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 July 16, 2024 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

120 patents granted
Ranked No. 9 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION
A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 11
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 9
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 1
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 8
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 4
G: PHYSICS 36
H: ELECTRICITY 40

Design: 10
Reissue: 1

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 15
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 7
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 5
Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID) 5
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, VA) 4
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 3
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, SE) 3
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 3
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, NC) 2

UNASSIGNED 5

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Daniel Dvorak (Henderson, NV) 2
Guanbo Chen (McKinney) 2
Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton) 2
Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine) 2
Thomas Rucci (Henderson, NV) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Bait stations for biting flies in blood-seeking mode and methods therein
Patent No. 12035701

Inventor(s): Gunter Muller (Haifa, , IL), Onie Tsabari (Tel Aviv, , IL)
Assignee(s): WTO INVESTMENTS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: FlashPoint IP Ltd. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16490577 on 03/07/2018 (2323 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention discloses devices for a durable insect bait station for biting flies in blood-seeking mode and methods therein. The devices include: an elastomeric membrane for providing access to the bait station, the elastomeric membrane adapted to be permeable to volatile components, and the elastomeric membrane configured to allow easy insect-probe penetration for biting flies in blood-seeking mode; a bait core for providing bait to the bait station, the bait core including: at least one blood-feeding stimulant (BFS) for inducing feeding of the biting flies on the bait core; and at least one insect toxin; wherein the bait core is configured to be substantially in direct contact with the elastomeric membrane; and a support element for attaching the elastomeric membrane and the bait core to a fixed structure. Alternatively, the BFS for inducing the feeding is operative at an ambient temperature below an average mammal temperature.

[A01M] CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS (appliances for catching swarms or drone-catching A01K 57/00; fishing A01K 69/00-A01K 97/00; biocides, pest repellants or attractants A01N); APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS

Bedding cover and insert
Patent No. 12035831

Inventor(s): Brett Cassel (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Daisy Cutter, LLC (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Loyal IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17475668 on 09/15/2021 (1035 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bedding system comprising a bedding insert and a bedding cover is discussed herein. The bedding insert includes a first portion of a zipper that corresponds to a second portion of a zipper found in the bedding cover. The second zipper portion is disposed on an inside portion of the bedding cover near an edge of the bedding cover. The bedding cover further includes a front panel that is connected to a back panel. Also discussed herein, is bedding cover comprising one or more zipper portions disposed on an inside portion near one or more edges of the bedding cover. The bedding cover also includes a front panel and a back panel that is connected to the front panel.

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

Environmental block for carpet cleaning
Patent No. 12035859

Inventor(s): Jacolby L. Smith (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Thrasher Associates (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17069737 on 10/13/2020 (1372 days app to issue)

Abstract: A carpet cleaning accessory device is provided. The carpet cleaning accessory device comprises an aperture stop configured to fit between an aperture frame and an aperture gate where the aperture stop has at least a first hole and a second hole. The device also includes a conduit having at least a first opening and a second opening, where the conduit is secured inside the aperture stop such that the first opening couples with the first hole and the second opening couples with the second hole. A curtain adapted to couple to the aperture frame and the aperture gate using a coupling assembly is also included to substantially block an opening between the aperture gate and the aperture frame.

[A47L] DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING (brushes A46B; cleaning quantities of bottles or of other hollow articles of one kind B08B 9/00; laundry D06F); SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL (cleaning in general B08)

Device and method for treating osteonecrosis
Patent No. 12035943

Inventor(s): Brad Niese (Southlake, TX), Harry K. W. Kim (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16936084 on 07/22/2020 (1455 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes a method and devices for treating osteonecrosis in, e.g., children, adolescents, and adults comprising: identifying a subject in need of treatment for osteonecrosis; drilling two or more holes into a bone in need of treatment for osteonecrosis; inserting two or more needles or cannulas into the holes in the bone; washing an interior of the bone with a washing fluid introduced through one or more of the needles or cannulas inserted into the bone; and after washing the interior of the bone introducing one or more bone growth promoting materials or cells into the bone.

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

Three-dimensional lattice structures for implants
Patent No. 12036126

Inventor(s): Jason Tinley (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): NANOHIVE MEDICAL LLC (Woburn, MA)
Law Firm: McDermott Will Emery LLP (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17967503 on 10/17/2022 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: The three-dimensional lattice structures disclosed herein have applications including use in medical implants. Some examples of the lattice structure are structural in that they can be used to provide structural support or mechanical spacing. In some examples, the lattice can be configured as a scaffold to support bone or tissue growth. Some examples can use a repeating modified rhombic dodecahedron or radial dodeca-rhombus unit cell. The lattice structures are also capable of providing a lattice structure with anisotropic properties to better suit the lattice for its intended purpose.

[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]

Therapeutic treatment of skin disease with recombinant commensal skin microorganisms
Patent No. 12036248

Inventor(s): Travis Michael Whitfill (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Azitra Inc (Branford, CT)
Law Firm: McCarter English, LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16890552 on 06/02/2020 (1505 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for treating or preventing abnormal skin conditions in a human in need thereof, comprising administering a cell culture composition comprising a living culture of bacteria comprising at least one engineered strain that produces a recombinant polypeptide for therapeutic treatment of the abnormal skin condition. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing, as the active principle, engineered microorganisms expressing non-vaccinogenic pharmacologically active recombinant therapeutic polypeptides in order to treat or prevent abnormal skin conditions.

[A61K] PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms A61J 3/00; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for deodorisation of air, for disinfection or sterilisation, or for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; soap compositions C11D)

Cosmetic compositions
Patent No. 12036296

Inventor(s): David Gan (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17885065 on 08/10/2022 (706 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of reducing the appearance of hyperpigmented skin is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to hyperpigmented skin a composition comprising an aqueous and/or glycerin extract of [i]Rhododendron ferrugineum [/i]leaf to reduce melanocyte pigmentation in the skin.

Polyvalent sting activating compositions and uses thereof
Patent No. 12036319

Inventor(s): Jinming Gao (Dallas, TX), Suxin Li (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17469111 on 09/08/2021 (1042 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described herein are therapeutic pH responsive compositions useful for the treatment of cancer. The compositions involve combining a STING activating polymer micelle, such as PC7A, with a non-peptide STING agonist, such as cGAMP. Methods of administering these compositions in the treatment of cancer are also disclosed. These methods include administration of the pharmaceutical compositions by intratumoral injection in the treatment of solid tumors.

Door frame exercise system
Patent No. 12036437

Inventor(s): Matthew Sharp (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): KIDSTRONG, INC. (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Langlotz Patent Trademark Works, LLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17501442 on 10/14/2021 (1006 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exercise apparatus for attachment and use within a door frame includes a pair of elongated frame elements with each having apertures configured to receive various types of cross bars. The frame elements are designed to be secured to vertical portions of a door frame without interfering with passing through the doorway or closing the door. A cross bar having a length greater than the door width is configured to be received within corresponding apertures among the frame elements. A cross bar has a retractable spring pin protruding from the bar so that the spring pin may engage a frame element to limit axial excursion of the bar. Two such spring pins may be included in the bar, so that with the frame elements including apertures having pin-receiving pockets, one type of bar may rotate freely while another type of bar is prevented from rotation.

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

Motorized strength training apparatus with integrated content and settings stream
Patent No. 12036444

Inventor(s): Peter Neuhaus (Pensacola Beach, FL)
Assignee(s): OxeFit, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17580346 on 01/20/2022 (908 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exercise apparatus includes a motor configured to generate a force experienced by a user of the exercise apparatus, a video monitor, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to obtain an augmented video file from a remote streaming service. The augmented video file comprises a video and a plurality of settings. The augmented video file associates the plurality of settings with a plurality of time steps during a runtime of the video. The circuitry is also configured to cause the video monitor to display the video, and, at each of the plurality of time steps during the runtime of the video, control the motor in accordance with the setting associated with the time step.

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

Hybrid interface for simultaneous biosensing and user input
Patent No. 12039100

Inventor(s): Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini (Ann Arbor, MI), Paul D. Schmalenberg (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18309712 on 04/28/2023 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: Dynamically adjustable EDA measurement device may include: a dynamically formable base comprising a soft robotics material, wherein the dynamically formable base comprises a formable surface configured to be dynamically formed in response to input signals; and an EDA sensing layer affixed to the formable surface of the dynamically formable base, the EDA sensing layer comprising a plurality of electrodes arranged on a flexible substrate and configured to be connected to a power supply; wherein, in response to input signals, the formable surface of the dynamically formable base and the EDA sensing layer affixed thereto are reformed into a desired contour.

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

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

Permeable support infill structure for fuel cell fluid flow networks
Patent No. 12036612

Inventor(s): Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, MI)
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: 17085626 on 10/30/2020 (1355 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fuel cell may include a first fuel cell bipolar plate defining an air layer, a second fuel cell bipolar plate defining a hydrogen layer, and a coolant layer defined by the air layer and the hydrogen layer. A permeable support infill structure, composed of sintered thermally conductive powder particles, is arranged at the cooling layer to prevent flow blockage at the coolant layer, define a thermally conductive path between the air layer and the hydrogen layer, and facilitate coolant flow through the permeable support infill structure.

[B22F] WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER (making alloys by powder metallurgy C22C); APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER

Systems, methods, and apparatus for management of on-demand charging or discharging of electrical energy
Patent No. 12036885

Inventor(s): Brian Woods (Brighton, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17961529 on 10/06/2022 (649 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for managing on-demand charging or discharging of electrical energy. The system includes a plurality of energy storage devices, one or more connectors configured to connect with a plug of an external device, a switching device configured to control a connection between the plurality of energy storage devices and the one or more connectors, and an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the switching device. The ECU may receive data relating to a first external device and a second external device each requesting an on-demand charging or discharging of electrical energy, determine a first amount and a second amount of electrical energy to be charged to or discharged from, respectively, the first external device and the second external device, and determine whether a service apparatus is capable of the on-demand charging or discharging of electrical energy for the first and the second external devices without requiring additional electrical energy.

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

Energy supply system, information processing apparatus, and method
Patent No. 12036889

Inventor(s): Eduard Vandersmitte (McKinney, TX), Gunnar Heinisch (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Toyota, , JP)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17398460 on 08/10/2021 (1071 days app to issue)

Abstract: An energy supply system includes at least one energy supply vehicle and an information processing apparatus. The at least one energy supply vehicle is configured to be able to supply energy to at least one target vehicle that is subject to energy supply. The information processing apparatus is configured to manage operation of the at least one energy supply vehicle. The information processing apparatus is configured to create an operation schedule including a supply schedule for supplying energy to the at least one target vehicle, based on a travel plan for the at least one target vehicle and information on a remaining energy amount that are received from the at least one target vehicle, and transmit the created operation schedule to the at least one energy supply vehicle.

Student-T process personalized adaptive cruise control
Patent No. 12036987

Inventor(s): Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, CA), Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, CA), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, CA), Yanbing Wang (Nashville, TN), Ziran Wang (San Jose, 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: 17388488 on 07/29/2021 (1083 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle includes a controller programed to: collect a set of data related to a driver of the vehicle; predict a driving setting for the driver using the set of data and an initial student-T process (STP) machine learning (ML) model; generate an updated STP ML model based on the prediction of the driving setting as to the set of vehicle data; transmit incremental learning related to the updated STP ML model to a server; and receive, from the server, a personalized driving setting for the driver output from a cloud STP ML model trained by the incremental learning.

[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]

Controlling driving modes of self-driving vehicles
Patent No. 12037004

Inventor(s): Ashish Kundu (New York, NY), Clifford A. Pickover (Yorktown Heights, NY), James R. Kozloski (New Fairfield, CT), Michael S. Gordon (Yorktown Heights, NY), Peter K. Malkin (Ardsley, NY)
Assignee(s): Granite Vehicle Ventures LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Kinney Lange, P. A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18222774 on 07/17/2023 (365 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product controls a driving mode of a self-driving vehicle (SDV). One or more processors compare a control processor competence level of an on-board SDV control processor in controlling the SDV to a human driver competence level of a human driver in controlling the SDV while the SDV encounters a current roadway condition which is a result of current weather conditions of the roadway on which the SDV is currently traveling. One or more processors then selectively assign control of the SDV to the SDV control processor or to the human driver while the SDV encounters the current roadway condition based on which of the control processor competence level and the human driver competence level is relatively higher to one another.

Container hopper barge with pedestal support system
Patent No. 12037089

Inventor(s): Bryson Michael Person (Mandeville, LA), Charles Gregory Cox (Covington, LA), Kent Joseph Achord (Prairieville, LA), Neal E. Langdon (Goodlettsville, TN)
Assignee(s): ARCOSA MARINE PRODUCTS, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17486653 on 09/27/2021 (1023 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hopper barge is disclosed. The hopper barge comprises a hopper compartment for carrying a plurality of containers, the hopper compartment comprising a hopper compartment deck. The hopper barge comprises an inner-bottom portion defined in part by the hopper compartment deck and a bottom portion of the hopper barge. A plurality of longitudinal bulkheads are arranged in parallel within the inner-bottom portion of the hopper barge. A plurality of transverse bulkheads are arranged in parallel within the inner-bottom portion of the hopper barge, the plurality of transverse bulkheads running perpendicular to the plurality of longitudinal bulkheads. A plurality of pedestal supports are affixed to the hopper compartment deck, wherein at least one of the plurality of longitudinal bulkheads intersects at least one of the plurality of transverse bulkheads at a position beneath at least one of the plurality of pedestal supports.

[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]

Quad tilt rotor unmanned aircraft
Patent No. 12037111

Inventor(s): Steven R. Ivans (Ponder, TX), Steven R. Schafer (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Frost Brown Todd LLP (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17477180 on 09/16/2021 (1034 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft is described with both VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) capabilities and convention airplane capabilities. A preferred embodiment comprises a fuselage and fixed wing, with one boom on either side of the fuselage. Each boom comprises a tilt rotor on a fore end and a fixed rotor on the aft end. Both rotors can be directed vertically for VTOL capability. During cruise the tilt rotors can be directed forward for thrust and the fixed rotors can be stopped and directed along the boom axis, minimizing drag. The described embodiments have advantages in weight savings and maneuverability compared to other VTOL aircraft.

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

Space railway
Patent No. 12037144

Inventor(s): Kenneth Wayne Douglas (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Patzik, Frank Samotny Ltd. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18093547 on 01/05/2023 (558 days app to issue)

Abstract: A space transportation system for providing high volume, high mass access to space that includes tethers that extend between the earth and one or more space stations or platforms. One or more counterweights may be utilized at the terminal end of the tethers in space. The tethers utilize may be made of carbon nanotubes or other advanced materials and woven into cables with electromagnets embedding therein. The tethers include tapering profiles along their lengths to facilitate operation of the system. Transport vehicles for passengers and cargo travel up the tethers using electromagnetic levitation and impulsion. Energy from solar panels or movement of the vehicles along the tethers may be generated for use in the system or for supplemental uses.

[B64G] COSMONAUTICS; VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT THEREFOR (apparatus for, or methods of, winning materials from extraterrestrial sources E21C 51/00)

Container apparatus
Patent No. 12037162

Inventor(s): Merrilee Kick (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BUZZBALLZ, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18613870 on 03/22/2024 (116 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and method(s) according to which a first container lid is sealingly engaged against a container body. Once so sealingly engaged, the container body is stacked onto a second container lid so that a first three-dimensional profile of the second container lid matingly receives a second three-dimensional profile of the container body, which second three-dimensional profile is located at an end portion of the container body opposite the first container lid. In one or more embodiments, the second container lid is identical to the first container lid. In one or more embodiments, the stackable containers have respective detachable and re-attachable container lids. In one or more embodiments, each container body and its corresponding detachable and re-attachable lid are both made of recyclable plastic.

[B65D] CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES

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

Leptin antibodies and method of reducing leptin
Patent No. 12037390

Inventor(s): Ningyan Zhang (Dallas, TX), Philipp E. Scherer (Dallas, TX), Shangang Zhao (Dallas, TX), Zhiqiang An (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18365969 on 08/04/2023 (347 days app to issue)

Abstract: Antibody antigen binding domains which specifically binds human leptin comprises V[subscript]H [/subscript]or V[subscript]L [/subscript]CDR1, CDR2 and CDR3 sequences of an hLept antibody. The antibody antigen binding domains and antibodies thereof are useful to treat obesity and diabetes.

[C07K] PEPTIDES (peptides containing ﬂ-lactam rings C07D; cyclic dipeptides not having in their molecule any other peptide link than those which form their ring, e.g. piperazine-2,5-diones, C07D; ergot alkaloids of the cyclic peptide type C07D 519/02; single cell proteins, enzymes C12N; genetic engineering processes for obtaining peptides C12N 15/00) [4]

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

Latching handle assembly door guard
Patent No. 12037820

Inventor(s): Timothy Boykin (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): SNATCHLATCH, LLC (Flower Mound, TX)
Law Firm: KLEMCHUK PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17453686 on 11/05/2021 (984 days app to issue)

Abstract: A door guard for use with a latching handle assembly is disclosed. The door guard is configured to use the handle of the latching handle assembly in combination with components of the door guard to protect a pin that fits through a hole in the handle and into a lock of the door guard.

[E05B] LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS

Roller tube tension insert
Patent No. 12037844

Inventor(s): Victor M. Menendez (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Crestron Electronics, Inc. (Rockleigh, NJ)
Law Firm: Crestron Electronics, Inc. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17307555 on 05/04/2021 (1169 days app to issue)

Abstract: A roller shade for selectively covering an architectural opening and which reduces deflection and sagging in the roller shade. The roller shade comprises a tension insert inserted and substantially centered within the roller tube of the roller shade. The tension insert comprises a longitudinal insert body, a threaded rod, and a pair of threaded nuts. The insert body comprises an inner tube portion with a plurality of longitudinal fins circumferentially extending from the inner tube portion. The threaded rod is inserted within the inner tube portion of the insert body and the insert body is longitudinally compressed by threading the pair of threaded nuts on the threaded rod.

[E06B] FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES, OR LIKE ENCLOSURES, IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES (shades or blinds for greenhouses A01G 9/22; curtains A47H; lids for car boots or bonnets B62D 25/10; sky-lights E04B 7/18; sunshades, awnings E04F 10/00)

Travel joint for tubular well components
Patent No. 12037853

Inventor(s): David Joe Steele (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17535395 on 11/24/2021 (965 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for downhole connection of well components includes a first tubular component defining a through bore for receiving a second tubular component and a travel joint including an axially moveable inner sleeve and a coupling feature configured for coupling the second tubular component with the inner sleeve when received in the through bore of the first tubular component.

[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]

Downhole zonal isolation assembly
Patent No. 12037867

Inventor(s): Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX), Richard Decena Ornelaz (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17792360 on 02/28/2020 (1600 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a downhole zonal isolation assembly. The downhole zonal isolation assembly, in accordance with one aspect, includes a rotating fracturing valve positionable within wellbore casing proximate a fracturing zone of interest. The downhole zonal isolation assembly, according to this aspect, further includes a rotating fracturing valve actuator coupled to the rotating fracturing valve, and rotating fracturing valve electronics coupled to the rotating fracturing valve actuator, the rotating fracturing valve electronics operable to activate the rotating fracturing valve actuator to move the rotating fracturing valve from a first wellbore casing open position to a second wellbore casing closed position.

Heat hardening polymer for expandable downhole seals
Patent No. 12037868

Inventor(s): Chad William Glaesman (McKinney, TX), Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: DeLizio, Peacock, Lewin Guerra, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17195101 on 03/08/2021 (1226 days app to issue)

Abstract: An expandable, hardening seal for downhole use in a wellbore includes a heat-hardening material and a heat-stable material. The heat-hardening material has a stiffness that increases after exposure to a downhole temperature and the heat-stable material has a stiffness that does not increase or increases to a lesser degree than that the heat-hardening material at the downhole temperature.

Removable covers for magnetic scale inhibitors
Patent No. 12037877

Inventor(s): Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18197385 on 05/15/2023 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: A magnet shield for use with a magnetic scale inhibitor includes a barrier configured for positioning at a location between the magnetic scale inhibitor and a flowbore for at least a first time period. The flowbore is configured for flow of a fluid. The barrier is: degradable in the fluid, such that, after the first time period, the barrier is no longer present at the location; and/or shiftable, such that, after the first time period, the barrier can be shifted away from the location. During the first time period, the barrier reduces or eliminates attraction of ferromagnetic particles to magnets of the magnetic scale inhibitor. A magnetic scale inhibitor assembly comprising the magnet shield and a methods of utilizing the magnet shield and the magnetic scale inhibitor assembly comprising the magnet shield are also provided herein.

TVD corrected geosteer
Patent No. 12037890

Inventor(s): Brian E. Stokeld (Lewisville, TX), Dwight A. Lockhart (Dallas, TX), Todd W. Benson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17346831 on 06/14/2021 (1128 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining a total vertical depth (TVD) for a well plan involves measuring differences between a projected BHA position at a depth of a survey station and a calculated BHA position based upon a minimum curvature method at the depth of the survey station. The differences are accumulated at each survey station with respect to the BHA position. Real time TVD corrected gamma logs are generated responsive to the accumulated differences of the BHA position.

Methods and systems employing a controlled acoustic source and distributed acoustic sensors to identify acoustic impedance boundary anomalies along a conduit
Patent No. 12037892

Inventor(s): Neal Gregory Skinner (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15569464 on 05/29/2015 (3336 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a controlled acoustic source. The system also includes distributed acoustic sensors along a conduit. The distributed acoustic sensors obtain acoustic signal measurements as a function of position along the conduit in response to at least one acoustic signal provided by the controlled acoustic source. The system also includes a processing unit that generates an acoustic activity plot or report based on the acoustic signal measurements. The acoustic activity plot or report is used to identify at least one acoustic impedance boundary anomaly as a function of position along the conduit.

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

Tuned mass absorber assembly and system for attenuating frequency specific vibrational energy
Patent No. 12038061

Inventor(s): Brett A. Miller (McKinney, TX), Michael Martinez (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Tewksbury, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17539152 on 11/30/2021 (959 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tuned mass absorber assembly comprises a mass structure, and a flexure system comprising first and second flexure sections (e.g., cross bar flexures) supported by, and extending in opposing directions from, the mass structure. The flexure system can comprise flexure section mounts situated at distal ends of the first and second flexure sections, respectively, and that are operable to mount the tuned mass absorber assembly to a structure subject to induced vibrations therein. A mass of the mass structure and a stiffness of the flexure system can be tuned to attenuate vibrations at a specific input frequency generated in response to induced vibrations of the structure. A system can comprise a vibration isolator attached to a chassis (e.g., of an airplane), and supporting a payload (sensors(s)) and isolating the payload from vibrations. A tuned mass absorber assembly can be mounted to the vibration isolator for attenuating vibrations at a specific input frequency that may affect the payload.

[F16F] SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; MEANS FOR DAMPING VIBRATION

Moveable seal point packing system
Patent No. 12038086

Inventor(s): Charles Benjamin Shuck (Azle, TX), Connor James Docherty (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): SPM Oil Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17619214 on 06/18/2020 (1489 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packing assembly providing a seal point configurable at multiple locations. The packing assembly includes a soft bed having at least one energizing ring and at least one seal ring. The assembly includes a spacer ring sealable with the at least one energizing ring. The assembly further includes at 1=least one adapter ring abutting either end of the soft bed to provide two seal locations relative to the spacer ring.

[F16J] PISTONS; CYLINDERS; PRESSURE VESSELS IN GENERAL; SEALINGS

Method and system for preventing injury by friendly fire
Patent No. 12038245

Inventor(s): Aarish Salman Bhojani (Euless, TX), Hisham Ahmad (Allen, TX), Mirza Faizan (Irving, TX), Nadia Anisa Sethuraman (Dallas, TX), Raahi S Jogani (Sunnyvale, TX), Sofia Sethuraman (Dallas, TX), Zaid Marwat (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17942735 on 09/12/2022 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for providing a smart monitoring device to determine at least one user as a team mate is provided. The method includes attaching, by a processor, a thermal signature emitting unit at one inner portion of the user”s clothes, wherein the thermal signature emitting unit corresponds to a temperature signature of a metal insignia. Next, the method includes connecting, by the processor, an AI-based thermal camera module to a gun to detect data related to the thermal signature of the metal insignia. Further, the method includes comparing, by the processor, the data received from the AI-based thermal camera module with the patterns of the metal insignia stored in the database. Lastly, the method includes displaying, by a display unit, a red-cross symbol to the user if the data is matched, wherein the red-cross symbol symbolizes not to shoot.

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

Current feed-through wireline release tool and method
Patent No. 12038264

Inventor(s): Brad Perry (Santo, TX), Roger Archibald (Hurst, TX)
Assignee(s): GEODYNAMICS, INC. (Millsap, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17740952 on 05/10/2022 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireline release tool for downhole intervention, the tool including a housing having an electrical input and an electrical output; a pass-through switch located inside the housing and electrically connected between the electrical input and the electrical output; and a current limiter device located inside the housing and electrically connected between the electrical input and the electrical output. The pass-through switch is connected in parallel to the current limiter device, between the electrical input and the electrical output.

[F42D] BLASTING (fuses, e.g. fuse cords, C06C 5/00; blasting cartridges F42B 3/00)

P H Y S I C S

Anti-DLL3 antibodies and uses thereof
Patent No. 12037391

Inventor(s): Hui Zou (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Phanes Therapeutics, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Ice Miller LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15733747 on 04/30/2019 (1904 days app to issue)

Abstract: Anti-DLL3 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, anti-CD47 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, and anti-CD47/DLL3 bispecific antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are described. Also described are nucleic acids encoding the antibodies, compositions comprising the antibodies, and methods of producing the antibodies and using the antibodies for treating or preventing diseases, such as cancer and/or associated complications.

[G01N] INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q)

Remote control of vehicle via smartphone and gesture input
Patent No. 12038297

Inventor(s): Krishna V. Buddharaju (Northville, MI), Ming Michael Meng (Novi, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16831591 on 03/26/2020 (1573 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and apparatuses for a remote control platform. The remote control platform includes a sensor. The sensor is configured to detect one or more objects within a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The remote control platform includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is coupled to the sensor. The electronic control unit is configured to determine an orientation of the vehicle and a route that includes a direction of travel. The electronic control unit is configured to navigate the vehicle along the route based on the one or more objects, the direction of travel and the orientation of the vehicle.

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

Ultrasonic transducer system and method using broadband system responses
Patent No. 12038314

Inventor(s): Amardeep Sathyanarayana (Austin, TX), Anand G. Dabak (Plano, TX), David P. Magee (Allen, TX), Srinath M. Ramaswamy (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17563227 on 12/28/2021 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: A transducer system with a transducer and circuitry for applying a waveform to excite the transducer during an excitation period. The applying circuitry also comprises circuitry for changing a frequency of the waveform during the excitation period.

[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

Fluid storage systems and monitoring
Patent No. 12038316

Inventor(s): Craig Allen Lee (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Darling Ingredients Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17661392 on 04/29/2022 (809 days app to issue)

Abstract: A monitoring unit for a fluid storage receptacle includes a sensor to attach to the fluid storage receptacle and detect an amount of empty space between fluid contents of the fluid storage receptacle and the sensor, and a transmitter to receive and transmit data from the sensor. The monitoring unit also includes a proximity sensor to detect a presence of a beacon within a proximity range of the proximity sensor, a controller to selectively open a fluid control valve of the waste oil receptacle, or both the proximity sensor and the controller.

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

Adaptive anchor selection and target position estimation
Patent No. 12038522

Inventor(s): Anand Ganesh Dabak (Plano, TX), Borja Martinez Huerta (Sant Cugat, , ES), Danil Shalumov (Or Aqiva, , IL), Guillem Boquet Pujadas (Matar, , ES), Jianwei Zhou (Allen, TX), Kaichien Tsai (Allen, TX), Xavier Vilajosana Guillen (Ca
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17522732 on 11/09/2021 (980 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example method of target position estimation, the method includes calculating initial estimated positions of a target transmitter. Each of the initial estimated positions is based on an angle of arrival estimate received from a locator. The method includes generating an error projection associated with each of the initial estimated positions. The error projection is based on azimuth and elevation error characteristics of the locator associated with the initial estimated position. The method includes creating a select group of the locators based on overlaps of the error projections, wherein the select group of locators comprises a subset of the locators. The method includes calculating a refined estimate of the position of the target transmitter based on the initial estimated positions associated with the select group of locators.

Systems and methods for detecting carried objects to adapt vehicle access
Patent No. 12038531

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano, TX), Daniel W. Reaser (Oak Point, TX), Derek A. Thompson (Dallas, TX), Jessica May (Bedford, TX), Keaton Khonsari (Dallas, TX), Sergei I. Gage (Redford, MI), Simon P. Roberts (Celina, TX,
Assignee(s): Toyota Connected North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17401937 on 08/13/2021 (1068 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to adapting vehicle access by detecting a person carrying an object. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a person near a vehicle for gaining access. The method also includes scanning the person for an object using a radar of the vehicle, wherein information from the radar indicates densities of the person and the object. Upon detecting the object using the densities, the method also includes adapting the access to a compartment of the vehicle.

Managing access for a manufacturing system
Patent No. 12038734

Inventor(s): Patricia Schuljak (Mansfield, TX), Serge Pomerleau (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17519181 on 11/04/2021 (985 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various implementations directed to managing access for a manufacturing system are provided. In one implementation, a method may include receiving access management request data at an automated provisioning system of an entity. The method may also include determining ready task data based on the received access management request data. The method may further include transmitting provisioning request data based on the determined ready task data. The method may additionally include transmitting status request data after a predetermined amount of time. The method may also include receiving the external status data. The method may further include determining generic status data based on the received external status data. The method may additionally include performing access management operations based on the determined generic status data. The method may also include manufacturing physical components using the manufacturing system based on the access management operations.

[G05B] CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (fluid-pressure actuators or systems acting by means of fluids in general F15B; valves per se F16K; characterised by mechanical features only G05G; sensitive elements, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. G12B, subclasses of G01, H01; correcting units, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. H02K)

Collaborative learning model for semiconductor applications
Patent No. 12038802

Inventor(s): Qing Zhu (Rowlett, TX), Richard Burch (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): PDF Solutions, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Dergosits Noah LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17070520 on 10/14/2020 (1371 days app to issue)

Abstract: Classifying wafers using Collaborative Learning. An initial wafer classification is determined by a rule-based model. A predicted wafer classification is determined by a machine learning model. Multiple users can manually review the classifications to confirm or modify, or to add user classifications. All of the classifications are input to the machine learning model to continuously update its scheme for detection and classification.

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

Managing and maintaining multiple debug contexts in a debug execution mode for real-time processors
Patent No. 12038826

Inventor(s): Gary A. Cooper (Oakmont, PA), Jason Lynn Peck (Houston, TX), Markus Koesler (Landshut, , DE)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17538498 on 11/30/2021 (959 days app to issue)

Abstract: A real-time debugger implementation maintains and manages multiple debug contexts allowing developers to interact with real-time applications without ”breaking” the system in which the debug application is executing. The debugger allows multiple debug contexts to exist and allows break points in real-time and non-real-time code portions of one or more applications executing on a debug enabled core of a processor. A debug monitor function may be implemented as a hardware logic module on the same integrated circuit as the processor. Higher priority interrupt service requests may be serviced while otherwise maintaining a context for the debug session (e.g., stopped at a developer defined breakpoint). Accordingly, the application developer executing the debugger may not have to be concerned with processing occurring on the processor that may be unrelated to the current debug session.

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

Multi-level cache security
Patent No. 12038840

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX), Naveen Bhoria (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18334740 on 06/14/2023 (398 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a coherent memory system includes a central processing unit (CPU), and first and second level caches, each with a cache controller. The CPU is arranged to execute program instructions to manipulate data in at least a first or second secure context. Each of the first and second caches stores a secure code for indicating the secure context by which data for a respective cache line is received. The first and second level caches maintain coherency in response to comparing the secure codes of respective lines of cache and executing a cache coherency operation in response. A requestor coupled to the second level cache may send a coherence read transaction to the second level cache controller, which upon an affirmative security check, generates a snoop read transaction and sends the same to the first level cache.

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

Context load mechanism in a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor
Patent No. 12038868

Inventor(s): Bryan Hornung (Plano, TX), David Patrick (McKinney, TX), Douglas Vanesko (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17899714 on 08/31/2022 (685 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices and techniques for loading contexts in a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor are described herein. A system or apparatus may include context load circuitry operable to load context for a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor, where the context load circuitry is configured to: (a) receive a kernel identifier; (b) access a first registry to obtain a context mask base address; (c) determine a context mask address from the context mask base address and the kernel identifier; (d) access a second registry to obtain a context state base address; (e) determine a context state address from the context state base address and the kernel identifier; (f) use a context mask at the context mask address to determine corresponding active context state; and (g) load the corresponding active context state into the coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor.

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

Database creation and collision reduction
Patent No. 12038915

Inventor(s): Dennis J. Mire (Dallas, TX), Oron Hazi (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17550662 on 12/14/2021 (945 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for proving feedback on database instructions, identifying, for example, existing patterns and providing suggested replacement instructions. This may have the effect of improving the efficiency of instructions used to create and/or manipulate databases. According to some aspects, these and other benefits may be achieved by parsing received instructions into an organizational structure, traversing the organizational structure for known patterns, and suggesting replacement patterns. In implementation, this may be effected by receiving one or more sets of known patterns and corresponding replacement patterns, parsing received instructions, comparing the known patterns with the parsed instructions, and providing suggested replacement patterns based on one or more known patterns matching the parsed instructions. A benefit of may include reducing Cartesian products during the merging of tables.

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

Scaling by dynamic discovery for data processing
Patent No. 12038938

Inventor(s): Fredrick Allen Crable (Allen, TX), Raghavendra Dharmavaram (Little Elm, TX), Rajesh Ranjan Sinha (McKinney, TX), Siddharth Srinivasan (Little Elm, TX), Vipin Dwivedi (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18134711 on 04/14/2023 (459 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses that partitions searchable content and distributes the segments across a plurality of processing nodes, which in turn further sub-partitions the partitions for processing by local search actor in order to increase the speed with which a search request from a user is processed. Processing nodes available to receive partitioned searchable content are registered with an external storage device. The external storage device also maintains a global results collector that compiles results from the partitions of searchable content. Respective local collector actors receive compiled results from local search actors for a processing node and the compiled results are sent to the global results collector for compiling for the plurality of processing nodes. Results of the user search request are then provided to the user.

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

Data mesh for unstructured data
Patent No. 12038941

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18143203 on 05/04/2023 (439 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus and method for using a data mesh to structure unstructured data is provided. The apparatus and method involves transmitting an unstructured dataset from a first node to a data mesh, transmitting receiving the unstructured dataset at a data ingestion engine, analyzing data included in the unstructured dataset, splitting the data included in the dataset into a plurality of data fragments, assigning a level of structure to each data fragment aggregating the data fragments to form a plurality of data segments, transmitting each data segment that is assigned a level of structure to a corresponding data silo, storing each data segment in the corresponding data silo, creating a data structure map of where each data segment is stored, receiving a data request at the data ingestion engine from a second node, using the data structure map to locate the plurality of data segments of the dataset, determining if one or more of the data segments has an assigned level of structure that is less than an assigned level of structure of the second node, and restructuring based on the assigned level of structure of data.

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

Touch panel
Patent No. 12039128

Inventor(s): Kouichi Anno (Mobara, , JP)
Assignee(s): PANELTOUCH TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Cherskov Flaynik Gurda, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18143646 on 05/05/2023 (438 days app to issue)

Abstract: A display device with a touch panel includes a display panel, and a touch panel formed above the display panel. The touch panel includes X electrodes which extend in a first direction, and Y electrodes which extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The X electrodes and the Y electrodes respectively include intersection portions each formed where the X electrodes and the Y electrodes overlap each other, and electrode portions each formed between the intersection portions, wherein the electrode portions of one of the X electrodes is smaller in area than the electrode portions of one of the Y electrodes, and wherein floating electrodes are formed close to the electrode portion of the one of the X electrodes or Y electrodes, and over a reduced portion of the X electrode.

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

Methods and systems for dynamic monitoring through graphical user interfaces
Patent No. 12039156

Inventor(s): Huey-Meng Ning (Plano, TX), Sandeep Komatireddy (Plano, TX), Seemit Sheth (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18448889 on 08/11/2023 (340 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring through graphical user interfaces are disclosed. In one aspect, a system is disclosed that includes a processor and data storage including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform operations. The operations include maintaining an input file including predetermined criteria for a plurality of factors, receiving a model dataset generated using a model, based on the input file and the model dataset, generating a first graphical user interface that includes a graphical illustration of a subset of the plurality of factors, a model risk for the model, and a selectable feature associated with a selected factor in the subset and a selected time period. The operations further include receiving through the first graphical user interface a selection of the selectable feature, and, in response, generating a second graphical user interface that recolors a portion of the first graphical user interface.

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

Methods and systems for displaying content based on a scroll pattern
Patent No. 12039159

Inventor(s): Chi-San Ho (Allen, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Yue Duan (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18145357 on 12/22/2022 (572 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for displaying content on a user device. For example, a method of displaying content on a user device may include: receiving a first set of content data; arranging and displaying the first set of content in a first sequence of consecutive segments; detecting user input indicative of a scroll pattern of the user through the first sequence of consecutive segments; determining a preferred category based on the detected user input; receiving a second set of content data; arranging the second set of content data into a second sequence of consecutive segments based on the preferred category; and displaying the second set of content data in the arranged second sequence of consecutive segments on the display of the user device.

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

Memory device log data storage
Patent No. 12039163

Inventor(s): Scheheresade Virani (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17822250 on 08/25/2022 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to memory device log data storage. In some implementations, a memory device may store a first data stream associated with a first type of log data in a circular buffer. The memory device may store a second data stream associated with a second type of log data in another memory location. The memory device may detect an event included in the second data stream that is associated with an attribute level that satisfies a threshold. The memory device may write data stored in the circular buffer after a time at which the event is detected to a non-volatile memory based on the attribute level satisfying the threshold, wherein the data stored in the circular buffer is stored in the non-volatile memory in connection with data associated with the event.

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

Control parameter address virtualization
Patent No. 12039201

Inventor(s): Michael Keith Dugan (Richardson, TX), Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17898803 on 08/30/2022 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: Host and accelerator devices can be coupled using various interfaces, such as Compute Express Link (CXL). In an example, user applications can have protected access to a shared set of control parameters for different queues. A protocol can allow an application to use a unique memory page at the accelerator device through which the application can access control parameters, such as can be used to control memory-based communication queues or other queues. In an example, there can be multiple sets of control parameters in a single memory page. The protocol can allow views of the single memory page from respective different application processes. In an example, the protocol can include or use an access check to detect and handle unauthorized accesses to particular parameters.

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

Endpoint customization via online firmware store
Patent No. 12039318

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Charles Shiner (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17485201 on 09/24/2021 (1026 days app to issue)

Abstract: A server system to customize firmware of an endpoint via an online firmware store in connection with validating authenticity of the endpoint. For example, a customized version of firmware can be ordered for the endpoint prior to the use of the endpoint. After receiving a request having identity data generated by a memory device configured in the endpoint, the server system can determine, based on a secret of the memory device, the authenticity of the endpoint having the current firmware. An update to firmware stored in the memory device and executed in the endpoint to generate the request is identified. The server system generates a verification code for a command executable in the memory device to perform the update. After receiving the command and the verification code, the memory device validates the verification code to determine whether to execute the command for firmware update.

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

Schedule instructions of a program of data flows for execution in tiles of a coarse grained reconfigurable array
Patent No. 12039335

Inventor(s): Bashar Romanous (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: 17705112 on 03/25/2022 (844 days app to issue)

Abstract: Schedule instructions of a program for execution on a coarse grained reconfigurable array having a plurality of tiles operable in parallel. The program identifies data flows through memory locations represented by memory variables and identifies instructions configured to transform data in the data flows. Based on a hardware profile identifying features of the coarse grained reconfigurable array, a scheduler is configured to generate a memory map. The memory map identifies, for each respective memory variable in the program, one of the tiles that contains a memory location represented by the respective memory variable. Based on the memory map reducing possible choices for a brute force search, the scheduler assigns the instructions to the tiles for execution, and determines timing of execution of the instructions in the tiles.

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

Software development project infrastructure builder tool
Patent No. 12039473

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Chandler (Allen, TX), Tanmay Narendrabhai Parikh (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, KS)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17516691 on 11/01/2021 (988 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of building a software development project environment. The method comprises creating a software repository in a software repository and workflow tool system by a project microservice executing on a computer system, wherein the software repository comprises a workflow executable; transmitting an identification of the application development framework tool by the project microservice to a templates microservice; in response to receiving the identification of the application development framework tool, selecting by the template microservice executing on the computer system an application development tool based on the identification of the application development framework tool; requesting by the template microservice a code builder tool associated with the identified application development framework tool to build a software repository; returning software repository artifacts built by the code builder tool by the template microservice to the project microservice; and installing the software repository artifacts by the project microservice in the software repository.

[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]

Data prediction and proactive request system using artificial intelligence
Patent No. 12039482

Inventor(s): Nicholas E. Evangelopoulos (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17454581 on 11/11/2021 (978 days app to issue)

Abstract: A data prediction subsystem receives event data indicating an amount of an item removed from each of a plurality of locations over a previous period of time. For each location, prediction data is determined using the event data. The prediction data includes, for each day over a future period of time, a non-integer value indicating an anticipated amount of the item that will be removed from the location. An improved rounding process is used to round the prediction value for each day. The resulting prediction data is used to proactively request items with improved communication and computational efficiency.

Systems and methods for coding data from a medical encounter
Patent No. 12039495

Inventor(s): Hank Hikspoors (McKinney, TX), James Ward (Plano, TX), Richard Wunnebuger (Westcliffe, CO), Stephen Hilliard (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): T-System, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: BrownWinick Law Firm (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18351824 on 07/13/2023 (369 days app to issue)

Abstract: In certain arrangements, systems and methods assist in gathering relevant data in a doctor-patient encounter for obtaining a properly specified diagnosis code. In one embodiment, selectable data items which are provided as part of a medical charting program may be correlated with one or more standardized diagnosis codes (e.g. ICD-10 codes). Upon selection of the appropriate data items when charting a patient encounter, one or more diagnosis codes which are correlated with the selected data items may be flagged and/or generated for later use, such as for filing a claim submission as part of a billing process or to further enhance the clinical workflow of patient encounter documentation.

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

System and method for implementing a consolidated contributions data bridge for outbound transient data and fixed-term reference data
Patent No. 12039551

Inventor(s): Ilya Slavin (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: GREENBLUM BERNSTEIN, P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17602432 on 04/12/2019 (1922 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a consolidated contributions data bridge. The innovative data bridge tool takes internally generated market data and reference data from an Internal data distribution platform. (IPP) and publishes the data externally. An embodiment of the present invention may be directed in a messaging system that monitors a real-time system, to provide various benefits of in-band management: of contribution platforms and similar systems.

Methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations
Patent No. 12039557

Inventor(s): Madhusudhan Reddy Alla (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18317757 on 05/15/2023 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, first instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the first instructions. The first instructions, when executed, are to: instruct a media provider to include second instructions in an application to create an instrumented application and receive data from a media device based on the media device executing the second instructions.

Distributed energy control
Patent No. 12039558

Inventor(s): Daniel Gregory Price (Dallas, TX), John Franklin Allen (Dallas, TX), Robert D. Maher (Frisco, TX), Victor Kuang-en Liu (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Hunt Energy Network, L.L.C. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17589160 on 01/31/2022 (897 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes an energy storage device geographically proximate a plurality of load centers. The energy storage device is coupled to one or more of the plurality of load centers for supplying energy to the load centers and is also coupled to an energy generation source for receiving energy from the energy generation source. The system also includes a control system that is operable to receive energy market data, monitor the plurality of load centers, the energy storage device, and the energy generation source, and control the charging and dispatching of the energy storage device based on the monitoring and the energy market data.

Use of localized broadcast signals to modify mobile application behavior
Patent No. 12039566

Inventor(s): Guillaume Crinon (Douvres-La-Delivrande, , FR)
Assignee(s): Beelinx USA, L.L.C. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18097937 on 01/17/2023 (546 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is disclosed for tracking advertisement effectiveness. First information associated with desired advertising information is broadcast from at least one of a plurality of fixed information nodes. A mobile unit receives the broadcast information and outputs the desired advertising information. An advertisement counter is started at the time of receipt of the broadcast information and presence information is broadcast from at least one of a plurality of fixed monitoring nodes over a restricted broadcast range, which at least one fixed monitoring node is disposed in a predetermined fixed physical proximity with a vendor location. The broadcast presence information is received at the mobile unit and a presence counter is started in response to receipt of the presence information. At the mobile unit loss of receipt of the broadcast presence information, the presence counter is stopped.

Methods and systems for automatic processing of images of a damaged vehicle and estimating a repair cost
Patent No. 12039578

Inventor(s): He Yang (The Colony, TX), Marigona Bokshi-Drotar (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (Bloomington, IL)
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17556446 on 12/20/2021 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for processing images of a damaged vehicle and estimating a repair cost of the damaged vehicle includes receiving image data of a vehicle from a user mobile device. The image data is processed to determine whether one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are damaged. In addition, one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are identified for repair and one or more parts of the damaged vehicle are identified for replacement. A cost associated for the repair of each of the one or more parts of the damaged vehicle for repair is estimated based on estimated repair cost data contained in a parts repair database. Moreover, a cost associated with the replacement of each of the one or more parts of the damaged vehicle for replacement is determined based on replacement cost data contained in a parts replacement database.

Graphical user interface-based platform supporting price analysis visualization and control
Patent No. 12039580

Inventor(s): Adrianne M. Norwood (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Tewksbury, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16828794 on 03/24/2020 (1575 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving, using a first graphical user interface, information associated with a request for proposal, quote, bid, or information (RFX) to be generated and provided to a supplier. The method also includes identifying one of multiple acquisition scenarios associated with the RFX to be generated based on the received information. The method further includes generating the RFX based on the received information and the identified acquisition scenario. The method also includes receiving, using a second graphical user interface, an RFX response from the supplier. The method further includes identifying multiple requirements associated with the RFX response based on the identified acquisition scenario and comparing contents of the RFX response to the identified requirements. In addition, the method includes automatically informing the supplier of one or more identified requirements for which the RFX response is non-compliant.

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

Methods for adjusting gig developer insurance premiums
Patent No. 12039610

Inventor(s): Caleb Ezekiel Johnson (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17747442 on 05/18/2022 (790 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method may include receiving, via a processor, an indication that a user is performing one or more activities on a project code. The method may then involve receiving an insurance policy associated with the user and the project code in response to receiving the indication, monitoring the one or more activities performed on the project code by the user, and determining whether the one or more activities correspond to one or more expected activities associated with the insurance policy. The method may also include sending a notification indicative of one or more inconsistent activities to a user device in response to the one or more activities not corresponding to the one or more expected activities.

System and method for generation and validation of multigame printed tickets using multidimensional barcodes
Patent No. 12039834

Inventor(s): Jay B. Ross (Delran, NJ), Robert D. Hamman (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): SCA PROMOTIONS (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MEAGHER EMANUEL LAKS GOLDBERG LIAO, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17292897 on 11/04/2020 (1350 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a system for implementing a predetermined multigame is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of tickets each having one or more multidimensional barcodes representing information about a plurality of predetermined game outcomes and information about game security and game data integrity. The one or more multidimensional barcodes are configured to be optically scanned to have a result displayed by a computing device to allow a player to determine whether the information about a plurality of predetermined game outcomes comprises a winning outcome.

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

Systems and methods for analyzing the in-lane driving behavior of a road agent external to a vehicle
Patent No. 12039861

Inventor(s): Haritha Muralidharan (Santa Clara, CA), Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Rui Guo (San Jose, CA), Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, CA), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, CA), Xuewei Qi (Dublin, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17186401 on 02/26/2021 (1236 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment of a system for analyzing the in-lane driving behavior of an external road agent generates a sequence of sparse 3D point clouds based on a sequence of depth maps corresponding to a sequence of images of a scene. The system performs flow clustering based on the sequence of depth maps and a sequence of flow maps to identify points across the sequence of sparse 3D point clouds that belong to a detected road agent. The system generates a dense 3D point cloud by combining at least some of those identified points. The system detects one or more lane markings and projects them into the dense 3D point cloud to generate an annotated 3D point cloud. The system analyzes the in-lane driving behavior of the detected road agent based, at least in part, on the annotated 3D point cloud.

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

Audio processing system signal-level based temporal masking
Patent No. 12039964

Inventor(s): Kemal S. Demirci (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CIRRUS LOGIC, INC. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Mitch Harris, Atty at Law, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17540376 on 12/02/2021 (957 days app to issue)

Abstract: An audio processing system reduces perception of audible artifacts due to changes in an element in an audio channel of the audio processing system. The system reproduces an audio input signal and produces an audio output signal with the audio channel. The channel has an adjustable or selectable element that, responsive to a control signal, changes a characteristic of the audio processing channel, which generates a transient in the audio output signal. The systems include a level detector for measuring a signal level of the audio input signal and a controller responsive to an output of the level detector to determine a masking time interval available from the audio output signal due to signal content in the audio input signal. The controller generates the control signal to change the characteristic of the audio processing channel so that at least a portion of the transient occurs in the masking time interval.

[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]

Distributed speech enhancement using generalized eigenvalue decomposition
Patent No. 12039991

Inventor(s): Vinay Kumar Kothapally (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Menlo Park, CA)
Law Firm: Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17532720 on 11/22/2021 (967 days app to issue)

Abstract: An artificial reality headset enhances audio signals from a target sound source using information from other devices in the local area. A primary headset broadcasts a location of a target sound source to secondary headsets in a local area. The secondary headsets transmit audio signals to the primary headset to enhance the audio content presented by the primary headset to a user. The secondary headset may select an array transfer function for the location of the target sound source. The secondary headsets correlate known transfer functions in the target direction with estimated transfer functions. The secondary headset may perform beamforming on the target sound source and transmit the output audio signal to the primary headset. In some embodiments, the secondary headset may transmit the array transfer function and a raw audio signal to the primary headset. The primary headset generates audio content based on the received audio signal.

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

Cross-point magnetoresistive random memory array and method of making thereof using self-aligned patterning
Patent No. 12041787

Inventor(s): Jordan Katine (Mountain View, CA), Lei Wan (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17654760 on 03/14/2022 (855 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device includes a cross-point array of magnetoresistive memory cells. Each magnetoresistive memory cell includes a vertical stack of a selector-containing pillar structure and a magnetic tunnel junction pillar structure. The lateral spacing between neighboring pairs of magnetoresistive memory cells may be smaller along a first horizontal direction than along a second horizontal direction, and a dielectric spacer or a tapered etch process may be used to provide a pattern of an etch mask for patterning first electrically conductive lines underneath the magnetoresistive memory cells. Alternatively, a resist layer may be employed to pattern first electrically conductive lines underneath the cross-point array. Alternatively, a protective dielectric liner may be provided to protect selector-containing pillar structures during formation of the magnetic tunnel junction pillar structures.

[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)

Fiber optic local convergence points for multiple dwelling units
Patent No. RE050042 (Reissue)

Inventor(s): Raymond Glenn Jay (Mansfield, TX), Terry Dean Cox (Fort Worth, TX), Thomas Shaw Liggett (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP (Rochester) (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17571726 on 01/10/2022 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: There are provided fiber optic local convergence points (”LCPs”) adapted for use with multiple dwelling units (”MDUs”) that facilitate relatively easy installation and/or optical connectivity to a relatively large number of subscribers. The LCP includes a housing mounted to a surface, such as a wall, and a cable assembly with a connector end to be optically connected to a distribution cable and a splitter end to be located within the housing. The splitter end includes at least one splitter and a plurality of subscriber receptacles to which subscriber cables may be optically connected. The splitter end of the cable assembly of the LCP may also include a splice tray assembly and/or a fiber optic routing guide. Furthermore, a fiber distribution terminal (”FDT”) may be provided along the subscriber cable to facilitate installation of the fiber optic network within the MDU. Patent Class: N/A

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Automatic cosmetic container and method of use
Patent No. 12035796

Inventor(s): Mia Lockhart (Lancaster, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17488709 on 09/29/2021 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cosmetic container that provides for touchless opening and closing of said cosmetic container is disclosed. In some embodiments the cosmetic container includes a controller, one or more motion sensors, a power source, a button, a plurality of compartments, a plurality of hinges, and a handle. In alternative embodiments, the cosmetic container includes a casing, a controller, one or more motion sensors, a power source, and a button.

[H02J] CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY (power supply circuits for apparatus for measuring X-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation or cosmic radiation G01T 1/175; electric power supply circuits specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/00; for digital computers G06F 1/18; for discharge tubes H01J 37/248; circuits or apparatus for the conversion of electric power, arrangements for control or regulation of such circuits or apparatus H02M; interrelated control of several motors, control of a prime-mover/generator combination H02P; control of high-frequency power H03L; additional use of power line or power network for transmission of information H04B)

Customer premises equipment implementation of dynamic residential threat detection
Patent No. 12039043

Inventor(s): David Kramer (Bethesda, MD), Michael Weinberger (Dallas, TX), Sam Stover (Gettysburg, PA), Simon Williams (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): CYBER ADAPT, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17538652 on 11/30/2021 (959 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of dynamic residential threat detection is disclosed. The method includes a packet selection component on a customer premises equipment (CPE) sending a predefined number of packets of each of a plurality of communication sessions to a detection engine based on packet selection rules. The method also includes the detection engine on the CPE receiving and inspecting the predefined number of packets. The method further includes a dynamic optimizing component on the CPE monitoring one or more factors and creating and sending updated packet selection rules based on the monitored factor(s) to the packet selection component. The method additionally comprises the packet selection component sending a different predefined number of packets of each of a second plurality of communication sessions to the detection engine based on the updated packet selection rules. The method further includes the detection engine receiving and inspecting the different predefined number of packets.

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

Marking and scoring apparatus, system, and method
Patent No. 12040104

Inventor(s): Kevin D. Rodgers (Little Elm, TX), Ryan J. Maxwell (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Encore Wire Corporation (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Warren Rhoades LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17588825 on 01/31/2022 (897 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for marking and scoring an insulated wire or cable is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing enclosing a portion of a wire path, wherein the insulated wire or cable moves along the wire path through the housing; an upper splined gear rod and a lower splined gear rod within the housing; an actuator connected to the upper splined gear rod, wherein the actuator raises and lowers the upper splined gear rod; and wherein the actuator when lowered presses the insulated wire or cable between the upper and lower splined gear rods.

[H01B] CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES (selection for magnetic properties H01F 1/00; waveguides H01P)

Mechanical couplings designed to resolve process constraints
Patent No. 12040197

Inventor(s): Fu-Kang Lee (New Taipei, , TW), Hung-Yu Chou (Taipei, , TW), Steven Alfred Kummerl (Carrollton, TX), Yuh-Harng Chien (New Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17401057 on 08/12/2021 (1069 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit package having a shunt resistor with at least one self-aligning member that protrudes from a first surface, and a lead frame with at least one self-aligning feature that is a cavity within which the at least one self-aligning member is located, and an integrated circuit located on the lead frame.

[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]

Packages with separate communication and heat dissipation paths
Patent No. 12040249

Inventor(s): Sreenivasan Koduri (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16731709 on 12/31/2019 (1659 days app to issue)

Abstract: A package comprises a platform and at least one pedestal positioned along at least a portion of a perimeter of the platform. The platform and the at least one pedestal form a cavity. The package further comprises a die positioned in the cavity and on the platform, with the die having an active circuit facing away from the platform. The package also comprises a conductive layer coupled to the die and to a conductive terminal. The conductive terminal is positioned above the at least one pedestal, and the die and the conductive terminal are positioned in different horizontal planes.

Electronic package with surface contact wire extensions
Patent No. 12040260

Inventor(s): Ayumu Kuroda (Beppu, , JP), Kengo Aoya (Beppu, , JP), Makoto Shibuya (Beppu, , JP)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17139987 on 12/31/2020 (1293 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic package includes an electronic component including terminals, a plurality of surface contacts, at least some of the surface contacts being electrically coupled to the terminals within the electronic package, a mold compound covering the electronic component and partially covering the surface contacts with a bottom surface exposed from the mold compound, and a plurality of wires extending from exposed surfaces of the surface contacts, each of the wires providing a solderable surface for mounting the electronic package at a standoff on an external board.

High-frequency ceramic packages with modified castellation and metal layer architectures
Patent No. 12040265

Inventor(s): Li Jiang (Allen, TX), Rajen Manicon Murugan (Dallas, TX), Yiqi Tang (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17387794 on 07/28/2021 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, a semiconductor package comprises a ceramic substrate and a horizontal metal layer covered by the ceramic substrate. The metal layer is configured to carry signals in the 5 GHz to 38 GHz frequency range. The package also includes a vertical castellation on an outer surface of the ceramic substrate, the castellation coupled to the metal layer and having a height ranging from 0.10 mm to 0.65 mm.

Compact area electrostatic discharge protection circuit
Patent No. 12040322

Inventor(s): Aravind Chennimalai Appaswamy (Plano, TX), James Paul DiSarro (Allen, TX), Zaichen Chen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17321466 on 05/16/2021 (1157 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electrostatic discharge protection system with a node adapted to receive a signal and threshold detecting circuitry coupled to the node. The system includes an IGBT having an IGBT gate coupled to an output of the threshold detecting circuitry, a resistor coupled between an IGBT emitter of the IGBT and a low reference potential node, and a BJT having a BJT base coupled to the IGBT emitter.

Double-disc structure for self-biased circulators monolithically integrated on semiconductors
Patent No. 12040525

Inventor(s): Yongjie Cui (Plano, TX), Yu Cao (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Qorvo US, Inc. (Greensboro, NC)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, P.L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17360383 on 06/28/2021 (1114 days app to issue)

Abstract: A double-disc structure for self-biased circulators monolithically integrated on semiconductors is provided. A self-based circulator is attractive due to the great reduction in its size and weight compared to conventional circulators which have bulk permanent magnets. The development of miniaturized self-biased circulators enables monolithic integration of such circulators directly into monolithic integrated circuits (e.g., monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs)) on a single chip and opens the door to full-duplex communication in radio frequency (RF) bands higher than Ka band, without suffering from the additional losses through connectors. This disclosure demonstrates a new double-disc structure by using two self-biased discs in a circulator device, which greatly improve its insertion loss, isolation, bandwidth, and power handling capability.

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

Electronic device including non-contact charging module and battery
Patent No. 12040562

Inventor(s): Akio Hidaka (Fukuoka, , JP), Kenichiro Tabata (Fukuoka, , JP), Munenori Fujimura (Fukuoka, , JP), Shuichiro Yamaguchi (Osaka, , JP), Takumi Naruse (Miyazaki, , JP)
Assignee(s): Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Ascenda Law Group, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17304432 on 06/21/2021 (1121 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided, which includes a wireless charging module, a battery pack, and a circuit board substrate. The wireless charging module includes a charging coil formed of a wound conducting wire and a communication coil placed adjacent to the charging coil. The wireless charging module has a substantially planar shape. The battery pack has a substantially planar shape and is configured to store power from the wireless charging module. The circuit board substrate is configured to control operation of the mobile terminal. The wireless charging module overlaps with each of the circuit board substrate and the battery pack.

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

Cascaded active electro-magnetic interference filter
Patent No. 12040701

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Anthony Morroni (Parker, TX), Saurav Bandyopadhyay (Dallas, TX), Todd Allen Toporski (Northville, MI), Yogesh Ramadass (San Jose, CA), Yongbin Chu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16989971 on 08/11/2020 (1435 days app to issue)

Abstract: An active electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first amplifier is configured to sense noise signals on a power conductor. The second amplifier is coupled to the first amplifier and is configured to drive a cancellation signal onto the power conductor. The cancellation signal is to reduce the amplitude of the noise signals sensed by the first amplifier. An output impedance of the second amplifier is lower than an output impedance of the first amplifier.

[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]

Inductor property identification for power converters
Patent No. 12040706

Inventor(s): Benjamin Matthew Mccue (Clinton, TN), Ronnie Antone Bean, Jr. (Lenoir City, TN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17388245 on 07/29/2021 (1083 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a current sensor circuit having inputs and an output. The current sensor inputs are adapted to be coupled to inductor terminals a power converter. The current sensor circuit includes a tunable time constant circuit coupled between the current sensor inputs and the current sensor output. A time constant control circuit is coupled to a tunable time constant circuit, and is configured to tune the time constant circuit responsive to the current sensor output and another signal representative of inductor current. An adjustable gain circuit has a first input coupled to the current sensor output. A direct current resistance (DCR) control circuit has an output coupled to a second input of the adjustable gain circuit, and the DCR control circuit is configured to provide a gain adjust signal at the output thereof responsive to an average current of the inductor and a current command signal for the power converter.

Voltage converter with loop control
Patent No. 12040715

Inventor(s): Biao Chen (Shenzhen, , CN), Jiancong Ruan (Shenzhen, , CN), Runqin Tan (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18311411 on 05/03/2023 (440 days app to issue)

Abstract: A converter system includes a switch adapted to be coupled to an inductor, and configured to switch between first and second states responsive to a loop control signal. Calibration circuitry is configured to operate in first and second control modes, provide a calibration voltage in the first control mode, and store the calibration voltage in the second control mode. In a first instance of the first control mode, the calibration voltage is based on a difference between a feedback voltage and a reference voltage. In a second instance of the first control mode, the calibration voltage is the stored calibration voltage from the second control mode. A comparator is coupled to the switch and the calibration unit, and is configured to provide the loop control signal based on a combination of at least the feedback voltage, the reference voltage, the calibration voltage, and a periodic signal.

Bandgap amplifier biasing and startup scheme
Patent No. 12040752

Inventor(s): Venkateswara Reddy Pothireddy (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18188064 on 03/22/2023 (482 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and circuits include an amplifier having an output; a switching circuit coupled to the output of the amplifier to provide a bias current to bias the amplifier; first current generating circuitry coupled to the switching circuit; and second current generating circuitry coupled to the output of the amplifier and to the switching circuit. In operation, the switching circuit provides the bias current, during a first time period, in response to a first signal generated by the first current generating circuitry, and provides the bias current, during a second time period, after the first time period, in response to a second signal generated by the second current generating circuitry.

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

Power reconfigurable power amplifier
Patent No. 12040759

Inventor(s): Charles Forrest Campbell (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Qorvo US, Inc. (Greensboro, NC)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, P.L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17365672 on 07/01/2021 (1111 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a reconfigurable power amplifier having a 2[superscript]N[/superscript]1 number of input-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers connected in a tree structure, wherein a 2[superscript](N1) [/superscript]number of the input-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers have coupler output terminals, and a root of the tree structure is one of the input-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers having a main input terminal. Also included is a 2[superscript]N[/superscript]1 number of output-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers connected in a tree structure, wherein a 2[superscript](N1) [/superscript]number of the output-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers have coupler input terminals, and a root of the tree structure is one of the output-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers having a main output terminal. Further included is a 2[superscript]N [/superscript]number of constituent amplifiers divided into amplifier pairs having amplifier input terminals connected to corresponding ones of the coupler output terminals and having amplifier output terminals coupled to corresponding ones of the coupler input terminals.

Adaptive frequency hopping in a wireless battery management system
Patent No. 12040830

Inventor(s): Ariton Xhafa (Plano, TX), Mathew Giaramita (New York, NY), Naveen Kumar Kala (Austin, TX), Tariq Muhanna (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17898614 on 08/30/2022 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for channel switching by a secondary node. The method includes: receiving, from a primary node, a downlink transmission, measuring one or more statistics about the downlink transmission, determining, from the downlink transmission, an uplink interval, transmitting, to the primary node during the uplink interval, the measured one or more statistics about the downlink transmission, receiving, from the primary node, an indication of a set of useable channels, determining, based on the set of useable channels and at least one of the primary node or the secondary node, a next channel from the set of useable channels, and switching to the next channel based on a switch indication from the primary node.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Systems and methods for monitoring integrity and reliability of a network of fiber cables in real-time
Patent No. 12040832

Inventor(s): Tiejun J. Xia (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18047851 on 10/19/2022 (636 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may provide a signal with a first wavelength and a second wavelength to a fiber cable, and may receive an intensity change measurement of backscattered light based on the first wavelength of the signal. The device may receive a differential phase change measurement of the backscattered light based on the second wavelength of the signal, and may determine whether there is a fiber loss change, a fiber length change, and/or a fiber cut associated with the fiber cable based on the intensity change measurement. The device may determine whether there is an abnormal event associated with the fiber cable based on the differential phase change measurement, and may report one or more of the fiber loss change, the fiber length change, the fiber cut, or the abnormal event.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Mitigation of anomaly loss in an optical transmission system
Patent No. 12040838

Inventor(s): Inwoong Kim (Allen, TX), Olga I. Vassilieva (Plano, TX), Paparao Palacharla (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): FUJITSU LIMITED (Kawasaki, , JP)
Law Firm: Maschoff Brennan (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17943028 on 09/12/2022 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, a method may include obtaining anomaly characteristics associated with an anomaly in a transmission medium in an optical transmission system. The anomaly may cause a degradation in one or more signal characteristics of an optical signal traversing the transmission medium. Based on the anomaly characteristics, the method may also include adjusting a first output power of a first optical amplifier that may be disposed at an input end of the transmission medium. Alternatively, or additionally, based on the anomaly characteristics, the method may also include adjusting a second output power of a second optical amplifier that may be disposed at an output end of the transmission medium.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Low complexity multi-configuration CSI reporting
Patent No. 12040865

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16090074 on 03/31/2017 (2664 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for low complexity multi-configuration Channel State Information (CSI) reporting are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operating a wireless device in a cellular communications network to provide CSI feedback from multiple CSI reporting configurations is provided. The method includes receiving a first and second CSI reporting configuration and then reporting updated CSI in a CSI report for only one of the first CSI reporting configuration and the second CSI reporting configuration. In this way, rich CSI feedback with many ports, different codebooks, mixed beamformed and non-precoded CSI-RS configurations, etc., can be supported while requiring less computational complexity in the wireless device.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Open real-time ethernet protocol
Patent No. 12040885

Inventor(s): Thomas Anton Leyrer (Geisenhausen, , DE), Thomas Mauer (Gammelsdorf, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17355268 on 06/23/2021 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: A real-time Ethernet (RTE) protocol includes start-up frames originated by a master device for network initialization including a preamble, destination address (DA), source address (SA), a type field, and a status field including state information that indicates a current protocol state that the Ethernet network is in for the slave devices to translate for dynamically switching to one of a plurality of provided frame forwarding modes. The start-up frames include device Discovery frames at power up, Parameterization frames that distribute network parameters, and Time Synchronization frames including the master”s time and unique assigned communication time slots for each slave device. After the initialization at least one data exchange frame is transmitted exclusive of SA and DA including a preamble that comprises a header that differentiates between master and slave, a type field, a status field excluding the current protocol state, and a data payload.

[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)

Method and arrangement for retransmission using HARQ
Patent No. 12040898

Inventor(s): Henning Wiemann (Aachen, , DE), Mats Fredrik Sagfors (Kyrkslatt, , FI), Michael Meyer (Aachen, , DE), Per Johan Torsner (Masaby, , FI)
Assignee(s): Optis Wireless Technology, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: NIXON VANDERHYE P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17993167 on 11/23/2022 (601 days app to issue)

Abstract: Coverage of a power-limited mobile terminal is enhanced by sending information relating to a single Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process from the mobile terminal to a base station using several transmission time intervals.

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

System and method for detecting network services based on network traffic using machine learning
Patent No. 12040914

Inventor(s): Abhishek Sehgal (Plano, TX), Guanbo Chen (McKinney, TX), Hao Chen (Plano, TX), Khuong N. Nguyen (Frisco, TX), Rebal Al Jurdi (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18047241 on 10/17/2022 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining input features based on network traffic received during a time window. The method also includes generating multiple network service type predictions about the network traffic during the time window using a machine learning (ML) classification system operating on the input features. The method also includes storing the multiple network service type predictions in different time steps in a first-in first-out (FIFO) buffer and generating decisions about a presence of each of multiple service types in the network traffic using a voting algorithm. The method also includes reducing fluctuations in the generated decisions using a logic-based stabilizer module to generate a final network service type decision.

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

Systems and methods for configuring and deploying multi-access edge computing applications
Patent No. 12040957

Inventor(s): Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18327560 on 06/01/2023 (411 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to determine a plurality of requirements for a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) application requested by a customer; select a solution blueprint for the MEC application, from a set of solution blueprints, based on the determined plurality of requirements, wherein the solution blueprint includes an application deployment blueprint and a connectivity blueprint; and receive approval of the selected solution blueprint from the customer. The processor may be further configured to configure at least one transport network device based on the connectivity blueprint, in response to receiving the approval of the selected solution blueprint from the customer; and deploy at least one component of the MEC application on a MEC device in a MEC network based on the application deployment blueprint, in response to receiving the approval of the selected solution blueprint from the customer.

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

System and method for splitting data elements for data communication based on transformation types implemented on the data elements at different devices
Patent No. 12040967

Inventor(s): Damodarrao Thakkalapelli (Plano, TX), Rama Venkata S. Kavali (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17583634 on 01/25/2022 (903 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system accesses a set of devices transferring a plurality of data elements from a source device to a destination device. The system determines that a first subset of data elements from among the plurality of data elements is transformed in a first subset of devices. The system determines that a second subset of data elements from among the plurality of data elements is transformed in a second subset of devices. The system splits the plurality of data elements into the first subset of data elements and the second subset of data elements. The system communicates the first subset of data elements using a first transfer path through the first subset of devices. The system communicates the second subset of data elements using a second transfer path through the second subset of devices.

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

Packet header field extraction
Patent No. 12040976

Inventor(s): Patrick Bosshart (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BAREFOOT NETWORKS, INC (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Essential Patents Group, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17859722 on 07/07/2022 (740 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for processing a packet for a pipeline of a hardware switch. The pipeline, in some embodiments, includes several different stages that match against packet header fields and modify packet header fields. The method receives a packet that includes a set of packet headers. The method then populates, for each packet header in the set of packet headers, (i) a first set of registers with packet header field values of the packet header that are used in the pipeline, and (ii) a second set of registers with packet header field values of the packet header that are not used in the pipeline.

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

Systems and methods for automated cloud provisioning
Patent No. 12041058

Inventor(s): Karthik Ramachandran (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. (Indianapolis, IN)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18176951 on 03/01/2023 (503 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is disclosed for automating creation of an account to access to a plurality of cloud based platforms, comprising receiving an intake request; determining whether the account is requested on a first cloud platform or a second cloud platform; determining whether an environment is requested; in response to a determination that an environment is requested, creating a created environment; in response to a determination that an environment is not requested, associating an existing environment with the account; in response to a determination that an environment is requested and a determination that the account is requested on the first cloud platform, creating network handlers; creating a workspace and a repository; creating vault secrets; in response to a determination that the account is requested on the first cloud platform, and tagging at least one resource associated with the account with a resource tag.

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

User management system for computing support
Patent No. 12041060

Inventor(s): Luke Matthew Glover (McKinney, TX), Sage David Driskell (Allen, TX), Timothy Mark Conkle (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): MSP Solutions Group LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Holzer Patel Drennan (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17586445 on 01/27/2022 (901 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing support system is configured to programmatically manage support access to a computing system via a support technician console across multiple levels of support access. The system receives a request to authenticate a user requesting support for the computing system, issues one or more authentication challenges to the user to authenticate the identity of the user, receives one or more corresponding authentication challenge responses from the user based on the authentication challenge, and verifies a level of authentication based on the authentication challenge response, the level of authentication being selected from multiple levels of authentication. The system also determines a level of support access to the computing system based on the verified level of authentication and the identity of the user and programmatically enforces limits on the support access to the computing system via the support technician console based on the determined level of support access.

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

Over-the-air vehicle systems updating and associated security protocols
Patent No. 12041171

Inventor(s): Derek Lane Lewis (Ida, 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: 15247329 on 08/25/2016 (2882 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of updating a vehicle ECU includes establishing communication between a data communications module of a vehicle and an update server via a cellular network; validating the vehicle using a key exchange protocol between the data communications module and the update server; and sending update information from the update server to the data communications module of the vehicle via the cellular network, the update information configured to be used to update the vehicle ECU.

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

Access of essential video coding (EVC) slices in a file
Patent No. 12041246

Inventor(s): Youngkwon Lim (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17476255 on 09/15/2021 (1035 days app to issue)

Abstract: An includes a decoding device for fast and efficient access of the EVC slices in a file, The decoding device includes a communication interface and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The communication interface is configured to receive a compressed bitstream. The processor determines one or more slices of the compressed bitstream to decode, in a component track. The processor also identifies a track reference in a configuration record of the component track, wherein the track reference indicates a track that is separate from the component track and the track includes parameter sets required to process the one or more slices. The processor further decodes for display the one or more slices using the parameter sets included in the indicated track.

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

System and method for content streaming interactivity
Patent No. 12041276

Inventor(s): Daniel Havens (McKinney, TX), Eric Best (McKinney, TX), Kristopher Chambers (McKinney, TX), Mark Lohstroh (McKinney, TX), Mark Stanley (McKinney, TX), Michael Coker (McKinney, TX), Paul Bettner (McKinney, TX), Stephen
Assignee(s): Playful Corp. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17440621 on 03/18/2020 (1581 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device ([b]101[/b]) for interactive content streaming includes a memory ([b]130[/b]) and at least one processor ([b]120[/b]) coupled to the memory ([b]130[/b]). The at least one processor ([b]120[/b]) is configured to receive an interaction request from a streaming device ([b]1305[/b]), determine at least one action based on the interaction request, provide an action notification, based on the at least one action, to a content source ([b]1308[/b]), wherein the action notification notifies the content source ([b]1308[/b]) to update a state of at least one content of the content source ([b]1308[/b]), and transmit a state update notification to the streaming device ([b]1305[/b]), wherein the state update notification updates one or more applications of the streaming device ([b]1305[/b]) based on the updated state of the at least one content.

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

Data sharing between a Non-RT-RIC and a NearRT-RIC for radio resource management
Patent No. 12041469

Inventor(s): Haseeb Akhtar (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17639674 on 09/14/2020 (1401 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method performed by a non-real time radio access network intelligent controller (NonRT-RIC) network node comprises obtaining data for improving radio resource management (RRM) of a radio access network (RAN) and building an AI interface message comprising one or more enrichment information (EI) elements based on the obtained data. Each of the one or more EI elements comprises an identifier of one or more wireless devices, a type indicator indicating a type of enrichment data included in the EI element, and the enrichment data. The method further comprises transmitting the AI interface message to a near real time radio access network intelligent controller (NearRT-RIC).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for utilizing models to identify location spoofing by user equipment
Patent No. 12041515

Inventor(s): Kurt Allen McIntyre (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18352472 on 07/14/2023 (368 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive user equipment (UE) location data identifying a latitude and a longitude of a UE, as reported by the UE, and may receive network location data identifying a latitude and a longitude of the UE, as reported by a core network. The device may process the UE location data and the network location data to determine a confidence score associated with an actual location of the UE. The device may process the UE location data and the network location data, when the confidence score is outside a confidence interval, to determine whether the UE location data is valid. The device may perform one or more actions based on determining whether the UE location data is valid.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and system for session authorization by an online charging system in a wireless network utilizing a service capability exposure function
Patent No. 12041519

Inventor(s): Virgilio Fiorese (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Weisberg I.P. Law, P.A. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17293380 on 11/20/2018 (2065 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for an online charging system to grant resources to a session with a terminal device when the session includes a large file or the session has a long duration. Embodiments the invention include methods performed by an electronic device for online charging in a wireless network. In one embodiment, the electronic device receives a request message for resources to set up a session with a terminal device, where the request message is sent from a core network interface to an online charging function (OCF), and where the request message indicates that the session includes a large file or that the session has a long duration. The electronic device determines that the terminal device has enough credit for the session based on the request message and grants the resources for the session with the terminal device based on the determination.

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

System and method for throughput-based optimization for target wake time interval adjustment
Patent No. 12041542

Inventor(s): Guanbo Chen (McKinney, TX), Jianhua Mo (Allen, TX), Wenxun Qiu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17659317 on 04/14/2022 (824 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining wireless traffic statistics indicating current conditions and future trends for at least one of throughput, latency, and device power consumption. The method also includes generating penalty functions that reflect the wireless traffic statistics. The method further includes determining a target wakeup time (TWT) interval based on the penalty functions. The method also includes adapting the TWT interval based on a change in the wireless traffic statistics.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Increasing battery performance for a device that uses power saving features
Patent No. 12041551

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Malikie Innovations Limited (Dublin, , IE)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17896485 on 08/26/2022 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods to increase battery life of a user equipment (UE) by reducing the amount of time a UE spends in active time listening for paging messages following mobile originate (MO) or mobile terminated (MT) data transfers. A network node may receive, from a UE, a message including an identifier of the UE and a request to set the duration of an active time timer to zero. The network node may determine whether any MT traffic is available for the UE, and send a message to the UE including the duration of the active time timer or some other indicator to indicate to the UE whether or not MT data is awaiting transmission.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for random access backoffs
Patent No. 12041664

Inventor(s): Bin Liu (San Diego, CA), Guorong Li (Shenzhen, , CN), Jian Wang (Beijing, , CN), Yongbo Zeng (Beijing, , CN), Yu Cai (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18309030 on 04/28/2023 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of performing a random access procedure includes randomly selecting a backoff time from within a backoff window ranging from 0 to a specified multiple of a random access preamble unit, waiting until a time initialized with the backoff time expires, and retransmitting a random access preamble.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for random access
Patent No. 12041669

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Nicholson De Vos Webster Elliott LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17427029 on 01/22/2020 (1637 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for random access. A method performed by a terminal device comprises determining a random access procedure to be performed, the random access procedure being one of a two-step random access procedure and a four-step random access procedure, and transmitting a request message for random access in the determined random access procedure.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Non-3GPP interworking function selection for public network integrated non-public networks
Patent No. 12041691

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Carter, DeLuca Farrell LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17641151 on 09/10/2019 (1771 days app to issue)

Abstract: A plurality of interworking functions, which provide interworking between a communication network acting as access network and another communication network, is associated with a plurality of network slices or non-public networks hosted by the other communication network. A user equipment performs connection (S[b]301[/b]) to a communication network acting as access network, and selects (S[b]303[/b]) an interworking function of the plurality of interworking functions based on information on a network slice or non-public network hosted by the other communication network, wherein the user equipment is associated with the network slice or non-public network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Sidewall-connected HVAC units for modular datacenter facilities
Patent No. 12041757

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Crosby, Jr. (Dallas, TX), Jose Alberto Ruiz (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Compass Datacenters, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17195209 on 03/08/2021 (1226 days app to issue)

Abstract: A modular datacenter facility and a method thereof is provided in accordance with some embodiments. The module datacenter facility can be constructed with an initial set of building modules of different types of functionality. A first building module can be a data-floor building module. A first set of sidewall-connected heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (”HVAC”) units can connect to a sidewall of the modular datacenter facility and use electrical power provided by a first electrical power distribution building module to supply conditioned air into an air-supply plenum of the sidewall to cool computing systems housed in the data-floor building module. The first set of the sidewall-connected HVAC units allow for fewer penetrations in a roof of the data-floor building module, thereby minimizing an amount of leaks potentially occurring in the roof of the ceiling, and thereby minimizing risk of any damage to the computing systems.

[H05K] PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS (details of instruments or comparable details of other apparatus not otherwise provided for G12B; thin-film or thick-film circuits H01L 27/01, H01L 27/13; non-printed means for electric connections to or between printed circuits H01R; casings for, or constructional details of, particular types of apparatus, see the relevant subclasses; processes involving only a single technical art, e.g. heating, spraying, for which provision exists elsewhere, see the relevant classes)

Field effect transistors having concave drain extension region and method of making the same
Patent No. 12041770

Inventor(s): Masashi Ishida (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17562888 on 12/27/2021 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: A field effect transistor includes a source region embedded in a semiconductor material layer, a drain region embedded in the semiconductor material layer and laterally spaced from the source region by a channel, a gate stack including a gate dielectric and a gate electrode, a shallow trench isolation portion embedded in an upper portion of the semiconductor material layer and contacting the drain region and the gate stack, and a concave drain extension region continuously extending underneath the shallow trench isolation portion from a bottom surface of the gate dielectric to a bottom surface of the drain region.

[H10B] ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES

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Rake
Patent No. D1035403

Inventor(s): Wesley David Crabbe (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): HUSQVARNA AB (, , SE)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29882779 on 01/18/2023 (545 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle work stand assembly
Patent No. D1035420

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (Roanoke, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29886187 on 03/06/2023 (498 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Article of jewelry
Patent No. D1035489

Inventor(s): LoriAnn Vaughan-Biggers (Dallas, TX), Rotem Fartook (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bella Vaughan, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29840912 on 06/01/2022 (776 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vent accessory for vehicle heating and air conditioning systems
Patent No. D1035522

Inventor(s): Michael W Rejkowski (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): CLASSIC AUTO AIR MANUFACTURING LP (Chagrin Falls, OH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29813933 on 11/02/2021 (987 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Adjustable shooting rest
Patent No. D1035814

Inventor(s): Daniel Dvorak (Henderson, NV), Thomas Rucci (Henderson, NV)
Assignee(s): Good Sportsman Marketing, LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Cabello Hall Zinda, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29795636 on 06/18/2021 (1124 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Hinged shooting rest
Patent No. D1035815

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Conduit hub
Patent No. D1035841

Inventor(s): Justine Sherman (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): Allied Tube Conduit Corporation (Harvey, IL)
Law Firm: KDW FIRM PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29813507 on 10/29/2021 (991 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Heater
Patent No. D1035849

Inventor(s): Alexander K. Maghsadi (Lewisville, TX), Jeffrey R. Weilert (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): SOLO BRANDS, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29865797 on 08/12/2022 (704 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Dermal spray apparatus
Patent No. D1035867

Inventor(s): Yoanna Gouchtchina (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Kozhya LLC SP. Z O.O. (Poznan, , PL)
Law Firm: Culhane Meadows PLLC (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29837791 on 05/09/2022 (799 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Electronic vaporizer
Patent No. D1035988

Inventor(s): Blake Reid (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29813431 on 10/28/2021 (992 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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