Patented: Bank of America’s System for Navigating a Virtual Lounge in the Metaverse and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of March 18 with a total of 109 patents granted.

This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • 7-Eleven's system for determining product theft information using magnetic sensors
  • Alcon's full depth of focus intraocular lens
  • AT&T's systems and devices for configuring a federated blockchain network
  • Coinbase's systems and methods for performing two-tiered multi-party computation signing procedures to perform blockchain operations
  • First Orion's IP-enabled information delivery
  • General Electric's aircraft conflict detection and resolution
  • Huawei Technologies' semiconductor laser with a mode expansion layer
  • OL Security's system and method for migrating agents between mobile devices
  • OxeFit's pacing lighting system for strength training apparatus
  • Reliance Jio Infocomm USA's automated bot for error-free racking-stacking
  • State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance's senior living engagement and care support platforms
  • The University of Texas at Dallas' nanowire-based interconnects for sub-millimeter wave integrated circuit applications


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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 3/18/2025  |  Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 

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


NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 14
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 10
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 2
E: Fixed Constructions 8
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 7
G: Physics 26
H: Electricity 32

DESIGN: 8
REISSUE: 2


TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 15
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 5
Delta Faucet Co. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 4
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 4
AT&T Intellectual Property I L.P. (Atlanta) 3
Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland) 3
7-Eleven Inc. (Irving) 3
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 3
True Velocity IP Holdings Inc. (Garland) 3

Unassigned 5


TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS) 

Peyton Michele Hartis (Sachse) 4
Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina) 3
Mark Gerard (Plano) 2
Matthew O’Daniel Redmond (Denton) 2
Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton) 2
Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano) 2


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