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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of Sept. 3, 2024 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

151 patents granted
Ranked No. 8 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 11
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 10
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 5
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 3
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 9
G: PHYSICS 51
H: ELECTRICITY 40

DESIGN: 22

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 21
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 8
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, NC) 5
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 5
Traxxas L.P. (McKinney) 5
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, VA) 3
Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson) 3
ATT Intellectual Property I L.P. (Atlanta, GA) 2
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 2

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Rebecca Hadley (Flower Mound) 13
Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 5
Kent Poteet (Lucas) 5
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 5
Casey Christen Jens Christensen (McKinney) 4
Skylar Hagler (Anna) 4
Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove) 3
Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm) 2
Madhukar Budagavi (Plano) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Offset concave threshing bars
Patent No. 12075730

Inventor(s): Brian G. Robertson (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18376638 on 10/04/2023 (335 days app to issue)

Abstract: A concave for a combine harvester is disclosed having a first side support member and a second side support member, and a threshing bar secured to the first and second side support members, wherein the threshing bar is at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the first and second side support members. The threshing bar may be disposed between the first and second side support members.

[A01F] THRESHING (combines A01D 41/00); BALING OF STRAW, HAY OR THE LIKE; STATIONARY APPARATUS OR HAND TOOLS FOR FORMING OR BINDING STRAW, HAY OR THE LIKE INTO BUNDLES; CUTTING OF STRAW, HAY OR THE LIKE; STORING AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE (arrangements for making or setting stacks in connection with harvesting A01D 85/00)

Pet kennel and method of construction
Patent No. 12075751

Inventor(s): David Veness (Fort Worth, TX), Michael Harper (Fort Worth, TX), Ryan Paxson (Elk Rapids, MI)
Assignee(s): DOSKOCIL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC. (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: GLOBAL IP COUNSELORS, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17242642 on 04/28/2021 (1224 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pet kennel and method of construction is disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the pet kennel includes a body and a door assembly. The body has an interior space configured for a pet and includes at least one aperture sized and shaped for the pet. The door assembly is attached to the body at the aperture. The door assembly includes a latching part pivotally attached to a hinge part. The latching part includes a latching mechanism configured to lock and unlock the door assembly. The hinge part is fixedly attached to the body so as to substantially surround a perimeter of the aperture.

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

Method and system for measuring optical parameters
Patent No. 12076085

Inventor(s): George Hunter Pettit (Fort Worth, TX), John Alfred Campin (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17113611 on 12/07/2020 (1366 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of verifying ophthalmic measurements includes obtaining, via an ophthalmic measurement device, a first measurement of at least one ophthalmic parameter over a first measurement area. The first measurement area corresponds to an unassisted visible area of a patient”s eye. A second measurement of the at least one ophthalmic parameter over a second measurement area is obtained via the measurement device. The second measurement area corresponds to an assisted visible area of the patient”s eye. The first measurement is compared to the second measurement. It is determined if the second measurement diverges from the first measurement. Responsive to a determination that the second measurement diverges from the first measurement, an alert that the second measurement is inaccurate is generated. Responsive to a determination that the second measurement does not diverge from the first measurement, the second measurement is accepted as accurate.

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

Wearable biosensors with room temperature ionic liquid buffer
Patent No. 12076143

Inventor(s): Shalini Prasad (Allen, TX), Sriram Muthukumar (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX), EnLiSense, LLC (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Aambell PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16124164 on 09/06/2018 (2189 days app to issue)

Abstract: A biosensor device includes a porous substrate, where the substrate comprises semiconductor elements functionalized to conjugate with a particular analyte, the semiconductor elements are embedded within at least a portion of the substrate, and the substrate is to absorb fluid capable of carrying the particular analyte. The device further includes two or more electrodes attached to the substrate to correspond to the portion of the substrate, where the portion of the substrate further comprises Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid (RTIL).

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

Implants for spinal fixation and or fusion
Patent No. 12076251

Inventor(s): Isador H. Lieberman (Plano, TX), Jeffrey B. Phelps (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): SI-Bone Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Shay Glenn LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17649296 on 01/28/2022 (949 days app to issue)

Abstract: Bone implants, including methods of use and assembly. The bone implants, which are optionally composite implants, generally include a distal anchoring region and a growth region that is proximal to the distal anchoring region. The distal anchoring region can have one or more distal surface features that adapt the distal anchoring region for anchoring into iliac bone. The growth region can have one or more growth features that adapt the growth region to facilitate at least one of bony on-growth, in-growth, or through-growth. The implants may be positioned along a posterior sacral alar-iliac (”SAI”) trajectory. The implants may be coupled to one or more bone stabilizing constructs, such as rod elements thereof.

[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]

Computerized oral prescription administration devices and associated systems and methods
Patent No. 12076517

Inventor(s): Christy Corey (Fishers, IN), Susan B. Owen (Dallas, TX), Thomas M. Rouse (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Berkshire Biomedical Corporation (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17379262 on 07/19/2021 (1142 days app to issue)

Abstract: Computerized oral prescription administration (COPA) devices, systems, and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a method of managing substance administration is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a substance management system, a dosage instruction for administering a substance to an intended user through a mouthpiece including a recess sized and shaped to receive a unique dentition of the intended user; receiving, by the substance management system, activity information associated with administering the substance to the intended user; and generating, by the substance management system, a record based on the received activity information.

[A61M] DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D 7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F 13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J 1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L; magnetotherapy using magnetic elements placed within the body A61N 2/10); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR [5]

Systems and methods for providing digital health services
Patent No. 12076552

Inventor(s): Anahita Kyani (Plano, TX), Binesh Balasingh (Prosper, TX), Douglas Alfred Lautner (Frisco, TX), Erika Ross (Dallas, TX), Kyuwan Choi (Plano, TX), Mary Khun Hor-Lao (Prosper, TX), Scott DeBates (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17891078 on 08/18/2022 (747 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to providing digital health services. In some embodiments, systems and methods for conducting virtual or remote sessions between patients and clinicians are disclosed. During the sessions, media content (e.g., images, video content, audio content, etc.) may be captured as the patient performs one or more tasks. The media content may be presented to the clinician and used to evaluate a condition of the patient or a state of the condition, adjust treatment parameters, provide therapy, or other operations to treat the patient. The analysis of the media content may be aided by one or more machine learning/artificial intelligence models that analyze various aspects of the media content, augment the media content, or other functionality to aid in the treatment of the patient.

[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]

Medication disposal apparatus and methods of manufacture and use
Patent No. 12076598

Inventor(s): Jorge Casas-Ganem (Dallas, TX), Joshua Haney (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): SURGICAL DEVICE INNOVATIONS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17467788 on 09/07/2021 (1092 days app to issue)

Abstract: A medication disposal apparatus includes a collection chamber to receive a medication having an active agent. The collection chamber includes a receiver having a one-way opening. The one-way opening receives the medication in the collection chamber and to impede the medication from exiting the collection chamber through the receiver. The collection chamber includes a first converter to receive the medication and/or convert the medication into a plurality of particles. The first converter is housed in the collection chamber and/or may receive the medication from the collection chamber. The first converter has a grinder with a plurality of rollers operable to convert the medication into the plurality of particles. The first converter includes a motor powered by a power source. The apparatus includes a reservoir fastened to the collection chamber and apparatus includes a second converter.

[A62D] CHEMICAL MEANS FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRES; PROCESSES FOR MAKING HARMFUL CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES HARMLESS, OR LESS HARMFUL, BY EFFECTING A CHEMICAL CHANGE; COMPOSITION OF MATERIALS FOR COVERINGS OR CLOTHING FOR PROTECTING AGAINST HARMFUL CHEMICAL AGENTS; COMPOSITION OF MATERIALS FOR TRANSPARENT PARTS OF GAS-MASKS, RESPIRATORS, BREATHING BAGS OR HELMETS; COMPOSITION OF CHEMICAL MATERIALS FOR USE IN BREATHING APPARATUS

Motorized strength training apparatus with selectable force multiplication
Patent No. 12076600

Inventor(s): Peter Neuhaus (Pensacola Beach, FL)
Assignee(s): OxeFit, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18428098 on 01/31/2024 (216 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exercise apparatus includes a cable, a motor configured to apply a tension to the cable, a first pulley, a second pulley, a first connection point configured to selectively redirect the cable through a gap between the first pulley and the second pulley such that the first connection point experiences a first force corresponding to double the tension, and a second connection point coupled to the cable and experiencing a second force corresponding to the tension.

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

Iron type golf club head and set
Patent No. 12076624

Inventor(s): John Kendall (Wylie, TX), Justin Honea (Richardson, TX), Matthew Brian Neeley (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)
Law Firm: Dawsey Co., LPA (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17892583 on 08/22/2022 (743 days app to issue)

Abstract: An iron-type golf club head and set having a passageway extending from a closed void behind the face and accessible from an exterior of the body.

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

System and method for detecting and confirming fall events
Patent No. 12080141

Inventor(s): Charles W. Roark (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Zebra Technologies Corporation (Lincolnshire, IL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18070750 on 11/29/2022 (644 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example server includes a memory configured to store sensor data from a plurality of sensors in a facility; a communications interface; and a processor interconnected with the memory and the communications interface, the processor configured to: in response to receiving, via the communications interface, an event indicator from a source sensor of a client device: identify a subset of the plurality of sensors based on the event indicator; retrieve and correlate the sensor data from the identified subset of the plurality of sensors in the facility; detect a candidate event associated with a user of the client device from the correlated sensor data; and when the candidate event is detected, send an event notification to the client device.

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

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

Building liquid flow-through plates
Patent No. 12076805

Inventor(s): James S. Wilson (Hurst, TX), Trae M. Blain (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: CANTOR COLBURN LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17103368 on 11/24/2020 (1379 days app to issue)

Abstract: A process for building a high-performance liquid flow-through plate is provided and includes providing a substrate formed of metal matrix composite (MMC) material, metallizing a surface of the substrate to reform the surface into a metallized surface, placing a braze foil on the metallized surface and executing a high-temperature and high-pressure bake whereby material of the braze foil diffuses into the metallized surface.

[B23K] SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM (making metal-coated products by extruding metal B21C 23/22; building up linings or coverings by casting B22D 19/08; casting by dipping B22D 23/04; manufacture of composite layers by sintering metal powder B22F 7/00; arrangements on machine tools for copying or controlling B23Q; covering metals or covering materials with metals, not otherwise provided for C23C; burners F23D)

Device and method for cutting a continuous fiber 3D printing filament
Patent No. 12076927

Inventor(s): Thomas Bougher (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): TCPoly, Inc. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17559890 on 12/22/2021 (986 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for cutting a filament of a 3D printer includes a blade having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The device also includes a support that is attachable to a heater block of the 3D printer and supports the blade, such that the blade is movable relative to the heater block. The first end of the blade is a cutting end, and the second end of the blade is a drive end. The drive end of the blade has a surface configured to receive a force from outside of the device, such that the blade moves relative to the heater block.

[B29C] SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B 11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B 37/00-B32B 41/00) [4]

Method of making optical articles having gradient light influencing properties
Patent No. 12076951

Inventor(s): Philip Miller (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Transitions Optical, Inc. (Pinellas Park, FL)
Law Firm: The Webb Law Firm (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15767370 on 10/30/2015 (3231 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of making an optical article having a gradient tint and a gradient polarization. The method includes contacting one or more dye compositions including at least one of a dichroic dye, a photochromic-dichroic dye, or any combination thereof, with an optical element having a continuous coating including at least one alignment zone. At least a portion of the dye composition diffuses into the coating at a predetermined concentration gradient along at least a portion of the coating.

[B29D] PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B 9/00; making preforms B29B 11/00) [4]

Apparatus and method for performing an action associated with a driver input indicated via an input modality of a human machine interface of a vehicle
Patent No. 12077160

Inventor(s): Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Hiroshi Yokoyama (Tokyo, , JP)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17090392 on 11/05/2020 (1398 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to driver interaction with a user interface of a vehicle. In particular, the present disclosure relates to an apparatus for performing an action associated with a driver input indicated via an input modality of an HMI of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to receive initial data corresponding to an initial driver input via a first input modality of the HMI of the vehicle, compare a confidence level of the initial data to a confidence level threshold associated with the first input modality of the HMI of the vehicle, request, based on the comparison, a subsequent driver input via a second input modality of the HMI of the vehicle, determine a presence of an adverse condition within a vehicle environment, and perform an action associated with the subsequent driver input based on the presence of the adverse condition within the vehicle environment.

[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]

Compensating mismatch in abnormal driving behavior detection
Patent No. 12077174

Inventor(s): Emrah Akin Sisbot (Menlo Park, CA), Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17894320 on 08/24/2022 (741 days app to issue)

Abstract: Compensation can be made for mismatch in abnormal driving behavior detection between an ego vehicle and its human driver. Sensor data of a surrounding driving environment can be acquired. The acquired sensor data can be analyzed to detect abnormal driving behavior by a vehicle in the surrounding driving environment. Responsive to detecting abnormal driving behavior by the vehicle in the surrounding driving environment, the abnormal driving behavior can be classified as to whether it is severe. If the abnormal driving behavior is classified as not being severe, an amplified version of the abnormal driving behavior can be caused to be presented to the human driver of the ego vehicle.

Automated tie marking
Patent No. 12077197

Inventor(s): Lisa Marie Kelly (Weatherford, TX), Michael James Brick (Fort Worth, TX), Richard William Keller (Spokane Valley, WA), Samuel Minton (Brandon, SD)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17815429 on 07/27/2022 (769 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for automating railroad maintenance for a tie gang using electronic tie marking (ETM) configured to optimize railroad asset maintenance. The system enables the automating of an adaptive maintenance process for the asset that is being maintainanced. The system can identify a railroad asset scheduled for maintenance using various forms of inspection including real-time kinematic (RTK)-corrected GPS data, radar signal processing data, and real-time imaging. The system also provides for the acquisition and upload of asset pictures for verification and analysis of a railroad asset. The system can identify a next location to perform maintenance and can calculate an optimum path based on sensor input incorporating machine-specific and environmental characteristics. The system further can provide a customizable user interface to identify, track, and process information related to maintenance of the railroad asset.

[B61K] OTHER AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT FOR RAILWAYS (energy-storing brakes B61H; protection of permanent way against weather influences E01B; rail cleaning, snow ploughs E01H)

Winged drone with adjustable center of gravity for carrying a payload
Patent No. 12077286

Inventor(s): Matthew W. Townsend (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Sheri Higgins Law, PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17652705 on 02/28/2022 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: A drone can be used to carry a payload. The drone can include at least two wings extending from a fuselage and propellers that allow the drone to fly in a horizontal orientation. The drone can takeoff and land from a vertical orientation via landing rods at the rear of the fuselage. The drone also includes an adjustable center of gravity and/or an adjustable center of lift. The center of gravity can be adjusted by changing the weight of payload located fore and aft of the center of gravity or moving at least a portion of the payload fore or aft along the fuselage. The center of lift can be adjusted by swinging the wings away from or towards the fuselage or sliding the wings fore or aft along the fuselage such that the center of lift is adjacent to the center of gravity.

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

Supplemental engine transition control
Patent No. 12077308

Inventor(s): Charles Eric Covington (Colleyville, TX), Chia-Wei Su (Lewisville, TX), Darren Gregory Lang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17721015 on 04/14/2022 (873 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operating a multi-engine drive system of an aircraft includes driving a main rotor of the aircraft by a main engine of the multi-engine drive system at an operating speed of the main engine, operating a supplemental engine of the multi-engine drive system at approximately 80% of an operating speed of the supplemental engine, wherein, during the operating step, a clutch interoperably coupled to the supplemental engine is interoperably decoupled from the main rotor and, responsive to a command to interoperably engage the clutch, if the clutch successfully engages such that the clutch is interoperably coupled to the main rotor, providing, by the supplemental engine, power to the main rotor.

[B64D] EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT

CloudPick put-to-light picking system
Patent No. 12077382

Inventor(s): Drew Jolesch (Dallas, TX), Kevin Ragsdale (Dallas, TX), Kirk Williams (Dallas, TX), Mark Fuentes (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PFSWEB, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: KLEMCHUK PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17155045 on 01/21/2021 (1321 days app to issue)

Abstract: A picking system may provide a fast, flexible pick cart solution that may be deployed in warehouses or distribution centers to enable users to pick multiple items to put into a plurality of order bins (or carts) with high speed and accuracy to create completed orders ready for packing and shipping. Hardware and software may be bundled on the carts which may shorten training times, simplify integration, and allow for adjustment of carts based on product/items needs, all while improving picking efficiency. The picking system may include a cloud-based computer platform that may control light and displays in the lighted pick shelves that direct users to place a specified quantity of items in specific order bins. Users in remote locations may be linked to the cloud-based computer platform that may control lighted pick shelves in the users” locations.

[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)

Driving automation device to mitigate the risk of other road users
Patent No. 12079702

Inventor(s): Benjamin P. Austin (Saline, MI), John K. Lenneman (Okemos, MI), Joshua E. Domeyer (Madison, WI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17103096 on 11/24/2020 (1379 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for a host vehicle to assess risk for road users is disclosed. The host vehicle monitors its surrounding driving environment and sends alerts to road users if a threat is detected. The host vehicle can determine the best course of action to mitigate a threat, and coordinate such action. The host vehicle comprises processing circuitry configured to perform the foregoing tasks. Further, the host vehicle may use a machine learning-based system comprising a trained neural network.

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

AAV vectors targeted to oligodendrocytes
Patent No. 12076351

Inventor(s): Steven Gray (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16511913 on 07/15/2019 (1877 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention relates to chimeric AAV capsids targeted to oligodendrocytes and virus vectors comprising the same. The invention further relates to methods of delivering a nucleic acid of interest to an oligodendrocyte in vitro and in vivo, methods of delivering a nucleic acid of interest to an area of the CNS bordering a compromised blood-brain barrier, and methods of treating disorders associated with oligodendrocyte dysfunction using the AAV capsids and virus vectors of the invention.

[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]

Indane derivatives as hypoxia inducible factor-2() inhibitors
Patent No. 12077506

Inventor(s): Yan Lou (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): NiKang Therapeutics, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Law Firm: Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17286818 on 10/16/2019 (1784 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides certain indane compounds that are Hypoxia Inducible Factor 2 (HIF-2) inhibitors and are therefore useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of HIF-2. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and processes for preparing such compounds.

[C07D] HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (macromolecular compounds C08) [2]

Polymer modified asphalt for industrial applications
Patent No. 12077668

Inventor(s): Denis Muki Tibah (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17366498 on 07/02/2021 (1159 days app to issue)

Abstract: This invention provides for a method for producing polymer modified asphalt (PMA) using base asphalt (bitumen) blended with partially air blown (”puffed”) asphalt which is further modified with polymers and additives to attain desired properties for industrial applications. The partially blown or blown asphalt is oxidized to a target softening point to suit the application. In another embodiment, the base asphalt is blended with hard PEN asphalt (”Zero PEN Asphalt”) which is further modified with polymers and additives to attain desired properties for industrial applications. By using the partially oxidized asphalt or blending the base asphalt with partially oxidized asphalt or hard PEN asphalt, the amount of polymers and additives needed to achieve desired properties and performance are significantly reduced. In fact, this technique can be used to attain polymer modified asphalt having a highly desirable combination of characteristics that could not otherwise be attained using the base asphalt.

[C08L] COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS (compositions based on polymerisable monomers C08F, C08G; artificial filaments or fibres D01F; textile treating compositions D06) [2]

Transgene cassettes, AAV vectors and AAV viral vectors for the expression of human codon-optimized SLC6A1
Patent No. 12077772

Inventor(s): Frances C. Shaffo (Dallas, TX), Steven J. Gray (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: DLA Piper LLP US (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17092240 on 11/07/2020 (1396 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases and genetic disorders linked to SLC6A1 loss and/or misfunction. The methods and compositions of the present disclosure comprise rAAV vectors and rAAV viral vectors comprising transgene nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding for a GAT1 polypeptide.

Non-pyrophoric hydrogen storage alloys and hydrogen storage systems using the alloys
Patent No. 12077838

Inventor(s): Baoquan Huang (Troy, MI)
Assignee(s): Harnyss IP , LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18310841 on 05/02/2023 (490 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-pyrophoric AB[subscript]2[/subscript]-type Laves phase hydrogen storage alloy and hydrogen storage systems using the alloy. The alloy has an A-site to B-site elemental ratio of no more than about 0.5. The alloy has an alloy composition including about (in at %): Zr: 2.0-5.5, Ti: 27-31.3, V: 8.3-9.9, Cr: 20.6-30.5, Mn: 25.4-33.0, Fe: 1.0-5.9, Al: 0.1-0.4, and/or Ni: 0.0-4.0. The hydrogen storage system has one or more hydrogen storage alloy containment vessels with the alloy disposed therein.

[C22C] ALLOYS (treatment of alloys C21D, C22F)

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

Colored roofing membrane with improved solar reflectance
Patent No. 12077965

Inventor(s): Linlin Xing (Wayne, NJ), Thomas John Taylor (West Nyack, NY)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17820936 on 08/19/2022 (746 days app to issue)

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of a thermoplastic polyolefin membrane are provided. The colored TPO membrane can have a cap layer having a top color layer and a white sub-layer having a solar reflectance underneath the top color layer, and a core layer underneath the cap layer. The colored TPO roofing membrane can have a reinforcing polyester scrim between the cap layer and the core layer. The white sub-layer can be made up of one or more layers.

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

Fence post cover
Patent No. 12077979

Inventor(s): Amit Vali (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17568661 on 01/04/2022 (973 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fence post cover includes a hollow, U-shaped shell dimensioned to completely encapsulate the exposed portion of a buried fence post. The shell includes an open rear face with a flange outwardly extending from each of two sides. The flange is constructed with multiple, frangible sections that can be selectively detached from the remainder of the flange to create notches that align with the fence rails. Accordingly, the shell is positioned over a fence post and is secured to the fence to decoratively conceal the unsightly fence post and fastening hardware.

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

Fluid injection systems, apparatus, and methods including flexible hoses for wellhead sites
Patent No. 12078047

Inventor(s): Peter Middleton (Aledo, TX), Steven Post (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): FORUM US, INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18416596 on 01/18/2024 (229 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to fluid injection systems, apparatus, methods, and associated components thereof that include flexible hoses for wellhead sites. In one implementation, a fluid injection system for wellhead sites includes a pump, a pump manifold, and a flexible hose coupled between the pump and the pump manifold. The flexible hose includes a first end coupled to the pump and a second end coupled to the pump manifold. The first end of the flexible hose includes a first end fitting coupled to the pump, and the first end fitting is oriented at an angle relative to a horizontal plane. The second end of the flexible hose includes a second end fitting coupled to the pump manifold, and the second end fitting is oriented vertically and perpendicularly to the horizontal plane.

[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]

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

Gaseous fuel engine having non-axisymmetric fuel admission valve and method
Patent No. 12078129

Inventor(s): Naga Krishna Chaitanya Kavuri (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, IL)
Law Firm: Brannon Sowers Cracraft PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18082099 on 12/15/2022 (628 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gaseous fuel engine includes an engine housing having a cylinder block with a combustion cylinder therein, and an engine head including an intake port, an exhaust port, a fuel port, and an igniter bore, each extending to a fire deck. The gaseous fuel engine includes a fuel admission valve movable to close and open the fuel port. A non-axisymmetric clearance is defined between an inner port surface and the fuel admission valve and directionally biases a flow of gaseous fuel from the fuel port. Related methodology is also disclosed.

[F02M] SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF (charging such engines F02B)

Gearbox lubrication system for an aircraft
Patent No. 12078239

Inventor(s): William Wolcott (Burleson, TX)
Assignee(s): Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD)
Law Firm: Michael Best Friedrich LLP (10 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17973134 on 10/25/2022 (679 days app to issue)

Abstract: A lubricant system includes a first gearbox defining a first internal cavity, a second gearbox defining a second internal cavity, a first lubricant cooler positioned external the first and second internal cavities, a second lubricant cooler positioned external the first and second internal cavities, and a plurality of fluid passages fluidly connecting the first lubricant cooler and second lubricant coolers to each of the first gearbox and the second gearbox. The first lubricant cooler and the second lubricant cooler are configured to hold lubricant. The fluid passages include a first main fluid passage fluidly connecting the first lubricant cooler to the first gearbox, a second main fluid passage fluidly connecting the second lubricant cooler to the second gearbox, a first auxiliary passage fluidly connecting the first lubricant cooler to the second gearbox, and a second auxiliary passage fluidly connecting the second lubricant cooler to the first gearbox.

[F16H] GEARING

Combustion oven
Patent No. 12078359

Inventor(s): Alexander K. Maghsadi (Lewisville, TX), Jeffrey R. Weilert (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Solo Brands, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17490442 on 09/30/2021 (1069 days app to issue)

Abstract: An oven is provided, which includes a domed ceiling, a baking stone located below the domed ceiling, a cooking chamber between the domed ceiling and the baking stone, a front opening that provides access to the cooking chamber for food and utensils, a combustion chamber adjacent to, and at least partially below, the cooking chamber, and a rear opening that provides access to the combustion chamber.

[F24C] OTHER DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION (radiator stoves of the fluid-circulating type F24H)

Error correction for predictive schedules for a thermostat
Patent No. 12078366

Inventor(s): Janathkumar Manohararaj (Mckinney, TX), Payam Delgoshaei (Addison, TX), Sridhar Venkatesh (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18328627 on 06/02/2023 (459 days app to issue)

Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control device is configured to record a plurality of actual occupancy statuses, to determine a plurality of corresponding predicted occupancy statuses, and to compare the plurality of predicted occupancy statuses to the plurality of actual occupancy statuses. The device is further configured to identify conflicting occupancy statuses based on the comparison. A conflicting occupancy status indicates a difference between an actual occupancy status and a corresponding predicted occupancy status. The device is further configured to identify timestamps corresponding with the conflicting occupancy statuses, to identify historical occupancy statuses corresponding with the identified timestamps, and to update the conflicting occupancy statuses in the predicted occupancy schedule with the historical occupancy statuses.

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

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for gas leak detection
Patent No. 12078368

Inventor(s): Aoife Celoria (Quinlan, TX), Philip Foster (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17345694 on 06/11/2021 (1180 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for monitoring gas leaks are disclosed herein. An example Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) may comprise: a sampling tube fluidly coupled to a first opening defined in a conduit; and a sensor assembly fluidly coupled to the sampling tube. The sampling tube is positioned exterior to the conduit and extending along a direction of a gravitation force. The sensor assembly is configured to receive one or more gases that have a greater density in comparison to the ambient air and sense the one or more gases to generate a signal.

HVAC system with improved operation of a single-stage compressor during a peak demand response
Patent No. 12078374

Inventor(s): Rohini Brahme (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17654342 on 03/10/2022 (908 days app to issue)

Abstract: An HVAC system is configured to regulate a temperature of a space. The HVAC system includes a single-stage compressor configured to compress a refrigerant used to cool air provided to the space and a controller communicatively coupled to the single-stage compressor. The controller determines that a demand response time period is starting at a start time. After determining that the demand response time period is starting at the start time, an operation schedule is determined indicating alternating portions of the demand response period during which the single-stage compressor is to be turned off and turned on. At or after the start time of the demand response time period, the controller begins operating the single-stage compressor according to the determined operation schedule.

Determination of blower flow rate
Patent No. 12078375

Inventor(s): Rakesh Goel (Irving, TX), Shiliang Wang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18341043 on 06/26/2023 (435 days app to issue)

Abstract: An HVAC system includes a blower, a motor drive, and a controller. A benchmark rate of the flow of air provided by the blower and a corresponding benchmark power output of the motor drive associated with operation of the blower at a test condition are received. The controller determines a first motor drive frequency at which the motor drive is operating. Based on the benchmark rate and a comparison of the first motor drive frequency to the predefined motor drive frequency, a first rate of the flow of air provided by the blower is determined. At a later time, a current power output of the motor drive is determined during operation of the blower at the test condition. Based on a comparison of the current benchmark power output to the benchmark power output, an updated benchmark rate of the flow of air provided by the blower is determined.

Magnetic gun mount
Patent No. 12078437

Inventor(s): Ronald Eugene Featherston, Jr. (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): AnP Designs, LLC (Sachse, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18351379 on 07/12/2023 (419 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure describes a system, and apparatus for securely mounting a firearm, while maintaining to ability to load, unload, and draw the firearm from the mount with a single hand. This is accomplished using a mount that is customized to conform to a specific model of firearm, ensuring a snug fit of the firearm within the mount. Magnetic retention secures the firearm in place in the mount. Modern, magazine fed handguns can be loaded and unloaded simply by moving the slide. Cycling the slide causes it to extract a round from the chamber (if a round is present) when the slide traverses rearward relative to the receiver. A new round is loaded from the magazine when the slide traverses forward relative to the receiver (if a loaded magazine is inserted).

[F41C] SMALLARMS, e.g. PISTOLS OR RIFLES (projecting missiles without use of explosive or combustible propellant charge F41B); ACCESSORIES THEREFOR [5]

Systems and methods for sighting firearms
Patent No. 12078453

Inventor(s): Wayne B. Morgan (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): Range Tactics LLC (Oconomowoc, WI)
Law Firm: Suiter Swantz IP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18204689 on 06/01/2023 (460 days app to issue)

Abstract: A boresighting system may include a laser boresight device and a parallax mitigation device. The laser boresight device may include a casing for loading into a chamber of a firearm in place of a bolt carrier group, where the casing accepts a laser device for generating a laser beam within an interior cavity of the casing. The parallax mitigation device may include a housing for securing to an optical sight and a central position indicator providing a visual indication of a central position of the optical sight. Boresighting may be provided by adjusting an eye position to view a laser spot on a target associated with the laser beam at the central position of the optical sight based on the central position indicator and adjusting the optical sight to overlap an alignment reference provided by the optical sight with the laser spot at the central position of the optical sight.

[F41G] WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING (optical aspects thereof G02B)

P H Y S I C S

Volumetric budget based irrigation control
Patent No. 12075734

Inventor(s): Blake Snider (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Rain Bird Corporation (Azusa, CA)
Law Firm: Fitch, Even, Tabin Flannery LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17972331 on 10/24/2022 (680 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present embodiments provide systems, processes and/or methods of controlling irrigation. In some embodiments, methods are provided that receive ([b]4112[/b]) water usage information corresponding to a first volumetric water usage at a site location having an irrigation controller ([b]130[/b]), wherein the first volumetric water usage corresponds to volumetric water usage from a beginning of a budget period of time to a first time within the budget period of time; determine ([b]4114[/b]) automatically whether a volumetric water budget at the site location will be met for the budget period of time based on at least the first volumetric water usage, the volumetric water budget corresponding to a specified volume of water for use during the budget period of time; determine ([b]4116[/b]) automatically, in the event the volumetric water budget will not be met, an adjustment to the irrigation by the irrigation controller; and output ([b]4118[/b]) signaling to effect the adjustment.

[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)

Thermopile-based flow sensing device
Patent No. 12078519

Inventor(s): Yong-Fa Wang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18352767 on 07/14/2023 (417 days app to issue)

Abstract: Example systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed sensing a flow of fluid using a thermopile-based flow sensing device. An example apparatus includes a flow sensing device comprising a heating structure having a centerline. The flow sensing device may further comprise a thermopile. At least a portion of the thermopile may be disposed over the heating structure. The thermopile may comprise a first thermocouple having a first thermocouple junction disposed upstream of the centerline of the heating structure. The thermopile may further comprise a second thermocouple having a second thermocouple junction disposed downstream of the centerline of the heating structure.

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

System and method for fuel monitoring and spill prevention
Patent No. 12078522

Inventor(s): John Edward Barnard (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17810409 on 07/01/2022 (795 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, methods, and apparatus for preventing receptacle overfilling are presented. The system can include a sensor member configured to couple with a receptacle and sense a material level within the receptacle, such as via a sight glass of the receptacle. The system can include a controller in operable communication with the sensor member and configured to instantiate the shutoff of material flow from a material dispensing system if a particular material level is detected by the sensor member. The system can include an intermediate member configured to relay communications between the sensor member and the controller. The intermediate member can be coupled to a fluid line and can further act as a holster for the sensor member, such as by facilitating the coupling of the sensor member to the intermediate member and/or the fluid line.

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

Image signal representing a scene
Patent No. 12078702

Inventor(s): Brian David Johnson (Dallas, TX), Ivan Dimitrov (Coppell, TX), Sandeep K. Ganji (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, , NL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17428298 on 02/05/2020 (1672 days app to issue)

Abstract: To reduce instances of patient call back examinations and longer acquisition times in MRI, caused by features noticed at the periphery of a prescribed field of view (FOV) image, an extended field of view (EFOV) image is generated by storing k-space data including oversampling data, in a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and/or technician workstation. The saved k-space data is repurposed to re-reconstruct the (EFOV) image before any cropping operation on the prescribed FOV. In another application, the extended (EFOV) image is generated by repurposing stored k-space oversampling data, from adjacent or overlapping fields of view (FOV). The disclosed device and method can be used advantageously in a multi-station MRI IT system and/or spinal MRI examinations.

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

Generating ISAR images with distinguishable features
Patent No. 12078718

Inventor(s): John R. Goulding (Farmersville, TX), Raymond Samaniego (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Tewksbury, MA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17674530 on 02/17/2022 (929 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for removing non-linearities in an inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image are provided. A method includes estimating pitch and roll about range and doppler axes of a time series of ISAR images including the ISAR image, interpolating ISAR image data based on the estimated pitch and roll resulting in interpolated ISAR image data, and resampling based on the interpolated ISAR image data and the time series of TSAR images resulting in an enhanced image.

[G01S] RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES

Cascaded radar system calibration of baseband imbalances
Patent No. 12078749

Inventor(s): Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, , IN), Shailesh Joshi (Karnataka, , IN), Vashishth Dudhia (Gujarat, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18181938 on 03/10/2023 (543 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example radar device includes an antenna system, a transmitter having an input, and an output coupled to an input of the antenna system, the transmitter having modulation circuitry to provide frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signals for transmission by the antenna system; a receive signal processing chain; and a digital front-end. The receive signal processing chain includes an input coupled to an output of the antenna system, and is configured to receive radar reflection signals, process the radar reflected signals to generate an intermediate frequency (IF) baseband signal, and digitize the IF baseband signal to generate digital samples of the IF baseband signal. The digital front-end has an input to receive the digital samples of the IF baseband signal and to phase-shift the digital samples in response to a calibration signal.

Breathable outdoor network terminal enclosure
Patent No. 12078858

Inventor(s): Erwin Wardojo (McKinney, TX), John Valdez (Copper Canyon, TX)
Assignee(s): FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18402396 on 01/02/2024 (245 days app to issue)

Abstract: An enclosure for retaining at least one networking component includes a shell including a rear wall, a first sidewall, a second sidewall, an upper wall, and a lower wall that cooperate to retain the at least one networking component, a cover adapted to operably couple with the shell to define an interior volume, at least one venting member, at least one networking component mounting member, and a structure mounting member. The at least one venting member is defined by a portion of the shell to permit airflow from the interior volume to an exterior environment. The at least one networking component mounting member retains the at least one networking component. The structure mounting member is at least partially disposed on an outer surface of the shell to secure the shell with a portion of a structure.

[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]

Systems and methods for building energy management during power-loss event
Patent No. 12078976

Inventor(s): Maxime Joseph Frederic Marie Laudren (Montral, , CA), Youcef Chaoua (Laval, , CA)
Assignee(s): Schneider Electric Buildings Americas, Inc. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Locke Lord LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18197291 on 05/15/2023 (477 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing energy consumption during a power-loss event provide a backup power unit that can notify electronic devices of a switch to backup power. The electronic devices can then automatically minimize power consumption upon receiving such notification. The notification can take the form of one or more signals indicative of a backup power operational state. The signals may be sent to the electronic devices over any suitable wired or wireless connection. Depending on the particular operational states, the electronic devices can take one or more predefined backup power handling actions, such as reducing device functionality, entering low-power mode, performing a controlled shutdown, and the like. The particular actions taken may depend on the type of devices, such that certain devices may have power consumption priority over other devices. The above arrangement provides an intelligent way to reduce overall energy consumption during a power-loss event.

Digital LDO passgate rotation
Patent No. 12079019

Inventor(s): Asif Qaiyum (Freising, , DE), Bernhard Wolfgang Ruck (Freising, , DE), Christian Josef Sichert (Attenkirchen, , DE), Fraj Gharib (Freising, , DE), Frank Dornseifer (Freising, , DE), Johannes Gerber (Unterschleissheim, , DE), Ruediger
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17323924 on 05/18/2021 (1204 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a digital controller in a voltage regulator. The system also includes a passgate array including two or more passgate transistors, where the passgate array is configured to provide a load current to a load, and where the digital controller is configured to activate and deactivate each passgate transistor in the passgate array. The system also includes a feedback loop configured to provide an error signal to the digital controller, the error signal based on a difference between an output voltage of the voltage regulator and a programmed voltage for the voltage regulator. The digital controller is configured to activate or deactivate a passgate transistor based at least in part on the error signal. The digital controller is also configured to activate at least one passgate transistor and deactivate at least one passgate transistor responsive to a clock cycle.

[G05F] SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING ELECTRIC OR MAGNETIC VARIABLES (regulating the timing or recurrence frequency of pulses in radar or radio navigation systems G01S; regulation of current or voltage, specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces G04G 19/02; closed-loop systems for regulating non-electric variables by electric means G05D; regulating power supply of digital computers G06F 1/26; for obtaining desired operating characteristics of electromagnets with armatures H01F 7/18; regulating electric power distribution networks H02J; regulating the charging of batteries H02J 7/00; regulating of the output of static converters, e.g. switching regulators, H02M; regulation of the output of electric generators H02N, H02P 9/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils H02P 13/00; regulating frequency response, gain, maximum output, amplitude or bandwidth of amplifiers H03G; regulating tuning of resonant circuits H03J; controlling generators of electronic oscillations or pulses H03L; regulating characteristics of transmission lines H04B; controlling electric light sources H05B 37/02, H05B 39/04, H05B 41/36; electric control of X-ray apparatus H05G 1/30) [5]

Voltage identification signal decoder
Patent No. 12079054

Inventor(s): Karthik Anyam (Bangalore, , IN), Mayank Jain (Bangalore, , IN), Preetam Tadeparthy (Bangalore, , IN), Vishal Shaw (West Bengal, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17874696 on 07/27/2022 (769 days app to issue)

Abstract: One example includes a VID signal decoder circuit. The circuit includes a coarse resolution decoder that receives a VID signal. The VID signal can be encoded with a digital value of an output voltage. The coarse resolution decoder can decode the VID signal to generate a first digital signal. The circuit also includes a fine resolution decoder that receives the VID signal and to decode the VID signal to generate a second digital signal. The circuit further includes a multiplexer to provide the first digital signal as an output signal responsive to a first state of a selection signal and to provide the second digital signal as the output signal responsive to a second state of the selection signal. The first and second states of the selection signal can be based on a relative amplitude of the first and second digital signals.

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

Power control systems and methods for machine learning computing resources
Patent No. 12079063

Inventor(s): Robert Michael Muchsel (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: North Weber Baugh (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18207297 on 06/08/2023 (453 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described are context-aware low-power systems and methods that reduce power consumption in compute circuits such as commonly available machine learning hardware accelerators that carry out a large number of arithmetic operations when performing convolution operations and related computations. Various embodiments exploit the fact that power demand for a series of computation steps and many other functions a hardware accelerator performs is highly deterministic, thus, allowing for energy needs to be anticipated or even calculated to a certain degree. Accordingly, power supply output may be optimized according to actual energy needs of compute circuits. In certain embodiments this is accomplished by proactively and dynamically adjusting power-related parameters according to high-power and low-power operations to benefit a machine learning circuit and to avoid wasting valuable power resources, especially in embedded computing systems.

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

Data restore testing
Patent No. 12079096

Inventor(s): Daniel Herington (Frisco, TX), David M Lin (Addison, TX), Michelle Diltz (Frisco, TX), Swapna Adusumilli (Irving, TX), Taylor Madden Cherry (Justin, 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: 17965480 on 10/13/2022 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one example, a method of data restore testing is disclosed. The method may determine whether to validate a request to restore a backup of production data. The request may be for a database backup, a file system backup or another data type. The method may generate a database instance that restores a backup database data if the request is for database data and may generate a file system instance to restore a backup file system if the request is for a backup of a file system. The method may lockdown access to the restored backup, validate the integrity of the restored backup relative to production data. The validation may be based on a checksum of the restored backup and a checksum of the production data, for example.

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

Systems and methods for efficient access to data
Patent No. 12079115

Inventor(s): Gideon Bowie Luck (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17690888 on 03/09/2022 (909 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system including a development environment data store configured to store development environment data associated with development computer code and a production environment data store configured to store production environment data pertaining to one or more electronic services. The system includes a scenario builder computer is configured to identify one or more scenario parameters relevant to the development computer code, the one or more scenario parameters comprising less than a full set of available scenario parameters and provides the one or more scenario parameters to a scrubber computer. The scrubber computer is configured to receive the one or more scenario parameters and, based upon the one or more scenario parameters, gather a subset of the production environment data, the subset of the production environment data comprising less than a full amount of the production environment data, generate a scrubbed dataset by anonymizing the subset of the production environment data, and provide development environment access to the scrubbed data set.

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

Parallel stream processing of change data capture
Patent No. 12079202

Inventor(s): Abhijit Chitnis (Frisco, TX), Aditya Relangi (Irving, TX), Aniketh Bothra (McKinney, TX), Behdad Forghani (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17563288 on 12/28/2021 (980 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems described herein may include processing a change data capture stream in parallel and optimizing the write operations contained in the change data capture stream such that the write operations may be written to a change table in parallel. Processing the change data capture stream may include decoding the transaction data contained in the change data capture stream in parallel. After the transaction data in the change data capture stream has been decoded, the transaction data may be analyzed to identify write operations that write to the same row. Write operations that write to the same row may be merged into a single write operation. The merging of write operations may be performed until each write operation writes to a different row. The write operations may then be written to the change table in parallel.

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

System and method for efficient transliteration of machine interpretable languages
Patent No. 12079210

Inventor(s): Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17557456 on 12/21/2021 (987 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to transliteration of machine interpretable languages. A computing platform may configure a client application to use a custom driver when communicating with an enterprise database. The computing platform may receive a database query formatted in a first database format corresponding to a first database. The computing platform may translate, using a query translation library, the database query from the first database format into a second database format corresponding to a second database, which may cause the custom driver to execute a transliteration process using pre-verified query keys stored in the query translation library to convert the database query from the first database format into the second database format. The computing platform may execute the translated database query on the second database to obtain a query result, and may send the query result to the client application.

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

Systems and methods for context development
Patent No. 12079236

Inventor(s): Gordon Bailey (Coppell, TX), Patrick Moore (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18347138 on 07/05/2023 (426 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for context development. For instance, a first method may include obtaining first micro-application actor information associated with a first micro-application actor. The first micro-application actor information may include information for workflow rules, and the workflow rules may include data set rules, extract, transform, load (ETL) rules, and functional expressions. The first method may further include obtaining data from data sources based on the data set rules; applying the ETL rules to the obtained data to generate processed data; applying the functional expressions to the processed data to obtain an output; and performing at least one processing action based on the output. A second method may include generating a system component corresponding to a blueprint based on a user request; associating the system component with a domain of a user account; and performing processes associated the system component.

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

Systems and methods for generating query suggestions
Patent No. 12079279

Inventor(s): Lakshmi Priyanka Uddaraju (Irving, TX), Neeraj Sharma (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Foley IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18106371 on 02/06/2023 (575 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to generating query suggestions. In some embodiments, a system for generating query suggestions for retail may comprise a database comprising a query index, the query index comprising a search tree having a plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of nodes comprising a query and one or more query scores for the query, and a control circuit coupled to the database and configured to receive a query prefix from a user interface of a retail channel, retrieve, based on the query prefix, query candidates and the query scores corresponding to the query candidates from the search tree of the query index, and select, based on the query scores corresponding to the query candidates, one or more query suggestions from the query candidates.

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

Barometric sensing of arm position in a pointing controller system
Patent No. 12079388

Inventor(s): Charles James Bruce (London, , GB), Lewis Antony Jones (London, , GB), Nathaniel James Martin (London, , GB)
Assignee(s): ARKH LITHO HOLDINGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Amsel IP Law PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18040405 on 03/09/2021 (1274 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pointing controller enables interaction with virtual objects in a virtual or augmented reality environment. The pointing controller comprises a form factor that enables it to be securely positioned in the user”s fingers during a pointing gesture. The pointing controller tracks a pointing direction in three-dimensional space based on motion of the pointing controller. The pointing controller furthermore includes one or more control elements such as buttons or touch interfaces to enable additional interactions.

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

Systems and methods for providing an interactive user interface using a projector
Patent No. 12079412

Inventor(s): Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Jason Richard Hoover (Grapevine, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, TX), Stephen Michael Wylie (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17550186 on 12/14/2021 (994 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to interactive projection systems. In one implementation, an interactive projection system may include a surface having a plurality of sensors embedded therein, the plurality of sensors configured to detect local pressure disturbance on the surface; a projector configured to project a user interface onto the surface; and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to perform operations, including receiving a detection of a local pressure disturbance from at least one of the plurality of sensors, based on a location of the detected local pressure disturbance, determining a change in the user interface, and transmitting a command to the projector to modify a projected user interface according to the determined change.

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

Radial based user interface on touch sensitive screen
Patent No. 12079467

Inventor(s): James Joseph Galu, Jr. (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17844719 on 06/21/2022 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radial based user interface (UI) is provided for entering data into a computer device. The radial based UI has a central region with a plurality of radial regions. A location for the central region is defined on a touch sensitive display screen of the device and a value is assigned to each radial region. When a first touch is detected in the central region of the radial UI, an indication of a radial position responsive to a second touch on the touch sensitive screen may be determined. A value corresponding to the radial position of the second touch may then be input to an application being executed on the device. The first and second touches may be two separate finger taps, or may be sequential portions of a continuous stroke that occurs along one of the plurality of radial regions.

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

Streaming engine with fetch ahead hysteresis
Patent No. 12079470

Inventor(s): Matthew Pierson (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17379345 on 07/19/2021 (1142 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to one or more techniques to control access by a requestor of a computing system to a shared memory resource. In one embodiment, a technique includes determining a number (N) of pending requests to be sent to the memory by the requestor, determining a number (M) of requests that the requestor is limited to sending based on an amount of buffering resources available, and comparing M to N. When N is both greater than zero and less than or equal to M, the requestor sends the N pending requests to the memory. When N is both greater than zero and greater than M, M is compared to a hysteresis value (R) and, when M is less than R, the requestor sends R of the N pending requests to the memory.

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

Adaptive credit-based replenishment threshold used for transaction arbitration in a system that supports multiple levels of credit expenditure
Patent No. 12079471

Inventor(s): Daniel Brad Wu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17875457 on 07/28/2022 (768 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device includes an arbiter circuit configured to receive a first request for a resource. The first request is associated with a first credit cost. The arbiter circuit is further configured to receive a second request for the resource. The second request is associated with a second credit cost. The arbiter circuit is further configured to select the first request for the resource as an arbitration winner. The arbiter circuit is further configured to decrement a number of available credits associated with the resource by the first credit cost. The arbiter circuit is further configured to, in response to the number of available credits associated with the resource falling to a lower credit threshold, wait until the number of available credits associated with the resource reaches an upper credit threshold to select an additional arbitration winner for the resource.

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

Bundle multiple timing parameters for fast SLC programming
Patent No. 12079496

Inventor(s): Chin-Yi Chen (Sunnyvale, CA), Muhammad Masuduzzaman (Milpitas, CA), Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17901310 on 09/01/2022 (733 days app to issue)

Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for managing timing parameters when programming memory cells. Timing parameters used sub-clocks in an MLC program mode may also be used for those same sub-clocks in a first SLC program mode. However, in a second SLC program mode a different set of timing parameters may be used for that set of sub-clocks. Using the same set of timing parameters for the MLC program mode and the first SLC program mode saves storage space. However, the timing parameters for the MLC program mode may be slower than desired for SLC programming. A different set of timing parameters may be used for the second SLC program mode to provide for faster program operation. Moreover, the different set of timing parameters used for the faster SLC program mode do not require storage of a separate set of timing parameters.

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

Host-preferred memory operation
Patent No. 12079516

Inventor(s): Dean E. Walker (Allen, TX), Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17823314 on 08/30/2022 (735 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and techniques for host-preferred memory operation are described herein. At a memory-side cache of a memory device that includes accelerator hardware, a first memory operation can be received from a host. A determination that the first memory operation corresponds to a cache set based on an address of the first memory operation is made. A second memory operation can be received from the accelerator hardware. Another determination can be made that the second memory operation corresponds to the cache set. Here, the first memory operation can be enqueued in a host queue of the cache set and the second memory operation can be enqueued in an internal request queue of the cache set. The first memory operation and the second memory operation can be executed as each is dequeued.

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

Methods and systems for interactive data input
Patent No. 12079567

Inventor(s): Dante Diaz (Frisco, TX), Kristi M. Emery (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): CITIBANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18372403 on 09/25/2023 (344 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems to generate and display interactive graphical user interfaces that receive data inputs from users while emulating a chat session. A server retrieves a set of prompts associated with an electronic form; displays, within a webpage, a first element corresponding to a prompt and a second element having at least one input element configured to receive an input from a user interacting with the webpage. When the user interacts with an input element, the server relocates the first element and dynamically revises the second element by relocating the second element and displaying inputted values received from the user interacting with the at least one input element of the second element. The server then displays a third element comprising next prompts of the electronic form.

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

Real-time modifications for vehicles
Patent No. 12079616

Inventor(s): Edward Allen Cain, Jr. (Plano, TX), Ryan N. Wilson (Melissa, TX), Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Aichi-Ken, , JP), TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17829583 on 06/01/2022 (825 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request for an application from a vehicle; responsive to the request, pushing a version of the application to the vehicle; installing the application when a mode of the vehicle is set to at least one of a testing mode, a development mode, and a service mode; and performing at least one of testing a functionality of the vehicle by the application, validating the application, and modifying the application.

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

Multi-precision digital compute-in-memory deep neural network engine for flexible and energy efficient inferencing
Patent No. 12079733

Inventor(s): Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, CA), Tung Thanh Hoang (San Jose, CA), Won Ho Choi (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16941178 on 07/28/2020 (1498 days app to issue)

Abstract: Anon-volatile memory structure capable of storing weights for layers of a deep neural network (DNN) and perform an inferencing operation within the structure is presented. An in-array multiplication can be performed between multi-bit valued inputs, or activations, for a layer of the DNN and multi-bit valued weights of the layer. Each bit of a weight value is stored in a binary valued memory cell of the memory array and each bit of the input is applied as a binary input to a word line of the array for the multiplication of the input with the weight. To perform a multiply and accumulate operation, the results of the multiplications are accumulated by adders connected to sense amplifiers along the bit lines of the array. The adders can be configured to multiple levels of precision, so that the same structure can accommodate weights and activations of 8-bit, 4-bit, and 2-bit precision.

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

Medication workflow management
Patent No. 12079742

Inventor(s): William Lee Webster (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): CareFusion 303, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17531653 on 11/19/2021 (1019 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed system identifies an unused medication and a current location of the unused medication, and determines that a new medication order can be prepared using the unused medication. Responsive to determining that the new medication order can be prepared using the unused medication, the system provides a preparation instruction to prepare the new medication order using the unused medication, determines a current geolocation of a global positioning system (GPS) receiver of a mobile device associated with a delivery person, the mobile device being remote from the one or more computing devices, determines based on the current geolocation of the GPS receiver of the mobile device and the unused medication, that the unused medication should be retrieved by the delivery person before or instead of a second medication, and provides, to the mobile device, an indication to retrieve the unused medication.

[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]

System for conducting transactions
Patent No. 12079792

Inventor(s): Chris Windle (Cupertino, CA), D”Arcy J. LaForge (San Jose, CA), Winston Jaeb (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): CityCheers Media Corp. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Innovation Counsel LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17145135 on 01/08/2021 (1334 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of conducting a transaction between a merchant Point of Sale system (POS) and a customer device is presented. The method entails obtaining a ticket directly from the merchant POS via a plug-in application, the ticket including a merchant identification, a customer identification, ordered items, and prices of the ordered items; activating a web portal to interface the customer device; reporting ordered items and prices to the client device, and receiving payment authorization from the customer device; generating a login token via a payment engine to contact a gateway to a financial transaction site; and in response to receiving authorization from the gateway, contacting the merchant POS to complete the transaction.

Instant activation digital payment system with seamless digital wallet integration
Patent No. 12079800

Inventor(s): Rajaram R. Kasarla (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17533357 on 11/23/2021 (1015 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to high-security digital payment systems with instant activation. The systems may include multiple stages of authorization. The multiple stages of authorization may include increasing thresholds of criteria. The system may also include multiple payment instruments with seamless digital wallet integration.

Systems and methods for managing third party tokens and transactions across issuer ecosystems
Patent No. 12079801

Inventor(s): Tuan Dao (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK , N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP (19 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18329371 on 06/05/2023 (456 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and methods for managing third party tokens and transaction across issuer ecosystems are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing device comprising at least one computer processor, a method for managing payment tokens may include: (1) a first computer program associated with a financial institution and executed by the information processing device accessing a payment token associated with a second computer program executed by the information processing device; (2) the first computer program identifying the payment token as associated with a financial instrument issued by the financial institution; (3) a backend for the financial institution generating an association between the payment token and the financial institution; and (4) the backend for the financial institution communicating the association to an authorization platform for the financial institution.

Assistance for customer service agents
Patent No. 12079821

Inventor(s): Mark Hanson (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17317765 on 05/11/2021 (1211 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing assistance for customer service agents are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a computing device, customer interaction data that reflects an interaction between a first user and a second user. The actions further include receiving, by the computing device, a customer summary file that reflects characteristics of the first user. The actions further include, based on the customer interaction data and the customer summary file, determining, by the computing device, instructions for the second user to continue interacting with the first user during the interaction between the first user and the second user. The actions further include, based on determining the instructions, providing, for output to the second user, the instructions for the second user to continue interacting with the first user.

System and method for location based dynamic redirection of advertiser affiliate links for online advertising
Patent No. 12079838

Inventor(s): Baxter Box (Dallas, TX), Forrest Jordan (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): rewardStyle, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17679398 on 02/24/2022 (922 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method is provided for dynamically managing advertiser affiliate links for online marketing. A global redirect server accepts a visitor”s web browser request for a product or non-product webpage associated with an affiliate network advertiser URL, and returns a corresponding product or non-product webpage to the visitor that is corrected for the visitor”s geographic region if such a webpage exists, or returns the originally requested webpage if it does not. The server determines the visitor”s geographic region based upon request metadata, and can generate a corrected webpage that affords analytic and commission tracking even if no corresponding affiliate network exists in the determined geographic region. The server includes a database for locating products within the determined geographic region that are comparable to the product of the product webpage request, in the event that the exact product is not available in the geographic region.

Cross-system integration platform
Patent No. 12079866

Inventor(s): Hrishikesh Madhukar Godse (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17858683 on 07/06/2022 (790 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes an intermediate mortgage integration platform as a service (MiPaas). Specifically, an MiPaas layer may facilitate integration between a loan origination system (LOS) and supporting services. The MiPaas layer may provide integration flexibility by enabling integration of the supporting services with each other and with different LOSs. Indeed, a number of MiPaas integration formats (e.g. REST API, OpenAPI, GRPC, GraphQL, Industry Standard interface, etc. may be provided to facilitate ease of integration between the LOS and the supporting services. Further, the MiPaas may provide processing efficiencies by adapting workflows based upon particular retrieved data. In this manner, efficient processing may be performed in an intermediate data processing layer, resulting in more efficient turnaround times and reduced processing requirements at traditionally over-burdened systems.

Computer systems and software for self-executing code and distributed database
Patent No. 12079879

Inventor(s): Joshua Paul Davis (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18160822 on 01/27/2023 (585 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes creating a premiums escrow, with a zero balance, for a group of policyholders and managed using a distributed ledger and self-executing agreement. At a term beginning, the self-executing agreement receives premium payments sing cryptocurrency from each policyholder and allocates the premium payments to the premiums escrow. During the term the self-executing agreement receives a notification of an incident claim associated with a claimant policyholders. At a term end, the self-executing agreement receives payment instructions from the policyholders; pays, using cryptocurrency from the premiums escrow, the claimant an incident claim payment larger than the premium payment and determined according to the payment instructions; and distributes to the policyholders a rebate payment equal to or lower than the premium payment from the premiums escrow, which returns to a zero balance. The self-executing agreement stores a record of the incident claim in a tamper-proof, publicly-available, non-repudiable distributed ledger.

Hand motion pattern modeling and motion blur synthesizing techniques
Patent No. 12079971

Inventor(s): Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, TX), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, TX), Yingmao Li (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17666166 on 02/07/2022 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, using a stationary sensor of an electronic device, multiple image frames including first and second image frames. The method also includes generating, using multiple previously generated motion vectors, a first motion-distorted image frame using the first image frame and a second motion-distorted image frame using the second image frame. The method further includes adding noise to the motion-distorted image frames to generate first and second noisy motion-distorted image frames. The method also includes performing (i) a first multi-frame processing (MFP) operation to generate a ground truth image using the motion-distorted image frames and (ii) a second MFP operation to generate an input image using the noisy motion-distorted image frames. In addition, the method includes storing the ground truth and input images as an image pair for training an artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-based image processing operation for removing image distortions caused by handheld image capture.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Camera-only-localization in sparse 3D mapped environments
Patent No. 12080025

Inventor(s): Deepak Poddar (Bengaluru, , IN), Hrushikesh Tukaram Garud (Parbhani, , IN), Soyeb Noormohammed Nagori (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17887580 on 08/15/2022 (750 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for localizing a vehicle include obtaining an image from a camera, identifying a set of image feature points in the image, obtaining an approximate location of the vehicle, determining a set of sub-volumes (SVs) of a map to access based on the approximate location, obtaining map feature points and associated map feature descriptors associated with the set of SVs, determining a set of candidate matches between the set of image feature points and the obtained map feature points, determining a set of potential poses of the camera from candidate matches from the set of candidate matches and an associated reprojection error estimated for remaining points to select a first pose of the set of potential poses having a lowest associated reprojection error, determining the first pose is within a threshold value of an expected vehicle location, and outputting a vehicle location based on the first pose.

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

Extraction of gas based on image analysis
Patent No. 12080031

Inventor(s): Keith Peterson (Dallas, TX), Thomas Perkins (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): California Bioenergy LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17672189 on 02/15/2022 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus for biogas extraction. The method includes obtaining a set of images that includes a field of view encompassing at least a portion of the flexible roof and a background; generating a sample region having a first end overlapping only the flexible roof and a second end overlapping only the background; determining an average pixel color of an end slice located at the first end or the second end of the sample region; determining, based on the average pixel color of the end slice of the sample region, a fill percentage of the sample region attributed to an object overlapped by the end slice; estimating an amount of inflation of the flexible roof based on the fill percentage and a correlation between fill percentages of the sample region and predetermined amounts of inflation included in calibration data; and controlling extraction of the biogas based on the estimation.

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

Patient video monitoring systems and methods for thermal detection of liquids
Patent No. 12080069

Inventor(s): Derek del Carpio (Corinth, TX), Kenneth W. Chapman (Lewisville, TX), Steven Gail Johnson (Highland Village, TX)
Assignee(s): CareView Communications, Inc. (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: Meister Seelig Fein PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18206525 on 06/06/2023 (455 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for monitoring a patient in a patient area having one or more detection zones, the system comprising one or more cameras, a user interface, and a computing system configured to receive a chronological series of frames from the one or more cameras, identify liquid candidates by comparing a current frame with a plurality of previous frames of the chronological series, determine locations of the liquid candidates, identify thermal signatures of the liquid candidates, determine types of liquids of the liquid candidates based on the locations and thermal signatures of the liquid candidates, and generate an alert with the user interface corresponding to the determined types of liquids.

[G06K] RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (printing per se B41J)

Remote image processing control
Patent No. 12080073

Inventor(s): Monty R. Mccoy (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Tewksbury, MA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17013373 on 09/04/2020 (1460 days app to issue)

Abstract: A technology for remote object imaging processing. An example of the technology can include calculating geographic coordinates for an object using in part a line-of-sight distance to the object from a camera coupled to a vehicle, calculating an angle of the sun relative to the object using sun position data that corresponds to a time and date and the geographic coordinates for the object, determining a white balance setting based in part on the angle of the sun relative to the object, and applying the white balance setting as a parameter used to process an image of the object captured using the camera coupled to the vehicle.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Detection, classification, and prediction of bacteria colony growth in vehicle passenger cabin
Patent No. 12080080

Inventor(s): Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, CA), Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, CA), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, CA), Yanbing Wang (Nashville, TN), Ziran Wang (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17373050 on 07/12/2021 (1149 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that are configured to identify or otherwise detect the presence of bacteria, classify the identified or detected bacteria, and also predict the growth of the classified bacteria on various touchable surfaces within a vehicle passenger cabin or compartment. Such systems, methods, and computer program products are configured to identify/detect, classify, and predict the presence and/or growth of bacteria, and transmit one or more alerts, warnings, and/or reports to vehicle owners, service providers, and/or occupants based on the identification/detection, classification, and prediction.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Systems and methods for managing cooperative maneuvering among connected vehicles
Patent No. 12080170

Inventor(s): Onur Altintas (Mountain View, CA), Sergei S. Avedisov (Mountain View, CA), Yashar Zeiynali Farid (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17736686 on 05/04/2022 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining a cooperative maneuver for an ego vehicle is provided. The method includes determining a maneuver of the ego vehicle based on traffic information in a target lane, selecting one or more cooperative vehicles to be involved in the maneuver, determining whether the maneuver of the ego vehicle and actions of the one or more cooperative vehicles trigger congestion in the target lane based on simulation of the maneuver and the actions, instructing the ego vehicle to perform the maneuver in response to determining that the maneuver of the ego vehicle and actions of the one or more cooperative vehicles do not trigger congestion, and adjusting a number of cooperative vehicles to be involved in the maneuver in response to determining that the maneuver of the ego vehicle and actions of the one or more cooperative vehicles trigger congestion.

[G08G] TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems or lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S 13/91, G01S 15/88, G01S 17/88; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems or lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S 13/93, G01S 15/93, G01S 17/93; control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, not being specific to a traffic environment G05D 1/00) [2]

Computing device and method for determining a revised flight plan as a function of battery temperature
Patent No. 12080177

Inventor(s): Steven J. Foland (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): BETA AIR, LLC (South Burlington, VT)
Law Firm: Hoffman Warnick LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18197358 on 05/15/2023 (477 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing device for determining a revised flight plan as a function of battery temperature in an electric aircraft is disclosed. The computing device includes a battery model that may receive a flight plan and communicate with a machine-learning model, which may be trained as a function of a training set correlating data describing the flight plan to battery temperature labels. The battery model may generate a temperature output using the machine-learning model and determine the revised flight plan using the machine-learning model if the temperature output exceeds a threshold temperature. The computing device may receive the temperature output from the battery model and compare the temperature output to the threshold temperature.

Flexural wave absorption system
Patent No. 12080264

Inventor(s): Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, MI), Xiaoshi Su (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: 17748555 on 05/19/2022 (838 days app to issue)

Abstract: A flexural wave absorption system may include a pair of resonators disposed on the structure and separated from each other by a separation distance. The pair of resonators are arranged on the structure in a direction substantially similar to the direction of the flexural wave acting on the structure. As to the separation distance, this distance may be approximately one-quarter of the wavelength of the flexural wave acting on the structure.

[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]

Two-way in-vehicle virtual personal assistant
Patent No. 12080284

Inventor(s): Behrouz Saghafi Khadem (Dallas, TX), Nikhil Patel (Plano, TX), Prithvi Kambhampati (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Harman International Industries, Incorporated (Stamford, CT)
Law Firm: Artegis Law Group, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16726216 on 12/23/2019 (1716 days app to issue)

Abstract: One or more embodiments include a virtual personal assistant module executing on a virtual personal assistant system. The virtual personal assistant module obtains first sensor data from a first sensor included in a plurality of sensors. The virtual personal assistant module analyzes the first sensor data to generate a first result. The virtual personal assistant module obtains second sensor data from a second sensor included in the plurality of sensors. The virtual personal assistant module analyzes the second sensor data and the first result to generate a second result. The virtual personal assistant module outputs a natural language audio output to the user based on the second result.

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

System and method for voice controlled automatic information access and retrieval
Patent No. 12080294

Inventor(s): Ashwini Patil (Richardson, TX), Christopher Keith Restorff (Carrollton, TX), Emad Noorizadeh (Plano, TX), Ion Gerald McCusker (Allen, TX), Priyank R. Shah (Plano, TX), Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony, TX), Ravisha Andar
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18469420 on 09/18/2023 (351 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores first and second machine learning algorithms. The processor receives, from a user, voice signals associated with an information request and converts them into text. The processor uses the first machine learning algorithm to determine, based on the text, to automatically generate a reply to the request, rather than transmitting the request to an agent. The processor uses the second machine learning algorithm to generate, based on the set of text, the reply, which it transmits to the user. The processor receives feedback associated with the reply, indicating that the reply does or does not include the requested information. The processor uses the feedback to update either or both machine learning algorithms.

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

Health analysis based on ingestible sensors
Patent No. 12080399

Inventor(s): Karukamaliyil L. Sibin (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (Woonsocket, RI)
Law Firm: Patent Law Works, LLP (Local + 121 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16740049 on 01/10/2020 (1698 days app to issue)

Abstract: A health analysis system and method configured to base sensor measurements on detection of ingestion of a medication by a patient. The health analysis system receives an indicator collected by a first sensor associated to the patient. The indicator identifies a first adherence event at a first indicator time indicating at least a first medication was ingested by the patient. In response to detection of the indicator, first physiological data of the patient is received which was collected by a second sensor. A first wellness indicator is predicted based on the first physiological data of the patient.

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

Machine intelligence-based prioritization of non-emergent procedures and visits
Patent No. 12080428

Inventor(s): Zahoor Elahi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Health at Scale Corporation (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Morrison Foerster LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17472455 on 09/10/2021 (1089 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for generating a medical recommendation. Methods according to the present disclosure include receiving patient data associated with a first patient and receiving second patient data associated with a second patient. The methods further include inputting the first patient data and the second patient data into a trained machine-learning model to determine a first set of one or more risk values for the first patient and a second set of one or more risk values for the second patient. The methods further include comparing the first set of one or more risk values and the second set of one or more risk values to determine a priority for distributing care to the first patient and the second patient. In accordance with the determination that the first patient has priority, the system can generate a medical recommendation.

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

Current sense amplifier
Patent No. 12081182

Inventor(s): Ankit Khanna (Tucson, AZ), Chase Puglisi (Tucson, AZ), Dimitar Trifonov (Vail, AZ), Partha Basu (Oro Valley, AZ)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18049831 on 10/26/2022 (678 days app to issue)

Abstract: A current sense amplifier includes a first amplifier stage, a second amplifier stage, a switch, and a common-mode transient detector. The first amplifier stage has a first amplifier output, a second amplifier output, a first amplifier input, and a second amplifier input. The second amplifier stage has a third amplifier input coupled to the first amplifier output, and a fourth amplifier input coupled to the second amplifier output. The switch has a switch control input, a first switch terminal coupled to the third amplifier input, and a second switch terminal coupled to the fourth amplifier input. The common-mode transient detector circuit has a detector output, a first detector input and a second detector input. The detector output is coupled to the switch control input. The first detector input is coupled to the first amplifier input. The second detector input is coupled to the second amplifier input.

[G11C] STATIC STORES (information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B; semiconductor devices for storage H01L, e.g. H01L 27/108-H01L 27/11597; pulse technique in general H03K, e.g. electronic switches H03K 17/00)

Systems and methods for enhanced session management policy interface in a wireless network
Patent No. 12081405

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: 18305513 on 04/24/2023 (498 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may receive a first request to establish, modify, or remove a plurality of communication sessions between a User Equipment (”UE”) and a network. The system may output, to a policy element of the network (e.g., a Policy Control Function (”PCF”) or a Policy Charging and Rules Function (”PCRF”)), a second request for policies associated with the UE and the plurality of communication sessions, where the second request includes a plurality of communication session identifiers that are each associated with a particular one of the plurality of communication sessions. The system may receive and enforce the requested policy information when establishing, modifying, or removing the requested plurality of communication sessions based on the received particular policy information. The system may communicate with the policy element via an enhanced interface, such as an enhanced N7 interface or an enhanced Npcf interface.

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

Apparatus and methods for content storage, distribution and security within a content distribution network
Patent No. 12081808

Inventor(s): Ramneek Bali (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC (St. Louis, MO)
Law Firm: Patent Beach PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18093585 on 01/05/2023 (607 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for content fragmentation, distribution, protection, and re-constitution within a content distribution network. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods enable distribution of content fragments to edge nodes (which may include user or subscriber CPE), thereby enabling edge networks or membership groups to be established wherein content can be shared solely at the edge. In one variant, high data bandwidth, symmetric uplink/downlink, low latency PHY links (e.g., 5G NR-compliant wireless interfaces) between the edge nodes participating in the edge networks or membership groups are used such that particular quality of service/experience performance requirements can be met. Distribution of the fragments also advantageously enhances redundancy and security.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Positioning and weighting test probes in an anechoic chamber
Patent No. 12078667

Inventor(s): Alfonso Rodriguez-Herrera (Denton, TX), John Douglas Reed (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: HAYNES BEFFEL WOLFELD LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17175545 on 02/12/2021 (1299 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is an anechoic test chamber that includes six antenna probes, replacing a single probe with a small array, and using the array to form a beam to provide a similar signal to the probe signal, and reducing the transmission loss. At least five of the probes are aligned in the anechoic chamber such that the probes are aligned in azimuth along four columns separated from a center point by +/5 degrees and +/15 degrees. The probes are further aligned in elevation along three rows at the center point and separated from the center point by +/5 degrees, wherein the alignments in azimuth and elevation are within 3 degrees measured spherically of the alignments stated. Also disclosed is a planar array that replaces probe antennas and forms beams to provide coverage to the chamber, and utilizing probe arrays to emulate base station signals to evaluate UE performance.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Mobile computing device for use in controlling wirelessly controlled vehicles
Patent No. 12080157

Inventor(s): Ari Krupnik (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, CA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18367301 on 09/12/2023 (357 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for utilizing a mobile computing device (e.g., such as a mobile phone) for use in controlling a model vehicle are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a mobile computing device provides various user controls for generating signals that are communicated to a radio transmitter device coupled with the mobile computing device, and ultimately broadcast to a receiver residing at a model vehicle. With some embodiments, the mobile computing device may be integrated with a controller housing which provides separate user controls, such that a combination of user controls present on the mobile computing device and the controller housing can be used to control a model vehicle.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Nickel chromium aluminum thin film resistor
Patent No. 12080454

Inventor(s): Gernot Manfred Bauer (Moosburg, , DE), Kai-Alexander Schachtschneider (Rohrbach, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17535872 on 11/26/2021 (1012 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a thin film resistor body that is formed over a dielectric layer. An interfacial layer is formed on the thin film resistor body and resistor heads are formed on the interfacial layer. The thin film resistor body includes nickel chromium aluminum (NiCrAl) and the resistor heads include titanium tungsten (TiW).

[H01C] RESISTORS

Custom leadframe from standard plus printed leadframe portion
Patent No. 12080633

Inventor(s): Benjamin Stassen Cook (Addison, TX), Jo Bito (Dallas, TX), Steven Kummerl (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16123100 on 09/06/2018 (2189 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged semiconductor device includes an IC die having bump features that are coupled to bond pads flip chip attached to a custom LF. The custom LF includes metal structures including metal leads on at least 2 sides, and printed metal providing a printed LF portion including printed metal traces that connect to and extend inward from at least one of the metal leads over the dielectric support material that are coupled to FC pads configured for receiving the bump features including at least some of the printed metal traces coupled to the bond pads on the IC die. The IC die is flip chip mounted on the printed LF portion so that the bump features are connected to the FC pads.

[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]

Conductive terminal for side facing packages
Patent No. 12080667

Inventor(s): Jose Arvin Matute Plomantes (Dagupan, , PH), Rafael Jose Lizares Guevara (Makati, , PH)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17677624 on 02/22/2022 (924 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device includes a semiconductor die having a first side, an orthogonal second side for mounting to a substrate or circuit board, a conductive terminal on the first side, the conductive terminal having a center that is spaced apart from the second side by a first distance along a direction, and a solder structure extending on the conductive terminal, the solder structure having a center that is spaced apart from the center of the conductive terminal by a non-zero second distance along the direction.

Semiconductor cell blocks having non-integer multiple of cell heights
Patent No. 12080703

Inventor(s): Mark S. Rodder (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Yongin-si, , KR)
Law Firm: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18048186 on 10/20/2022 (684 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor cell block includes a series of layers arranged in a stack. The layers include one or more first layers each having a first height and one or more second layers each having a second height. The second height is larger than the first height, and the second height is a non-integer multiple of the first height. The semiconductor cell block also includes a first semiconductor logic cell having a first cell height in one of the series of layers, and a second semiconductor logic cell having a second cell height in one of the series of layers. The second cell height is larger than the first cell height, and the second cell height is a non-integer value multiple of the first cell height.

Multi-layer polysilicon stack for semiconductor devices
Patent No. 12080755

Inventor(s): Furen Lin (Chengdu, , CN), Manoj K Jain (Plano, TX), Rui Liu (Chengdu, , CN), Rui Song (Chengdu, , CN), Yunlong Liu (Chengdu, , CN), Zhi Peng Feng (Chengdu, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17512484 on 10/27/2021 (1042 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, a method of forming a capacitor includes forming a doped polysilicon layer over a semiconductor substrate. The method also includes forming a dielectric layer on the doped polysilicon layer. The method also includes forming an undoped polysilicon layer on the dielectric layer.

Nano-alloy interphase for lithium metal solid state batteries
Patent No. 12080880

Inventor(s): John Muldoon (Saline, MI), Keita Niitani (Canton, MI), Patrick J. Bonnick (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16141609 on 09/25/2018 (2170 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electrode for a solid-state lithium battery is provided. The electrode has a current collector and an electrode active layer of lithium metal or lithium metal alloy on the current collector. A surface layer of a homogeneous nano-alloy particle composition containing nanoparticles of an element M or nanoparticles of a lithium alloy of an element M, wherein M is at least one element selected from elements of Groups 2 and 8-16 is present on the active layer. Solid-state batteries containing the electrode are provided.

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

System for an electric motor with coil assemblies and internal radial magnetic elements
Patent No. 12081090

Inventor(s): Abla Hariri (Granbury, TX), Andrei Popov (Granbury, TX), Erik Hatch (Granbury, TX), John Langsdorf (Granbury, TX), Mohit Gangireddy (Granbury, TX)
Assignee(s): Linear Labs, Inc. (Granbury, TX)
Law Firm: Run8 Patent Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18099115 on 01/19/2023 (593 days app to issue)

Abstract: One variation of a system for an electric motor includes a rotor including magnetic elements within a body. The system also includes a stator including coil assemblies arranged about the rotor. Each coil assembly includes an outer hook element and an inner hook element. The outer hook element extends across a first axial face and an outer radial surface of the rotor. The inner hook element: extends across a second axial face of the rotor; extends partially across the inner radial surface of the rotor; and is coupled to the outer hook element to define a throat configured to locate the rotor within the coil assembly. The system includes a shaft coupled to the inner radial surface of the rotor. Furthermore, the system includes a controller configured to drive current through the coil assemblies to generate a toroidal magnetic field configured to couple the magnetic elements to rotate the rotor.

[H02K] DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H 53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power H02M 9/00)

Closed loop commutation control for a switching power converter
Patent No. 12081118

Inventor(s): Pavol Balaz (Freising, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18191916 on 03/29/2023 (524 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a switching power converter, including a first transistor having a first gate, a first drain, and a first source, the first drain adapted to be coupled to a power supply. The switching power converter also includes a second transistor having a second gate, a second drain, and a second source, the second gate coupled to a second gate driver, the second source adapted to be coupled to ground, and the second drain coupled to the first source. The switching power converter also includes a third transistor having a third gate, a third drain, and a third source, the third gate adapted to be coupled to a current source, the third source coupled to a resistor, and the third drain coupled to the first gate. The switching power converter includes a capacitor coupled to the first drain and adapted to be coupled to the current source.

[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]

Flyback converter with secondary side regulation
Patent No. 12081134

Inventor(s): Isaac Cohen (Dix Hills, NY), James M. Walden (Apex, NC), Satish Kumar Vemuri (Raleigh, NC)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18211318 on 06/19/2023 (442 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed examples include flyback converters, control circuits and methods to facilitate secondary side regulation of the output voltage. A primary side control circuit operates a primary side switch to independently initiate power transfer cycles to deliver power to a transformer secondary winding in a first mode. A secondary side control circuit operates a synchronous rectifier or secondary side switch to generate a predetermined cycle start request signal via a transformer auxiliary winding to assume secondary side regulation and to cause the primary side controller to initiate new power transfer cycles.

Method for determining a position of a rotor at standstill
Patent No. 12081158

Inventor(s): Prasad Kulkarni (Bengaluru, , IN), Sameer Pradeep Kulkarni (Bangalore, , IN), Venkata Pavan Mahankali (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17363646 on 06/30/2021 (1161 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining a position of a rotor of a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor at standstill. The method includes providing a plurality of current pulses to a plurality of windings of the BLDC motor while the rotor of the BLDC motor is at a standstill position. The method further includes measuring a plurality of times that it takes for the plurality of current pulses to reach a threshold for respective ones of the plurality of windings. A first position corresponding to a shortest time of the plurality of times is determined. A position detection value is determined based on the shortest time and based on times corresponding to positions that are adjacent to the first position. A position of the rotor at the standstill position is determined based on the position detection value and an interpolation function.

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

Observer-based ripple detection for speed and position measurement for brushed direct current motors
Patent No. 12081159

Inventor(s): David Magee (Allen, TX), James Lockridge (Dallas, TX), Kaushik Alwala (Nalgonda, , IN), Siddhartha Gopal Krishna (Bengaluru, , IN), Venkata Naresh Kotikelapudi (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17592921 on 02/04/2022 (942 days app to issue)

Abstract: A motor control system and method for controlling a brushed direct current (BDC) motor using a feedback loop based on a corrected ripple count. Motor control circuitry, for example implemented in digital logic such as a microcontroller, receives a coil current signal and a motor voltage signal. Discontinuities in the coil current signal, such as caused by commutation of the BDC motor, are counted to generate a ripple count. An observer function derives an angular frequency model estimate for the values of the coil current and motor voltage signals using a computational model for the motor. A corrected ripple count is generated based on a comparison of a commutation angle of the motor with an angular position based on the angular frequency model estimate over a time interval between discontinuity pulses. A motor drive signal is adjusted based on the corrected ripple count.

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

Comparator architecture supporting lower oxide breakdown voltages
Patent No. 12081221

Inventor(s): Brian Roger Elies (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17679978 on 02/24/2022 (922 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a transistor input pair, a differential input having a comparator input, and a level shifter. The transistor input pair is adapted to be coupled between a voltage supply and a comparator output. The transistor input pair includes a first transistor having a gate and a drain. The drain of the first transistor is coupled to the comparator output. The level shifter is coupled between the transistor input pair and the differential input. The level shifter includes a second transistor having a gate and a source. The gate of the second transistor is coupled to the comparator input. The source of the second transistor is coupled to the gate of the first transistor.

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

Package for millimeter wave molecular clock
Patent No. 12081225

Inventor(s): Hassan Omar Ali (Murphy, TX), Juan Alejandro Herbsommer (Allen, TX), Meysam Moallem (Plano, TX), Nikita Mahjabeen (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18334312 on 06/13/2023 (448 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, an apparatus includes a package substrate having a device side surface and a board side surface opposite the device side surface, a physics cell mounted on the device side surface having a first end and a second end, a first opening extending through the package substrate and lined with a conductor, aligned with the first end, a second opening extending through the package substrate and lined with the conductor, aligned with the second end, a millimeter wave transmitter module on the board side, having a millimeter wave transfer structure including a transmission line coupled to an antenna aligned with the first opening, and a millimeter wave receiver module mounted on the board side surface of the package substrate and having a millimeter wave transfer structure including a transmission line coupled to an antenna for receiving millimeter wave signals, aligned with the second opening.

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

Direct digital channelizer repeater
Patent No. 12081250

Inventor(s): Dale Robert Anderson (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Wilson Electronics, LLC (St. George, UT)
Law Firm: Thorpe North Western LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17527105 on 11/15/2021 (1023 days app to issue)

Abstract: A technology is described for a repeater architecture having a combined direct digital channelizer (DDC). The DDC can be coupled to a signal combiner and a breakout signal divider to enable bidirectional signals to be communicated to the DDC. A first direction receive amplification and filtering path can be coupled between a first antenna port and the signal combiner. A second direction receive amplification and filtering path can be coupled between a second antenna port and the signal combiner. A first direction transmit amplification and filtering path can be coupled between the breakout signal divider and the first antenna port. A second direction transmit amplification and filtering path can be coupled between the breakout signal divider and the second antenna port.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus to selectively utilize antennas of an antenna array
Patent No. 12081303

Inventor(s): Darrell William Barabash (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17630020 on 07/26/2019 (1866 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided disable one or more antennas of an antenna array in order to achieve a predefined objective while selectively utilizing the remainder of the antennas of the antenna array. The one or more antennas to be disabled are selected in a manner to avoid appreciable impact to the fidelity of the resulting array radiation pattern. For example, the method, apparatus and computer program product may disable certain antenna elements based upon the distance of the antenna elements from a predefined location relative to the antenna array, such as the distance from the center of the antenna array, and may selectively utilize the remainder of the antenna elements such that an active portion of the antenna array approximates a circular array which results in an array radiation pattern for which the fidelity is maintained.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

System-in-loop testing for ADAS SoCs
Patent No. 12081362

Inventor(s): Brian Ginsburg (Allen, TX), Jasbir Singh (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17192271 on 03/04/2021 (1279 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving first data at a controller of an ADAS via a first virtual channel of a camera serial interface 2 (CSI-2) data interface. The method also includes receiving second data at the controller of the ADAS via a second virtual channel of the CSI-2 data interface. The method includes storing the first data at a first address in a memory, the first address specified by the first virtual channel. The method also includes storing the second data at a second address of a control register, the control register specified by the second data. The method includes performing a test using the first data and the second data.

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

Systems and methods regarding frequency- selective SRS transmission and PUSCH precoding
Patent No. 12081382

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16760346 on 11/16/2018 (2118 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods relating to frequency-selective Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) precoding and uplink transmission are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device comprises transmitting SRS on a first set of frequency-domain resources, and receiving an uplink scheduling assignment for an uplink physical channel comprising a resource allocation of a second set of frequency-domain resources comprising: (a) one or more frequency-domain resources that are also included in the first set and (b) one or more frequency-domain resources that are not included in the first set. In order to form a precoded uplink channel, the method further comprises: for each frequency-domain resource in (a), applying a same precoding as applied to the SRS on the frequency-domain resource; and, for each frequency-domain resource in (b), applying a same precoding as applied to the SRS on a different frequency-domain resource. The method further comprises transmitting the precoded uplink channel.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Topology-homogeneity for enriching event patterns in artificial intelligence operations
Patent No. 12081385

Inventor(s): Mathews Thomas (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: Intelletek Law Group, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18046900 on 10/14/2022 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining a correlation of one or more events occurring in a plurality of nodes of a network includes accessing, by a computing device, address information associated with each of the plurality of nodes on the network. The computing device can further access one or more event IDs associated with one or more events occurring on the plurality of nodes. The computing device can further create an association the one or more events occurring on the plurality of nodes with related events occurring on others of the plurality of nodes, the association including the address information.

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

Indication of interoperability and deployment tested time-division duplex slot formats
Patent No. 12081496

Inventor(s): Hongyan Lei (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17162266 on 01/29/2021 (1313 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein are directed towards indicating to a wireless network device which time-division duplex slot patterns (slot formats) are supported by a user equipment device, e.g., which slot patterns have gone through interoperability and deployment testing (IODT) successfully with respect to the type of user equipment device. With the supported slot pattern information, the network can make an intelligent decision on scheduling downlink/uplink ratios, while selecting a slot pattern that the user equipment device is known to support. In one aspect, the technology adds a ”Slot format IODTed” information element in the user equipment device capability information, which the network obtains when the user equipment device reports its capabilities to the network. In another aspect, the network can query the user equipment device for the supported slot format information.

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

Establishment of trust for disconnected edge-based deployments
Patent No. 12081553

Inventor(s): Michael Anthony Brown (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC (Redmond, WA)
Law Firm: Newport IP, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17827641 on 05/27/2022 (830 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing network comprising a computing service provider and an edge computing network is managed. A trusted device establishes a root of trust at the edge computing network via a trusted component on the trusted device. In response to receiving a first indication of a disconnection or degradation of communications between the computing service provider and the edge computing network, the edge computing network initiates an autonomous mode at the edge computing network. While the edge computing network is operating in the autonomous mode, the trusted device detects new devices that are attempting to access computing resources in the edge computing network. The trusted device stores data pertaining to new devices that were not authorized to access the computing resources in the edge computing network.

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

Methods and apparatus to determine mutex entropy for malware classification
Patent No. 12081584

Inventor(s): Brian Gaither (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): MCAFEE, LLC (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: HANLEY, FLIGHT ZIMMERMAN, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17645925 on 12/23/2021 (985 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine mutex entropy for malware classification. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry to access a mutex associated with a software application, the mutex to include a mutex identifier string, normalizer circuitry to normalize the mutex identifier string, character probability circuitry to determine character probabilities of characters within the normalized mutex identifier string, the character probabilities based on a historical mutex character distribution, entropy calculator circuitry to calculate an entropy value for the mutex based on the character probabilities, classifier circuitry to classify the mutex as clean or malicious based on the entropy value, and protector circuitry to mitigate malicious attacks based on the classification.

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

Generating and providing enhanced user interfaces by implementing data, AI, intents and personalization (DAIP) technology
Patent No. 12081630

Inventor(s): Rosheny Edathil (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17540961 on 12/02/2021 (1006 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to generating and providing enhanced user interfaces by implementing data, AI, intents and personalization (DAIP) technology. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from enterprise computing infrastructure, first unstructured activity data associated with a first enterprise channel. Subsequently, the computing platform may identify one or more user intents by applying an intent discovery model to the first unstructured activity data associated with the first enterprise channel. Then, the computing platform may generate status tracking information based on identifying the one or more user intents. Thereafter, the computing platform may store, in a consolidated event repository, the status tracking information generated based on identifying the one or more user intents, and storing the status tracking information in the consolidated event repository may cause the status tracking information to be exposed to multiple computer systems associated with different enterprise channels.

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

Using automatic homomorphic encryption in a multi-cloud environment to support translytical data computation using an elastic hybrid memory cube
Patent No. 12081647

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to using automatic homomorphic encryption in a multi-cloud environment to support translytical data computation using an elastic hybrid memory cube. A computing platform may receive enterprise data from a data collection engine associated with an enterprise organization. The computing platform may inspect the enterprise data and discard enterprise data that fails to satisfy validation criteria. The computing platform may attach encryption rules to the remaining enterprise data. The computing platform may divide the enterprise data into discrete components and may continuously encrypt each component of the enterprise data using public keys. The computing platform may generate private keys that can be used to access the encrypted enterprise data, and may transmit the private keys to the enterprise organization. The computing platform, upon receipt of a private key from the enterprise organization, may determine whether the private key is authorized to access the encrypted enterprise data.

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

Pair-the-plan system for devices and method of use
Patent No. 12081695

Inventor(s): Steven A. Millstein (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Aeris Communications, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Shih IP Law Group, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17488885 on 09/29/2021 (1070 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for connecting a device to subscriptions and cellular billing plans of separate users and for managing the concurrent use of the device by the separate users. A computer-implemented method comprises enrolling a device in a cellular subscription and billing plan of a user. The enrollment includes providing an identifier for the device to a cellular subscription, effectively adding the device to the cellular subscription and billing plan selected by the user. The method and system allows the user to use capabilities of the device as governed by the cellular subscription and an associated billing plan as selected by that user, while the device is also available for use by another user via another cellular billing plan, as selected by that user.

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

Region of interest (ROI) request and inquiry in a video chain
Patent No. 12081782

Inventor(s): Goksel Dedeoglu (Plano, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16983515 on 08/03/2020 (1492 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for video stream processing in a video chain is provided that includes transmitting a video stream in the video chain, receiving, by a first video node in the video chain, a region of interest (ROI) command from a second video node in the video chain, wherein the ROI command includes an ROI type indicator, and performing, by the first video node, the ROI command according to the ROI type indicator.

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

Video coding using intra block copy
Patent No. 12081787

Inventor(s): Do-Kyoung Kwon (Allen, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17988817 on 11/17/2022 (656 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for decoding encoded blocks of pixels from an encoded video bit stream is provided that includes decoding a block vector corresponding to an encoded block of pixels from the encoded bit stream, verifying that the block vector indicates a block of reconstructed pixels in a search area including reconstructed pixels of a largest coding unit (LCU) including the encoded block of pixels and N left neighboring reconstructed LCUs of the LCU, and decoding the encoded block of pixels, wherein the block of reconstructed pixels is used as a predictor for the encoded block of pixels.

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

Allocation of under delivery units utilizing an optimization framework
Patent No. 12081819

Inventor(s): Wassim Samir Chaar (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17692533 on 03/11/2022 (907 days app to issue)

Abstract: A television advertising management system that handles a plurality of deals for a plurality of advertiser, determines which of the plurality of deals have a guaranteed audience, and are under delivering, generates a plurality of scenarios that includes a plurality of parameters corresponding to the plurality of deals, searches for a deal that meet a certain criteria based on an index of the one deal that is below a threshold value, partitions a liability inventory reserve into individual deal reserves with a corresponding reserve under delivery units based on the searched one deal and the optimal allocation solution of the reserve under delivery units across the plurality of deals, creates under delivery deal reserves based on the optimal allocation solution and generates a plurality of under delivery orders based on the created under delivery reserves.

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

Apparatus for fastening an imaging device at a predetermined arrangement for image capture and detecting regions of interest in an image using image processing
Patent No. 12081850

Inventor(s): Jerry Balderas (Grapevine, TX), Ranjeev Teelock (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): FIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17888455 on 08/15/2022 (750 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a base; a mount attached to the base, the mount including a backplate, a bottom platform formed perpendicular to the backplate along a bottom of the backplate, the bottom platform including a retention wall formed as part of the bottom platform distant from the portion of the bottom platform attached to the backplate, the retention wall being perpendicular to the bottom platform, and a first side arm formed as part of the backplate along a side of the backplate and extending outwards from the backplate, and a notch holder formed as part of the base, the notch holder configured to secure a drug test device to the base.

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

Monitoring/alert system for airline gate activities
Patent No. 12081912

Inventor(s): James Hill (Fort Worth, TX), Krunalkumar Patel (Irving, TX), Murali Ande (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18487400 on 10/16/2023 (323 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of monitoring and reporting aircraft turnaround activities at an airport gate that includes monitoring the airport gate using a first camera that has a first field of view associated with the airport gate; generating, using the first camera, first image data capturing a first activity within the first field of view; receiving, by processor(s), the first image data; identifying, by the processor(s), the first activity captured in the first image data; comparing, using a computer application, aspect(s) of the first activity with a predetermined schedule; and displaying, on a graphical user interface remote from the first camera and using the computer application, an alert indicating that the first activity does not comply with the predetermined schedule; wherein the processor(s) include a machine learning processor.

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

Systems and methods for infrastructure configuration management
Patent No. 12081920

Inventor(s): Ryan E. Enge (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Claremont, NC)
Law Firm: Fogg Powers LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17998230 on 04/08/2021 (1244 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for providing port occupancy management for a network connected device that includes a plurality of ports comprises: at least one port status input panel that comprises a plurality of manually operable port occupancy status selector switches, wherein each of the selector switches are associated with one or more of the ports; a control circuit coupled to the port status input panel, wherein the control circuit determines a port occupancy status for each of the ports based on signals initiated by the selector switches; a gateway coupled to the control circuit and configured to aggregate port occupancy status data for the network connected device based on the port occupancy status for each of the ports determined by the control circuit. The gateway executes at least one interface configured to provide the port occupancy status data to a remote system.

[H04Q] SELECTING (switches, relays, selectors H01H; wireless communication networks H04W) [2009.01]

System and method for security protection of NAS messages
Patent No. 12081978

Inventor(s): Jennifer Liu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18197049 on 05/13/2023 (479 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods that provide NAS security protection for mobile networks. In one embodiment, a network element of a mobile network performs a NAS procedure in multiple phases to establish a NAS communication session with User Equipment (UE) when no NAS security context exists. For a first phase, the network element receives an initial NAS message from the UE populated with a subset of NAS protocol Information Elements (IEs) designated for security-related handling, selects a NAS security algorithm for the NAS security context, and sends a response to the UE that indicates the NAS security algorithm. For a second phase, the network element receives a subsequent NAS message from the UE having a NAS message container that contains the initial NAS message populated with each of the NAS protocol IEs for the NAS procedure, and decrypts the NAS message container of the subsequent NAS message using the NAS security algorithm.

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

Method and apparatus for SIB based cell changes in a wireless communication system
Patent No. 12082060

Inventor(s): Kyeongin Jeong (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17477407 on 09/16/2021 (1083 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses in a wireless communication system. A method of a UE comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS) in a non-terrestrial network (NTN), a system information block (SIB); determining that the SIB includes first neighboring cell information and first timing information associated therewith; determining that a first neighboring cell is not a candidate cell for a cell selection or re-selection operation when a current time is before or equal to a time indicated by the first timing information; and determining that the first neighboring cell is a candidate cell for the cell selection or re-selection operation when the current time is after the time indicated by the first timing information.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Facilitation of customer management for mobile edge computing services for 5G or other next generation network
Patent No. 12082088

Inventor(s): Ramesh Garapaty (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17219538 on 03/31/2021 (1252 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile edge computing (MEC) service area can comprise radio cells/antennas connected to baseband units that are connected to service gateway (SGW) and/or packet data network gateway (PGW) user planes at a customer premises. The radio cells can be tagged with evolved universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access (E-UTRAN) cell global identifiers (EGCIs) offering traceability to user equipment (UE) that camp on them. The radio cells for MEC can be assigned tracking area codes (TACs) such that when a UE is registered and provisioned for a MEC service area based on an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) assigned to a subscriber identity module (SIM) of the UE, the UE can be determined to be at a geofenced area.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Scheduling-power profile for UE power savings
Patent No. 12082110

Inventor(s): Yang Li (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18083968 on 12/19/2022 (624 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including a user equipment device (UE) exchanging communications with a base station to determine one or more scheduling profiles, such as one or more scheduling-power profiles, where a scheduling-power profile may specify one or more parameters associated with UE communication behavior, e.g., one or more constraints on UE communication behavior and/or slot scheduling of UE communications. In addition, the method may include the UE receiving a slot configuration schedule from the base station. The slot configuration schedule may be based on at least one scheduling-power profile of the one or more scheduling-power profiles. Further, the method may include the UE performing communications with the base station based on the at least one scheduling-power profile.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Telecommunications method and apparatus for facilitating positioning measurements
Patent No. 12082146

Inventor(s): Bengt Lindoff (Bjarred, , SE), Muhammad Kazmi (Bromma, , SE), Walter Mller (Upplands Vasby, , SE)
Assignee(s): OPTIS WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: NIXON VANDERHYE P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17875116 on 07/27/2022 (769 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireless terminal ([b]30[/b]) capable of operating in a discontinuous mode comprising and method for operating such wireless terminal ([b]30[/b]) facilitate measurements pertaining to position of the wireless terminal ([b]30[/b]). The method includes receiving a message from the radio access network ([b]20[/b]). The measurement request message is configured to indicate that measurements are to be performed by the wireless terminal on downlink signals transmitted by the base station or by the base station on downlink signals transmitted by the base station. The method further comprises, as a result of or after receiving the message, changing operation of the wireless terminal ([b]30[/b]) from a discontinuous mode to a modified mode to facilitate performance of the measurements. Relative to the discontinuous mode at least one of following are shortened or eliminated in the modified mode: (i) the non-reception periods, and (ii) the non-transmission periods. ”Changing from a discontinuous mode . . . to a modified mode” includes one or more of: (1) changing mode of the wireless terminal (e.g., changing from a discontinuous mode [such as discontinuous reception (DRX) or discontinuous transmission (DTX)] to a continuous transmission mode); (2) changing from the discontinuous mode (a first discontinuous mode) to a modified discontinuous mode (a second discontinuous mode).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Line of sight (LoS)/non-line of sight (NLoS) point identification in wireless communication networks using artificial intelligence
Patent No. 12082147

Inventor(s): Hao Chen (Allen, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (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: 17460022 on 08/27/2021 (1103 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for performing line-of-sight (LoS)/non-line-of-sight (NLoS) filtering includes collecting, from at least one user equipment (UE) operating within a coverage area of a base station, a plurality of measurement reports from the at least one UE, wherein each measurement report of the plurality of measurement reports comprises a measured value of a signal parameter and location information of the at least one UE. The method further includes training a LoS/NLoS classification model on the plurality of measurement reports, obtaining a new measurement report from a UE operating at a first location within the coverage area of the base station and passing the new measurement report from the UE to the trained LoS/NLoS classification model to obtain a LoS/NLoS classification of the first location.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus of quasi-colocation assumption determination for physical downlink shared channel
Patent No. 12082213

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17653821 on 03/07/2022 (911 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses in a wireless communication system is provided. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a set of higher layer parameters and downlink control information (DCI); determining, based on the set of higher layer parameters, whether a field is present; and determining, from the DCI, a first set of antenna ports for de-modulation reference signal (DM-RS) associated with a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The method further includes, in response to a determination that the field is present, determine that a second set of antenna ports for DM-RS are not associated with a second PDSCH for another UE and receiving the first PDSCH over a downlink channel. The second set of antenna ports for DM-RS: are orthogonal to, have a same resource element mapping as; and have a different frequency domain orthogonal cover code (FD-OCC) from the first set of antenna ports for DM-RS.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for control resource set configuration for 5G next radio system
Patent No. 12082264

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Young-Han Nam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17813296 on 07/18/2022 (778 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) for control resource set (CORESET) configuration in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), system information, determining whether the system information includes a random access channel (RACH) CORESET configuration, determining a CORSET to use for transmitting data based on whether the RACH CORESET configuration is included in the system information, and receiving, from the BS, the data based on the determined CORESET over an RACH.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

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Patent No. D1040638

Inventor(s): Lap Truong Cong (Ho Chi Minh, , VN)
Assignee(s): Hurav LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: www.NielsenPatents.com (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29884219 on 02/08/2023 (573 days app to issue)