7-Eleven, Inc. has received a newly granted patent for "Detecting and Identifying Misplaced Items Using a Sensor Array," invented by Plano-based Deepanjan Paul, Irving-based Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy and Sarath Vakacharla, and Celina-based Shahmeer Ali Mirza. The patent describes a system that uses sensors and a tracking system to monitor store shelves, detect misplaced items, and update digital carts in real time. [Image: USPTO Patent #12223537, Fig. 33A]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Alert The Mechanism's system and method for emergency vehicle detection and alerting
- Amera IoT's method and apparatus for using a picture and shared secret to create replicable high quality pools of entropy for keys for encryption, authentication and one time pads for images, data and message encoding
- Bank of America's data security in virtual-world systems
- Capital One's systems and methods for measuring document legibility
- Citibank's end-to-end measurement, grading and evaluation of pretrained artificial intelligence models via a graphical user interface
- Hitrust Services' risk modeling for cyberspace control implementation deficiencies
- Hunt Energy Enterprises' coating of electrode materials for energy storage devices
- RO5's system and method for molecular reconstruction from molecular probability distributions
- SmartDrive Systems' systems and methods for using risk profiles based on previously detected vehicle events to quantify performance of vehicle operators
- Texas Instruments' hardware protection of inline cryptographic processor
- Toyota's analysis of transport damage
- Verizon's systems and methods for device grouping based on quantum resistant encryption capability
- Wing Aviation's semantic adjustment of unmanned aerial vehicle delivery points
Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can indicate future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. By tracking both inventors and assignees in the region, we aim to provide a broader view of the region’s inventive activity. Listings are organized by Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).
THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 2/11/2025 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)
122 patents granted
Ranked No. 10 in patent production out of 250 metros
NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION
A: Human Necessities 8
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 6
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 6
E: Fixed Constructions 3
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 6
G: Physics 47
H: Electricity 35
Design: 11
TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)
Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 12
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 5
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 3
Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) 3
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 3
7-Eleven Inc. (Irving) 2
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 2
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 2
Homecourt Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.) 2
Unassigned 5
TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)
Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell) 2
Mohamed Seck (Aubrey) 2
Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving) 2
Sarah Jahnke (Dallas) 2
Sheldon Arora (Plano) 2
Travis James Reinert (McKinney) 2
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Patent information is provided by Joe Chiarella, founder of patent analytics company Patent Index and publisher of The Inventiveness Index. For additional details on the patents granted below, search the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database.
