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 indicate 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 12/24/24 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)
133 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 19
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 2
E: Fixed Constructions 4
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 3
G: Physics 42
H: Electricity 44
Design: 6
Reissue: 1
TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)
Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 17
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 6
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 5
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 5
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 4
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 3
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 3
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.) 3
Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas) 3
Unassigned 12
TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)
Robert Allen Cocanougher Jr. (North Richland Hills) 3
Emad Noorizadeh (Plano) 2
Eric R. Anderson (Montclair, N.J.) 2
Matt Kovacevich (Carlsbad, Calif.) 2
Michael Hallack (Carlsbad, Calif.) 2
Mohamed Seck (Aubrey) 2
Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony) 2
Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound) 2
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Patent information is provided by Joe Chiarella, founder of patent analytics company Patent Index and publisher of The Inventiveness Index. For additional details on the patents granted below, search the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database.
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