performance parameter values for the first sub-circuit based on a first machine learning model of the first sub-circuit and the identified set of physical parameters; converting the identified first sub-circuit to a second sub-circuit for the second process technology based on the determined set of performance parameter values; and outputting the second sub-circuit.

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

Power aware real number modeling in dynamic verification of mixed-signal integrated circuit design
Patent No. 11797742

Inventor(s): Jiri Prevratil (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): SYNOPSYS, INC. (Sunnyvale, CA)
Law Firm: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17559901 on 12/22/2021 (671 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes: receiving a representation of a mixed-signal integrated circuit design including an analog circuit portion and a digital circuit portion including a plurality of descriptions of a power supply, the descriptions including a power supply network description and a register transfer level (RTL) hardware description language (HDL) description; determining a mismatch between the power supply network description and the HDL description of the power supply; generating a value converter to convert a voltage value associated with the power supply between the power supply network description and the HDL description; and converting, by a processor, between the power supply network description and the HDL description during runtime using the value converter to synchronize the power supply network description and the HDL description of the power supply responsive to the mismatch.

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

RFID wristband
Patent No. 11797819

Inventor(s): Douglas J. Bourque (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, OH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16136869 on 09/20/2018 (1860 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wearable RFID device is disclosed herein. The wearable RFID device is preferably comprised of a band, one or more RFID inlays attached to a backside of said band, and at least one tamper resistant cut or notch in one or more of the band and/or the RFID inlays so that the RFID inlay(s) are rendered inoperable or destroyed when the wearable RFID device is removed from the user. The band is preferably formed by attaching a first and a second end of the band with an adhesive to form an adhesive closure, and the RFID inlay may be positioned on either side of, or extend across, the adhesive closure to suit user preference or other design considerations.

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

Systems and methods for accelerating execution of processes based on artificial intelligence (AI) prediction of blockchain consensus
Patent No. 11797866

Inventor(s): Michael Salem (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Lorenz Kopf, LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16039223 on 07/18/2018 (1924 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for using a distributed ledger (DL) of a blockchain applicable to a network of blockchain nodes is provided. The method reduces a time period between an assertion placed on the blockchain by an assertor blockchain node and execution of one or more action items dependent on a consensus of the assertion, by: creating an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, by one of the blockchain nodes of the networking historical data stored by the DL, wherein the network of blockchain nodes further comprises the assertor blockchain node; calculating an index value indicating a probability that the consensus is true, based on the AI model and the historical data stored by the DL, by the one of the blockchain nodes, wherein each of the blockchain nodes comprises a computer system including at least a processor, a system memory element, and a communication device configured to send and receive data transmissions between the blockchain nodes of the network; and when the index value exceeds a predefined threshold, initiating the execution of the one or more action items dependent on the consensus, by the one of the blockchain nodes.

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

Autonomous aerial vehicle assisted viewing location selection for event venue
Patent No. 11797896

Inventor(s): Sangar Dowlatkhah (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA), ATT Mobility II LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17107721 on 11/30/2020 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may collect, via at least one camera of at least one autonomous aerial vehicle, viewing information for a plurality of positions for each of a plurality of viewing locations within an event venue. The processing system may next present a viewing location selection interface to a user, where the viewing location selection interface provides a simulated view with respect to at least one of the plurality of positions for at least one of the plurality of viewing locations, and where the simulated view is based upon the viewing information that is obtained. The processing system may then obtain a selection from the user of a viewing location of the plurality of viewing locations for an event at the event venue.

[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]

Generating performance metrics for users within an observation platform environment
Patent No. 11797904

Inventor(s): Christopher N. Todd (Dallas, TX), Guy R. VanBuskirk (Grapevine, TX), Ravi Shankar Kumar (Richardson, TX), Shiva Cheedella (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Theatro Labs, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17676191 on 02/20/2022 (611 days app to issue)

Abstract: capture, from the communications device, the secondary signal and a voice message of the user; derive statistical data about employee performance of the user; store the user identity, voice message, location, and statistical data in an employee performance library associated with the user; and generate at least one performance metric entry for the user, based on the performance information, into the employee performance library.

Document-based distributed inventory system with rebalancing
Patent No. 11797919

Inventor(s): Rishabh Saumil Thakkar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Adobe Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: FIG. 1 Patents (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16679039 on 11/08/2019 (1446 days app to issue)

Abstract: A distributed inventory system is made up of multiple regions, each of which includes a document-based database and an inventory management system. The document-based database maintains documents regarding inventory counts for different items of inventory. The inventory management system updates the inventory counts in the documents in its database in response to client requests (e.g., due to an item being ordered or returned by a customer) and in response to replication data received from other regions indicating changes to the inventory counts in the documents maintained in document-based databases in those other regions. Each region is assigned a particular inventory count for an item and can, in response to the inventory count in a region getting too low, rebalance the inventory count distribution by transferring inventory count from one region to another.

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

Systems and methods for a secure payment terminal without batteries
Patent No. 11797994

Inventor(s): Gregory Guez (Coppell, TX), Robert Michael Muchsel (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: North Weber Baugh LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15647533 on 07/12/2017 (2295 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for securing electronic devices, such as financial payment terminals, to protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access to confidential information. In embodiments, this is achieved without having to rely on the availability of backup energy sources. In certain embodiments, tampering attempts are thwarted by using a virtually perfect PUF circuit and PUF-generated secret or private key within a payment terminal that does not require a battery backup system and, thus, eliminates the cost associated with common battery-backed security systems. In certain embodiments, during regular operation, sensors constantly monitor the to-be-protected electronic device for tampering attempts and physical attack to ensure the physical integrity.

Systems and methods for user authentication via mobile device
Patent No. 11798002

Inventor(s): Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17558060 on 12/21/2021 (672 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user may provide a financial card to an automated teller machine (ATM) or point of sale (POS) terminal and may be authenticated by providing a gesture and/or an image selection via a mobile device to the ATM or the POS. The gesture and/or image selection may be provided using a touchscreen of the mobile device. The gesture and/or image provided by the user via the mobile device may be compared to a stored gesture and/or image provided by the user during an earlier registration of the financial card. If there is a match between the gesture and/or image provided by the user via the mobile device and the previously stored gesture and/or image, then the user is authenticated and may access an account associated with the financial card.

Tool for generating a virtual store that emulates a physical store
Patent No. 11798065

Inventor(s): Joshua E. Berry (Waco, TX), Matthew Raymond Magee (Waco, TX), Ravi Kumar Kurva (Irving, TX), Trong Nghia Nguyen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16664529 on 10/25/2019 (1460 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus to create a virtual layout of a virtual store to emulate a physical layout of a physical store includes a memory and a processor. The processor receives a physical position and orientation associated with a physical rack located in the physical store. In response, the processor places a virtual rack at a virtual position and orientation on the virtual layout, to represent the physical position and orientation of the physical rack on the physical layout. The processor receives virtual items associated with physical items located on physical shelves of the physical rack. In response, the processor places the virtual items on virtual shelves of the virtual rack, the virtual shelves representing the physical shelves of the physical rack. The processor assigns a rack camera, which captures video that includes the physical rack, to the virtual rack and stores the virtual layout in the memory.

System and method for image-based vehicle repair estimate verification
Patent No. 11798091

Inventor(s): Bethany Siddall (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Hartford Fire Insurance Company (Hartford, CT)
Law Firm: Howard IP Law Group, PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16577107 on 09/20/2019 (1495 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer system for processing data for verification of vehicle repair estimates in connection with insurance claims includes an insurance claims database having data relating to insurance claims. One or more computer processors are configured to receive claim identifying data from a repair facility computer system; determine, based on the claim identifying data, an insurance claim associated with the claim identifying data; establish secure communication with the repair facility computer system; receive data indicative of a repair estimate associated with the insurance claim from the repair facility computer system; access an evaluation of the estimate based on a plurality of rules, compare the estimate to one or more thresholds, and forward the estimate to a claim handler system.

Automated background check via voice pattern matching
Patent No. 11798113

Inventor(s): Danny C. Milliorn (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): Securus Technologies, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17158221 on 01/26/2021 (1001 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments use electronic speech samples of detainees and automatically scan electronic speech sample databases to detect when a detainee has a criminal record and to alert controlled-environment facility personnel to that record. An electronic speech sample of the detainee is captured during booking or at another time. The electronic speech sample is compared to a database of electronic speech samples of individuals with criminal records. If the electronic speech sample matches an existing electronic speech sample in the database, then information associated with the matching electronic speech sample is provided to the controlled-environment facility personnel. The information is analyzed to identify key issues, such as active warrants. The controlled-environment facility personnel are alerted to any such key information.

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

Vehicle cargo transportation system
Patent No. 11798115

Inventor(s): John K. Lenneman (Okemos, MI), Ryan M. Wiesenberg (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17087436 on 11/02/2020 (1086 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for transporting cargo. The system includes a vehicle having an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to communicate vehicle cargo data, the vehicle cargo data including dimensions of a cargo compartment and dimensions of one or more cargo compartment access points. The system also includes a mobile device configured to receive a transportation request from a user, the transportation request including a destination location and user cargo data. The system also includes a remote data server. The remote data server is configured to determine whether user cargo fits within the vehicle based on the vehicle cargo data and the user cargo data. The remote data server is configured to communicate an indication to the mobile device that the user cargo fits within the vehicle, causing the mobile device to render a user interface to provide a notification that the user cargo fits within the vehicle.

Robust frame size error detection and recovery mechanism to minimize frame loss for camera input sub-systems
Patent No. 11798128

Inventor(s): Anthony Joseph Lell (San Antonio, TX), Brian Okchon Chae (Johns Creek, GA), Mihir Mody (Bengaluru, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16745589 on 01/17/2020 (1376 days app to issue)

Abstract: An image data frame is received from an external source. An error concealment operation is performed on the received image data frame in response to determining that a first frame size of the received image data frame is erroneous. The first frame size of the image data frame is determined to be erroneous based on at least one frame synchronization signal associated with the image data frame. An image processing operation is performed on the received image data frame on which the error concealment operation has been performed, thereby enabling an image processing module to perform the image processing operation without entering into a deadlock state and thereby prevent a host processor from having to execute hardware resets of deadlocked modules.

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

Method and system to overlay charts
Patent No. 11798207

Inventor(s): Bradley Howard Cruse (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Greenblum Bernstein, P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17341763 on 06/08/2021 (868 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for facilitating dynamic-transparency chart overlays via a graphical user interface is provided. The method includes displaying, via a client device, the graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a graphical element to receive an input; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a request relating to an overlay request that corresponds to a visualization of a chart; retrieving data corresponding to the chart; converting the data into a structured data set based on a parameter; generating an overlay chart based on the structured data set, the overlay chart corresponding to a superimposition of the chart; and displaying, via the client device, the overlay chart on the graphical user interface in response to the request.

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

Automated categorization and assembly of low-quality images into electronic documents
Patent No. 11798258

Inventor(s): Aftab Khan (Richardson, TX), Sharad K. Kalyani (Coppell, TX), Syed Talha (McKinney, TX), Van Nguyen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17306495 on 05/03/2021 (904 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and processor. The memory stores document categories, text generated from an image a physical document page, and a machine learning algorithm. The text includes errors associated with noise in the image. The machine learning algorithm is configured to extract features associated with natural language processing and features associated with the errors from the text. The machine learning algorithm is also configured to generate a feature vector that includes the first and second pluralities of features, and to generate, based on the feature vector, a set of probabilities, each of which is associated with a document category and indicates a probability that the physical document from which the text was generated belongs to that document category. The processor applies the machine learning algorithm to the text, to generate the set of probabilities, identifies a largest probability, and assigns the image to the associated document category. NULL

Systems and methods for accessing protected vehicle activity data
Patent No. 11798326

Inventor(s): Masashi Nakagawa (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17324925 on 05/19/2021 (888 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for accessing protected activity data of a vehicle. A system may include a vehicle key and a user key. The vehicle key may be configured to be managed by a manufacturer of the vehicle. The user key may be configured to be managed by a user of the vehicle. The vehicle key and the user key may decrypt the vehicle activity data when used together. The system may include a third-party key configured to be managed by a third-party and decrypt the vehicle activity data. The vehicle key and the user key may modify the vehicle activity data when used together. Alternatively, the vehicle key, the user key, and the third-party key may modify the vehicle activity data when used together.

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

Mobile computing device for use in controlling wirelessly controlled vehicles
Patent No. 11798402

Inventor(s): Ari Krupnik (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, CA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17523737 on 11/10/2021 (713 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for utilizing a mobile computing device (e.g., such as a mobile phone) for use in controlling a model vehicle are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a mobile computing device provides various user controls for generating signals that are communicated to a radio transmitter device coupled with the mobile computing device, and ultimately broadcast to a receiver residing at a model vehicle. With some embodiments, the mobile computing device may be integrated with a controller housing which provides separate user controls, such that a combination of user controls present on the mobile computing device and the controller housing can be used to control a model vehicle.

[G08C] TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS (fluid pressure transmission systems F15B; mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member into a different variable G01D 5/00; mechanical control systems G05G) [4]

Methods and systems for identifying efficient parking spots for solar charging
Patent No. 11798415

Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a requesting vehicle to locate a parking spot having capacity to receive solar power, determining a parking location having the capacity to receive solar power, based on a location of the requesting vehicle, the request, and a parking map that indicates an expected charging rate at each of a plurality of parking locations, and transmitting the determined parking location to the requesting vehicle.

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

Replying to a spoken command
Patent No. 11798544

Inventor(s): Cody Schnacker (Westminster, TX)
Assignee(s): Polycom, LLC (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Quarles Brady LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15670572 on 08/07/2017 (2269 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes, during a teleconference between a first audio input/output device and a second audio input/output device, receiving, at an analysis and response device, a signal indicating a spoken command, the spoken command associated with a command mode. The method further includes, in response to receiving the signal, generating, at the device, a reply message based on the spoken command, the reply message to be output to one or more devices selected based on the command mode. The one or more devices includes the first audio input/output device, the second audio input/output device, or a combination thereof.

[G10L] SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING [4]

System and method for voice controlled automatic information access and retrieval
Patent No. 11798551

Inventor(s): Ashwini Patil (Richardson, TX), Christopher Keith Restorff (Carrollton, TX), Emad Noorizadeh (Plano, TX), Ion Gerald McCusker (Allen, TX), Priyank R. Shah (Plano, TX), Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony, TX), Ravisha Andar
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17212076 on 03/25/2021 (943 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores first and second machine learning algorithms. The processor receives, from a user, voice signals associated with an information request and converts them into text. The processor uses the first machine learning algorithm to determine, based on the text, to automatically generate a reply to the request, rather than transmitting the request to an agent. This determination indicates that the text is associated with a probability that the automatically generated reply includes the requested information that is greater than a threshold. The processor uses the second machine learning algorithm to generate, based on the set of text, the reply, which it transmits to the user. The processor receives feedback associated with the reply, indicating that the reply does or does not include the requested information. The processor uses the feedback to update either or both machine learning algorithms.

[G10L] SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING [4]

Program dependent biasing of unselected sub-blocks
Patent No. 11798625

Inventor(s): Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, CA), Gerrit Jan Hemink (San Ramon, CA), Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17469016 on 09/08/2021 (776 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a control circuit configured to connect to first word lines of a first vertical sub-block and second word lines of a second vertical sub-block. The first vertical sub-block and the second vertical sub-block include memory cells connected in series in NAND strings, each NAND string including memory cells coupled to the first word lines in series with memory cells connected to the second word lines. The control circuit is configured to program or sense memory cells along a selected first word line of the first vertical sub-block while applying a first voltage to second word lines that are connected to programmed memory cells and applying a second voltage to second word lines that are connected to unprogrammed memory cells.

[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)

Transfer latch tiers
Patent No. 11798631

Inventor(s): Iris Lu (Fremont, CA), Tai-Yuan Tseng (Milpitas, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17507606 on 10/21/2021 (733 days app to issue)

Abstract: Read and write circuitry, described herein, comprises data latches, each data latch connected to a bit line and arranged in a same column as the bit line; and transfer latches, each transfer latch connected to a data latch and arranged in a same column as the data latch. Further, circuitry described herein is configured to: transfer a word to and from the transfer latches of a first column and the subset of transfer latches of a second column; transfer a first portion of the word between the transfer latches of the first column and data latches of the first column that are connected to the transfer latches of the first column; and transfer a second portion of the word between the subset of transfer latches and data latches of the second column that are connected to the subset of transfer latches.

Mitigating neighbor interference to select gates in 3D memory
Patent No. 11798638

Inventor(s): Kou Tei (San Jose, CA), Ohwon Kwon (Pleasanton, CA), Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17484218 on 09/24/2021 (760 days app to issue)

Abstract: Technology for mitigating interference to select transistors in 3D memory is disclosed. In one aspect, a control circuit pre-charges a first set of bit lines to a first voltage and pre-charges a second set of bit lines to a second voltage greater than the first voltage. The control circuit may increase the voltage on the first set of bit lines to the second voltage while the second set of bit lines are floating to couple up the voltages on the second set of bit lines to a voltage greater than the second voltage. The higher voltage on the second set of bit lines compensates for interference that some of the select transistors may experience from an adjacent select line. For example, the higher voltage can prevent a leakage current in the select transistors from occurring. Preventing the leakage current can improve boosting of NAND channel voltages, thereby preventing program disturb.

Adjustable frequency tube resonators
Patent No. 11798771

Inventor(s): Hideo Iizuka (Ann Arbor, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17163705 on 02/01/2021 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: Frequency adjustable quarter-wavelength resonators have a movable end wall defined by a surface of a sphere that is moved within the resonator tube. The sphere can be ferromagnetic, enabling it to be moved by magnetic interactions with moving external magnetic elements, or by a variable external magnetic field, controlled by power modulation to external electromagnets. The resonators can optionally be helical or otherwise curved, and the spherical shape of the structure forming the end wall enables it to navigate curves in the resonator tube.

[G10K] SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES (sound-producing toys A63H 5/00); METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [6]

Remote retrieval of information from vehicles
Patent No. 11800352

Inventor(s): Kelli L. Biegger (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington, DC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18100040 on 01/23/2023 (274 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle information remote retrieval method includes an emergency personnel or first responder vehicle (FRV) establishing a vehicle connection between an infotainment system of a vehicle and the FRV. The FRV sends a vehicle information request to the infotainment system of the vehicle, via the vehicle connection, seeking release of vehicle information. The FRV obtains authentication of the vehicle information received in response to the vehicle information request. The FRV determines occupant status based on the vehicle information. The FRV communicates the passenger status to a first responder.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Remote monitoring and control of garage door opener incorporating jackshaft door operator drive assembly
Patent No. 11795753

Inventor(s): Brent Alan Rauscher (Keller, TX), LeRoy G. Krupke (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): GMI Holdings, Inc. (Mount Hope, OH)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16395075 on 04/25/2019 (1643 days app to issue)

Abstract: A garage door status monitoring and control system includes a control module for receiving door position information and receiving change of door position commands from a remote Internet access device. The control module includes a programmable platform configured to: route door position information to a wireless interface for transmission to the Internet access device; and cause said change of door position commands to generate a light and sound command and a door position command. A Bluetooth microprocessor generates a wireless signal to actuate a light fixture in response to the light and sound command. The light fixture includes a microprocessor for wirelessly returning an acknowledge signal. The acknowledge signal is conductively transmitted to the programmable platform from the Bluetooth microprocessor. Receipt of the acknowledge signal allows the door position command to be generated only after a defined period of time following the generation of the light and sound command.

[H04H] BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication H04J; pictorial communication aspects of broadcast systems H04N)

Molecular atomic clock with wave propagating rotational spectroscopy cell
Patent No. 11796967

Inventor(s): Adam Joseph Fruehling (Dallas, TX), Argyrios Dellis (Dallas, TX), Juan Alejandro Herbsommer (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17001356 on 08/24/2020 (1156 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a clock apparatus, a signal waveguide includes: a gas cell having a sealed interior; and a dipolar gas inside the sealed interior. A first apparatus is configured to provide a first electromagnetic wave through the sealed interior along a first direction. A second apparatus is configured to provide a second electromagnetic wave through the sealed interior along a second direction, in which the second direction is opposite the first direction. Also, the clock apparatus includes receiving apparatus coupled to the signal waveguide and configured to detect an amount of energy in the second electromagnetic wave passing through the dipolar gas.

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

Multi-cloud bi-directional storage replication system and techniques
Patent No. 11797490

Inventor(s): Deepa Rao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: KDW Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17355929 on 06/23/2021 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses and techniques for replicating data between different cloud computing platforms. Examples include storage replicator components operable in different cloud computing platforms. The first storage replicator component may identify the second cloud computing platform as a location to copy a data file in response to an event related to the data file stored in a first cloud computing platform. The first storage replicator component may request a copy of the data file via an application programming interface of the first cloud computing platform. The attributes of the copy of the data file which involve modification to conform to data management conventions of the second cloud computing platform may be determined and modified to comply with conventions of the second cloud computing platform. The modified copy of the data file may be forwarded to the second cloud computing platform for storage.

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

Securing lender output data
Patent No. 11797932

Inventor(s): Dinesh Sundaram (Plano, TX), Trent Jones (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17196738 on 03/09/2021 (959 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-lender architecture is configured to provide a loan applicant with automated pre-qualification and automobile loan eligibility evaluation for multiple candidate lenders. Lender output data may include sensitive data. The lender output data is stored in a data object of a first format and one or more fields of the data object are encrypted at the field level. The encrypted data object may be transmitted through multiple application layers or terminals. The encrypted data object may be reformatted at one or more application layers or terminals without decryption. A reformatted encrypted data object containing the lender output data may be decrypted at the last layer before forwarding the lender output data to the loan applicant.

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

Establishing connections in transports
Patent No. 11797949

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Risberg (Flower Mound, TX), Manoj Kalamkar (McKinney, TX), Sachin J. Ahire (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17586696 on 01/27/2022 (635 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying, via a transport, at least one person in proximity to the transport, determining the at least one person matches one or more profile attributes of a profile of at least one transport occupant, sending a notification to a communication device in the transport to prompt the at least one transport occupant about the identified at least one person and the matched one or more profile attributes, and responsive to receiving a communication request from the communication device, transmitting a communication invite to a mobile device of the at least one person.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Integrated heat spreader (IHS) with heating element
Patent No. 11798861

Inventor(s): Ken Hackenberg (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Akona IP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16504698 on 07/08/2019 (1569 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments may relate to a microelectronic package that includes a lid coupled with a package substrate such that a die is positioned between the lid and the package substrate. The lid may include a heating element that is to heat an area between the lid and the die. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.

[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]

Electronic device with crack arrest structure
Patent No. 11798900

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: 17806694 on 06/13/2022 (498 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)

Integrated capacitor with sidewall having reduced roughness
Patent No. 11798979

Inventor(s): Elizabeth Costner Stewart (Dallas, TX), Jay Sung Chun (Plano, TX), Jeffrey A. West (Dallas, TX), Joseph Andre Gallegos (Dallas, TX), Thomas D. Bonifield (Dallas, TX), Zhiyi Yu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17156793 on 01/25/2021 (1002 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated capacitor on a semiconductor surface on a substrate includes a capacitor dielectric layer including at least one silicon compound material layer on a bottom plate. The capacitor dielectric layer includes a pitted sloped dielectric sidewall. Each of the pits is at least partially filled by one of a plurality of noncontiguous dielectric portions. A conformal dielectric layer may be formed over the noncontiguous dielectric portions. A top metal layer provides a top plate of the capacitor.

Cooling structure for hybrid-electric vehicle battery cell assemblies
Patent No. 11799150

Inventor(s): Evan Fleming (Ann Arbor, MI), Gaohua Zhu (Ann Arbor, MI), Swetha Minupuri (Farmington Hills, MI), Tenghua Shieh (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16932243 on 07/17/2020 (1194 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cooling structure for a vehicle battery cell assembly includes a receptacle having a thermally-conductive floor. At least one first thermally conductive structure is positioned in an interior of the receptacle and in direct physical contact with a first side of the floor, and at least one second thermally conductive structure positioned in the interior of the receptacle in direct physical contact with the at least one first thermally conductive structure and spaced apart from the first side of the floor by the first thermally conductive structure. The cooling structure also includes a coolant conduit having an inlet, an outlet, and a flow passage in fluid communication with the coolant conduit inlet and outlet, the flow passage being in direct physical contact with an exterior of the receptacle along a second side of the floor opposite the first side of the floor.

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

Interposer between an integrated circuit antenna interface and an external waveguide interface including an internal waveguide coupled between these interfaces
Patent No. 11799184

Inventor(s): Baher Haroun (Allen, TX), Gerd Schuppener (Allen, TX), Juan Alejandro Herbsommer (Allen, TX), Swaminathan Sankaran (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17140858 on 01/04/2021 (1023 days app to issue)

Abstract: An interposer acts as a buffer zone between a transceiver IC and a dielectric waveguide interconnect and establishes two well-defined reference planes that can be optimized independently. The interposer includes a block of material having: a first interface region to interface with an antenna coupled to an integrated circuit (IC); and a second interface region to interface to the dielectric waveguide. An interface waveguide is formed by a defined region positioned within the block of material between the first interface region and the second interface region.

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

Antenna-on-package integrated circuit device
Patent No. 11799190

Inventor(s): Meysam Moallem (Plano, TX), Ross Allan Kulak (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17673352 on 02/16/2022 (615 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit package is provided. In some examples, the integrated circuit package is an antenna-on-package package that includes a plurality of dielectric layers, a plurality of conductor layers interspersed with the plurality of dielectric layers, and an integrated circuit die disposed on a first side of the plurality of dielectric layers. The plurality of conductor layers includes a first layer disposed on a second side of the plurality of dielectric layers that includes a set of antennas. In some such examples, the integrated circuit die includes radar processing circuitry, and the AOP integrated circuit package is configured for radar applications.

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

Lensed base station antennas
Patent No. 11799209

Inventor(s): Igor E. Timofeev (Dallas, TX), Kevin E. Linehan (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Inc. of North Carolina (Hickory, NC), Matsing Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, , SG)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17144212 on 01/08/2021 (1019 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lensed antenna system is provided. The lensed antenna system include a first column of radiating elements having a first longitudinal axis and a first azimuth single, and, optionally, a second column of radiating elements having a second longitudinal axis and a second azimuth angle, and a radio frequency lens. The radio frequency lens has a third longitudinal axis. The radio frequency lens is disposed such that the longitudinal axes of the first and second columns of radiating elements are aligned with the longitudinal axis of the radio frequency lens, and such that the azimuth angels of the beams produced by the columns of radiating elements are directed at the radio frequency lens. The multiple beam antenna system further includes a radome housing the columns of radiating elements and the radio frequency lens. There may be more or fewer than two columns of radiating elements.

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

System and method for zeroth-order diagnostic in spectral beam combining system
Patent No. 11799260

Inventor(s): Leva E. Bukowski (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17066320 on 10/08/2020 (1111 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a diffractive grating configured to receive multiple output beams from an array of laser sources. The apparatus also includes one or more optical elements configured to receive, direct, and focus multiple zeroth-order light beams, where the zeroth-order light beams include portions of the output beams reflected off the diffractive grating. The apparatus further includes a detector configured to receive the zeroth-order light beams from at least one of the one or more optical elements and process the zeroth-order light beams to generate diagnostic information.

[H01S] DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION

Short circuit protection
Patent No. 11799281

Inventor(s): Eung Jung Kim (Allen, TX), Wenchao Qu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17514774 on 10/29/2021 (725 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, this description provides for an apparatus. The apparatus includes a power switch having a power switch source configured to receive an input voltage, a power switch drain, and a power switch gate. The apparatus also includes a current sense component coupled to the power switch. The apparatus also includes a current limiting circuit coupled to the power switch gate, the power switch drain, and the current sense component. The apparatus also includes an over-current protection (OCP) circuit coupled to the power switch source, the power switch drain, and the power switch gate. The apparatus also includes an output voltage (VOUT) clamp coupled to the power switch drain and the power switch gate.

[H02H] EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS (indicating or signalling undesired working conditions G01R, e.g. G01R 31/00, G08B; locating faults along lines G01R 31/08; emergency protective devices H01H)

Current sensing with capacitive compensation
Patent No. 11799369

Inventor(s): Saurav Bandyopadhyay (Dallas, TX), Song Guo (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17512842 on 10/28/2021 (726 days app to issue)

Abstract: A current sense circuit includes a sense amplifier, a current mirror circuit, a resistor, a low-pass filter, and a capacitor. The sense amplifier is adapted to be coupled to a switching transistor of a DC-DC converter. The current mirror circuit is coupled to the sense amplifier, and is configured to generate a sense current proportional to a current flowing through the switching transistor. The resistor is coupled to the current mirror circuit, and is configured to generate a sense voltage based on the sense current. The low-pass filter is coupled to the resistor, and is configured to average the sense voltage over an averaging interval. The capacitor is coupled to the resistor, and is configured to store the sense voltage in a blanking interval that precedes the averaging interval, and provide a compensation current in the averaging interval.

[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]

Power converter feedback
Patent No. 11799375

Inventor(s): Juergen Neuhaeusler (Rosenheim, , DE), Tanvee Shailesh Pandya (Pulling, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17138525 on 12/30/2020 (1028 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit comprises a controller configured to receive an input voltage and control a power converter to provide an output voltage based on the input voltage. The controller is also configured to receive a feedback voltage from a split feedback divider, the feedback voltage based on the output voltage and control the power converter to provide the output voltage based on the input voltage and the feedback voltage.

Controller for a flyback converter
Patent No. 11799381

Inventor(s): Dinesh Katam (Tempe, AZ), Jose Vidal (Phoenix, AZ)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17537855 on 11/30/2021 (693 days app to issue)

Abstract: A converter control circuit includes a terminal to be coupled to a switch node. The control circuit includes a valley sensing circuit coupled to the terminal and detects valleys in an oscillating voltage on the switch node. The valley sensing circuit has a first output and asserts a first control signal on the first output indicative of occurrence of a valley. A logic gate has a second output and asserts a second control signal on the second output to turn on a switching transistor. A switch-on control circuit has a first input and a second input. The first input couples to the first output. The second input couples to the second output. The switch-on control circuit asserts a third control signal to turn on the switching transistor responsive to the second control signal indicating that the switching transistor is to be on while the first control indicates a valley.

Oscillator with reduced temperature sensitivity
Patent No. 11799422

Inventor(s): Angelo William Pereira (Allen, TX), Muawiya Ali Al-Khalidi (Glendale, AZ), Paul David Curtis (Phoenix, AZ), Pinar Korkmaz (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17681945 on 02/28/2022 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: An oscillator circuit includes a comparator having first and second inputs, the first input configured to be coupled to a reference voltage. The oscillator circuit also includes a capacitor and a first current source. The capacitor is coupled between the second input and ground. The first current source is coupled between a supply voltage terminal and the capacitor. The first current source is configured to generate a current to the capacitor that is proportional to absolute temperature.

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

Amplifier capacitive load compensation
Patent No. 11799427

Inventor(s): Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bengaluru, , IN), Vishnuvardhan Reddy Jaladanki (Secunderabad, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17514087 on 10/29/2021 (725 days app to issue)

Abstract: An amplifier includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage is configured to amplify a received signal. The second stage is coupled to the first stage. The second stage includes a source follower and a compensation network. The source follower includes an input and an output. The compensation network is coupled to the input of the source follower and the output of the source follower. The compensation network is configured to modify a magnitude and phase response of the first stage based on a load capacitance coupled to the output of the source follower.

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

Method of forming an integrated resonator with a mass bias
Patent No. 11799436

Inventor(s): Byron Neville Burgess (Allen, TX), Stuart M. Jacobsen (Frisco, TX), William Robert Krenik (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16551757 on 08/27/2019 (1519 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of forming a resonator includes forming top and bottom dielectric structures over a substrate. A piezoelectric layer is formed between the top and bottom dielectric structures. A bottom electrode is formed between the piezoelectric layer and the bottom dielectric structure, and a top electrode is formed between the piezoelectric layer and the top dielectric structure. A metal layer is formed over the top dielectric structure and is patterned, thereby forming a first contact pad making electrical contact to the top electrode, a second contact pad making electrical contact with the bottom electrode, and a mass bias located over the top dielectric structure.

[H03H] IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS (measuring, testing G01R; arrangements for producing a reverberation or echo sound G10K 15/08; impedance networks or resonators consisting of distributed impedances, e.g. of the waveguide type, H01P; control of amplification, e.g. bandwidth control of amplifiers, H03G; tuning resonant circuits, e.g. tuning coupled resonant circuits, H03J; networks for modifying the frequency characteristics of communication systems H04B)

Dynamic phase adjustment for high speed clock signals
Patent No. 11799460

Inventor(s): Benyong Zhang (Auburn, WA), Christopher Schell (Tacoma, WA), Madusudanan Srinivasan Gopalan (Issaquah, WA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17853085 on 06/29/2022 (482 days app to issue)

Abstract: A clock generator circuit including an integer divider, having a first input receiving a reference clock and configured to generate an intermediate clock at a frequency divided down from a frequency of the reference clock by an integer value, a digital delay stage configured to generate a delayed intermediate clock delayed from the intermediate clock by a number of fractional cycles of the reference clock selected responsive to a fractional cycle value, and an analog delay stage configured to generate an output clock delayed from the delayed intermediate clock by a delay value selected responsive to a fine adjustment value. The clock generator circuit further includes math engine circuitry configured to compute a phase adjustment code responsive to the phase adjustment word, the phase adjustment code comprising the integer value, the fractional cycle value, and the fine adjustment value. The clock generator circuit may be implemented in a clock domain of a system along with one or more other clock generator circuits that each generate an output clock based on a reference clock generated by a reference clock source, such as a phase-locked loop.

[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]

Methods and apparatus to transmit signals in isolated gate drivers
Patent No. 11799466

Inventor(s): Arun Rao (San Jose, CA), Joseph Pham (Plano, TX), Sarvesh Bang (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17244712 on 04/29/2021 (908 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to transmit signal in isolated gate drivers. An example apparatus includes a first encoder including: an edge detector coupled to a first sensor; a first clock counter coupled to the edge detector; a first signal selector coupled to the first clock counter; and a first multiplexer including coupled to a signal generator, the first clock counter, and the first signal selector; and a second encoder including: a level detector coupled to a second sensor; a second clock counter coupled to the level detector; a second signal selector coupled to the level detector and the second clock counter; and a second multiplexer coupled to the first multiplexer, a reference voltage, the second signal selector, and a modulator.

Method and apparatus to enable segmented CSI reporting in wireless communication systems
Patent No. 11799521

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: 18154777 on 01/13/2023 (284 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs) and CSI feedback configuration information, estimating a channel based on the received CSI-RSs, determining, based on the estimated channel and the CSI feedback configuration information, a number of non-zero coefficients (K[subscript]l[/subscript][superscript]NZ[/superscript]) for each layer (l) of a total number of layers, wherein 1 is a rank value, and a sum of the K[subscript]l[/subscript][superscript]NZ [/superscript]across each of the layers as a total number of non-zero coefficients (K[superscript]NZ[/superscript]), where K[superscript]NZ[/superscript]=[subscript]l=1[/subscript][superscript][/superscript]K[subscript]l[/subscript][superscript]NZ[/superscript]. The method further comprises transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback including the K[superscript]NZ [/superscript]value over an uplink (UL) channel.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Assignment of satellite beam allocations for the scheduled wireless communication between wireless devices and a base station
Patent No. 11799544

Inventor(s): Vijay Lewis (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): Skylo Technologies, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17849649 on 06/26/2022 (485 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a satellite wireless communication system are disclosed. One system includes a base station, a satellite, a beam management controller, and a plurality of wireless devices. The base station is configured to wirelessly communicate according to a schedule between the base station and each of the plurality of wireless devices within a scheduling frame. The satellite is operative to form a plurality of beams between the satellite and the wireless devices and support a wireless satellite link between the base station and the wireless devices through the plurality of beams. The beam management controller is operative to assign beam allocations for the scheduled wireless communication between each of the wireless devices and the base station that is time aligned with the scheduling frame, wherein each of the beam allocations includes an assignment to at least one of the plurality of beams.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for optimizing a network based on weather events
Patent No. 11799568

Inventor(s): Anil K. Guntupalli (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17247411 on 12/10/2020 (1048 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive historical network behavior data associated with a network that includes network devices and may receive historical weather data associated with a geographical location of the network. The device may receive historical action data identifying historical actions taken for the network in response to the historical weather data, and may train a correlation model, with the historical network behavior data, the historical weather data, and the historical action data, to generate a trained correlation model. The device may receive a weather event forecast associated with the geographical location, and may process the weather event forecast, with the trained correlation model, to determine an anticipated behavior of the network in response to the weather event forecast. The device may process data identifying the anticipated behavior, with the trained correlation model, to identify actions to take in response to the anticipated behavior and may perform the actions.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Biometric public key system providing revocable credentials
Patent No. 11799642

Inventor(s): Charles H. Herder, III (Dallas, TX), Tina P. Srivastava (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Badge Inc. (Lewes, DE)
Law Firm: Sunstein LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17939189 on 09/07/2022 (412 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device generates a biometric public key for an individual based on both the individual”s biometric data and a secret S, in a manner that verifiably characterizes both while tending to prevent recovery of either. The biometric data has a Sparse Representation and is encoded in a manner to include a component of noise, such that it is challenging to identify which locations are actually encoded features. Accordingly, the biometric data are encoded as a vector by choosing marker at locations where features are present and, where features are not present, choosing noisy data. The noisy data may be chaff bit values selected collectively from a group of (a) random values and (b) independent and identically distributed values. The biometric public key may be later used to authenticate a subject purporting to be the individualing a computing facility that need not rely on a hardware root of trust.

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

Secure provisioning of digital certificate
Patent No. 11799669

Inventor(s): Nguyen Trong Ho (Highland Village, TX), Sunil Khiani (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18053107 on 11/07/2022 (351 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a device and a payload warehouse. The device receives a user request to initiate a feature of the device. In response to receiving the request, device information is provided to a payload warehouse. The payload warehouse stores an inventory which includes a digital payload. The digital payload includes data, such as a digital certificate, which may be used by the device to implement the user-requested feature. The payload warehouse receives the device information provided by the device and determines an encryption vector based at least in part on the received device information. Using the encryption vector, the digital payload is encrypted. The encrypted digital payload is provided to the device.

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

Systems and methods for profiling and clustering network-connected devices
Patent No. 11799730

Inventor(s): Harish Babu Arunachalam (Plano, TX), Safwan Aly (Plano, TX), Srinivasan Krishnamurthy (Irving, TX), Vipul Jha (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18053419 on 11/08/2022 (350 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device determines when multiple users each connect to a network using one or more devices. The network device obtains device or network-related parameters associated with the one or more devices and generates profiling vectors for each of the multiple users, that connects to the network using the one or more devices, to produce multiple profiling vectors. The network device clusters the multiple profiling vectors to identify cluster centers associated with a plurality of user groups, and determines first users of the multiple users for, or with, whom to perform certain actions or activities based on the first users” with one or more of the plurality of user groups. The network device performs the certain actions or activities with respect to the determined first users.

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

Energy usage in a communications network
Patent No. 11799733

Inventor(s): Diego Martos (Plano, TX), Eugene Gomes (Plano, TX), Mahmood Osorio (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst Manbeck, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17435969 on 10/28/2020 (1091 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method performed by a node in a communications network for predicting energy usage in the communications network. The method comprises obtaining values of network parameters for a plurality of nodes in the communications network and corresponding energy usage measurements for the plurality of nodes, and obtaining a subset of the network parameters that are correlated with the energy usage measurements. The method then comprises training a first model using a first machine learning process to take as input the values of the subset of network parameters for the nodes in the plurality of nodes, and output a prediction of the corresponding energy usage measurements.

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

System and method for link bandwidth management
Patent No. 11799747

Inventor(s): Kamakshi Sridhar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Amarok IP Inc. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17234990 on 04/20/2021 (917 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for link bandwidth management in a computer network, the method including: monitoring link traffic flow for a predetermined amount of time; measuring throughput of the link traffic flow; estimating the bandwidth based on the throughput; and calibrating at least one shaper based on the estimated bandwidth. a system for link bandwidth management in a computer network, the system including: a learning module configured to monitor link traffic flow for a predetermined amount of time; an analysis module configured to measuring throughput of the link traffic flow and estimate the bandwidth based on the throughput; and a calibration module configured to calibrate at least one shaper based on the estimated bandwidth.

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

Network compliance and admission control
Patent No. 11799912

Inventor(s): Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17301150 on 03/26/2021 (942 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device includes a memory and a hardware processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The hardware processor determines that a computing device communicatively coupled to an access point performed an action with respect to the access point and in response to determining that the action causes a deviation from a multi-user uplink policy of the access point, transmits a disciplinary message to the computing device.

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

Systems and methods for data pre-fetching
Patent No. 11799933

Inventor(s): Huihui Wu (Plano, TX), Justin Nash (Little Elm, TX), Michael Lebowitz (McKinney, TX), Victor Kwak (Frisco, TX), William Daniel Farmer (Carrollton, 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: 17844523 on 06/20/2022 (491 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and methods for pre-fetching data are provided. In one embodiment, an electronic device includes communications circuitry communicatively coupled to a data provider system over a network to obtain streaming data for completion of tasks. The electronic device also includes pre-fetch circuitry that identifies a dead zone in the network; calculates a pre-fetch data size amount based at least in part upon a size of the dead zone; and requests the pre-fetch data size amount of the data, to mitigate lost streaming ability in the dead zone.

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

Systems and methods for prioritized SIP services using UE-specified SIP register messages
Patent No. 11799939

Inventor(s): Bibi M. Hakimzadeh (Fort Worth, TX), James S. Abraham (Carrollton, TX), Shashi Kotvali (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17354379 on 06/22/2021 (854 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the prioritization of Session Initiation Protocol (”SIP”) messages, transmitted by a User Equipment (”UE”), based on a priority class indicator (”PCI”) included in a registration message (e.g., a SIP REGISTER message) from the UE. The PCI may be included in a contact header, a SIP contact Uniform Resource Identifier (”URI”), and/or some other portion of the registration message. A Universal Integrated Circuit Card (”UICC”) may store information indicating the priority class (e.g., in an Access Control Class (”ACC”) Elementary File (”EF”)). One or more network components, such as a Call Session Control Function (”CSCF”) may prioritize SIP messages from the UE based on the priority class indicator included in the registration message by the UE.

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

Predictive retargeting system and method
Patent No. 11799979

Inventor(s): Matthew S. Sommer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: The Langley Law Firm, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16599474 on 10/11/2019 (1474 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of detecting interest in a topic by user devices of a discoverable network includes building by a target server a vector index of articles accessible on a digital data network, querying for an item the vector index over the digital data network by a device, obtaining a set of articles by the target server corresponding to the item, feeding back by the target server over the digital data network, identifiers of the set of articles, to a network server of the discoverable network communicatively connected to the digital data network. The method may also include making accessible by the network server a set of addresses for user devices interacting with articles of the set of articles. The set of addresses of the user devices may be used for retargeting advertisements relevant to the topic.

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

System and method for detecting and controlling contraband devices in a controlled environment
Patent No. 11800006

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: 17525099 on 11/12/2021 (711 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides details of a system and method for detecting and monitoring a contraband device including communication devices by utilizing a combination of mobile devices, fixed monitoring devices, and a contraband monitoring center. The mobile devices include smart phones or tablets that are borrowed, rented, or purchased by an inmate from a correctional facility. These mobile devices are configured to detect, monitor, and intervene in the communications of target devices. Further, the mobile devices are configured to communicate with fixed monitoring devices located throughout the correctional facility in performing intervention operations. The contraband monitoring center may also be utilized in the coordination, monitoring, and intervention of target devices.

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

Intra-prediction with multiple reference lines
Patent No. 11800094

Inventor(s): Shan Liu (San Jose, CA), Xiang Ma (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17518312 on 11/03/2021 (720 days app to issue)

Abstract: A video coding device receives a bitstream including video data. The device determines an intra-prediction mode subset. The intra-prediction mode subset include intra-prediction modes that correlate to a plurality of reference lines for a current image block and excludes intra-prediction modes that correlate to a primary reference line for the current image block. When a first intra-prediction mode is included in the intra-prediction mode subset, the device decodes the first intra-prediction mode by an alternative intra-prediction mode index. When the first intra-prediction mode is not included in the intra-prediction mode subset, the device decodes the first intra-prediction mode by an intra-prediction mode index. The device presents video data including an image block decoded based on the first intra-prediction mode.

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

Method and apparatus for sub-picture based raster scanning coding order
Patent No. 11800109

Inventor(s): Minhua Zhou (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17713631 on 04/05/2022 (567 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sub-picture based raster scanning coding order. The method includes dividing an image into even sub-pictures, and encoding parallel sub-pictures on multi-cores in raster scanning order within sub-pictures, wherein from core to core, coding of the sub-picture is independent around sub-picture boundaries, and wherein within a core, coding of a sub-picture is at least one of dependent or independent around sub-picture boundaries.

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

Sample-based angular intra-prediction in video coding
Patent No. 11800120

Inventor(s): Minhua Zhou (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17548315 on 12/10/2021 (683 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for processing a prediction unit (PU) to generate predicted samples is provided that includes computing predicted samples for samples of the PU using sample-based angular intra-prediction (SAP) when lossless coding is enabled for the PU, and computing predicted samples for the samples of the PU using block-based angular intra-prediction when lossless coding is not enabled for the PU. Computation of the predicted using SAP includes determining an intra-prediction angle for the PU, and computing a predicted sample for each sample of the samples in the PU based on linear interpolation of two reference samples adjacent to the sample, wherein the two reference samples are selected according to the intra-prediction angle.

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

Method for deriving a motion vector
Patent No. 11800150

Inventor(s): Christopher A. Segall (Camas, WA)
Assignee(s): Velos Media, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17825947 on 05/26/2022 (516 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for decoding video includes creating a first list of motion vectors from at least one neighboring block in a current frame of the video and creating a second list of motion vectors from at least one previous block in a temporally earlier frame of the video. A third list of motion vectors is created based upon the first list and the second list. Based upon receiving a motion vector competition control parameter selecting one of the motion vectors from the third list, wherein the second list of motion vectors is further based upon a flooring function.

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

System for automated video creation and sharing
Patent No. 11800186

Inventor(s): Emily Williams (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: GUNTIN GUST, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17829831 on 06/01/2022 (510 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining image information via a communication network from equipment of a video producer; analyzing the image information to identify video content segments, to detect one or more objects, and/or to determine a tonality of at least one of the video content segments; obtaining preferences regarding editing the video content segments; editing the video content segments in accordance with the preferences using an algorithm executing on a processing system; generating an edited video based on the editing; providing the edited video to equipment of audience members, generating success metrics for the edited video; and modifying the algorithm in accordance with the success metrics. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Methods and devices to identify focal objects
Patent No. 11800224

Inventor(s): Andrew Hodgson (Edingburgh, , GB), Darin K. Winterton (San Jose, CA), Donald Baxter (Stirling, , GB), Gordon Lunn (Linlithgow, , GB), Kalyan-Kumar Vadlamudi-Reddy (San Jose, CA), Olivier Pothier (Sceaux, , FR)
Assignee(s): STMicroelectronics, Inc. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17987280 on 11/15/2022 (343 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes dividing a field of view into a plurality of zones and sampling the field of view to generate a photon count for each zone of the plurality of zones, identifying a focal sector of the field of view and analyzing each zone to select a final focal object from a first prospective focal object and a second prospective focal object.

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

Method and apparatus for an imaging device
Patent No. 11800244

Inventor(s): Masoud Vaziri (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17887435 on 08/13/2022 (437 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment of an image recording apparatus includes an eyeglass frame, at least one first optical unit disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing a main scene image, and at least one second optical unit disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing an auxiliary scene image. The first and the second field of view of the user at least partially overlap. The image resolution of the main scene image is lower than the image resolution of the main scene image and the field of view of the main scene image is larger than the field of view of the auxiliary scene image. The image recording apparatus further includes at least one processor for receiving the main and the auxiliary scene images, and generating a modified resolution copy of the main scene image based on the auxiliary scene image.

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

Interlinked geo-fencing
Patent No. 11800314

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17176286 on 02/16/2021 (980 days app to issue)

Abstract: Arrangements for generating geo-fences for automatically authenticating a user or authorizing event processing are provided. In some exampleser data associated with a location of the user or mobile device of the user may be received. Further, data associated with successful processing of an event may be received. In some arrangements, this data may be used to generate a first geo-fence. The geo-fenced area may be considered a trusted zone within which a user may be automatically authenticated and/or events may be automatically authorized and/or processed. In some examples, additional user data may be received and analyzed using machine learning to predict second or subsequent geo-fence locations. Based on the analyzed data, one or more additional geo-fences or geo-fenced areas may be generated and interlinked with the initial geo-fence.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Authorized use of personal controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices by device location eligibility
Patent No. 11800365

Inventor(s): Alice J. Clements (Coppell, TX), Connor Pickens (Little Elm, TX), Isaac Parampottil (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Securus Technologies, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17122533 on 12/15/2020 (1043 days app to issue)

Abstract: In embodiments for authorized use of personal controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices by device location eligibility within a controlled-environment facility, each resident device, itself, determines whether the device is authorized to operate within a particular area within the facility that the device is entering or attempting to operate in, and/or whether the device is authorized to operate one or more particular application programs (apps) and/or device functions within the particular area. The device, itself, allows operation of the device, and/or allows operation of the particular app(s) and/or device functions, in response to a determination that the device is authorized to do so within the particular area. However, the device, itself, suspends its operation, and/or operation of the particular app(s) and/or device functions, in response to a determination that the device is not authorized to itself operate, or operate the app(s) and/or device functions, within the particular area.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for wideband PRACH configuration for NR unlicensed
Patent No. 11800371

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17457027 on 11/30/2021 (693 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting a shared spectrum channel access is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), a set of higher layer parameters including a subcarrier spacing of a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble, a logical root index (i[subscript]log[/subscript]) for the PRACH preamble, and an index (zeroCorrelationZoneConfg); determining a sequence length (L[subscript]RA[/subscript]) for the PRACH preamble based on the subcarrier spacing of the PRACH preamble; determining a physical root index (i[subscript]phy[/subscript]) for the PRACH preamble based on the logical root index (i[subscript]log[/subscript]); determining a cyclic shift (N[subscript]CS[/subscript]) for the PRACH preamble based on the index (zeroCorrelationZoneConfg); generating the PRACH preamble based on the determined sequence length L[subscript]RA[/subscript], the determined physical root index i[subscript]phy[/subscript], and the determined cyclic shift N[subscript]CS[/subscript]; and transmitting, to the base station (BS) over the shared spectrum channel, the PRACH preamble.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) emulated channel measurements and evaluation
Patent No. 11800384

Inventor(s): Rakesh Taori (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (Louisville, CO)
Law Firm: Polsinelli PC (Local + 15 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17389912 on 07/30/2021 (816 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system or method for emulating wireless channels, including a multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) channel, for evaluation of a wireless system is provided. To emulate the wireless channel, a series of in-field measurements of the wireless signal may be obtained and used to configure one or more communication devices for the signal evaluation. A virtual circular antenna may be controlled to obtain a first set of measurements based on a first trigger signal and a second set of measurements based on a second trigger signal delayed from the first trigger signal. The second set of measurements of the wireless signal, in addition to the first set of measurements, may approximate or may be an equivalent of the MIMO channel. The obtained or derived characteristics of the in-field wireless signal may be used to emulate a channel in a laboratory setting to evaluate one or more aspects of a wireless communication system.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Location reporting handling
Patent No. 11800432

Inventor(s): Jayshree Bharatia (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Ofinno, LLC (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17539396 on 12/01/2021 (692 days app to issue)

Abstract: A first base station receives a first request to notify a change of a closed access group (CAG) area of a wireless device. The first base station determines the change of the CAG area of the wireless device, and sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF) and based on the determining, a location report message indicating the change of the CAG area of the wireless device.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatus for efficient wakeup of wireless device
Patent No. 11800448

Inventor(s): Asaf Even-Chen (Rehobot, , IL), Avi Baum (Giva”t Shmuel, , IL), Oran Naftali (Petah Tikvah, , IL), Yuval Jakira (Tel Aviv, , IL)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17943129 on 09/12/2022 (407 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a controller configured to: receive a first decoded beacon frame which includes a first indication of a first data transmission; receive a second decoded beacon frame which includes a second indication of a second data transmission; compare the first and second decoded beacon frames to determine common bytes in the first and second decoded beacon frames; determine an expected time of receiving the common bytes in a third beacon frame; control a device to enter into a low power mode; and control the device to wake up from the low power mode at a time to receive and decode at least a portion of the third beacon frame, in which the time to wake up is based on the expected time to receive the common bytes instead of based on an expected time to receive a preamble at a start of the third beacon frame.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for NR sidelink SS/PBCH block
Patent No. 11800473

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX), Li Guo (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17663172 on 05/12/2022 (530 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of a first UE comprises: determining a sidelink synchronization identity (SL-SID) and a set of resources; generating at least one sidelink synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (S-SSB) based on the SL-SID and the set of resources, wherein each S-SSB of the at least one S-SSB includes first two symbols for a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS) and second two symbols for a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS); generating a first sequence corresponding to the S-PSS, wherein the first sequence is determined based on a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulated M-sequence with a 127 of sequence length and a low cross-correlation with a PSS; generating a second sequence corresponding to the S-SSS, wherein the second sequence is determined based on a BPSK modulated Gold-sequence with a 127 of sequence length; and transmitting, the at least one S-SSB over sidelink channels established with the second UE.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Uplink timing and frequency synchronization
Patent No. 11800479

Inventor(s): Shiyang Leng (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17304937 on 06/28/2021 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for uplink timing and frequency synchronization in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station (BS), information indicating satellite ephemeris information of a communication satellite associated with the BS, a common timing advance (TA), and a compensated frequency offset (FO). The method further includes transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) based on the common TA and the compensated FO and receiving a random access response (RAR) indicating a UE-specific TA and FO. The method further includes, for transmission of an uplink (UL) channel, adjusting a TA and pre-compensating a FO based on the UE-specific TA and FO, respectively.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Logical control channels and implementation in a network
Patent No. 11800498

Inventor(s): Manish Jindal (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Charter Communications Operating, LLC (St. Louis, MO)
Law Firm: Armis IP Law, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17188347 on 03/01/2021 (967 days app to issue)

Abstract: A communication management resource (such as disposed at a network management node or other location) allocates bandwidth in a physical communication link to convey communication data associated with first customer premises equipment. In one implementation, the allocated bandwidth in the physical communication link is partitioned in accordance with wireless bandwidth supported by the first customer premises equipment. For example, in one embodiment, the allocated bandwidth of the physical communication link is mapped to convey corresponding data communicated over wireless bandwidth used by the first customer premises equipment. The communication management resource establishes a control channel over the physical communication link between the network management node and the first customer premises equipment. Via the control channel, the communication management resource then transmits a command over the control channel from the network management node to the first customer premises equipment. The command controls operation of the first customer premises equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Simultaneously broadcasting acknowledgements of reception of uplink wireless communication
Patent No. 11800540

Inventor(s): Vijay Lewis (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): Skylo Technologies, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17683867 on 03/01/2022 (602 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for communicating through a wireless link are disclosed. A method includes scheduling, by a server, communication between a base station and a plurality of hubs, receiving, by the base station, the scheduled communication, providing, to each hub, a data profile that includes a periodicity, an offset, and a carrier frequency based on the scheduled communication, receiving, by the base station, uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs according to the data profile of each of the hubs and according to the scheduled communication, and simultaneously broadcasting, by the base station, acknowledgements of reception of uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs.

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

Collision avoidance between EPDCCH and aperiodic CSI-RS
Patent No. 11800561

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Christopher Weisberg, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17199769 on 03/12/2021 (956 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, wireless devices and network nodes for avoiding collision between a downlink control channel and a aperiodic channel state information reference signal, aperiodic CSI-RS, are provided. According to some aspects, a method is provided that includes receiving an aperiodic channel state information reference signal, aperiodic CSI-RS, based on an assumption that the aperiodic CSI-RS is not present in physical layer resources corresponding to a downlink control channel set.

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

Electronic substrate having differential coaxial vias
Patent No. 11800636

Inventor(s): Markarand Ramkrishna Kulkarni (Dallas, TX), Snehamay Sinha (Plano, TX), Tapobrata Bandyopadhyay (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17483726 on 09/23/2021 (761 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic substrate includes a dielectric core, a first conducting layer on a first side of the core and a second conducting layer on the second side of the core opposite the first side. At least one differential coaxial through-via includes a first inner signal through-via that is at least electrical conductor lined for a first signal path and at least a second inner signal through-via that is also at least electrical conductor lined positioned side-by-side and being dielectrically isolated from the first inner signal through-via for a second signal path. An annular-shaped outer ground shield enclosure is at least conductor lined that surrounds and is dielectrically isolated from both the first and second inner signal through-vias.

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Baby apparel
Patent No. D002152

Inventor(s): Amanda Jackson (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Doodalou LLC (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Harper Bates LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29738129 on 06/15/2020 (1226 days app to issue)