Patented: American Airlines’ Virtual Measurement System for Baggage Management and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 7 with a total of 156 patents granted.

This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • 1A Smart Start's calculating a recidivism probability score for compliance-based ignition interlock device removal
  • Berkshire Biomedical's computerized oral prescription administration with refillable medication dispensing devices
  • Capital One's real-time dynamic conversational responses during conversational interactions using machine learning models
  • Forcepoint Federal's security analytics system for performing a risk analysis operation taking into account social behavior peer grouping
  • Lockheed Martin's plasma engine with leptonic energy source
  • o9 Solutions' protocol buffer trie packing and streaming updates
  • OxeFit's motorized pilates reformer
  • Sabre's computer program product for reservations, inventory control, shopping, and booking with attribute-based pricing
  • Verily Life Sciences' scene-adaptive image quality in surgical video
  • Verizon's predictive modeling of energy consumption in a cellular network


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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 01/07/25 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 

156 patents granted    
Ranked No. 10 in patent production out of 250 metros


NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 17
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 16
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 2
E: Fixed Constructions 4
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 8
G: Physics 52
H: Electricity 52

Design: 5


TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 20
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 8
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 6
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 6
Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano) 6
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 5
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 4
Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas) 4
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 3

Unassigned 5


TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS) 

Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 3
Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano) 3
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 3
Simon P. Roberts (Celina) 3
Yang Ding (Montreal, Canada) 3
Christian Gratton (Eaton Rapids, Mich.) 2
Cory M. Frank (Frisco) 2
Damien Patton (Plano) 2
Gang Xu (Allen) 2
Jessica May (Danbury) 2


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Patent information is provided by Joe Chiarella, founder of patent analytics company Patent Index and publisher of The Inventiveness Index. For additional details on the patents granted below, search the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database. 



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