Beyond Bank of America, other organizations with notable patents granted this week include:

Bank of America’s securing interactive response systems from infiltration of artificial intelligence programs
Capital One Services’ cybersecurity risk assessment and remediation tool
Caterpillar’s system and method for reducing cargo damage of loading machine
Edison Innovations’ hybrid wireless power transmitting system and method therefor
Fevertags’ livestock health monitoring system having temperature monitoring positioned through a rotational device and methods of use
Ford’s battery capacity estimation and control
Freddy Technologies’ artificial intelligence machine learning system for classifying images and producing a predetermined visual output
JPMorgan Chase’s method and system of computer-automated detection of personally identifiable data in electronic documents
NCR Voyix’s retail checkout with multi-signal bulk item identification
On the Way’s systems and methods for linking devices and protecting data
Toyota Connected North America’s systems and methods for generating sound tokens
USAA’s correspondence between digital assets and physical objects
Weber Orthopedic’s elbow brace with twist adjustment

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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 1/27/26 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

121 patents granted
Ranked No. 11 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 7
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 13
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 2
E: Fixed Constructions 6
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 1
G: Physics 35
H: Electricity 44

DESIGN: 13

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 12
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 8
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 5
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, VA) 5
Traxxas L.P. (McKinney) 5
7-Eleven Inc. (Irving) 3
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 3
Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson) 3
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 3

UNASSIGNED 8

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 4
Madhukar Budagavi (Plano) 4
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 4
Caleb Hix (McKinney) 3
Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving) 3
Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine) 3
Boon Loong Ng (Plano) 2
Crystal Maung (Dallas) 2
Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell) 2
Jory Sprowl (Howe) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Livestock health monitoring system having temperature monitoring positioned through a rotational device and methods of use
Patent No. 12532868

Inventor(s): Alvin Cecil Fults (Amarillo, TX), Richard Arelin Crider, Jr. (Dripping Springs, TX)
Assignee(s): FEVERTAGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18127852 on 03/29/2023 (1035 days app to issue)

Abstract: An animal wellness notification system includes an attachment body configured to securely engage with an ear of the animal; an elongated temperature probe secured to the attachment body and configured to extend within the ear of the animal; a housing secured to the attachment body; a computer disposed within the housing and operably associated with the temperature probe; and a notification device in data communication with the computer, the notification device being configured to provide notice if a temperature of the animal goes beyond a determined threshold.

[A01K] ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

ENT ablation instrument with electrode loop
Patent No. 12533175

Inventor(s): Marc Dean (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Acclarent, Inc. (Irvine, CA), Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, , IL)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18397599 on 12/27/2023 (762 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a shaft assembly and an electrode assembly at a distal end of the shaft assembly. The electrode assembly includes a first conductive segment extending along a first angular range at the distal end of the shaft assembly. The first conductive segment is operable to apply RF energy to tissue at a first polarity. The electrode assembly further includes a second conductive segment angularly spaced apart from the first conductive segment. The second conductive segment extends along a second angular range at the distal end of the shaft assembly. The second conductive segment is operable to apply RF energy to tissue at a second polarity such that the first and second conductive segments are operable to apply bipolar RF energy to tissue.

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

Online recognition of bimanual coordination to provide context for movement data in bimanual teleoperated robots
Patent No. 12533200

Inventor(s): Jacob R. Boehm (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18348329 on 07/06/2023 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for online recognition of bimanual or bipedal coordination modes directed to completing a task using a robot. Such a method includes the steps of determining an onset of bimanual or bipedal motion of a subject operating the robot, and, in response, receiving trajectory data of left and right hands, or left and right feet, of the subject. The method also includes the step(s) of computing, based on the trajectory data, geometric descriptors of the segment, which include a direction metric and a symmetry metric. The method further includes the step(s) classifying, based on the direction and symmetry metrics, the types of direction and symmetry for the segment. The method also includes at least one of the steps of: generating task performance feedback, and controlling the robot, based on the types of direction and symmetry.

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

Elbow brace with twist adjustment
Patent No. 12533252

Inventor(s): Janakiram Srinivasa Rao Chetlapalli (Frisco, TX), Jim Buckhout (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Weber Orthopedic, L.P. (DFW Airport, TX)
Law Firm: One LLP (Local + 147 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17865247 on 07/14/2022 (1293 days app to issue)

Abstract: An orthopedic elbow brace having a forearm strut hinged to an upper arm strut, with two cuffs that are attached and slidable to the forearm strut, and a third cuff attached to the upper arm strut. First and second rotatable spools are positioned at the strut pivot. A lace, cable or wire interconnects the forearm and/or upper arm struts to the first spool, and another lace, cable or wire interconnects the forearm and/or upper arm struts to the second spool. Rotating the first and second spools tensions the laces, cables or wires to set an angular position between the forearm and upper arm struts corresponding to range of motion (ROM) limits for the brace. Attachment straps further secure the cuffs and the brace to the wearer”s arm.

[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]

Administration of berberine metabolites
Patent No. 12533346

Inventor(s): Shawn Wells (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): AXCESS GLOBAL SCIENCES, LLC (Washington, UT)
Law Firm: Workman Nydegger (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17519127 on 11/04/2021 (1545 days app to issue)

Abstract: In various implementations, berberine metabolites, such as dihydroberberine and/or tetrahydroberberine, may be administered to manage blood glucose levels, increase ketone levels (e.g., blood concentration of ketones), and/or for therapeutic purposes in humans. The administration of a pharmaceutically effective amount of berberine metabolites, such as dihydroberberine, may reduce fasting blood glucose levels, improve glucose tolerance, and/or improve blood ketone response. In some implementations, berberine metabolites may be administered with one or more other compounds.

[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)

Neuromodulation system and method for transitioning between programming modes
Patent No. 12533516

Inventor(s): Bradley L. Hershey (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation (Valencia, CA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17712988 on 04/04/2022 (1394 days app to issue)

Abstract: An external control device, neuromodulation system, and method of providing therapy to a patient using an implantable neuromodulator implanted within the patient. Electrical modulation energy is delivered from the neuromodulator to the patient in accordance with the pre-existing modulation program when in one of the super-threshold delivery mode and the sub-threshold delivery mode. Operation of the neuromodulator is switched to the other of the super-threshold delivery mode and the sub-threshold delivery mode. A new modulation program may be derived from a pre-existing modulation program, and the neuromodulator may deliver the electrical modulation energy to the patient in accordance with the pre-existing modulation program during the other of the super-threshold delivery mode and the sub-threshold delivery mode.

[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]

Handgun simulation assembly with mating cradle for virtual reality controller
Patent No. 12533577

Inventor(s): Brian Phillips (Neptune Beach, FL), David Spencer Clark (Saratoga Springs, UT), Mann Howe Aaron Lee (London, , GB)
Assignee(s): AceXR, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18496133 on 10/27/2023 (823 days app to issue)

Abstract: A handgun simulation assembly that mates a virtual reality (VR) controller having a trigger finger button with a handgun grip and trigger in order to better simulate the feel of a typical handgun for a VR environment. The handgun simulation assembly includes a handgun body with a mating cradle that is designed to receive and hold a VR controller. The mating cradle has an engaged position where the VR controller is affixed to the handgun body and an unengaged position where the VR controller is released. When the mating cradle is in the engaged position, the VR controller can be oriented such that the trigger finger button is positioned downward, and the control pad is positioned rearward and facing the user. The mating cradle allows various subassemblies to access the buttons on the VR controller to provide a more realistic handgun experience when in a VR environment.

[A63F] CARD, BOARD OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [5]

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

Portable pressure swing adsorption system and method for fuel gas conditioning
Patent No. 12533626

Inventor(s): Gerald Bowen Gump (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Coldstream Energy IP, LLC (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Frederic Dorwart, Lawyers PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18180768 on 03/08/2023 (1056 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable pressure swing adsorption system and method for fuel gas conditioning. A fuel gas conditioning system includes a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system fluidly coupled to a compressed rich gas stream, the PSA system including a plurality of adsorbent beds and configured to condition the compressed rich natural gas stream and produce therefrom a high-quality fuel gas and gaseous separated heavier hydrocarbons, a product end of the adsorbent beds fluidly coupled to a fuel gas line, and a feed end of the adsorbent beds configured to be fluidly coupled to the compressed rich natural gas stream or a raw natural gas stream, wherein the produced gaseous separated heavier hydrocarbons are desorbed at at least 50 psia and recirculated into the rich natural gas stream or the raw natural gas stream without post-desorption compression.

[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]

High strength steel tube reinforcement of aluminum battery case
Patent No. 12533938

Inventor(s): Kaitlyn A. Cherniuk (Ypsilanti, MI), Ryan C. Harris (Saline, MI), Todd Muck (Fowlerville, MI), Weiling Wang (Livonia, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18311078 on 05/02/2023 (1001 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided securing a battery pack to a vehicle. Embodiments can comprise an internal cross member secured to a first side of the vehicle”s chassis. A cooling plate can be placed on one side of the internal cross member opposite to the first side of the vehicle”s chassis where the internal cross member is secured. A hat-shaped section can extend at least partially across a width of the vehicle and secured to a second side of the vehicle”s chassis. A structural reinforcement member can partially surround a battery pack of the vehicle.

[B60K] ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES [2006.01]

Battery capacity estimation and control
Patent No. 12533990

Inventor(s): Arsham Shahlari (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, MI)
Law Firm: Brooks Kushman P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18630575 on 04/09/2024 (658 days app to issue)

Abstract: An automotive power system alters a maximum discharge power of a traction battery according to an estimated capacity of the traction battery that depends on a weight parameter having a value that changes according to a charge experienced by the traction battery during periods when a switch connects the traction battery with an electric machine.

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

Systems and methods for generating sound tokens
Patent No. 12534016

Inventor(s): Charan S. Lota (Frisco, TX), David Tsai (Irvine, CA), Will Hargis (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA CONNECTED NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18065317 on 12/13/2022 (1141 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating sound tokens, and methods for operating a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a sound token includes recording a sound of an object, generating a sound profile of the object, and storing the sound profile as a non-fungible token on a blockchain.

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

Transport dangerous situation consensus
Patent No. 12534072

Inventor(s): Jay Bartholomew (McKinney, TX), Lucas Smith (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18416573 on 01/18/2024 (740 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving data, by a transport, from a device in proximity to the transport, the data comprises one or more of a speed, a direction, and a distance of the device from the transport, determining, by the transport, a dangerous situation based on the data, obtaining consensus, by the transport, to validate the dangerous situation from one or more of: one or more other devices proximate to the transport, and one or more other transports proximate to the transport, and notifying the device, by the transport, based on the consensus, the notification comprises the dangerous situation.

[B60W] CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT [2006.01]

Methods and systems and non-transitory computers for monitoring driving behavior of a vehicle
Patent No. 12534096

Inventor(s): Daniel Holman (Allen, TX), Danny Bargas (Coppell, TX), Jennifer Lerman (Dallas, TX), Olarinre Salako (Little Elm, TX), Sara Collins (Plano, TX), Shravanthi Denthumdas (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Connected North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17893833 on 08/23/2022 (1253 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for monitoring driving behavior of a vehicle includes obtaining first information including values related to driving operations of a vehicle based on sensors and obtaining a geographical location or a vehicle type of the vehicle. The method also includes extracting second information including values related to operations of vehicles associated with the vehicle type of the vehicle or the geographical location of the vehicle and determining whether there is a difference between the first information and the second information. The method further includes instructing the vehicle to adjust driving operations in response to determining that there is the difference between the first information and the second information.

Fold-lock and pitch-lock systems
Patent No. 12534186

Inventor(s): Andrew Harloff (Fort Worth, TX), Andrew Maresh (Colleyville, TX), Kyle Cravener (Arlington, TX), Lancer Drake Halcom (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lightfoot Alford PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18472897 on 09/22/2023 (858 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotor-blade assembly has a lock system to enable and disable a folding degree of freedom and a pitching degree of freedom of a rotor blade. A grip couples a blade to a hub, the blade being pivotable about a fold axis relative to the grip, the blade and grip being pivotable together about a pitch axis relative to the hub. A fold lock prevents folding of the blade in a fold-lock position and allows folding of the rotor blade in a pitch-lock position, and a pitch lock allows pitch movement of the rotor blade in a fold-lock position and prevents pitch movement of the rotor blade in the pitch-lock position. A rotary actuator carried by the grip has actuator arms coupled through linkage to the pitch lock and fold lock, and the actuator is configured for moving the pitch lock and fold lock between the fold-lock and pitch-lock positions.

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

Multi-piece assembly for a tubular composite body
Patent No. 12534193

Inventor(s): Jared Mark Paulson (Fort Worth, TX), Mark Mays (Bedford, TX), Michael Christopher Burnett (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18161436 on 01/30/2023 (1093 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for two or more cured composite assemblies that are bonded together to form a tubular composite structure, wherein each of the cured composite assemblies do not have a tubular shape. The tubular composite structure may form a spar for an aerodynamic component, for example. The two or more cured composite assemblies may comprise carbon or fiberglass composite materials or a combination of materials. Each of the cured composite assemblies may further comprise axial edges that are configured to be bonded to another of the cured composite assemblies, wherein the axial edges have a sloped shape. An adhesive agent may be applied on the axial edges for bonding two cured composite assemblies. Alternatively, or additionally, one or more fasteners may be used to attach the axial edges of at least two cured composite assemblies.

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

Electric tiltrotor aircraft
Patent No. 12534197

Inventor(s): Brent C. Ross (Flower Mound, TX), Jason Paul Hurst (Fort Worth, TX), Kirk L. Groninga (Keller, TX), Steven R. Ivans (Ponder, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19040768 on 01/29/2025 (363 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments include an aircraft comprising a fuselage; a wing connected to the fuselage; and first and second propulsion systems connected to the wing on opposite sides of the fuselage, wherein at least a portion of each of the first and second propulsion systems and at least a portion of the wing are tiltable between a first position in which the aircraft is in a hover mode and a second position in which the aircraft is in a cruise mode, wherein each of the propulsion systems includes pylon and a rotor assembly comprising a plurality of rotor blades.

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

Single use cap
Patent No. 12534278

Inventor(s): Andrew Nelson (Dallas, TX), James Bernal (Frisco, TX), Jeffrey Albertsen (McKinney, TX), Robert Mart (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Quest Medical, Inc. (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18400456 on 12/29/2023 (760 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed principles provide for single use caps that may be applied to any of a number of receptacles, containers, vessels, needless connectors, or other device. A single use cap as disclosed herein includes a component that, when the cap is threaded onto a receptacle or device, is moved from an ”unused” to a ”used” position by the twisting force applied to the cap when secured onto the receptacle or device. Specifically, once the threads of the receptacle or device are received into the cap and a twisting or tightening force is continued to be applied to the cap, the continued twisting force causes this component to rotate laterally so that once the cap is removed from the receptacle or device, the threads of the cap are no longer reachable by the threads on the receptacle or device.

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

Shipping container tracking assembly, system, and method of manufacture
Patent No. 12534288

Inventor(s): David Fiore (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Akua, Inc. (Woodside, CA)
Law Firm: Esplin Associates, PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18782283 on 07/24/2024 (552 days app to issue)

Abstract: A shipping container tracking assembly, system, and method of manufacture are described herein. A shipping container tracking system may comprise one or more of a shipping container, a tracking assembly, and/or other components. A shipping container may have a frame holding walls to enclose a contained space. A first wall may have a wall vent with a ventilation passage therethrough. The tracking assembly may comprise one or more of a housing disposed within the contained space, electronic component(s) at least partially housed within the housing, an antenna, a conductor, and/or other components. The antenna may be mounted on the exterior side of the first wall. The conductor may electronically couple the antenna to at least one of the one or more electronic components through a conductor path defined, at least in part, through the ventilation passage.

Food delivery system for packaging of food and method of delivering food to be packaged
Patent No. 12534307

Inventor(s): Jose Antonio Contreras Gamboa (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V. (Santa Fe, , MX)
Law Firm: Crowell Moring LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18639552 on 04/18/2024 (649 days app to issue)

Abstract: A delivery system that includes a surface having a surface upon which a food item is placed. An array of sensors positioned above the surface and which takes multiple readings of the food item on the surface. A processor that analyzes the multiple readings and generates a height profile for the food item and determines a characteristic of the food item based on the height profile, wherein the characteristic is selected from the group consisting of 1) whether the food item is right side up or upside down, 2) whether the food item is misoriented; 3) whether the food item is missing a portion of food; and 4) whether the food item is damaged.

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

Sand management systems and systems and methods to operate a sand management system
Patent No. 12534310

Inventor(s): Adam Harold Martin (Carrollton, TX), Daniel Joshua Stark (Carrollton, TX), Syed I. Hasan (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18375979 on 10/02/2023 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include sand management systems and systems and methods to operate a sand management system. A sand management system includes a first vessel having a first insert and a second vessel having a second insert. The sand management system also includes a fluid flow path that fluidly connects the first vessel to the second vessel. The sand management system further includes a plurality of actuating valves each configured to dynamically shift from an open position to a closed position and from the closed position to the open position to regulate fluid flow.

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

Compositions and methods for treatment of neurological disorders
Patent No. 12534741

Inventor(s): Steven J. Gray (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18355380 on 07/19/2023 (923 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases and/or disorders in a subject, including, but not limited to neurological disorders such as giant axonal neuropathy. The methods described herein include direct administration of a gene therapy (e.g. an rAAV viral vector) to a subject via injection into a vagus nerve (e.g. the left vagus nerve) of the subject.

[C12N] MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF (biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing microorganisms, viruses, microbial fungi, enzymes, fermentates, or substances produced by, or extracted from, microorganisms or animal material A01N 63/00; medicinal preparations A61K; fertilisers C05F); PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C12Q 1/00) [3]

Crenolanib for treating FLT3 mutated proliferative disorders associated mutations
Patent No. 12534764

Inventor(s): Vinay K. Jain (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Arog Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17234250 on 04/19/2021 (1744 days app to issue)

Abstract:

[C12Q] MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES OR MICROORGANISMS (immunoassay G01N 33/53); COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES [3]

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

Mounting device for a metal panel
Patent No. 12534916

Inventor(s): Jonathon Moss (Grandview, TX)
Assignee(s): RMH Tech LLC (Colorado Springs, CO)
Law Firm: Sheridan Ross P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18634432 on 04/12/2024 (655 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mounting system selectively engageable to a panel projection extending from a metal panel defining a surface of a building. The mounting system comprises a mounting device with a body with a wall. First and second legs extend from the wall and are flexible with respect to the wall. The first leg comprises a first aperture that is unthreaded and which has a first interior diameter. The second leg comprises a second aperture which has a second interior diameter that is less than the first interior diameter. The second aperture may optionally be threaded. The mounting system further comprises a clamping fastener with a shaft that may extend into the first aperture and out of the second aperture. The clamping fastener may be tightened to draw the first and second legs together to engage the panel projection and removably secure the mounting device to the panel projection.

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

Reinforced adjustable stair tray
Patent No. 12534919

Inventor(s): Kevin Troy Burt (Dallas, TX), Michael J. Sawka (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Fortress Iron, LP (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18395208 on 12/22/2023 (767 days app to issue)

Abstract: An adjustable stair tray assembly includes a first angle bar, a plurality of track channels coupled to the first angle bar with each defining a cavity. A plurality of U-channels is coupled to a second angle bar, and each one of the plurality of U-channels is received in a respective cavity of each of the plurality of track channels. The second angle bar comprises a horizontal wall, a vertical wall extending from the horizontal wall, and a reinforcing flange extending downwardly from the vertical wall. A plurality of U-channels is coupled to the second angle bar, the plurality of U-channels is telescopically adjustable within the plurality of track channels to adjust a tray depth of the adjustable stair tray assembly.

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

Integrated sliding glass panel bumpers
Patent No. 12534947

Inventor(s): Steven Hamm (Wills Point, TX)
Assignee(s): ASTON GLOBAL, INC. (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: KLEMCHUK PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18740231 on 06/11/2024 (595 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

Electric inflow valve to fully close and then be reopened without downhole intervention
Patent No. 12534978

Inventor(s): Caleb T. Warren (Carrollton, TX), Ryan W. McChesney (Carrollton, TX), Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18536932 on 12/12/2023 (777 days app to issue)

Abstract: An inflow control device and method of use. The device may include a chamber, wherein the chamber comprises a seat. The device may further include a fluid passageway fluidly connected to the chamber, an actuator disposed within the chamber, and a motor at least partially disposed in the chamber and detachably connected to the actuator by a detachable connector. The method of using the inflow control device may include receiving a fluid from a formation with an inflow control device (ICD) disposed on a tubular string within a formation and stopping flow of the fluid through the ICD by seating the actuator to the seat after the actuator has detached from the motor by the detachable connector.

[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]

Well tool having an autonomous ballisic arming mechanism
Patent No. 12534984

Inventor(s): Christopher C. Hoelscher (Alvarado, TX), Kevin Cook (Alvarado, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: DeLizio, Peacock, Lewin Guerra LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18355778 on 07/20/2023 (922 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus including an autonomous ballistic arming mechanism that may be used in well systems. A first well tool may include an initiating device, and a ballistic barrier housing the initiating device. The ballistic barrier may be configured to mechanically move when the first well tool is engaged with a second well tool to position the initiating device for ballistically arming the first well tool. The first well tool may be a first perforating gun system, the second well tool may be a second perforating gun system, and the initiating device may be a detonator. The ballistic barrier may mechanically move to align the initiating device with a detonating cord of the second well tool for ballistically arming the first well tool.

Flow cross junctions for a manifold of a hydraulic fracturing system and related methods
Patent No. 12534993

Inventor(s): Christopher Mark Koch (Joshua, TX), Michael James Cornelssen (Joshua, TX)
Assignee(s): Scout Surface Solutions LLC (Joshua, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19014114 on 01/08/2025 (384 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment of a manifold of a hydraulic fracturing system includes a flow cross junction including an inlet flow bore. In addition, the manifold includes a coupling adapter including an external shoulder and a connection device. The connection device is to connect to an output of a pump of the hydraulic fracturing system, and the coupling adapter is removably inserted within the inlet flow bore such that the connection device is positioned outside of the inlet flow bore. Further, the manifold includes a retainer ring connected to the flow cross junction and compressed against the external shoulder.

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

Pressure regulators with self-aligning valve disk assemblies
Patent No. 12535148

Inventor(s): Andrew Kislak Da Costa (Plano, TX), David Oscar Mario Plummer (Irving, TX), James Chester Hawkins (Allen, TX), Ruben Longoria (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT REGULATOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Hanley, Flight Zimmerman, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18618729 on 03/27/2024 (671 days app to issue)

Abstract: Pressure regulators with self-aligning valve disk assemblies are disclosed. An example pressure regulator disclosed herein includes a valve body defining a fluid passageway between an inlet and an outlet, a seat positioned in the fluid passageway, a stem movable relative to the seat, and a disk assembly coupled to the stem, the disk assembly including a disk holder defining a cavity, a retainer positioned in the cavity, the retainer including a first curved surface, and a disk positioned in the cavity and extending circumferentially around the first curved surface, a second curved surface of the disk complementary to the first curved surface such that the disk is pivotable and rotatable about the first curved surface to enable the disk to sealably engage the seat.

[F16K] VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING

P H Y S I C S

Measuring indoor air quality for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system
Patent No. 12535391

Inventor(s): Calvin Michaelis (Carrollton, TX), Henry Greist (Gainesville, FL), Sanjeev Hingorani (Gainesville, FL), Surendran Ramasamy (Chennai, , IN)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18759923 on 06/30/2024 (576 days app to issue)

Abstract: An air quality measuring device that includes a first chamber, a second chamber, a third chamber, and a fourth chamber. The first chamber includes a first inlet configured to receive a first airflow, a first outlet configured to receive a first portion of the first airflow, and a second outlet configured to receive a second portion of the first airflow. The second chamber includes a second inlet configured to receive the first portion of the first airflow and a first sensor disposed within the second chamber. The third chamber includes a third inlet configured to receive the second portion of the first airflow and a second sensor disposed within the third chamber. The fourth chamber includes a fourth inlet configured to receive the second portion of the first airflow and a third sensor disposed within the fourth chamber.

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

System and method for a jewelry viewing stand
Patent No. 12535429

Inventor(s): Maie Amer-Guerrera (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): STERLING JEWELERS INC. (Akron, OH)
Law Firm: Quarles Brady LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18495088 on 10/26/2023 (824 days app to issue)

Abstract: A jewelry viewing stand including a stand, an imaging device, and an adjustable base is provided. The imaging device is configured to image a piece of jewelry and the stand is configured to hold and position the imaging device. The adjustable base is attached to the stand and positioned beneath the imaging device. The adjustable device is configured to move a piece of jewelry vertically toward and away from the imaging device while the stand maintains the imaging device in a stable, stationary position.

Fault detection front end architecture in resolver
Patent No. 12535539

Inventor(s): Abhijit Das (Plano, TX), Haydar Bilhan (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18477997 on 09/29/2023 (851 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a method includes applying a bias voltage to a resolver system. The method also includes receiving a sensed signal, the sensed signal varying in value based on a position of a rotary element. The method also includes attenuating the sensed signal to form an attenuated signal. The method also includes performing fault detection on the attenuated signal to detect faults in the resolver system. The method also includes processing the attenuated signal to determine the position of the rotary element.

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

Optical eyepiece using single-sided patterning of grating couplers
Patent No. 12535671

Inventor(s): Nai-Wen Pi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Magic Leap, Inc. (Plantation, FL)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18172890 on 02/22/2023 (1070 days app to issue)

Abstract: An eyepiece includes a substrate and an in-coupling grating patterned on a single side of the substrate. A first grating coupler is patterned on the single side of the substrate and has a first grating pattern. The first grating coupler is optically coupled to the in-coupling grating. A second grating coupler is patterned on the single side of the substrate adjacent to the first grating coupler. The second grating coupler has a second grating pattern different from the first grating pattern. The second grating coupler is optically coupled to the in-coupling grating.

[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]

Transmitting, to a distributed control node (DCN), default alarm configuration file(s) determined based on a function block type
Patent No. 12535807

Inventor(s): David Emerson (Coppell, TX), Patrick Clay (Frisco, TX), Vien Nguyen (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Tokyo, , JP)
Law Firm: Gray Ice Higdon (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18090326 on 12/28/2022 (1126 days app to issue)

Abstract: Implementations transmit, to a distributed control node (DCN), default alarm configuration file(s) that are determined based on a particular type of function block. Those implementations transmit the default alarm configuration file(s) to the DCN based on determining that the DCN is executing a function block that is of the particular type and/or is utilizing a function block, that is of the particular type, in alarm monitoring. A default alarm configuration file that is transmitted to a DCN can be stored locally at the DCN to enable viewing and/or editing thereof via human-machine interface (HMI) interfacing with the DCN. Implementations additionally or alternatively relate to reflecting, in an alarms database accessible via a process automation network, local updates that are made via an HMI to a default alarm configuration file locally stored at a DCN.

[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)

System and method for reducing cargo damage of loading machine
Patent No. 12535816

Inventor(s): Joseph E. Forcash (Clayton, NC)
Assignee(s): Caterpillar Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18168317 on 02/13/2023 (1079 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for adjusting parameters on a machine that operates at least semi-autonomously and includes a lifting tool to lift or tilt a load. The system includes: an accelerometer, a rotational sensor, a positioning receiver, a level actuator and a tilt actuator to adjust a level and a tilt of the lifting tool, respectively, a speed control system to adjust a speed of the machine; and a controller on the machine to: access a terrain roughness threshold and a worksite map that includes terrain roughness data, receive data from the accelerometer and the rotational sensor, determine a current location of the machine, terrain roughness, whether the terrain roughness exceeds the terrain roughness threshold, and whether the machine is in a load-carrying phase of operation, and reduce the speed of the machine when the terrain roughness exceeds the terrain roughness threshold and the machine is in the load-carrying phase.

[G05D] SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES (for continuous casting of metals B22D 11/16; valves per se F16K; sensing non-electric variables, see the relevant subclasses of G01; for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F)

Dual role support for a high-speed capable USB repeater
Patent No. 12536023

Inventor(s): Anant Shankar Kamath (Bengaluru, , IN), Mark Edward Wentroble (Plano, TX), Prajwala P (Bengaluru, , IN), Rakesh Hariharan (Bengaluru, , IN), Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18731784 on 06/03/2024 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: A serial bus repeater includes first and second ports adapted to be coupled to respective devices. A first termination resistor network couples to the first port. A second termination resistor network couples to the second port. A squelch detect circuit couples to the first bus port and is configured to detect activity on the first bus and to generate a squelch signal responsive to detection of activity on the first port. A first state machine is configured to: determine an elapsed time during which the squelch signal indicates activity on the first port; determine that the elapsed time exceeds a first threshold; and, responsive to the determination that the elapsed time exceeds the first threshold, assert configuration signals to reconfigure the first and second termination resistor networks.

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

System and method for determining memory resource configuration for network nodes to operate in a distributed computing network
Patent No. 12536041

Inventor(s): Akhila Mylaram (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17744933 on 05/16/2022 (1352 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system accesses historical tasks. The system determines historical memory resources used to execute each historical task. the historical memory resources are associated with memory categories. The system determines total historical memory resources allocated for each memory category. The system determines memory resource utilization in executing each historical task. The system determines that the memory resource utilization is not optimal. In response, the system determines a memory resource configuration that yields memory resource utilization more than a threshold percentage. The system configures network nodes according to the determined memory resource configuration to execute tasks.

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

Adaptive heterogeneous application profiling
Patent No. 12536088

Inventor(s): Keith Lowery (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18215876 on 06/29/2023 (943 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are described for adaptive application profiling, such as for adaptively collecting profiling runtime data for an application running on heterogeneous processing architectures. A first set of profiling data is collected from a first set of tracking circuitry during execution of an application by one or more processors. During the execution of the application and based on the first set of profiling data, a second set of tracking circuitry is determined for use in collecting additional profiling data for the application, the second set of tracking circuitry being distinct from the first set of tracking circuitry. A second set of runtime profiling data is collected from the second set of tracking circuitry.

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

Sorting vector elements using a count value
Patent No. 12536106

Inventor(s): Mujibur Rahman (Plano, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18762987 on 07/03/2024 (573 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for sorting of a vector in a processor is provided that includes performing, by the processor in response to a vector sort instruction, sorting of values stored in lanes of the vector to generate a sorted vector, wherein the values are sorted in an order indicated by the vector sort instruction, and storing the sorted vector in a storage location.

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

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved quality assurance
Patent No. 12536148

Inventor(s): Zejian Liu (Hazel Crest, IL)
Assignee(s): McKesson Corpration (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Ballard Spahr LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18744930 on 06/17/2024 (589 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved quality assurance (QA) are described herein. A computing device may provide a user interface having multiple user interface elements that allow a user of the computing device to interact with a QA system. Each of the user interface elements may be associated with one or more QA tasks for a type(s) of medical equipment. The computing device may receive input from the user via at least one of the user interface elements. The computing device may determine a completion value for at least one of the QA tasks. The computing device may send an update message indicative of the completion value for the at least one QA task.

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

Combining structured query language (SQL) queries
Patent No. 12536176

Inventor(s): Andrew Lamar Dawson (Plano, TX), Kumaran Arulmani (Plano, TX), Samuel Michael Bethge (Plano, TX), Vishal Tak (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18465051 on 09/11/2023 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a system may identify a plurality of SQL queries. The system may determine that the plurality of SQL queries is configured to manage data associated with a database via respective accesses of the database. The system may combine, based at least in part on determining that the plurality of SQL queries is configured to manage the data associated with the database, the plurality of SQL queries into a combined SQL query configured to manage the data associated with the database via a combined access of the database.

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

Systems and methods for data retention while migrating objects and object metadata stored in object storage environments migrated across cloud ecosystems
Patent No. 12536193

Inventor(s): Justin Restivo (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Citibank, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18904046 on 10/01/2024 (483 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for novel uses and/or improvements to data migration. In particular, systems and methods for data migration of metadata stored in object storage from one container to another, especially in instances when the metadata is destined for ingestion by an artificial intelligence application. The systems and methods ensure that all metadata (e.g., metadata stored in object storage) is preserved during data migration, including metadata such as content type, object lock mode, object lock retain until date, and/or custom metadata.

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

Variable density-based clustering on data streams
Patent No. 12536203

Inventor(s): James Howe (The Colony, TX), Milind Patel (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18301537 on 04/17/2023 (1016 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive, from a data stream, a set of data points arranged in a dimensional data space. The device may compare the set of data points to identify one or more clusters using values of a distance parameter for data points included in the set of data points, wherein the values of distance parameter includes different values of the distance parameter for different data points. The device may transmit an indication of the one or more clusters to cause a device to display information associated with the one or more clusters. The device may receive, from the device, feedback information associated with at least one data point, wherein the feedback information indicates that at least one data point is associated with an error. The device may modify a value of the distance parameter associated with the at least one data point to a modified value.

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

Method and systems for generating a projection structure using a graphical user interface
Patent No. 12536209

Inventor(s): Blake Browder (Dallas, TX), Joy Figarsky (Little Rock, AR)
Assignee(s): BH Operations, LLC (North Richland Hills, TX)
Law Firm: Caldwell Intellectual Property Law (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19193285 on 04/29/2025 (273 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for generating a projection structure using a graphical user interface, wherein the system comprises: a display device configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI); a computing device comprising a memory; and a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the processor to: receive a plurality of datasets, wherein each dataset comprises a plurality of parameters; generate a first projection structure as a function of the datasets; display the first projection structure through the GUI; receive natural language query data corresponding to the first projection structure using a chatbot interface; generate response data as a function of the query data; map, as a function of a look-up table, each categorization to a database entry index; obtain response data from the database; adjust the parameters as a function of the response data; generate a second projection structure; and display it in the GUI.

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

Software code vulnerability remediation
Patent No. 12536298

Inventor(s): Chih-Hsiang Chow (Plano, TX), Elizabeth Furlan (Plano, TX), Steven Dang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER LOCKE LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18314910 on 05/10/2023 (993 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods automating the process of application code vulnerability remediation. Implementations include building a repository of code revisions as software is checked for security vulnerabilities using or more software analysis tools. In certain implementations, historical code revisions are cataloged and stored in the repository. The revisions may be tokenized and utilized to detect and automatically remediate similar issues when new software packages are submitted to the system.

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

Systems and methods for linking devices and protecting data
Patent No. 12536324

Inventor(s): Anita Srivastava (Irving, TX), Arjun Srivastava (Irving, TX), Jacob Pena (Irving, TX), Niraj Bhatia (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): ON THE WAY LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18628561 on 04/05/2024 (662 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for linking devices and protecting data. One method includes receiving, from an inviter device, a link up request associated with a link up location, establishing one or more data channels with the inviter device, providing the link up request to each of a plurality of invitee devices, establishing the one or more data channels with the first invitee device, generating and providing, to the first invitee device via a first graphical user interface (GUI) of an application, a first proposed route to the link up location and at least one first location of one of the plurality of invitee devices or the inviter device, collecting environmental data of the inviter device and the plurality of invitee devices, providing a location of the first invitee device, and disconnecting the one or more data channels connecting the one or more processors and the first invitee device.

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

Method and system of computer-automated detection of personally identifiable data in electronic data
Patent No. 12536326

Inventor(s): Anthony L Day (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Greenblum Bernstein, P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18746699 on 06/18/2024 (588 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system of computer-automated detection of personally identifiable (PI) data in electronic data are provided. The method includes: receiving the electronic data including the PI data and transmitting the electronic data to a modifiable hash algorithm in a first computing environment. The method further includes generating, by the modifiable hash algorithm, hashed electronic data via masking the PI data; comparing, by a PI detector service function algorithm in a second computing environment, first electronic data fields of the received electronic data including the PI data with second electronic data fields of the hashed electronic data including the masked PI data in order to detect a match indicating a presence of unmasked PI data between the first and second electronic data fields; generating, by the PI detector service function algorithm, a result with a confidence level based on the comparison; and outputting the result with the confidence level.

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

System and method using quantum bits to reduce latency in data transmission
Patent No. 12536461

Inventor(s): Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18777141 on 07/18/2024 (558 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for communicating information using quantum packets includes a memory configured to store data for transmission and a processor operably coupled to the memory. The processor divides the data for transmission into a first number of blocks. Each block is then encoded into a second number of quantum packets encoded as a plurality of quantum bits. Each of the second number of quantum packets includes at least one of the of the blocks and a mapping. The quantum packets are then transmitted through a quantum network to a second system for reconstruction. The second system utilizes the mapping included in each quantum packets to reassemble the data.

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

Correspondence between digital assets and physical objects
Patent No. 12536512

Inventor(s): Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17948924 on 09/20/2022 (1225 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a physical object and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to receive physical object data indicative of a change to the physical object and identify a correspondence between the physical object and a non-fungible token (NFT). The one or more processors are also configured to incorporate, in response to identifying the correspondence and in a smart contract or digital distributed ledger, NFT data corresponding to the NFT and reflecting the change to the physical object.

[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]

Virtual cash with flagging or tracking of suspicious transactions
Patent No. 12536541

Inventor(s): Aravind Shankaragouda Singtalur (McKinney, TX), Dinesh Kumar Agrawal (Rowlett, TX), Petar Puskarich (Plano, TX), Srinath Chakravarty (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18100673 on 01/24/2023 (1099 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for transferring a good or service from a d+b wallet-supporting vendor to a user registered with a digital+bitcoin (d+b) wallet is provided. The user may be registered with a cryptocurrency provider and a value allocation. The method may receive, at the vendor, a user request configured for a cryptocurrency-based transaction. The method may transmit, a consent to transact the cryptocurrency-based transaction and, in response to the transmitting of the consent to transact, receive, from the user device, a Quick Response (QR) code. The code specifies: a) an amount of cryptocurrency; and b) a product or a service to be exchanged for the amount of cryptocurrency. Prior to transferring the value, the method may flag the transfer of the value as suspicious when the QR code received by the user has been identified as a fraudulent QR code. The flagging may terminate the transfer.

Artificial intelligence machine learning system for classifying images and producing a predetermined visual output
Patent No. 12536566

Inventor(s): Sudheer Kumar Pamuru (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Freddy Technologies LLC (Chicago, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18514570 on 11/20/2023 (799 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to automatically receiving, modifying, sequencing, and displaying vehicle images for marketing to prospective buyers. A seller uploads images of a vehicle to the system, which system uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to classify the images, identify objects within the images, add backgrounds, banners, and hotspots, and generate metadata associating the results of the foregoing processes with the particular images. The system uses the stored metadata to sequence the images in a format predetermined by the seller and upload the sequenced images for display to a prospective buyer.

Bad pixel correction in image processing applications or other applications
Patent No. 12536615

Inventor(s): Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, TX), John W. Glotzbach (Allen, TX), Nguyen Thang Long Le (Garland, TX), Tyler Luu (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18068916 on 12/20/2022 (1134 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining input image frames, including at least two captured using different capture conditions, separating color channels of each image frame, and generating at least one bad pixel map for each color channel of each image frame. Each bad pixel map is generated by identifying one or more outliers in pixel values in the color channel based on an intensity distribution of pixel values in an operation window within the color channel. The operation window has a window size based on the capture condition and/or local image content in the corresponding image frame. The method also includes combining the bad pixel maps and performing a morphological operation to refine the combined bad pixel map and using one or more coordinates of one or more bad pixels in the refined bad pixel map to update one or more pixel values of at least one image frame.

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

System and method for identifying a second item based on an association with a first item
Patent No. 12536673

Inventor(s): Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, TX), Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, TX), Shashipal Reddy Masini (Austin, 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: 18366155 on 08/07/2023 (904 days app to issue)

Abstract: An item tracking system comprises a plurality of cameras, a memory storing associations between item identifiers of respective items, and a processor configured to capture a plurality of first images of a first item and identify a first item identifier of the first item based on the first images. The processor captures a plurality of second images of a second item, generates cropped image of the second item from each second image, and identifies an item identifier for each cropped image. Based on the associations stored in the memory, the processor determines that an association exists between the first item identifier of the first item and a second item identifier, and assigns the second item identifier to the second item when at least one of the item identifiers corresponding to the cropped images is the second item identifier.

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

System and method for identifying unmoved items on a platform during item identification
Patent No. 12536674

Inventor(s): Crystal Maung (Dallas, TX), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, TX), Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, TX), Xinan Wang (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-Eleven, Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18476436 on 09/28/2023 (852 days app to issue)

Abstract: In response to detecting a first triggering event corresponding to placement of a first item on a platform, a first image of the platform is captured. A first item identifier of the first item is identified and stored in a memory. In response to detecting a second triggering event corresponding to placement of a second item on the platform, a second image of the platform is captured. The second image is compared with the first image. Upon determining that the first item depicted in the second image overlaps with the first item depicted in the first image and the overlap equals or exceeds a threshold, the first item identifier is assigned to the first item depicted in the second image. A second item identifier of the second item is identified, and information associated with the first item identifier and the second item identifier is displayed on a user interface device.

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

System and method for confirming the identity of an item based on item height
Patent No. 12536683

Inventor(s): Crystal Maung (Dallas, TX), Nithya Thyagarajan (Flower Mound, TX), Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, 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: 18476432 on 09/28/2023 (852 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device captures an image of a first item and generates a first encoded vector for the image. The device identifies a set of items that have at least one attribute in common with the first item. The device determines the identity of the first item based at least on attributes of the first item. The device determines that a confidence score associated with the identity of the first item is less than a threshold percentage. In response, the device determines a height of the first item. The device identifies item(s) with average heights within a threshold range from the height of the first item. The device compares the first encoded vector with a second encoded vector associated with a second item from the identified item(s). If the first encoded vector corresponds to the second encoded vector, the device determines that the first item corresponds to the second item.

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

System and method for automatically labelling media
Patent No. 12536781

Inventor(s): Chithrai Selvakumar Mani (Richardson, TX), Nithesh Singh Sanjay (Richardson, TX), Ria Mahua Ghosh (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17932063 on 09/14/2022 (1231 days app to issue)

Abstract: The improved system and method disclosed herein includes training an auto-labelling engine in a plurality of iterations until a performance of the auto-labelling engine is satisfactory. The auto-labelling engine is trained based on a combination of a plurality of manually annotated first media and a plurality of second media without annotation. The method further includes receiving at least one media for labelling and using the trained auto-labeling engine to draw at least one bounding box around at least one object in the received at least one media for labelling the at least one object in the at least one media.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Surveillance systems, methods, and apparatuses
Patent No. 12536802

Inventor(s): Dwight David Harms (The Colony, TX), Timothy Francis Hall (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Think Differently Legal, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18224012 on 07/19/2023 (923 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method, or apparatus for surveillance. A system of surveillance devices that can be interconnected in a modular manner that allows for portability and deploy ability. The devices may include a trailer that can be secured at location by the removal of the trailer tongue, wherein the trailer includes various surveillance devices for monitoring. Similarly, the trailer may also have a toolbox (that may also be secured to a vehicle) that can be used for surveillance. The toolbox can include multiple surveillance devices, while keeping the devices secured within a housing or main body with a cooling device to allow for operability.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

System and method for enabling wagering event between sports activity players with stored event metrics
Patent No. 12536874

Inventor(s): William Choung (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17741330 on 05/10/2022 (1358 days app to issue)

Abstract: Individual sports event activities are recorded along with metric results of individual or collective results of the activities. The data from these recordings and metrics are provided to a central gaming server. Individual players offer wagers of value to be used in competition against other individual or groups of players. The central gaming server compares the metrics of at least two individual players that have offered wagers of values and determines a winning individual player based on the comparison of metrics.

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

Object recognition subject to a throttling effect
Patent No. 12536879

Inventor(s): Daniel J. Serna (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18663933 on 05/14/2024 (623 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dynamically controlling application of a graphic processing unit (”GPU”) based on the current processing needs is described. A number of objects in each image may be detected. A machine learning model may be utilized to detect and classify objects in each image. Based on the number of detected objects, the GPU could be switched on to provide increased image processing performance. Dynamically turning the GPU on/off may reduce power consumption. When the GPU is turned off, a central processing unit (”CPU”) may be used to perform image processing.

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

Retail checkout with multi-signal bulk item identification
Patent No. 12536884

Inventor(s): Thomas Joseph Puorro (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): NCR Voyix Corporation (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18830436 on 09/10/2024 (504 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid checkout system that enables in-motion, multi-signal, bulk item identification is disclosed. The hybrid checkout system includes a computer vision apparatus that includes a plurality of cameras fixed at different locations relative to a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt includes markings that assist a user with item placement. RFID sensors are provided with the hybrid checkout apparatus. The cameras capture multiple images of items placed on the belt as the items are in motion. Each camera captures multiple images of the items captured from different vantage points as the items are in motion. In addition, the RFID sensors gather RFID data from RFID tags affixed to the items, as the items are in motion. The image data and other sensor data is provided as a multi-signal input to a machine learning model that is trained to recognize items and output item identifiers for the items. Pricing information corresponding to the item identifiers received from the model is determined and the items and their respective prices are added to a transaction record.

[G07G] REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS (digital computing in general G06C, G06F) [4]

Sound-mitigating device for a duct system
Patent No. 12536985

Inventor(s): Ayrton Ackerman (Ann Arbor, MI), Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, MI), Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Taesoo Kim (Ann Arbor, MI), Takumi J. Jinmon (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18113298 on 02/23/2023 (1069 days app to issue)

Abstract: A duct includes a duct body. The duct body defines an inlet, an outlet, and a channel connecting the inlet and the outlet. The duct body is configured to direct gas flowing within the channel from the inlet to the outlet. The duct body further defines an opening located between the inlet and the outlet. The duct also includes a noise attenuator. The noise attenuator includes sound-absorbing material covering the opening. The sound-absorbing material has an outer face in direct contact with an external environment of the duct body. The sound-absorbing material is configured to dissipate acoustic energy within the channel.

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

Methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices for facilitating creating labels for labeling intravenous infusion lines
Patent No. 12537093

Inventor(s): John Fox Holt (Dallas, TX), Peter Baek (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): VIGILANT SOFTWARE (Trophy Club, TX)
Law Firm: PATENT YOGI LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18037778 on 09/12/2022 (1233 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of creating a label for labeling an intravenous infusion line. Further, the method may include receiving an information associated with one or more intravenous infusion lines from input devices, analyzing the information, determining label content of labels associated with the intravenous infusion lines, determining label content formats of the label content, generating a label information for the labels based on the label content and the label content formats, and printing the label information on label sheets based on the generating of the label information. Further, the printing of the label information creates the labels for the intravenous infusion lines.

[G09F] DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS

Template XSLT based NETCONF data collector
Patent No. 12537741

Inventor(s): Nicholas S. Morrison (Trucksville, PA)
Assignee(s): FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18128135 on 03/29/2023 (1035 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a template XSLT (extensible stylesheet language transformation) based NETCONF (network configuration protocol) data collector. An embodiment operates by sending, by a network management device, a NETCONF request to a first network element and a first network element, where the NETCONF request is generated based on a configuration file corresponding to the first network element and the first network element. The embodiment generates a stylesheet corresponding to the NETCONF configuration file. The embodiment receives a first NETCONF reply message and a second NETCONF reply message, where the first NETCONF reply message is generated by the first network element in response to receiving the NETCONF request, and the second NETCONF reply message is generated by the first network element in response to receiving the NETCONF request. The NETCONF reply message and the second NETCONF reply message are transformed into a delimited data format using the stylesheet.

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

Systems and methods for using clustering models to manage resources for processing messages
Patent No. 12537785

Inventor(s): Roshni Singh (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18774831 on 07/16/2024 (560 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for using clustering models to manage resources for processing messages are described herein. For example, the system may receive first messages from users. The system may process the first messages using a model to sort the first messages into a set of groups. The system may then receive second messages from the users. The system may identify, in the second messages, an increase in volume of messages sorted into a first group. The system may identify two related groups having a combined message volume below a threshold volume. The system may update the model to sort messages into an updated set of groups such that the two related groups form a combined group and such that the first group is separated into two groups. The system may then process the second messages using the updated model to sort the second messages into the updated set of groups.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Handoff sequence for city nodes
Patent No. 12536473

Inventor(s): Anil Nagpal (Plano, TX), Imad Zahid (Carrollton, TX), Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, TX), Nikhil Rajendra (Dallas, TX), Sumit K. Jha (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Aichi-Ken, , JP), TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18481944 on 10/05/2023 (845 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation establishes a communication link between a first vehicle and a computing node. The system then identifies the data to be transmitted from the computing node to the first vehicle, considering that a portion of this data is already stored on a second vehicle. As the second vehicle is determined to be in proximity to the first vehicle, the system transmits the portion of the data stored on the second vehicle to the first vehicle. The remaining portion of the data is transmitted directly from the computing node to the first vehicle, completing the data transfer when the vehicles are in close proximity.

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

Universal mount for remote radio units and related assemblies
Patent No. 12537282

Inventor(s): Charles John Mann (Omaha, NE), Jared D. Haines (Rock City Falls, NY), Jiayong Wang (Suzhou, , CN), ZhaoHui Liu (Suzhou, , CN)
Assignee(s): OUTDOOR WIRELESS NETWORKS LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18441427 on 02/14/2024 (713 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present application is directed to an assembly for mounting remote radio units to a mounting structure. The assembly includes an upper mounting assembly and a lower mounting assembly. The upper mounting assembly includes a first support member coupled to a first clamp assembly configured to be secured to the mounting structure, and a pair of upper hanger plates configured to engage and be secured to the first support member. The lower mounting assembly includes a second support member coupled to a second clamp assembly configured to be secured to the mounting structure a distance from the first clamp assembly, and a pair of lower hanger plates configured to engage and be secured to the second support member. Corresponding upper and lower hanger plates are configured to have a respective remote radio unit mounted thereto.

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

Phase shifter assembly for base station antenna
Patent No. 12537296

Inventor(s): Fan He (Suzhou, , CN)
Assignee(s): OUTDOOR WIRELESS NETWORKS LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18151100 on 01/06/2023 (1117 days app to issue)

Abstract: A phase shifter assembly includes a mounting substrate; a first wiper phase shifter; a second wiper phase shifter; a first wiper member pivotally mounted to the mounting substrate overlying the first wiper phase shifter, the first wiper member having a first set of teeth; a second wiper member pivotally mounted on the mounting substrate overlying the second wiper phase shifter, the second wiper member having a second set of teeth, the second set of teeth intermeshed with the first set of teeth. The first set of teeth has a first discontinuity, and the second set of teeth has a second discontinuity that is complementary to the first discontinuity, such that engagement of the first and second discontinuity enables proper alignment of the first and second wiper members relative to each other.

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

Transmission mechanism for base station antenna
Patent No. 12537297

Inventor(s): PuLiang Tang (Suzhou, , CN), Shuguang Shao (Suzhou, , CN)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18407785 on 01/09/2024 (749 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transmission mechanism for a base station antenna, including: a motor having an output shaft; a gear assembly including a first gear and a second gear meshed with each other, an output end of the output shaft connected to the first gear and driving the first gear to rotate; a screw, a first end thereof connected to the second gear and a second end thereof rotatably supported by a support element; a movable element mounted on the screw, fixedly connected to one end of a connecting rod and translating along an axial direction of the screw when the screw rotates, thereby driving the connecting rod to translate along the axial direction; and an anti-rotation element configured to cooperate with the movable element to prevent the movable element from rotating with the screw, where the motor and the screw are configured to be arranged parallel to each other on a same side of the gear assembly. The transmission mechanism of the present disclosure can have a smaller length, can provide greater axial force to the connecting rod, and/or can be assembled and disassembled more quickly.

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

Antenna systems
Patent No. 12537318

Inventor(s): George Alexander Bednekoff (Plano, TX), Michael A. Neenan (Plano, TX), Rauhon Ahmed Shaik (Wylie, TX), Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Parsec Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Knobbe Martens Olson Bear LLP (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18447176 on 08/09/2023 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: An antenna assembly can include a cover and a base configured to be removably coupled to the cover. The antenna assembly can include one or more of: a UHF radiator portion, a VHF radiator portion, one or more multi-band radiator portions, one or more dual-band WiFi radiator portions, a GPS antenna, and a loop antenna portion positioned between the cover and the base. The loop antenna can be suspended below the UHF and VHF radiator portion and above the multi-band and dual-band WiFi radiator portions, and can be configured for AM and FM radiofrequency signals. The antenna assembly can be used for broadcast television reception and multi-band wireless telecommunications. The antenna assembly can have a compact aerodynamic profile. The UHF radiator portion and VHF radiator portion can be formed on separate flex-circuits that can be coupled to internal ribs in the cover.

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

Hybrid wireless power transmitting system and method therefor
Patent No. 12537393

Inventor(s): Byong-Uk Hwang (Incheon, , KR), Chun-Kil Jung (Seoul, , KR)
Assignee(s): EDISON INNOVATIONS, LLC (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Ascenda Law Group, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18606048 on 03/15/2024 (683 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a signal processing method performed by a hybrid wireless power transmitting apparatus which is configured to transmit wireless power signals based on magnetic resonance and magnetic induction, the method comprising transmitting a first object detection signal via an inductive power transmitting unit and a second object detection signal via a magnetic resonant power transmitting unit alternatively; operating one of the inductive power transmitting unit and the magnetic resonant power transmitting unit which is selected based on an inductive response signal and a resonant response signal corresponding to the first object detection signal and the second object detection signal respectively; and transmitting wireless power signal via the selected power transmitting unit; and a hybrid wireless power transmitting apparatus using the method.

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

Boost converter with frequency scaling
Patent No. 12537449

Inventor(s): Manojit Chakraborty (Bangalore, , IN), Rejin Kanjavalappil Raveendranath (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18524239 on 11/30/2023 (789 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit including a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) having a first terminal and a second terminal. The circuit also includes a first diode having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the DAC and having a second terminal coupled to the first terminal of the DAC. A comparator has a first terminal and a second terminal. A second diode has a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the DAC and has a second terminal coupled to the second terminal of the comparator. A voltage-to-current converter (V2I) has a terminal. A resistor has a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the second diode and has a second terminal coupled to the terminal of the V2I converter.

[H02M] APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (conversion of current or voltage specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/02; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables in general, e.g. using transformers, reactors or choke coils, combination of such systems with static converters G05F; for digital computers G06F 1/00; transformers H01F; connection or control of one converter with regard to conjoint operation with a similar or other source of supply H02J; dynamo-electric converters H02K 47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P; pulse generators H03K) [5]

Differential electrical balance duplexers
Patent No. 12537557

Inventor(s): Sachin Kalia (Dallas, TX), Sasank Garikapati (Dallas, TX), Swaminathan Sankaran (Allen, TX), Tolga Dinc (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17823292 on 08/30/2022 (1246 days app to issue)

Abstract: Electrical balance duplexers (EBDs). An example EBD includes a differential TX port coupled to a first coil, a differential RX port coupled to a second coil, a differential ANT port coupled to a third coil, and a differential BAL port coupled to a fourth coil. In some cases, the first and second coils are arranged such that magnetic flux cancellation is achieved between the two, thus isolating the TX port from the RX port. In some cases, DC isolation exists between the coils. During operation, the first coil may electromagnetically couple with the third coil and the fourth coil, and the second coil may electromagnetically couple with the third coil and the fourth coil. In some example cases, the first and second coils are each in their own metallization layer, and the third and fourth coils are in the same layer.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus to enable CSI reporting based on non-uniform space-frequency compression
Patent No. 12537567

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: 18366568 on 08/07/2023 (904 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) for a channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), CSI feedback configuration information including a number (K[subscript]0[/subscript]) of coefficients for the CSI feedback, deriving, based on the CSI feedback configuration information, the CSI feedback including K[subscript]1 [/subscript]coefficients that are a subset of a total of Q coefficients, wherein K[subscript]1[/subscript]K[subscript]0 [/subscript]and K[subscript]0[/subscript]Q, and transmitting, to the BS, the CSI feedback including the K[subscript]1 [/subscript]coefficients over an uplink channel.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

All-optical phase-preserving signal amplitude processors
Patent No. 12537599

Inventor(s): Cheng Guo (Arlington, TX), Michael Vasilyev (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18483818 on 10/10/2023 (840 days app to issue)

Abstract: An all-optical signal processor includes one or more input ports configured to receive one or more optical signal channels, a first nonlinear optical processor configured to receive an input signal from the input port and having one or more sections of a first nonlinear medium, an optical phase conjugator optically configured to receive the output signal of the first nonlinear optical processor, a second nonlinear optical processor configured to receive an output signal from the optical phase conjugator and having one or more sections of a second nonlinear medium, and one or more output ports configured to receive the output signal from the second nonlinear optical processor. Variations of the all-optical signal processor can include a single nonlinear optical processor through which an output of the optical phase conjugator co-propagates or counter-propagates with the input signal.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Timing mis-match calibration in distributed MIMO
Patent No. 12537648

Inventor(s): Gilwon Lee (Dallas, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (Dallas, TX), R A Nadisanka Perera Rupasinghe (Allen, TX), Yang Li (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18482803 on 10/06/2023 (844 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operating a network includes receiving an UL RS, estimating UL channels for a plurality of TRPS based on the UL RS, configuring first DL RS resources from an upper portion of a BWP, transmitting via the plurality of TRPs, a first beamformed DL RS from the upper portion of the BWP, and receiving via one or more of the plurality of TRPs, first CSI feedback based on the first DL RS. The method further includes configuring second DL RS resources from a lower portion of the BWP, transmitting via the plurality of TRPs, a second beamformed DL RS from the lower portion of the BWP, receiving via one or more of the plurality of TRPs, second CSI feedback based on the second DL RS, and determining a timing mis-match between the plurality of TRPs based on the first CSI feedback and the second CSI feedback.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus for resource management of overlapping transmissions
Patent No. 12537653

Inventor(s): Lu Wu (Shanghai, , CN), Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): APOGEE NETWORKS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Volpe Koenig (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18660240 on 05/10/2024 (627 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a UE may receive a first signaling indicating a first time-frequency resource group, the first time-frequency resource group being reserved for a first bit block and may receive a second signaling for determining a second time-frequency resource group, the second time-frequency resource group being reserved for a second bit block. The UE transmits the first bit block in time-frequency resources in the first time frequency resource group excluding a first resource subgroup, and transmits the second bit block in the second time-frequency resource group. The first time-frequency resource group and the second time-frequency resource group may be partially overlapping where the first signaling is used to determine a first index group, the second signaling is used to determine a second index group. The first resource subgroup may be determined based on whether the first index group and the second index group belong to the same index set.

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

Time-sensitive transmission of ethernet traffic between endpoint network nodes
Patent No. 12537717

Inventor(s): Robert Dittmar (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): ADTRAN Networks SE (Meiningen, , DE)
Law Firm: Whitestone Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17842140 on 06/16/2022 (1321 days app to issue)

Abstract: There is provided a technique of time-sensitive transmission of Ethernet traffic in IET-blind network. A source endpoint network node receives expedited and non-expedited Ethernet frames; for each non-expedited Ethernet frame: detects a pre-provisioned designated non-expedited tunnel with a destination endpoint network node corresponding to a destination address specified in the Ethernet frame, segments non-expedited Ethernet frame into a plurality of segments, encapsulates each segment in accordance with the designated non-expedited tunnel; and sends the encapsulated segments to the destination endpoint network node via the designated non-expedited tunnel. When the designated non-expedited tunnel is constituted by a plurality of successive sub-tunnels (e.g. corresponding to a PDU-session of 5G), the technique further comprises initial encapsulating each segment in accordance with a first of successive sub-tunnels and, when swapping to a next sub-tunnel, relaying the encapsulation of each segment according to a network protocol characterizing the next sub-tunnel.

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

Automatic configuration of wireless connections between routers and wireless devices
Patent No. 12537740

Inventor(s): Bryan Pauling (Rochester, NY), Steven Smith (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19049965 on 02/10/2025 (351 days app to issue)

Abstract: The techniques described herein are directed to automatically configuring a wireless device (e.g., an extender or other type of CPE) to connect with and communicate with a wireless router without utilizing any in-line user pairing or input. The techniques include detecting the presence of a wireless device, determining that the wireless device is expected based on stored information (which may have been provisioned into the router), and configuring, based on the determination and the stored information, the router and/or the wireless device to communicate with each other. The router and/or the wireless device may validate the wireless device based on the stored information. A wireless device which has an established connection with the router may utilize the techniques described herein so that a chain of interconnected wireless devices may be automatically detected and auto-configured to provide wireless connectivity and service data delivery throughout a service location.

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

Gateway certificate management
Patent No. 12537811

Inventor(s): Yanko Torralba (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property L.L.P. (Atlanta, GA), Interwise Ltd. (Airport City, , IL)
Law Firm: Hartman Citrin LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18385424 on 10/31/2023 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: Gateway certificate management can include detecting, at a gateway device located at a premises, a connection between the gateway device and a user device located at the premises. The connection can be created to request communications between the user device and a resource that is not located at the premises. The gateway device can determine if a certificate should be issued for the communications and can analyze a profile associated with the user device and a context associated with the communications, wherein the context comprises information identifying a type of data to be communicated via the communications. The gateway device can generate the certificate, the certificate including custom certificate data including communication context data that defines the type of data. The gateway device can enable the communications to allow the user device to communicate with the resource via the gateway device to send and receive the type of data.

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

Authorization of multiple user identities
Patent No. 12537815

Inventor(s): Sergei Rodionov (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, , SG)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18508850 on 11/14/2023 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus can include an interface for receiving validation requests of a user. The apparatus can include processing circuitry coupled to the interface. The processing circuitry can receive a first validation request, the first validation request including a first virtual identity. The processing circuitry can provide, over the interface, a primary token responsive to validating the first virtual identity. The processing circuitry can provide the primary token upon validating that the subsequent validation requests correspond to the user responsive to receiving subsequent validation requests.

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

Systems and methods for remotely managing devices using out-of-band components
Patent No. 12537820

Inventor(s): Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, TX), Mohit Arora (Frisco, TX), Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, TX), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18649117 on 04/29/2024 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing operation of data processing systems are disclosed. To manage operations of the data processing system, a device management system may provide requests to perform management operations by the data processing system that may be obtained by out-of-band components of the data processing system via a cloud server. A determination may be made whether the management system has authority to manage the data processing system and based on authorization approval, the request to manage the data processing system may be managed by the out-of-band components of the data processing system to service the request and provide the desired computer-implemented services.

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

Securing interactive response systems from infiltration of artificial intelligence programs
Patent No. 12537825

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18222557 on 07/17/2023 (925 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for securing communications received at an automated chatbot within an entity network is provided. The method may enable securing the communications by monitoring inputs received at the automated chatbot in order to identify whether there may be a probability that the input is generated by an artificial intelligence (”AI”) program. The method may include receiving a request to initiate a chat session at the automated chatbot. Each input received at the automated chatbot may be simultaneously retrieved by a processor associated with the chatbot for verifying. Each input may be analyzed by an AI auditor application in comparison to trained data stored in an AI model. The trained data may include characteristics that may be associated with input generated by the AI program. When any inputs correspond to the trained data, the AI auditor may pause the chat session at the automated chatbot and/or terminate the chat session.

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

Managing data security using a management controller of a data processing system
Patent No. 12537829

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing operations of a data processing system are disclosed. To manage operations of the data processing system, a management controller of the data processing system may provide user access data for the data processing system obtained from hardware resources to a security manager. The management controller may obtain a response from the security manager based on the user access data. In a first instance of the obtaining where the response indicates that the data processing system is exhibiting a level of data vulnerability that meets criteria, the management controller may obtain a security policy comprising an action set for updating the operation of the data processing system. The management controller may perform the action set to update an existing operating state of the data processing system to a new operating state to reduce the level of data vulnerability exhibited by the data processing system.

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

Pattern discovery and data protection correlation
Patent No. 12537830

Inventor(s): Devecchio Turner (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Wood IP Law, LLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18651308 on 04/30/2024 (637 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses, systems, and media for implementing endpoint detection and response and data protection correlation are disclosed. A correlation engine receives a data stream from multiple sources and one or more patterns. A processor analyzes the data to relate an event to the one or more patterns and executes a policy when the event matches the one or more patterns to identify suspected encrypted data files. The processor transfers the suspected encrypted data files and an encryption key to a controlled testing environment to use the encryption key to safely decrypt the suspected encrypted data files and to test the suspected encrypted data files to determine a potential network impact of executing each of the suspected encrypted files on the network. The processor detonates, from the controlled testing environment, the suspected data files confirmed during the testing to have a negative impact on the network.

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

Cybersecurity risk assessment and remediation tool
Patent No. 12537843

Inventor(s): Mohamed Seck (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876218 on 07/28/2022 (1279 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments pertain to cybersecurity assessment and remediation. A questionnaire comprising a set of questions can be generated and provided electronically to a device of a small business representative. In one instance, the questionnaire can be dynamically responsive to input to focus on questions relevant to a particular business. Responses to questions can be used to generate a score that captures cyberattack readiness and a recommendation to reduce cybersecurity risk. Further, tests can be executed on a technology stack of the business. Test results can then be employed as a basis to generate the score and recommendation.

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

Method and system for providing secure conversation gateway
Patent No. 12537862

Inventor(s): Nikhil Dhoble (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Greenblum Bernstein, P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17872482 on 07/25/2022 (1282 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a secure conversation gateway by which an audio voice stream is made to be replicable and convertible into other media types are provided. The method includes receiving an audio voice data stream; converting the received audio voice data stream into a predetermined media format; and transmitting the converted audio data stream to a user. The method may also include receiving an interaction event that corresponds to the audio data stream; generating metadata based on the interaction event; and applying a machine learning algorithm to the audio data stream and the metadata in order to generate a response that relates to the audio data stream. The method may also include replicating the audio data stream and distributing copies thereof to a set of recipients.

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

Smart services placement
Patent No. 12537869

Inventor(s): Richard Davis (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Dropbox, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Keller Preece PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18521557 on 11/28/2023 (791 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may obtain performance signals associated with at least one of a plurality of servers used in connection with performing a task. A system may provide the performance signals to a machine learning model. A system may receive as output from the machine learning model a health metric related to the at least one of the plurality of servers. A system may determine whether the health metric meets a migration condition. A system may, responsive to the health metric meeting the migration condition, initiate a reallocation of resources for performing the task, wherein the reallocation of resources includes migration of responsibility for performing the task to at least one other server of the plurality of servers.

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

Luma-based chroma intra-prediction for video coding
Patent No. 12537937

Inventor(s): Akira Osamoto (Plano, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18512471 on 11/17/2023 (802 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for luma-based chroma intra-prediction in a video encoder or a video decoder is provided that includes down sampling a first reconstructed luma block of a largest coding unit (LCU), computing parameters and of a linear model using immediate top neighboring reconstructed luma samples and left neighboring reconstructed luma samples of the first reconstructed luma block and reconstructed neighboring chroma samples of a chroma block corresponding to the first reconstructed luma block, wherein the linear model is Pred[subscript]C[/subscript][x,y]=Rec[subscript]L[/subscript][x,y]+, wherein x and y are sample coordinates, Pred[subscript]C [/subscript]is predicted chroma samples, and Rec[subscript]L[/subscript] is samples of the down sampled first reconstructed luma block, and wherein the immediate top neighboring reconstructed luma samples are the only top neighboring reconstructed luma samples used, and computing samples of a first predicted chroma block from corresponding samples of the down sampled first reconstructed luma block using the linear model and the parameters.

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

Video content delivery methods
Patent No. 12537953

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX), Mangesh Sadafale (Nagpur Maharashtra, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19298811 on 08/13/2025 (167 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of encoding a video stream in a video encoder is provided that includes computing an offset into a transform matrix based on a transform block size, wherein a size of the transform matrix is larger than the transform block size, and wherein the transform matrix is one selected from a group consisting of a DCT transform matrix and an IDCT transform matrix, and transforming a residual block to generate a DCT coefficient block, wherein the offset is used to select elements of rows and columns of a DCT submatrix of the transform block size from the transform matrix.

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

Video encoding and distribution methods
Patent No. 12537958

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX), Vivienne Sze (Cambridge, MA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19328418 on 09/15/2025 (134 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for encoding a video sequence is provided that includes entropy encoding syntax elements representative of transform coefficients generated as the video sequence is processed, wherein entropy encoding syntax elements representative of a transform coefficient includes binarizing the syntax elements representative of the transform coefficient to generate a plurality of binary symbols (bins), coding a portion of the plurality of bins in context coding mode, and coding a remaining portion of the plurality of bins in bypass coding mode. The method further includes reducing the number of bins that are coded in context coding mode for each transform coefficient in a plurality of subsequent transform coefficients that are entropy encoded after a specified number of transform coefficients have been entropy encoded.

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

Video coding and video distribution
Patent No. 12537971

Inventor(s): Minhua Zhou (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19302558 on 08/18/2025 (162 days app to issue)

Abstract: Motion compensation requires a significant amount of memory bandwidth, especially for smaller prediction unit sizes. The worst case bandwidth requirements can occur when bi-predicted 48 or 84 PUs are used. To reduce the memory bandwidth requirements for such smaller PUs, methods are provided for restricting inter-coded PUs of small block sizes to be coded only in a uni-predictive mode, i.e., forward prediction or backward prediction. More specifically, PUs of specified restricted sizes in bi-predicted slices (B slices) are forced to be uni-predicted.

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

Vertex motion vector predictor coding for vertex mesh (v-mesh)
Patent No. 12537973

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18479789 on 10/02/2023 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a communication interface configured to receive a compressed video bitstream and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The processor is configured to determine, for a vertex in the compressed video bitstream, one or more vertex neighbors based on a signaled limit to a number of the one or more vertex neighbors. The processor is also configured to identify, based on a vertex motion vector (VMV) identifier signaled in the compressed video bitstream, a VMV predictor from among a plurality of VMV predictors to use for the vertex. The processor is also configured to reconstruct a mesh frame based on the determined one or more vertex neighbors and the identified VMV predictor.

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

Systems and methods for mitigating radio-frequency latency wireless devices
Patent No. 12537991

Inventor(s): Kishore Tallapaneni (Flower Mound, TX), Maksym Shestirko (Addison, TX), Rammohan Somalraju (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): VIZIO, INC. (Irvine, CA)
Law Firm: POLSINELLI LLP (Local + 15 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18643740 on 04/23/2024 (644 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and method are provided for detecting latency in radio frequency connections. A computing device can detect, at a first time, light using an optical sensor and receive, at a second time, a first data packet over a connection with a first wireless device. The computing device may define a first signal latency value based on the first time and the second time. The computing device may then receive a media stream that includes a video component and an audio component and modify a presentation of the media stream by delaying the video component by a time interval based on the first signal latency value.

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

Systems and methods for protecting account information associated with a stolen mobile device
Patent No. 12538128

Inventor(s): Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, TX), Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, TX), Vassilis Pafilis (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18460943 on 09/05/2023 (875 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device of network may provide, to a secondary device, an identifier of a user equipment and a code for messaging, and may receive, from the secondary device and based on the code, target data identifying a target application to notify when the user equipment is stolen. The device may receive an indication of theft of the user equipment, and may block access of the identifier of the user equipment to the target application based on the indication.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Granularity of coordination groups (CGs) using sectorization
Patent No. 12538141

Inventor(s): Malcolm Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18062102 on 12/06/2022 (1148 days app to issue)

Abstract: Improved granularity of Coordination Groups (CGs) using sectorization may be provided. A plurality of sectors around a plurality of Access Points (APs) may be determined. Then, for each of the plurality of APs, it may be determined which sector client devices associated with each of the plurality of APs are in. Next, each of the plurality of APs may be caused to transmit to client devices in a first one of the plurality of sectors.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for configurable measurement resources and reporting
Patent No. 12538151

Inventor(s): Dalin Zhu (Richardson, TX), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18155715 on 01/17/2023 (1106 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for configurable measurement resources and reporting in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information for a set of reference signals (RSs) and receiving a dynamic indication for a subset of the set of RSs. The method further includes performing a first measurement of the subset of RSs and transmitting a first report based on the first measurement.

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

Traffic reconfiguration for user throughput
Patent No. 12538162

Inventor(s): Sanjay Baburao Waje (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17964707 on 10/12/2022 (1203 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices that relate to dynamically reconfiguration of network connections to achieve better user throughput are disclosed. In one example aspect, a device for wireless communication comprises a processor that is configured to obtain information regarding service sessions of a user equipment, determine a service type associated with the service sessions based on the information, and selectively reconfigure a network connection of the service type to satisfy a throughput requirement associated with the service type.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for dynamic cached service authorization information in a wireless network
Patent No. 12538183

Inventor(s): Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18194796 on 04/03/2023 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may receive a request for Quality of Service (”QoS”) parameter information associated with a particular User Equipment (”UE”). The system may include an exposure element of a core of a wireless network, such as a Network Exposure Function (”NEF”) or a Service Capability Exposure Function (”SCEF”). The system may indicate, to a user information repository of the wireless network, such as a Unified Data Management function (”UDM”) or a Unified Data Repository (”UDR”), that QoS parameter information associated with the particular UE should be provided. The system may receive, based on the indicating, particular QoS parameter information associated with the particular UE, and may output the received particular QoS parameter information associated with the particular UE in response to the request or may push such information as the QoS parameter information is updated.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatus for application service relocation for multimedia edge services
Patent No. 12538191

Inventor(s): Prakash Kolan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17836957 on 06/09/2022 (1328 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a includes a communication interface and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The communication interface receives signaling that indicates edge application service relocation for transferring a user equipment (UE) session for a UE to a target edge data network. The processor identifies an edge application service in the source edge data network processing media content corresponding to the UE session; generates a resource template for the edge application service including requirements for running the edge application service; transmits a request for the edge application service relocation to the target edge data network, the request including the resource template; and enables the edge application service relocation for the user equipment from the edge application service at the source edge data network to an edge application service at the target edge data network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

PER-IMSI APN OI replacement AVP parameters and suppression attribute settings for MIMM subscribers
Patent No. 12538213

Inventor(s): Mathew Mathew Kaippallimalil (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, TX)
Law Firm: Jones Robb PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18160493 on 01/27/2023 (1096 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for applying per-International Mobile Subscriber Identification (IMSI) Access Point Name (APN) Operator Identifier (OI) replacement for Multiple IMSI Multiple Mobile Subscriber Integrated Service Digital Network (MSISDN) subscribers comprises receiving, at a home subscriber server of a cellular network, an identification of a currently active IMSI for a cellular device. The cellular device is associated with a cellular service subscriber having multiple IMSIs and multiple MSISDNs, the multiple IMSIs comprise a primary IMSI and one or more secondary IMSIs, and each of the IMSIs has an associated roaming COS that includes a roaming restriction policy that allows or suppresses Voice Over LTE (VOLTE). In response to the currently active IMSI for the cellular device being a secondary IMSI, the method comprises applying the roaming restriction policy specified in the roaming COS of the secondary IMSI regardless of the roaming COS of the primary IMSI.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for enabling group-addressed frame reception at constrained non-AP MLDs
Patent No. 12538226

Inventor(s): Ahmed Atef Ibrahim Ibrahim (Plano, TX), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Peshal Nayak (Plano, TX), Rubayet Shafin (Allen, TX), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18045785 on 10/11/2022 (1204 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for facilitating the reception of group-addressed frames by multi-link devices (MLDs). A non-access point (AP) MLD comprises STAs, each comprising a transceiver configured to form a link with a corresponding AP of an AP MLD, and a processor. Each link has an associated predetermined time at which a group-addressed frame is expected to be received on the link, and a subset of the links are constrained links configured to operate in a constrained mode of operation. The processor is configured to, while the constrained links are operating in an active listening state in the constrained mode, determine to listen for the group-addressed frame on a first of the constrained links at the associated predetermined time, and after reception of the group-addressed frame on the first constrained link, return to listening on all of the constrained links in the constrained mode.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Power efficient radar operation for maximum permissible exposure compliance and uplink power reduction reporting
Patent No. 12538238

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Vutha Va (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17804977 on 06/01/2022 (1336 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining a set of signal quality measurements. The signal quality measurements correspond to reference signals, respectively, from among a plurality of reference signals received at an electronic device. The method includes determining whether a change in amplitude in the set of signal quality measurements satisfies a temporal condition. The method includes in response to a determination that the change in amplitude in the set of signal quality measurements satisfies the temporal condition, triggering the electronic device to perform radar operations to determine whether a location of an object in proximity to the electronic device satisfies a proximity condition. The method includes in response to a determination that the location of the object satisfies the proximity condition, changing a transmission parameter of uplink wireless signals to satisfy a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) of the object to radio frequency energy.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Excess slot-time re-farming
Patent No. 12538274

Abstract: Excess slot-time re-farming may be provided. A slot allocation may be received by a first Access Point (AP). Next, excess time in the slot allocation may be determined. Then wireless exchanges may be used to allocate the excess time in the slot allocation to a second AP.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and device in UE and base station for radio signal transmission in wireless communication
Patent No. 12538279

Inventor(s): Lu Wu (Shanghai, , CN), Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Apogee Networks, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Volpe Koenig (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18520582 on 11/28/2023 (791 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and a device are provided in a UE and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling, and operates a first radio signal in K time domain resource(s). The first signaling is used for determining the K time domain resource(s), K is a positive integer; the first radio signal carries a first bit block, a first time-domain-resource size and a target parameter are used for determining the size of the first bit block, at least one of the K time domain resource(s) is used for determining the first time-domain-resource size; the target parameter is a first or a second parameter; whether the target parameter is the first parameter or the second parameter is related to the first time-domain-resource size, or, whether the target parameter is the first parameter or the second parameter is related to the K; the operating action is transmitting or receiving.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Peripheral circuits for low voltage programmable non-volatile memory
Patent No. 12538480

Inventor(s): Devraj Rajagopal (Bangalore, , IN), Krishnanunni B (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876834 on 07/29/2022 (1278 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes core circuits configured to operate at a core bias potential, input/output (I/O) circuits configured to operate at an I/O bias potential higher than the core bias potential, and a non-volatile memory having a peripheral circuit configured to operate at a memory program bias potential that is higher than the I/O bias potential. The peripheral circuit is also configured to operate at the core bias potential. The peripheral circuit has an input buffer; a threshold potential at an input buffer input node of the input buffer is less than the core bias potential. The peripheral circuit may be manifested as a low voltage supply detection circuit. The peripheral circuit may be manifested as a level shifter circuit. The peripheral circuit may be manifested as a sense circuit. The input buffer may include a drain extended core transistor to provide the desired threshold potential.

[H10B] ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES

Metallization in integrated circuits
Patent No. 12538726

Inventor(s): Frances Ooi (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18085183 on 12/20/2022 (1134 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described examples include a method for forming an integrated circuit, the method including depositing a metal layer including aluminum and copper over a semiconductor substrate and forming a patterned photoresist layer over the metal layer. The method also including etching the metal layer to produce a patterned metal layer and ashing the patterned photoresist layer in a plasma provided in a process chamber sourced with a gas flow having an N2/O2 ratio of at least 15%.

[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]

Integrated wet clean for epitaxial growth
Patent No. 12538737

Inventor(s): Brian K. Kirkpatrick (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17859752 on 07/07/2022 (1300 days app to issue)

Abstract: Exemplary integrated cluster tools may include a factory interface including a first transfer robot. The tools may include a wet clean system coupled with the factory interface at a first side of the wet clean system. The tools may include a load lock chamber coupled with the wet clean system at a second side of the wet clean system opposite the first side of the wet clean system. The tools may include a first transfer chamber coupled with the load lock chamber. The first transfer chamber may include a second transfer robot. The tools may include a dry etch chamber coupled with the first transfer chamber. The tools may include a second transfer chamber coupled with the first transfer chamber. The second transfer chamber may include a third transfer robot. The tools may include a process chamber coupled with the second transfer chamber.

Ball bonding for semiconductor devices
Patent No. 12538833

Inventor(s): Jiafeng Liao (Chengdu, , CN), Tingting Yu (Chengdu, , CN), Xiao Lin Kang (Chengdu, , CN), Xiaoling Kang (Chengdu, , CN), Ye Zhuang (Chengdu, , CN), Zi Qi Wang (Deyang, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18113797 on 02/24/2023 (1068 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having a die surface, in which the die surface includes a bond pad. A ball bond has a distal surface and flattened-disk shape extending from the distal surface and terminating in a proximal surface spaced apart from the distal surface. The distal surface is coupled to the bond pad and a channel extends a depth into the proximal surface surrounding a central portion of the proximal surface. A bond wire extending from the central portion of the proximal surface, in which the channel is spaced apart from and surrounds the bond wire.

DESIGN PATENTS

Sweat shirt garment hoodie having a head hair band
Patent No. D1109981

Inventor(s): Brian K. Reaux (Red Oak, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29793523 on 03/10/2023 (1054 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Shelving unit
Patent No. D1110083

Inventor(s): Dylan Tyler Ritchie (Carlsbad, CA)
Assignee(s): Kaprock Management LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: Definitive Patents, member Synchrony IP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29951838 on 07/11/2024 (565 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Object holder
Patent No. D1110117

Inventor(s): Robert Elliott Barbour, Jr. (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: QuickPatents (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29978712 on 12/13/2024 (410 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Container
Patent No. D1110170

Inventor(s): Federico Casotto (Milan, , IT), Klaus Rosburg (New York, NY)
Assignee(s): Frito-Lay North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29935830 on 04/03/2024 (664 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle wheel
Patent No. D1110231

Inventor(s): Alberto Echazabal (Prosper, TX), Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota, , JP), Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29905169 on 10/17/2023 (833 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Combined wireless charger and speaker dock
Patent No. D1110300

Inventor(s): Jim Hu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Ni, Wang Massand, PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29784362 on 05/19/2021 (1714 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen with graphical user interface
Patent No. D1110338

Inventor(s): Nicholas Philip Goodrich (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC. (Pittsburgh, PA)
Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29902119 on 09/08/2023 (872 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Greeting card and envelope
Patent No. D1110405

Inventor(s): Wotsa Valerie Klu Koutoglo (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Lantsa LLC (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Harper Bates LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29938102 on 04/18/2024 (649 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle trailer storage box
Patent No. D1110429

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (Roanoke, TX), Trent Collins (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29892614 on 05/19/2023 (984 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle boat assembly
Patent No. D1110430

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Casey Christensen Jens Christensen (Trenton, TX), Jory Sprowl (Howe, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Skylar Hagler (Anna,, TX), Terry Soward (Van Alstyne
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29926362 on 01/30/2024 (728 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle spoiler
Patent No. D1110432

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Jory Sprowl (Howe, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas,, 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: 29944803 on 05/30/2024 (607 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle underbody light assembly
Patent No. D1110433

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29959906 on 08/28/2024 (517 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle skid pad
Patent No. D1110434

Inventor(s): Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Trent Collins (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29966298 on 10/01/2024 (483 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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