Patented: Intercepting a Swarm of Hostile UAVs With a Net and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of May 6 with a total of 134 patents granted.

This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • AT&T's dynamic and optimal selection of internet of things (IoT) hubs in cellular networks
  • Battelle Energy Alliance and Sortera Technologies' sorting of dark colored and black plastics
  • Dell Products' detection of anomalous behavior on online platforms using machine learning techniques
  • Hunt Energy's enhanced geothermal energy extraction
  • Novocure's treating tumors using TTFields combined with a PARP inhibitor
  • Toyota's air mattress with automatic pitch adjustment
  • USAA's systems for incentivizing saving
  • Unassigned system for detecting and removing microplastics from water


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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 5/6/2025  |  Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 

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


NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 16
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 13
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 3
E: Fixed Constructions 8
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 4
G: Physics 30
H: Electricity 48

DESIGN: 12


TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 17
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 9
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 4
Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano) 4
Frontier Communications Holdings LLC (Dallas) 3
Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson) 3
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 3
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.) 3
Traxxas L.P. (McKinney) 3

Unassigned: 12


TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS) 

Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 3
Jeremy S. Papke (Monroe, Wash.) 3
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 3
Ryan C. Bennett (Arlington, Wash.) 3
Dan Salkhai Ang (Keller) 2
Hongbo Si (Plano) 2
Ivan Arbouzov (Southlake) 2
Jory Sprowl (Howe) 2
Michael Wm. Whitaker (Fort Worth) 2
Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.) 2


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


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