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 October 22, 2024 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 8
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 7
E: Fixed Constructions 11
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 8
G: Physics 35
H: Electricity 44
Design: 11
Reissue: 1

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 15
Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson) 4
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 4
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 4
7-Eleven Inc. (Irving) 2
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 2
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 2
Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) 2
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 2

Unassigned 11

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Alberto Echazabal (Prosper) 2
Amit Parsai (Chennai, India) 2
Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell) 2
Glenn William Kowald (Carrollton) 2
Greg Wendt (Dallas) 2
Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper) 2
Jason Palmer (Carlsbad, Calif.) 2
Jon Forrest Acton (Fort Worth) 2
Masaaki Higashitani (Cupertino, Calif.) 2
Patric Ananda Balan Thobias (Chennai, India) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Sanitizing food delivery receiver apparatus
Patent No. 12121173

Inventor(s): Hope Saunders (Mansfield, TX), Mark Shelby (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17219061 on 03/31/2021 (1301 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sanitizing food delivery receiver apparatus for safely receiving food deliveries includes a panel having a panel inner face, a panel top edge, a panel bottom edge, a panel left edge, and a panel right edge. A door hook is coupled to the panel to selectively engage a door. A base is coupled to the panel and hingingly moves between an open position oriented perpendicularly to the panel and a closed position oriented parallel to the panel. A front cover is coupled to the panel and hingingly moves between an engaged position and a hang position. A pair of side covers is coupled to the front cover and the panel and is flexible to allow movement of the front cover between the open position and the hang position.

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

Entryway mat for disinfecting the soles of shoes
Patent No. 12121197

Inventor(s): Abhishek Tandon (Dallas, TX), Kanak Subramanian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: DeWitt LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17491921 on 10/01/2021 (1117 days app to issue)

Abstract: An entryway mat with a misting area and a drying area. When a user steps on the misting area, a disinfecting solution is dispensed onto the bottoms of the user’’s feet. The user then steps onto the drying area to wipe away the disinfecting solution.

[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)

Miniature hyperspectral imaging
Patent No. 12121216

Inventor(s): Baowei Fei (Frisco, TX), Naeeme Modir (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Talem IP Law, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17670730 on 02/14/2022 (981 days app to issue)

Abstract: A miniaturized device providing hyperspectral imaging in real-time includes a body, a camera within the body, a micro-LED array arranged around the camera within the body, and an imaging controller within the body and coupled to the camera and the micro-LED array. The micro-LED array includes micro-LEDs of varying spectral bands. A method for controlling an imaging device includes providing LED timing information and LED intensity information to a micro-LED array, providing camera timing information to a camera for capturing a plurality of images, and receiving the plurality of images from the camera. The timing information includes a timing signal to each micro-LED of the micro-LED array and each timing signal includes a pulse. An image of the plurality of images is captured for a time period associated with each timing signal.

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

Method of operating a progressive lens simulator with an axial power-distance simulator
Patent No. 12121300

Inventor(s): Gergely T. Zimanyi (Berkeley, CA)
Assignee(s): Neurolens, Inc. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18066651 on 12/15/2022 (677 days app to issue)

Abstract: A Progressive Lens Simulator comprises an Eye Tracker, for tracking an eye axis direction to determine a gaze distance, an Off-Axis Progressive Lens Simulator, for generating an Off-Axis progressive lens simulation; and an Axial Power-Distance Simulator, for simulating a progressive lens power in the eye axis direction. The Progressive Lens Simulator can alternatively include an Integrated Progressive Lens Simulator, for creating a Comprehensive Progressive Lens Simulation. The Progressive Lens Simulator can be Head-mounted. A Guided Lens Design Exploration System for the Progressive Lens Simulator can include a Progressive Lens Simulator, a Feedback-Control Interface, and a Progressive Lens Design processor, to generate a modified progressive lens simulation for the patient after a guided modification of the progressive lens design. A Deep Learning Method for an Artificial Intelligence Engine can be used for a Progressive Lens Design Processor. Embodiments include a multi-station system of Progressive Lens Simulators and a Central Supervision Station.

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

Temperature management systems
Patent No. 12121474

Inventor(s): Erik Kulstad (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Cooling Therapy, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Law Firm: Nutter McClennen Fish LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16520197 on 07/23/2019 (1918 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing patient temperature are disclosed. Temperature management systems that are suitable for an out-of-hospital setting are disclosed. Temperature management systems having a low power requirement are disclosed. Temperature management systems that include a disposable, single-use reservoir are disclosed.

[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]

Methods and compositions for maintaining the conformation and structural integrity of biomolecules
Patent No. 12121560

Inventor(s): Alpeshkumar P. Patel (Sachse, TX), Jennifer Seifert (Little Elm, TX), Paul R. Sood (Dallas, TX), Ryszard Zarzycki (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TissueGen, Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Sunstein LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17522570 on 11/09/2021 (1078 days app to issue)

Abstract: A liquid ink composition includes a liquid phase and particles suspended in the liquid phase, the particles containing a target pharmaceutical or biological agent. The biological activity of the target pharmaceutical or biological agent is preserved upon suspension of the particles in the liquid phase. The liquid phase is capable of solidifying via a solidification process.

[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)

Dorsal root ganglia surgical leads
Patent No. 12121717

Inventor(s): Timothy R. Deer (Charleston, WV)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Polsinelli PC (Local + 15 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17893358 on 08/23/2022 (791 days app to issue)

Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide paddle leads for dorsal root ganglia (DRG) stimulation and methods of implanting the same. In one implementation, the paddle lead has a small profile facilitating deployment into a target space in the neuroforamen dorsal to the DRG and below the vertebral lamina. A paddle body of the paddle lead may include a living hinge and/or a contoured profile to further facilitate implantation in the target space. For suture assisted deployment as well as to resist migration of the paddle lead once deployed, the paddle lead may include a suture loop configuration. The paddle lead further includes an electrode array having electrode contacts arranged in a two dimensional configuration pattern to create an electrical field optimized for stimulation of the DRG.

[A61N] ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY (measurement of bioelectric currents A61B; surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body A61B 18/00; anaesthetic apparatus in general A61M; incandescent lamps H01K; infra-red radiators for heating H05B) [6]

Modular spinal implant
Patent No. 12125301

Inventor(s): Todd Shanks (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): T.S. Shanks, PLLC (Union City, TN)
Law Firm: BUSINESS PATENT LAW, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17571488 on 01/09/2022 (1017 days app to issue)

Abstract: The current modular implant is particularly useful in spinal surgical procedures. The modular implant can be provided with two anchors and a central section.

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

Top and bottom loaded filter and locking mechanism
Patent No. 12121834

Inventor(s): Darrell Lee Morehouse, III (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17714323 on 04/06/2022 (930 days app to issue)

Abstract: A filter element includes a bottom open end joined to a center tube opposite the top open end. The bottom open end defines a radially outer surface and a radially inner surface that is in communication with the central reservoir of the filter element. A first locking feature is disposed proximate to the bottom open end. The locking feature includes an entrance slot that is disposed on the radially inner surface of the center tube extending axially from the bottom open end. A similar or identical second locking feature is disposed proximate to the top open end.

[B01D] SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D, by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B, by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges B04B; vortex apparatus B04C; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B 9/02) [5]

Systems and methods for verifying whether vehicle operators are paying attention
Patent No. 12122294

Inventor(s): Daniel Andrew Deninger (Carlsbad, CA), David Forney (La Jolla, CA), Jason Palmer (Carlsbad, CA), Jeffrey Griswold (San Diego, CA), Juan Carlos Mauricia (San Diego, CA), Mark Freitas (San Diego, CA), Nicholas Shayne Brooki
Assignee(s): SmartDrive Systems, Inc. (Westlake, TX)
Law Firm: Esplin Associates, PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17725257 on 04/20/2022 (916 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for verifying whether vehicle operators are paying attention are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals conveying information related to a first vehicle operator; make a first type of determination of at least one of an object on which attention of the first vehicle operator is focused and/or a direction in which attention of the first vehicle operator is focused; make a second type of determination regarding fatigue of the first vehicle operator; make a third type of determination of at least one of a distraction level of the first vehicle operator and/or a fatigue level of the first vehicle operator; and effectuate a notification regarding the third type of determination to at least one of the first vehicle operator and/or a remote computing server.

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

Vehicle user identification
Patent No. 12122310

Inventor(s): Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17348313 on 06/15/2021 (1225 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to identifying a user of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes determining an activity of the user using one or more mobile devices. The method includes detecting an event in the vehicle using one or more vehicle sensors. The method includes identifying the user based on a relationship between the activity and the event.

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

Opportunistic vehicle air brake system pressurization systems and methods
Patent No. 12122335

Inventor(s): Ian Ramsay Hunt (Denton, TX), Jeremy David Walker (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR INC. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Merchant Gould, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17521330 on 11/08/2021 (1079 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing opportunistic vehicle air brake system pressurization are disclosed. Vehicle air tanks used within an air brake system are pressurized during a time a battery charging status is satisfied. For example, such air tanks may be pressurized via an air compressor at a time during which the vehicle is electrically connected to a power source other than a battery of the vehicle. An example of such a power source may include an electrical charger, such as an electric vehicle charging station, or an electric generator during a regenerative braking event. The air tanks may also be pressurized by using a battery to energize the air compressor, based on the battery being charged above a predetermined threshold.

[B60T] VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL (control of electrodynamic brake systems B60L 7/00; conjoint control of brakes and other drive units of vehicles B60W); ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES [2006.01]

Motorized running cycle
Patent No. 12122473

Inventor(s): Eric Johnson (Temecula, CA), Phillip Charles Burke (Pala, CA), Robert Ryan Ragland (Temecula, CA)
Assignee(s): StaCyc, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Michael Best Friedrich LLP (10 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18300077 on 04/13/2023 (558 days app to issue)

Abstract: A running bike includes a front fork, a rear fork, a handlebar, and a frame extending between and connecting the front fork and the rear fork. The frame has a top tube and a seat tube coupled to the top tube. A seat is adjustably coupled to the seat tube. A footrest is connected to and supported by the frame, a drivetrain receiving region is defined as an area below the top tube and above the footplate, a drivetrain assembly is positioned within the drivetrain receiving region, and a battery mount selectively receives a battery. The battery mount faces the front wheel at a position between the top tube and the footrest. A side panel is coupled to the frame to enclose the drivetrain assembly within the drivetrain receiving region, and has in side view, a plurality of edges positioned between the top tube and the footrest.

[B62J] CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; ACCESSORIES PECULIAR TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS (registration plates B60R 13/10; cyclometers, i.e. wheel-revolution counters, G01C 22/00)

Aircraft transport jack
Patent No. 12122535

Inventor(s): Alvin Jones (Arlington, TX), Kevin Knott (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17306652 on 05/03/2021 (1268 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exemplary aircraft transport jack includes a vertical structure having a vertical axis, a bottom end, and a top end, a connector above the bottom end operable to detachably secure the vertical structure to an aircraft member, a wheel assembly with wheels positioned on opposing sides of the vertical structure, and an actuator coupled to the vertical structure and the wheel assembly and operable to move the wheel assembly axially relative to the vertical structure between a lowered position with the wheels on a ground and a raised position with the bottom end on the ground and the wheels above the ground.

[B64F] GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

System and method for measuring the fill level of a trash can using a sensor
Patent No. 12125361

Inventor(s): John Robert Keller (Plano, TX), Matthew O’’Daniel Redmond (Denton, TX), Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17455697 on 11/19/2021 (1068 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for measuring a fill level of a trash can comprises a processor operable to receive a distance measurement from a network, wherein a sensor communicatively coupled to the processor through the network is operable to determine the distance measurement. The processor is operable to calculate a percentage of waste in the trash can based on the received distance measurement and a difference between a first setpoint and a second setpoint. The processor is operable to determine a threshold for a first period of time based on entity information. The processor is operable to compare the percentage of waste in the trash can to the threshold for the first period of time and to send an alert for display on a user device when the percentage of waste is greater than the threshold for the first period of time.

[B65F] GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE (disinfecting refuse A61L; refuse disintegrators B02C; sorting refuse B03B, B07B; handcarts for transporting refuse receptacles B62B; sack holders B65B 67/00; converting refuse into fertilisers C05F; converting refuse into solid fuels C10L; sewers, cesspools E03F; arrangements in buildings for the disposal of refuse E04F 17/10; refuse-consuming furnaces F23G)

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

Roofing materials having one or more polymer networks and related methods
Patent No. 12122933

Inventor(s): Denis Muki Tibah (Waxahachie, TX), Ramil Marcelo L. Mercado (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18355192 on 07/19/2023 (461 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a roofing material. The roofing material comprises a substrate, and a coating on the substrate. The coating comprises at least a polymer A, a polymer B, and at least one filler. The polymer A, the polymer B, the at least one filler are present in an amount sufficient to result in the coating having: A) a Tear CD property of at least 1000 g-f; and B) at least one of an interpenetrating polymer network, a semi-interpenetrating polymer network, or any combination thereof. Other embodiments relate to additional roofing materials, methods for preparing roofing materials, and the like.

[E04D] ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS (coverings of outer walls by plaster or other porous material E04F 13/00)

Gasket seals for drain closures
Patent No. 12123184

Inventor(s): Casey J. Fregoe (The Colony, TX), Muhammad Towheed Hossain (Dallas, TX), Robert Clifton Jones, Jr. (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): Danco, Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Thomas | Horstemeyer, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17237762 on 04/22/2021 (1279 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment, among others, of the present disclosure is directed to a drain closure assembly. Such an assembly has a domed cap at a top portion of the drain closure assembly and a flange that is positioned below the domed cap. The assembly further includes a stem that extends from below the flange to a bottom portion of the drain closure assembly and a gasket seal that is positioned around the stem at a bottom of the drain closure assembly. The gasket seal has a frusto-conical shape, wherein a top portion of the gasket seal has a wider diameter than a bottom portion of the gasket seal, and the gasket seal has a central circular opening that fits closely around the stem.

[E03C] DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER (not connected to either water-supply main or to waste pipe A47K; devices of the kind used in the ground E03B, E03F); SINKS

Underlayments for fire resistance and nail sealability and related systems and methods
Patent No. 12123189

Inventor(s): Adem Chich (Kearny, NJ), Kihyun Kim (Hackensack, NJ), Wilson Cheung (Hillsborough, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18488372 on 10/17/2023 (371 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining a base formulation, obtaining an activator formulation, mixing the base formulation with the activator formulation, so as to result in a liquid applied roofing formulation, applying the liquid applied roofing formulation to at least one steep slope roof substrate, and solidifying the formulation, so as to form at least one coating layer on the at least one steep slope roof substrate. Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a liquid applied roofing formulation comprising a first part and a second part. In some embodiments, the first part comprises the base formulation and the second part comprises the activator formulation.

[E04B] GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS (border constructions of openings in walls, floors, or ceilings E06B 1/00)

Continuous nonwoven polyester fiber and fiberglass thread hybrid mat
Patent No. 12123193

Inventor(s): Chris Freeborg (Irving, TX), Kyle Davis (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): TAMKO Building Products LLC (Galena, KS)
Law Firm: Cochran Freund Young LLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16796686 on 02/20/2020 (1706 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for forming a combined polyester and fiberglass mat, in which separate polyester and fiberglass layers can be formed or polyester filaments and fiberglass threads can be mixed together by a disperser to form a polyester and fiberglass web. The polyester filaments and the fiberglass threads can be dispersed by separate dispersers on a web forming belt to form separate layers of polyester filaments and fiberglass threads, or can be dispersed by a single disperser to at least, somewhat evenly disperse, the fiberglass threads and polyester filaments.

[E04D] ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS (coverings of outer walls by plaster or other porous material E04F 13/00)

Panel assembly
Patent No. 12123199

Inventor(s): Ben Davis (Azle, TX), Curtis Herron (Fort Worth, TX), Jeffrey S. Kenny (Fort Worth, TX), Peter Bixby (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17372831 on 07/12/2021 (1198 days app to issue)

Abstract: An end cap for a panel support of a panel assembly comprising an exposed surface and a side surface. The exposed surface of the end cap has opposing edges, and the exposed surface forms a selected end effect. The side surface has at least one fastener hole. The edges of the exposed surface of the end cap are configured to mate with an end surface of the panel support.

[E04F] FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS (windows, doors E06B)

Vertical cable rail barrier
Patent No. 12123215

Inventor(s): Kevin T. Burt (Dallas, TX), Matthew Carlyle Sherstad (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Fortress Iron, LP (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17139658 on 12/31/2020 (1391 days app to issue)

Abstract: A barrier panel is formed of a first rail member and a second rail member with at least one vertical support member mounted to and extending between the first rail member and second rail member. The first rail member includes first openings spaced apart along its length. The second rail member includes second openings spaced apart along its length. Vertical cables are mounted to and extend between the first rail member and second rail member. A first end of each vertical cable is secured within one of the first openings and a second end of each vertical cable is secured within an opposite one of the second openings. End members configured to adjust tension in the vertical cables are concealed by a pair of leg members of the second rail member.

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

Integrated sliding glass panel bumpers
Patent No. 12123249

Inventor(s): Steven Hamm (Wills Point, TX)
Assignee(s): ASTON GLOBAL, INC. (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: KLEMCHUK PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17656972 on 03/29/2022 (938 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are integrated sliding glass panel bumper assemblies, frameless sliding glass panel systems that include one or more of the integrated sliding glass panel bumper assemblies, methods for installing the integrated sliding glass panel bumper assemblies, and methods for retrofitting a frameless sliding glass panel system with one or more of the integrated sliding glass panel bumper assemblies.

[E05F] DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING

Wireline release head
Patent No. 12123273

Inventor(s): Chris Payson (Fort Worth, TX), Daniel L. Tollefson (Aledo, TX), John P. Roach (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Reach Wireline, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: AVEK IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17658629 on 04/08/2022 (928 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireline release head system includes a housing, a cutter box situated within the housing, a fire control switch, and a wireline extending through the cutter box and in electrical communication with a control unit and the fire control switch. The cutter box includes a piston assembly operable to move within a first track and a cutter knife operable to move within a second track. The second track is angled relative to the first track. The fire control switch is in communication with a fire detonator, which is selectively activatable to detonate a power charge. An electrical signal selectively sent through the wireline from the control unit to the fire control switch detonates the power charge, which causes the piston assembly to move within the first track and contact the cutter knife causing the cutter knife to move within the second track, thereby severing the wireline.

[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]

Sealing assembly for wellbore operations
Patent No. 12123277

Inventor(s): Shane Robert Burckhard (Decatur, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: DeLizio, Peacock, Lewin Guerra, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17546984 on 12/09/2021 (1048 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sealing assembly comprising a plurality of components including an upper sealing element and a lower sealing element, the sealing assembly configured to encircle a tubular string positioned within a casing of a wellbore. The sealing assembly is configured to be actuatable to extend sealing elements between the tubular string and an inner surface of the casing to form a fluid seal between the tubular element and the inner surface of the casing.

Electro-mechanical clutch for downhole tools
Patent No. 12123282

Inventor(s): Bruce Edward Scott (Carrollton, TX), Kevin Robin Passmore (Carrollton, TX), Nicholas Robert Wood (Carrollton, TX), Rajiv Jerome Yatawara (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17884855 on 08/10/2022 (804 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to actuator assemblies for downhole tools. An actuator assembly comprises a ball screw; a ball nut disposed around the ball screw; a cam disposed around the ball nut; a rail disposed adjacent to the cam, the rail operable to stop rotation of the cam to extend the cam axially as the ball nut traverses the ball screw.

Generated hydrogen gas lift system
Patent No. 12123289

Inventor(s): Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX), Stephen Michael Greci (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16976449 on 11/07/2019 (1811 days app to issue)

Abstract: A variety of systems, methods and compositions are disclosed, including, in one method, a method for producing a subterranean formation, the method comprising: introducing a reactive material into a wellbore penetrating the subterranean formation; hydrolyzing the reactive material with an aqueous-based wellbore fluid to produce hydrogen gas; reducing a bulk density of the aqueous based wellbore fluid; producing the wellbore. A system for producing a wellbore, the system comprising: an oilfield tubular disposed in a producing wellbore; a fluid column comprising an aqueous based wellbore fluid within the oilfield tubular, wherein the fluid column comprises a hydrostatic head greater than a pore pressure of the wellbore; and a solid reactive material capable of chemically reacting with the aqueous-based wellbore fluid thereby reducing the hydrostatic head.

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

Aftertreatment systems
Patent No. 12123337

Inventor(s): Lindsey R. Henry (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Cummins Emission Solutions Inc. (Columbus, IN)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17695580 on 03/15/2022 (952 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aftertreatment system includes an exhaust gas conduit, a mixer, and a mixing flange. The exhaust gas conduit includes an inner surface. The exhaust gas conduit has a conduit diameter d[subscript]c[/subscript]. The mixer includes a mixer body and an upstream vane plate. The upstream vane plate has a plurality of upstream vanes. At least one of the plurality of upstream vanes is coupled to the mixer body. The mixing flange is disposed downstream of the mixer. The mixing flange includes a mixing flange opening having a mixing flange opening diameter d[subscript]mf[/subscript]. 0.30*d[subscript]c[/subscript]d[subscript]mf[/subscript]0.95*d[subscript]c[/subscript].

[F01N] GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES (arrangements in connection with gas exhaust of propulsion units in vehicles B60K 13/00; combustion-air intake silencers specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines F02M 35/00; protecting against, or damping, noise in general G10K 11/16)

Rudder and brake pedal devices
Patent No. 12123480

Inventor(s): Andrew Wright (Grand Prairie, TX), Ryan Fleming (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee(s): Safran Electronics Defense, Avionics USA, LLC (Grand Prairie, TX)
Law Firm: Umberg Zipser LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17954974 on 09/28/2022 (755 days app to issue)

Abstract: Rudder pedal and brake inceptor devices are described that utilize a straight-line mechanism and rotary joints to achieve straight line motion in a compact volume. The devices can include four or more bar linkages that translate forward motion of a pedal into a rotary motion of a common shaft, such that forward motion of one pedal causes the other pedal to retract while allowing for yaw motion control of the aircraft.

[F16H] GEARING

Chain ring
Patent No. 12123486

Inventor(s): Christopher A. Wickliffe (Ogden, UT), Eldon Goates (Colorado Springs, CO)
Assignee(s): RAMPWERKS, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: TAFT STETTINIUS HOLLISTER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16927040 on 07/13/2020 (1562 days app to issue)

Abstract: A chain ring for engaging a chain link of a chain, the chain ring including an inner edge fully circumscribing both an opening and an axis of rotation, an inner surface extending between the inner edge and an outer edge where a plurality of chain ring teeth emanate, and a plurality of ramps disposed about the inner surface, wherein at least one of the plurality of ramps includes a lifting surface for initiating lift of a chain without assistance from the plurality of chain ring teeth. The lifting surface extends radially along the inner surface toward the outer edge, and the at least one ramp has a first end proximate the inner edge and a second end proximate the outer edge. The second end of the at least one lifting surface terminates before reaching the bottom of a trough positioned between two or more of the plurality of chain ring teeth.

[F16H] GEARING

Time-based and sound-based diagnostics for restrictions within a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system
Patent No. 12123607

Inventor(s): Glenn William Kowald (Carrollton, TX), Payam Delgoshaei (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18306880 on 04/25/2023 (546 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device is configured to operate a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The device is further configured to receive an audio signal from a microphone while operating the HVAC system and to determine that an audio signature for a combustion air inducer is not present within the audio signal. The device is further configured to determine whether an audio signature for an integrated furnace controller is present within the audio signal. The device is further configured to determine a fault type based on the determination of whether the audio signature for the integrated furnace controller is present within the audio signal, to identify a component identifier for a component of the HVAC system associated with fault type, and to output a recommendation identifying the component identifier.

[F24F] AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR CURRENTS FOR SCREENING (removing dirt or fumes from areas where they are produced B08B 15/00; vertical ducts for carrying away waste gases from buildings E04F 17/02; tops for chimneys or ventilating shafts, terminals for flues F23L 17/02)

Time-based and sound-based diagnostics for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning burner assembly
Patent No. 12123608

Abstract: A device is configured to operate a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The device is further configured to determine that the amount of time to ignite a burner in a burner assembly has exceeded a time threshold value and that a flame was not detected by a flame sensor. The device is further configured to receive an audio signal from a microphone while operating the HVAC system, to identify an audio signature for the flame, and to determine whether the audio signature for the flame is present within the first audio signal. The device is further configured to determine a fault type based on the determination of whether the audio signature for the flame is present within the audio signal, to identify a component identifier for a component of the HVAC system that is associated with fault type, and to output a recommendation identifying the component identifier.

High-performance housings for backward-curved blowers
Patent No. 12123621

Inventor(s): Amit Parsai (Chennai, , IN), Patric Ananda Balan Thobias (Chennai, , IN), Shiliang Wang (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18512169 on 11/17/2023 (340 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a blower for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system includes a blower wheel and a housing. The blower wheel includes backward-curved blades configured to rotate in a rotational plane. The housing forms an at least hexagonal cross-section around at least a portion of the rotational plane, where the blower wheel is positioned within the housing such that there exists a first distance and a second distance. The first distance is measured radially outward from a center of the blower wheel to a first side of the at least hexagonal cross-section. The second distance is measured radially outward from the center of the blower wheel to a second side of the at least hexagonal cross-section. The second distance forms a an acute angle with the first distance. The first distance and the second distance are unequal and less than a diameter of the blower wheel.

High-performance housings for backward-curved blowers
Patent No. 12123622

Long range jacketed projectile
Patent No. 12123689

Inventor(s): Harold F. Beal (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): True Velocity IP Holdings, Inc. (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Burdick Patents, P.A. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18199341 on 05/18/2023 (523 days app to issue)

Abstract: A long range jacketed projectile has a cavity defined in the base end of the projectile core that is substantially filled with polymer material during the jacketing process. The cavity is configured to lighten the core, which lightens the overall weight of the projectile, and move the center of gravity closer to the center of pressure when compared to a conventional long range projectile. The polymer jacket lightens the projectile weight, which when combined with the lighter core, allows the projectile to attain a flatter trajectory at increased maximum velocities.

[F42B] EXPLOSIVE CHARGES, e.g. FOR BLASTING; FIREWORKS; AMMUNITION (explosive compositions C06B; fuzes F42C; blasting F42D) [5]

P H Y S I C S

Systems and methods for more accurately adjusting traffic predictions for the intended use of optimizing battery pre-charging
Patent No. 12122352

Inventor(s): Joshua D. Payne (Erlanger, KY), Shannon Alicia Wrobel (Erlanger, KY)
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: 15615803 on 06/06/2017 (2695 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for optimizing predictions regarding traffic conditions based upon learned/measured traffic conditions. Current traffic conditions can be measured and characterized based on speed or other factors as a vehicle traverses the route. These measured traffic conditions can be compared to predicted traffic conditions. A weighting term can be associated with the measured traffic conditions based upon the comparison. During a subsequent time that the vehicle traverses the route, a traffic conditions prediction may be made. The weighting term and measured traffic conditions data can be used to adjust the traffic conditions prediction for better accuracy, and an optimal time(s) during which a battery of a hybrid vehicle can be pre-charged can be requested.

[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)

Apparatus and method of monitoring product placement within a shopping facility
Patent No. 12123155

Inventor(s): Shuvro Chakrobartty (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Fitch, Even, Tabin Flannery LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18226132 on 07/25/2023 (455 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in monitoring product placement within a shopping facility. Some embodiments provide an apparatus configured to determine product placement conditions within a shopping facility, comprising: a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive communications; a product monitoring control circuit coupled with the transceiver; a memory coupled with the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to: obtain a composite three-dimensional (3D) scan mapping corresponding to at least a select area of the shopping facility and based on a series of 3D scan data; evaluate the 3D scan mapping to identify multiple product depth distances; and identify, from the evaluation of the 3D scan mapping, when one or more of the multiple product depth distances is greater than a predefined depth distance threshold from the reference offset distance of the product support structure.

Radar activated anti-collision device
Patent No. 12123973

Inventor(s): Kevin Patrick McMahon (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17402283 on 08/13/2021 (1166 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reflective device includes a novel corner cube reflector design and application, with unique and specific configurations and geometries of singular or multiple corner reflectors. The device can significantly increase the Radar Cross Section (RCS) measurement of the target object (e.g. cyclist and pedestrians) and greatly amplify the presence of the target object at multiple angles, orientations, distances and ranges to the vehicles collision avoidance radar system.

[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

Modal conditioner for use with bend-insensitive, multimode optical fibers
Patent No. 12124094

Inventor(s): Bradley Scott Billman (Sachse, TX), Gary Federico Gibbs (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18165581 on 02/07/2023 (623 days app to issue)

Abstract: A light source unit generates an optical signal out of a bend-insensitive (‘’BI’’) optical fiber that is compliant with a desired encircled flux (‘’EF’’). The unit includes a light source to generate an optical light signal and a conventional multimode optical fiber coupled to receive the optical light signal from the light source at a first end. A modal conditioner is arranged to condition the optical light signal propagating along different modes of the conventional multimode fiber. A first bend-insensitive (BI) multimode optical fiber has an input end, the input end of the first BI multimode optical fiber being coupled at a second end of the conventional multimode optical fiber to receive the conditioned optical light signal from the conventional multimode fiber. The output from the first BI multimode optical fiber outputs an optical signal having the desired EF.

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

Implementation of deep neural networks for testing and quality control in the production of memory devices
Patent No. 12124247

Inventor(s): Cheng-Chung Chu (Milpitas, CA), Fei Zhou (San Jose, CA), Raghuveer Makala (Campbell, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17465305 on 09/02/2021 (1146 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are presented for the application of neural networks to the fabrication of integrated circuits and electronic devices, where example are given for the fabrication of non-volatile memory circuits and the mounting of circuit components on the printed circuit board of a solid state drive (SSD). The techniques include the generation of high precision masks suitable for analyzing electron microscope images of feature of integrated circuits and of handling the training of the neural network when the available training data set is sparse through use of a generative adversary network (GAN).

[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)

Servicing CPU demand requests with inflight prefetches
Patent No. 12124374

Inventor(s): Oluleye Olorode (Garland, TX), Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17987482 on 11/15/2022 (707 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide a technique in which a memory controller determines whether a fetch address is a miss in an L1 cache and, when a miss occurs, allocates a way of the L1 cache, determines whether the allocated way matches a scoreboard entry of pending service requests, and, when such a match is found, determine whether a request address of the matching scoreboard entry matches the fetch address. When the matching scoreboard entry also has a request address matching the fetch address, the scoreboard entry is modified to a demand request.

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

Partial bit filter for usb interface
Patent No. 12124390

Inventor(s): Julie Nirchi (Allen, TX), Suzanne M. Vining (Plano, TX), Win N. Maung (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17680697 on 02/25/2022 (970 days app to issue)

Abstract: Data communication devices, e.g., eUSB2 repeaters, include a partial bit filter to filter out a partial bit so it is not transmitted. The partial bit filter includes state-detection-and-hold circuitry having first and second differential signal inputs, a first output and a second output; logic circuitry having a first input coupled to the first output of the state-detection-and hold circuitry, and a second input coupled to the second output of the state-detection-and hold circuitry; and filter circuitry coupled to the logic circuitry and having a control output. The filter circuitry may be implemented as a latch or a network of flip flops. The output control signal of the partial bit filter may be applied to a transmitter in an eUSB2 repeater or to a pass-gate at the output of the transmitter.

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

Methods and apparatus to preform inter-integrated circuit address modification
Patent No. 12124393

Inventor(s): Deric Wayne Waters (Dallas, TX), Xiaoxi Bruce Zhang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17587695 on 01/28/2022 (998 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example system includes: a device coupled to a data line, the device configured to: send a first command on the data line, the first command including a first address; after sending the first command, read a first value on the data line, the first value including data from a first target device and a second target device; responsive to reading the first value, send a second command including the first address and data representing the first value on the data line; send a third command on the data line, the third command including the first address; after sending the third command, read a second value on the data line, the second value including data from the first target device and the second target device; responsive to reading the second value, send a fourth command on the data line, the fourth command including the first address.

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

Stream-based database alteration architecture and methods for managing databases
Patent No. 12124425

Inventor(s): Chih-Hsiang Chow (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17957057 on 09/30/2022 (753 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing stream-based database alteration architecture are disclosed. The systems and methods can receive a plurality of client tracking identification numbers in a data stream from a database via a communication network, wherein the plurality of client tracking identification numbers comprises customer metadata. The received plurality of client tracking identification numbers is assigned to one or more virtual consumer processors for encrypting or decrypting a client record associated with each of the plurality of received client tracking identification numbers. The client record associated with each of the received plurality of client tracking identification numbers is encrypted or decrypted. A database is updated to indicate the client record associated with each of the received plurality of client tracking identification numbers is encrypted or decrypted using the assigned one or more virtual consumer processors.

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

Systems and methods for off-chain action orchestration using blockchain events
Patent No. 12124437

Inventor(s): Abdul Raheem (Irving, TX), Ahmed A. Khan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17667676 on 02/09/2022 (986 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may identify a plurality of records recorded to a blockchain, and may identify a particular record of the plurality of records that includes a particular indicator that the particular record is associated with a particular event. The particular indicator may indicate a type of off-chain event. The system may perform, based on identifying the particular record that is associated with the particular event, one or more off-chain actions associated with the particular event. The performed off-chain event may be the indicated type, out of a plurality of possible types of events to perform. The system may record, to the blockchain, an indication that the one or more off-chain actions associated with the particular event have been performed. The event may include an identifier, which the system may also record to the indication that the one or more off-chain actions have been performed.

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

Data processing system for automatic presetting of controls in an evaluation operator interface
Patent No. 12124459

Inventor(s): Lorne E. Wood (McKinney, TX), Steven J. Graff (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): OPEN TEXT CORPORATION (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Sprinkle IP Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18314583 on 05/09/2023 (532 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment comprises a data processing system for populating selections in an evaluation operator interface. The system may record voice sessions of phone calls, transcribe the voice sessions and store transactions including the voice sessions and transcripts. The system receives a request from a client computer for an evaluation to evaluate a transaction that was assigned an automated score according to the automated scoring template based on a transcript of the transaction having matched a lexicon. The system generates the evaluation. Generating the evaluation comprises setting an answer control for a question in the evaluation to a preselected answer based on a defined correspondence between the automated score and the preselected answer, the preselected answer selected from a defined set of acceptable answers to the question. The system may generate page code for the answer control that sets the answer control to the preselected answer.

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

Methods of orchestrated data sharing across cloud regions and cloud platforms of cloud-based data warehousing systems
Patent No. 12124471

Inventor(s): Naga Venkata Sriram Vadakattu (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17838133 on 06/10/2022 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for orchestrating the sharing of data between accounts that are hosted by a cloud-based data warehousing system on different cloud platforms or in different cloud regions of a cloud platform, and where such accounts may be associated with different organizations. Sharing of data in the multi-cloud platform and/or multi-cloud region environments may be facilitated by the on-demand creation of one or more data collection accounts.

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

Using natural movements of a hand-held device to manipulate digital content
Patent No. 12124633

Inventor(s): Vinay Sharma (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17710951 on 03/31/2022 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile device, such as a smart phone, is provided with a camera. Digital content displayed on display screen of the mobile device may be manipulated in response to natural movements of the mobile device by a user. Motion of the mobile device is detected relative to a nearby textured surface by analyzing images of the textured surface. The displayed digital content is manipulated in response to the detected motion of the mobile device.

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

Quick clearing of registers
Patent No. 12124728

Inventor(s): Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, TX), Soujanya Narnur (Austin, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18353181 on 07/17/2023 (463 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of clearing of registers and logic designs with AND and OR logics to propagate the zero values provided to write enable signal buses upon the execution of clear instruction of more than one registers, allowing more than one architecturally visible registers to be cleared with one signal instruction regardless of the values of data buses.

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

Computer aided design of custom cellular lattice kernels according to material properties
Patent No. 12124771

Inventor(s): Lucia Mirabella (Plainsboro, NJ), Suraj Ravi Musuvathy (Princeton Junction, NJ), Wesley Reinhart (Plainsboro, NJ)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17273869 on 09/06/2019 (1873 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for generation of cellular lattice kernels optimized by multiple objectives for highly specific targeted properties of geometry and topology rather than state of the art methods that rely on a predefined kernel library. Using a characterization of virtual kernel features, bulk material properties can be predicted using approximations from the virtual kernel rather than having to rely solely on experimental finite element simulations of lattice structures.

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

Techniques for dynamically provisioning electronic subscriber identity modules to mobile devices
Patent No. 12124831

Inventor(s): Benjamin J. Livesay (Dallas, TX), Neal M. Flanagan (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Law Firm: DICKINSON WRIGHT RLLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18305281 on 04/21/2023 (550 days app to issue)

Abstract: Representative embodiments enable a software application to access wireless services provided by a mobile network operator (MNO). According to some embodiments, a method can be implemented at a mobile device, and include (1) receiving, from a software application management entity, an installation package that includes: (i) first information for installing a software application, and (ii) second information for an electronic Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) to be utilized by the software application to access the wireless services provided by the MNO, (2) utilizing the first information to install the software application on the mobile device, and (3) in response to receiving a request to launch the software application, causing the software application to execute on the mobile device, where: (i) the software application utilizes the eSIM to access wireless services provided by the MNO, and (ii) the wireless services are restricted in accordance with parameters associated with the eSIM.

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

Complex computing network for controlling computing operations based on a computing load
Patent No. 12124881

Inventor(s): Lilly R. Talavera (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18402659 on 01/02/2024 (294 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to intelligent synchronization of computing users, and associated timing data, based on parameters or data received from computing systems connected via wireless, satellite, wire-based, optical-fiber based, etc., computing networks.

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

Systems and methods for package marking for delivery efficiency
Patent No. 12124989

Inventor(s): Taimoor Jawaid Khizri (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
Law Firm: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17864926 on 07/14/2022 (831 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a visual indicator for a package based on a delivery address for the package and a location of the delivery address along a delivery route. An optimized delivery route may be created for packages to be delivered at a given time. At the fulfillment center, a delivery system may label a package prior to loading the package on a delivery vehicle. The delivery system may determine the appropriate visual indicator (e.g., color and/or pattern) or the visual indicator may be randomly selected. The delivery system may generate a label having the visual indicator. The package may be deposited into a certain bin with other packages having a delivery address in close proximity. The delivery system may generate a user interface on a user device that indicates that the package has a certain visual indicator to facilitate sorting and identification of the package.

[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]

Systems and methods for generation and use of a device wallet identifier
Patent No. 12125025

Inventor(s): Tuan Dao (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP (19 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18323810 on 05/25/2023 (516 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for using a device wallet identifier are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for generating a device wallet identifier may include: (1) receiving a wallet identifier for an electronic wallet or payment application executed by an electronic device; (2) retrieving an issuer identifier for a customer associated with the electronic wallet or payment application; (3) generating a device wallet identifier; and (4) storing a mapping of the device wallet identifier to the issuer identifier for the customer.

Systems and methods for providing currency exchange information via augmented reality
Patent No. 12125102

Inventor(s): Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18132114 on 04/07/2023 (564 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method may include receiving image data representative of cash acquired via one or more image sensors, identifying a first currency depicted in the cash based on a plurality of images associated with a plurality of currencies, and determining a currency conversion rate between the first currency and a second currency. The method may also include generating a visualization representative of a currency value of the cash in the second currency based on the currency conversion rate and overlaying the visualization on the image data.

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

Fault detection in a real-time image pipeline
Patent No. 12125122

Inventor(s): Ankur Ankur (New Delhi, , IN), Mayank Mangla (Allen, TX), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX), Prithvi Shankar Yeyyadi Anantha (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17556161 on 12/20/2021 (1037 days app to issue)

Abstract: A technique including receiving an image stream for processing; processing the received image stream in a real time mode of operation; outputting an indication that an image processing pipeline has begun processing the received image stream; receiving, in response to the indication, first configuration information associated with test data for testing the image processing pipeline; switching the image processing pipeline to a non-real time mode of operation to process the test data based on the first configuration information during a vertical blanking period of the received image stream; loading the test data from an external memory; switching an input of the image processing pipeline from the image stream to the test data; determining a checksum based on the processed test data; comparing the determined checksum to an expected checksum to determine that the test data was successfully processed; and outputting an indication that the test data was successfully processed.

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

Collaborative note sharing using extended reality
Patent No. 12125154

Inventor(s): Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17822930 on 08/29/2022 (785 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method facilitate interactive collaboration using an extended reality (XR) environment. The XR environment provides an electronic whiteboard to users of the XR environment. The XR environment provides an electronic notepad to the first user at a device of the first user. The XR environment receives a note of the electronic notepad from the first user, then receives an input to detach the note from the electronic notepad and to attach the note to the electronic whiteboard. Finally, the XR environment provides a view of the note on the electronic whiteboard to the second user.

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

Methods and system for selective removal of streak artifacts and noise from images using deep neural networks
Patent No. 12125175

Inventor(s): Xinzeng Wang (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, WI)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17718697 on 04/12/2022 (924 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for independently removing streak artifacts and noise from medical images, using trained deep neural networks. In one embodiment, streak artifacts and noise may be selectively and independently removed from a medical image by receiving the medical image comprising streak artifacts and noise, mapping the medical image to a streak residual and a noise residual using the trained deep neural network, subtracting the streak residual from the medical image to a first extent, and subtracting the noise residual from the medical image to a second extent, to produce a de-noised medical image, and displaying the de-noised medical image via a display device.

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

Systems and methods for accessing and analyzing radiology imaging studies in real-time as they are being reviewed by a practitioner
Patent No. 12125205

Inventor(s): Hongyi Zhang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Covera Health (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Outlier Patent Attorneys, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18388747 on 11/10/2023 (347 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure is for a system and a method for artificial intelligence (AI) based review of radiologic images as they are being read by a radiologist. The AI review is performed through the use of screen sharing and screen capture approaches allowing an AI model to analyze images without direct access to the raw image files. The AI review may compare user documented findings with AI model-based findings in order to identify discrepancies between the two. The discrepancies can be used as feedback for retraining the model and/or as feedback to the user to aid in education or track and/or improve an individual’’s review characteristics.

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

Systems and methods for detecting objects crossing planes
Patent No. 12125239

Inventor(s): Kyle McKenzie (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Camuti Law Group, APC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17560149 on 12/22/2021 (1035 days app to issue)

Abstract: There is provided a system for detecting an object crossing a plane at high resolution from long range, the system including a first transmitter projecting a light plane using a light comprising a light plane wavelength, the light plane defining a boundary, wherein the light plane wavelength is not visible to the human eye, a first receiver for detecting a reflection of light when an object crosses the light plane defining the boundary, the receiver configured to detect light in a range of the electromagnetic spectrum including the light plane wavelength, wherein the receiver includes an image sensor comprising a plurality of sensor pixels, and an image processing computer configured to receive an input from the receiver including a recorded frame captured by the receiver, wherein the image processing computer processes the recorded frame for review to identify a frame showing an object crossing the boundary.

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

Overlapped patches for mesh coding for video based point cloud compression
Patent No. 12125249

Inventor(s): Esmaeil Faramarzi (Richardson, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17532859 on 11/22/2021 (1065 days app to issue)

Abstract: An encoding device, a decoding device, and a method for mesh decoding are disclosed. The method for mesh decoding includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding a frame that includes pixels from the bitstream. A portion of the pixels of the frame represent geometric locations of vertices of a 3D mesh that are organized into overlapped patches. The method further includes decoding connectivity information from the bitstream. Additionally, the method includes identifying triangles associated with the overlapped patches. The triangles represented in an overlapped patch of the overlapped patches are allocated to a projection direction based on a normal vector associated with each of the triangles of the overlapped patch. The method also includes reconstructing the 3D mesh based on the connectivity information and the overlapped patches.

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

Method and apparatus for a wearable computer
Patent No. 12125285

Inventor(s): Masoud Vaziri (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Optics Innovation LLC (Portland, ME)
Law Firm: Nixon Peabody LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17887439 on 08/13/2022 (801 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment of a Wearable Computer apparatus includes a first portable unit for data gathering and providing a natural user interface, and a second portable unit for processing the gathered data from the first unit and taking an action in respond to the received data. The first portable unit includes an eyeglass frame, at least one first scene camera disposed on the eyeglass frame for capturing at least one scene image corresponding to a field of view of a user, at least one microphone, one speaker and one LED to create a natural user interface, and at least one first processor to receive data from the data gathering units in the first portable unit and communicating that data to the second portable unit. The second portable unit is in communication with the first portable unit and includes at least one second processor configured for receiving data from the first processor. The second portable unit also includes at least one interface of a digital personal assistant that receives at least one scene image from the first portable unit and initiates an object recognition procedure to recognize an object in the at least one scene image. Based on the at least one recognized object, the digital personal assistant takes an action that may include providing a feedback to the user via light or audio.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Systems and methods for determining and using deviations from driver-specific performance expectations
Patent No. 12125320

Inventor(s): Ashim Bose (Flower Mound, TX), David Wagstaff (Lake Forest, CA), Jason Palmer (Carlsbad, CA), Reza Ghanbari (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): OMNITRACS, LLC (Westlake, TX)
Law Firm: Esplin Associates, PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17473784 on 09/13/2021 (1135 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining and using deviations from driver-specific vehicle performance expectations for a particular vehicle operator are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may obtain trip information or service information that include values for driver performance metrics pertaining to a particular vehicle operator; determine the driver-specific performance expectations by aggregating information included in the obtained trip information; determine particular metric values for a current trip; compare the determined driver-specific performance expectations with the particular metric values for the current trip; determine deviations based on the comparisons; determine whether to recommend an action based on the deviations; and generate and/or provide one or more notifications to at least one of the particular vehicle operator, a stakeholder of the fleet of vehicles, and a remote computing server.

[G07C] TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE (identification of persons A61B 5/117; indicating or recording apparatus for measuring in general, analogous apparatus but in which the input is not a variable to be measured, e.g. a hand operation, G01D; clocks, clock mechanisms G04B, G04C; time-interval measuring G04F; counting mechanisms per se G06M)

Automated teller machine (ATM) networks with a real time digital twin ecosystem for multi-region or wired wide area networks (WAN) in order to predict failures/faults
Patent No. 12125353

Inventor(s): Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18222537 on 07/17/2023 (463 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer performs a method for pro-actively administering a physical network of automated teller machines (ATM). The network may include ATMs. The network may be coupled, using an asynchronous transfer mode Wide Area Network (WAN) and the router, to a second plurality of ATMs via a digital subscriber line (DSL) module, a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system to provide CCTV television footage, and/or a 5-G cellular interface. The method receives input data using a data processing block coupled to the network of ATMs. The data may be derived from the plurality of ATMS, the WAN, the second plurality of ATMs, the CCTV and/or the 5-G cellular network interface. The method cleans and processes data and leverages a virtual digital twin to predictively provide status information of the ATMs based on the data. The method may formulate and maintain predictive data using a digital twin prediction model.

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

Coordination and execution of actions on a plurality of heterogenous AI systems during a conference call
Patent No. 12125485

Inventor(s): Romelia H. Flores (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Kyndryl, Inc. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Calderon Safran Wright P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17691661 on 03/10/2022 (957 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes: in response to identifying a primary user and corresponding Primary AI Assistant for a meeting, receiving by the Primary AI Assistant a confirmation to enroll at least one user personal digital assistant (PDA) of a respective one of at least one user; prompting the at least one user to provide descriptive information associated with the respective user PDA; connecting the at least one user PDA to the Primary AI Assistant internally by the Primary AI Assistant using the descriptive information for submitting requests; identifying by the Primary AI Assistant keywords and phrases received from the at least one user or primary user in the meeting; determining by the Primary AI Assistant a scheduling item based on the identified keywords and phrases; and automatically providing by the Primary AI Assistant the scheduling item to at least one user PDA corresponding to the scheduling item using the descriptive information.

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

Apparatus and method for correcting an error in data transmission of a data processing system
Patent No. 12125549

Inventor(s): In Jong Jang (Gyeonggi-do, , KR)
Assignee(s): MIMIRIP LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: IP T GROUP LLP (Local + 297 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18362978 on 08/01/2023 (448 days app to issue)

Abstract: A data processing system includes a controller configured to receive a first encoded data item and a write request from a host, the first encoded data item being encoded based on a hamming code. The controller is further configured to store the first encoded data item in a write buffer, decode the first encoded data item stored in the write buffer based on the hamming code to detect and correct a first error in the first encoded data item to obtain a first error-corrected data item, encode the first error-corrected data item based on an error correction code to generate a second encoded data item, and transmit the second encoded data item to program the second encoded data item in a non-volatile memory device.

[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)

Method and system for automated population outreach
Patent No. 12125564

Inventor(s): Joel Nathanael Luce (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): LUCE COMMUNICATIONS LLC (Mira Loma, CA)
Law Firm: Osha Bergman Watanabe Burton LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18318326 on 05/16/2023 (525 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may include various user devices coupled to a cellular network. Each user device may be associated with a respective member of a predetermined population. The system may further include a contact management server coupled to the cellular network. The contact management server may determine a previous contact event of a user device among the user devices. The contact management server may further determine a selection of a first contact type for contacting the user device. The first contact type may be different from a second contact type of the previous contact event. The contact management server may further transmit a command that triggers the contact event of the user device based on the first contact type.

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

Integrated systems and methods for evolving state protocols and decision support
Patent No. 12125584

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Terry (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17215153 on 03/29/2021 (1303 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage care pathways and associated resources. An example apparatus includes a system monitor to coordinate a patient data analyzer and a care pathway processor to at least: identify a first patient record associated with a first care pathway; and identify a second patient record that is not on the first care pathway but should be on the first care pathway. The example apparatus includes a graphical user interface including information regarding, in a first area, the first patient record associated with the first care pathway and, in a second area, the second patient record that should be associated with the first care pathway.

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

Superposition-based content serving
Patent No. 12126699

Inventor(s): Albert Hwang (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC (Redmond, WA)
Law Firm: NICHOLSON DE VOS WEBSTER ELLIOTT LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17972408 on 10/24/2022 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies receive a request including a user identifier and metadata associated with a slot available at a user system, remove the user identifier from the request to produce anonymized request data, receive, from a machine learning model, superposition data that correlates with the anonymized request data, send the superposition data for the anonymized request data to a real-time content-to-request matching process, receive, from the real-time content-to-request matching process, an identifier that identifies a content distribution selected based on the superposition data, and initiate the selected content distribution through the network to the slot in response to the request.

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

On-substrate mechanical stress sensing and compensation
Patent No. 12127480

Inventor(s): Baher Haroun (Allen, TX), Jose Antonio Vieira Formenti (Dallas, TX), Michael Szelong (Freising, , DE), Ralf Peter Brederlow (Poing, , DE), Tobias Bernhard Fritz (Mainburg, , DE), Umidjon Nurmetov (Munich, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16932343 on 07/17/2020 (1558 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a circuit includes an analog frontend arranged to generate an analog stress compensating signal in response to a to-be-compensated analog signal and a first-axis stress sensing signal. The analog frontend can comprise a first precision component (e.g., [b]220[/b]) arranged on a piezoelectric material and arranged to generate the to-be-compensated analog signal that is affected by a stress exerted in the piezoelectric material and a directional stress sensor arranged on the piezoelectric material and coupled to the first precision component. The directional stress sensor is arranged to generate the first-axis sensing signal in response to a longitudinal resultant of a stress exerted in the piezoelectric material. A compensating circuit is arranged to generate a compensated output signal in response to the compensating analog signal and to-be-compensated analog signal.

[G01L] MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE (weighing G01G) [4]

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Remote monitoring and control of movable barrier status
Patent No. 12125372

Inventor(s): Brent Alan Rauscher (Keller, TX), Leroy G. Krupke (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): GMI Holdings, Inc. (Mount Hope, OH)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17865165 on 07/14/2022 (831 days app to issue)

Abstract: A garage door status monitoring and control system includes a motor operable to move a garage door to alternate garage door positions, an encoder associated with the motor and configured to generate a pulse stream comprising motor signal pulses indicative of movement of the motor, a door control module with a first microprocessor operatively coupled to the encoder via a first path and configured to receive the pulse stream, and a garage door operator having a door controller with a second microprocessor operatively coupled to the encoder via a second path and configured to receive the pulse stream from the encoder independent of the door control module. The first microprocessor is configured to generate a digital door status indicative of one of the alternate garage door positions in response to the pulse stream. The garage door operator provides supervisory control over movement of the motor based upon the pulse stream.

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

Embedded die packaging with integrated ceramic substrate
Patent No. 12125799

Inventor(s): Anindya Poddar (Sunnyvale, CA), Kengo Aoya (Oita, , JP), Mutsumi Masumoto (Oita, , JP), Vivek Kishorechand Arora (San Jose, CA), Woochan Kim (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17517608 on 11/02/2021 (1085 days app to issue)

Abstract: Packaged electronic devices and integrated circuits include a ceramic material or other thermally conductive, electrically insulating substrate with a patterned electrically conductive feature on a first side, and an electrically conductive layer on a second side. The IC further includes a semiconductor die mounted to the substrate, the semiconductor die including an electrically conductive contact structure, and an electronic component, with an electrically insulating lamination structure enclosing the semiconductor die, the frame and the thermal transfer structure. A redistribution layer with a conductive structure is electrically connected to the electrically conductive contact structure.

[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]

Kiosk gift card system and method
Patent No. 12125807

Inventor(s): James Curtis (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18377193 on 10/05/2023 (383 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gift card system and method for purchasing both physical and digital gift cards at a kiosk, both physical and virtual, is disclosed. The system/method includes a gift card distribution kiosk located at a retail establishment or online that provides a user with access to a multitude of different forms of gift cards that may be purchased and printed onto a customizable card with a personalized message. The kiosk includes a kiosk processor interface, a gift card dispenser, a card reader and gift card management server connected to a network. The gift card management server, through the kiosk processor interface, provides vendor options to users to select and pay via the card reader. The kiosk may be used to redeem unused user gift cards for a reduced value user selected gift card, reduced cash value, full value store card, rewards points, bank debit, and/or electronic code user towards online purchases.

Semiconductor structure and method for wafer scale chip package
Patent No. 12125811

Inventor(s): Indumini W. Ranmuthu (Plano, TX), Manoj Kumar Jain (Plano, TX), Tracy Scott Paulsen (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16009377 on 06/15/2018 (2321 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment semiconductor structure includes a metal layer. The semiconductor structure also includes a redistribution layer (RDL) structure including an RDL platform and a plurality of RDL pillars disposed between the RDL platform and the metal layer. Additionally, the semiconductor structure includes an under-bump metal (UBM) layer disposed on the RDL platform and a solder bump disposed on the UBM layer, where the UBM layer, the RDL platform, and the RDL pillars form an electrical connection between the solder bump and the metal layer.

Bonded assembly containing different size opposing bonding pads and methods of forming the same
Patent No. 12125814

Inventor(s): Lin Hou (Leuven, , BE), Masaaki Higashitani (Cupertino, CA), Peter Rabkin (Cupertino, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17667238 on 02/08/2022 (987 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bonded assembly of a primary semiconductor die and a complementary semiconductor die includes first pairs of first primary bonding pads and first complementary bonding pads that are larger in area than the first primary bonding pads, and second pairs of second primary bonding pads and second complementary bonding pads that are smaller in area than the second primary bonding pads.

Depassivating circuitry for sensor batteries
Patent No. 12126056

Inventor(s): Aumen Kwok Lee (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: BEHMKE INNOVATION GROUP LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876169 on 07/28/2022 (817 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a depassivating circuit includes a battery, a resistive load coupled to the battery, and a magnetic field sensor. The magnetic field sensor detects a presence of a magnetic field. The magnetic field sensor depassivates the battery by causing current from the battery to flow through the resistive load, in response to the presence of the magnetic field. The magnetic field sensor detects removal of the magnetic field. The magnetic field sensor ends depassivation of the battery, in response to the removal of the magnetic field.

[H01M] PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY [2]

Dipole antenna arrays
Patent No. 12126087

Inventor(s): Espen Wium (Oslo, , NO), Fredrik Georg Kervel (Hosle, , NO), Reidar Myhr (Oslo, , NO)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17853736 on 06/29/2022 (846 days app to issue)

Abstract: Dipole antenna arrays are disclosed. An example dipole antenna array includes a ground plane having a first serrated edge, and a first dipole antenna, at least a portion of the first dipole antenna disposed parallel to the first serrated edge.

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

Pulse skipping in oscillator-based frequency modulating DC-to-DC converters
Patent No. 12126260

Inventor(s): Narayanan Seetharaman (Freising, , DE), Puneet Sareen (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17514951 on 10/29/2021 (1089 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, a system includes a switching voltage converter including a first field effect transistor (FET) and a second FET, the switching voltage converter configured to receive an input voltage and provide an output voltage. The system also includes a voltage to current converter coupled to the switching voltage converter and an oscillator, the voltage to current converter configured to receive an error voltage of the output voltage and provide an oscillator current to the oscillator. The system includes a comparator coupled to the oscillator and configured to compare the oscillator current to a reference current, where an output of the comparator is configured to skip a pulse of an oscillator output responsive to the oscillator current being less than the reference current.

[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]

Dual-phase constant on-time power converter and control method
Patent No. 12126262

Inventor(s): Bo Yang (Allen, TX), Xiaoyu Xi (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): M3 Technology Inc. (Taipei, , TW)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18530177 on 12/05/2023 (322 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a ramp generator configured to produce a set signal for determining a phase shift between a first phase and a second phase of a power converter, a first phase on-timer configured to produce a first reset signal for determining a turn-on time of a high-side switch of the first phase of the power converter, a second phase on-timer configured to produce a second reset signal for determining a turn-on time of a high-side switch of the second phase of the power converter, and a control logic block configured to generate gate drive signals for the first phase and the second phase of the power converter based on the set signal, the first reset signal and the second reset signal.

Hybrid actuation devices including artificial muscle stacks
Patent No. 12126279

Inventor(s): Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, 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: 17540391 on 12/02/2021 (1055 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid actuation device that includes a first plate coupled to a second plate, a shape memory alloy wire coupled to the first plate, and an artificial muscle stack positioned between the first plate and the second plate. The artificial muscle stack includes a plurality of artificial muscles stacked in a vertical arrangement. Each artificial muscle includes a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, a first electrode and a second electrode each disposed in the electrode region of the housing and a dielectric fluid disposed within the housing. The expandable fluid region of the housing is positioned apart from a perimeter of the first plate and the second plate.

[H02N] ELECTRIC MACHINES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Methods and apparatus for voltage buffering
Patent No. 12126309

Inventor(s): Siraj Akhtar (Richardson, TX), Swaminathan Sankaran (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16557571 on 08/30/2019 (1880 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example apparatus, a first transistor has a base terminal, a first current terminal and a second current terminal. The base terminal is coupled to an input voltage node. A second transistor has a control terminal, a third current terminal and a fourth current terminal. The third current terminal is coupled to the second current terminal. The fourth current terminal is coupled to a first resistor. A second resistor is coupled to the control terminal. An inductor is coupled between the first resistor and a ground terminal.

[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)

Gate drive apparatus and control method
Patent No. 12126336

Inventor(s): Chiao-Shun Chuang (Kaohsiung, , TW), Ke-Horng Chen (Hsinchu, , TW), Ta-Chuan Kuo (New Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18530158 on 12/05/2023 (322 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a capacitive device configured to provide bias power for a high-side switch, a gate drive path having variable resistance connected between the capacitive device and a gate of the high-side switch, wherein the gate drive path having variable resistance is of a first resistance value in response to a turn-on of the high-side switch, and the gate drive path having variable resistance is of a second resistance value in response to a turn-off of the high-side switch, and wherein the second resistance value is greater than the first resistance value, and a control switch connected between the gate of the high-side switch and ground.

[H03K] PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D 3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M) [4]

Magnetically-activated solid state switches
Patent No. 12126340

Inventor(s): Matthew Hein (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Allegro MicroSystems, LLC (Manchester, NH)
Law Firm: DALY, CROWLEY, MOFFORD DURKEE, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18174957 on 02/27/2023 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: Magnetically-activated solid state switches can include a magnetic field sensor, control circuitry configured to implement a comparison or ON/OFF logic, an output switch, a rectifier, power regulator, and charge pump, as shown. A magnetically-activated solid state switch can include a sensor bias or driver block. An analog front end may be present to amplify and/or condition the output signals produced by magnetic field sensor. Terminals can accommodate a unidirectional DC input signal or a bidirectional or AC input signal. In the ON state, the solid state output switch is configured by the control circuitry to turn OFF at a periodic rate to maintain sufficient charge to allow the solid state magnetic field sensor to sense a magnetic field. In the OFF state, the low-power regulator can periodically turn on and provide power to the magnetic field sensor for taking a magnetic field measurement.

Adjustable phase locked loop
Patent No. 12126348

Inventor(s): Florian Neveu (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18448319 on 08/11/2023 (438 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a phase locked loop (PLL) includes a compensation circuit, a transconductance circuit, and an oscillator. The compensation circuit includes a capacitor circuit and a resistive element having a resistance responsive to a center frequency of the PLL’’s bandwidth. The transconductance circuit includes a current source and an error amplifier. The current source generates a current responsive to the center frequency. The error amplifier has a transconductance responsive to the center frequency, and receives a signal responsive to the resistance and a difference between an input clock signal and a feedback signal. The oscillator input is coupled to the error amplifier output. The oscillator provides a signal at its output for generating the feedback signal.

[H03L] AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES (of dynamo-electric generators H02P) [3]

Method and system for compressing application data for operations on multi-core systems
Patent No. 12126367

Inventor(s): Tianfang Liu (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): Cornami, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Nixon Peabody LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18178237 on 03/03/2023 (599 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method to compress application control data, such as weights for a layer of a convolutional neural network, is disclosed. A multi-core system for executing at least one layer of the convolutional neural network includes a storage device storing a compressed weight matrix of a set of weights of the at least one layer of the convolutional network and a decompression matrix. The compressed weight matrix is formed by matrix factorization and quantization of a floating point value of each weight to a floating point format. A decompression module is operable to obtain an approximation of the weight values by decompressing the compressed weight matrix through the decompression matrix. A plurality of cores executes the at least one layer of the convolutional neural network with the approximation of weight values to produce an inference output.

[H03M] CODING, DECODING OR CODE CONVERSION, IN GENERAL (using fluidic means F15C 4/00; optical analogue/digital converters G02F 7/00; coding, decoding or code conversion, specially adapted for particular applications, see the relevant subclasses, e.g. G01D, G01R, G06F, G06T, G09G, G10L, G11B, G11C, H04B, H04L, H04M, H04N; ciphering or deciphering for cryptography or other purposes involving the need for secrecy G09C) [4]

Method and apparatus to enable segmented CSI reporting in wireless communication systems
Patent No. 12126406

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18477477 on 09/28/2023 (390 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs) and CSI feedback configuration information, estimating a channel based on the received CSI-RSs, determining, based on the estimated channel and the CSI feedback configuration information, a number of non-zero coefficients (K[subscript]l[/subscript][superscript]NZ[/superscript]) for each layer (l) of a total number of layers, wherein 1 is a rank value, and a sum of the K[subscript]l[/subscript][superscript]NZ [/superscript]across each of the layers as a total number of non-zero coefficients (K[superscript]NZ[/superscript]), where K[superscript]NZ[/superscript]=[subscript]l=1[/subscript][superscript][/superscript]K[subscript]l[/subscript][superscript]NZ[/superscript]. The method further comprises transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback including the K[superscript]NZ [/superscript]value over an uplink (UL) channel.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

4Tx codebook enhancement in LTE
Patent No. 12126411

Inventor(s): Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Ralf Bendlin (Cedar Park, TX), Runhua Chen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18100466 on 01/23/2023 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: Channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is disclosed. A precoding matrix is generated for multi-antenna transmission based on precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback, wherein the PMI indicates a choice of precoding matrix derived from a matrix multiplication of two matrices from a first codebook and a second codebook. In one embodiment, the first codebook comprises at least a first precoding matrix constructed with a first group of adjacent Discrete-Fourier-Transform (DFT) vectors. In another embodiment, the first codebook comprises at least a second precoding matrix constructed with a second group of uniformly distributed non-adjacent DFT vectors. In yet another embodiment, the first codebook comprises at least a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix, where said first precoding matrix is constructed with a first group of adjacent DFT vectors, and said second precoding matrix is constructed with a second group of uniformly distributed non-adjacent DFT vectors.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Packet storage based on packet properties
Patent No. 12126549

Inventor(s): Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, , IN), Sriramakrishnan Govindarajan (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18357710 on 07/24/2023 (456 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, a system includes a network port that receives a packet; a first memory; a second memory; and a packet analyzer coupled to the network port. The packet analyzer operates to divide the packet into multiple fragments, analyze each of the multiple fragments to determine whether the corresponding fragment has a first priority level or a second, lower, priority level, determine whether to store each of the multiple fragments in the first memory or the second memory based on the priority level determined for that fragment, store each fragment determined to have the first priority level in the first memory, and store each fragment determined to have the second priority level in the second memory. The network port, packet analyzer and the first memory, which may be a cache memory, may be embodied on a chip, and the second memory may be external to the chip.

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

Homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment, system and methods
Patent No. 12126601

Inventor(s): Harsh Kupwade-Patil (Plano, TX), Ravi Seshadri (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NANTHEALTH, INC. (Culver City, CA)
Law Firm: STETINA BRUNDA GARRED BRUCKER (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18441961 on 02/14/2024 (251 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment is provided and includes receiving digital data over the healthcare network at a data custodian server in a plurality of formats from various data sources, encrypting the data according to a homomorphic encryption scheme, receiving a query at the data custodian server from a data consumer device concerning a portion of the encrypted data, initiating a secure homomorphic work session between the data custodian server and the data consumer device, generating a homomorphic work space associated with the homomorphic work session, compiling, by the data custodian server, a results set satisfying the query, loading the results set into the homomorphic work space, and building an application programming interface (API) compatible with the results set, the API facilitating encrypted analysis on the results set in the homomorphic work space.

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

Aggregated authorization token
Patent No. 12126623

Inventor(s): Abhishek Gupta (Irving, TX), Prashant Sharma (Irving, TX), Rasabihari Rath (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Citibank, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18651556 on 04/30/2024 (175 days app to issue)

Abstract: An application programming interface (API) call is received to obtain an access data object that includes a permission of an application provider to access a resource of an entity. A previous permission to access a second resource of the entity is identified. As a result of receiving the API call, an access data object is generated to include the permission and the previous permission.

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

Systems, methods, and devices for implementing security operations in a security platform
Patent No. 12126630

Inventor(s): Greg Wendt (Dallas, TX), Kevin Agatone (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PATHLOCK INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Morris, Manning Martin, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17073893 on 10/19/2020 (1464 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices implement security operations in security platforms implemented across web servers and application servers. Systems include a first server including one or more processors configured to identify one or more patterns of malicious activity based, at least in part, on event information associated with a request and at least one of a plurality of custom parameters, and a second server including one or more processors configured to host an application accessed by the client device, wherein the first server is coupled between the client device and the second server and is configured to handle requests between the client device and the second server. Systems also include a database system configured to store application data associated with the application and the client device.

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

Methods and apparatus to identify and report cloud-based security vulnerabilities
Patent No. 12126644

Inventor(s): Cedric Cochin (Hillsboro, OR), Sriranga Seetharamaiah (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Skyhigh Security LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Byrne Poh LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17745743 on 05/16/2022 (890 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify and report cloud-based security vulnerabilities. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and processor circuitry. The example processor circuitry is to execute the instructions to assess a first security vulnerability associated with an application programming interface (API) of a cloud compute network, the first security vulnerability corresponding to at least one call to the API that deviates from a baseline report, the baseline report based on at least one communication in the cloud compute network, and assess a second security vulnerability associated with identity and access management in the cloud compute network based on an entity in the cloud compute network permitted to access a service provided by the cloud compute network, the second security vulnerability corresponding to an unauthorized request to access at least one of a device of the cloud compute network or the service.

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

Systems, methods, and devices for logging activity of a security platform
Patent No. 12126652

Inventor(s): Chris Heller (Dallas, TX), Greg Wendt (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PATHLOCK INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Morris, Manning Martin, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16719795 on 12/18/2019 (1770 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices log activity associated with security platforms implemented across web servers and application server. Systems include a first server including one or more processors configured to generate a plurality of log files based on requests received from a client device, where each log file is generated based, at least in part, on event information associated with a request and at least one of a plurality of custom parameters. Systems further include a second server comprising one or more processors configured to host an application accessed by the client device, where the first server is coupled between the client device and the second server and is configured to handle requests between the client device and the second server. Systems also include a database system configured to store application data associated with the application and the client device.

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

System and method to standardize and improve implementation efficiency of user interface content
Patent No. 12126670

Inventor(s): Dana Ballinger (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Excentus Corporation (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: RegitzMauck PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18310030 on 05/01/2023 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method to improve implementation efficiency of user interface content by using standard content attributes used across all platforms and devices to implement a lowest common denominator programming system. Standardized content attributes are used to produce a universal content framework that is implemented identically across various devices and platforms, resulting in a consistent and standardized user experience. The invention allows programming functionality to be universally applied and usable with any device and platform so that significant computer programming and updating inefficiencies are eliminated.

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

Methods and apparatus to identify main page views
Patent No. 12126697

Inventor(s): Sanjeev Kumar Viswambharan (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876276 on 07/28/2022 (817 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify main page views. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: access a log of requests from a proxy, the log of requests including main page requests and embedded page requests, the log of requests including timestamps corresponding to the main page requests and the embedded page requests, identify, based on consecutive ones of the timestamps occurring within a time interval, at least one of the main page requests associated with the time interval, and credit the at least one of the main page requests as a main page view.

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

System and method for mitigating international revenue share fraud
Patent No. 12126712

Inventor(s): Teddy Chu (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA), Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18323164 on 05/24/2023 (517 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a call; selecting a next carrier to handoff the call; generating a call data record (CDR) for the handoff to the next carrier; encrypting the CDR using a call encryption key, thereby creating an encrypted CDR; encrypting the encrypted CDR using a committee encryption key, thereby creating a double encrypted CDR; recording the double encrypted CDR to a blockchain; and sending the call encryption key to the next carrier. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Emergency notifications during scheduled silent modes on mobile phones
Patent No. 12126753

Inventor(s): Lawrence R. Youst (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18141419 on 04/29/2023 (542 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile phone configured to operate in a normal notification mode and an emergency notification mode. The mobile phone includes a memory adapted to maintain profiles relating to user contacts, an output device operable to emit audible notifications responsive to incoming communications, at least one input device operable to receive a user selection of a silent notification mode of the device and a user selection of a silent mode disabled setting associated with the profiles and a processor coupled to the memory, the output device and the at least one input device. When the device is in the silent notification mode, audible notifications are not emitted from the output device responsive to incoming communications from the user contacts having profiles without the silent mode disabled and audible notifications are emitted from the output device responsive to incoming communications from the user contacts having profiles with the silent mode disabled.

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

System and method for enabling trusted caller identity and spoofed call prevention
Patent No. 12126763

Inventor(s): Fletcher Perry Hamilton (Murphy, TX), Krishna Kanth Korlepara (Frisco, TX), Muhammad Shaiq (Wylie, TX), Ronald Christopher Gomez (San Antonio, TX)
Assignee(s): Sevis Systems, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17739498 on 05/09/2022 (897 days app to issue)

Abstract: A call identification system for verifying telephone calls, the system including a processor in communication with a calling device and a user device. The processor transmits a whitelist to the user device. The whitelist comprises telephone numbers having a label. The processor receives an identification attribute associated a call to the user device. The call is delayed until the calling device receives an acknowledgment from the user device. The processor compares the calling telephone number with each telephone number and generates a notification in response to a match. The processor transmits the notification to the user device, causing the user device to change the label associated with the calling telephone number. The processor receives an acknowledgment from the user device of the label changing and transmits the acknowledgment to the calling device, causing the calling device to launch the call to the user device.

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

Platform for call transcription and summarization using generative artificial intelligence
Patent No. 12126769

Inventor(s): Ashish Koul (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Galvin Patent Law LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18530231 on 12/06/2023 (321 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for call transcription and summarization using generative artificial intelligence. The system combines Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology to transcribe customer-call center agent conversations and a Generative AI (GAI) model for summarization. It starts by processing the audio conversation, converting spoken words into text using ASR. Then, the GAI model is employed to generate a coherent, concise summary of the transcribed conversation. The GAI model understands context, key points, and intent, allowing it to create summaries that capture essential information. It can handle diverse conversations, adapt to different languages, and handle various accents and speech patterns. The resulting summaries help call center agents review and respond to customer inquiries more efficiently, enhancing customer service quality and decision-making.

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

Detection of object removal and replacement from a shelf
Patent No. 12126940

Inventor(s): Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, TX), Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, TX), Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17336839 on 06/02/2021 (1238 days app to issue)

Abstract: An image sensor is positioned such that a field-of-view of the image sensor encompasses at least a portion of a structure configured to store items. The image sensor generates angled-view images of the items stored on the structure. A tracking subsystem determines that a person has interacted with the structure and receives image frames of the angled-view images. The tracking subsystem determines that the person interacted with a first item stored on the structure. A first image is identified associated with a first time before the person interacted with the first item, and a second image is identified associated with a second time after the person interacted with the first item. If it is determined, based on a comparison of the first and second images, that the item was removed from the structure, the first item is assigned to the person.

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

Unified enterprise management of wireless devices in a controlled environment
Patent No. 12127000

Inventor(s): Stephen L. Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18143875 on 05/05/2023 (536 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireless device enterprise management system and a method for operating the management system in a controlled environment is disclosed. The enterprise management system includes implementing a container-based file system on wireless devices within the controlled environment. Enterprise management system manages and controls the organization of files into one or more containers on each wireless device. Each container is associated with one or more execution rules that allow or restrict execution of files that are located in the container.

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

Providing configuration updates to wireless telecommunication networks
Patent No. 12127016

Inventor(s): Anand Injeti (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18326333 on 05/31/2023 (510 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system obtains an indication of a configuration update to perform on a component of a network and an indication of the component associated with the network. The configuration update is performed in multiple stages, including a pre-check stage, a configuration stage, and a verification stage. In the pre-check stage, the system obtains a parameter and an expected value of the parameter associated with the component. The system determines whether the component satisfies the expected value of the parameter by obtaining a value of the parameter associated with the component and comparing the obtained value to the expected value. Upon determining that the component satisfies the expected value of the parameter, the system performs the configuration stage. Upon performing the configuration update, the system performs the verification stage by testing whether the component is functioning. Upon determining that the component is functioning, the system provides the configuration update to UEs.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for CIoT device data transfer
Patent No. 12127037

Inventor(s): Jennifer Liu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Nokia of America Corporation (Murray Hill, NJ)
Law Firm: LOZA LOZA, LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17235801 on 04/20/2021 (1281 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-access stratum (NAS) control protocol includes procedures for control plane cellular internet of things (CP-CIOT) service requests and attach requests. A user equipment (UE) in idle mode may transmit an NAS service request message including user data to a mobility management entity (MME) over the control plane. The MME extracts the user data from the NAS service request message and determines a type of the user data. The MME may forward non-IP data to a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) and forward IP data to a packet gateway.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and system for end device network slice selection
Patent No. 12127061

Inventor(s): Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17545018 on 12/08/2021 (1049 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice selection service is provided. The service may include using route selection policies that includes radio frequency criteria for selection of a network slice. The service may include establishing an application session based on the route selection policies. The service may further include determining that a radio frequency of the network slice cannot be sustained. The service may include executing an application session release procedure and an application session establishment procedure. The procedures may include using cause data and context data pertaining to the initial application session to re-establish the application session via a different network slice and a different radio frequency based on the route selection policies.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Emergency services handling
Patent No. 12127093

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Trop Pruner Hu, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17130034 on 12/22/2020 (1400 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a user equipment (UE) is capable of dual registration with a first core network and a second core network. The UE receives a first indication during a first registration of the UE via a first access network with the first core network, determines based on the first indication that emergency services are not supported by the first core network, attempts a second registration via a second access network with the second core network, detects an emergency indication, and initiates a call in response to the emergency indication via a second access network different from the first access network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for wireless device identification and device type based diagnostics and optimization
Patent No. 12127102

Inventor(s): Carlos Garcia Hernandez (Campbell, CA), Javier Monteagudo (Mountain View, CA), Manikanden Balakrishnan (Foster City, CA), Sungho Yun (San Jose, CA), Wooyul Lee (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee(s): DZS Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: North Weber Baugh (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17739084 on 05/07/2022 (899 days app to issue)

Abstract: A software application executing on a server and communicating with an agent in a wireless access point predicts a type of a computing device wirelessly connected via a radio frequency link to the wireless access point. The application receives an indication of a model of the computing device from the wireless access point, and further receives one or more characteristics of the computing device from the wireless access point. The application then predicts the type of the computing device associated with the one or more of the indication of the model, and characteristics, of the computing device.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Base station handling of transitioning wireless device to inactive state
Patent No. 12127127

Inventor(s): Jayshree Bharatia (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Ofinno, LLC (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18230298 on 08/04/2023 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method can include transmitting, by a base station to a wireless device, a radio resource control (RRC) message to transition the wireless device from an RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state. The RRC message can indicate a time period in which the wireless device is reachable by paging. The RRC message can be configured to trigger the wireless device to transition from the RRC connected state to the RRC inactive state while remaining in a connection management (CM) connected state. The RRC message can also trigger the wireless device to monitor, in the RRC inactive state, to receive a paging message during the time period after the transitioning. The RRC message can further trigger the wireless device to, in response to an expiration of the time period, stop the monitoring to receive the paging message.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods, systems, and non-transitory mediums for augmented fine time measurement
Patent No. 12127157

Inventor(s): Hansi Liu (New Brunswick, NJ), Hongsheng Lu (San Jose, CA), Rui Guo (San Jose, CA), Takayuki Shimizu (Santa Clara, 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: 17568078 on 01/04/2022 (1022 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for measuring a distance is provided. The method includes receiving a fine time measurement (FTM) message, extracting channel state information (CSI) from the FTM message, determining with a channel condition classifier a probability that the FTM message is multi-path based on the corresponding CSI, and discarding the FTM message in response to the probability that the FTM message is multi-path is above a threshold level of probability.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for indicating wireless channel status
Patent No. 12127180

Inventor(s): Bin Liu (San Diego, CA), Pengfei Xia (San Diego, CA), Young Hoon Kwon (Laguna Niguel, CA)
Assignee(s): FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18355543 on 07/20/2023 (460 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment includes receiving a first frame on a first channel associated with a first beam identified during a beam failure recovery procedure, and determining that an assumed quasi-co-located relationship exists between the first channel and the first beam, and based thereon, decoding the first frame in accordance with a first reference signal on the first channel and using a first spatial domain receive filter that was used to decode the first beam.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Different configurations for message content and transmission in a random access procedure
Patent No. 12127246

Inventor(s): Bilal Sadiq (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Holland Hart / Qualcomm (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18332832 on 06/12/2023 (498 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some wireless systems, a base station may configure a user equipment (UE) for random access (RACH) message transmission in dedicated RACH resources during, for example, a handover process. The contention-free random access (CFRA) resources may allow the UE to transmit RACH messages at a higher transmission power than contention-based random access (CBRA) resources. The base station may indicate, to the UE, RACH transmission parameters for CFRA that are different than parameters for CBRA. These parameters may include configuration information, frequency division multiplexing information, RACH retransmission parameters, target received power, response window length, etc. The UE may use the indicated RACH transmission parameters to transmit a RACH message to the base station. The base station may respond with a RACH response message, and the base station and UE may synchronize upon completion of the RACH procedure.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

PUSCH resource selection in 2-step random access
Patent No. 12127271

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Weisberg I.P. Law, P.A. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17629950 on 07/13/2020 (1562 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for PUSCH resource selection in 2-step random access (RA). In one embodiment, a wireless device is configured to receive a two-step RA configuration having: a first resource allocation for a PUSCH transmission of a first message, msgA, of the two-step RA procedure, the first resource allocation for the PUSCH transmission of the msgA being associated with a first set of preambles; and a second resource allocation for the PUSCH transmission of the msgA associated with a second set of preambles; select one of the first and second resource allocation and the associated one of the first and second set of preambles based on the two-step RA configuration and a payload size of the PUSCH transmission of the msgA; and transmit the PUSCH transmission of the msgA using the selected one of the first and second resource allocation.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System, method, and computer-readable medium for schedule-based telecommunication policies
Patent No. 12127273

Inventor(s): Andrew Silver (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TANGO NETWORKS, INC. (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18295810 on 04/04/2023 (567 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for enforcing user telecommunication privileges on a per-schedule basis are provided. Enterprise members may have a schedule associated therewith that defines scheduled locations of the users. Telecommunication service privileges may be coordinated with the users’’ schedules such that communication services are disabled at particular times based on the users’’ schedules. In other implementations, particular users may have telecommunication services disabled by an administrator in the event of a catastrophe or emergency. By this mechanism, users that are not proximate to a particular catastrophe or emergency area according to the users’’ schedule may have services disabled while other users that are located more proximate to the emergency may have their telecommunication services enabled. In this manner, the demand on a cellular network may be alleviated thereby increasing the likelihood that users directly impacted by the emergency may receive and place calls or access data services.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Three-dimensional memory device containing self-aligned isolation strips and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 12127406

Inventor(s): Takaaki Iwai (Yokkaichi, , JP), Takashi Inomata (Yokkaichi, , JP), Takayuki Maekura (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17577533 on 01/18/2022 (1008 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and composite layers. Each of the composite layers includes a plurality of electrically conductive word line strips laterally extending along a first horizontal direction and a plurality of dielectric isolation strips laterally extending along the first horizontal direction and interlaced with the plurality of electrically conductive word line strips. Rows of memory openings are arranged along the first horizontal direction. Each row of memory openings vertically extends through each insulating layer within the alternating stack and one electrically conductive strip for each of the composite layers. Rows of memory opening fill structures are located within the rows of memory openings. Each of the memory opening fill structures includes a respective vertical stack of memory elements and a respective vertical semiconductor channel.

Memory device including a ferroelectric semiconductor channel and methods of forming the same
Patent No. 12127410

Inventor(s): Masaaki Higashitani (Cupertino, CA), Peter Rabkin (Cupertino, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17373973 on 07/13/2021 (1197 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device includes a ferroelectric semiconductor channel, a source region contacting a first portion of the ferroelectric semiconductor channel, a drain region located above the source region and contacting a second portion of the ferroelectric semiconductor channel located above the first portion, a word line, and a gate dielectric located between the word line and the ferroelectric semiconductor channel.

[H10B] ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES

Determining redundant radios
Patent No. RE050187 (Reissue)

Inventor(s): Allaukik Abhishek (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17710937 on 03/31/2022 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: An algorithm for determining redundant radios in APs is disclosed. The algorithm first performs a coverage peak flattening algorithm to predict an impact to the total coverage area if a radio in a selected AP does not transmit signals in a frequency band. If the impact to the total coverage area is acceptable, the algorithm then performs a multi-point check algorithm to determine whether the radio in the selected AP is redundant in the frequency band. After determining that the radio in the selected AP is redundant in the frequency band, the algorithm transforms the redundant radio into various services based on the network deployment and user preference. Patent Class: N/A

DESIGN PATENTS

Vehicle seat with a display screen
Patent No. D1047554

Inventor(s): Herman Francisco Delos Santos (Duncanville, TX)
Assignee(s): Zoox, Inc. (Foster City, CA)
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29924377 on 01/18/2024 (278 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Food preparation tool
Patent No. D1047622

Inventor(s): Cheza Rask (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): CSI Ventures LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Lieberman Brandsdorfer, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29904059 on 09/29/2023 (389 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Communion box
Patent No. D1047683

Inventor(s): Rosetta Stewart-Day (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Dunlap Bennett Ludwig, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29867025 on 10/06/2022 (747 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle chassis
Patent No. D1047786

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Randy Perez (McKinney, TX), Terry Soward (Van Alstyne, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29833022 on 03/31/2022 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle mirror
Patent No. D1047837

Inventor(s): Dimitri Trinidad Medina (Plano, TX), Jon Forrest Acton (Fort Worth, TX), Troy Robin McCuller (Argyle, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29752944 on 09/29/2020 (1484 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle wheel
Patent No. D1047854

Inventor(s): Alberto Echazabal (Prosper, TX), Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29886017 on 03/03/2023 (599 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle wheel
Patent No. D1047856

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Smart chip housing
Patent No. D1048025

Inventor(s): Stephen William O’’Brien (Fort Worth, TX), Todd Michael Coleman (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): AC AVALANCHE, LLC (Valley View, OH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29733002 on 04/29/2020 (1637 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Dental rinse nozzle
Patent No. D1048380

Inventor(s): Xiaolin Fang (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): Touchstone Ego LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29935203 on 03/29/2024 (207 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Headlamp
Patent No. D1048530

Inventor(s): Jon Forrest Acton (Fort Worth, TX), Scott M. Conway (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29753491 on 09/30/2020 (1483 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Pet toy
Patent No. D1048596

Inventor(s): Caleb Razo (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: QuickPatents (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29851646 on 08/30/2022 (784 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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