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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 01/21/25 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 21
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 16
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 3
E: Fixed Constructions 9
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 8
G: Physics 46
H: Electricity 29

Design: 6

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 17
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 6
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.) 5
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 4
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 4
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 4
Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas) 4
Traxxas L.P. (McKinney) 3
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 3

Unassigned 9

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 3
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 3
Anthony Lell (San Antonio) 2
Blair M. Philip (Dallas) 2
Byron H. Adams (Indian Wells, Calif.) 2
Eliezer Glik (San Francisco) 2
Jeffrey H. Jan (Keller) 2
Jeffrey T. Halstead (Wylie) 2
Kent Poteet (Lucas) 2
Mihir Mody (Bangalore, India) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Expandable bait keeper for soft fishing lures
Patent No. 12201098

Inventor(s): Steve Parks (Burleson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Decker Jones, PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16204422 on 11/29/2018 (2245 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fishing tackle bait keeper for a fishing hook includes an anchor and an extension member. The anchor has a sleeve with first and second ends, and plural ribs coupled to the first end. The ribs project in a diverging arrangement from the first end of the sleeve in a direction opposite of the sleeve first end. The ribs each have a free end. The ribs move from a deployed position to a retracted position, wherein when the ribs are in the retracted position, the ribs are oriented with the sleeve to allow insertion of the bait keeper into a bait, and wherein when the ribs are in the deployed position, the ribs extend out from the sleeve to resist being removed from the bait, the ribs are normally in the deployed position. The extension member is coupled to the sleeve and having an attachment portion for coupling with the hook.

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

Ingredient blending system and method
Patent No. 12201123

Inventor(s): Jeffrey D. Resnick (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Forte Supply LLC (Loveland, CO)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17899812 on 08/31/2022 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ingredient blending system and method for use in frozen beverage equipment and soft-serve ice cream equipment. In an exemplary embodiment, a manifold body has at least one blending chamber, more than one ingredient inlet port, more than one pressure reservoir, more than one ingredient egress port that intersects the pressure reservoir, and more than one ingredient ingress port that intersects the blending chamber. More than one inlet conduit is fastened to each of the ingredient inlet ports, more than one pressure sensor is secured within each of the pressure reservoirs, and more than one electronic valve is secured to the manifold body. In accordance with a recipe pulse sequence, the ingredients are blended in the blending chamber forming a food product, and injected into the mixing cylinder where the food product is chilled and dispensed to a customer for consumption.

[A23G] COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; CHEWING GUM; ICE-CREAM; PREPARATION THEREOF

Food pan cooling system with one or more perforated food pans
Patent No. 12201212

Inventor(s): Ashutosh A. Potdar (Fort Worth, TX), James R. Wright (Grand Prairie, TX), Liqun Ren (Haslet, TX), Sasenka Kukolj (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. (Glenview, IL)
Law Firm: THOMPSON HINE LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17527623 on 11/16/2021 (1162 days app to issue)

Abstract: A food preparation table includes a housing at least in part defining multiple food pan receiving locations and a cooling air flow path internal of the housing below the food pan receiving locations. A first food pan is positioned within a first one of the food pan receiving locations such that side walls and a bottom wall of the first food pan are within the cooling air flow path, a first one of the side walls of the first food pan includes a plurality of openings therein to permit some cooling air to enter the first food pan and flow in contact with food items therein.

[A47B] TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE (jointing of furniture F16B 12/00)

Portable sous vide cooking appliance
Patent No. 12201236

Inventor(s): Ted M Eades (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: RIMON PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16245133 on 01/10/2019 (2203 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable sous vide cooking appliance that does not require a motor to physically move water or have its own container is provided. The portable sous vide cooking appliance may be used with a separate pot or other container holding water. The sous vide cooking appliance requires no water circulators to function. Unlike immersion circulators, only the heating element and the mechanism for delivering power to the heating element are immersed in water. The sous vide cooking appliance described requires no electric motor, no impeller pump, no water intakes and no water outtakes. Further, unlike immersion circulators, the sous vide cooking appliance passively circulates water through convection currents and are not required to actively agitate the water bath, creating noise and more evaporation and steam.

[A47J] KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES [6]

Methods for transtendinous implantation of knotless micro suture anchors and anchor arrays
Patent No. 12201289

Inventor(s): Howard W. Harris (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc. (Maple Plain, MN)
Law Firm: Seager, Tufte Wickhem LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17681514 on 02/25/2022 (1061 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for transtendinous implantation of a toggle-type bone anchor. Measured from the top surface of the tendon, the entire bone anchor is inserted to a depth of greater than or equal to 20 mm. during a rotator cuff repair on the humeral head. The anchor is pushed by the same bone punch that formed the initial hole to assure proper depth of placement. Further, the apparatus includes a nub portion that, in use, protrudes into the bone hole formed by the bone punch and maintains registration with the bone hole when the bone punch is retracted. An angled distal end on the anchor initiates toggling during insertion into the bone and at least one proximal projecting fin prevents the anchor from backing out of the bone hole while facilitating further rotation of the anchor when a suture is pulled to complete toggling.

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

Self-adjusting catheter
Patent No. 12201312

Inventor(s): Arthur John Ulm, III (Nashville, TN), Gustavo Prado (San Diego, CA), Russel Corvese (Lake Forest, CA)
Assignee(s): Legacy Ventures LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18668339 on 05/20/2024 (246 days app to issue)

Abstract: Catheters and uses of same are described. The catheter may be an aspiration or distal access catheter used to treat stroke or other neurovascular conditions and may include a proximal segment and a distal segment with fixed shapes and outer diameters, and a distensible segment that is located proximal to the distal segment and adjacent to the catheter distal end and that is configured to undergo a conformation change when the catheter open distal end is lodged against the wall of a human blood vessel and a surgeon is attempting to move the catheter distally through the human blood vessel. The catheter may include a wall that is comprised of an inner tube surrounding the catheter’’s hollow interior, a coil surrounding the inner tube, a braid surrounding the coil and/or an outer tube surrounding the braid. The pitch of the coil may be greater in the distensible segment as compared to the proximal segment and the outer tube may not be attached to the inner tube for at least a portion of the distensible segment, which features allow for the distensible segment to undergo the conformational change. The distal segment may include a metallic marker band, providing rigidity to the distal segment.

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

All in one plate holder and spring loaded awl
Patent No. 12201335

Inventor(s): Stephen Tolhurst (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): K2M, Inc. (Leesburg, VA)
Law Firm: Lerner David LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18367791 on 09/13/2023 (496 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a system that includes a plate holder and an awl. The plate holder has a first end and a second end with an engagement feature at the second end that is engageable with a bone plate. The awl is releasably engaged to the plate holder and includes a locking mechanism adjustable from a first setting to a second setting and a tip. When the locking mechanism is in the first setting, the awl is fixed relative to the plate holder and the tip is disposed within the plate holder. When the locking mechanism is in the second setting, the awl is axially translatable relative to the plate holder such that the tip of the awl extends out of the second end of the plate holder.

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

Diagnostic model optimization for variations in mechanical components of imaging devices
Patent No. 12201357

Inventor(s): Eliezer Glik (San Francisco, CA), Lin Yang (Sunnyvale, CA), Peter Wubbels (Redwood City, CA), Sam Kavusi (Menlo Park, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: PERKINS COIE LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17805833 on 06/07/2022 (959 days app to issue)

Abstract: Introduced here are diagnostic platforms able to optimize computer-aided diagnostic (CADx) models by simulating the optical performance of an imaging device based on its mechanical components. For example, a diagnostic platform may acquire a source image associated with a confirmed diagnosis of a medical condition, simulate optical performance based on design data corresponding to a virtual prototype of the imaging device, generate a training image by altering the source image based on the optical performance, apply a diagnostic model to the training image, and then determine whether the performance of the diagnostic model meets a specified performance threshold. If the diagnostic model fails to meet the specified performance threshold, the diagnostic platform can automatically optimize the diagnostic model for the imaging device by altering its underlying algorithm(s).

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

Eye cup for passive feedback for fundus camera alignment
Patent No. 12201364

Inventor(s): Eliezer Glik (San Francisco, CA), Sam Kavusi (Menlo Park, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Christensen O’’Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17770858 on 10/30/2020 (1544 days app to issue)

Abstract: Eye cups and retinal imaging systems including an eye cup are described. In an embodiment, the eye cup is shaped to couple with an eyepiece lens assembly. In an embodiment, the eye cup includes a concave socket shaped to couple to a periorbital region of an eye, the concave socket defining a viewing aperture positioned to align with a pupil of the eye along a longitudinal axis of the viewing aperture when the concave socket is coupled to the periorbital region; and a flange extending from the concave socket away from the longitudinal axis and shaped to couple with a lateral margin of the periorbital region when the concave socket is coupled to the periorbital region. In an embodiment, an outer edge of the flange extends farther from the longitudinal axis than an outer edge of portion of the concave socket.

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

Systems and methods for intra-ocular lens advancement
Patent No. 12201514

Inventor(s): Asif Fayyaz (Fort Worth, TX), Sudarshan B. Singh (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): ALCON INC. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17809419 on 06/28/2022 (938 days app to issue)

Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) insertion apparatus includes a handpiece body having a distal tip and a proximal section. The IOL insertion apparatus also includes a folding chamber located within the handpiece body, the folding chamber shaped to fold an IOL advancing through the folding chamber. The IOL insertion apparatus also includes an advancement system. The advancement system includes an advancement carriage movable between a first position and a second position within the handpiece body. The advancement carriage includes a spring system biasing the advancement carriage in a distal direction toward the second position and a dampening system to dampen motion of the advancement carriage. The advancement system further includes an elongated advancement plunger that includes a distal end to advance the IOL through the folding chamber and a proximal end connected to the advancement carriage.

[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]

Implants having bone growth promoting agents contained within biodegradable materials
Patent No. 12201531

Inventor(s): Jessee Hunt (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): 4WEB, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17370873 on 07/08/2021 (1293 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments of implant systems and related apparatus, and methods of operating the same are described herein. In various embodiments, an implant for interfacing with a bone structure includes a web structure, including a space truss, configured to interface with human bone tissue. The space truss includes two or more planar truss units having a plurality of struts joined at nodes. Implants may include biodegradable polymer particles contained within biocompatible fibers. The biodegradable polymer particles may include bone growth promoting agents that are released as the particles degrade over time.

Implant having enhanced initial fixation force
Patent No. 12201532

Inventor(s): Michael C. Oh (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): SYNAPTIC INNOVATIONS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: WHDA, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17706914 on 03/29/2022 (1029 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides an implant having an enhanced initial fixation force, and more particularly, to an implant that may maintain a fixed state without relative movement with respect to vertebral bodies until fusion is completely performed. The implant includes: an implant body inserted between vertebral bodies; and an injection unit installed in the implant body, and configured to inject bone cement into the vertebral bodies.

Anaerobic blood storage containers
Patent No. 12201584

Inventor(s): Narendran Renganathan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Hemanext Inc. (Lexington, MA)
Law Firm: Arnold Porter Kaye Scholer (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17072250 on 10/16/2020 (1558 days app to issue)

Abstract: A blood storage container for the anaerobic storage of blood, having enhanced sealing methods and materials for the preservation of stored blood is provided.

[A61J] CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE

Micro- and nano-device for cartilage injury detection and treatment
Patent No. 12201700

Inventor(s): Joseph Borrelli (Dallas, TX), Jun Zhou (Arlington, TX), Liping Tang (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15766039 on 10/05/2016 (3030 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides targeting probe, imaging probes, and probes for use as a medicament to treat damaged cartilage, where the probe targets injured tissue and can then be imaged and/or release agents to trigger the migration of surrounding chondrocytes from healthy tissue to injured tissue and/or recruit synovial stem cells.

[A61K] PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms A61J 3/00; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for deodorisation of air, for disinfection or sterilisation, or for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; soap compositions C11D)

Transdermal patches for hangover minimization and/or recocery, and/or sleep improvement
Patent No. 12201732

Inventor(s): Christoper Usrey (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): GAME CHANGER PATCH CO. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Williams Morgan, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17558179 on 12/21/2021 (1127 days app to issue)

Abstract: I disclose a patch, comprising a film having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is opposed to the first surface, and a coating on the first surface of the film, wherein the coating comprises a transdermal adhesive and one or more active ingredients. The active ingredient(s) may minimize and/or improve recovery from a hangover. I also disclose methods of using such patches; kits comprising such patches and instructions for their use; and methods of manufacturing such patches.

System and methods for therapeutic stimulation
Patent No. 12201828

Inventor(s): Martin Cholette (Van Alstyne, TX)
Assignee(s): NeoGenesis Technologies LLC (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Knobbe Martens Olson Bear, LLP (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18458813 on 08/30/2023 (510 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for providing electrical stimulation to biological tissue to treat medical conditions. The system can include a lead configured to be positioned in contact with biological tissue proximate one or more occipital nerves, an implantable pulse generator configured to deliver electrical stimulation to the biological tissue via the one or more leads, and/or a power source configured to operatively connect and supply power to the implantable pulse generator. The system can further include a processor configured to communicate with the implantable pulse generator. The processor can operate the implantable pulse generator to deliver the electrical stimulation to the biological tissue via the lead. The implantable pulse generator can deliver the electrical stimulation by applying a stimulation waveform or a stimulation pattern. The stimulation waveform can include a series of stimulation pulses that can vary over time, which can reduce an effect of neural accommodation or adaptation.

[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]

Retraction device exercise kit
Patent No. 12201869

Inventor(s): William Wallander (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Nuvalux LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18142078 on 05/02/2023 (630 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exercise kit includes a casing defining a cavity. A plurality of exercise devices are configured to position in the cavity of the casing. Each of the plurality of exercise devices includes a cable that is configured to extend from the exercise device between a retracted position and an extended position.

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

Retraction device having a tensioning mechanism
Patent No. 12201870

Abstract: An exercise device includes a cable configured to extend from a housing between a retracted position and an extended position. A resistance device is positioned in the housing and configured to bias the cable into the retracted position. A tensioning mechanism is formed integrally with the housing.

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

Fitness device
Patent No. 12201872

Inventor(s): Craig Dean Horn (Royse City, TX), Kelli Jean Horn (Royse City, TX)
Assignee(s): ADVANCED KINETIX LLC (Royse City, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17849361 on 06/24/2022 (942 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fitness tool for a user to use in performing stretching or other fitness activities may include a first member including (i) a first elongated shaft, the first elongated shaft including a first interface feature on a first end of the first elongated shaft, and (ii) a handle disposed at the second end. A second member may include a second elongated shaft, where the second elongated shaft may include a second interface feature at a first end of the second elongated shaft. The first and second interface features, when longitudinally engaged with one another, may enable the first and second shafts to rotate relative to one another. The second elongated shaft may include a hand or foot engagement mechanism.

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

Golf shaft
Patent No. 12201882

Inventor(s): Blair M. Philip (Dallas, TX), Byron H. Adams (Indian Wells, CA), James P. MacKay (Littleton, MA), Jeffrey T. Halstead (Wylie, TX), Robert E. Stephens (Fort Worth, TX), Trever M. Napier (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BREAKTHROUGH GOLF TECHNOLOGY LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Dawsey Co., LPA (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17331184 on 05/26/2021 (1336 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-material golf shaft having a butt portion joined to a tip portion and possessing unique relationships, including rigidity relationships, which provide beneficial performance characteristics.

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

Golf shaft system and golf shaft
Patent No. 12201883

Inventor(s): Blair M. Philip (Dallas, TX), Byron H. Adams (Indian Wells, CA), Jeffrey T. Halstead (Wylie, TX), Robert E. Stephens (Fort Worth, TX), Trever M. Napier (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BREADTHROUGH GOLF TECHNOLOGY LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Dawsey Co., LPA (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18225196 on 07/24/2023 (547 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-component golf club shaft possessing unique characteristics including flexural and torsional rigidity profiles.

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

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

Droplet actuator fabrication apparatus, systems, and related methods
Patent No. 12201980

Inventor(s): Andrew Fischer (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, IL)
Law Firm: Hanley, Flight Zimmerman, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17094423 on 11/10/2020 (1533 days app to issue)

Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems for droplet actuator fabrication are disclosed. An example non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least control movement of a laser to cause the laser to etch an electrode pattern in a first substrate, the electrode pattern including a first set of electrodes, a second set of electrodes, and a third set of electrodes; control a printer driver to cause a hydrophobic material and a dielectric material to be applied to the second set of electrodes and not the first set of electrodes via a printer; control a bonding driver to cause a gap to be defined between the first substrate and a second substrate; and control a dicing driver to cause a portion the first substrate and a portion of the second substrate to be cut into a droplet actuator.

[B01L] CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE (apparatus for medical or pharmaceutical purposes A61; apparatus for industrial purposes or laboratory apparatus whose construction and performance are comparable to that of similar industrial apparatus, see the relevant classes for industrial apparatus, particularly subclasses of B01 and C12; separating or distilling apparatus B01D; mixing or stirring devices B01F; atomisers B05B; sieves B07B; corks, bungs B65D; handling liquids in general B67; vacuum pumps F04; siphons F04F 10/00; taps, stop-cocks F16K; tubes, tube joints F16L; apparatus specially adapted for investigating or analysing materials G01, particularly G01N; electrical or optical apparatus, see the relevant classes in sections G and H)

Cleaning tools and methods for cleaning the pull cable of an ingot puller apparatus
Patent No. 12202017

Inventor(s): Jin Yong Uhm (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. (Hsinchu, , TW)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18300850 on 04/14/2023 (648 days app to issue)

Abstract: Cleaning tools for cleaning the pull cable of an ingot puller apparatus and methods for cleaning the pull cable are disclosed. The cleaning tool includes a chamber for receiving the pull cable. Pressurized fluid is discharged through one or more nozzles to detach debris from the pull cable. The fluid and debris are collected in an exhaust plenum of the cleaning tool and are expelled through an exhaust tube. The cleaning tool includes one or more guides that guide the cleaning tool in an upper segment of the ingot puller apparatus.

[B08B] CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL (brushes A46; devices for domestic or like cleaning A47L; separation of particles from liquids or gases B01D; separation of solids B03, B07; spraying or applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05; cleaning devices for conveyors B65G 45/10; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C 7/00; inhibiting corrosion or incrustation in general C23; cleaning streets, permanent ways, beaches or land E01H; parts, details or accessories of swimming or splash baths or pools, specially adapted for cleaning E04H 4/16; preventing or removing electrostatic charges H05F)

Method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for controlling a robot to load and unload a target object
Patent No. 12202144

Inventor(s): John Jungwoo Ha (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Bear Robotics, Inc. (Redwood City, CA)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shobl LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17361476 on 06/29/2021 (1302 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for controlling a robot is provided. The method includes the steps of: determining a target robot to travel to a first loading station among a plurality of robots, on the basis of information on a location of the first loading station and a task situation of each of the plurality of robots, when a first transport target object is placed at the first loading station; and determining a travel route of the target robot with reference to information on the location of the first loading station and a location of a first unloading station associated with the first transport target object.

[B25J] MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES (robotic devices for individually picking fruits, vegetables, hops or the like A01D 46/30; needle manipulators for surgery A61B 17/062; manipulators associated with rolling mills B21B 39/20; manipulators associated with forging machines B21J 13/10; means for holding wheels or parts thereof B60B 30/00; cranes B66C; arrangements for handling fuel or other materials which are used within nuclear reactors G21C 19/00; structural combination of manipulators with cells or rooms shielded against radiation G21F 7/06) [5]

Apparatus and method for extruding stripes onto an extruded product
Patent No. 12202188

Inventor(s): Mark D. Bennett (Dodd City, TX), William T. Bigbee, Jr. (Hawkins, TX)
Assignee(s): Encore Wire Corporation (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Warren Rhoades LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18584929 on 02/22/2024 (334 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for extruding a jacket and/or insulative material onto an extruded product with one or more longitudinal stripes incorporated onto the surface of said extruded product comprising a body, a primary feed conduit for conveying a primary extrusion material, a striping die, a secondary feed conduit for conveying a secondary extrusion material, a striping die adapter, a striping feed conduit extending through the striping die adapter for conveying striping extrusion material. The striping die adapter may also include a thermocouple for maintaining the viscosity of the striping extrusion material and a thermocouple for monitoring the temperature of said striping die adapter. The striping die includes one or more striping extrusion outlets for conveying striping extrusion material onto the extruded product. The striping die may also include a wishbone-shaped trough for delivering equal amounts of striping extrusion material to said extrusion outlets for extrusion onto the product.

[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]

Flashing assemblies and related systems and methods
Patent No. 12202228

Inventor(s): Benjamin Alan Meyer (Moseley, VA), Luke D. Geoffrion (Malvern, AR)
Assignee(s): Siplast Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18432897 on 02/05/2024 (351 days app to issue)

Abstract: A flashing assembly and related systems and methods are provided. The flashing assembly comprises a fleece layer, an attachment layer, and a flashing layer located between the fleece layer and the attachment layer. The fleece layer covers a portion of the flashing layer. The flashing assembly is configured to be installed on a building structure.

[B32B] LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM

Method for manufacturing a bullnose tile and a bullnose tile
Patent No. 12202287

Inventor(s): Claudio Caselli (Dallas, TX), Rahul Patki (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Dal-Tile, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16830348 on 03/26/2020 (1762 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a bullnose tile comprising the steps of providing a ceramic tile that comprises a base body made of a ceramic material, wherein the base body has a main surface and a bullnose edge; providing a decorative layer on top of the bullnose edge by printing a curable ink to form a dcor; and curing the curable ink; wherein the curable ink, after printing, is in direct contact with the ceramic material of the base body.

[B41M] PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING (correction of typographical errors B41J; processes for applying transfer pictures or the like B44C 1/16; fluid media for correction of typographical errors by coating C09D 10/00; printing textiles D06P)

Peak demand response operation of HVAC systems
Patent No. 12202316

Inventor(s): Rakesh Goel (Irving, TX), Vijaykumar Sathyamurthi (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18359998 on 07/27/2023 (544 days app to issue)

Abstract: An HVAC system includes a variable-speed compressor which compresses refrigerant flowing through the HVAC system, a blower which provides a flow of air through the HVAC system at a controllable flow rate, and a controller communicatively coupled to the variable-speed compressor and the blower. The controller receives a demand request, which includes a command to operate the HVAC system at a predefined setpoint temperature. In response to receiving the demand request, a setpoint temperature associated with the HVAC system can be adjusted to the predefined setpoint temperature. A speed of the variable-speed compressor is decreased to a low-speed setting. Based on the decreased speed of the variable-speed compressor, an air-flow rate can be determined to provide by the blower. The controllable flow rate of the flow of air provided by the blower can be adjusted based on the determined air-flow rate.

[B60H] ARRANGEMENTS OR ADAPTATIONS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING, OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY FOR PASSENGER OR GOODS SPACES OF VEHICLES

Systems and methods for displaying a following camera image on a lead vehicle display device
Patent No. 12202410

Inventor(s): Christopher A Ferone (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: 18458523 on 08/30/2023 (510 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a system for facilitating reverse travel of a vehicle convoy. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a memory storing machine-readable instructions. The machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to detect a rotational position of a steering wheel of a lead vehicle of a convoy when the lead vehicle is in a reverse mode. The machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, also cause the processor to select a camera of a following vehicle of the convoy based on the rotational position of the steering wheel. The machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, also cause the processor to display an image captured by the camera of the following vehicle on a display device of the lead vehicle.

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

Vehicle and method for granting access to vehicle functionalities
Patent No. 12202434

Inventor(s): Masashi Nakagawa (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17188515 on 03/01/2021 (1422 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for granting access to vehicle functionalities is provided. The method includes receiving a signal from a device that is external to the vehicle, the signal including identification data of an object associated with the device, comparing the identification data with user identifications stored in the memory of the vehicle, and granting, to the object, access to a first set of functionalities of the vehicle in response to determining that the identification data matches a first user identification of the user identifications stored in the memory of the vehicle.

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

Jet pump propulsion system
Patent No. 12202585

Inventor(s): Steven George Garner (Winnipeg, , CA)
Assignee(s): Garner Development Services, LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Law Office of Bill Naifeh (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18811311 on 08/21/2024 (153 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of a jet pump system are disclosed where certain embodiments comprise an inlet component, an electronic controller which is cooled via the inflow of water through the inlet component, a combined motor impeller system positioned adjacent to the outflow aperture of the inlet component, and a nozzle pump positioned adjacent to the outflow of the motor impeller system.

[B63H] MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING (propulsion of air-cushion vehicles B60V 1/14; peculiar to submarines, other than nuclear propulsion, B63G; peculiar to torpedoes F42B 19/00)

Peak power use with pilot monitoring
Patent No. 12202594

Inventor(s): Aaron Alexander Acee (Flower Mound, TX), Albert G. Brand (North Richland Hills, TX), Eric Albert Sinusas (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17165068 on 02/02/2021 (1449 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft having an electric motor coupled to a rotor and an instrument electronically connected to the electric motor and configured to communicate a time available value before a motor condition reaches a motor condition limit.

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

Autonomous emergency lubrication of aircraft gearboxes
Patent No. 12202599

Inventor(s): Eric Stephen Olson (Fort Worth, TX), Ezra Mike Tiprigan (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17989908 on 11/18/2022 (795 days app to issue)

Abstract: A drive system for an aircraft includes a first gearbox assembly and a second gearbox assembly that is in mechanical communication with the first gearbox assembly. A first pressurized lubrication system is configured to circulate a first lubricant through the first gearbox assembly. A second pressurized lubrication system is configured to circulate a second lubricant through the second gearbox assembly. An emergency lubrication system is configured to autonomously supply a portion of the first lubricant to the second gearbox assembly responsive to a loss of pressure in the second pressurized lubrication system. The emergency lubrication system is also configured to autonomously supply a portion of the second lubricant to the first gearbox assembly responsive to a loss of pressure in the first pressurized lubrication system.

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

High-speed tiltrotor aircraft having a variable-sweep wing
Patent No. 12202600

Inventor(s): Christopher Edward Foskey (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18377465 on 10/06/2023 (473 days app to issue)

Abstract: A variable-sweep wing for a tiltrotor aircraft includes a fuselage link coupled to the fuselage and a pylon link coupled to a pylon. A wing airframe has a root end pivotably coupled to the fuselage link and a tip end pivotably coupled to the pylon link. A driveshaft is coupled between the fuselage link and the pylon link and is positioned within the wing airframe. The driveshaft is operable to transmit torque from the main gearbox to a proprotor gearbox. A crank is coupled between the fuselage link and the pylon link and is positioned within the wing airframe. The fuselage link, the pylon link, the driveshaft and the crank form a linkage such that pivoting the crank relative to the fuselage link causes the wing airframe to shift between a substantially straight wing configuration for low-speed forward flight and a swept wing configuration for high-speed forward flight.

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

External airbag for an aircraft and aircraft having an external airbag system
Patent No. 12202613

Inventor(s): Cheng-Ho Tho (Colleyville, TX), Michael Reaugh Smith (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17396382 on 08/06/2021 (1264 days app to issue)

Abstract: An implementation of an external airbag system may include a plurality of inflatable air bags, a duct coupled to the plurality of inflatable air bags, and an exhaust vent coupled to each of the plurality of inflatable air bags via the duct.

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

Heliport docking system
Patent No. 12202624

Inventor(s): Matthew Holvey (North Richland Hills, TX), Michael McNair (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations, Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17650989 on 02/14/2022 (1072 days app to issue)

Abstract: A heliport docking system provides automated transport, fueling, maintenance, and logistical management of VTOLs. The heliport docking system can include a plurality of helipads that can be autonomously transported from area-to-area to assist in the logistics of heliport management and control. The helipad system can include a surface on which a VTOL can land and a controller that can perform functions related to routing, maintenance, object detection, and transport, among others. The helipad system can releasably secure the VTOL to the helipad and transport the VTOL to different areas of the heliport system. The helipad system can also fuel the VTOL by providing, electricity, combustible fuel, or other suitable energy source, and perform a maintenance check of the VTOL and create maintenance crew of any VTOL irregularities.

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

Modular rotary union
Patent No. 12202722

Inventor(s): Clinton Hattaway (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): KNAUF GIPS KG (Iphofen, , DE)
Law Firm: Greer, Burns Crain, Ltd (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18060361 on 11/30/2022 (783 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotary union for distributing flowing material, and includes a central shaft having an upper end defining at least one inlet configured for receiving the material, and being in communication with a pocket configured for receiving the material, a lower end of the pocket defining at least one outlet port. An annular sleeve surrounds and rotates relative to the central shaft, the sleeve being provided with a plurality of radially-spaced outlet nipples. A gap is defined between an exterior surface of the central shaft and an interior surface of the sleeve, and at least one seal is disposed in the gap for isolating the gap from the material flowing through the outlet port and into the nipples. The central shaft is provided in vertically-stacked components including an upper, inlet portion, a middle or central delivery portion including the pockets and the outlets, and a lower-most base portion.

[B67D] DISPENSING, DELIVERING, OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes B08B 9/02; emptying or filling of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers, not otherwise provided for B67C; water supply E03; pipe systems F17D; domestic hot-water supply systems F24D; measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level, metering by volume G01F; coin-freed or like apparatus G07F) [5]

Beverage container
Patent No. D1058370

Inventor(s): Merrilee Kick (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): BUZZBALLZ, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29950209 on 07/01/2024 (204 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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

Process for converting methanol to formaldehyde
Patent No. 12202793

Inventor(s): Justin Dodson (League City, TX), Monty Sinnreich (Corpus Christi, TX), Randal Jendrzey (Corpus Christi, TX), Steve Alexander (Houston, TX), Wensheng Chen (Friendswood, TX)
Assignee(s): Celanese International Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17773961 on 11/12/2020 (1531 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for catalytic vapor phase oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde may include: passing a feed stream comprising methanol and oxygen through a layered catalyst bed having a first layer comprising a first silver catalyst particles and a second layer comprising a second silver catalyst particles that are different than the first silver catalyst particles, wherein the feed stream passes through the first layer before the second layer, wherein the first silver catalyst particles has a greater reaction activity for converting methanol and oxygen to formaldehyde; and reacting the methanol and the oxygen in the presence of the catalysts to produce a product stream comprising formaldehyde.

[C07C] ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (macromolecular compounds C08; production of organic compounds by electrolysis or electrophoresis C25B 3/00, C25B 7/00)

Nucleic acids encoding switch receptors using IL-9 receptor signaling domains
Patent No. 12202884

Inventor(s): John Connolly (Red Oak, TX)
Assignee(s): Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17946916 on 09/16/2022 (858 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to, inter alia, a class of chimeric switch receptors containing an endodomain of an IL-9 receptor, engineered to modulate transcriptional regulation in a ligand-dependent manner. The disclosure also provides compositions and methods useful for producing such receptors, nucleic acids encoding same, host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids, as well as methods for modulating gene expression, modulating an activity of a cell, and/or for the treatment of various health conditions or diseases.

[C07K] PEPTIDES (peptides containing ﬂ-lactam rings C07D; cyclic dipeptides not having in their molecule any other peptide link than those which form their ring, e.g. piperazine-2,5-diones, C07D; ergot alkaloids of the cyclic peptide type C07D 519/02; single cell proteins, enzymes C12N; genetic engineering processes for obtaining peptides C12N 15/00) [4]

LILRB4 antibodies and uses thereof
Patent No. 12202895

Inventor(s): Chengcheng Zhang (Dallas, TX), Mi Deng (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): IMMUNE-ONC THERAPEUTICS, INC. (Palo Alto, CA), THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17275838 on 09/12/2019 (1958 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an isolated monoclonal antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof that binds specifically to leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor 4 (LILRB4). In certain embodiments, the antibody or antigen-binding fragment, when bound to LILRB4, modulates the activation of LILRB4. In certain embodiments, the antibody or antigen-binding fragment, when bound to LILRB4, activates LILRB4. In certain embodiments, the antibody or antigen binding fragment, when bound to LILRB4, suppresses activation of LILRB4. In certain embodiments, the antibody or antigen-binding fragment, when bound to LILRB4, specifically blocks binding of ApoE to LILRB4. In another aspect, there is provided a method of treating or ameliorating the effects of a cancer in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of the antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof or an engineered cell as provided herein.

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Apparatus for sub-surface injection of constituents
Patent No. 12202024

Inventor(s): John A. Sanders (Austin, TX), Mitchell J. NewDelman (Monte Carlo, , MC)
Assignee(s): SUB-MERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Bailey Legal Services, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17839467 on 06/13/2022 (953 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus ([b]100[/b]) for sub-surface injection of constituents of a slurry, wet mixture, and or gas in a phase of entrainment for controlled flow. The apparatus ([b]100[/b]) includes a rotary union ([b]113[/b]), a drilling assembly ([b]403[/b]), hollow shaft injection drilling arrays ([b]1003[/b]A), limit switches ([b]1705, 1707, 1709[/b]), and encoders ([b]1605[/b]B). The rotary union ([b]113[/b]) facilitates the filling of the constituent in hollow shaft drilling bits ([b]129[/b]) during a drilling process or before the drilling process via an opening and closing of a plurality of valves ([b]111, 215, 505[/b]B, [b]805[/b]B, and [b]1107[/b]B). The constituents are capable of being injected through the rotary union, wherein the rotary union ([b]113[/b]) is in concert with the valve ([b]111[/b]) to dispense predefined quantities of constituents at a specific depth in a sequence of dispersal. The drilling assembly ([b]403[/b]) is directed by a GPS ([b]1413[/b]C) to control an X plane and Y-plane injection coordinates. The drilling assembly ([b]403[/b]) determines through a PLC ([b]1405[/b]C), a computer ([b]1411[/b]C), and an AI robot ([b]1505[/b]) in concert with achieved depths of the Z (cubic) volume of injected material. The hollow shaft injection drilling arrays ([b]1003[/b]A) provide the sequential dispensing of the constituents at one or more targeted depths, wherein the hollow shaft injection drilling arrays ([b]1003[/b]A) enable capturing of targeted

[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]

Position-biased locking pin assembly for a ground engaging wear member
Patent No. 12203245

Inventor(s): Mohamad Youssef Bilal (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Hensley Industries, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18472369 on 09/22/2023 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: A locking pin assembly for securing a wear member to a support structure includes a body portion having a head with a non-circular shape and a tip having a non-circular peripheral profile. Engagement of the head with a recess in a wall of a ground engaging member and the tip with a distal recess prevents rotation of the body portion relative to the ground engaging member.

[E02F] DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C 49/00)

Ground anchor collar and assembly
Patent No. 12203282

Inventor(s): Richard Smith (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Decker Jones, PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18081798 on 12/15/2022 (768 days app to issue)

Abstract: The ground anchor assembly comprises a collar, a T-post, a guy line, and a guy line attachment member. The guy line attachment member is coupled to the guy line. The collar comprises a perimeter wall and an adjustment member. The perimeter wall defines an internal void adapted to receive a portion of the T-post such that when the T-post is positioned within the internal void, the perimeter wall surrounds a perimeter of the portion of the T-post and restrains rotational movement of the collar relative to the T-post. The adjustment member is moveable from a first position to a second position, the first position being one in which a distal end of the adjustment member does not contact the T-post, the second position being one in which distal end contacts the T-post between adjacent stubs of the T-post.

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

User assemblable picket rail panel
Patent No. 12203285

Inventor(s): Collin Robinson (Garland, TX), Kevin Burt (Dallas, TX), Kevin Flatt (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Fortress Iron, LP (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17744281 on 05/13/2022 (984 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user assemblable picket rail panel includes a top rail with a transverse wall, a first side wall and a second side wall each extending from the transverse wall with a plurality of openings disposed spaced apart along a length of the transverse wall. The top rail further includes a first locking ledge extending from a first side wall and a second locking ledge extending from the second side wall. A picket plug is configured to be secured to the top rail by the first and second locking ledges and has a picket-insertable portion that is configured to be aligned with one of the plurality of openings in the transverse wall. The picket plug defines a through hole that is configured to receive a fastener. The rail panel also includes a support picket that is configured to receive the picket-insertable portion of the picket plug and includes a threaded hole that is configured to receive the fastener. A bottom rail is configured to be coupled to the support picket, and the rail panel also includes a plurality of infill pickets that are configured to be coupled to the top rail and the bottom rail.

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

Retractable screen retention system
Patent No. 12203326

Inventor(s): Justin R. Collins (Lavon, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17710280 on 03/31/2022 (1027 days app to issue)

Abstract: The retractable screen retention system is a guiding device for retractable screens that is sturdy, secured, and does not displace easily. To accomplish this, the system includes a track assembly, a guiding rail, and a sliding assembly. The sliding assembly further includes a retention housing and a weight bar. The design and components of the retention housing allows for movement of the weight bar and the retractable screen and yet keeps them retained in the system. Furthermore, the arrangement of the sliding assembly is designed to be flexible and doesn’’t allow it to come out of the track during deflective motions such as due to wind or some other physical impact. Thus, the system provides a track assembly with a guiding channel for the retractable screen that prevents the displacement of the retractable screen from the track while providing flexibility.

[E06B] FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES, OR LIKE ENCLOSURES, IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES (shades or blinds for greenhouses A01G 9/22; curtains A47H; lids for car boots or bonnets B62D 25/10; sky-lights E04B 7/18; sunshades, awnings E04F 10/00)

Temperature compensator for improved sealing
Patent No. 12203335

Inventor(s): Shobeir P. Gar (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: The Hilton Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18083269 on 12/16/2022 (767 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing a wellbore operation. A thermal compensator is introduced into a wellbore having a temperature. The thermal compensator comprises an outer layer comprising a first material, an inner layer comprising a second material, and a core disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer; wherein the core comprises a third material. The third material has a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than the first material and the second material. The core contracts when the wellbore temperature is decreasing and the contraction of the core moves the outer layer such that it applies a force to a structure adjacent to the outer layer.

Downhole tool with a releasable shroud at a downhole tip thereof
Patent No. 12203344

Inventor(s): Christian Alexander Ramirez (Irving, TX), David Joe Steele (Carrollton, TX), Srinivasa Prasanna Vemuri (Frisco, TX), Stacey Blaine Donovan (Fort Worth, TX), Wesley Paul Dietz (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17118019 on 12/10/2020 (1503 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a downhole tool, a y-block, a well system, and a method for forming a well system. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes a bottom hole assembly (BHA) having an uphole end and a downhole end, and a shroud positioned around and proximate the downhole end of the BHA, the shroud operable to slide relative to the BHA. The downhole tool, in this aspect, may further include one or more shear features coupling the shroud to the downhole end of the BHA.

Apparatus and methods for uninterrupted drilling
Patent No. 12203358

Inventor(s): An Binh Ho (Lewisville, TX), John Jeremy Cantwell (Fredericksburg, TX), William Edward Weideman (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18465864 on 09/12/2023 (497 days app to issue)

Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a control system may include a processor coupled to the database. The control system may include a memory accessible to the processor and storing instructions executable by the processor for: during slide drilling, detecting an increase to a first differential pressure (P) that is greater than a first threshold pressure. In at least one embodiment, the control system may responsive to detecting the first P, determining a time duration for which the first P exceeds the first threshold pressure. In at least one embodiment, the control system may responsive to the first P exceeding the first threshold pressure for less than a first threshold time, continuing the slide drilling without modifying a drilling parameter.

System and method for determining the location of a bottom hole assembly
Patent No. 12203361

Inventor(s): Teddy C. Chen (Austin, TX), Todd W. Benson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17317738 on 05/11/2021 (1351 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and method for determining the location of a bottom hole assembly (BHA) during drilling of a well are provided. During drilling, a computer system determines an increase in measured depth during a time interval, and adjusts the determined measured depth to account for tensile and compressive forces, which may stretch or compress, respectively, the length of the drillstring. The computer system also determines a curvature projection of the drillstring responsive to a plane of arc and a build rate estimate, and uses the curvature projection to determine a position of the BHA.

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LIGHTING | HEATING | WEAPONS | BLASTING

Method of restoring alloy depletion in an airfoil around cooling holes
Patent No. 12203384

Inventor(s): Arka Ray (Arlington, TX), Michael J. Minor (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): RTX CORPORATION (Farmington, CT)
Law Firm: CANTOR COLBURN LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18468404 on 09/15/2023 (494 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of reducing depletion of elements from an airfoil includes disposing a bond coating on the airfoil, where the airfoil comprises cooling channels. The airfoil includes a material that has an initial composition. A cooling hole is machined in the airfoil to contact the cooling channels such that a fluid travelling in the cooling channel may be discharged via the cooling hole. The machining of the cooling hole results in a formation of a depleted region around the cooling hole. The depleted region is depleted of a portion of the initial composition of the airfoil. A top coat is disposed on the bond coat. The airfoil is subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature effective to promote diffusion of elements from a non-depleted region to the depleted region around the cooling hole.

[F01D] NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES (combustion engines F02; machines or engines for liquids F03, F04; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D)

Transducer assemblies that selectively measure a fuel pressure within a fuel supply system of an aircraft, aircraft that include the transducer assemblies, and methods of utilizing a transducer assembly to test performance of a fuel boost pum
Patent No. 12203416

Inventor(s): Matthew A. Couture (Krum, TX)
Assignee(s): The Boeing Company (Arlington, VA)
Law Firm: Kolitch Romano Dascenzo Gates LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17965627 on 10/13/2022 (831 days app to issue)

Abstract: Transducer assemblies that selectively measure a fuel pressure within a fuel supply system of an aircraft, aircraft that include the transducer assemblies, and methods of utilizing a transducer assembly. The transducer assemblies include an electronic pressure transducer, which is configured to measure the fuel pressure and to generate a fuel pressure signal indicative of the fuel pressure, and an electronic pressure display, which is configured to receive the fuel pressure signal and to display the fuel pressure responsive to receipt of the fuel pressure signal. The transducer assemblies also include a power supply structure and an attachment structure, which is configured to operatively interconnect the electronic pressure transducer to the aircraft. The attachment structure includes a fitting, which is configured to interface with a pressure switch receptacle of the aircraft, and a valve actuation structure, which is configured to selectively actuate a receptacle valve of the pressure switch receptacle.

[F02C] GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS (construction of turbines F01D; jet-propulsion plants F02K; construction of compressors or fans F04; combustion apparatus in which combustion takes place in a fluidised bed of fuel or other particles F23C 10/00; generating combustion products of high pressure or high velocity F23R; using gas turbines in compression refrigeration plants F25B 11/00; using gas-turbine plants in vehicles, see the relevant vehicle classes)

Device for canceling acoustic noise generated by a pump
Patent No. 12203469

Inventor(s): Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, MI), Michael Paul Rowe (Pinckney, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Xiaopeng Li (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: 17702208 on 03/23/2022 (1035 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for canceling acoustic noise generated includes, in one example, an inlet channel configured to be fluidly connected to an inlet port of a pump and an outlet channel configured to be fluidly connected to an outlet port of the pump. The device also includes an inlet resonator and an outlet resonator, both having open ends and closed ends. The open ends of the inlet and outlet resonators are fluidly connected to the inlet and outlet channels, respectively. When in operation, the inlet and outlet resonators can cancel noise generated by the operation of the pump.

[F04B] POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F; crankshafts, crossheads, connecting-rods F16C; flywheels F16F; gearings for interconverting rotary motion and reciprocating motion in general F16H; pistons, piston-rods, cylinders, in general F16J; ion pumps H01J 41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K 44/02)

Thief hatches for pressure vessel systems
Patent No. 12203601

Inventor(s): Davis Lunsford (Fort Worth, TX), Jeremy Thomas (Weatherford, TX), Tyler Newman Denham (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): EOG Resources, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18613866 on 03/22/2024 (305 days app to issue)

Abstract: A thief hatch for a pressure vessel system including an annular seal flange attachable to an opening of a pressure vessel of the pressure vessel system, a piston coupled to the seal flange, an annular seal assembly located between an outer surface of the piston and an inner surface of the seal flange, and a biasing element coupled to the piston and configured to apply a biasing force against the piston to bias the piston towards a first position corresponding to a closed configuration of the thief hatch.

[F17C] VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES (storing fluids in natural or artificial cavities or chambers in the earth B65G 5/00; construction or assembling of bulk storage containers employing civil-engineering techniques E04H 7/00; variable-capacity gas-holders F17B; liquefaction or refrigeration machines, plants, or systems F25)

Fire pit with fire grate
Patent No. 12203652

Inventor(s): Jeffrey H. Jan (Keller, TX), Spencer H. Jan (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Solo Brands, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18895295 on 09/24/2024 (119 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a stove that includes a dome-shaped fire grate comprising a center, a perimeter surrounding and spaced from the center, the center being higher than the perimeter; a plurality of radial stiffening ribs extending away from the perimeter and toward the center; at least one circumferential stiffening ring extending at least partially about the center; and a plurality of ventilation holes between the center and the perimeter.

[F23H] GRATES (inlets for fluidisation air for fluidised bed combustion apparatus F23C 10/20); CLEANING OR RAKING GRATES

Fire pit system
Patent No. 12203660

Inventor(s): Jeffrey H. Jan (Keller, TX), Spencer H. Jan (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): SOLO BRANDS, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18325627 on 05/30/2023 (602 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present fire pit system includes a fire pit stand including a body including a plurality of openings, wherein the walls of a fire pit body can rest upon the fire pit stand. The fire pit stand protects below surfaces (e.g., floor, ground, etc.) from high heat. The openings in the fire pit stand increase airflow. The fire pit stand fits inside the fire pit body creating a portable unit. When the fire pit is being assembled, the fire pit stand can be removed from inside the fire pit body, placed on the ground, and the fire pit body can be placed on top of the fire pit stand.

[F24B] DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES FOR SOLID FUELS; IMPLEMENTS FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH STOVES OR RANGES [6]

Air quality monitoring device and associated method of manufacturing
Patent No. 12203668

Inventor(s): Rahul Avasthi (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: ALSTON BIRD LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17822857 on 08/29/2022 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract: An air quality monitoring device and an associated method of manufacturing. An example air quality monitoring device may include a housing having a chamber and an inlet port. The inlet port may be structured to receive an air flow from outside the housing and provide the air flow to the chamber. The air quality monitoring device may include a plurality of sensors disposed within the chamber and configured to measure air quality data associated with the air flow. The air quality monitoring device may include an adapter configured to be connected to the inlet port and a continuous positive airway pressure machine. The inlet port may be configured to receive the air flow from the continuous positive airway pressure machine via the adapter. The air quality monitoring device may include a controller connected with the plurality of sensors and configured to transmit the air quality data to a computing device.

[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)

Automatic staging of multiple HVAC systems during a peak demand response
Patent No. 12203671

Inventor(s): Chao Xia (Frisco, TX), Pete Hrejsa (Frisco, TX), Rohini Brahme (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18463148 on 09/07/2023 (502 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes multiple HVAC systems. After receiving a demand request, a multiple-system controller a first anticipated power consumption associated with operating a first HVAC system at a first temperature setpoint during a future period of time of the demand response request and a second anticipated power consumption associated with operating a second HVAC system at a second temperature setpoint during the future period of time. Based at least in part on the first and the second anticipated power consumptions, a staging schedule is determined that indicates when to operate the first and second HVAC systems.

P H Y S I C S

Systems and methods using artificial intelligence for routing electric vehicles
Patent No. 12203766

Inventor(s): Robert D. Pedersen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18438443 on 02/10/2024 (346 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides specific systems, methods and algorithms based on artificial intelligence expert system technology for determination of preferred routes of travel for electric vehicles (EVs). The systems, methods and algorithms provide such route guidance for battery-operated EVs in-route to a desired destination, but lacking sufficient battery energy to reach the destination from the current location of the EV. The systems and methods of the present invention disclose use of one or more specifically programmed computer machines with artificial intelligence expert system battery energy management and navigation route control. Such specifically programmed computer machines may be located in the EV and/or cloud-based or remote computer/data processing systems for the determination of preferred routes of travel, including intermediate stops at designated battery charging or replenishing stations. Expert system algorithms operating on combinations of expert defined parameter subsets for route selection are disclosed. Specific fuzzy logic methods are also disclosed based on defined potential route parameters with fuzzy logic determination of crisp numerical values for multiple potential routes and comparison of those crisp numerical values for selection of a particular route. Application of the present invention systems and methods to autonomous or driver-less EVs is also disclosed.

[G01C] MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)

Miniature sensor cavities
Patent No. 12203776

Inventor(s): Christopher Daniel Manack (Flower Mound, TX), Leslie Edward Stark (Rockwall, TX), Sreenivasan Kalyani Koduri (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16950981 on 11/18/2020 (1525 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, a sensor package includes a semiconductor die, a sensor on the semiconductor die, and a ring encircling the sensor. The sensor and an inner surface of the ring are exposed to an exterior environment of the sensor package. The sensor package includes a mold compound covering the semiconductor die and abutting an outer surface of the ring.

[G01D] MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; TRANSFERRING OR TRANSDUCING ARRANGEMENTS NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Fluid level sensing arrays for aircraft
Patent No. 12203796

Inventor(s): Nathaniel Ross Bernklau (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lawrence Youst PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17746397 on 05/17/2022 (980 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fluid level sensing system includes a mounting strip and fluid sensing nodes coupled to the mounting strip. Each fluid sensing node is switchable between a fluid present state and a fluid absent state. Each fluid sensing node includes a prism, a photoemitter and a photoreceptor. The photoemitter and photoreceptor are interposed between the prism and the mounting strip. In the absence of fluid around the prism, the photoreceptor receives greater than a threshold amount of light from the photoemitter internally reflected by the prism to switch the fluid sensing node to the fluid absent state. When the prism is covered in fluid, the photoreceptor receives less than the threshold amount of light from the photoemitter to switch the fluid sensing node to the fluid present state. A processor determines a fluid level based on the fluid detection states of the fluid sensing nodes.

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

Systems and methods for accurate detection of febrile conditions with varying baseline temperatures
Patent No. 12203814

Inventor(s): Alan C. Heller (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17400744 on 08/12/2021 (1258 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and process for detecting a febrile condition in screening of multiple or large groups of persons for the likelihood of infectious diseases. The system comprises a temperature measurement device having at least a processor, a display, temperature sensor, camera module, and facial recognition software. The display may include a positional overlay. The system further includes a database containing baseline temperatures for a number of persons, including baseline temperatures by age group and by gender. An input device optionally may identify the specific person or provide survey questions to a person to further determine a febrile condition. Based on the baseline temperatures, measured temperature and other characteristics of the person, a febrile condition may be determined. Additionally, the system may include a secondary screening component providing nasal swabbing or saliva testing.

[G01K] MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (radiation pyrometry G01J 5/00)

Quantitative massively parallel proteomics
Patent No. 12203939

Inventor(s): Ci Chu (Palo Alto, CA), Daniel Liu (Berkeley, CA), Gary Tong (Berkeley, CA), Ian Peikon (Bethpage, NY)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074224 on 10/19/2020 (1555 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for the identification of an expression profile in a single cell or population of cells. Kits for use with the disclosed methods are also provided, including antibodies, with a unique molecular identifier and antibody identifier, and primers for amplification of the antibody identifier sequence.

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

Systems and methods for obstacle detection using a neural network model, depth maps, and segmentation maps
Patent No. 12204340

Inventor(s): Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Rui Guo (San Jose, 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: 16996495 on 08/18/2020 (1617 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to detecting obstacles from unknown objects during automated driving by a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes generating, from an image that includes an unknown object, a depth map from a depth estimation component and processed data from a semantic segmentation component in parallel by using a neural network model. The method also includes detecting that the unknown object is an obstacle when the unknown object satisfies criteria using an optical model according to the depth map and a segmentation map. The method also includes determining a height of the obstacle and a distance to the obstacle according to the optical model and the criteria. The method also includes adapting a vehicle plan of the automated driving according to the height.

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

Cascode voltage regulator circuit
Patent No. 12204354

Inventor(s): Bradford Hunter (Spicewood, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18305960 on 04/24/2023 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example cascode voltage regulator circuit includes a first transistor coupled to an input voltage terminal and configured as a source follower to provide an output voltage at a source terminal, a second transistor coupled in series between the source terminal of the first transistor and an output terminal, the second transistor configured as a current limiter, and a current mirror coupled between respective first and second control terminals of the first and second transistors, the current mirror configured to receive a first current indicative of a source follower current flowing through the first transistor and to turn off the second transistor by coupling the first and second control terminals together responsive to the source follower current exceeding a threshold. In an example, the first transistor is a drain-extended NMOS device and the second transistor is a drain-extended PMOS device.

[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]

System having a hybrid threading processor, a hybrid threading fabric having configurable computing elements, and a hybrid interconnection network
Patent No. 12204363

Inventor(s): Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Gamburd Law Group LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18412846 on 01/15/2024 (372 days app to issue)

Abstract: Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. In a representative embodiment, a system includes an interconnection network, a processor, a host interface, and a configurable circuit cluster. The configurable circuit cluster may include a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array; an asynchronous packet network and a synchronous network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array; and a memory interface circuit and a dispatch interface circuit coupled to the asynchronous packet network and to the interconnection network. Each configurable circuit includes instruction or configuration memories for selection of a current data path configuration, a master synchronous network input, and a data path configuration for a next configurable circuit.

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

Integrated circuit with debugger and arbitration interface
Patent No. 12204393

Inventor(s): Amritpal Singh Mundra (Allen, TX), Anthony Lell (San Antonio, TX), Gary Augustine Cooper (Oakmont, PA), Jason Lynn Peck (Sugar Land, TX), Jose Luis Flores (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18505037 on 11/08/2023 (440 days app to issue)

Abstract: Circuits, systems and methods are provided. A circuit includes a subsystem, an interface, and a debugger. The interface includes power processing and management (PPM) circuitry coupled to the subsystem, and arbitration logic coupled to the PPM circuitry. In operation, the debugger issues a debug request to the arbitration logic to perform a debug operation on the subsystem, and, in response to the debug request, the arbitration logic provides an interrupt associated with the subsystem to the PPM circuitry. The PPM circuitry, in response to the interrupt and a determination that the subsystem is OFF, powers on the subsystem and provides a notification to the arbitration logic indicating that the subsystem is ON. The PPM circuitry also receives a notification from the arbitration logic that the debug operation related to the debug request is complete, and powers off the subsystem in response to that notification.

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

Multilevel memory system with copied error detection bits
Patent No. 12204407

Inventor(s): Ruchi Shankar (Bengaluru, , IN), Tejas Dhanajirao Salunkhe (Bengaluru, , IN), Trevor Charles Jones (Mainburg-Meilenhofen, , DE)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17557747 on 12/21/2021 (1127 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a memory system is accessed by reading a data line and error detection bits for the data line from a first memory. The data line and the error detection bits from the first memory are decoded to determine if an error is present in the data line from the first memory. A copy of the data line and the error detection bits are stored in a second memory. The copy of the data line and error detection bits are read from the second memory. The copy of the data line and error detection bits are decoded to determine if an error is present in the copy of the data line from the second memory.

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

Debug for multi-threaded processing
Patent No. 12204425

Inventor(s): Anthony Lell (San Antonio, TX), Gary Cooper (Oakmont, PA), Hetul Sanghvi (Murphy, TX), Mihir Mody (Bangalore, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18243421 on 09/07/2023 (502 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system to implement debugging for a multi-threaded processor is provided. The system includes a hardware thread scheduler configured to schedule processing of data, and a plurality of schedulers, each configured to schedule a given pipeline for processing instructions. The system further includes a debug control configured to control at least one of the plurality of schedulers to halt, step, or resume the given pipeline of the at least one of the plurality of schedulers for the data to enable debugging thereof. The system further includes a plurality of hardware accelerators configured to implement a series of tasks in accordance with a schedule provided by a respective scheduler in accordance with a command from the debug control. Each of the plurality of hardware accelerators is coupled to at least one of the plurality of schedulers to execute the instructions for the given pipeline and to a shared memory.

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

Method and system for in-line ECC protection
Patent No. 12204443

Inventor(s): Denis Roland Beaudoin (Rowlett, TX), Ritesh Dhirajlal Sojitra (Murphy, TX), Samuel Paul Visalli (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18449025 on 08/14/2023 (526 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory system having an interconnect configured to receive commands from a system to read data from and/or write data to a memory device. The memory system also has a bridge configured to receive the commands from the interconnect, to manage ECC data and to perform address translation between system addresses and physical memory device addresses by calculating a first ECC memory address for a first ECC data block that is after and adjacent to a first data block having a first data address, calculating a second ECC memory address that is after and adjacent to the first ECC block, and calculating a second data address that is after and adjacent to the second ECC block. The bridge may also check and calculate ECC data for a complete burst of data, and/or cache ECC data for a complete burst of data that includes read and/or write data.

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

Machine-learning-automated recognition and labelling of columnar data
Patent No. 12204515

Inventor(s): William Sniffen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc. (St. Louis, MO)
Law Firm: Miller Johnson (Local + 48 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18238135 on 08/25/2023 (515 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving input data that is organized into a set of rows and a set of columns. The method includes maintaining a machine learning header model that is trained on tabular data with header rows. The method includes supplying the input data as input to the machine learning header model to generate header row identification data that identifies a set of header rows that is a subset of the set of rows. The method includes maintaining a machine learning column model that is trained on tabular data. The method includes supplying the header row identification data and features of the input data to the machine learning column model to generate column label data that applies a set of defined labels to the set of columns. The method includes generating output data that is organized into rows and columns.

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

Optimizing distributed and parallelized batch data processing
Patent No. 12204518

Inventor(s): Marcus Matos (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18512465 on 11/17/2023 (431 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing and maintaining efficient and effective processing of sets of work items in enterprise computing environments by optimizing distributed and parallelized batch data processing. A computing platform may initialize a monitoring process configured to monitor a pending workload in a work queue database. Subsequently, the computing platform may cause the monitoring process to query the work queue database and create one or more historical records indicative of a workload processing status associated with one or more processing workers. Then, the computing platform may identify one or more new parameter values for one or more processing parameters associated with the one or more processing workers based on the one or more historical records. Thereafter, the computing platform may configure the one or more processing workers based on the one or more new parameter values identified for the one or more processing parameters.

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

System and method for electronic document parsing
Patent No. 12204545

Inventor(s): Jeremy Dick (Dallas, TX), Matthew Fruge (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): XSQRD, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Cognition IP, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17887417 on 08/13/2022 (892 days app to issue)

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein provide for the parsing and evaluation of electronic documents. The electronic documents may be converted to a plurality of arrays, and these arrays may be parsed and split to generate structured data objects. The structured data objects may each be associated with a section of the electronic document. Sections may be identified by evaluating the array of text by comparing the delimited data of the array to one or more keyword lists of predetermined regular expressions.

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

Context-aware recommendations in a health management platform user interface
Patent No. 12204549

Inventor(s): Aurora Adkins (Half Moon Bay, CA), Bella Powers (San Diego, CA), Lucy Boyd Schachter (Dorchester, MA), Nikhil Roy (Sunnyvale, CA), Peilun Shan (San Francisco, CA), Thomas Rudick (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: PERKINS COIE LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18421233 on 01/24/2024 (363 days app to issue)

Abstract: A technique for generating and presenting context-aware recommendations to assist a patient in managing a chronic health condition. A health management platform provides various services that are accessible to a patient via a graphical user interface (GUI). Input data are received from various services and processed to generate contextual data associated with the patient such as a health state of the patient. Using the contextual data, a recommendation to access a particular service is generated and presented to the patient via the GUI. For example, in response to determining a health state of a patient, a recommendation to access a service to improve the health state of the patient can be automatically presented via the GUI to encourage the patient to access the service.

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

System and method for reducing perceived latency in a display-server computing system
Patent No. 12204555

Inventor(s): Steve Bakke (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: The Langley Law Firm, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15418954 on 01/30/2017 (2913 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operations of a display-server computing system includes delivering input by a display device to a server computer over a communications network, processing an application unit of the server computer with the input, responsive to the step of inputting, outputting a result of the processing, together with tags indicative of the input, delivering the result and the tags by the server computer to the display device over the communications network, receiving the result and the tags by the display device, receiving new input to the display device prior to receiving the result and the tags by the display device, and processing a transform of the display device by comparing the tags to the new input to obtain a transformed result.

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

Vehicle inventory search recommendation using image analysis driven by machine learning
Patent No. 12204595

Inventor(s): Chi-san Ho (Allen, TX), Micah Price (Anna, TX), Sunil Vasisht (Frisco, TX), Yue Duan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18454308 on 08/23/2023 (517 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device receives user interface interaction data that identifies an interaction that a user has with an interface that displays an image of a vehicle. The device generates, by using a data model to process at least a portion of the image, an array of vectors that includes one or more vectors relating to vehicle characteristics of the vehicle. The device assigns one or more weights to the one or more vectors based on the user interface action data. The device determines, based on a similarity analysis, similarity scores that indicate similarities between the array of vectors that include the one or more vectors that have been weighted and other arrays relating to the vehicles depicted in the images. The device selects a subset of the images based on the similarity scores and causes the subset of the images to be displayed.

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

Template driven architecture
Patent No. 12204604

Inventor(s): Adi Lakshmi Mudadla (Dallas, TX), Heath Gildwel (McKinney, TX), Singaravelu Marakkanam (Frisco, TX), Venkata Chintalapati (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18158126 on 01/23/2023 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a template driven interface system having a parsing engine that may dynamically render web forms given a specification document. In some instances, the architecture may leverage the specification document and enable creation, management, and eventual decommissioning actions. The architecture may be framework-agnostic, allowing for adaptive and agile development of end user interfaces for services developed by different entities or product providers. The different entities may be external entities having control over their assets and related asset schemas. The architecture may allow for real-time updates as compared to scheduled release cycles.

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

Automated detection, elimination, and prevention of toxic combinations for personal information data
Patent No. 12204678

Inventor(s): Daniel M. Bond (Addison, TX), Ibrahim S. Mkondera (Carrollton, TX), Jagmohan Singh (Coppell, TX), Jalpa K. Shah (Irving, TX), Matthew Stamy (Frisco, TX), Megan Petrillo (The Colony, TX), Nagesh Chalasani (Frisco, 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: 18121848 on 03/15/2023 (678 days app to issue)

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments can identify the toxic PI combinations and flag these combinations for evaluation. Because organization policies on toxic PI combinations can constantly evolve, the system may be continuously updated with the latest policies. Exemplary embodiments may be used as part of an automated code review for application development and for monitoring of existing applications and programs. Thus, exemplary embodiments take the guesswork out of identifying risks in applications and programs by providing an automated tool that can scan and identify toxic combinations in accordance with various policies.

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

Integrations platform with interaction and abstraction with a third party platform
Patent No. 12204683

Inventor(s): Andrew Steven Bird (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): CONCENTRIX CVG CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT DELAWARE LLC (Cincinnati, OH)
Law Firm: Dority Manning, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17973022 on 10/25/2022 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an integration platform for abstracting and interacting with one or more third party platforms provided by one or more third party computing systems can include the utilization of one or more abstraction blocks and one or more application programming interfaces. In some implementations the systems and methods can include a user interface that can leveraged as an intermediary for intaking user inputs, processing the user inputs, and providing abstracted versions of the inputs to the third party computing systems in order to provide access to the third party platforms to the user.

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

Partner management runtime enforcement
Patent No. 12204855

Inventor(s): Gayathri Venkat (Irving, TX), Hiten Jayantilal Shah (Irving, TX), Thomas Francis Gianelle (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Citigroup Inc. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18823584 on 09/03/2024 (140 days app to issue)

Abstract: A document is obtained that include natural language text and a set of conditions are extracted from the document. In at least one embodiment, the set of conditions is extracted using a machine learning model trained on other natural language text. A validation process is performed to result in a validated set of conditions and a machine-readable data structure is generated to indicate one or more conditions of the validated set of conditions expressed within the document.

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

Dynamic semantic role classification
Patent No. 12204864

Inventor(s): Emad Noorizadeh (Plano, TX), Jennifer Russell (Dallas, TX), Rajan Jhaveri (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17993019 on 11/23/2022 (790 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for dynamic semantic role classification, through an entity’’s natural language process (NLP) pipeline is provided. The system may include assigning semantic role classifiers to tokens included in utterances received from user nodes. The system may include using a machine learning algorithm to assign the semantic role classifiers. The machine learning algorithm may assign the semantic role classifiers based on a calculated correlation value. The machine learning algorithm may use training and testing data sets to dynamically update the semantic role classifiers.

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

Inserting predefined pad values into a stream of vectors
Patent No. 12204905

Inventor(s): Asheesh Bhardwaj (Allen, TX), Son Hung Tran (Murphy, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18581552 on 02/20/2024 (336 days app to issue)

Abstract: Software instructions are executed on a processor within a computer system to configure a streaming engine with stream parameters to define a multidimensional array. The stream parameters define a size for each dimension of the multidimensional array and a pad value indicator. Data is fetched from a memory coupled to the streaming engine responsive to the stream parameters. A stream of vectors is formed for the multidimensional array responsive to the stream parameters from the data fetched from memory. A padded stream vector is formed that includes a specified pad value without accessing the pad value from system memory.

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

Method and system for managing accelerator pools to perform subportions of portions of workflows
Patent No. 12204949

Inventor(s): William Jeffery White (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, MA)
Law Firm: Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams Aughtry (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17236708 on 04/21/2021 (1371 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing workflows. The method may include obtaining, from a client, by a registration manager associated with accelerator pools, a request to perform a portion of a workflow using accelerators; identifying a minimum quantity and a maximum quantity of accelerators associated with the request; identifying a storage to store data associated with the portion of the workflow; identifying an accelerator pool of the accelerator pools that includes at least the maximum quantity of accelerators; establishing a connection between the client, the storage, and accelerators of the accelerator pool to perform the portion of the workflow; and initiating the performance of the portion of the workflow using the storage, the client, and the accelerators of the accelerator pool.

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

Apparatus for controlling the printing on cable
Patent No. 12204963

Inventor(s): Clifton S. Thompson (Lucas, TX), Ferrin E. Gomez (Van Alstyne, TX), Tony Ornelas, III (Frisco, TX), William T. Bigbee, Jr. (Hawkins, TX)
Assignee(s): Encore Wire Corporation (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Warren Rhoades LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18431930 on 02/03/2024 (353 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the printing on wire or cable. The apparatus including a processor, a bus connected to the processor, a user input connected to the bus, a display screen connected to the user input and the bus, a first storage system connected to the bus, data stored in the first storage system and displayable on the display screen, wherein the data includes manufacturing and print information, a printer connected to the bus, wherein the printer prints the data on the wire or cable, a communication device connected to the bus, and an identification device connected to the bus, wherein identification device receives information from a user.

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

System and method for high-capacity secure QR codes
Patent No. 12204968

Inventor(s): Edward Woolen (Cleburne, TX)
Assignee(s): ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC (Moraga, CA)
Law Firm: Galvin Patent Law LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18743126 on 06/14/2024 (221 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for encoding and decoding QR codes using proprietary compression codebooks to increase information density and provide data security. Public data is encoded using a standard codebook while private data uses a proprietary codebook. The encoded data is combined into a single QR code. Decoding extracts the public and private portions and decompresses them using the appropriate codebooks.

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

Asset movement and localization system and method of use
Patent No. 12204983

Inventor(s): Michael S. Hanna (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Molocar, Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18479605 on 10/02/2023 (477 days app to issue)

Abstract: An asset movement and localization system deploys gateways to communicate with transmitters that are attached to an asset. The transmitters communicate with the system to provide the location of the asset. The system uses the location to determine if the asset is in the proper or desired location for a process or for presentation.

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

Quantum computing with hybrid memory cube for data centers
Patent No. 12204988

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: 17532573 on 11/22/2021 (1156 days app to issue)

Abstract: A quantum computing device configured to receive code written using one or more of a plurality of programming languages and convert the received code into quantum assembly language that can be executed by one or more quantum processing units of the quantum computing device. The quantum computing device also includes a hybrid memory cube storage device configured to function as storage for the high data throughput rates associated with the quantum processing units.

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

Systems and methods for inventory management
Patent No. 12205075

Inventor(s): Monisha Elumalai (Dallas, TX), Ravi Kumar Dalal (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Foley IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17196823 on 03/09/2021 (1414 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to inventory management. In some embodiments, an inventory management system comprises a mobile device comprising an image capture device configured to capture an image and a communications transceiver configured to transmit the image, and a control circuit configured to receive, from the mobile device, the image, detect, within the image, the first sign and the second sign, identify, based on the first sign, a product associated with the first sign, identify, based on the second sign, a location of the product storage unit, associate, in a database, an indication of the product associated with the first sign and the location of the product storage unit.

[G06Q] DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [2006.01]

Systems and methods for providing mobility-impaired transactional or identity documents processing
Patent No. 12205083

Inventor(s): Joshua Edwards (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18421411 on 01/24/2024 (363 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a method for systems and methods for providing mobility-impaired transactional or identify documents processing. The method may include receiving login credentials associated with an account and a request to deposit a check into the account, and identifying, using an image recognition model, a presence of a check in a visual field of the image capture device. Then the method may include obtaining, via the image capture device, a plurality of digital images of a front side of the check, and generating, based on the plurality of digital images of the front side of the check, a composite image of the front side of the check. The method may further include creating a recording of an endorsement gesture and transmitting the composite image of the front side of the check and the recording of the endorsement gesture to a back-end server.

Product analysis platform to perform a facial recognition analysis to provide information associated with a product to a user
Patent No. 12205118

Inventor(s): Amit Deshpande (Mckinney, TX), Liju Mathews (Frisco, TX), Ponnazhakan Subramanian (McKinney, TX), Satish Chikkaveerappa (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18447672 on 08/10/2023 (530 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may determine that a user has a threshold level of interest in a type of product. The device may receive an image of a face of the user, may perform a facial recognition analysis of the image, and may determine identification information of the user based on the facial recognition analysis. The device may identify account information associated with the user based on the identification information and may identify a product in an inventory that is associated with the type of product. The device may perform a preauthorization process associated with a transaction involving the product and the user based on the account information, and may perform an action associated with the transaction based on the preauthorization process.

System and method for providing a price for a vehicle
Patent No. 12205131

Inventor(s): Jacob Anderson (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18480460 on 10/03/2023 (476 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and methods for providing a target price for a target vehicle with a target mileage are provided. One exemplary method includes receiving attributes for the target vehicle, receiving prices for sold vehicles having attributes corresponding to the target vehicle attributes, and receiving mileages for the sold vehicles. The exemplary method may further include generating a linear regression model relating the sold vehicle mileages to the sold vehicle prices, and providing the target price for the target vehicle based on the model.

Systems and methods for providing a direct marketing campaign planning environment
Patent No. 12205138

Inventor(s): Venkat R. Achanta (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Experian Information Solutions, Inc. (Costa Mesa, CA)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18472726 on 09/22/2023 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: Selection strategies for a direct marketing campaign that identifies consumers from a credit bureau or other consumer database are refined on a stable subset of the credit database. Once refined, consumer selection criteria may be used to execute the direct marketing campaign on the full consumer/credit database. The data for the test database represents a random sampling of approximately 10% of the full database and the sampling is regenerated approximately weekly in order to provide a stable set of data on which campaign developers test their campaign. For each consumer in the sampling, the environment allows a client to access and use attributes calculated by the credit bureau and proprietary attributes and data owned by the client. The system allows for a plurality of clients to use the system substantially simultaneously while protecting the privacy and integrity of the client’’s proprietary data and results.

Systems and methods for automatically generating, scheduling, posting, and recycling social media posts using artificial intelligence
Patent No. 12205177

Inventor(s): Ayush Chaurasia (Ahmedabad, , IN), Dhairya Singh Raghav (Noida, , IN), Hardik Bhatt (Noida, , IN), Mayur Takawale (Pune, , IN), Narayana Sami (Coimbatore, , IN), Pooja Sanandia (Kitchener, , CA), Rohit Haldar (Mumbai, , IN)
Assignee(s): HighLevel Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Aambell PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18341261 on 06/26/2023 (575 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of a method for automatically generating, scheduling, posting, and recycling social media posts are disclosed, the method comprising: requesting an artificial intelligence (AI) engine for a plurality of prompts to create a social media post on a social media platform; selecting one prompt in the plurality of prompts returned by the AI engine; requesting the AI engine for social media post content based on the selected prompt; selecting a textual content and a non-textual content; combining the selected textual content and the selected non-textual content according to pre-configured settings to create one social media post; repeating selecting the textual content and the non-textual content and combining, to create a plurality of social media posts; generating a schedule for each one in the plurality of social media posts; and automatically posting each one in the plurality of social media posts on the social media platform according to the schedule.

Imaging system with unsupervised learning
Patent No. 12205353

Inventor(s): Justin Michael Brown (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Rehrig Pacific Company (Monterey Park, CA)
Law Firm: Carlson, Gaskey Olds, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18374834 on 09/29/2023 (480 days app to issue)

Abstract: An imaging system and method uses grouping and elimination to label images of unknown items. The items may be stacked together with known or unknown items. The items may be packages, such as packages of beverage containers. A machine learning model may be used to infer skus of the packages. The machine learning model is trained on known skus but is not trained on unknown skus. Multiple images of the same unknown sku are grouped using the machine learning model. Elimination based upon lists of expected skus is used to label each group of unknown skus.

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

Document portion identification in a recorded video
Patent No. 12205372

Inventor(s): Thomas H. Strader (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Seismic Software, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Van Pelt, Yi James LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18295733 on 04/04/2023 (658 days app to issue)

Abstract: Document portion identification in a recorded video is disclosed, including: obtaining a recorded video; identifying a document portion that appears during the recorded video, wherein the document portion belongs to a document; and determining a video segment during which the document portion appears in the recorded video.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Damage detection for vehicles on a transporter
Patent No. 12205374

Inventor(s): Chih-Hsiang Chow (Plano, TX), Elizabeth Furlan (Plano, TX), Steven Dang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17471329 on 09/10/2021 (1229 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for detecting a potential damage caused to a vehicle when the vehicle is placed on a transporter. The method includes obtaining a first image and a second image taken at different time instances. The first image and the second image are generated by one or more cameras placed around a vehicle on a transporter, and cover a same portion of a body of the vehicle. The method further includes detecting a change between a portion of the first image corresponding to the portion of the body of the vehicle and a portion of the second image corresponding to the portion of the body of the vehicle indicative of a collision. Moreover, the method includes flagging a potential damage to the portion of the body of the vehicle based on the detected change between the first image and the second image.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

System and method for correlating electronic device identifiers and vehicle information
Patent No. 12205378

Inventor(s): William Holloway Petrey, Jr. (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): William Holloway Petrey, Jr. (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18485030 on 10/11/2023 (468 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for monitoring vehicle traffic includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a computing system to recognize, using images, at least one of a first face of a person in a facial detection zone, compare the first face to a database, identify the person as a suspicious person, and correlate the first face with a stored electronic device identifier. The computer-executable instructions further cause the computing system to access at least one personal identification database, and retrieve personal identification information of a suspicious individual by correlating information of the personal identification database with the first face or the stored electronic device identifier.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Automatic vehicle accident notifications within a distributed network of recipients
Patent No. 12205456

Inventor(s): Christopher Russell (The Colony, TX), Subhalakshmi Selvam (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Potomac Law Group, PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17683428 on 03/01/2022 (1057 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems described herein are directed to automatedly generating entity-specific notifications of a vehicle accident occurrence for entities. In response to a notification system receiving accident data, the system can determine characteristics for the accident occurrence. Using these characteristics, the system can then determine parameters for the notifications defining types of entities which ought to be recipients in accordance with the characteristics. The system can use these parameters to locate specific entities that match the parameters. Having determined the entities, the system can issue notifications to the entities, using templates specific to the entities and with accident characteristics added.

[G08B] SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS

Overwrite read methods for resistance switching memory devices
Patent No. 12205640

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Petti (Mountain View, CA), Daniel Bedau (San Jose, CA), Michael K. Grobis (Campbell, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17375993 on 07/14/2021 (1287 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is provided that includes reading a plurality of resistance-switching memory cells comprising a block of data, decoding the block of data using an error correction code decoder, and based on results of the decoding, selectively performing an overwrite-read process to read the block of data. The overwrite read process determines a change in resistance of the resistance-switching memory cells in response to a write pulse.

[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)

MLC programming techniques in a memory device
Patent No. 12205654

Inventor(s): Jiacen Guo (Cupertino, CA), Takayuki Inoue (Fujisawa, , JP), Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17690713 on 03/09/2022 (1049 days app to issue)

Abstract: The memory device includes a plurality of memory cells which are arranged in an array. The memory device further includes a plurality of bit lines that are coupled with the memory cells and a controller. The controller is configured to program the memory cells from an erased data state to three programmed data states in a programming operation that includes three programming pulses and zero verify operations using different patterns to dictate the application of inhibit voltages to the bit lines during each of the three programming pulses. The patterns include two pre-established patterns and additional patterns that are derived from the pre-established patterns using logic operations.

Systems and methods for retaining inflight data during a power loss event
Patent No. 12205658

Inventor(s): Amiya Banerjee (Karnataka, , IN), Harish Singidi (Santa Clara, CA), Shantanu Gupta (Fremont, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17509411 on 10/25/2021 (1184 days app to issue)

Abstract: Memory devices, or memory systems, described herein may include a controller (e.g., SSD controller) and a NAND memory device for storing inflight data. When the power loss event occurs, a memory system maintains (i.e., not un-select) the existing memory block being programmed at the time of power loss. The existing program operation at the event of power loss can be suspended by controller. The inflight data can be re-sent by controller directly to NAND latches, when power loss event was detected. The memory system can select a next, immediate available erased page and begin one-pulse programming to store the inflight data, without ramping down the program pump and program pulse, which was in use before the power loss event. The existing programming voltage is used to store/program the inflight data via single pulse programming. When power is restored, the inflight data is moved/programmed to another block for good data reliability.

Intelligent medication monitoring
Patent No. 12205695

Inventor(s): Deepika S. Kadel (Coppell, TX), Sunayana Ponamgi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (Woonsocket, RI)
Law Firm: Patent Law Works LLP (Local + 121 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17693996 on 03/14/2022 (1044 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for intelligent medication monitoring are disclosed. The intelligent medication monitoring system includes a question engine, a supply management module, a monitoring module, a personalized adherence scoring module, an intervention module, and an outcome reporting module to provide intelligent medication monitoring, intervention and outcome reporting. The intelligent medication monitoring system reduces waste of unused medication and processing, provides targeted and personalized outreach to patients, and it is able to capture and report outcomes of interventions.

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

Dielectric waveguide radar signal distribution
Patent No. 12206152

Inventor(s): Baher S. Haroun (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16837223 on 04/01/2020 (1756 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system is provided for transmitting sub-terahertz electro-magnetic radio frequency (RF) signals using a dielectric waveguide (DWG) having a dielectric core member surrounded by dielectric cladding. Multiple radar signals may be generated by a radar module that is coupled to a vehicle. A set of DWG segments may be used to transport the radar signals to various launching structures placed in various locations of the vehicle.

[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

Synchronized playback of data visualizations for data sources related to an event
Patent No. 12206949

Inventor(s): Kristopher Colvin Borchers (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC (Redmond, WA)
Law Firm: Newport IP, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18130363 on 04/03/2023 (659 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system described herein implements synchronized playback of data related to an event. The system receives information that defines a type of event, as well as a time at which the event occurs. Moreover, the information defines an environment in which the event occurs. The system maps the type of event to data sources associated with the environment. Furthermore, the system maps the time at which the event occurs to a predefined timeframe that precedes and/or overlaps with the time at which the event occurs. The system retrieves respective datasets from the data sources and generates respective visualizations for the datasets. The system displays the visualizations in a layout and provides user controls that enable a user to implement synchronized playback of the event from the perspective of the data sources. For example, the synchronized playback can cycle through a sequence of data display states for the datasets.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Conductive member cavities
Patent No. 12205871

Inventor(s): Arvin Cedric Quiambao Mallari (San Fernando, , PH), Jovenic Romero Esquejo (Baguio, , PH), Rafael Jose Lizares Guevara (Metro Manila, , PH)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18324673 on 05/26/2023 (606 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a quad flat no lead (QFN) semiconductor package comprises a flip chip semiconductor die having a surface and circuitry formed in the surface; and a conductive pillar coupled to the semiconductor die surface. The conductive pillar has a distal end relative to the semiconductor die, the distal end having a cavity including a cavity floor and one or more cavity walls circumscribing the cavity floor. The one or more cavity walls are configured to contain solder.

[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]

Electronic component package and manufacuring method thereof
Patent No. 12205934

Inventor(s): Shiau-Shi Lin (Taoyuan, , TW)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18787689 on 07/29/2024 (176 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic component package and a manufacturing method therefor. In an embodiment, the electronic component package comprises: a first metal layer, a high-voltage transistor semiconductor die, a first molding compound layer, a second metal layer, a first vertical connection structure, a second vertical connection structure, a control circuit bare chip, and a second molding compound layer. In the electronic component package of the present invention, a lead frame and electrical leads are replaced with the metal layers and the vertical connection structures, so that the position of the electrical connection of the chip is more flexible and the heat dissipation effect is better. Compared with the lead frames and the electrical leads, the electronic component package of the present disclosure is more suitable for packaging high-voltage or high-current chips.

Isolation structure for IC with epi regions sharing the same tank
Patent No. 12205944

Inventor(s): Akram A. Salman (Plano, TX), Binghua Hu (Plano, TX), Henry Litzmann Edwards (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17887758 on 08/15/2022 (890 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ESD cell includes an n+ buried layer (NBL) within a p-epi layer on a substrate. An outer deep trench isolation ring (outer DT ring) includes dielectric sidewalls having a deep n-type diffusion (DEEPN diffusion) ring (DEEPN ring) contacting the dielectric sidewall extending downward to the NBL. The DEEPN ring defines an enclosed p-epi region. A plurality of inner DT structures are within the enclosed p-epi region having dielectric sidewalls and DEEPN diffusions contacting the dielectric sidewalls extending downward from the topside surface to the NBL. The inner DT structures have a sufficiently small spacing with one another so that adjacent DEEPN diffusion regions overlap to form continuous wall of n-type material extending from a first side to a second side of the outer DT ring dividing the enclosed p-epi region into a first and second p-epi region. The first and second p-epi region are connected by the NBL.

Lithium phosphate derivative compounds as Li super-ionic conductor, solid electrolyte and coating layer for lithium metal battery and lithium-ion battery
Patent No. 12206069

Inventor(s): Chen Ling (Troy, MI), Qiang Bai (College Park, MD), Xingfeng He (Greenbelt, MD), Yifei Mo (Fulton, MD)
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: 18459101 on 08/31/2023 (509 days app to issue)

Abstract: Electrodes for a solid-state lithium-ion battery are provided. The electrodes have an active material layer containing or coated with electrolytes of lithium phosphate derivative compounds which contain an anionic framework capable of conducting lithium ions. Materials of specific formulae are provided and methods to alter the composite materials with inclusion of aliovalent ions shown. Lithium batteries containing the electrodes are also provided.

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

Antenna device
Patent No. 12206185

Inventor(s): Mark Gerber (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC. (Kaohsiung, , TW)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17503228 on 10/15/2021 (1194 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an antenna device. The antenna device includes a dielectric element including a first region and a second region, a first antenna disposed on the first region, and a second antenna disposed on the second region. The first antenna and the second antenna are configured to operate in different frequencies. The first antenna and the second antenna are misaligned in directions perpendicular and parallel to a surface of the dielectric element on which the first antenna or the second antenna is disposed.

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

Switched reluctance machines without permanent magnets
Patent No. 12206303

Inventor(s): Andrei Popov (Azle, TX), Fred Hunstable (Granbury, TX), Michael Van Steenburg (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Linear Labs, Inc. (Granbury, TX)
Law Firm: Run8 Patent Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17562369 on 12/27/2021 (1121 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for switched reluctance machines having a rotor comprising a plurality of rotor core assemblies configured to form a reluctance torque tunnel having at least a first reluctance tunnel segment and a second reluctance tunnel segment and a stator having a plurality of coils configured to form a coil winding assembly, the coil winding assembly positioned within the reluctance torque tunnel, such that at least one of the plurality of coils is surrounded by the first reluctance tunnel segment or the second reluctance tunnel segment, alternatively the rotor may be the coil winding assembly and the stator may be the reluctance torque tunnel.

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

Voltage converter with average input current control and input-to-output isolation
Patent No. 12206326

Inventor(s): Chen Feng (Shanghai, , CN), Jian Liang (Shanghai, , CN), Yao Lu (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18525317 on 11/30/2023 (418 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a control circuit having a first control circuit input, a second control circuit input, a first control circuit output, and a second control circuit output, and a first transistor having a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal, the control terminal coupled to the first control circuit output, the first current terminal coupled to the first control circuit input and to a second transistor, and the second current terminal adapted to be coupled to the second transistor, a logic circuit having a first logic input, a second logic input, and a logic output, the first logic input coupled to the second control circuit output and a switch having a first switch terminal, a second switch terminal, and a switch control terminal, the switch control terminal coupled to the logic output and the first switch terminal coupled to the second current terminal.

[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]

DC-DC converter with mode-switching compensation loop
Patent No. 12206327

Inventor(s): Hua Tang (Shenzhen, , CN), Ian Lloyd Bower (Bedford, TX), Teng Feng (Shenzhen, , CN), Yunsheng Qu (Shenzhen, , CN), Zhaofu Zhou (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17681975 on 02/28/2022 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a ramp generator, a threshold voltage circuit, and a control circuit. The ramp generator is configured to generate a voltage ramp. The threshold voltage circuit is configured to generate a threshold voltage. The control circuit is coupled to the ramp generator and the threshold voltage circuit. The control circuit includes a digital pulse width modulator (DPWM) circuit and a loop compensation circuit coupled to the DPWM circuit. The DPWM circuit is configured to generate a power stage switch control signal responsive to a loop compensation value. The loop compensation circuit is coupled to the DPWM circuit. The loop compensation circuit is configured to calculate the loop compensation value responsive to the voltage ramp exceeding the threshold voltage.

DC-DC converter with hybrid current sensing
Patent No. 12206331

Inventor(s): Bhaskar Ramachandran (Bengaluru, , IN), Bo Wang (Easton, PA), Dattatreya Baragur Suryanarayana (Bengaluru, , IN), Evan Reutzel (Center Valley, PA), Preetam Tadeparthy (Bengaluru, , IN), Rengang Chen (Bethlehem, PA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17875214 on 07/27/2022 (909 days app to issue)

Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a current sense circuit. The current sense circuit includes a sense current output, an inductor current measurement circuit, an inductor current emulation circuit, a first switch, and a second switch. The inductor current measurement circuit has an output. The inductor current emulation circuit has an output. The first switch is coupled between the output of the inductor current measurement circuit and the sense current output. The second switch is coupled between the output of the inductor current emulation circuit and the sense current output.

Oscillator frequency accuracy and amplitude control
Patent No. 12206361

Inventor(s): Danielle Griffith (Richardson, TX), Hagen Graf (Oslo, , NO)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18078723 on 12/09/2022 (774 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, an electronic device comprises an oscillator circuit configured to provide an output signal and a controller coupled to the oscillator circuit. The controller is configured to receive first and second target rates; dynamically adjust a frequency accuracy of the output signal based on the first target rate; and dynamically adjust an amplitude of the output signal based on the second target rate.

[H03B] GENERATION OF OSCILLATIONS, DIRECTLY OR BY FREQUENCY-CHANGING, BY CIRCUITS EMPLOYING ACTIVE ELEMENTS WHICH OPERATE IN A NON-SWITCHING MANNER; GENERATION OF NOISE BY SUCH CIRCUITS (generators specially adapted for electrophonic musical instruments G10H; masers or lasers H01S; generation of oscillations in plasma H05H)

Methods and apparatus to reduce inter-stage gain errors in analog-to-digital converters
Patent No. 12206424

Inventor(s): Prasanth K (Bangalore, , IN), Rahul Sharma (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17899149 on 08/30/2022 (875 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example analog-to-digital converter (ADC) comprising: sample and hold circuitry coupled to an analog input; a first sub-ADC coupled to the sample and hold circuitry; a multiplying digital-to-analog converter (M-DAC) coupled to the first sub-ADC; summation circuitry coupled to the sample and hold circuitry and the M-DAC; an amplifier coupled to the summation circuitry; a second sub-ADC coupled to the amplifier; and reference generation circuitry coupled to the first sub-ADC, the M-DAC, and the second sub-ADC, the reference generation circuitry including: reference voltage circuitry coupled to the M-DAC; a first resistor coupled to the reference voltage circuitry; a second resistor coupled to the first resistor; and a capacitor coupled in parallel to the second resistor by a switch.

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

Lookup table for non-linear systems
Patent No. 12206427

Inventor(s): Chirag Shetty (Bangalore, , IN), Eeshan Miglani (Bangalore, , IN), Narasimhan Rajagopal (Chennai, , IN), Neeraj Shrivastava (Bangalore, , IN), Shagun Dusad (Bangalore, , IN), Srinivas Kumar Reddy Naru (Bangalore, , IN), Visvesvaraya
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17588493 on 01/31/2022 (1086 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a circuit includes a multiplexer. The multiplexer receives an input voltage and a calibration signal. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is coupled to the multiplexer and generates an output code in response to the calibration signal. A storage circuit is coupled to the ADC and stores the input code representative of the calibration signal at an address corresponding to the output code. The stored input code includes an index value and a coarse value.

Systems and methods for policy-based monitoring of network key performance indicators
Patent No. 12206558

Inventor(s): Mahesh Chapalamadugu (Plano, TX), Raghuram Parvataneni (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18535081 on 12/11/2023 (407 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may monitor, on an ongoing basis, a Key Performance Indicators (‘’KPIs’’) associated with a wireless network. The system may receive, from a particular device, a monitoring policy specifying one or more criteria, and may compare the criteria associated with the monitoring policy to the monitored KPIs. The system may determine, based on the comparing, that the criteria associated with the monitoring policy is satisfied; may determine a particular subset of the monitored KPIs based on the monitoring policy and further based on determining that the criteria associated with the monitoring policy is satisfied; and may output the particular subset of the monitored KPIs to the second device. The system may monitor the wireless network via private interfaces that are not exposed to devices external to the wireless network.

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

Systems and methods for controlling secure persistent electronic communication account servicing with an intelligent assistant
Patent No. 12206631

Inventor(s): Srinaath Thyagarajan (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18484495 on 10/11/2023 (468 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for controlling enrollment and secure persistent SMS texting account servicing communications. A method is provided that includes receiving, at an enrollment web portal, enrollment data including: enrollment credentials identifying a user for authentication, a phone number of a mobile device associated with the user, and consent by the user to persistently interact with an account servicing system via SMS texting. The method includes: processing the received enrollment data, authenticating the user responsive to processing the received enrollment data, storing the phone number of the mobile device associated with the user in a phone number data storage, and generating, responsive to the authenticating, a revocable token for persistent access to a natural dialogue module via a SMS texting gateway for the mobile device identified by the phone number.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for requesting, accessing, and delivering data without exposing personally identifiable information and without a credentialed login process
Patent No. 12206636

Inventor(s): Don Everett (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Harper Bates LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18220388 on 07/11/2023 (560 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for requesting, accessing and delivering data in a way that does not require users, or others acting on behalf of users, to log in to a dedicated computer application and does not rely on humans to manually retrieve the data. A Requester (‘’REQ’’) sends an email or cellular text message to a server to request data. The server identifies the REQ based on the REQ’’s email address or mobile phone number and then deciphers what data to compile after interpreting the REQ’’s message. The server then returns a link to the REQ’’s email address or mobile phone number. The REQ can select the link to view the data. The email or text message is sent by the REQ, the link is returned by the server to the REQ’’s email address or mobile phone number, and the data is displayed, all without revealing any personally identifiable information (‘’PII’’).

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

System and method for dynamically generating suggestions to facilitate conversations between remote users
Patent No. 12206641

Inventor(s): Daniel Doyle (Los Angeles, CA), Danielle Mariah Zegelstein (Bedford, NY), Kristina Rettig (Los Angeles, CA), Kyle Garrett Miller (Encinitas, CA), Oluwademilade Olagoke (Houston, TX), Sergey Vartanov (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): MATCH GROUP, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17865576 on 07/15/2022 (921 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory stores a set of messages associated with a first user. The processor receives an indication of a conversation between the first user and at least a second user. In response, the processor selects a first message from the set of messages associated with the first user and uses the interface to present the first message to the second user as a suggestion to transmit to the first user. The processor determines that the second user transmitted the first message to the first user. In response to determining that the second user transmitted the first message to the first user, the processor updates the set of messages associated with the first user.

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

Intermediary service bureau system and method
Patent No. 12206814

Inventor(s): Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18212591 on 06/21/2023 (580 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides details on an intermediary service bureau (ISB) system which includes an ISB center that acts as an intermediary communication center between communication devices used by correctional facilities and contract providers. The ISB records communications, stores security data, and provides front end processing to facilitate an inmate to communicate with an outside party by way of a contract provider. Further, the ISB provides accounting services for inmates and friends and family that use services provided the contract provider. The contract provider provides security and routing services for the ISB by obtaining data from the ISB and updating data at the ISB according to the communications.

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

Privileged electronic communications with inmates
Patent No. 12206817

Inventor(s): Stephen L. Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18387756 on 11/07/2023 (441 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing secure communication between an inmate and an outside user are disclosed. In various aspects, account information of both the user and the inmate is stored. A message transmission is received from a first device that includes a header portion and an encrypted payload portion. The system verifies that confidential communication between the inmate and the outside user is permitted based on the header portion and the stored account information. Once verified, the message is transmitted to a second device without decrypting the payload portion of the message.

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

Digital camera with multi-subject focusing
Patent No. 12206987

Inventor(s): Bennet Langlotz (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Langlotz Patent Trademark Works, LLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17669405 on 02/11/2022 (1075 days app to issue)

Abstract: A camera system comprising a body that contains a lens with a range of focus settings and an image sensor operable to record an image. The camera system has a controller operably connected to the sensor to receive the image, and the controller is operably connected to the lens to control the focus setting. The controller is operable to focus the lens on a selected point, and the controller is operable to determine at least two different first and second subject elements. The controller is operable to focus the lens on the first subject and record a first image, and the controller is operable to focus the lens on the second subject and record a second image.

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

System and method for motion warping using multi-exposure frames
Patent No. 12206993

Inventor(s): Anqi Yang (Plano, TX), Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, TX), John W. Glotzbach (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17938013 on 10/04/2022 (840 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, using at least one image sensor of an electronic device, a first image frame and multiple second image frames of a scene. Each of the second image frames has an exposure time different from an exposure time of the first image frame. The method also includes generating, using at least one processor, blur kernels indicating a motion direction of the first image frame using an optical flow network. The method further includes refining, using the at least one processor, the blur kernels using a convolutional neural network. In addition, the method includes generating, using the at least one processor, a target image frame of the scene using the refined blur kernels and occlusion masks for the second image frames.

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

Integrated circuit with multi-application image processing
Patent No. 12207002

Inventor(s): David Stoller (Plano, TX), Manoj Koul (Allen, TX), Mihir Mody (Bangalore, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX), Pandy Kalimuthu (Plano, TX), Rajasekhar Allu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18194249 on 03/31/2023 (662 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, an integrated circuit includes first, second, third, and fourth image processing blocks, a data selection circuitry, and a pipeline memory. An input of the first image processing block receives raw image data. An input of the second image processing block is coupled to an output of the first image processing block. An input of the third image processing block is coupled to an output of the second image processing block. A first input of the data selection circuitry is coupled to an output of the first image processing block, and a second input of the data selection circuitry is coupled to an output of the second image processing block. A data input of the pipeline memory is coupled to an output of the data selection circuitry, and an output of the pipeline memory is coupled to an input of the fourth image processing block.

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

Systems and methods for network design and configuration based on user-level usage modeling
Patent No. 12207130

Inventor(s): Anush Gift Isaac (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17819996 on 08/16/2022 (889 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may identify sets of seed parameters that are each associated with a respective User Equipment (‘’UE’’) of a group of UEs. The system may generate, based on the seed parameters for each UE, a respective set of UE usage metrics for each UE, and may generate a set of aggregate UE usage metrics based on the generated sets of UE usage metrics. The system may compare the aggregate UE usage metrics to a measure of network capacity; determine an amount of time that a measure of UE usage exceeds the measure of network capacity; determine that the amount of time, that the measure of UE usage exceeds the measure of network capacity, exceeds a threshold amount of time; and modify network configuration parameters based on determining that the amount of time, that UE usage exceeds the network capacity, exceeds the threshold amount of time.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

User equipment and method of uplink beam management
Patent No. 12207143

Inventor(s): Li Guo (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD. (Guangdong, , CN)
Law Firm: PERKINS COIE LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17581494 on 01/21/2022 (1096 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a method of uplink beam management are provided. The method includes being configured, by a source cell, an uplink transmit beam for an uplink transmission for a target cell and transmitting, to the target cell, the configured uplink transmit beam for the uplink transmission. During a handover from the source cell to the target cell, the uplink transmit beam for the UE to the target cell is determined based on collaboration between the source cell and the target cell. The method enables a random access channel-free (RACH-free) handover procedure which reduces latency of handover and overhead of signaling and resource.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Device, network, and method for network adaptation and utilizing a downlink discovery reference signal
Patent No. 12207179

Inventor(s): Jialing Liu (Palatine, IL), Qian Cheng (Naperville, IL), Vipul Desai (Palatine, IL), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, IL)
Assignee(s): FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17456097 on 11/22/2021 (1156 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for network adaption and utilization of a discovery signal (DS). In an embodiment, a method in a UE for communicating in a wireless network includes receiving a parameter(s) from a network controller, wherein the parameter provides the UE with an activation time frame within which the UE can expect to receive a common reference signal (CRS) from a network component, a deactivation time frame within which the UE is not to expect to receive the CRS, and information for receiving and processing a DS from the network component; receiving the DS from the network component, wherein a structure and format of the DS conforms to the parameter received by the UE; refraining from attempting to perform CRS based procedures when the CRS is not received; and performing one of synchronization, cell identification, and DS based radio resource management (RRM) measurements according to the DS.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and system for inter-operator mobility service
Patent No. 12207318

Inventor(s): Parry Cornell Booker (Arlington, TX), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17501235 on 10/14/2021 (1195 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an inter-operator mobility service is provided. The service may provide provisioning decisions and configurations that may include core devices that are shared between users of a first entity and users of a second entity, or are dedicated to the users of the second entity to support a network slice and/or access to an application service for end devices associated with the second entity. The service may manage access and use of radio frequencies associated with the first and second entities based on subscription information and location of the end devices associated with first and second entities. The service may further include enabling inter-network handovers associated with end devices associated with end devices associated with the second entity.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

LED color and brightness control apparatus and method
Patent No. 12207368

Inventor(s): Dongjie Cheng (Murphy, TX), Joy Das (Shyamnagar, , IN), Sumit Bhat (Hubballi, , IN), Vijay Hugar (Hubballi, , IN)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17663707 on 05/17/2022 (980 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a bandgap voltage reference configured to generate a current reference for controlling a plurality of light emitting diode channels, a plurality of MOSFET devices connected in parallel and coupled between a cathode of a light emitting diode channel and ground, wherein the plurality of MOSFET devices is configured to control a current flowing through the light emitting diode channel, and a control circuit configured to generate gate drive signals for the plurality of MOSFET devices, wherein the gate drive signals are configured to adjust the current flowing through the light emitting diode channel based on a predetermined color and a predetermined brightness level of the light emitting diode channel.

[H05B] ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Expandable electrical distribution skid
Patent No. 12207428

Inventor(s): Michael Thomas Sweet (McKinney, TX), Simon Harkins (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Modular Power Solutions, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Rutan and Tucker, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17189694 on 03/02/2021 (1421 days app to issue)

Abstract: An expandable electrical distribution skid can be manufactured as a monolithic, pre-wired, pre-engineered, and pre-assembled integrated platform to provide a critical power supply and distribute electrical power distribution, which can expand from a collapsed state to an expanded state, and vice versa. The expandable electrical distribution skid can be manufactured as a monolithic, pre-wired, pre-engineered, and pre-assembled integrated platform, where the frame is broken up into multiple segments. The different segments of framework for the expandable electrical distribution skid are coupled to connect to a common expansion track in order to move one or more of the segments at least one of i) inward to collapse and ii) outward to expand.

[H01F] MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES [2]

Cold plates incorporating reactive multilayer systems and S-cells
Patent No. 12207450

Inventor(s): Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, MI), Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17820959 on 08/19/2022 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: Cold plate assemblies, power electronics assemblies including the same, and power electronics systems including the same are disclosed. A cold plate includes an S-cell disposed within a cavity of the cold plate and at least one reactive multilayer system interposed between the S-cell and a base wall of the cavity.

[H05K] PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS (details of instruments or comparable details of other apparatus not otherwise provided for G12B; thin-film or thick-film circuits H01L 27/01, H01L 27/13; non-printed means for electric connections to or between printed circuits H01R; casings for, or constructional details of, particular types of apparatus, see the relevant subclasses; processes involving only a single technical art, e.g. heating, spraying, for which provision exists elsewhere, see the relevant classes)

Three-dimensional memory array with dual-level peripheral circuits and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 12207459

Inventor(s): Fumiaki Toyama (Cupertino, CA), Masaaki Higashitani (Cupertino, CA), Yuki Mizutani (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17498100 on 10/11/2021 (1198 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bonded assembly includes a backside peripheral circuit, a memory die and a first logic die. The memory die includes a doped semiconductor material layer, a three-dimensional memory array, and memory-side metal interconnect structures and first memory-side bonding pads embedded in memory-side dielectric material layers. The first logic die includes a logic-side peripheral circuit including a first subset of logic devices configured to control operation of the three-dimensional memory array, logic-side dielectric material layers, and logic-side metal interconnect structures and first logic-side bonding pads that are bonded to a respective one of the first memory-side bonding pads. The backside peripheral circuit includes a second subset of the logic devices located on a second side of the doped semiconductor material layer.

[H10B] ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES

DESIGN PATENTS

Soil reinforcing stabilizer
Patent No. D1058321

Inventor(s): Thomas P. Taylor (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): THE TAYLOR IP GROUP LLC (Colleyville, TX)
Law Firm: NOLTE LACKENBACH SIEGEL (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29903052 on 09/19/2023 (490 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle grille
Patent No. D1058451

Inventor(s): Eric Norman Tucker (Denton, TX), Louis Daniel Heilaneh (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29874751 on 04/24/2023 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle battery strap
Patent No. D1058510

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (Roanoke, TX), Trent Collins (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29852490 on 09/07/2022 (867 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle electronic speed control case
Patent No. D1058701

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29884822 on 02/16/2023 (705 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle steering bellcrank
Patent No. D1058702

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (Roanoke, TX), Terry Soward (Van Alstyne, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29886314 on 03/07/2023 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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