Beyond Monolithic 3D, other companies with notable patents granted this week include:

7-Eleven’s action detection during image tracking
Auradine’s overclocking system for digital currency mining and method of operation
Capital One Services’ system for detecting unmanaged resources in cloud-based data warehousing system
Edgeverve Systems’ method for extracting information based on user interactions performed on a screen of a computing system
HighLevel’s spam blocking using artificial intelligence in a tiered software framework
Intellective AI’s adaptive anomaly context description
Micron Technology’s selective cache line memory encryption
PlentyofFish Media’s systems for balancing device notification
Si-Bone’s implants for spinal fixation
STMicroelectronics’ high dose implantation for ultrathin semiconductor-on-insulator substrates
The University of Texas System’s systems for analyzing brain lesions with longitudinal 3D MRI data
Textron Innovations’ unmanned rotorcraft with dual cargo doors
Toyota’s lane change assist for inexperienced driver
Verizon’s identification of anomalous telecommunication service usage

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 9/30/25 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 7
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 11
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 1
E: Fixed Constructions 6
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 2
G: Physics 48
H: Electricity 33

DESIGN: 10
REISSUE: 1

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 8
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 6
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 4
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 4
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 3
Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock) 3
Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland) 3
Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson) 3
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 3

Unassigned 7

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 2
Caleb Hix (McKinney) 2
Devaki Chandramouli (Plano) 2
Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen) 2
Jin-Woo Han (San Jose, Calif.) 2
Noah House (Sachse) 2
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 2
Paul Wolfe (Bridgeport) 2
Ross Martin (Roanoke) 2
Snehal Desai (Richardson) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Storage system
Patent No. 12426708

Inventor(s): Eric Matthew Walton (Frisco, TX), Scott Alan Mestan (Frisco, TX), Shelby Alexis Stanfield (McKinney, TX), Steven Jeffery Gluck (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Yum Connect, LLC (Louisville, KY)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18529837 on 12/05/2023 (665 days app to issue)

Abstract: A storage system is provided that includes a top, a bottom, a front, a back, a left side wall, and a right side wall. A storage area is defined by the top, bottom, left and right side walls. A plurality of full shelves are located within the storage area and extend between the left and right side walls. A plurality of partial shelves are located within the storage area, some of the partial shelves extend from the left side wall and some of the partial shelves extend from the right side wall. Removable handles are located on the left and right side walls. A skirt extends around at least a portion of a lower side of the bottom.

[A47B] TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE (jointing of furniture F16B 12/00)

Longitudinal driver monitoring for medical conditions: cognitive impairments
Patent No. 12426829

Inventor(s): John K. Lenneman (Okemos, 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: 17891059 on 08/18/2022 (1139 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for detecting a cognitive status of a driver of a vehicle includes a first sensor configured to detect vehicle performance data, a second sensor configured to detect driver condition data, and an electrical control unit (ECU) coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor. The ECU is configured to receive the vehicle performance data corresponding to the cognitive status of the driver, receive the driver condition data corresponding to the cognitive status of the driver, and transmit the vehicle performance data and the driver condition data to a remote device.

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

Surgical cutting guides designed for anatomical landmarks
Patent No. 12426902

Inventor(s): Devid R. Zille (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): OsteoMed LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17006603 on 08/28/2020 (1859 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present application describes various embodiments of guides that are designed in accordance with one or more anatomical landmarks near an operated bone (or portion thereof). In aspects, at least a portion of a guide is designed to conform to the shape of one or more anatomical landmarks in order to attach (or latch) the guide to at least one of the one or more anatomical landmarks. In aspects, the contact surface (or inner contour) of a guide may also be designed to follow at least a portion of the contour of the operated bone. The landmark-conforming and/or contour-following design of the guide may assist surgeons in the placement of the guide.

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

Intraocular lens platform having improved haptic force distribution
Patent No. 12427011

Inventor(s): Jian Liu (Keller, TX), John Evan Radle (Flower Mound, TX), Rakhi Jain (Fort Worth, TX), Stephen John Collins (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17651344 on 02/16/2022 (1322 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optic comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and an optic edge extending between the anterior surface and the posterior surface, the optic having an optical axis. The ophthalmic lens further includes a plurality of haptics extending from a periphery of the optic, each of the plurality of haptics including a gusset region, a distal region, and an elbow region connecting the gusset region to the distal region. The gusset region of each of the plurality of haptics extends from the periphery of the optic and spans a portion of the periphery of the optic. In addition, the gusset region of each of the plurality of haptics monotonically increases in thickness with increased distance from the periphery of the optic, while the distal region of each of the plurality of haptics monotonically decreases in thickness with increased distance from the elbow region.

[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]

Implants for spinal fixation and or fusion
Patent No. 12427034

Inventor(s): Isador H. Lieberman (Plano, TX), Jeffrey B. Phelps (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): SI-Bone Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Shay Glenn LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18311820 on 05/03/2023 (881 days app to issue)

Abstract: Bone implants, including methods of use and assembly. The bone implants, which are optionally composite implants, generally include a distal anchoring region and a growth region that is proximal to the distal anchoring region. The distal anchoring region can have one or more distal surface features that adapt the distal anchoring region for anchoring into iliac bone. The growth region can have one or more growth features that adapt the growth region to facilitate at least one of bony on-growth, in-growth, or through-growth. The implants may be positioned along a posterior sacral alar-iliac (”SAI”) trajectory. The implants may be coupled to one or more bone stabilizing constructs, such as rod elements thereof.

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

Graft compression system
Patent No. 12427039

Inventor(s): Daniel A. Worrel (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): SUREMKA, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18078324 on 12/09/2022 (1026 days app to issue)

Abstract: A graft compression system for compressing soft tissue grafts used in connection with reconstructive surgery. The graft compression system includes an upper press body and lower press body, pivotally couple to one another, each having inner sides having a plurality of parallel semi-circular shaped channels formed thereon. The plurality of parallel semi-circular shaped channels have sequentially decreasing channel widths. The upper press body and said lower press body of the graft compression system are configured to pivot about a pivot pin such that the inner sides abut one another, and such that the two sets of semi-circular shaped channels are substantially aligned with one another so as to receive a graft for compression. A screw press barrel is attached to the lower press body, on a side opposite the pivot pin, and is configured to compress the upper press body and lower press body.

Encapsulation of external components in active implantable medical devices
Patent No. 12427323

Inventor(s): Alexander Loo (Redwood City, CA), David K. Peterson (Novato, CA), Peng Cong (Burlingame, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17597527 on 07/13/2020 (1905 days app to issue)

Abstract: An implantable medical device is described. The implantable medical device includes an enclosure for receiving and hermitically sealing active components. A header is connected to the enclosure and encloses other components of the device. A communications antenna is encapsulated in a bio-compatible material and connected to an exterior surface of the enclosure. The communications antenna is electrically connected to the active components via an access window of the header. The access window is backfilled after the connections are made.

[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]

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

Door jig press
Patent No. 12427628

Inventor(s): Jesus Adrian Lopez Garcia (Tijuana, , MX)
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: 18318518 on 05/16/2023 (868 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using vehicle door jigs with a door jig press. A vehicle door jig can be inserted into a press, and the press can be activated by simultaneously pressing and holding down two or more actuation mechanisms. The press can tighten one or more hooks of the vehicle door jig by pressing the one or more hooks against a base of the vehicle door jig. Releasing the two or more actuation mechanisms can complete pressing of the vehicle door jig.

[B25B] TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING, OR HOLDING

Impellers for cutting machines and cutting machines equipped with impellers
Patent No. 12427688

Inventor(s): Betsy M. Hicks (Carrollton, TX), Keith A. Barber (Frisco, TX), Rebecca G. Gann (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Frito-Lay North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18388423 on 11/09/2023 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: Machines for cutting products and impellers suitable for use with the machines. The impellers include a lower plate having a central zone and paddles configured with the lower plate outside of the central zone to direct material to the cutting head. At least a first exit slot is located in the lower plate and extending through the lower plate to define a passageway to enable foreign debris at the upper surface to exit the impeller through the passageway.

[B26D] CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING (disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments B02C 18/00; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C 5/02; hand-held cutting tools B26B) [5]

Methods and systems for controlling battery electric locomotives
Patent No. 12427867

Inventor(s): Keith Wait (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. (LaGrange, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18481310 on 10/05/2023 (726 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling battery electric locomotives are disclosed. The method for controlling battery electric locomotives includes receiving, via one or more processors, a first set of data associated with the battery electric locomotives of a consist in a train, wherein the first set of data includes battery system data. The method includes processing, via one or more processors, the first set of data to determine the operating conditions of the battery electric locomotives. The method includes causing, via one or more processors, an update to the in-memory representation of the battery electric locomotives in a database to set the battery electric locomotives to a run-state mode or a dynamic braking mode. The method includes generating, via one or more processors, one or more commands for operating the battery electric locomotives of the train based on the updated in-memory representation.

[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]

Transport battery repurposing
Patent No. 12427887

Inventor(s): Emily S. Lerner (Ypsilanti, MI), Jordan Choby (Ann Arbor, MI), Kyle R. McMahon (Canton, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17572900 on 01/11/2022 (1358 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a time when a battery of an electric transport loses efficiency below a threshold, determining a device apart from the transport that can be powered above the threshold using the battery, and providing a net gain or a net loss related to the electric transport and the device, when the battery is removed from the electric transport to power the device.

Bicycle mount
Patent No. 12427929

Inventor(s): Katriena M. McKeever (Livonia, 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: 18202611 on 05/26/2023 (858 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to mounting bicycles to vehicles. In one arrangement, a bicycle mount is disclosed. The bicycle mount includes shafts forming a spatial arrangement around a central bicycle mount axis. The shafts define shaft axes, shaft lengths, and one or more bores extending axially along the shaft length. The one or more bores are sized to receive a front wheel axle of a bicycle, such that when the front wheel axle is installed to one of the bores, the bicycle is mounted to the shaft when the front wheel is removed from the bicycle. The bicycle mount also includes cross-members located between the shafts and connecting the shafts in the spatial arrangement.

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

Lane change assist for inexperienced driver
Patent No. 12428033

Inventor(s): Amr Abdelraouf (Foster City, CA), Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, CA), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18190178 on 03/27/2023 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving position data of an ego vehicle and of one or more surrounding vehicles of the ego vehicle via sensors of the ego vehicle while the ego vehicle and the surrounding vehicles are travelling along a road, predicting, via a machine learning model, a trajectory of the ego vehicle and trajectories of the one or more surrounding vehicles based on the position data, generating a routing instruction for the ego vehicle based on the predicted trajectory of the ego vehicle and the predicted trajectories of the one or more surrounding vehicles, and transmitting the routing instruction to a display associated with the ego vehicle.

[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]

Unmanned rotorcraft with dual cargo doors
Patent No. 12428148

Inventor(s): Berlin B. Benfield (Grapevine, TX), Steven R. Ivans (Ponder, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17558307 on 12/21/2021 (1379 days app to issue)

Abstract: There is disclosed in one example an unmanned vertical lift aircraft, comprising: an airframe; a drive system configured for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL); a power plant to power the drive system; and an internal cargo bay comprising a fore aperture and an aft aperture, the fore and aft apertures having dimensions substantially conforming to a cross section of the internal cargo bay, and the internal cargo bay comprising a substantially linear and open volume between the fore and aft apertures.

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

Packaging skate system and method
Patent No. 12428182

Inventor(s): Harrison J. Hord (The Colony, TX), Joshua Cody Collinsworth (Whitewright, TX)
Assignee(s): Encore Wire Corporation (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Warren Rhoades LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18084769 on 12/20/2022 (1015 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for wrapping a plastic film over a wire or cable wound on a spool or reel. The system comprising a packaging assembly, the packaging assembly further comprising a plastic film, a plastic film payoff shaft connected to the plastic film, a vertical support connected to the plastic film payoff shaft, a first conveyor roller coupled to the vertical support, a rotational drive system mechanically coupled to the first conveyor roller, a spool or reel, the spool or reel comprising wound wire or cable, wherein the rotational drive system rotates the first conveyor roller which rotates the spool or reel, pulling the plastic film to partially surround the wire or cable on the spool or reel as the spool or reel is rotated.

[B65B] MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C 1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B 25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B 1/00-B67B 6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C 7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C 9/00)

Communication cabinet lift and transport system
Patent No. 12428275

Inventor(s): Andrea Marie Ozuna (Fort Worth, TX), Anthony Lynn Williams (Fort Worth, TX), Karyne Poissant Prevratil (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): CORNING RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Corning, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17705491 on 03/28/2022 (1282 days app to issue)

Abstract: A communication cabinet lift and transport system is provided including a lift and transport assembly having a support bar with at least one attachment bracket configured to be attached to a frame of the communication cabinet and a caster jack disposed near a either end of the support bar. Each caster jack including a bar mount configured to affix the caster jack to the support bar, a caster wheel disposed at an end of the caster jack, and a jack assembly configured to extend and retract the caster wheel relative to the bar mount. The communication cabinet lift and transport system is configured to raise and lower the communication cabinet relative to a surface, and translate the communication cabinet about the surface when the lift and transport system is in a raised position.

[B66F] HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING, OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD (mounting artificial islands on piles or like supports E02B 17/00; scaffolds combined with lifting devices E04G 1/22, E04G 3/28; lifting devices for sliding forms E04G 11/24; lifting of buildings E04G 23/06; shores or struts E04G 25/00; lifts or other hoisting devices on ladders E06C 7/12; props for mining E21D 15/00)

Fluid injection systems, apparatus, and methods including flexible hoses for wellhead sites
Patent No. 12428944

Inventor(s): Peter Middleton (Aledo, TX), Steven Post (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): FORUM US, INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18481841 on 10/05/2023 (726 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to fluid injection systems, apparatus, methods, and associated components thereof that include flexible hoses for wellhead sites. In one implementation, a fluid injection system for wellhead sites includes a platform, a pump manifold mounted to the platform, and a pair of rails mounted to the platform. The fluid injection system includes a trolley disposed between the pair of rails and above the pump manifold. The trolley is movable along the pair of rails. The fluid injection system includes an articulation arm device mounted to the trolley. The articulation arm device includes one or more pivot joints coupled between two or more arms, and a connection device coupled to an end arm of the two or more arms.

[B67D] DISPENSING, DELIVERING, OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes B08B 9/02; emptying or filling of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers, not otherwise provided for B67C; water supply E03; pipe systems F17D; domestic hot-water supply systems F24D; measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level, metering by volume G01F; coin-freed or like apparatus G07F) [5]

Apparatus and method for unpacking components in tape- and-reel
Patent No. 12432894

Inventor(s): Fei Huang (Chengdu, , CN), Jiang Nan (Chengdu, , CN), Yaping Yang (Chengdu, , CN)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18737875 on 06/07/2024 (480 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device is provided for unpackaging components encased between a first tape body and a second tape body of a sealed tape. The device includes a component collection device including a cavity for receiving components falling out of the sealed tape being de-taped. A de-taping device is attached to the component collection device. The de-taping device includes a support base held over the cavity, and a shaft on one side of the support base. The support base with the shaft is configured to enable one of the first tape body and the second tape body to be extendable around the shaft and the support base and to be pullable, such that the first tape body and the second tape body are separated and the components fall out of the sealed tape. The support base may include a through-hole configured for sealed tapes to pass through and to be held.

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

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

Systems and methods for the enhancement of midstream-liquid resources for direct metal extraction
Patent No. 12428702

Inventor(s): Hood H. Whitson (Fort Worth, TX), Sarah Hause (Fort Worth, TX), Wesley Paul Kowalczuk (Johnson City, TN), William L. Bourcier (Livermore, CA)
Assignee(s): Lithos Industries Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: FisherBroyles, LLP (Local + 17 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18807893 on 08/16/2024 (410 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a system and method for enhancing the extraction of lithium from a liquid resource. A volume of midstream-liquid resource may be received from a site like a pipeline, tank, or disposal site where the midstream-liquid resource may undergo a pre-treatment. A treatment regimen may be applied to remove hydrocarbons, organic matter, hydrogen sulfide, ions, and suspended solids along with reduction of excess pre-treatment chemicals and byproducts. Embodiments may further include critical-material extraction. The system for this process includes a pre-treatment station, a filtration station, and a direct-lithium-extraction (DLE) unit, with a reverse-osmosis station to concentrate the lithium product.

[C22B] PRODUCTION OR REFINING OF METALS (making metallic powder or suspensions thereof B22F 9/00; production of metals by electrolysis or electrophoresis C25); PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS

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

Elastomer compounds for use within a borehole
Patent No. 12428546

Inventor(s): James H. Ryan (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17005625 on 08/28/2020 (1859 days app to issue)

Abstract: A downhole tool including a downhole motor. The downhole motor may include a housing, a stator positioned within the housing, and a rotor positioned within the stator. The stator may include an elastomer compound that may include at least one of NBR or HNBR, process aids, and at least one of zinc oxide or graphite.

[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]

Composite membrane for building applications
Patent No. 12428843

Inventor(s): Brian A. Davis (Kennett Square, PA), Brian E. Duffy (Wayne, NJ), Daniel Podewils (Evansville, IN), Eric R. Anderson (Montclair, NJ), Jeffrey Avitabile (Lodi, NJ), Joseph Nigro (Wayne, NJ), Li-Ying Yang (Whippany, NJ),
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18342573 on 06/27/2023 (826 days app to issue)

Abstract: A roofing composite membrane includes a base layer including a first thermoplastic polyolefin. A weight of the base layer is between 5 and 25 grams per square foot. A coating layer at least partially coats the base layer. The coating layer includes at least one inorganic additive, and a second thermoplastic polyolefin including polypropylene and having a melt flow rate between 0.5 grams per 10 minutes and 12 grams per 10 minutes.

[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)

Security fence
Patent No. 12428869

Inventor(s): Geoff T. Luczycki (Garland, TX), Kevin T. Burt (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Fortress Iron, LP (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17982588 on 11/08/2022 (1057 days app to issue)

Abstract: A security fence includes a pair of posts and a plurality of rails supported by the pair of posts and disposed vertically spaced apart. Each rail includes a bottom wall and an upper wall, each defining a plurality of spaced apart openings. A plurality of pickets are horizontally spaced apart along the plurality of rails, each picket extends through a respective bottom opening and a respective upper opening of each rail. A slide lock bar is disposed within at least one of the plurality of rails and is supported by the bottom wall of the one of the plurality of rails. The slide lock bar traverses the plurality of pickets and is received by a notch in each picket. Engagement of the slide lock bar with the notches enables angular displacement of each picket with respect to each rail.

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

Magnetically coupled inflow control device
Patent No. 12428922

Inventor(s): Bruce Edward Scott (Carrollton, TX), Kevin Robin Passmore (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17836447 on 06/09/2022 (1209 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is an ICD landing nipple. The ICD landing nipple, in one aspect, includes a housing having a passageway extending from a first end to a second end thereof, one or more housing openings extending through a housing sidewall thickness for access to a subterranean formation, and an isolated chamber located in the housing. The ICD landing nipple, in accordance with this aspect, may further include an actuator positioned within the isolated chamber, and one or more landing nipple magnets coupled to the actuator within the isolated chamber, the one or more landing nipple magnets configured to move from a first landing nipple magnet state to a second landing nipple state when the actuator moves from a first actuator state to a second actuator state, the one or more landing nipple magnets configured to magnetically coupled to one or more ICD insert magnets located in the passageway.

Volumetric compensation for sealing performance under large temperature swing conditions
Patent No. 12428927

Inventor(s): Shobeir Pirayeh Gar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18095413 on 01/10/2023 (994 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for creating seals that expand during temperature drops. The seals may include a negative CTE material that is either internal or external to the sealing element; shape memory alloys (SMA) which exhibit negative CTE during a phase change; and/or external lattice structures with positive CTE components but negative overall CTE.

Perforating gun with self-orienting perforating charges
Patent No. 12428938

Inventor(s): Jason Karl Cook (Alvarado, TX), Jason Paul Metzger (Alvarado, TX), Matthew Craig Mlcak (Alvarado, TX), Randall Scott Moore (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17692384 on 03/11/2022 (1299 days app to issue)

Abstract: A perforating gun is disclosed with shaped charges at a preferential orientation. An example includes a gun body and a charge carrier disposed within the gun body. The charge carrier defines a longitudinal carrier axis and has a plurality of axially-spaced charge mounting locations. A plurality of charges are each pivotally mounted to the charge carrier at one of the respective charge mounting locations about a charge pivot axis transverse to the longitudinal carrier axis. The charges may preferentially align in response to gravity so their orientation remains constant throughout a range of inclination of the wellbore.

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

Illuminated sensing edge assembly for swing gate barrier system
Patent No. 12429179

Inventor(s): Kevin Ward (Midlothian, TX)
Assignee(s): MILLER EDGE, INC. (West Grove, PA)
Law Firm: Panitch Schwarze Belisario Nadel LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18781423 on 07/23/2024 (434 days app to issue)

Abstract: An illuminated sensing edge assembly has an axially elongate, triple tiered body including a first track, a second track and a third track. The first track is configured to connect with a swing gate barrier arm such that the body underlies the barrier arm when mounted thereto. The second track is constructed of an at least translucent material. An LED strip axially extends through the second channel and is configured to emit light to notify individuals of the barrier arm. A sensing edge underlies the body and is secured to the third track. The sensing edge is configured to elicit a stoppage or reversal of a closing operation of the barrier arm upon a force being applied to the sensing edge.

[F21S] NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF [7]

Ridgeline roof clip
Patent No. 12429199

Inventor(s): Stacy L. Kennedy (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): CANNY SYSTEMS, LLC (Mansfield, TX)
Law Firm: ICE MILLER LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19040669 on 01/29/2025 (244 days app to issue)

Abstract: A clip device for holding a bulb in fixed relationship relative to a ridgeline of a roof. The clip device includes a front side and a back side opposite the front side, a top side and a bottom side opposite the top side, and a first side and a second side opposite the first side. Two shoulders transition into corresponding legs having at least one hook on each leg. A top portion of the clip device includes a finger portions terminating with respective clip portions at their tips. Tabs are arranged along the fingers. The legs are configured such that spreading the legs away from one another causes the finger portions to bend toward one another, and squeezing the legs together causes the finger portions to bend away from one another.

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

P H Y S I C S

Sensor integrated circuit with current output calibration
Patent No. 12429503

Inventor(s): Matthew Hein (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Allegro MicroSystems, LLC (Manchester, NH)
Law Firm: DALY, CROWLEY, MOFFORD DURKEE, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18354709 on 07/19/2023 (804 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sensor integrated circuit configured to generate a sensor output current indicative of a sensed parameter includes a power connection to receive a supply voltage, a ground connection, a sensing circuit configured to generate a parameter current proportional to the sensed parameter, and an output connection at which the sensor output current is provided. An output current calibration circuit is configured to determine an offset current that corresponds to a bias voltage at the output connection equal to a fixed percentage of the supply voltage when the parameter current is substantially zero. The sensor output current is provided as a combination of the parameter current and the offset current.

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

System and method for determining cable resistance using at least one electrical parameter measured by a radio
Patent No. 12429507

Inventor(s): David Winkler (Alexandria, VA), John T. Hanley (Orland Park, IL), Khalid W. Al-Mufti (Sterling, VA), Michael R Guerin (St Charles, IL)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Fogg Powers LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18547359 on 01/26/2022 (1343 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are provided for determining a resistance of radio power electrical conductors coupling a voltage converter to a radio using electrical parameter(s) obtained from the radio.

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

System for determining leakage current of a field effect transistor over temperature
Patent No. 12429515

Inventor(s): Henry Litzmann Edwards (Garland, TX), Robert Allan Neidorff (Bedford, NH)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18442662 on 02/15/2024 (593 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for determining the leakage current of a field effect transistor over temperature includes a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) having first and second current terminals and a control terminal, wherein the first current terminal is coupled to a current measurement device. A switch is coupled to the control terminal and to a voltage source. The switch is configured to apply a voltage between a control terminal and a current terminal of the (MOSFET) responsive to a first signal, and apply approximately zero volts to the control terminal of the (MOSFET) responsive to a second signal.

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

Ophthalmic device with built-in self-test circuitry for testing an adjustable lens
Patent No. 12429711

Inventor(s): Shungneng Lee (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Christensen O”Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16935609 on 07/22/2020 (1896 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ophthalmic device includes an enclosure that is compatible for wearing in or on an eye. An adjustable lens is disposed within the enclosure. Driver circuitry is disposed within the enclosure and coupled to drive the adjustable lens and change its optical power. Built-in-self-test (BIST) circuitry is disposed within the enclosure and coupled to the adjustable lens. The BIST circuitry includes an impedance measurement circuit coupled to selectively measure an impedance of the adjustable lens. A controller is disposed within the enclosure and includes BIST control logic that measures the impedance of the adjustable lens with the impedance measurement circuit to determine a health status of the adjustable lens.

[G02C] SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES

Providing uniform background image illumination with zero-order light from a phase light modulator to a spatial light modulator
Patent No. 12429818

Inventor(s): Alexander Lyubarsky (Dallas, TX), John Ferri (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17848310 on 06/23/2022 (1195 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a phase light modulator (PLM) configured to produce background image illumination including background image light and zero-order light, a first lens array including first lenses optically coupled to the PLM and configured to project the background image light, a second lens array optically coupled to the first lens array and including second lenses configured to project the background image light, an optical tunnel extending between the first lens array and the second lens array, optically coupled to the PLM and configured to project a zero-order light, an embedded lens in the second lens array optically coupled to the optical tunnel and configured to focus the zero-order light from the optical tunnel, and focusing optics optically coupled to the second lens array and the embedded lens and configured to focus the background image light and the zero-order light onto a background image plane of a spatial light modulator.

[G03H] HOLOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OR APPARATUS (holograms, e.g. point holograms, used as ordinary optical elements G02B 5/32; analogue computers performing mathematical operations with the aid of optical elements G06E 3/00; holographic storage G11B 7/0065, G11C 13/04) [2]

System, method and apparatus for a monitoring drone
Patent No. 12429881

Inventor(s): Stephen Howard (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): OMNI CONSUMER PRODUCTS, LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16636836 on 08/07/2018 (2611 days app to issue)

Abstract: A monitoring drone method, apparatus and system. The monitoring drone includes an image capture device for taking one or more images, a charge module for powering the monitoring drone, and a move module for allowing the monitoring drone to move about a shelf wherein the image capturing device captures images as the monitoring drone moves about the shelf to produce a virtual stereoscopic vision.

[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)

Facilitating a scheduler for distributed unit power management in advanced communication networks
Patent No. 12429938

Inventor(s): Prashanth Murthy (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Amin, Turocy Watson, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18473599 on 09/25/2023 (736 days app to issue)

Abstract: Facilitating a scheduler for distributed unit power management in advanced communication networks is provided herein. A method includes, based on a processing load of a group of core processors being determined to be below a threshold traffic amount for a first transmission time slot, selecting, by network equipment comprising a processor, a core processor of the group of core processors for power management, resulting in an identified core processor. Selection of the core processor can be based on a configuration of the identified core processor. The method also includes, based on a category assigned to the identified core processor, controlling, by the network equipment, a power consumption of the identified core processor during a second transmission time slot. The network equipment comprises a distributed unit, and controlling the power consumption is performed in a layer 2 scheduler of the distributed unit.

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

User interfaces using graphical units and intersections
Patent No. 12430005

Inventor(s): Jerry Rassamni (Allen, TX), Nathaniel James Rassamni (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18313369 on 05/07/2023 (877 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure uses statistical analysis and an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to help identify a plurality of targets for emphasis. An emphasis is a real-world activity that is designed to lead to a desired behavior by a target. A user interface is presented that allows for a selection of targets in a manner that improves the health of weak strategies and indicators as predicted by the AI algorithm instead of focusing on a single overall metric for all targets being analyzed. A separate user interface provides at least two arcs that are each associated with separate types of statistical analysis (or indicators), where intersecting lines are associated with a subset of targets. At the intersections are graphical units that are color coded based on the trend of those indicators over time.

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

Generating dynamic user interface content
Patent No. 12430006

Inventor(s): Bryan Tamayo (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18457849 on 08/29/2023 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive, from a user device, a request relating to a user interface element of a user interface presented on the user device. The request may be based on a user interaction, associated with a user, with the user interface element in an initial state including first content. The device may determine, responsive to the request, second content for an expanded state of the user interface element based on one or more user interface attributes associated with the user. The device may transmit, to the user device, the second content to cause the user interface element to transition from the initial state including the first content to the expanded state including the second content.

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

Multi-processor bridge with cache allocate awareness
Patent No. 12430201

Inventor(s): Daniel Wu (Plano, TX), Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Matthew David Pierson (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18441279 on 02/14/2024 (594 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for loading data, comprising receiving a memory management command to perform a memory management operation to load data into the cache memory before execution of an instruction that requests the data, formatting the memory management command into one or more instruction for a cache controller associated with the cache memory, and outputting an instruction to the cache controller to load the data into the cache memory based on the memory management command.

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

Selective cache line memory encryption
Patent No. 12430264

Inventor(s): Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17843571 on 06/17/2022 (1201 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cache memory can maintain multiple cache lines and each cache line can include a data field, an encryption status attribute, and an encryption key attribute. The encryption status attribute can indicate whether the data field in the corresponding cache line includes encrypted or unencrypted data and the encryption key attribute can include an encryption key identifier for the corresponding cache line. In an example, a cryptographic controller can access keys from a key table to selectively encrypt or unencrypt cache data. Infrequently accessed cache data can be maintained as encrypted data, and more frequently accessed cache data can be maintained as unencrypted data. In some examples, different cache lines in the same cache memory can be maintained as encrypted or unencrypted data, and different cache lines can use respective different encryption keys.

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

Multi-port SRAM system for a distributed memory pool
Patent No. 12430270

Inventor(s): Sheau-Jiung Lee (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Milkyway Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Vedder Price P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18961439 on 11/26/2024 (308 days app to issue)

Abstract: Multiple examples are disclosed of a multi-port SRAM system for a distributed memory pool and associated methods. In one example, a system comprises a memory bus switch coupled to a plurality of memory buses; a memory pool switch coupled to one or more memory arrays; and one or more SRAM blocks coupled to the memory bus switch and the memory pool switch to convert a first transaction received on one of the plurality of memory buses to a second transaction performed on the one or more memory arrays.

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

Asynchronous method for provisioning a service using file distribution technology
Patent No. 12430295

Inventor(s): Bryan Adam Joyner (Sachse, TX), Cara Joy Drye (Pensacola, FL), Dustin Stewart Silverman (Richardson, TX), Michael Patrick Bower (Milton, FL), Patrick Stephen Trantham (Sunnyvale, CA), Philippe-Jacques Thomas Green (Ann Arbor,
Assignee(s): ZixCorp Systems, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18652023 on 05/01/2024 (517 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a provisioning manager comprises an interface and processing circuitry. The interface is configured to obtain provisioning data from a provisioning database. The processing circuitry is configured to prepare one or more configuration files based on the provisioning data. The configuration file(s) indicate how to provision one or more service instances. The processing circuitry is further configured to commit the configuration file(s) to one or more repositories in order to make the configuration file(s) available to at least one of the service instances. The processing circuitry is further configured to send one or more notifications indicating to one or more of the service instances that the configuration file(s) have been committed to the one or more repositories.

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

Disambiguation of feature graph databases
Patent No. 12430313

Inventor(s): Elijah Hall (Plano, TX), Prince Paulraj (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17959528 on 10/04/2022 (1092 days app to issue)

Abstract: A processing system may obtain a request to add at least a first feature to a feature graph database, where the request comprises a first feature ontology of the first feature, and where the first feature ontology comprises: a label of the first feature and a relationship of the first feature to a concept or to another feature. The processing system may then identify whether the first feature is a duplicate of a second feature in the feature graph database based at least upon the first feature ontology and a second feature ontology of the second feature and generate an indication of whether the first feature is a duplicate in response to the identifying.

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

Communication transmission using a communication allocation based on iterative processing
Patent No. 12430321

Inventor(s): Alyssa Lauren Fincher Noyola (Rowlett, TX), Derek Gates (Prosper, TX), Harish Govindarajulu (McKinney, TX), Katherine Marie Voss-Robinson (Frisco, TX), Shyam Kumar (Irving, TX), Valerie Colon (Little Elm, TX), Zachary Ale
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18465041 on 09/11/2023 (750 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a device may identify a plurality of individuals that form a target pool for transacting with a plurality of entities. The device may determine responsiveness associations between the plurality of individuals and the plurality of entities. The device may perform, based on the responsiveness associations and a composition of the target pool, multiple iterations of computations of respective quantities of individuals predicted to transact with one or more of the plurality of entities and respective communication allocations predicted to realize transactions for the respective quantities of individuals. Each iteration, of the multiple iterations of computations, may be initiated by an update to the composition of the target pool in response to an entity accepting a communication allocation. The device may cause, based on the entity accepting the communication allocation, transmission of a plurality of communications in accordance with the communication allocation.

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

Secure distributed document discovery via vector similarity
Patent No. 12430344

Inventor(s): Daryl Bernard Hammett (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18612996 on 03/21/2024 (558 days app to issue)

Abstract: Secure distributed document discovery via vector similarity is performed by a data discovery service. The service receives a request to perform a search using input data. The service sends the input data and an embedding protocol to different data repositories that comprise vector databases. The service receives a results from the different data repositories; each result identifies documents and corresponding document similarity scores. The service generates an overall ranking of the documents according to the document similarity scores. The service returns a query result that identifies the at least a portion of the documents and indicates the ranking of the identified documents.

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

Methods and system for detecting unmanaged resources in cloud-based data warehousing system
Patent No. 12430352

Inventor(s): Naga Venkata Sriram Vadakattu (Frisco, TX), Naveen Kumar Kilaru (Little Elm, TX), Nicole Ann Luo (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18654777 on 05/03/2024 (515 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media used by a cloud data management system for collecting data from accounts hosted by a cloud-based data warehousing system on different cloud platforms or in different cloud regions of a cloud platform. Collection of data in the multi-cloud platform and/or multi-cloud region environments may be facilitated by the on-demand creation of one or more data collection accounts. Based on the collected data, one or more data warehouse resources not managed by the cloud data management system may be discovered, configured, and onboarded to the cloud data management system.

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

Servers, systems, and methods for mapping attributes to a geographical location
Patent No. 12430367

Inventor(s): Elizabeth Ann Godsey (Dallas, TX), Heather Walden Blonsky (Lakewood, OH), Jason Louis Mitchell (Bridgeton, MO)
Assignee(s): VIZIENT, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18136814 on 04/19/2023 (895 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, the system includes one or more computer implemented algorithms that when executed combine various sources of data onto a map. In some embodiments, the system is configured to modify existing map boundaries to include and/or exclude areas. In some embodiments, the system imputes missing data within tracts by extending and/or including data from surrounding tracts. In some embodiments, the system can link disconnected tracts for the purpose of imputing missing data.

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

Systems and methods for balancing device notifications
Patent No. 12430393

Inventor(s): Fitsum Tekle (Vancouver, , CA), Jacky Lok (Vancouver, , CA), Maysam Emadi (Vancouver, , CA), Michael McDermott (Vancouver, , CA)
Assignee(s): PlentyofFish Media ULC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Onyx IP Group (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18152752 on 01/10/2023 (994 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may obtain, from a data structure, interaction information regarding first actions performed by a first device of a first entity and regarding second actions performed by a second device of a second entity. The first actions and the second actions may cause notifications to be provided to devices of a plurality of users. The device may determine, based on the interaction information, a first measure of similarity between the first entity and a first candidate entity, a second measure of similarity between the first entity and a second candidate entity, a first measure of popularity of the first candidate entity, and a second measure of popularity of the second candidate entity. The device may provide candidate information regarding the first candidate entity and regarding the second candidate entity, based on the measures of similarity and the measures of popularity.

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

Confidence generation using a neural network
Patent No. 12430402

Inventor(s): Branislav Kisacanin (Plano, TX), Eric Kangning Zhang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Ana, CA)
Law Firm: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17158743 on 01/26/2021 (1708 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate one or more confidence values associated with one or more objects identified by one or more neural networks. In at least one embodiment, one or more confidence values associated with one or more objects identified by one or more neural networks are generated based on, for example, one or more neural network outputs.

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

System and process for delivering secure computerized container based applications
Patent No. 12430410

Inventor(s): Ragunathan Srinivasan (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Orcasio Inc (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Collard Roe, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17944331 on 09/14/2022 (1112 days app to issue)

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for signing an image file as well as a process for validating the signed image file as well as a system for signing and validating these image files. The process for signing and authenticating or validating these image files comprises signing these image files with at least one private key, and then authenticating these image files with the corresponding public key. In addition, associated with the signing of these image files are custom claims or restrictions on use. Thus, along with the signing and authentication or validation of these image files, the types of use and duration of use of these image files can be controlled by the originator of the image file.

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

LCS trust system
Patent No. 12430439

Inventor(s): David Craig Lawson (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18418462 on 01/22/2024 (617 days app to issue)

Abstract: An LCS trust system includes resource devices including respective resource device pTPMs, and an SCP device including an SCP device pTPM and providing a resource management system with a resource management system vTPM. The resource management system uses the resource management system vTPM to establish a first trust relationship with the SCP device via the SCP device pTPM, and respective second trust relationships with each of the resource devices via their respective resource device pTPMs. The resource management system the uses a subset of the resource devices to provide an LCS that includes an LCS vTPM and that uses the LCS vTPM to establish a respective third trust relationship with each of the subset of the resource devices via their respective resource device pTPMs. As such, a chain of trust is provided for the LCS that is based at least upon the first, respective second, and respective third trust relationships.

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

Workspace instantiation using continuous vulnerability intelligence feedback loops
Patent No. 12430444

Inventor(s): Jason Kolodziej (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products, L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18157508 on 01/20/2023 (984 days app to issue)

Abstract: An Information Technology Decision Maker (ITDM) defines a user workspace to be received and orchestrated by a workspace orchestration Information Handling System (IHS) on a host IHS. The orchestration IHS also receives specifications of the host, scans the user workspace definition for vulnerabilities, analyzes the vulnerabilities, and generates (an) attack parameter(s) and/or (a) pattern(s) of threat(s) to the user workspace. The orchestration IHS defines a model workspace definition that includes baseline protection for workload deployment against the attack parameter(s) and/or pattern(s) of threat(s), for orchestration, with the host, on the host. The same or another orchestration IHS (local to the host IHS) traces drift in the workload on the host, generates further attack parameter(s) and/or further pattern(s) of threat(s) from the drift. The same or other orchestration IHS adjusts the model workspace definition to include protection against the further attack parameter(s) and/or further pattern(s) of threat(s), for orchestration.

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

Managing transport data expiration
Patent No. 12430467

Inventor(s): Edward Allen Cain, Jr. (Plano, TX), Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18662593 on 05/13/2024 (505 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of utilizing data, by a transport, for a period of time according to a license file, removing a first type of the data, by the transport, while the transport is operating, removing a second type of the data, by the transport when the transport ceases operating, and retaining a third type of data in memory after the transport ceases operating.

[G06Q] DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [2006.01]

System and method for adaptive optimization
Patent No. 12430539

Inventor(s): Randal Allen (Orlando, FL)
Assignee(s): INCUCOMM, INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Boisbrun Hofman, PLLC (Local + 2 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18050661 on 10/28/2022 (1068 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptively optimizing a performance function for operating a system. A performance function for a system is adaptively optimized, and utilized for the operation of the system, by selecting a first value for a first independent variable that determines an operating state of the system described by a performance function; establishing a first range of values for the first independent variable; selecting a first number of values in the first range of values to test the first independent variable; selecting first random values within the first range of values for the first independent variable based on the first number of values; evaluating the performance function at the first random values; optimizing the performance function by selecting the first value of the first independent variable from the first random values that provides a first extremum value for the performance function.

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

Supplemental system for business intelligence systems
Patent No. 12430592

Inventor(s): Edward Kaplonski (Dallas, TX), Roger Moore (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16505392 on 07/08/2019 (2276 days app to issue)

Abstract: In various implementations, a supplemental system may be provided. The supplemental system may be coupled to business intelligence environment(s) to facilitate deployment, version control, testing, and/or other processes. In some implementations, the supplemental system may be communicably coupled to an external version control. The external version control may store one or more versions of components of the business intelligence environment(s) and the supplemental system may utilize the versions to perform one or more operations, such as, but not limited to, facilitating deployment, version controlling, and/or testing. In some implementations, the supplemental system may utilize information from a ticket manager in deployments of BI Artifact(s).

Clustering of items with heterogeneous data points
Patent No. 12430608

Inventor(s): Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Foley IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17963903 on 10/11/2022 (1085 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to updating inventory of products. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for updating inventory of products including a database; at least one image capture device; and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to: process an image by: detecting units of one or more products in the image; grouping each detected unit into one or more clusters based on at least one of textual similarities, visual similarities, geometrical similarities, or relative spatial distance; detecting a product identifier for each cluster; identifying a product corresponding to the detected product identifier of each cluster; and counting the detected units associated with each cluster. The control circuit is configured to cause an update to the inventory of products in the database based on the counted detected units of each cluster.

Flexible format encryption
Patent No. 12430614

Inventor(s): 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: 18648914 on 04/29/2024 (519 days app to issue)

Abstract: Encryption is performed at the field level within a data object, in response to an encryption indicator. Encrypted fields are nulled or zeroed out and the encrypted values are stored in encryption metadata with a path identifying the locations of the encrypted fields. An encrypted data key is appended with a decryption identifier and stored in the encryption metadata. The encrypted data object may be reformatted while encrypted. The encrypted data key is extracted from the encryption metadata and the decryption identifier is used to identify a master key used to decrypt the encrypted data key. The data key is used to decrypt the encrypted values and the decrypted values are stored in the fields identified by the paths.

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

Overclocking system for digital currency mining and method of operation
Patent No. 12430623

Inventor(s): David Carlson (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Auradine, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Shield Intellectual Property PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18784768 on 07/25/2024 (432 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic system for calculating and mining digital currency using circuits optimized for efficient utilization of hash engine circuitry by determining an effective hash clock operational frequency for one or more hash engines in the system. The hash engines can be evaluated to determine a maximum operational frequency for a given error threshold. The hash engines can also be partitioned into one or more hash engine groups to allow different groups to operate at different overclocked frequencies.

Systems and methods for real-time identification of an anomaly of a block transactions graph of a blockchain
Patent No. 12430642

Inventor(s): Ahmed Mohammed Abdelrahman Mohammed (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): U.S. Bank (Minneapolis, MN)
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17987349 on 11/15/2022 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods to identify blockchain anomalies include an AI tool comprising a processor, a GPU, and a GNN model to extract graph parameters from a block transactions graph of a blockchain block, generate statistical approximations of the graph based on the graph parameters, compare the statistical approximations to at least one anomaly threshold, detect an irregular graph pattern in the graph when the statistical approximations exceed the at least one anomaly threshold, identify via the GNN model an anomaly within the block transactions graph based on the irregular graph pattern, generate via the GPU an address graph based on the block transactions graph when the anomaly is identified to display one or more addresses associated with the anomaly, and generate an alert when the anomaly is identified.

Systems and methods for request validation
Patent No. 12430673

Inventor(s): Dhanraj J. Nair (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17750701 on 05/23/2022 (1226 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to disclosed embodiments, a request validation framework is provided for managing requests. An aspect of the present disclosure is a method of managing request, the method comprising receiving request data, applying a feature extraction model the request data to extract at least one feature, applying a predictive model to the at least one feature, determining an output of the predictive model, the output indicating an action that may be performed in relation to the request; and performing the action with respect to the request.

Secure identifier integration
Patent No. 12430685

Inventor(s): Damien Patton (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TRETE, Inc. (Propser, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18616159 on 03/25/2024 (554 days app to issue)

Abstract: In certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes creating a wallet for asset tokens and creating an account for a first user upon completion of user onboarding validation. The method includes associating the account with one of an individual and a business entity. The method includes initiating one of know-your-customer (KYC) for the individual and know-your-business (KYB) for the business entity. The method includes enabling the first user to access and make transactions using the wallet.

System and method for noise reduction for blending blurred frames in a multi-frame system
Patent No. 12430718

Inventor(s): Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, TX), John Glotzbach (Allen, TX), Zhen Tong (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17587521 on 01/28/2022 (1341 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are provided for noise reduction improvement for blending blurred frames in a multi-frame system. The method includes retrieving a number of frames of an image. The method also includes identifying one or more edges within the frames and comparing an edge strength of a reference frame and an edge strength of a non-reference frame. The method further includes determining a weight reduction factor based on a result of the comparison and applying the weight reduction factor to a blending of multiple frames of the number of frames of the image. In addition, the method includes displaying the blended frames.

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

Generation of three-dimensional (3D) lookup table for tone mapping or other image processing functions
Patent No. 12430731

Inventor(s): Gunawath Dilshan Godaliyadda (Allen, TX), Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, TX), John W. Glotzbach (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18046117 on 10/12/2022 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining an image and a gain map associated with the image. The method also includes identifying image patches in the image and corresponding gain map patches in the gain map. Different image patches are centered around different anchor points in the image. The method further includes, for each image patch and its corresponding gain map patch, generating an intensity-gain curve for the associated anchor point. The intensity-gain curve specifies (i) gain values based on the corresponding gain map patch for intensity values up to a threshold intensity value and (ii) gain values based on one or more input parameters for intensity values above the threshold intensity value. In addition, the method includes combining the intensity-gain curves to generate a 3D lookup table, which identifies the gain values for the anchor points in the image at each of multiple intensity values.

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

Methods and systems for analyzing brain lesions with longitudinal 3D MRI data
Patent No. 12430766

Inventor(s): Darin T Okuda (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18353184 on 07/17/2023 (806 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some methods of analyzing one or more brain lesions of a patient comprise, for each of the lesion(s), calculating one or more lesion characteristics from a first 3-dimensional (3D) representation of the lesion obtained from data taken at a first time and a second 3D representation of the lesion obtained from data taken at a second time that is after the first time. The characteristic(s) can include a change, form the first time to the second time, in the lesion”s volume and/or surface area, the lesion”s displacement from the first time to the second time, and/or the lesion”s theoretical radius ratio at each of the first and second times. Some methods comprise characterizing whether the patient has multiple sclerosis and/or the progression of multiple sclerosis in the patient based at least in part on the calculation of the lesion characteristic(s) of each of the lesion(s).

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

Guide-assisted capture of material data
Patent No. 12430796

Inventor(s): Rohit Ghatol (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Centric Software, Inc. (Campbell, CA)
Law Firm: Aka Chan LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18358734 on 07/25/2023 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A material data collection system allows capturing of material data. For example, the material data collection system may include digital image data for materials. The material data collection system may ensure that captured digital image data is properly aligned, so that material data may be easily recalled for later use, while maintaining the proper alignment for the captured digital image. The material data collection system may include using a capture guide, to provide cues on how to orient a mobile device used with the material data collection system.

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

Method and system for extracting information based on user interactions performed on a screen of a computing system
Patent No. 12430870

Inventor(s): Daniel Nia (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): EDGEVERVE SYSTEMS LIMITED (Bangalore, , IN)
Law Firm: Troutman Pepper Locke LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17939187 on 09/07/2022 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to method and system for extracting information based on user interactions performed on screen of a computing system. Method includes receiving processed input data comprising video capturing screen and user interactions events occurring from user interactions, and co-ordinate information. Thereafter, computing system determines Regions of Interest (RoI) on screen based on captured user interactions, events and co-ordinate information, and identifies type of user interaction performed with at least one screen element in the RoI, as either keyboard or mouse type interaction. Subsequently, computing system performs one of: determining type of screen element as a text box or a table based on pattern recognition when type of user interaction is identified as keyboard type interaction or determining type of screen element to be selectable User Interface elements and extracting content and label of selectable UI elements, when interaction is identified as mouse type interaction.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Distinguishing gesture actions among transport occupants
Patent No. 12430889

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: 16794218 on 02/18/2020 (2051 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting a gesture in a transport performed by a transport occupant, determining an occupant status associated with the transport occupant, determining whether the occupant status permits the gesture to be performed, and performing an action associated with the gesture, when the occupant status permits the gesture to be performed.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

System and method for similarity learning in digital pathology
Patent No. 12430893

Inventor(s): Hafez Eslami Manoochehri (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Leica Biosystems Imaging, Inc. (Vista, CA)
Law Firm: FROST BROWN TODD LLP (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18082773 on 12/16/2022 (1019 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for similarity learning in digital pathology are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus for generating training image data includes a hardware memory configured to store executable instructions and a hardware processor in communication with the hardware memory, wherein the executable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain a plurality of histopathology images, classify two or more of the histopathology images as similar or dissimilar, and create a dataset of training image data including the classified histopathology images.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

System and method for vehicle collision analysis
Patent No. 12430955

Inventor(s): Martin Lopez (Frisco, TX), Nicole Ferretti (Dallas, TX), Sayeef Rahim (Allen, TX), Snehal Desai (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18174828 on 02/27/2023 (946 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for using wearable device data and data gathered from a vehicle”s onboard sensors to provide a more accurate and/or robust set of information about an accident. In one embodiment, a smartwatch is connected to the CAN bus of a vehicle so that data can be transmitted between the watch and onboard sensors. In one embodiment, onboard vehicle sensors may detect a sudden deceleration indicating that an accident may have occurred. At the same time, data from an occupant of the vehicle can be used to confirm if the occupant experienced a sudden deceleration at the same time, indicating that a crash has occurred.

[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)

Battery life prediction using a global-local decomposition transformer
Patent No. 12430962

Inventor(s): Alexander T. Pham (San Jose, CA), Ba Khai Nguyen (Austin, TX), Chianing Wang (Mountain View, 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: 18524507 on 11/30/2023 (670 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein relate to implementing battery life prediction strategies. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first battery dataset containing a first set of battery entries, a first set of historical usage entries, a first set of local parts entries, and a first global parts entry; generating a second battery dataset containing a second set of battery entries and a second set of historical usage entries; generating a second set of local parts entries for the second battery dataset based on comparing the first set of historical usage entries with the second set of historical usage entries; copying the first global parts entry to a second global parts entry of the second battery dataset; and optimizing via one or more global local decomposition transformers the second set of local parts entries and the second global parts entry based on the second set of historical usage entries.

Random draw game system and method
Patent No. 12430992

Inventor(s): Scott Vollmer (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Epic Tech, LLC (Suwanee, GA)
Law Firm: Baker Donelson (Local + 58 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18133400 on 04/11/2023 (903 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for consecutive play of a random draw game in which a generated random sequence of game symbols in a pool of game symbols is used for matching one-by-one with a game card having a predetermined number of the game symbols generated randomly from the pool for each consecutive play of the game, with a prize awarded if the game card matches a predetermine set of the game symbols in the sequence. The system includes a game controller that receives and stores a manually generated random sequence of game symbols and communicates the stored random sequence of game symbols to a plurality of game play stations at which a player may initiate play of the random draw game consecutively with a new randomly drawn game card for each consecutive play. A method of operating the game system for consecutive play of the random draw game is disclosed.

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

Using unique identifiers to limit duplicate alert messages communicated over a telecommunications network
Patent No. 12431004

Inventor(s): Terri Leigh Brooks (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18190741 on 03/27/2023 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: An alert broadcast system can receive a first alert message indicating an emergency from an alert management system. The first alert message generated by an emergency alert originator can include a unique identifier associated with the emergency. The alert broadcast system can forward the first alert message to a first group of wireless devices and cause each of the first group of wireless devices to temporarily store the unique identifier. The alert broadcast system can receive a second alert message, including the unique identifier from the alert management system. The alert broadcast system can forward the second alert message to a second group of wireless devices. The respective wireless device can perform an action based on a determination that the respective wireless device has received the first alert message prior to receiving the second alert message and that the second alert message is partly duplicative of the first alert message.

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

Transcription knowledge graph
Patent No. 12431123

Inventor(s): Zei-Chan Yeh (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Roku, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18332410 on 06/09/2023 (844 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments include a transcription knowledge graph that can resolve automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine output errors. In some embodiments, a transcription knowledge graph can utilize data from past sessions of the ASR engine to form a voice graph that can be analyzed to determine a correlation between a mis-transcription (error text) and the correct transcription (correct text). Thus, ASR engine outputs, even if they include a mis-transcription, can be adjusted to the correct transcription. Further, the correct transcriptions and the voice graph can be used to train machine learning (ML) algorithms to generate numerical representations of an entity. The ML algorithms can be applied to a transcription to correctly identify a corresponding entity label, even if the transcription was not utilized in the voice graph to train the ML algorithm.

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

Simulator of production scenarios in a non-production downstream environment
Patent No. 12431133

Inventor(s): Donatus Asumu (McKinney, TX), Emad Noorizadeh (Plano, TX), Rajan Jhaveri (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18203193 on 05/30/2023 (854 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for simulating a historical call is provided. Methods may receive a communication between a human caller and an interactive voice response system. The communication may have occurred within a production environment. The communication may include utterances communicated by the human caller, responses presented to the human caller by the response system and/or an original outcome of the communication. Methods may receive original components used by the response system to form the responses. The original components may include prediction models and/or parameters. Methods may input the communication and the original components into a simulator. Methods may enable a user to swap out the original components for modified components. Methods may modify the original outcome based on the swap out of the original components for the modified components. Methods may present the modified outcome and the modified components.

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

Automatic identification of, and responding to, cognition impairment
Patent No. 12431235

Inventor(s): Justin Royell Nash (Little Elm, TX), Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Potomac Law Group, PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17558312 on 12/21/2021 (1379 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a cognition analysis and response system that can A) identify and classify machine learning training data and use the training data to build a cognitive impairment machine learning model; B) identify cognitive impairments by applying the cognitive impairment machine learning model and performing a false positive/false negative analysis; and C) apply various automated adaptive measures for users with identified cognitive impairment. The cognition analysis and response system can generate training data by using an unsupervised training process and verifying results with validations of training items that have been pre-classified. The cognition analysis and response system can then iterate through each set of inputs paired with cognitive impairment classification, applying a machine learning model and updating the model based on a comparison of the model output to the cognitive impairment classification.

[G16H] HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA

Systems and methods for distributing event driven network services
Patent No. 12432175

Inventor(s): Belgi K. Augustine (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED (Purchase, NY)
Law Firm: Harness, Dickey Pierce, P.L.C. (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17749537 on 05/20/2022 (1229 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for use in providing messaging among different regions, via a distributed event drive architecture. One exemplary method includes receiving, at an event gateway in a region, a network message from a different event gateway in a different region, via a persistent connection between the event gateway and the different event gateway, and validating, by the event gateway, the network message based on at least a certificate associated with the network message. The method also includes, in response to validation of the network message, converting, by the event gateway, the network message to an event and publishing, by the event gateway, the event to the message bus, thereby providing the event associated with the network message to a service to which the network request is directed.

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

Action detection during image tracking
Patent No. 12432321

Inventor(s): Deepanjan Paul (Plano, TX), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, TX), Sarath Vakacharla (Irving, TX), Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18520183 on 11/27/2023 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a sensor, a weight sensor, and a tracking subsystem. The tracking subsystem receives an image feed of top-view images generated by the sensor and weight measurements from the weight sensor. The tracking subsystem detects an event associated with an item being removed from a rack in which the weight sensor is installed. The tracking subsystem determines that a first person or a second person may be associated with the event. In response to determining that the first or second person may be associated with the event, buffer frames are stored of top-view images generated by the sensor during a time period associated with the event. The tracking subsystem then determines, using at least one of the stored buffer frames and a first action-detection algorithm, whether an action associated with the event was performed by the first person or the second person.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

MultiPark valet parking application
Patent No. 12430953

Inventor(s): Marcus Wells (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Moulton Patents, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18094938 on 01/09/2023 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure includes a front, back and lateral RF decals and an electronic state machine decal which are triggered by an encoded cell phone signal to verify and track a vehicle for a valet service, comprising negotiating a drop-off and a pickup of the vehicle from a selected valet provider, reserving a valet parking of the vehicle via the selected valet provider, transacting a fee for the valet parking paid from a user to the valet provider and determining associated services for the vehicle while parked. Furthermore, determining associated services for the vehicle while parked further includes renting the vehicle to a third party for a time the vehicle is to be parked, washing or detailing the vehicle and performing mechanical and other repairs are included. Yet picking up the vehicle from a third party vehicle renter is disclosed.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Electromagnetic shields with bonding wires for sub-modules
Patent No. 12431457

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Miller (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Qorvo US, Inc. (Greensboro, NC)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, P.L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18046756 on 10/14/2022 (1082 days app to issue)

Abstract: Electromagnetic shields for electronic devices, and particularly electromagnetic shields with bonding wires for sub-modules of electronic devices are disclosed. Electronic modules are disclosed that include multiple sub-modules arranged on a substrate with an electromagnetic shield arranged on or over the sub-modules. Bonding wires are disclosed that form one or more bonding wire walls along the substrate. The one or more bonding wire walls may be located between sub-modules of a module and about peripheral boundaries of the module. The electromagnetic shield may be electrically coupled to ground by way of the one or more bonding wire walls. Portions of the electromagnetic shield and the one or more bonding wire walls may form divider walls that are configured to reduce electromagnetic interference between the sub-modules or from external sources.

[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]

Frequency tunable piezoelectric VLF antenna
Patent No. 12431614

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Box (Farmersville, TX), Kenneth Keese (Lavon, TX)
Assignee(s): Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Law Firm: Suiter Swantz IP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18433197 on 02/05/2024 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: Piezoelectric antennas may include a tuning mechanism. The tuning mechanism may adjust the operation frequency of the antennas and compensate the frequency drifts due to environmental effects on the piezoelectric materials and the other potential circuitry. The tuning mechanism may also modulate signal for communication purposes. A transmitter circuit may control the tuning mechanism. A transmitter circuit may control the tuning mechanism. The transmitter circuit may independently control multiple of the tuning mechanism, where the piezoelectric antennas are arranged in an array.

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

Millimeter wave quantum sensor device
Patent No. 12431615

Inventor(s): Hassan Omar Ali (Murphy, TX), Juan Herbsommer (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18496654 on 10/27/2023 (704 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device comprises a U-shaped cell configured to contain a quantum gas, a first waveguide coupled to an inlet of the U-shaped cell, and a second waveguide coupled to an outlet of the U-shaped cell. The device also comprises a multi-layer substrate including transmitter and receiver antennas that are aligned with the first and second waveguides, respectively, the substrate including a network of metal layers coupled to the transmitter and receiver antennas. The device also includes transmitter and receiver dies coupled to the transmitter and receiver antennas, respectively, by way of the network of metal layers, the substrate positioned between the U-shaped cell and the transmitter and receiver dies.

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

Ultra-wideband, low-distortion, omni-directional, and placement-insensitive antennas
Patent No. 12431628

Inventor(s): Bernd Strassner (Albuquerque, NM), Brad David Moore (Boerne, TX), Jacob McDonald (Richardson, TX), Travis Eubanks (San Antonio, TX)
Assignee(s): Massive Light, LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18499900 on 11/01/2023 (699 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed principles provide novel antennas and corresponding methods of manufacturing thereof. In one aspect, an antenna according to the disclosed principles have a dielectric unit. The dielectric unit may be azimuthally uniform, radially symmetric, or symmetric. The dielectric unit may include a first conducting surface, a second conducting surface, and a non-conducting aperture. The first conducting surface may be located on a first radially interior surface of the dielectric unit and have both convex and concave surfaces. The second conducting surface, oblique to an axis of radial symmetry, may extend radially outward from the axis of radial symmetry. The non-conducting aperture may be located on the radial exterior of the dielectric unit. The first conducting surface and the second conducting surface may define a dielectric volume extending radially toward and terminating in the non-conducting aperture.

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

Multi-octave spanning millimeter wave source with phase memory
Patent No. 12431687

Inventor(s): Paul T. Hartin (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Arlington, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17948665 on 09/20/2022 (1106 days app to issue)

Abstract: A synthesizer including a controller configured to receive a first signal. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is coupled to the controller and is configured to generate a voltage bias based on the first signal. The voltage bias corresponds to a target resonant frequency. A semiconductor laser is coupled to the DAC and is configured to receive a second signal tone. The semiconductor laser generates a plurality of tone signals having octave multiples of a base sub-harmonic tone of the second signal tone.

[H01S] DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION

Power electronics assembly having vertically stacked transistors
Patent No. 12431770

Inventor(s): Danny J. Lohan (Ann Arbor, MI), Hitoshi Fujioka (Ann Arbor, MI), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTO ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17089874 on 11/05/2020 (1790 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems provide technology that includes a first transistor, a second transistor stacked on the first transistor, at least one electrical conductor that is positioned between the first and second transistors and electrically connected to the first and second transistors, and a busbar that is electrically connected to the first and second transistors through the at least one electrical conductor.

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

Rdson-based current sensing system
Patent No. 12431783

Inventor(s): Bhaskar Ramachandran (Coimbatore, , IN), Evan Michael Reutzel (Center Valle, PA), Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bengaluru, , IN), Rengang Chen (Center Valley, PA), Scott Ragona (Bethlehem, PA), Vishnuvardhan Reddy Jaladanki (S
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18593557 on 03/01/2024 (578 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first variable resistor having a first resistor control terminal and a second variable resistor having a second resistor control terminal. The apparatus also includes a temperature sensing circuit having a temperature sensing output, the temperature sensing circuit configured to provide a device temperature indication at the temperature sensing output. Additionally, the apparatus includes a controller having a controller input, a controller output, the controller input coupled to the temperature sensing output, the controller output coupled to the first resistor control terminal and to the second resistor control terminal, the controller configured to produce a control signal at the controller output responsive to the device temperature indication.

[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]

Frequency compensation in amplifiers with local-feedback buffer stages
Patent No. 12431843

Inventor(s): Bharath Karthik Vasan (Tucson, AZ), Tyler James Archer (Vail, AZ)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18070940 on 11/29/2022 (1036 days app to issue)

Abstract: Examples of circuits, amplifiers, and stages thereof are provided that improve amplifier stability margins while maintaining signal fidelity. Example structures include pre-driver circuitry; a compensation node exhibiting high impedance during operation; a feedforward driver coupled to the pre-driver circuitry; and first and second signal mirrors; and first and second output drivers, each having a control terminal. Example structures further include feedforward circuitry in which a first node thereof is coupled to the output of the feedforward driver, a second node thereof is coupled to the control terminal of the first output driver, and a third node thereof is coupled to the control terminal of the second output driver; and compensation circuitry in which a first node thereof is coupled to the compensation node, a second node thereof is coupled to a first internal node of the first signal mirror, and a third node thereof is coupled to a second internal node of the second signal mirror.

[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)

Working clock determination for a mobile user equipment
Patent No. 12431998

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Nokia Technologies Oy (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18006436 on 07/15/2021 (1538 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for working clock determination for a mobile user equipment. A method may include receiving time domain information at a session management function during a protocol data unit (PDU) session procedure. The method may also include forwarding the time domain information to a user plane function for the PDU session procedure. The method may further include configuring the user plane function according to the time domain information to enable determination of a correct mapping between the time domain information and a user equipment or a PDU session.

[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)

Network layer support for 5G edge computing sticky services
Patent No. 12432137

Inventor(s): Kaippallimalil Mathew John (Addison, TX), Linda Dunbar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18303428 on 04/19/2023 (895 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method used by an egress router is disclosed. The egress router receives a first packet from an initial ingress router addressed to an anycast address of an application server. The egress router transmits the first packet to the application server. The egress router receives a second packet from the application server. The second packet is addressed to the initial ingress router. The egress router inserts a sticky destination sub type length value (Sticky-Dst-SubTLV) into a destination option header of the second packet. The egress router transmits the second packet with the Sticky-Dst-SubTLV to the ingress router.

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

Methods and apparatuses for handling end-to-end encryption
Patent No. 12432146

Inventor(s): Ana Lucia Pinheiro (Allen, TX), Robert Jaksa (Irving, TX), Stephie Lim (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (Philadelphia, PA)
Law Firm: Ballard Spahr LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18479465 on 10/02/2023 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for handling end-to-end encryption are described. A user device may send encrypted data to a server via a proxy using an encryption key shared with multiple network nodes across multiple layers. The proxy device may create an encrypted tunnel with an application server and send the encrypted data over the encrypted tunnel to the application server. The application server may receive the encrypted data over the encrypted tunnel from the proxy device. The application server may decrypt the encrypted data.

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

Support for concurrent identities in an identity management solution
Patent No. 12432190

Inventor(s): Sergei Rodionov (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, , SG)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18389468 on 11/14/2023 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus can include an interface for receiving authentication tokens from a user. The apparatus can include processing circuitry coupled to the interface. The processing circuitry can receive, over the interface, a first authentication token of the user and at least a second authentication token of the user. The processing circuitry can determine whether the first authentication token and at least the second authentication token correspond to an identity associated with the user. The processing circuitry can validate a computing session responsive to determining that the first authentication token and at least the second authentication token can be linked to the identity. Other methods and systems are described.

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

Haptic feedback-based video authentication method and system
Patent No. 12432201

Inventor(s): Snehal Desai (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17822176 on 08/25/2022 (1132 days app to issue)

Abstract: A remote haptic signal-based method and system of performing an authentication of video of a person in order to authorize access to a secured resource. The system and method are configured to cause a remote computing device to generate a vibration while collecting sensor data from the same device. The sensor data is evaluated to determine whether the appropriate motion response from the remote computing device is present. If the response is present, the system determines the image is authentic and can verify an identity of the person, and can further be configured to automatically grant the person access to one or more services, features, or information for which he or she is authorized.

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

Enhanced security and extended functionality for workstation integration with mainframe operating systems
Patent No. 12432210

Inventor(s): David Feher (Plano, TX), Ryan Appel (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18094700 on 01/09/2023 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: Improved, secure, encrypted communications between workstations and servers are disclosed along with extended and enhanced functionality for IBM”s z/Architecture mainframes. On-demand connections are opened by the mainframe when a command is executed and closed in real-time after the command execution is complete and work results from the workstation are received. Connect-back port instructions and mainframe allow/deny lists for IP addresses provide additional security. Optimized and extended menus and submenus are presented in user interfaces and trigger functions. Binary help files for available commands can be stored on mainframes.

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

Managing data processing systems based on location using out-of-band communications
Patent No. 12432219

Inventor(s): Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, TX), Mohit Arora (Frisco, TX), Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, TX), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18498332 on 10/31/2023 (700 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing a data processing system based on location data are disclosed. A management controller of the data processing system may provide the location data via an out-of-band communication channel to a geolocation management server tasked with mapping a location of the data processing system over time. The data processing system may identify an occurrence of an event based on the location data (e.g., a change in location of the data processing system), prompting the data processing system to perform an action set to update operation of the data processing system (e.g., to conform to location-based policies). Based on its updated operation, the data processing system may provide computer-implemented services that are more likely to be in compliance with local policies.

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

Dormant service account disablement system
Patent No. 12432220

Inventor(s): Jack T. Lockamy (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18133878 on 04/12/2023 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying and disabling dormant service accounts. An account management system automatically analyzes service account activity records to determine whether each service account defined for an enterprise network is in use. Automated monitoring applications may be used for identifying and authenticating events and/or authentications of service accounts across an enterprise network. When particular service accounts are identified as being potentially dormant, based on an identified date of last use meeting a threshold condition, the associated service accounts are flagged as being dormant. Setting an account as being dormant triggers solicitation of feedback confirming the dormant setting, which causes disablement of the service account. The account management system triggers decommissioning of the dormant service accounts upon expiration of a disablement threshold.

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

Datalink arbitration with framed broadcast
Patent No. 12432221

Inventor(s): Aaron Mitchell Hitchcock (Fort Worth, TX), Hunter Nelson Morgan (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lightfoot Alford PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17087482 on 11/02/2020 (1793 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of arbitrating communications between unmanned aerial system (UAS) devices includes: receiving, at a first communication component of a first UAS device, information for transmission to a destination associated with a second UAS device; inserting, by a first arbiter executing on the first communication component, a message sequence indication into a payload of a data packet that contains the information; transmitting, by the first arbiter, a respective copy of the data packet over each of a plurality of communication links established between the first and second UAS devices; receiving, at a second communication component of the second UAS device, one or more copies of the data packet; and determining in accordance with the message sequence indication, by a second arbiter executing on the second communication component, for each received copy of the data packet, whether to deliver the information to the destination.

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

Systems and methods for spam blocking using artificial intelligence in a tiered software framework
Patent No. 12432222

Inventor(s): Ashutosh Anand (Bokaro, , IN), Hardik Bhatt (Noida, , IN), Rishabh Rajput (Mainpuri, , IN), Robin Alex (Dallas, TX), Shaun Clark (Eugene, OR), Shivam Tiwari (Toronto, , CA), Shubham Gupta (Lucknow, , IN), Swapnil Kumar (Ghaziab
Assignee(s): HighLevel Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Aambell PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18470799 on 09/20/2023 (741 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of a method for facilitating spam blocking in a tiered software framework include: determining that a message template is generated in the tiered software framework, parsing the message template, automatically performing a semantic search for regulated content in the parsed message template, assigning a score to the message template based on the semantic search, and responsive to the score being higher than a predetermined threshold, blocking generating of any message from the message template. The tiered software framework comprises a first tier, a second tier, and a third tier, the second tier comprises accounts of a first plurality of subscribers, the third tier comprises subaccounts of the accounts, the subaccounts associated with a second plurality of subscribers, and the message template is associated with one of the subaccounts in the third tier.

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

Adaptive anomaly context description
Patent No. 12432233

Inventor(s): Gang Xu (Houston, TX), Ming-Jung Seow (The Woodlands, TX), Tao Yang (Katy, TX)
Assignee(s): Intellective Ai, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17240168 on 04/26/2021 (1618 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing a context-aware description of anomalous behavior in a computer network. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a description of an anomaly detected in computer network activity is received. The description includes one or more features of the computer network associated with the anomaly. Contextual information relating to at least one of the features is generated based on a logical network topology. The logical network topology specifies a plurality of network traffic attributes of the computer network. An alert that includes a second description of the anomaly and the contextual information is generated.

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

Methods and apparatus for camera assisted geometric correction
Patent No. 12432324

Inventor(s): Jaime De La Cruz (Carrollton, TX), Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas, TX), Shivam Srivastava (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17711685 on 04/01/2022 (1278 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a controller configured to: generate a pattern of points; obtain a first image of a first reflection of a projection of the pattern of points from a first camera; generate a first point cloud having a first coordinate system based on the first image; obtain a second image of a second reflection of the projection of the pattern of points from a second camera; generate a second point cloud having a second coordinate system based on the second image; determine a rigid body transform to convert coordinates of the second coordinate system to coordinates of the first coordinate system; apply the rigid body transform to the second point cloud to generate a transformed point cloud; and generate a corrected point cloud based on the transformed point cloud.

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

Flexible tile signaling in video coding
Patent No. 12432359

Inventor(s): Maxim Borisovitch Sychev (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18756438 on 06/27/2024 (460 days app to issue)

Abstract: A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of first level tiles. A subset of the first level tiles is partitioned into a plurality of second level tiles. The first level tiles and the second level tiles are encoded into a bitstream. A split indication is encoded into the bitstream. The split indication indicates that at least one of the first level tiles is split into the second level tiles. The bitstream is stored for communication toward a decoder.

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

Method and system for hybrid noise cancellation
Patent No. 12432483

Inventor(s): Edwin Randolph Cole (Dallas, TX), Nitish K. Murthy (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17183416 on 02/24/2021 (1679 days app to issue)

Abstract: From a first microphone, first microphone signals are received that represent first sound waves. From a second microphone, second microphone signals are received that represent second sound waves. In response to the first microphone signals, analog processing is performed to estimate noise in the first sound waves, and first analog signals are generated for cancelling at least some of the estimated noise in the first sound waves. In response to the second microphone signals, digital processing is performed to estimate noise in the second sound waves, and digital information is generated for cancelling at least some of the estimated noise in the second sound waves. The digital information is converted into second analog signals that represent the digital information. The first and second analog signals are combined into third analog signals for cancelling at least some of the estimated noise in the first and second sound waves.

[H04R] LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K) [6]

Dynamically unsubscribing from a PLMN/NPN service
Patent No. 12432546

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS (US) LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17772006 on 09/15/2020 (1841 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically unsubscribing from a public land mobile network (PLMN)/non-private network (NPN) service. In example embodiments, a method is provided. The method comprises transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), at least one first message ([b]112, 114[/b]) associated with registering with at least one network, wherein the at least one first message ([b]112, 114[/b]) includes first information that indicates whether the user equipment (UE) is capable of unsubscribing from one or more services associated with the at least one network; and receiving, by the user equipment (UE), at least one second message ([b]124[/b]) associated with accepting registration of the user equipment (UE) with the at least one network, wherein the at least one second message ([b]124[/b]) includes second information that indicates whether the user equipment (UE) is allowed to unsubscribe from the one or more services.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and method for secure updates of configuration parameters provisioned in user equipment
Patent No. 12432550

Inventor(s): Jennifer Liu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: ALSTON BIRD LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18408895 on 01/10/2024 (629 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods that update configuration parameters on a UE using control plane functionalities. In one embodiment, an AMF element of a mobile network receives a control plane message from a UDM element that includes a UE configuration parameter update for the UE. The UE configuration parameter update is security protected via a secured packet, integrity protection, etc. The AMF element is configured to transparently send the UE configuration parameter update to the UE. Thus, AMF element inserts the UE configuration parameter update (that is security protected) in a container of a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message, and sends the NAS message to the UE. The UE may then update its configuration parameters based on the update when security checks are complete.

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

Communication method and device
Patent No. 12432584

Inventor(s): Li Guo (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD. (Guangdong, , CN)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17734998 on 05/02/2022 (1247 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and device. The method comprises: the terminal measures at least two CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks selected from one or more resource settings configured for group-based SINR report; the terminal calculates SINRs of CRIs or SSBRIs corresponding to the selected CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks according to the measurement results of the selected CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks and the terminal reports the CRIs or SSBRIs and their SINRs to the network device.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Identification of anomalous telecommunication service usage
Patent No. 12432591

Inventor(s): Eswara P. Somarouthu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18388546 on 11/10/2023 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for identifying anomalous behavior of users are provided. In an example, users of a telecommunication service provider may be segmented into a plurality of user segments based upon telecommunication service metrics associated with the users. A machine learning model may be trained using telecommunication service information associated with users of the first user segment to generate a trained machine learning model. Using the trained machine learning model, a forecast of telecommunication service usage associated with a first user segment of the plurality of user segments. A telecommunication service usage metric, associated with a user belonging to the first user segment, may be compared with a range indicated by the forecast. The user may be flagged as having anomalous behavior based upon a determination that one or more telecommunication usage metrics, associated with the user, are outside one or more ranges indicated by the forecast.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Techniques about converting time-domain fronthaul data to frequency-domain fronthaul data within a distributed antenna system
Patent No. 12432614

Inventor(s): Emil Mathew Kadavil (Bangalore, , IN), Narayana Reddy Korimilla (Bangalore, , IN), Sudarshana Varadappa (Bangalore, , IN), Suresh N. Sriram (Bangalore, , IN), Syamala Saripalli (Bangalore, , IN), Yogesh C. S (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Fogg Powers LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18873000 on 05/19/2023 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for reducing downlink data and/or uplink data transported in a distributed antenna system (DAS) are provided. Time domain data is transformed into a frequency domain. In the DAS, on a PRB-by-PRB basis, whether each of frequency-domain downlink digital data and frequency-domain uplink digital data comprise a meaningful signal is determined. Each of the frequency-domain downlink digital data and the frequency-domain uplink digital data comprising valid PRBs are subsequently transported in the DAS. Other techniques are disclosed for utilizing O-RAN user plane messages and corresponding O-RAN control plane messages in fronthaul transport of a distributed antenna system (DAS) to reduce bandwidth consumption and simplify management of the DAS. Bandwidth consumption in the fronthaul transport of the DAS is diminished by only transporting IQ data having a valid signal.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for multi-slice communication sessions in a wireless network
Patent No. 12432620

Inventor(s): Anthony Clay Reynolds (Rhome, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18299283 on 04/12/2023 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may receive a request to associate a protocol data unit (”PDU”) session, between a particular User Equipment (”UE”) and a network, with multiple network slices. The system may provide the particular PDU session identifier to a first set of network devices that are associated with the first slice, and to a second set of network devices that are associated with the second slice. The network may route first traffic, received from the UE, to the first set of network devices based on the first traffic including the particular PDU session identifier and the identifier of the first network slice. The network may route second traffic, received from the UE, to the second set of network devices based on the second traffic including the particular PDU session identifier and the identifier of the second network slice.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Automatic determination of components for time sensitive networking
Patent No. 12432715

Inventor(s): Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18167268 on 02/10/2023 (963 days app to issue)

Abstract: The automatic determination of components for Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), and more specifically the automatic determination of the Gate Duration (GD) and Guard Band (GB) for TSN may be provided. To determine the GB and/or GD for a TSN gate, a Time Error (TE) may be determined, and TSN components may be received. An Access Category (AC) and a per-AC Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) state may be determined using the TID, wherein the per-AC EDCA includes a Contention Window (CW) minimum. Next, an Arbitration Interframe Space Number (AIFSN) of an upcoming data unit is determined using the using the AC and per-AC EDCA. The GB may be determined based on the AIFSN, the CW minimum, and the TE. The Gate Duration (GD) may be determined based on the TE and calculating a number of symbols in a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) and the upcoming data unit.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method to produce a 3D multilayer semiconductor device and structure
Patent No. 12432926

Inventor(s): Jin-Woo Han (San Jose, CA), Zvi Or-Bach (Haifa, , IL)
Assignee(s): Monolithic 3D Inc. (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: PatentPC (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18793939 on 08/05/2024 (421 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of making a 3D multilayer semiconductor device, including: providing a first substrate including a first level, the first level including a first single crystal silicon layer; providing a second substrate including a second level, the second level including a second single crystal silicon layer; performing an epitaxial growth of a SiGe layer on top of the second single crystal silicon layer; performing an epitaxial growth of a third single crystal silicon layer on top of the SiGe layer, the third silicon layer has an average thickness of less than 2,000 nm; forming a plurality of second transistors each including a single crystal channel; forming many metal layers interconnecting the plurality of second transistors; and then performing a bonding of the second level onto the first level, where performing the bonding includes making oxide-to-oxide bond zones; and performing removal of a majority of the second single crystal silicon layer.

[H10B] ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES

High dose implantation for ultrathin semiconductor-on-insulator substrates
Patent No. 12432987

Inventor(s): Jocelyne Gimbert (Crolles, , FR)
Assignee(s): STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18323325 on 05/24/2023 (860 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and structures for forming highly-doped, ultrathin layers for transistors formed in semiconductor-on-insulator substrates are described. High dopant concentrations may be achieved in ultrathin semiconductor layers to improve device characteristics. Ion implantation at elevated temperatures may mitigate defect formation for stoichiometric dopant concentrations up to about 30%. In-plane stressors may be formed adjacent to channels of transistors formed in ultrathin semiconductor layers.

[H10D] INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

3D semiconductor devices and structures with electronic circuit units
Patent No. 12433031

Inventor(s): Brian Cronquist (Klamath Falls, OR), Jin-Woo Han (San Jose, CA), Zvi Or-Bach (Haifa, , IL)
Assignee(s): Monolithic 3D Inc. (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: PatentPC (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18662468 on 05/13/2024 (505 days app to issue)

Abstract: A 3D device including: a first level including first transistors and a first interconnect; a second level including second transistors and overlaying the first level; at least four electronic circuit units (ECUs); a redundancy circuit, where each of the at least four ECUs includes a first circuit, which includes a portion of the first transistors, where each of the at least four ECUs includes a second circuit, the second circuit including some second transistors, where each of the at least four ECUs includes a vertical connectivity structure which includes pillars, where the pillars provide electrical connections between the first circuit and the second circuit, where each of the at least four ECUs includes at least one memory control circuit and at least one memory array, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and the bonded includes oxide to oxide and metal to metal bonding regions.

[H10D] INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

Filter assemblies, tuning elements and method of tuning a filter
Patent No. RE050609 (Reissue)

Inventor(s): Giuseppe Resnati (Seregno, , IT), Omar Parimbelli (Lallio, , IT), Richard Brown (Forest, VA), Roman Tkadlec (Valasske Kiobouky, , CZ), Sammit Patel (Richardson, TX), Yongjie Xu (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18086978 on 12/22/2022 (1013 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides filter assemblies, tuning elements and a method of tuning a filter. A filter assembly includes a housing having a top cover, a bottom cover and at least one sidewall, the top cover, the bottom cover and the at least one sidewall defining an internal cavity, the housing configured to receive first through third radio frequency (”RF”) transmission lines; a top metal sheet mounted within the internal cavity that has a plurality of openings that form a first hole pattern; and a bottom metal sheet mounted within the internal cavity that has a plurality of openings that form a second hole pattern. The top and bottom metal sheets are vertically spaced-apart from each other in a vertically stacked relationship within the internal cavity. The top metal sheet and the bottom metal sheet each include at least one resonator. Patent Class: N/A

DESIGN PATENTS

Knife sheath
Patent No. D1095015

Inventor(s): David Justis (Stillwater, OK), Frederick Karl (West Linn, OR)
Assignee(s): ALLIANCE SPORTS GROUP, L.P. (Roanoke, TX)
Law Firm: Thorpe North Western, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29920493 on 12/11/2023 (659 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Bottle
Patent No. D1095242

Inventor(s): Gunu Kapoor (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29937021 on 04/11/2024 (537 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Hinge cover
Patent No. D1095371

Inventor(s): Derek Scott Sancer (Denton, TX), Justin Daniel Vincik (Krum, TX), Louis Daniel Heilaneh (Lewisville, TX), Quentin Vanderlaan (Prosper, TX), Troy Robin McCuller (Argyle, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Seed Intellectual Property Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29947020 on 06/12/2024 (475 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle bed
Patent No. D1095388

Inventor(s): Donavin Hawkey (Mkondeni, , CA), Michael Voss (Aledo, TX)
Assignee(s): RSI North America, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29832096 on 03/24/2022 (1286 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle assembly
Patent No. D1095699

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Noah House (Sachse, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (Roanoke, TX), Trent Collins (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29894909 on 06/15/2023 (838 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle platform assembly
Patent No. D1095700

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Modular ground tile
Patent No. D1095895

Inventor(s): Benjamin Hardy (Euless, TX), James Seeger (Oak Point, TX), Kamal Fouad (Kissimmee, FL)
Assignee(s): Signature Systems Group, LLC (Flower Mound, TX)
Law Firm: Metz Lewis Brodman Must O”Keele (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29919069 on 12/01/2023 (669 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Pet toy
Patent No. D1096013

Inventor(s): Ryan Rutherford (Lambertville, NJ)
Assignee(s): Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29767454 on 01/22/2021 (1712 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Chain binder cart
Patent No. D1096051

Inventor(s): Paul Wolfe (Bridgeport, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Patent 360 (Local + 459 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29839416 on 05/20/2022 (1229 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Mobile utility cart
Patent No. D1096053

Inventor(s): Paul Wolfe (Bridgeport, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Patent 360 (Local + 459 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29838946 on 05/17/2022 (1232 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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