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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of Nov. 14, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

127 patents granted
Ranked No. 12 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 9
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 12
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 3
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 5
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 6
G: PHYSICS 44
H: ELECTRICITY 41

DESIGN: 7

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 19
Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA) 6
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 6
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) 6
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 4
CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC) 2
Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison) 2
Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano) 2
Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) 2
UNASSIGNED 9

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Grant Michael Beall (Arlington) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Package receiving system and method of use
Patent No. 11812878

Inventor(s): Martin Andrew Nevison (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Avek IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17208927 on 03/22/2021 (967 days app to issue)

Abstract: A package receiving system includes a cabinet anchored on an exterior of a building; an opening providing access to an interior of the cabinet; and a control system incorporated into the cabinet, the control system having a scanner to read a code associated with a package; the opening allows for the package to be received into the cabinet; and the control system is to capture data associated with the package entering the cabinet.

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

Portable grill having low-temperature exterior casing
Patent No. 11812894

Inventor(s): Cameron Mills Leggett (Dallas, TX), John Joseph Veatch, III (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Nomad Grills, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Thompson Patent Law (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17301633 on 04/09/2021 (949 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a highly portable grill having an outer casing enclosing an inner cook box that acts as a heatsink to dissipate thermal energy, the outer casing being mechanically attached to the inner cook box at attachment points that function as thermal chokepoints for controlled conduction of thermal energy. In an illustrative example, the inner cook box may be mechanically attached to the outer casing via complementary screws and bosses to provide a limited thermal conduction pathway. The inner cook box may include a plurality of fins for added thermal energy dissipation. The outer casing may include a plurality of convection apertures to facilitate convective flow of thermal energy from the inner cook box to an external ambient environment. A limited thermal conduction pathway may beneficially allow the outer casing to be safe-to-touch while the inner cook box is still in use.

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

External fixation connection rod with female attachment
Patent No. 11812995

Inventor(s): Alexander M. Cherkashin (Flower Mound, TX), John D. Ross (Ovilla, TX), Mikhail L. Samchukov (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16945350 on 07/31/2020 (1201 days app to issue)

Abstract: A connecting rod for an external fixation device includes a first joint having a first rotatable member housing, a first rotatable member disposed within the first rotatable member housing, and a first connecting member. The first rotatable member has a first bore. The first connecting member includes a first connecting member insert having a stem partially disposed within the first bore of the first rotatable member. The first connecting member insert includes a second bore. The second bore is operable to receive a connecting element from a first external fixation ring.

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

Modular aligner devices and methods for orthodontic treatment
Patent No. 11813138

Inventor(s): Jitender Vij (Trumbull, CT), Rohit C. Sachdeva (Plano, TX), Takao Kubota (Fukuoka, , JP)
Assignee(s): Memory Medical Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16548843 on 08/23/2019 (1544 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aligner assembly for facilitating an alignment of one or more teeth is disclosed. The aligner assembly includes a shell adapted to receive the one or more teeth. The aligner assembly further includes one or more engagement structures configured to be coupled to one of the one or more teeth or the shell. Each engagement structure includes a slot and adapted to engage with the shell for facilitating a reposition of the one or more teeth.

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

Multifocal lens having reduced visual disturbances
Patent No. 11813160

Inventor(s): Myoung-Taek Choi (Arlington, TX), Xin Hong (Fort Worth, TX), Yueai Liu (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: PATTERSON SHERIDAN, LLP (Local + 6 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17664531 on 05/23/2022 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic device. The ophthalmic device includes an ophthalmic lens having an anterior surface, a posterior surface, at least one diffractive structure and at least one base curvature. The at least one diffractive structure for provides a first spherical aberration for a first focus corresponding to at least a first focal length. The at least one base curvature provides a second spherical aberration for at least a second focus corresponding to at least a second focal length. The first spherical aberration and the second spherical aberration are provided such that the first focus has a first focus spherical aberration and the second focus has a second focus spherical aberration. The first focus spherical aberration is opposite in sign to the second focus spherical aberration.

[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]

Exercise apparatus for upper body and method of use
Patent No. 11813492

Inventor(s): Robert Berg (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17528556 on 11/17/2021 (727 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exercise apparatus for engaging upper body muscles of a person is disclosed. The exercise apparatus includes a generally circular frame having a first set of tracks mounted thereon; a bar extending horizontally across a diameter of the frame, the bar having opposing ends and a second set of tracks mounted thereon; a pair of movable members, wherein each movable member couples to an opposing end of the bar, wherein each movable member includes a handle coupled thereto; and one or more locking mechanisms coupled to the frame.

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

Exercise apparatus with integrated bench assembly
Patent No. 11813495

Inventor(s): Tyson Cobb (Pensacola, FL)
Assignee(s): OxeFit, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17584249 on 01/25/2022 (658 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exercise apparatus includes a platform including an exercise surface, a rack coupled to the platform and configured to support a barbell at a first end of the platform, and a bench assembly coupled to the platform and configured to pivot between a deployed orientation in which the bench assembly extends perpendicularly from the rack and is positioned over the exercise surface for use during performance of a first exercise and a stowed orientation perpendicular to the deployed orientation and in which the bench assembly is displaced from the exercise surface to enable performance of a second exercise without using the bench assembly.

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

Systems and methods for insert of a putter-type golf club
Patent No. 11813507

Inventor(s): Bryson A. DeChambeau (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Cobra Golf Incorporated (Carlsbad, CA)
Law Firm: QUARLES BRADY LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17370751 on 07/08/2021 (859 days app to issue)

Abstract: A putter-type golf club includes a body defining a toe portion, a medial portion, a heel portion, and an insert cavity, and a face insert assembly disposed within the insert cavity. The face insert assembly includes an outer plate comprising a plurality of apertures, and an inner insert comprising a plurality of protrusions. The plurality of protrusions extend entirely through the plurality of apertures.

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

Medication inventory system including image based boundary determination for generating a medication tray stocking list and related methods
Patent No. 11817207

Inventor(s): Jared O. Santibanez (Forney, TX)
Assignee(s): INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC. (Ft. Worth, TX)
Law Firm: ALLEN, DYER, DOPPELT, + GILCHRIST, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17528797 on 11/17/2021 (727 days app to issue)

Abstract: A medication tray may include a boundary wall defining a boundary outline. Markers may be carried by the boundary wall. A mobile device may obtain a first image of the medication tray, and determine a number of the markers from the first image. When the number equals or exceeds a threshold, an edge detection algorithm may be applied to the first image to identify the boundary outline based upon the markers, and generate a stocking list of the tray based upon the outline. When the determined number does not exceed the threshold, the device may obtain a second image of the tray, and determine an updated number of the markers from the first and second images. When the updated number equals or exceeds the threshold, the algorithm may be applied to the images to identify the outline based upon the markers, and generate the stocking list based upon the outline.

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

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

On demand three dimensional roof system manufacturing
Patent No. 11813703

Inventor(s): Chris Freeborg (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): TAMKO Building Products LLC (Galena, KS)
Law Firm: Cochran Freund Young LLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16879539 on 05/20/2020 (1273 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is an additive manufacturing process for making shingles and roof tiles. The entire shingle, including the substrate, can be manufactured on location, or a substrate can be manufactured at a manufacturing plant and then colored and textured on location to provide a wide variety of shapes and colors of shingles and roof tiles. Costs for inventory and shipping are reduced and a greater variety of shapes and colors can be provided for the shingles and roof tiles. The additive manufacturing equipment can be mounted on a truck so that the additive manufacturing techniques can be a mobile application of the additive manufacturing technology.

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

Power control system and method for model vehicles
Patent No. 11813996

Inventor(s): Scott Rollin Michael Schmitz (Lewisville, TX), William Huang (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17188880 on 03/01/2021 (988 days app to issue)

Abstract: An enhanced hybrid battery elimination circuit, power control system, and method for R/C vehicles is provided. The system may include a power input from a vehicle battery and a converted power output to vehicle electronics. The system may also include an enhanced hybrid battery elimination circuit (BEC) electrically coupled to the power input and providing the converted power output and including a linear regulator and a switching regulator connected in parallel to the linear regulator between the power input and the converted power output. The enhanced hybrid BEC further includes a linear electrical decoupler provided between the linear regulator and the converted power output and a switching electrical decoupler provided between the switching regulator and the converted power output. Wherein the switching regulator and the linear regulator are either electrically coupled or decoupled from the output power and/or the input power based upon a monitored voltage level.

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

Fuel reactant leak detection system and method of detecting fuel reactant leaks
Patent No. 11814027

Inventor(s): Giorgio L Zoia (Los Angeles, CA), Takehito Yokoo (Mission Viejo, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17665100 on 02/04/2022 (648 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle, a vehicle fuel reactant leak detection system, a computer program product, and a computer implemented method of detecting leakage of a fuel reactant from a vehicle. The vehicle includes one or more fuel cell modules, a fuel supply source to supply a fuel reactant to the one or more fuel cell modules via a high-pressure fuel supply line, a fuel supply valve configured to open and close fuel reactant flow through the high-pressure fuel supply line, and a computing device, operatively connected to the fuel supply source. The computing device includes one or more processors caused to conduct, in response to a detection as sensor data of pressure in the high-pressure fuel supply line when the vehicle engine is in a non-operating state, fuel pressure analysis of the sensor data, and detect, based on the fuel pressure analysis, leakage of the fuel reactant at the fuel supply valve.

[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]

Intelligent vehicle guidance for improved driving safety
Patent No. 11814065

Inventor(s): Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, 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: 17514195 on 10/29/2021 (746 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system of intelligently alerting and/or routing vehicles to improve driving safety is disclosed. The method includes sharing data collected by vehicles in different locations to determine whether the presence of dynamically moving objects such as animals and pedestrians will affect traffic conditions for other vehicles on the nearby roadways. If the system determines there is a likelihood of such objects being obstacles to other vehicles, an alert can be automatically presented to the drivers of the impacted vehicles. The method further includes generating routes for the driver that avoid, or limit, the driver”s exposure to the obstacle.

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

Adjustable marine fender holder
Patent No. 11814140

Inventor(s): Adam Ryan Butler Till (Dallas, TX), Walter John Till (Darien, CT)
Assignee(s): SILVER FOX CAPITAL (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Ulmer Berne LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17239919 on 04/26/2021 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: Varying implementations of adjustable marine fender holders are disclosed, which may receive a length of rope and hold it in place so that a marine fender may be adjusted to a desired height and then fixed in place without having to untie or retie the length of rope. Holders include a friction fit feature for engaging with a nautical cleat, and a rope channel through which a rope may be passed so that a proximal end of the rope may be wedged into a set of teeth or ridges to hold the rope in place. Another holder includes a single wedged arm that may be wedged underneath a cross bar of a cleat. Yet another holder includes a collapsible friction pad that may be wedged into a cleat. Yet another holder includes a compressible friction pad that may be wedged into a cleat.

[B63B] SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING (arrangements of vessel ventilation, heating, cooling, or air-conditioning B63J 2/00; floating substructures as supports of dredgers or soil-shifting machines E02F 9/06) [2]

Passive proprotor-blade retention systems
Patent No. 11814153

Inventor(s): Andrew Maresh (Colleyville, TX), Jonathan Andrew Knoll (Alvarado, TX), Kyle Thomas Cravener (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17552052 on 12/15/2021 (699 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for retaining a folded proprotor blade in flight. The system includes a mounting plate, a first arm coupled to the mounting plate at an acute angle relative to the mounting plate, and a first deformable pad affixed to the first arm and adapted to contact the folded proprotor blade.

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

Rotatable winglets for a rotary wing aircraft
Patent No. 11814162

Inventor(s): Aaron Alexander Acee (Flower Mound, TX), Michael S. Seifert (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16905558 on 06/18/2020 (1244 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment includes a rotary aircraft, including: a main drive rotor; an aircraft body mechanically coupled to the main drive rotor; and first and second flight assist wings passively rotatably coupled to the aircraft body.

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

Electric tiltrotor aircraft with tilting coaxial motors and gearbox
Patent No. 11814163

Inventor(s): Charles Hubert Speller (Flower Mound, TX), George Matthew Thompson (Lewisville, TX), Grant Michael Beall (Arlington, TX), Jonathan Andrew Knoll (Burleson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17148307 on 01/13/2021 (1035 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotor system for an aircraft includes an open rotor assembly comprising a plurality of rotor blades connected to a rotor mast via a yoke, wherein the rotor assembly is tiltable between a first position corresponding to an airplane mode and a second position corresponding to a helicopter mode; and a drive system for providing rotational energy to the open rotor assembly via the rotor mast, the drive system comprising at least one electric motor for providing rotational energy to a drive shaft and a gearbox connected to the drive shaft for receiving rotational energy from the at least one electric motor via the drive shaft and providing rotational energy to the rotor mast via a rotor shaft; wherein the drive system is rotatable relative to the wing about a tilt axis and the rotor shaft is coaxial with the drive shaft.

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

Active blade-pitch change systems and methods
Patent No. 11814164

Inventor(s): Alan Hisashi Steinert (Fort Worth, TX), John Robert Wittmaak (Newark, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17729646 on 04/26/2022 (567 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of verifying operation of an aircraft in a pre-defined flight mode includes operating the aircraft in a first flight mode, commanding the aircraft to transition to a second flight mode, evaluating a plurality of motor performance parameters, and based on values of the plurality of motor performance parameters, determining whether the aircraft has successfully transitioned to the second flight mode.

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

Passenger seat crash safety system
Patent No. 11814176

Inventor(s): Jean St-Pierre (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Frost Brown Todd LLP (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17362252 on 06/29/2021 (868 days app to issue)

Abstract: A safety system for aircraft passenger seats is described. A pallet that can be removably coupled to seats can also be removably coupled to the aircraft floor and one or more brackets, tension fittings, or machined straps that can be coupled to structural beams or components in an aircraft. A keel tension fitting can be attached to a keel beam and then be coupled to the pallet and thereby the seats. By attaching to the keel beam the safety system allows the seating arrangement (pallet and seats) to withstand greater stresses and forces, resulting in increased safety.

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

Speed reducer and speed reducer system for a conveyor
Patent No. 11814251

Inventor(s): T. J. Maier (Oakland City, IN)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17828716 on 05/31/2022 (532 days app to issue)

Abstract: A speed reducer for a gravity roller conveyor system is provided. The speed reducer includes a mounting member and an engagement member rotatably connected to the mounting member and structured to be rotatable to a first rotational position and to a second rotational position. A damper is connected to the mounting member and is structured to bias the engagement member to the first rotational position. A retraction mechanism is operably connected to the engagement member and is structured to be operable to rotate the engagement member to the second rotational position against a biasing force exerted by the damper on the engagement member when an object moving along the conveyor becomes stalled, thereby enabling the object to move along the conveyor past the engagement member. A speed reducer system incorporating the speed reducer is also described.

[B65G] TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable or mobile lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F 9/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C 9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D)

Component lifts having support assemblies
Patent No. 11814268

Inventor(s): Jeffrey M. Collins (Davisburg, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17402096 on 08/13/2021 (823 days app to issue)

Abstract: A support assembly including a coupler, a first arm having a proximate end movably coupled to the coupler, a distal end opposite the proximate end, and a second arm having a proximate end movably coupled to the coupler, a distal end opposite the proximate end. The support assembly is movable between a disengaged position and an engaged position. When moving from the disengaged position to the engaged position, the distal end of the first arm and the distal end of the second arm move toward each other.

[B66C] CRANES; LOAD-ENGAGING ELEMENTS OR DEVICES FOR CRANES, CAPSTANS, WINCHES, OR TACKLES (rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms, braking or detent devices therefor B66D; specially adapted for nuclear reactors G21)

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

Pyrazolyl and pyrimidinyl tricyclic enones as antioxidant inflammation modulators
Patent No. 11814338

Inventor(s): Bradley Caprathe (Livonia, MI), Chitase Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Eric Anderson (Southlake, TX), Gary L. Bolton (Ann Arbor, MI), Melean Visnick (Irving, TX), William H. Roark (Ann Arbor, MI), Xin Jiang (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): REATA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17457808 on 12/06/2021 (708 days app to issue)

Abstract:

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

Cellulose acetate tow with high dpf and low titanium dioxide content
Patent No. 11814507

Inventor(s): Christopher M. Bundren (Blacksburg, VA), Dirk Amtower (Pembroke, VA), Karen Zazzara (Blacksburg, VA), Michael Combs (Pembroke, VA), Susan Blankenship (Irving, WV)
Assignee(s): ACETATE INTERNATIONAL LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16855661 on 04/22/2020 (1301 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein are cellulose acetate tow bands having less than 0.1 wt. % titanium dioxide, wherein the content of titanium dioxide is measured by ashing and/or by titanium particle count density. Also provided herein is a method of measuring the titanium dioxide content of cellulose acetate tow by ashing. Also provided herein is a method for measuring the color of cellulose acetate tow.

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

Gel extruded articles made from high density polyethylene with narrow molecular weight distribution
Patent No. 11814508

Inventor(s): Arvind Yadav (Liederbach am Taunus, , DE), Christian Ohm (Gernsheim, , DE)
Assignee(s): CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Dority Manning, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17410138 on 08/24/2021 (812 days app to issue)

Abstract: A polymer composition for producing gel extruded articles is described. The polymer composition contains polyethylene particles combined with a plasticizer. The polyethylene polymer has a narrow molecular weight distribution. Polymer articles made in accordance with the present disclosure have enhanced strength properties. In one embodiment, the polymer composition is used to form a porous membrane for use as a separator in electronic devices.

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

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

Asphalt shingle waste powders and related methods
Patent No. 11814798

Inventor(s): Dale Kelley (Flower Mound, TX), James Svec (Kearney, NJ), Kirby Erickson (Waxahachie, TX), Kris Edelsward (Lockport, NY), Michael T. Ferraro (Savannah, GA), Paul Richardson (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18062498 on 12/06/2022 (343 days app to issue)

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

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

Monitoring apparatus for hydrant
Patent No. 11814823

Inventor(s): John Garcia (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): McWane, Inc. (Birmingham, AL)
Law Firm: Maynard Nexsen PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18189560 on 03/24/2023 (235 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses for a hydrant, as well as associated methods for installing the same, may be directed to a threaded stem for actuating a hydrant outlet valve at a first end of the stem. An attachment nut may define a bore for supporting the stem in the hydrant. The attachment nut defines a cavity configured to receive water from a barrel of the hydrant. The attachment nut also defines a water access passage extending through an outer wall of the attachment nut to the cavity. The apparatus also includes a sensor in fluid communication with the cavity to obtain sensor data for the water in the barrel.

[E03B] INSTALLATIONS OR METHODS FOR OBTAINING, COLLECTING, OR DISTRIBUTING WATER (drilling wells, obtaining fluids in general from wells E21B; pipe-line systems in general F17D)

Drill coupler for mitigating torsional vibration
Patent No. 11814907

Inventor(s): Jason C. Maw (Beaumont, , CA), Matthew Roseman (Fort Worth, TX), Nathan Andrew Brooks (Slade Point, , AU), Thomas A. Damian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17097333 on 11/13/2020 (1096 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to coupler for connecting a drill pipe to a drill bit as well as methods for manufacturing the same. In particular, the present disclosure describes a coupler which includes a housing including a first connecting portion at a first end for connecting to a drill pipe, a base coupled to the housing and including a second connecting portion at a second end for connecting to a drill bit, and an intermediate component disposed between the base and the housing, wherein the coupler is configured for rotation about an axis during use, with the intermediate component allowing limited relative rotation between the housing and the base about the axis.

[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]

Apparatus and method for securing end pieces to a mandrel
Patent No. 11814936

Inventor(s): Garrett S. Boyd (Granbury, TX), Mitchell A. Boyd (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): FLOWCO PRODUCTION SOLUTIONS, LLC (Spring, TX)
Law Firm: FisherBroyles, LLP (Local + 17 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17681356 on 02/25/2022 (627 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bumper spring assembly having a one piece mandrel including an integral head piece is further configured with a cage assembly retained on the mandrel with a cage nut locked to the mandrel to obviate the need for pins, set screws, and the like, to provide a more robust assembly. In two embodiments the cage nut is locked to the mandrel in a swaging operation. Improved flow of fluids through and around the bumper spring assembly are also provided.

Distributed diagnostics and control of a multi-unit pumping operation
Patent No. 11814947

Inventor(s): Daniel Joshua Stark (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: NOVAK DRUCE CARROLL LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17365729 on 07/01/2021 (866 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for optimizing multi-unit pumping operations at a well site. Systems and methods are provided for receiving sensor data from a hydraulic fracturing fleet equipment at an equipment system, designating an event as being flagged based on the sensor data from the hydraulic fracturing fleet equipment, determining a physical action based on the flagged event and a priority list of actions, and providing instructions to a first pump of the hydraulic fracturing fleet equipment to perform the physical action based on the flagged event and the priority list of actions.

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

Portable electricity generation system and method of use
Patent No. 11813952

Inventor(s): James Wallander (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17405310 on 08/18/2021 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electricity generator includes a wind tunnel positioned on the vehicle. The wind tunnel has an open first end and an open second end. The open first end is in communication with ambient air. A turbine chamber is fluidly coupled to the open second end of the wind tunnel. At least one wind turbine is positioned in the turbine chamber. The at least one wind turbine includes a housing. A rotor is positioned in the housing along an axis that is substantially perpendicular to an axis of the wind tunnel.

[F03D] WIND MOTORS

Systems and methods of hybrid blade tip repair
Patent No. 11814979

Inventor(s): Christopher J Bischof (Southlake, TX), Michael J Minor (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): RTX Corporation (Farmington, CT)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer L.L.P. (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17949688 on 09/21/2022 (419 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of repairing a tip for an airfoil is disclosed herein. In various embodiments, the method comprises: removing a portion of the airfoil that reduces a radial height of the airfoil and at least partially removes a defect of the airfoil; removing a remainder of the defect; joining, via gas tungsten arc welding, a filler material to the airfoil to repair the defect; and joining a first mating surface of the airfoil to a second mating surface of a blade tip body via a solid-state joining process.

[F01D] NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES (combustion engines F02; machines or engines for liquids F03, F04; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D)

Fracturing operations pump fleet balance controller
Patent No. 11815083

Inventor(s): Bryan Suharik (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Sugar Land, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17291421 on 11/05/2019 (1470 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system can include one or more processors; memory; a data interface that receives data; a control interface that transmits control signals for control of pumps of a hydraulic fracturing operation; and one or more components that can include one or more of a modeling component that predicts pressure in a well fluidly coupled to at least one of the pumps, a pumping rate adjustment component that generates a pumping rate control signal for transmission via the control interface, a capacity component that estimates a real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump, and a control component that, for a target pumping rate for the pumps during the hydraulic fracturing operation, generates at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings for each of the individual pumps using an estimated real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump where the settings are transmissible via the control interface.

[F04B] POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F; crankshafts, crossheads, connecting-rods F16C; flywheels F16F; gearings for interconverting rotary motion and reciprocating motion in general F16H; pistons, piston-rods, cylinders, in general F16J; ion pumps H01J 41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K 44/02)

Modular end apparatus and methods for flexible hoses
Patent No. 11815201

Inventor(s): Peter Middleton (Aledo, TX), Steven Post (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): FORUM US, INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16914027 on 06/26/2020 (1236 days app to issue)

Abstract: Modular end apparatus, such as modular end fitting apparatus, and methods for flexible hoses, and associated components thereof. In one implementation, a flexible hose apparatus includes a flexible hose and a hose body coupled to the flexible hose, the hose body including a threaded outer surface. The flexible hose apparatus includes a cap including an inner shoulder protruding inwardly relative to a first inner surface of the cap. The flexible hose apparatus also includes a removable end fitting disposed in engagement with the cap. The removable end fitting includes an end body that is monolithic. The end body includes a first end, a second end opposite of the first end, and a first outer shoulder adjacent the first end and disposed between the hose body and the inner shoulder of the cap.

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

Adapter for mounting cables and cable hangers and clamp members for mounting same
Patent No. 11815207

Inventor(s): Darin W. Piburn (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17590476 on 02/01/2022 (651 days app to issue)

Abstract: An adapter for mounting a cable hanger on a mounting structure includes a body having a base and a neck, the base having a hollow cavity and including a mounting hole with an overhanging rim, the neck including a threaded bore, the adapter being formed of a polymeric material.

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

Clamps
Patent No. 11815219

Inventor(s): Trent Ballentine (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: ANDRUS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17498015 on 10/11/2021 (764 days app to issue)

Abstract: A clamp for releasably clamping onto a sphere of an adapter includes a body having a passageway, a cutout, and a cavity. The cavity positioned between the passageway and the cutout and configured to receive the sphere. A plunger is movably positioned in the passageway and configured to move the sphere. A lever is coupled to the body, and pivoting the lever causes the plunger to move in a first direction toward the cavity such that the plunger moves the sphere in the first direction. A resilient member in the cutout is configured to bias the sphere in a second direction opposite the first direction such that the sphere is secured in the cavity between the plunger and the resilient member.

[F16M] FRAMES, CASINGS, OR BEDS, OF ENGINES OR OTHER MACHINES OR APPARATUS, NOT SPECIFIC TO AN ENGINE, MACHINE, OR APPARATUS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS OR SUPPORTS

P H Y S I C S

System and method for determining an item count in a rack using magnetic sensors
Patent No. 11815366

Inventor(s): Matthew O”Daniel Redmond (Denton, 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: 18171629 on 02/20/2023 (267 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a longitudinal rack storing a plurality of packs of cigarettes, a shoe movably attached to the rack, a magnet coupled to the shoe and a longitudinal circuit board arranged along the length of the rack. The circuit board includes an array of sensors along the length of the rack, wherein spacing between each pair of sensors equals a pre-selected thickness. Each sensor generates a value depending on a position of the magnet in relation to the sensor. The circuit board further includes a memory storing values generated by the sensors, and a processor configured to determine a position of the shoe/magnet based on the values and determine a pack count of the packs based on the position of the shoe/magnet.

[G01D] MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; TRANSFERRING OR TRANSDUCING ARRANGEMENTS NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Dual-mount for spring-loaded gear-driven resolvers
Patent No. 11815368

Inventor(s): Grant Michael Beall (Arlington, TX), Jessica Arlie Revere (Haltom City, TX), William Anthony Amante (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lightfoot Alford PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16846372 on 04/12/2020 (1311 days app to issue)

Abstract: A resolver assembly for a ducted-rotor aircraft is configured to detect and measure rotation of a spindle of the aircraft. The resolver assembly includes first and second gear-driven resolvers. The first and second resolvers are coupled about a shared pivot axis and are independently pivotable about the pivot axis to maintain engagement of the first and second resolvers with the spindle of the aircraft. The resolver assembly is configured such that the first and second resolvers are biased toward the spindle. The input shafts of the first and second resolvers are spaced from the pivot axis through respective first and second distances that extend outward from the pivot axis along respective first and second radial directions. The first distance is equal to the second distance and the first radial direction is not coincident with the second radial direction.

Aging compensation of a ferroelectric piezoelectric shock sensor
Patent No. 11815526

Inventor(s): Benjamin Stassen Cook (Addison, TX), Scott Robert Summerfelt (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17732475 on 04/28/2022 (565 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes measuring a temperature of a semiconductor die, in which the semiconductor die includes a piezoelectric device, a pyroelectric device, and a memory. The method further includes receiving a first signal from the pyroelectric device, and based on the first signal, determining a parameter to be combined with a second signal from the piezoelectric device. The method further includes storing the parameter and the measured temperature into the memory.

[G01P] MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF MOVEMENT; INDICATING DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT (measuring angular rate using gyroscopic effects G01C 19/00; combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement G01C 23/00; measuring velocity of sound G01H 5/00; measuring velocity of light G01J 7/00; determining direction or velocity of solid objects by reflection or reradiation of radio or other waves and based on propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time or direction of propagation, G01S; measuring speed of nuclear radiation G01T)

Universal compactor architecture for testing circuits
Patent No. 11815555

Inventor(s): Bartosz Wlodarczak (Swarzdz, , PL), Grzegorz Mrugalski (Swarzedz, , PL), Janusz Rajski (West Linn, OR), Jerzy Tyszer (Poznan, , PL), Nilanjan Mukherjee (Wilsonville, OR), Yingdi Liu (Wilsonville, OR)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17753332 on 09/06/2019 (1530 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit comprises scan gating devices inserted between outputs of scan chains and inputs of a test response compactor. The scan gating devices divides the scan chains into groups of scan chains. Each of the scan gating devices operates in either an enabled mode or a disenabled mode based on a first signal. A scan gating device operating in the enabled mode blocks, blocks only at some clock cycles, or does not block a portion of a test response of a test pattern captured by and outputted from a scan chain in the associated scan chain group based on a second signal. Scan gating devices operating in the disenabled mode do not block, or based on a third signal, either block or do not block, a portion of the test response captured by and outputted from all scan chains in each of the associated scan chain groups.

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

System and method for fast magnetometer calibration using gyroscope
Patent No. 11815568

Inventor(s): Mahaveer Jain (Santa Clara, CA), Mahesh Chowdhary (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): STMicroelectronics, Inc. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17135628 on 12/28/2020 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device includes a magnetometer that outputs magnetometer sensor signals and a gyroscope that outputs gyroscope sensor signals. The electronic device includes a magnetometer calibration module that calibrates the magnetometer utilizing the gyroscope sensor signals. The electronic device generates a first magnetometer calibration parameter based on a Kalman filter process. The electronic device generates a second magnetometer calibration parameter based on a least squares estimation process.

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

Digital compensation for mismatches in a radar system
Patent No. 11815621

Inventor(s): Karthik Ramasubramanian (Bangalore, , IN), Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, , IN), Sriram Murali (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17368319 on 07/06/2021 (861 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radar system is provided that includes a receive channel configured to receive a reflected signal and to generate a first digital intermediate frequency (IF) signal based on the reflected signal, a reference receive channel configured to receive a reflected signal and to generate a second digital IF signal based on the reflected signal, and digital mismatch compensation circuitry coupled to receive the first digital IF signal and the second digital IF signal, the digital mismatch compensation circuitry configured to process the first digital IF signal and the second digital IF signal to compensate for mismatches between the receive channel and the reference receive channel.

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

AR content display for rear passengers using infrared light
Patent No. 11815694

Inventor(s): Mikio David (Ypsilanti, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17375467 on 07/14/2021 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus may include a first emitter and a second emitter. The first emitter may be configured to emit visible light comprising first heads up display information to be displayed to a driver of a vehicle. The second emitter may be configured to emit infrared light comprising second heads up display information to be displayed to one or more rear seat passengers of the vehicle.

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

Reversible optical connectors and associated devices, systems, and methods
Patent No. 11815722

Inventor(s): Akihito Ishikawa (Allen, TX), Takashi Sato (Tokyo, , JP), Tomoaki Kaga (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): SANWA ELECTRONICS USA CORPORATION (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18166614 on 02/09/2023 (278 days app to issue)

Abstract: Reversible optical connectors, and associated devices and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a connector for a communication cable includes a housing comprising a cavity, and a first plug and a second plug coupled to a distal portion of the housing. The first and second plugs are connected to the housing such that the first and second plugs are independently rotatable with respect to the housing. The connector further includes a latch actuator coupled to the housing and configured to disengage one or more latches from an outlet. By rotating the plugs 180 degrees and turning the connector over, the relative arrangement or position of the two plugs can be switched or reversed. The plugs can be rotated or reversed without completely disassembling the connector, in some embodiments. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure can improve workflows for a user or operator that in a high-density networking setting.

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

Optoelectronic device
Patent No. 11815748

Inventor(s): Karlheinz Muth (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Rockley Photonics Limited (Altrincham, , GB)
Law Firm: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17540782 on 12/02/2021 (712 days app to issue)

Abstract: An optoelectronic device, including: a rib waveguide, the rib waveguide including: a ridge portion, which includes a temperature-sensitive optically active region, and a slab portion, positioned adjacent to the ridge portion; the device further comprising a heater, disposed on top of the slab portion wherein a part of the heater closest to ridge portion is at least 2 m away from the ridge portion. The device may also have a heater provided with a bottom cladding layer, and may also include various thermal insulation enhancing cavities.

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

Electrodeposition compatible anti-reflection coatings for laser interference lithography applications
Patent No. 11815822

Inventor(s): Gaurav Singhal (Champaign, IL), Kai-Wei Lan (Champaign, IL), Nenad Miljkovic (Urbana, IL), Paul Vannest Braun (Champaign, IL), Shailesh N. Joshi (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17704436 on 03/25/2022 (599 days app to issue)

Abstract: A component with a reflective substrate, a photoresist layer disposed on the reflective substrate, and a light diffusing layer sandwiched between the reflective substrate and the photoresist layer is provided. The light diffusing layer includes an outer metal oxide layer with an outer rough surface configured to diffuse laser light during laser interference lithography of the photoresist layer. The outer metal oxide is also configured to be reduced to a conductive metallic layer during electroplating of the substrate. The outer metal oxide layer includes a plurality of elongated light diffusing elements extending in an outward direction from the substrate such that the outer rough surface diffuses at least 90% of laser light during the laser interference lithography of the photoresist layer.

[G03F] PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR (phototypographic composing devices B41B; photosensitive materials or processes for photographic purposes G03C; electrography, sensitive layers or processes G03G)

Cognitive industrial floor cleaning amelioration
Patent No. 11815899

Inventor(s): Ernest Bernard Williams, Jr. (Dallas, TX), Henry Ramsey Bissex (Irving, TX), Zachary James Goodman (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17234286 on 04/19/2021 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving data regarding an area to be cleaned, the data comprising data regarding movement of people or machines through the area to be cleaned; training a machine learning cleaning model based on the data; creating a floor cleaning plan using the machine learning cleaning model, the floor cleaning plan identifying a cleaning time to minimize a likelihood of a robotic cleaning device encountering a person or a machine while cleaning; and transmitting the floor cleaning plan to a robotic cleaning device.

[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)

Programming a coarse grained reconfigurable array through description of data flow graphs
Patent No. 11815935

Inventor(s): Bashar Romanous (Allen, TX), Douglas John Vanesko (Dallas, TX), Patrick Alan Estep (Rowlett, TX), Randall Paul Meyer (Allen, TX), Skyler Arron Windh (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17705099 on 03/25/2022 (599 days app to issue)

Abstract: An assembly language program for a coarse grained reconfiguration array (CGRA), having dispatch interface information indicating operations to be performed via a dispatch interface of the CGRA to receive an input, memory interface information indicating operations to be performed via one or more memory interfaces of the CGRA, tile memory information indicating memory variables referring to memory locations to be implemented in tile memories of the CGRA, a flow description specifying one or more synchronous data flows, through the memory locations referenced via the memory variables in the tile memory information, to produce a result from the input using the CGRA.

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

Systems and methods for processing using directed acyclic graphs
Patent No. 11815943

Inventor(s): Adam Benjamin Nunez (Wylie, TX), Adam Smith (McKinney, TX), Colin D. Rosendahl (Richardson, TX), Hugens Ulysse (Dallas, TX), Matthew Joshua Tijerina (Richardson, TX), Temitope Ibukunoluwa Oladipo (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, IL)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074283 on 10/19/2020 (1121 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer system for executing a processing graph including: (A) access a graph definition of the processing graph from a nodes database, the graph definition identifies nodes and edges, each edge connects a pair of nodes, each node represents a component of computation performed by at least one program referenced by that node; (B) constructing the processing graph in the memory; (C) traversing the processing graph to visit and process each node in the processing graph; (D) upon visiting a first node of the processing graph, accessing a first node definition of the first node from the nodes database, the first node definition identifies a first program; (E) executing the first program to generate a first output; and (F) passing the first output to a parent node of the first node, the parent node uses the first output during processing of the parent node.

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

Modular dock for mobile computing devices
Patent No. 11815952

Inventor(s): Dennis Barrett (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Zebra Technologies Corporation (Lincolnshire, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17168717 on 02/05/2021 (1012 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dock for a computing device includes: a cradle configured to receive a first edge of the computing device; a body extending from the cradle, the body having: (i) a first mounting surface configured to removably support a first accessory module in a first volume adjacent to the computing device, and (ii) a second mounting surface configured to removably support, independently of the first accessory module, a second accessory module in a second volume disjoint from the first volume.

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

Boundary port power in pent modelling and management
Patent No. 11815971

Inventor(s): Aswani Kumar Golla (Bengaluru, , IN), Lakshmanan Balasubramanian (Bengaluru, , IN), Sushmitha Tudiyadka Girijashankar (Sullia Taluk, , IN), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17156910 on 01/25/2021 (1023 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for boundary port modelling that correctly handles back-to-back isolation intent, level shifter intent and voltage level association, by providing hard association of power domains to soft data objects, such as wires. The method includes identifying a boundary port in a detailed power intent (DPI) for a soft design object (SDO). A non-wire object is inserted in the SDO for the boundary port. In the DPI, a power domain of the boundary port is assigned to the non-wire object.

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

Identifying causes of anomalies observed in an integrated circuit chip
Patent No. 11816016

Inventor(s): Gajinder Panesar (Cambridge, , GB), Marcin Hlond (Cambridge, , GB)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17780837 on 11/26/2020 (1083 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of identifying a cause of an anomalous feature measured from system circuitry on an integrated circuit (IC) chip, the IC chip comprising the system circuitry and monitoring circuitry for monitoring the system circuitry by measuring features of the system circuitry in each window of a series of windows, the method comprising: (i) from a set of windows prior to the anomalous window comprising the anomalous feature, identifying a candidate window set in which to search for the cause of the anomalous feature; (ii) for each of the measured features of the system circuitry: (a) calculating a first feature probability distribution of that measured feature for the candidate window set; (b) calculating a second feature probability distribution of that measured feature for window(s) not in the candidate window set; (c) comparing the first and second feature probability distributions; and (d) identifying that measured feature in the timeframe of the candidate window set as a cause of the anomalous feature if the first and second feature probability distributions differ by more than a threshold value; (iii) iterating steps (i) and (ii) for further candidate window sets from the set of windows prior to the anomalous window; and (iv) outputting a signal indicating those measured feature(s) of step (ii)(d) identified as a cause of the anomalous feature.

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

Testing an application in a production infrastructure temporarily provided by a cloud computing environment
Patent No. 11816019

Inventor(s): Anilkumar Baddula (Plano, TX), Anoop Kunjuramanpillai (McKinney, TX), Daniel Tresnak (Frisco, TX), Karthik Gunapati (Irving, TX), Leonardo Gomide (Dallas, TX), Nathan Gloier (Frisco, TX), Raveender Kommera (Flower Mound,
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17247086 on 11/30/2020 (1079 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device receives test parameters associated with testing an application that utilizes source data, and causes source containers, for the source data, to be temporarily created in a cloud computing environment, based on the test parameters. The device provides the source data to the source containers in the cloud computing environment, and causes other containers, for the application, to be temporarily created in the cloud computing environment, based on the test parameters. The device creates a file for testing the application with the source containers and the other containers, based on the test parameters, and causes the application to be executed with the source containers and the other containers, based on the file. The device receives results associated with executing the application with the source containers and the other containers.

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

Cache size change
Patent No. 11816032

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX), Naveen Bhoria (Plano, TX), Neelima Muralidharan (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17727912 on 04/25/2022 (568 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes determining, by a level one (L1) controller, to change a size of a L1 main cache; servicing, by the L1 controller, pending read requests and pending write requests from a central processing unit (CPU) core; stalling, by the L1 controller, new read requests and new write requests from the CPU core; writing back and invalidating, by the L1 controller, the L1 main cache. The method also includes receiving, by a level two (L2) controller, an indication that the L1 main cache has been invalidated and, in response, flushing a pipeline of the L2 controller; in response to the pipeline being flushed, stalling, by the L2 controller, requests received from any master; reinitializing, by the L2 controller, a shadow L1 main cache. Reinitializing includes clearing previous contents of the shadow L1 main cache and changing the size of the shadow L1 main cache.

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

Configuration engine for dynamically generating user interfaces
Patent No. 11816075

Inventor(s): Karen Trevino (Plano, TX), Maruthi Shanmugam (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17386162 on 07/27/2021 (840 days app to issue)

Abstract: Arrangements for database schema creation and control are provided. In some aspects, a user may request creation or modification of a database schema. In response to receiving the request, one or more interactive user interfaces may be generated. The one or more interactive user interfaces may enable a user to select one or more selectable options for presenting data, establishing relationships between data, data sources, and the like. The schema, including a schema configuration including the presentational aspects and relationships, may be stored. A user may request to view data and the stored database schema may be retrieved. The schema may be transmitted to a configuration engine that may retrieve the requested data from one or more non-relational database sources. One or more user interfaces may be dynamically generated based on the schema configuration and may include the retrieved data.

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

Geographical location determination system
Patent No. 11816097

Inventor(s): Jodi Lynn Boddie (Plano, TX), Joshua Jonalagada (Euless, TX), Kuldeep Kashinath Marganache (Frisco, TX), Lindsay Detwiler (Lewisville, TX), Manish R. Chhabra (Frisco, TX), Mayur Gupta (Frisco, TX), Subramanyan Srinivasa (
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17342001 on 06/08/2021 (889 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining accurate addresses for assets are described herein. According to some aspects, a plurality of addresses associated with an asset are compiled from sources such as database systems. For the plurality of address records, scores that correspond to attributes of the address records can be determined. Attributes associated with the address records may include a recency, a source, a date, license plate data, or address type, to name several non-limiting examples. Additionally, a zone of interest for the asset can be determined based on the plurality of address records. The plurality of address records is prioritized based on their distance from the zone of interest and the scores associated with them and, based on the priority, a subset of the plurality of address records is sent to, for example, a service provider.

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

Data transfer with a bit vector operation device
Patent No. 11816123

Inventor(s): Isom Crawford, Jr. (Royse City, TX), John D. Leidel (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Brooks, Cameron Huebsch, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17199261 on 03/11/2021 (978 days app to issue)

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for direct data transfer. An example method comprises transferring data between a first device and a second device, wherein the first device is a bit vector operation device, and transforming the data using a data transform engine (DTE) by rearranging the data to enable the data to be stored on the first device when transferring the data between the second device and first memory device.

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

Large scale unstructured database systems
Patent No. 11816126

Inventor(s): Craig Geppert Wilson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MongoDB, Inc. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Wolf, Greenfield Sacks, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17894386 on 08/24/2022 (447 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide techniques for on-demand access to object data hosted in distributed object storage. A query is received for the distributed object storage database, wherein the distributed object storage database includes first object data stored in a first data center at a first geographical location, and second object data stored in a second data center at a second geographical location. It is determined that the query is for at least a portion of the first object data stored by the first data center. The query is transmitted to a first computing device in the first data center. Results are received from the first computing device for the query, and the results are provided in response to the received query.

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

Systems and methods for improved transactional mainframes
Patent No. 11816163

Inventor(s): Anurag Andoji (Frisco, TX), Joe Vaughan (Lewisville, TX), Marc Hudak (Plano, TX), Matthew Coleman (Dallas, TX), Michael Garner (Carrollton, TX), PhaniKrishna Hari (The Colony, TX), Swathi Challkere Vijayaprakash (Frisco,
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: DLA PIPER LLP (US) (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17449738 on 10/01/2021 (774 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a system for improved transactional mainframes, the system comprising a processor, a database, an application programming interface (API) module, and a transaction import module. The API module can be configured to: receive transaction data comprising a transaction type, a user identifier, one or more transaction card identifiers, and one or more fields associated with the transaction card identifiers; validate the transaction data using one or more of the stored validation rules associated with the one or more transaction card identifiers; generate one or more transaction cards; and store the transaction data and transaction cards to the database. The transaction import module can be configured to submit the transaction cards to the mainframe, view the status of submitted records, and enable retrying of transaction cards that failed to process.

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

Systems and methods for geolocation security using biometric analysis
Patent No. 11816198

Inventor(s): Ronnie Joe Morris, Jr. (Mesquite, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17223079 on 04/06/2021 (952 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention is generally related to systems and methods for providing an improved authentication and verification system through the use of compiled user data and user location or traffic data from multiple channels of input. Multiple devices may be utilized by the system in order to receive and process data to authenticate user identities and verify the validity of account activity.

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

Self-modifying data containers for improved data security
Patent No. 11816240

Inventor(s): Brian Francisco Shipley (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17102859 on 11/24/2020 (1085 days app to issue)

Abstract: A self-modifying data container for improved data security and methods of use are disclosed. The self-modifying data container includes a data storage structure for storing financial transaction information. The self-modifying data container also includes a data manager stored as code within the container. The data manager can run on a system hosting the self-modifying data container. The data manager can access transaction information in the data storage structure and modify the data in response to modification triggers. The data manager can delete data in the data storage structure. The data manager can also encrypt data in the data storage structure. The self-modifying data container improves both data security and data privacy.

[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]

Compressing like-magnitude partial products in multiply accumulation
Patent No. 11816448

Inventor(s): David Carlson (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. (Singapore, , SG)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17160100 on 01/27/2021 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ALU is capable of generating a multiply accumulation by compressing like-magnitude partial products. Given N pairs of multiplier and multiplicand, Booth encoding is used to encode the multipliers into M digits, and M partial products are produced for each pair of with each partial product in a smaller precision than a final product. The partial products resulting from the same encoded multiplier digit position, are summed across all the multiplies to produce a summed partial product. In this manner, the partial product summation operations can be advantageously performed in the smaller precision. The M summed partial products are then summed together with an aggregated fixup vector for sign extension. If the N multipliers equal to a constant, a preliminary fixup vector can be generated based on a predetermined value with adjustment on particular bits, where the predetermined value is determined by the signs of the encoded multiplier digits.

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

Copy management for container-based applications
Patent No. 11816462

Inventor(s): Thomas L. Watson (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Hopkinton, MA)
Law Firm: Ryan, Mason Lewis, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17210779 on 03/24/2021 (965 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for application copy management in container environments are disclosed. For example, a method obtains a copy of an application program, wherein the copy of the application program is a copy generated for a first cluster of a container-based information processing system within which the application program is deployed. The method then utilizes the copy of the application program from the first cluster to deploy the application program in a second cluster of the container-based information processing system.

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

Nested loop control
Patent No. 11816485

Inventor(s): Alan L. Davis (Sugar Land, TX), Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, TX), Todd T. Hahn (Sugar Land, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17367384 on 07/04/2021 (863 days app to issue)

Abstract: A nested loop controller includes a first register having a first value initialized to an initial first value, a second register having a second value initialized to an initial second value, and a third register configured as a predicate FIFO, initialized to have a third value. The second value is advanced in response to a tick instruction during execution of a loop. In response to the second value reaching a second threshold, the second register is reset to the initial second value. The nested loop controller further includes a comparator coupled to the second register and to the predicate FIFO and configured to provide an outer loop indicator value as input to the predicate FIFO when the second value is equal to the second threshold, and provide an inner loop indicator value as input to the predicate FIFO when the second value is not equal to the second threshold.

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

Event driven data processing system and method
Patent No. 11816512

Inventor(s): Benjamen Pyle (Addison, TX), Rakesh Sanghvi (Addison, TX), Robert Parker Freeburg, II (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): CURANTIS SOLUTIONS (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17874282 on 07/26/2022 (476 days app to issue)

Abstract: An event driven data processing system is disclosed that comprises event generators that generate events, an event queue that receives the events from the event generators, and an event router that receives the events from the event queue, and, for each event, selects a contextualizer based on an event type and transmits the event to a corresponding context queue associated with the selected contextualizer. The system also comprises context queues that receive the events from the event router and a plurality of contextualizers that receive the events from the context queues and, for each event, access context data sources, obtain additional context data, create a supplemented event, and store each supplemented event in an event datastore. The system further comprises a streaming component that streams each supplemented event from the event datastore for a period of time.

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

Transportation scheduling for controlled-environment facility residents
Patent No. 11816598

Inventor(s): Connor Pickens (Little Elm, TX), Dionisia Ray (Dallas, TX), John Wange (Dallas, TX), Sean North (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Securus Technologies, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17132991 on 12/23/2020 (1056 days app to issue)

Abstract: Scheduling and provisioning transportation by a controlled-environment facility resident may employ a controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media device, which requests and accepts identification information, from a controlled-environment facility resident operating the device, and verifies the identification information. The device then presents a controlled-environment facility transportation interface, via which the device accepts input or selection of a date and time from the resident for pick-up of a party and a destination of the party. The device may then interface with a transportation provider computer system, or the like, and schedule the pick-up of the party at the input or selected date and time for transportation to the destination. The transportation is paid for from one or more controlled-environment facility trust accounts maintained by the controlled-environment facility to the benefit of the controlled-environment facility resident.

Plan modeling visualization
Patent No. 11816620

Inventor(s): Baskaran Manohar (Dallas, TX), Chakradhar Gottemukkala (Austin, TX), Koustuv Chatterjee (Gilbert, AZ), Raghav Ranganathan (New York, NY), Umesh Arasu (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): o9 Solutions, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17546714 on 12/09/2021 (705 days app to issue)

Abstract: A plan model system provides interactive graphical user interfaces allowing users to view and navigate to multiple alternative views of measures modeled in one or more planning models. A modeled event is provided by a user relating to a measure of a particular plan model modeling outcomes of a particular business domain of a business organization. An effect of the event on values of one or more measures of the plan model is determined. A graphical representation is presented in the graphical user interface illustrating the effect.

Electronic mail verification
Patent No. 11816638

Inventor(s): Brian P. Prange (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17070139 on 10/14/2020 (1126 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to email verification. A computing platform may receive an electronic message and identify one or more portions of content in the message. Then, the computing platform may generate and embed one or more message-specific identifiers into the electronic message and store electronic message information associating the one or more portions of content with the one or more embedded message-specific identifiers. Thereafter, the computing platform may receive an electronic message verification request to verify authenticity of an identified electronic message received by a computing device. The computing platform may prompt a user of the computing device to provide authentication information associated with one or more portions of content of the identified electronic message. Based on comparing the authentication information provided by the user to the stored electronic message information, the computing platform may determine whether the identified electronic message is valid and send a notification accordingly.

Providing an interface for interview sessions
Patent No. 11816639

Inventor(s): William Giles (Rhome, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17443919 on 07/28/2021 (839 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a system may establish an interview session between a first client device associated with an interviewer and a second client device associated with a candidate. The system may transmit, to the first client device associated with the interviewer, a first user interface during the interview session between the first client device and the second client device. The system may transmit, to the second client device associated with the candidate, a second user interface during the interview session between the first client device and the second client device. The system may receive, from the first client device, the feedback associated with the interview session. The system may transmit, to a human resource system, the feedback to enable a hiring recommendation regarding whether to offer the position associated with the interview session to the candidate.

Control apparatus, communication system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and advertisement sales method
Patent No. 11816704

Inventor(s): Bryce H. Morisako (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Toyota, , JP)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17408902 on 08/23/2021 (813 days app to issue)

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a communication interface configured to transmit, to at least one bidding apparatus, range data indicating a geographical range through which at least one vehicle travels, and receive, from the at least one bidding apparatus, bidding data for bidding on an advertising slot associated with the geographical range indicated by the range data, and a controller configured to determine a bidder to whom the advertising slot is to be sold based on the bidding data received by the communication interface.

Device-side capture of data representative of an artificial reality environment
Patent No. 11816757

Inventor(s): Bryan Alger (Dallas, TX), Nataraja Kumar Koduri (Irving, TX), Peter Aubrey Bartholomew Griess (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Menlo Park, CA)
Law Firm: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A. (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16710738 on 12/11/2019 (1434 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure describes artificial reality systems and techniques for saving and exporting artificial reality data. For example, an artificial reality system includes an application engine configured to generate artificial reality content based on a pose of a user participating in an artificial reality environment and a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to output the artificial reality content to the user. The HMD includes a buffer configured to hold data representative of the artificial reality environment during a time window on a rolling basis and a capture engine configured to, in response to user input, capture the data representative of the artificial reality environment held in the buffer at a point in time at which the user input was received.

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

Systems and methods for processing vehicle images based on criteria
Patent No. 11816823

Inventor(s): Avid Ghamsari (Plano, TX), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, TX), Staevan Duckworth (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17079838 on 10/26/2020 (1114 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing images may include obtaining at least one image for analyzing; inputting the at least one image to at least one of a plurality of image plugins; analyzing the at least one image via the at least one of the plurality of image plugins; determining metadata related to the at least one image based on the at least one of the plurality of image plugins; filtering the at least one image based on one or more rule sets to generate at least one filtered image; sorting the at least one filtered image to generate at least one sorted image; displaying the at least one sorted image based on an organizational sequence of a webpage; displaying navigation controls via the webpage; and displaying the at least one sorted image according to a user interaction with the navigation controls on the webpage.

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

Array-based depth estimation
Patent No. 11816855

Inventor(s): Chenchi Luo (Plano, TX), Kaimo Lin (Richardson, TX), Yingmao Li (Allen, TX), Youngjun Yoo (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17027106 on 09/21/2020 (1149 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining at least three input image frames of a scene captured using at least three imaging sensors. The input image frames include a reference image frame and multiple non-reference image frames. The method also includes generating multiple disparity maps using the input image frames. Each disparity map is associated with the reference image frame and a different non-reference image frame. The method further includes generating multiple confidence maps using the input image frames. Each confidence map identifies weights associated with one of the disparity maps. In addition, the method includes generating a depth map of the scene using the disparity maps and the confidence maps. The imaging sensors are arranged to define multiple baseline directions, where each baseline direction extends between the imaging sensor used to capture the reference image frame and the imaging sensor used to capture a different non-reference image frame.

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

Systems and methods for assessing property development condition
Patent No. 11816885

Inventor(s): Brian F. Shipley (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18064606 on 12/12/2022 (337 days app to issue)

Abstract: A technique for assessing development condition of a property is provided that determines development condition for an individual property or properties of interest using image or other sensor data from one or more unmanned aerial vehicles taken over the development process. A property condition output may be generated to indicate a condition of the property or properties. NULL

Tolling system using vehicle identifier correlation
Patent No. 11816933

Inventor(s): Alessandro Stagni (Richardson, TX), Janamejaya Chowdhary (Richardson, TX), Ronald Joseph Albright (Plano, TX), Scott Colman Cote (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION CONSULTANTS CORP. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17509662 on 10/25/2021 (750 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method performed by a computing system includes receiving from a detection system, a plurality of identity tokens. The plurality of identity tokens include different types of identity tokens. The method further includes associating each of the plurality of identity tokens with a node of a graph, incrementing an edge between two nodes of the graph in response to determining that the two identity tokens associated with the two nodes were detected by the first detection system within a detection time window, decrementing the edge between the two nodes in response to determining that one of the identity tokens associated with one of the two nodes is detected within a detection time window without detecting one of the identity tokens associated with the other of the two nodes, and correlating the identity tokens associated with the two nodes based on a value of the edge.

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

Systems and methods for interface-based automated custom authored prompt evaluation
Patent No. 11817014

Inventor(s): Scott Hellman (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. (Bloomington, MN)
Law Firm: QUARLES BRADY LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16281033 on 02/20/2019 (1728 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated custom training of a scoring model are disclosed herein. The method include: receiving a plurality of responses received from a plurality of students in response to providing of a prompt; identifying an evaluation model relevant to the provided prompt, which evaluation model can be a machine learning model trained to output a score relevant to at least portions of a response; generating a training indicator that provides a graphical depiction of the degree to which the identified evaluation model is trained; determining a training status of the model; receiving at least one evaluation input when the model is identified as insufficiently trained; updating training of the evaluation model based on the at least one received evaluation input; and controlling the training indicator to reflect the degree to which the evaluation model is trained subsequent to the updating of the training of the evaluation model.

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

Airgun sound moderator with polymeric acoustic baffles
Patent No. 11817074

Inventor(s): John A. McCaslin (Alvarado, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Dan Brown Law Office (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17343224 on 06/09/2021 (888 days app to issue)

Abstract: An airgun moderator employing a stack of acoustic baffles fabricated from fibrous polymeric felt, which degrades in the presence of gunpowder combustion temperatures, thereby providing an effective airgun sound moderator that us ineffective as a firearms silencer.

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

Systems and methods for maintaining refresh operations of memory banks using a shared address path
Patent No. 11817143

Inventor(s): Joosang Lee (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17083951 on 10/29/2020 (1111 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device includes memory banks that each has multiple rows with row addresses. The memory device also includes a counter that stores and increments a first row address of a first row of a first set of memory banks to a second row address of a second row of the first set of memory banks in response to a first refresh operation when the memory device is operating in a first mode. The memory device further includes circuitry that blocks incrementing the second row address to a third row address of a third row of the first set of memory banks when the memory device transitions from the first mode to a second mode and the first refresh operation is not paired with a second refresh operation that is performed when the memory device is operating in the first mode.

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

Non-volatile memory with different word line hook up regions based on pass through signals
Patent No. 11817150

Inventor(s): Fumiaki Toyama (Cupertino, CA), Shiqian Shao (Fremont, CA)
Assignee(s): Sandisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17246469 on 04/30/2021 (928 days app to issue)

Abstract: To overcome a shortage of area for horizontal metal lines to connect word line switch transistors to corresponding word lines and for pass through signal lines, it is proposed to implement multiple architectures for the word line hook up regions. For example, some areas of a die will be designed to provide extra horizontal metal lines to connect word line switch transistors to word lines and other areas of the die will be designed to provide extra pass through signal lines.

Systems and methods for detecting erratic programming in a memory system
Patent No. 11817157

Inventor(s): Liang Li (Shanghai, , CN), Ming Wang (Shanghai, , CN), Shih-Chung Lee (Yokohama, , JP)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17346880 on 06/14/2021 (883 days app to issue)

Abstract: The storage device that includes a non-volatile memory with a control circuitry that is communicatively coupled to an array of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines. The control circuitry is configured to program the memory cells in a plurality of programming loops. The programming loops include applying a programming pulse to a selected word line of the plurality of word lines. The programming loops also include applying a verify pulse V[subscript]N [/subscript]to the selected word line to simultaneously verify a lower tail of the memory cells being programmed to a data state N and an upper tail of the memory cells that have been programmed to a data state N1. The data state N1 has a lower voltage threshold than the data state N.

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Interactive and dynamic digital event program
Patent No. 11816597

Inventor(s): Cameron Fowler (Fort Worth, TX), Matthew Sullivan (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): Digital Seat Media, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Vos-IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17938395 on 10/06/2022 (404 days app to issue)

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

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

Transaction arbiter system and method
Patent No. 11816716

Inventor(s): Jorge A. Maass (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): PRICE SETTER LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17951247 on 09/23/2022 (417 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile cellular communication device comprises a mobile real-time software application configured to collect and process data and information relative to a bid transaction on a product or service. An interface displays information relating to the bid transaction including advertisements. At least one integrated data capturing component captures data relating to the bid transaction on the product or service. The at least one integrated data capturing component includes a GPS (Global Positioning System) for determining a current geographic location of the mobile cellular communication device. An integrated transceiver communicates with at least one remote server over at least one high-speed cellular data communication network. The mobile real-time software application configures the mobile cellular communication device to capture data via the at least one integrated data capturing component for capturing data relating to the bid transaction on the product or service including the current geographic location of the mobile cellular communication device, process the captured data via the mobile real-time software application to generate bidding parameters for a request for quote from providers with respect to the product or service, connect the mobile cellular communication device to the at least one remote server using the integrated transceiver via the at least one high-speed cellular data communication network, transmit the bidding parameters for the product or service to sai

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

Inductance measurement to detect fused relay contacts
Patent No. 11817281

Inventor(s): Anand Gopalan (Dallas, TX), Milos Acanski (Freising, , DE), Nicholas Oborny (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17680119 on 02/24/2022 (628 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of detecting welded contacts in a relay. The method includes performing, at a first point in time, the applying of a drive to the activation coil to conduct a coil current through the activation coil, the coil current increasing to a first current level, the first current level being less than a pull-in current of the relay; responsive to the coil current reaching the first current level, turning off the drive to the activation coil to discharge the coil current at a first clamping voltage; and measuring a first discharge time corresponding to a first inductance from the turning off of the drive to the activation coil to the coil current reaching a second current level, the second current level being less than the first current level. These operations are repeated at a second point in time to obtain a second inductance. Comparison of the first inductance and second inductance determines whether a difference between the first and second inductances exceeds a comparison criterion.

[H01H] ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES (contact cables H01B 7/10; electrolytic self-interrupters H01G 9/18; emergency protective circuit arrangements H02H; switching by electronic means without contact-making H03K 17/00)

Electronic device with exposed tie bar
Patent No. 11817374

Inventor(s): Bo-Hsun Pan (New Taipei, , TW), Chih-Chien Ho (New Taipei, , TW), Yuh-Harng Chien (New Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17229955 on 04/14/2021 (944 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged electronic device has a package structure, first leads, second leads and a tie bar. The package structure has a first side, a second side, a third side, a fourth side, a fifth side and a sixth side, the second side spaced from the first side along a first direction, the fourth side spaced from the third side along an orthogonal second direction, and the sixth side spaced from the fifth side along an orthogonal third direction. The first leads extend outward in a first plane of the second and third directions from respective portions of the third side, the second leads extend outward in the first plane from respective portions of the fourth side, and the tie bar is exposed along the fifth side in a second plane of the second and third directions, the second plane between the first plane and the first side.

[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]

High I/O density flip-chip QFN
Patent No. 11817375

Inventor(s): Jonathan Almeria Noquil (Bethlehem, PA), Osvaldo Jorge Lopez (Annandale, NJ), Tianyi Luo (Bethlehem, PA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16274562 on 02/13/2019 (1735 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor device includes separating a conductive structure of a leadframe into interior conductive leads using an etching process. The method includes forming a first molded structure by applying a first molding compound to a leadframe having a conductive structure, separating the conductive structure into at least two interior contact portions, attaching a semiconductor die to at least one of the interior contact portions, the at least two interior contact portions being supported by the first molding compound, and forming a second molded structure by applying a second molding compound to at least part of the semiconductor die and at least two interior contact portions.

Polysilicon resistor using reduced grain size polysilicon
Patent No. 11817454

Inventor(s): Bhaskar Srinivasan (Allen, TX), Pushpa Mahalingam (Richardson, TX), Robert Martin Higgins (Plano, TX), Yanbiao Pan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17463252 on 08/31/2021 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described examples include a resistor having a substrate having a non-conductive surface and a patterned polysilicon layer on the non-conductive surface, the patterned polysilicon layer including polycrystalline silicon wherein at least 90% of the grains in the polycrystalline silicon are 30 nm or smaller. The resistor also has a first terminal in conductive contact with the patterned polysilicon layer and a second terminal in conductive contact with the polysilicon layer and spaced from the first contact.

Lateral high voltage SCR with integrated negative strike diode
Patent No. 11817455

Inventor(s): Aravind Chennimalai Appaswamy (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348525 on 06/15/2021 (882 days app to issue)

Abstract: An SCR with a first semiconductor region and plural concentric semiconductor regions, each surrounding the first semiconductor region. The SCR also includes, surrounded by at least one concentric semiconductor region in the plurality of concentric semiconductor regions, an electrically non-contacted region of a semiconductor type and positioned to modulate a snapback voltage of the silicon controlled rectifier and an electrically-contacted region of the semiconductor type and positioned to provide a diodic response between the at least one concentric semiconductor region in the plurality of concentric semiconductor regions and the electrically-contacted region.

Universal remote radio unit mounting assemblies
Patent No. 11817615

Inventor(s): Dale Richard Heath (Fort Worth, TX), Jyoti Ojha (Southlake, TX), Matthew Severin (Grapevine, TX), Michael R. Carnes (Euless, TX), Robert Campbell (Irving, TX), Salvador Anguiano (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17539842 on 12/01/2021 (713 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a mounting bracket for remote radio unit mounting assemblies. The mounting bracket includes a bracket member having a main body section and two arms extending outwardly at an oblique angle from opposing ends of the main body section, wherein the main body section includes a slot and each arm includes a plurality of mounting apertures; and a brace member, wherein a middle section of the brace member is configured to be received within the slot of the bracket member and opposing end sections of the brace member contact a respective arm of the bracket member. Remote radio unit mounting assemblies are also described herein.

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

Protective structure for protecting antenna from damage
Patent No. 11817623

Inventor(s): Kevin L Martin (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17744804 on 05/16/2022 (547 days app to issue)

Abstract: A protective structure, to protect an antenna from damage, is provided. The protective structure includes a body. The body defines one or more prong-receiving apertures in a first surface of the body, wherein through each aperture of the one or more prong-receiving apertures, the body is configured to receive a prong of one or more prongs of the antenna. The body defines a radio frequency (RF) connection aperture extending from the first surface of the body to a second surface of the body, wherein the body is configured to receive a cable through the RF connection aperture to couple a cable connector of the cable to an RF connector of the antenna.

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

Polarization shifting devices and systems for interference mitigation
Patent No. 11817627

Inventor(s): Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ISCO International, LLC (Schaumburg, IL)
Law Firm: GUNTIN GUST, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18159547 on 01/25/2023 (293 days app to issue)

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

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

Hybrid power conversion system and control method
Patent No. 11817770

Inventor(s): Songnan Yang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Halo Microelectronics International (Campbell, CA)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17663696 on 05/17/2022 (546 days app to issue)

Abstract: A converter includes a first phase comprising a plurality of first phase switches connected in series between an input power source and ground, a second phase comprising a plurality of second phase switches connected in series between the input power source and ground, and a first flying capacitor of the first phase and a first flying capacitor of the second phase cross-coupled between the first phase and the second phase, wherein switches of the first phase and switches of the second phase are configured such that a ratio of an input voltage of the hybrid dual-phase step-down power converter to an output voltage of the hybrid dual-phase step-down power converter is equal to N/D, and wherein N is an integer, and D is a duty cycle of the hybrid dual-phase step-down power converter.

[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]

Glitch immune non-overlap operation of transistors in a switching regulator
Patent No. 11817772

Inventor(s): Murugesh Subramaniam (Bengaluru, , IN), Pranav Sinha (Bengaluru, , IN), Subhash Sahni (Dehradun, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17380135 on 07/20/2021 (847 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a first gate control circuit including a first time delay element and first and second logic gates. The first time delay element and first and second logic gates receive a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal. The first logic gate includes a first output and second logic gate includes a second output. The circuit also includes a second gate control circuit that includes a second time delay element and third and fourth logic gates. The second time delay element includes an input coupled to the output of the first time delay element. The third logic gate includes a third output, and the fourth logic gate includes a fourth output. A first gate driver receives a first signal from one of the first or third outputs. A second gate driver receives a second signal from one of the second or fourth outputs.

Spread spectrum adaptive on time voltage converter
Patent No. 11817777

Inventor(s): Junwen Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17865744 on 07/15/2022 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described embodiments include a circuit for adapting the on time in a switching voltage converter that includes a first transistor having a current terminal coupled to an output voltage terminal and to its control terminal. A second transistor is coupled between the first transistor and a ground terminal, and has a control terminal coupled to the first transistor. A third transistor is coupled between the output voltage terminal and a capacitor, and has a third control terminal coupled to the first control terminal. A current source is configured to provide a current that varies linearly between a first value and a second value. A fourth transistor is coupled between terminals of the capacitor, and has a fourth control terminal. A comparator has a first comparator input coupled to the capacitor. A logic circuit has an input coupled to the comparator output, and an output coupled to the fourth control terminal.

Power transfer over an isolated capacitive barrier with controlled current
Patent No. 11817779

Inventor(s): Ashish Kumar (Santa Clara, CA), Haoquan Zhang (Cambridge, MA), Yogesh Kumar Ramadass (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17958989 on 10/03/2022 (407 days app to issue)

Abstract: Capacitively isolated current-loaded or current-driven charge pump circuits and related methods transfer electrical energy from a primary side to a secondary side over a capacitive isolation boundary, using a controlled current source to charge isolation capacitors with constant current, as opposed to current impulses, while maintaining output voltage within tolerance. The charge pump circuits provide DC-to-DC converters that can be used in isolated power supplies, particularly in low-power applications and in such devices as sensor transmitters that have separate electrical ground planes. The devices and methods transfer electrical energy over an isolated capacitive barrier in a manner that is efficient, inexpensive, and reduces electromagnetic interference (EMI).

Brushless motor control
Patent No. 11817805

Inventor(s): Krushal Shah (Dallas, TX), Prasad Kulkarni (Bengaluru, , IN), Sameer Pradeep Kulkarni (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17514804 on 10/29/2021 (746 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus operable to drive a motor includes driver circuitry adapted to be coupled to the motor and processing logic coupled to the driver circuitry. The processing logic is operable to determine an expected current for controlling the motor, reduce a reference current upon which the motor is controlled from a first value to a second value at an exponential rate, determine that a measured current of the motor is approximately equal to the expected current, and responsive to determining that the measured current of the motor is approximately equal to the expected current, provide a control signal to the driver circuitry based on the expected current to the motor to control the motor to operate according to closed loop control.

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

Module frame with cable management flange
Patent No. 11817818

Inventor(s): Daniel William Carey (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TECSI Solar, Inc. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17653989 on 03/08/2022 (616 days app to issue)

Abstract: A module frame includes a body having an interior surface, a lower flange extending from the interior surface of the body, and a cable management flange extending from the interior surface of the body. The lower flange and the cable management flange each include a distal end. The cable management flange and the lower flange define a cable cavity therebetween for retaining at least one cable. The distal ends of the lower flange and the cable management flange define an opening for inserting the cable into the cable cavity. The cable management flange is arranged to engage the cable and secure the cable in the cable cavity.

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

Adaptive capacitive filter circuit
Patent No. 11817841

Inventor(s): Isaac Cohen (Dix Hills, NY)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17573579 on 01/11/2022 (672 days app to issue)

Abstract: An adaptive capacitive filter circuit includes: a first terminal adapted to be coupled to a rectifier bridge output; a second terminal adapted to be coupled to a ground terminal; a first capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode of the first capacitor coupled to the first terminal; a second capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode, the second electrode of the second capacitor coupled to the second terminal; a first switch coupled between the second electrode of the first capacitor and the second terminal; a second switch coupled between the first terminal and the first electrode of the second capacitor; and a third switch coupled between the second electrode of the first capacitor and the first electrode of the second capacitor.

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

Method and apparatus for explicit CSI reporting in advanced wireless communication systems
Patent No. 11817925

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18046426 on 10/13/2022 (397 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for a channel state information (CSI) feedback comprises receiving CSI feedback configuration information for the CSI feedback including a spatial channel information indicator based on a linear combination (LC) codebook, wherein the spatial channel information comprises at least one of a downlink channel matrix, a covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix, or at least one eigenvector of the covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix; deriving the spatial channel information indicator using the LC codebook that indicates a weighted linear combination of a plurality of basis vectors or a plurality of basis matrices as a representation of at least one of a downlink channel matrix, a covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix, or at least one eigenvector of the covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix; and transmitting over an uplink channel, the CSI feedback including the spatial channel information indicator.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

System and method for wireless communications measurements and CSI feedback
Patent No. 11817930

Inventor(s): Bingyu Qu (Shenzhen, , CN), Jialing Liu (Palatine, IL), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, IL)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17654435 on 03/11/2022 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: Measurements and Channel State Information (CSI) feedback are configured using communications between a network and user equipment (UE). The communications includes a first signaling from a network component to the UE indicating one or more reference signal (RS) resource configurations, a second signaling indicating one or more interference measurement (IM) resource configurations, and a third signaling indicating a CSI report configuration, wherein the CSI report configuration indicates a subset of the one or more RS resource configurations and a subset of the one or more IM resource configurations. The UE establishes a RS based measurement according to the subset of the one or more RS resource configurations and an IM according to the subset of the one or more IM resource configurations. The UE then generates and sends to the network a CSI report in accordance with the CSI report configuration and using the RS based measurement and the IM.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for VNF termination management
Patent No. 11817971

Inventor(s): Fang Yu (Beijing, , CN), Zhixian Xiang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17707797 on 03/29/2022 (595 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus and method for terminating a virtual network function (VNF) instance according to termination requirements of the VNF instance. The termination requirements may be defined in a VNF descriptor corresponding to the VNF instance. A network function virtualization (NFV) management entity may obtain the termination requirements and initiate termination of the VNF instance based on the obtained termination requirements.

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

In-situ OAM trace type extension with cascade bitmap and segment in-situ OAM
Patent No. 11817996

Inventor(s): Haoyu Song (San Jose, CA), Tianran Zhou (Beijing, , CN)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17355989 on 06/23/2021 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for sending network management information in a network. A source edge node modifies data packets by encapsulating an operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) header in the data packets traversing a data path, and the OAM header includes a first indicator field. The source edge node also inserts a segment size field into the OAM header of the data packets based on an indication by the first indicator field, the segment size field indicating the data path is partitioned into segments based on a value of the segment size field.

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

Continuous delivery of management configurations
Patent No. 11818000

Inventor(s): Josue Negron (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): VMWARE, INC. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: Thomas Horstemeyer, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17580743 on 01/21/2022 (662 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are various implementations of approaches for continuous delivery of management configurations. In some examples, a management configuration delivery workflow is retrieved from a source environment. The management configuration is transmitted to a destination environment specified in the management configuration delivery workflow. The destination environment us updated to apply the management configuration.

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

Network devices in duty cycle limited networks
Patent No. 11818048

Inventor(s): Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, TX), Suyash Jain (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Mandy Barsilai Fernandez (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17239244 on 04/23/2021 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a computer program product comprising computer executable instructions. The instructions are executable by a controller of a network device to cause the controller to analyze data transmitted by the network device via a network for a programmed amount of time, determine a data transmission pattern based on the analysis, determine, based on the transmission pattern, a volume of expected data transmission during a period of time, and determine whether to transmit additional data based on a relationship between the volume of expected data transmission during the period of time and a bandwidth allocation of the network device during the period of time.

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

Systems and methods for controlling secure persistent electronic communication account servicing with an intelligent assistant
Patent No. 11818083

Inventor(s): Srinaath Thyagarajan (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (Mclean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18058943 on 11/28/2022 (351 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for controlling enrollment and secure persistent SMS texting account servicing communications. A method is provided that includes receiving, at an enrollment web portal, enrollment data including: enrollment credentials identifying a user for authentication, a phone number of a mobile device associated with the user, and consent by the user to persistently interact with an account servicing system via SMS texting. The method includes: processing the received enrollment data, authenticating the user responsive to processing the received enrollment data, storing the phone number of the mobile device associated with the user in a phone number data storage, and generating, responsive to the authenticating, a revocable token for persistent access to a natural dialogue module via a SMS texting gateway for the mobile device identified by the phone number.

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

Systems and methods for synchronizing hostnames and IP addresses in email systems
Patent No. 11818094

Inventor(s): Bryan Adam Joyner (Sachse, TX), John French Kalan (Dallas, TX), Mark Albert Mackenzie (McKinney, TX), Patrick Stephen Trantham (Sunnyvale, TX), William Scott Henderson (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): ZixCorp Systems, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17897298 on 08/29/2022 (442 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for the dynamic selection of IP address in email platforms, and the synchronization of hostnames and IP addresses in such platforms, are disclosed.

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

Unified lending platform
Patent No. 11818115

Inventor(s): Jeffrey M. Mayerson (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Duane Morris LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18348631 on 07/07/2023 (130 days app to issue)

Abstract: A unified platform may comprise a combination of independent frameworks that have been integrated and configured to collaboratively operate seamlessly. In some aspects, the unified platform may comprise one or more of an authentication and authorization framework, a dynamic user interface framework, a workflow state management framework, a notification and active data loss and prevention (DLP) engine framework, and an orchestration engine framework. Each of the frameworks included in the unified platform may comprise one or more of the plurality of computing devices executing computer-readable program instructions.

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

Modeling topic-based message-oriented middleware within a security system
Patent No. 11818152

Inventor(s): Colin Ross (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): vArmour Networks, Inc. (Los Altos, CA)
Law Firm: Carr Ferrell LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17133451 on 12/23/2020 (1056 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and a method for modeling topic-based message-oriented middleware (MoM) are provided. The method commences with connecting with a MoM system and converting information associated with the MoM system into a standardized object model. The standardized object model may include a topic-based node associated with a topic, at least one producer application, and at least one consumer application. The at least one producer application provides one or more messages related to the topic to the topic-based node. The at least one consumer application receives the one or more messages from the topic-based node. The method continues with generating a standardized graph of relationships between producers and consumers over a period of time. The method further includes creating a policy, periodically analyzing the standardized graph for at least one deviation from the policy, and issuing an alert in response to detecting the at least one deviation.

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

Cognitive information security using a behavior recognition system
Patent No. 11818155

Inventor(s): Aaron Poffenberger (Houston, TX), Benjamin A. Konosky (Friendswood, TX), Charles Richard Morgan (Katy, TX), Cody Shay Falcon (Katy, TX), Curtis Edward Cole, Jr. (Spring, TX), Ming-Jung Seow (The Woodlands, TX), Thong Toan
Assignee(s): Intellective Ai, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17568399 on 01/04/2022 (679 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments presented herein describe a method for processing streams of data of one or more networked computer systems. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an ordered stream of normalized vectors corresponding to information security data obtained from one or more sensors monitoring a computer network is received. A neuro-linguistic model of the information security data is generated by clustering the ordered stream of vectors and assigning a letter to each cluster, outputting an ordered sequence of letters based on a mapping of the ordered stream of normalized vectors to the clusters, building a dictionary of words from of the ordered output of letters, outputting an ordered stream of words based on the ordered output of letters, and generating a plurality of phrases based on the ordered output of words.

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

Methods and systems for transmitting messages using communication protocols specific to data formats of these messages
Patent No. 11818234

Inventor(s): Masashi Nakagawa (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17085079 on 10/30/2020 (1110 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle and methods for transmitting messages to external devices by identifying and utilizing communication protocols that are specific to the data formats of these messages, is provided. The method includes generating, by an electronic control unit of a vehicle, a message in a data format, transferring, by the electronic control unit, the message in the data format to a data communication module of the vehicle, identifying, by the data communication module, a communication protocol associated with the data format of the message, and transmitting to a server that is external to the vehicle, by the data communication module, the message in the data format using the communication protocol.

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

System and method for establishing permanent records based on microinteractions
Patent No. 11818270

Inventor(s): Vijaya L. Vemireddy (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17383829 on 07/23/2021 (844 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for establishing permanent records based on micro-interactions. In particular, the system may be configured to identify initiation of an event based on receiving first set of interaction requests from user devices of one or more users, initiate a first set of micro-interactions, wherein initiation of the first set of micro-interactions comprises transferring resources to one or more resource pools associated with the one or more users, identify completion of the event based on receiving a second set of interaction requests from the user devices of the one or more users, revert the first set of micro-interactions, wherein reverting the first set of micro-interactions comprises transferring the resources back from the one or more resource pools associated with the one or more users, and create a permanent record associated with the initiation of the event and the completion of the event.

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

Lifecyle call routing and management in a customer service representative management computing system with a remote voice processing gateway
Patent No. 11818295

Inventor(s): Navya Pandiri (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): 3CLOGIC, INC. (Rockville, MD)
Law Firm: CRGO Global (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17951856 on 09/23/2022 (417 days app to issue)

Abstract: Call routing and management for customer service includes responding to the receipt of a telephone call in a voice gateway by generating a context artifact characterizing at least one aspect of the call and appending a call identifier to the artifact such that the artifact is then transmitted to a CSR management computing system along with a request to assign the call to a particular CSR agent. The call is then parked in a call queue until receiving, from the CSR management computing system, an assigned agent and a network endpoint address to the assigned agent. Finally, a two-way audio link is established between the voice gateway and the network endpoint address. Consequently, the call is removed from the call queue, and audio is bridged between the two-way audio link and the telephone call.

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

Method and apparatus for sample adaptive offset parameter estimation for video coding
Patent No. 11818365

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX), Minhua Zhou (San Diego, CA), Woo-Shik Kim (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17527200 on 11/16/2021 (728 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering in a video encoder is provided that includes estimating SAO parameters for color components of a largest coding unit (LCU) of a picture, wherein estimating SAO parameters includes using at least some non-deblock-filtered reconstructed pixels of the LCU to estimate the SAO parameters, performing SAO filtering on the reconstructed LCU according to the estimated SAO parameters, and entropy encoding SAO information for the LCU in a compressed video bit stream, wherein the SAO information signals the estimated SAO parameters for the LCU.

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

Synthesis of thermal hyperspectral imagery
Patent No. 11818446

Inventor(s): David Christopher Mann (Frisco, TX), Randall W. Zywicki (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17351828 on 06/18/2021 (879 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system simulates hyperspectral imaging data or multispectral imaging data for a simulated sensor. Blackbody radiance of real-world thermal imagery data is computed using a Planck function, which generates a simulated spectral hypercube. Spectral emissivity data for background materials are multiplied by a per-pixel weighting function, which generates weighted spectral emissivity data. The simulated spectral hypercube is multiplied by the weighted spectral emissivity data, which generates background data in the simulated spectral hypercube. Simulated targets are inserted the background data using the Planck function. The simulated spectral hypercube is modified, and then it is used to estimate a mission measure of effectiveness of the simulated sensor.

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

Packet duplication
Patent No. 11818603

Inventor(s): Jayshree Bharatia (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Ofinno, LLC (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17858686 on 07/06/2022 (496 days app to issue)

Abstract: An access and mobility management function (AMF) receives from a session management function (SMF) a first session configuration request message for a packet duplication of a first session between a user plane function (UPF) and a wireless device. The AMF receives from the SMF, based on traffic load information received at the SMF from the UPF, a first message for activation of a configuration of the packet duplication of the first session of the wireless device. The AMF sends to the SMF a second message indicating a result of the activation of the packet duplication of the first session.

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

Systems and methods to support node mobility in wireless networks
Patent No. 11818643

Inventor(s): Ariton Xhafa (Plano, TX), Il Han Kim (Allen, TX), Jianwei Zhou (Allen, TX), Kaichien Tsai (Allen, TX), Xiaolin Lu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17517700 on 11/03/2021 (741 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network includes a mobile network node (MNN) that includes a mobile node communications manager (MNCM) to facilitate wireless communications to a plurality of stationary network nodes (SNNs) in a wireless network via a wireless network protocol. The MNCM utilizes a multicast address received over the wireless network. The multicast address is assigned to a predetermined network time slot to communicate uplink data from the MNN to the SNNs. The MNN receives downlink data via a separate predetermined network address and time slot assigned to a given SNN.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Best links for wireless clients
Patent No. 11818651

Inventor(s): Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17223781 on 04/06/2021 (952 days app to issue)

Abstract: Best links for wireless clients may be provided. A computing device may receive, from a client device, a request to join a network. Then, in response to receiving the request to join the network, initial characteristics of the client device may be evaluated. Next, an initial plurality of links list may be provided to the client device in response to evaluating the initial characteristics of the client device. Subsequent characteristics of the client device may then be evaluated. An updated plurality of links list may be provided to the client device in response to evaluating the subsequent characteristics of the client device.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatus for device registration in a quasi-licensed wireless system
Patent No. 11818676

Inventor(s): Akram Hassanien (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC (St. Louis, MO)
Law Firm: Patent Beach PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17334343 on 05/28/2021 (900 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for registering and authenticating a client device with a wireless-enabled network. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide an alternate wireless connectivity link to register an installed high-power fixed wireless apparatus (FWA) or Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) with a managed wireless network infrastructure, such as one utilizing ”quasi-licensed” CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) wireless spectrum or another shared access approach. In one variant, the alternate wireless link comprises a mobile cellular channel established via an application program executing on a mobile device. In another variant, an Internet of Thing Network (IoT) is used for the alternate link. In one implementation, spectrum grants are communicated back the FWA/CPE via the alternate link to enable subsequent CBRS-band high-power operation.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and device in UE and base station for multi-antenna communication
Patent No. 11818691

Inventor(s): Qi Jiang (Shanghai, , CN), Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Dido Wireless Innovations, LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17962423 on 10/07/2022 (403 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for multi-antenna communication. The UE first receives a first radio signal, and then monitors a first signaling set in a first time-frequency resource set; the first radio signal is used for determining that physical layer signaling(s) corresponding to the first signaling set may occupy any of X1 first-type RE sets. In the first time-frequency resource set at most X2 blind detections are performed in the first signaling set, the X2 blind detections are respectively for X2 second-type RE sets, the X2 second-type RE sets are respectively X2 first-type RE sets of the X1 first-type RE sets.

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

Systems and methods for new-radio-aware LTE scheduling
Patent No. 11818710

Inventor(s): Chin Chiu (Allen, TX), Maulik Shah (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17475432 on 09/15/2021 (790 days app to issue)

Abstract: New Radio (NR)-aware LTE scheduling is provided. An access station for a radio access network includes a first scheduling function. The first scheduling function identifies a User Equipment (UE) device that has a first active wireless connection and a second active wireless connection to the radio access network. The first scheduling function determines that expanded coverage is need for an uplink transmission for the second active wireless connection and obtains uplink scheduling information for the second active wireless connection. The first scheduling function adjusts uplink scheduling for the first active wireless connection such that power sharing is prioritized for uplink time intervals of the second active wireless connection over overlapping uplink time intervals of the first active wireless connection.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus for uplink control signaling with massive Carrier Aggregation
Patent No. 11818717

Inventor(s): Anthony Edet Ekpenyong (Houston, TX), Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, , FR), Ralf Matthias Bendlin (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 14718616 on 05/21/2015 (3099 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes configuring a user equipment (UE) for carrier aggregation with N serving cells, where N is a positive integer. The UE is scheduled to receive downlink data from M of the N serving cells at a first time, where M is a positive integer less than or equal to N. The UE provides uplink control information (UCI) for only the M serving cells.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method for avoiding collisions between open discovery and cellular resource
Patent No. 11818792

Inventor(s): Anthony C. K. Soong (Plano, TX), Hossein Bagheri (Arlington Heights, IL), Philippe Sartori (Plainfield, IL), Vipul Desai (Palatine, IL)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16926409 on 07/10/2020 (1222 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device is configured to perform a method of wireless communication in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving, from a communications controller, a device-to-device (D2D) subframe configuration to communicate with one or more second wireless devices, the subframe configuration indicating one or more subframes in which to transmit a D2D signal or receive one or more D2D signals. The method also includes receiving, from the communications controller, scheduling information to transmit a first signal to the communications controller on a subframe indicated by the D2D subframe configuration. The method further includes prioritizing the transmission of the first signal over a transmission of the D2D signal or a reception of the one or more D2D signals, and transmitting the first signal.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

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Assistive garment
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Inventor(s): Janice Gladney (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29782966 on 05/10/2021 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle roof
Patent No. D004509

Inventor(s): Jeffrey P. Smith (Prosper, TX), Victor Garcia (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29719317 on 01/02/2020 (1412 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle wheel
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Inventor(s): Alberto Echazabal (Prosper, TX), Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29747356 on 08/21/2020 (1180 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Electrode configuration for a survey device
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Inventor(s): Frederick Hershel Savage (Austin, TX), John Bryant (Dallas, TX), Timothy Beets (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): EARTHSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Schultz Associates, P.C. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29652778 on 11/25/2020 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Backhoe bucket rack
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Inventor(s): Paul Wolfe (Bridgeport, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Patent 360 (Local + 459 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29841797 on 06/08/2022 (524 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle upper chassis
Patent No. D004714

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Jonathan Scott Wood (Campbell, CA), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Randy Perez (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29812011 on 10/19/2021 (756 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Martial arts training device
Patent No. D004725

Inventor(s): Raymond Crow (Royse City, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Yee Associates, P.C. (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29764083 on 12/28/2020 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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