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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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Food product permeated with homogenized dispersion
Patent No. 12290087

Inventor(s): Tracey Williams (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Conagra Foods RDM, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Law Firm: Advent, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18131007 on 04/05/2023 (762 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention is a food product and a method of creating the food product that satisfies the need for a homogenized dispersion that disperses throughout meat, wherein the particle size of macromolecular ingredients within the dispersion is reduced to form a more stable homogenized dispersion with increased ingredient functionality. This permeated meat offers added health benefits such as the substitution of the anti-oxidant rich olive oil for problematic animal fat.

[A23L] FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES A21D OR A23B-A23J; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OF NUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT (shaping or working, not fully covered by this subclass, A23P); PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL

Laces with tying mechanisms and related methods
Patent No. 12290117

Inventor(s): Richard Barton (Champaign, IL)
Assignee(s): RBCN Holding LLC (Keller, TX)
Law Firm: Alumen IP Law PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17733596 on 04/29/2022 (1103 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tying system or mechanism with at least one lace and a fastener element can be used with a boxing glove or a shoe to allow a user to secure the at least one lace around the boxing glove or shoe without a second person and/or without tying a knot. The tying mechanism can include a back-to-back hook and loop of a fastener element and can include or more locking mechanisms to anchor free ends of the one or more laces at the eyelets of the boxing glove or shoe. The tying mechanism can generate a force that is radial or lateral to a gap defined by flaps of the boxing glove or shoes.

[A41D] OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES (eye or ear protectors A61F 9/00, A61F 11/00; sweating suits A61H 36/00)

Air mattress with automatic pitch adjustment
Patent No. 12290180

Inventor(s): Stuart R. Wuerthele (Saline, 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: 18086063 on 12/21/2022 (867 days app to issue)

Abstract: An adjustable air mattress includes a plurality of air chambers having a sleeping surface, an electronic control unit, and an air pump communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and fluidly coupled to the plurality of air chambers. A plurality of air valves are communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit and are configured to permit or inhibit a release of air within each respective air chambers. A plurality of level sensors are communicatively coupled to the electronic control unit, determine an angle of the sleeping surface, and determine whether the angle of the sleeping surface is within a predetermined level range. When the angle of the sleeping surface is not within the predetermined level range, the electronic control unit controls at least one of the air pump and the plurality of air valves to adjust an amount of air in at least one of the plurality of air chambers.

[A47C] CHAIRS (seats specially adapted for vehicles B60N 2/00); SOFAS; BEDS (upholstery in general B68G)

Spring loaded translating lateral retractor blade
Patent No. 12290253

Inventor(s): Joel Gambrell (Irving, TX), Keith Klausman (Irving, TX), Thomas Purcell (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): ASTURA MEDICAL (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18387834 on 11/07/2023 (546 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tissue retractor having a spring loaded retractor blade that provides constant downward pressure on the spine to eliminate/reduce tissue from creeping underneath the tips of the blades during use, which decreases operation time and reduces patient risk.

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

Suture cutter device and method of use
Patent No. 12290256

Inventor(s): Lonnie J. Ginn (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17831243 on 06/02/2022 (1069 days app to issue)

Abstract: A suture cutter device for alleviating the number of instrument exchanges during a closing routine of a surgical procedure is disclosed. The suture cutter device comprises of a top segment and a bottom segment. The top segment includes front and rear panels, a plurality of knife blade supports, and a plurality of attachment pin holes. The bottom segment includes a plurality of alignment pins. During use, a knife blade is secured between the plurality of knife blade supports, and the fixed hinge of a tissue forceps is securely coupled to the top segment via a fastening mechanism.

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

Packaging-assisted actuation for an intraocular lens cartridge
Patent No. 12290435

Inventor(s): Douglas Brent Wensrich (Bedford, TX), Sudarshan B. Singh (Euless, TX), Todd Taber (Keller, TX), Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, CH)
Law Firm: PATTERSON + SHERIDAN, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18415927 on 01/18/2024 (474 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for storing and/or shipping an intraocular lens (IOL) cartridge are provided. A system comprises a packaging comprising a passage. The IOL cartridge is removably disposed within the passage. The IOL cartridge comprises a nozzle and a compartment configured to receive an IOL. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the compartment. The IOL cartridge further comprises a dial configured to rotate upon withdrawal of the IOL cartridge from the passage, wherein an inner surface of the dial is exposed to the compartment. The dial is configured to fold the IOL and release the IOL cartridge from the packaging upon rotation of the dial.

[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]

Glenoid implant for a shoulder prosthesis, and surgical kit
Patent No. 12290447

Inventor(s): Wayne Z. Burkhead, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TORNIER SAS (Montbonnot Saint Martin, FR)
Law Firm: DUANE MORRIS LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18539598 on 12/14/2023 (509 days app to issue)

Abstract: A glenoid implant for a shoulder prosthesis for implantation in the glenoid of a scapula according to embodiments of the present invention includes a central fixation element; an articular body configured for articulation with a humerus, the articular body comprising a plate, the plate comprising a side configured to be oriented toward the glenoid, the side comprising a central protrusion, wherein the central fixation element comprises a means for mechanically engaging with the central protrusion; a first means for locking rotation of the central fixation element with respect to the glenoid; and a second means for locking rotation of the articular body with respect to the glenoid.

Expandable cage
Patent No. 12290450

Inventor(s): Greg Martin (Carlsbad, CA), Thomas Purcell (Carlsbad, CA)
Assignee(s): ASTURA MEDICAL INC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17235850 on 04/20/2021 (1477 days app to issue)

Abstract: An expandable cage for placement between adjacent vertebrae having two or more upper and lower end plates having compound-angled slots, ramps or rails, and a drive means having corresponding compound-angled slots, ramps or rails configured to slidingly engage the compound-angled slots, ramps or rails of the two or more upper and lower end plates, wherein movement of the drive means in a first direction moves the two or more upper and lower end plates away from each other both vertically and horizontally to expand both a height and a width of the expandable cage from a collapsed state to an expanded state.

Reinforced esophageal heat transfer devices
Patent No. 12290470

Inventor(s): Erik Kulstad (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Cooling Therapy, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Law Firm: Nutter McClennen Fish LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18462339 on 09/06/2023 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: Reinforced esophageal heat transfer devices are disclosed. An example reinforced esophageal heat transfer device includes a distal end configured for nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal insertion into an esophagus of a subject, a proximal end including an inlet port and an outlet port, a heat transfer region between the distal end and the proximal end, one or more lumens configured for providing a fluid path for flow of a heat transfer medium to and from the heat transfer region, and one or more reinforcing elements configured for reinforcing the one or more lumens to enable the heat transfer medium to flow through the fluid path via negative pressure.

Urine collection system including a flow meter and related methods
Patent No. 12290485

Inventor(s): Mark Weissmann (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): PUREWICK CORPORATION (Covington, GA)
Law Firm: Dorsey Whitney LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18584002 on 02/22/2024 (439 days app to issue)

Abstract: A urine collection system includes a urine collection device configured to collect urine discharged from a user and a urine collection container in fluid communication with the urine collection device and sized and dimensioned to receive the urine discharged from the user. The urine collection system also includes a flow meter having a communication interface and positioned between the urine collection container and the urine collection device. The flow meter is configured to detect a flow property of the urine at least related to a volume of the urine entering the urine collection container and the communication interface is configured to wirelessly communicate to a computing device at least one of the detected flow property or the volume of the urine including the volume of the urine discharged from the user entering the urine collection container.

[A61G] TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H 3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N 1/00)

Formulations of 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile
Patent No. 12290517

Inventor(s): Joseph Paul Bullock (Fort Worth, TX), Michela Montecchi-Palmer (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited (Dublin, IE)
Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17930578 on 09/08/2022 (971 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides formulations of 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile (compound I) and methods for treating ocular surface pain by administering such formulations. The present invention also provides methods for treating dry eye disease and ocular hyperemia by administering formulations of 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile.

[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)

Treating tumors using TTFields combined with a PARP inhibitor
Patent No. 12290652

Inventor(s): Debabrata Saha (Carrollton, TX), Narasimha Kumar Karanam (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Novocure GmbH (Baar, CH)
Law Firm: Potomac Law Group, PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17173694 on 02/11/2021 (1545 days app to issue)

Abstract: Tumor-Treating Fields elicit a conditional vulnerability to PARP inhibitors (e.g., Olaparib) in certain cancer cells such as non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines. This conditional vulnerability is exploited in a method of killing cancer cells that comprises delivering a PARP inhibitor to the cancer cells and applying an alternating 80-300 kHz electric field to the cancer cells. At least a portion of the applying step is performed simultaneously with at least a portion of the delivering step. In some embodiments, an additional step of treating the cancer cells with a radiation therapy is added to the method. In some embodiments, the frequency of the alternating electric field is between 100 and 200 kHz.

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

Fluid management systems and methods
Patent No. 12290670

Inventor(s): Bryon W. Harper (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Stryker Corporation (Portage, MI)
Law Firm: Morrison Foerster LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17091662 on 11/06/2020 (1642 days app to issue)

Abstract: Fluid management systems are disclosed that include software-controlled, electro-mechanical devices used in combination with single-use or multi-use tubing sets. Functions of the fluid management systems can include fluid pressurization, fluid warming, fluid deficit monitoring (including flow-based and weight-based), suction, fluid collection, and fluid evacuation (including indirect-to-drain and direct-to-drain options). The systems can be configured based on the surgical environment (e.g., operating room or physician office) as well as other user needs and/or preferences.

Method and apparatus for assisting a heart
Patent No. 12290675

Inventor(s): Clay Heighten (Dallas, TX), John Porterfield (Austin, TX), Marc David Feldman (San Antonio, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX), Cardio Vol, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17407138 on 08/19/2021 (1356 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for a heart of a patient having a cardiac assist device adapted to be implanted into the patient to assist the heart with pumping blood. The apparatus has a sensor adapted to be implanted into the patient. The sensor in communication with the cardiac assist device and the heart which measures native volume of the heart. The apparatus has a first cardiac assist device and a second cardiac assist device tuned to maximize blood flow to the body of the patient, while resting the heart so the heart may recover function. Alternatively, the sensor monitors the heart based on admittance while the cardiac assist device. Alternatively, the sensor monitors the heart based on impedance.

Slow pitch softball pitching machine
Patent No. 12290733

Inventor(s): Jannsen Brown (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Strokes Equipment, LLC (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg (Local + 17 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17966208 on 10/14/2022 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: A softball pitching machine in accordance with the present disclosure is configured to lob a softball along an arcuate path with forward spin to mimic the motion of an underhand, slow pitched softball from a human pitcher. The softball pitching machine includes a throwing arm having a curved hand configured to move along a predetermined arcuate path to a preset stopping point that imparts the arcing path and the forward spin on the softball.

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

Ostomy leakage detection system
Patent No. 12292355

Inventor(s): Ryan S. Park (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): HOLLISTER INCORPORATED (Libertyville, IL)
Law Firm: Klintworth Rozenblat IP LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17917164 on 05/20/2021 (1447 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ostomy leakage detection system includes a sensing accessory, a wearable subsystem, a charging dock, and a mobile application. The sensing accessory includes a sensor region comprising a plurality of sensors for measuring resistance of an ostomy appliance, a connector region for connecting to the wearable subsystem, and a tail region extending between the sensor region and the connector region.

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

Sorting of dark colored and black plastics
Patent No. 12290842

Inventor(s): Isha Kamleshbhai Maun (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, ID), Sortera Technologies, Inc. (Markle, IN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18264752 on 02/08/2022 (1183 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for classifying and sorting of dark colored and/or black-colored plastic materials utilizing a vision system or one or more sensor systems implemented with one or more medium wavelength infrared cameras whereby the captured image data is process within a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, which may then be sorted into separate groups based on such an identification or classification.

[B07C] POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING (specially adapted for a specific purpose covered by another class, see the relevant place, e.g. A43D 33/06, B23Q 7/12)

Methods for thinning substrates for semiconductor devices
Patent No. 12290900

Inventor(s): Ganesan Radhakrishnan (Richardson, TX), Krishna Chetry (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Qorvo US, Inc. (Greensboro, NC)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, P.L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18577590 on 03/27/2023 (771 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for thinning a device wafer to tens of micron, micron, or sub-micron thicknesses are disclosed. Device wafers are thinned by using a two-step grinding process and a chemical mechanical polish (CMP) process. One or more first grinding parameters associated with the first grinding process are determined, received, and/or adjusted before and/or during the performance of the first grinding process. One or more second grinding parameters associated with the second grinding process are determined, received and/or adjusted before and/or during the performance of the second grinding process. One or more polishing parameters associated with the CMP process are determined and/or adjusted before and/or during the performance of the CMP process.

[B24B] MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING (by electro-erosion B23H; abrasive or related blasting B24C; electrolytic etching or polishing C25F 3/00); DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS [2]

Headlight adjustment system with measuring assembly including optical beam extending past an articulating reference
Patent No. 12291141

Inventor(s): John D. Harkleroad (Ypsilanti, MI), Sunil Dalal (Canton, 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: 18206145 on 06/06/2023 (700 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to vehicle headlight calibration. In one embodiment, a headlight adjustment system includes a headlight positioned in a vehicle with a measuring assembly attached to the headlight. An adjust system is connected to the moving assembly and a moving mechanism. In response to an optical beam of the measuring assembly extending past an articulating reference member of the measuring assembly to an optical receptor of the measuring assembly, the moving mechanism physically alters a configuration of the headlight.

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

Consensus-based transport event severity
Patent No. 12291196

Inventor(s): Jay Bartholomew (McKinney, TX), Lucas Smith (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18217511 on 06/30/2023 (676 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, an event associated with a transport, receiving, by the server, atypical data related to the transport from a plurality of devices over various times prior to the event, analyzing, by the server, the atypical data, forming, by the server, a consensus based on the analyzed atypical data to determine a severity of the event, and determining, by the server, an action to take based on the severity.

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

Real-time vehicle accident prediction, warning, and prevention
Patent No. 12291197

Inventor(s): Emily Lerner (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17399387 on 08/11/2021 (1364 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle, method, and machine-readable storage medium for detecting a vehicle accident are provided. For example, the method includes accessing an accident profile associated with a second vehicle by a first vehicle, wherein the accident profile contains data indicating vehicle operating parameters during a prior vehicle accident; collecting current vehicle operating parameters from the first vehicle and the second vehicle, the current vehicle operating parameters being collected in real time; based on a comparison between the current vehicle operating parameters and the accident profile associated with the second vehicle, determining a probability of the future vehicle accident; determining a preventive action responsive to the probability of the future vehicle accident occurring; and when the probability of the future vehicle accident occurring exceeds a probability threshold, implementing the preventive action by controlling one or more of the operational systems of the first vehicle to change at least one of the current vehicle operating parameters.

Downhill target acceleration control
Patent No. 12291204

Inventor(s): Thomas S. Hawley (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18166375 on 02/08/2023 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: A downhill target acceleration control system for a vehicle is provided, which includes the vehicle, a road grade sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a processor. The processor stores an acceleration target value, determines the mass of the vehicle, and detects whether a downhill acceleration of the vehicle exceeds the target value by more than a threshold amount. If so, the processor is configured to receive and implement a driver-initiated change to the downhill target acceleration value, without input from the accelerator or brake. Based on the downhill acceleration, the target value, and the mass, the processor generates a negative power train torque request to reduce the downhill acceleration of the vehicle. If the acceleration of the vehicle is then below the target acceleration by more than a second threshold amount, the processor reduces the negative power train torque request to increase the downhill acceleration of the vehicle.

Automated tie marking
Patent No. 12291248

Inventor(s): Lisa Marie Kelly (Weatherford, TX), Michael James Brick (Fort Worth, TX), Richard William Keller (Spokane Valley, WA), Samuel Minton (Brandon, SD)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18055015 on 11/14/2022 (904 days app to issue)

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

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

Supplemental engine power control
Patent No. 12291326

Inventor(s): Charles Eric Covington (Colleyville, TX), Chia-Wei Su (Lewisville, TX), Cody Earl Fegely (Irving, TX), Darren Gregory Lang (Dallas, TX), Thomas Parsons (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18539741 on 12/14/2023 (509 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotorcraft has a drive system including a main rotor coupled to a main rotor gearbox to rotate the main rotor at a rotor speed, a main engine coupled to the drive system to provide a first power, a supplemental engine coupled, when a first clutch is engaged, to the drive system to provide a second power additive to the first power, and a control system operable to control the main engine and the supplemental engine to provide a total power demand, where the main engine is controlled based on variations in rotor speed and a power compensation command to produce the first power, and the supplemental engine is controlled to produce the second power in response to a supplemental power demand.

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

Unmanned vehicle morphing
Patent No. 12291332

Inventor(s): Kade Scott (The Colony, TX), Matthew Flachsbart (Grapevine, TX), Richard Daniel Graham (Plano, TX), Snehal Desai (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: BakerHostetler (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18418627 on 01/22/2024 (470 days app to issue)

Abstract: Unmanned vehicles may be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. Unmanned vehicles may accomplish tasks by breaking out into sub-drones, re-grouping itself, changing form, or re-orienting its sensors.

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

Aircraft actuator verification system and method
Patent No. 12291354

Inventor(s): Clifton Lee Harrell (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18159461 on 01/25/2023 (832 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, an aircraft includes an actuator and a flight control computer interfaced with the actuator. The flight control computer is configured to: increase an initiating force output by an initiating channel of the actuator; stop the increasing of the initiating force in response to observing restraining forces on restraining channels of the actuator; hold the initiating force at a quiescent initiating value while the restraining channels hold the restraining forces at quiescent restraining values; increase the initiating force to a target initiating value while the restraining channels increase the restraining forces to target restraining values; calculate a force fight test result by summing a difference between the target initiating value and the quiescent initiating value with differences between the target restraining values and the quiescent restraining values; and indicate the actuator failed verification in response to the force fight test result being greater than a first predetermined threshold.

[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

Storage tank
Patent No. 12291378

Inventor(s): Jianzhong Zhang (Handan, CN), Xiaojia Liu (Handan, CN)
Assignee(s): GENICOOK PRODUCT, LLC (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Hemisphere Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18346864 on 07/05/2023 (671 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides a storage tank which comprises a tank body and a sealing cover. A top of the tank body is provided with a tank mouth; the sealing cover can seal the tank mouth; the sealing cover comprises a main cover, a cover plate, a sealing ring, an annular extrusion part and a sealing switch; a top of the main cover is provided with an accommodating groove; the cover plate is covered on the accommodating groove; an edge of the cover plate is covered on the tank mouth; the sealing ring is sleeved and fixed on the outer circumference of the main cover; the annular extrusion part is slidably sleeved on the main cover below the sealing ring ; the sealing switch is located in the accommodating groove. The storage tank has good sealing effect, simple operation and convenient use.

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

Trash can and method of use
Patent No. 12291394

Inventor(s): Jason Hoagland (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17500743 on 10/13/2021 (1301 days app to issue)

Abstract: A trash can that can be broken down for washing is disclosed. The trash can includes a lid, one or more intermediate segments, a base connecting segment having a female connector, a base having a male connector, one or more fasteners, and one or more magnets. The one or more fasteners allows the lid to engage with an intermediate segment; an intermediate segment with another intermediate segment; and an intermediate segment with the base connecting segment. The one or more magnets allows the base connecting segment to engage with the base. The one or more female connectors engage with the one or more male connectors. The trash can also includes a link rod sustained by one or more rod supports.

[B65F] GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE (disinfecting refuse A61L; refuse disintegrators B02C; sorting refuse B03B, B07B; handcarts for transporting refuse receptacles B62B; sack holders B65B 67/00; converting refuse into fertilisers C05F; converting refuse into solid fuels C10L; sewers, cesspools E03F; arrangements in buildings for the disposal of refuse E04F 17/10; refuse-consuming furnaces F23G)

Parking monitoring and assistance for transports
Patent No. 12293664

Inventor(s): Daniel Warren Reaser (Oak Point, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18586430 on 02/24/2024 (437 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of parking a transport in an initial space, determining an average time of an event attended by at least one occupant associated with the transport, moving the transport to at least one other space when an elapsed time of the event is less than the average time and when the at least one other space is available and closer to an event location than the initial space, and moving the transport to a final space when the event is completed, and the final space is a location of a device associated with the at least one occupant.

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

Methods, apparatus, and systems for detecting and removing microplastics from water
Patent No. 12291464

Inventor(s): Aiza Fernanda Jose Sanchez (Frisco, TX), Carlos Alberto Hernandez Gutierrez (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Cole Schotz P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18199774 on 05/19/2023 (718 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for detecting and removing microplastics from wastewater effluent. Both, automatic/remote and manual monitoring and sampling components are included to detect the presence of microplastics. The automatic monitoring and sampling component includes a TSS sensor and associated apparatus calibrated to account for non-plastic solids present in the wastewater and, thereby, more accurately determine the presence of microplastics. Efficient separation and removal of microplastics from wastewater effluent is performed by a specialized capture net apparatus having multiple sized mesh components and optional diffuser devices which perform size exclusion filtration of microplastics from the water. In an exemplary embodiment, the methods generally include diverting treated wastewater effluent from a wastewater treatment facility’’s main line into a wastewater sampling mechanism via an intake pipe, and then into a solids monitoring and separation mechanism which includes the specialized capture net apparatus.

[C02F] TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE (processes for making harmful chemical substances harmless, or less harmful, by effecting a chemical change in the substances A62D 3/00; separation, settling tanks or filter devices B01D; special arrangements on waterborne vessels of installations for treating water, waste water or sewage, e.g. for producing fresh water, B63J; adding materials to water to prevent corrosion C23F; treating radioactively-contaminated liquids G21F 9/04) [3]

Coordination polymers of coinage metals synthesis and uses thereof
Patent No. 12291606

Inventor(s): Manal A. Rawashdeh-Omary (Denton, TX), Mohammad A. Omary (Denton, TX), Ruaa M. Almotawa (Denton, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS WOMAN’’S UNIVERSITY (Denton, TX)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17058764 on 07/09/2019 (2128 days app to issue)

Abstract: The embodiments described herein pertains to a new design method to produce copper, silver or gold based metal functional coordination polymers with excellent potential towards optoelectronic devices, gas storage and separation, optical sensors, and other applications.

[C08G] MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS (fermentation or enzyme-using processes to synthesise a desired chemical compound or composition or to separate optical isomers from a racemic mixture C12P) [2]

High strength stainless steel material
Patent No. 12291767

Inventor(s): Karthik Krishnan (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17727418 on 04/22/2022 (1110 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods for improving a toughness and a strength of a stainless steel material are described herein. For example, a high strength stainless steel material can comprise at least 11 wt. % Cr, between 0.01 wt. % and 1.0 wt. % Ni, more 0 wt. % Mo, more than 0 wt. % W, more than 0 wt. % Ti, more than 0 wt. % Nb, and more than 0 wt. % V. In some examples, the high strength stainless steel material can be heat treated with at least one quench treatment and at least one tempering heat treatment. In some examples, the high strength stainless steel material can comprise between 0.01 wt. % and 0.5 wt. % Ni, no more than 0.25 wt. % Mo, no more than 0.1 wt. % W, no more than 0.1 wt. % Ti, no more than 0.1 wt. % Nb, and no more than 0.1 wt. % V.

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

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

Polymer modified asphalt compositions and related methods
Patent No. 12291869

Inventor(s): Denis M. Tibah (Waxahachie, TX), Jarod L. Krajca (Ennis, TX), Lisa Brzezinski (Red Oak, TX), Ramil Marcelo L. Mercado (Waxahachie, TX), Xiangnan Ye (Cypress, TX)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURG, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18584797 on 02/22/2024 (439 days app to issue)

Abstract: Polymer modified asphalt compositions for roofing applications and related systems and methods are provided. A polymer modified asphalt composition comprises at least 80% by weight of an asphalt based on a total weight of the polymer modified asphalt composition, a polyolefin having a number average molecular weight of at least 25 kDa, and an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer.

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

Roofing shingles with sealant pressure relief channel
Patent No. 12291870

Inventor(s): Olan T. Leitch (Mt. Juliet, TN)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18073887 on 12/02/2022 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: A roofing shingle has an upper surface, a lower surface, and a sealant material applied along the lower surface. A pressure relief channel is formed along the lower surface of the roofing shingle, with a release strip applied over the pressure relief channel. When the roofing shingle is paired with another roofing shingle in a stack, the sealant material of the roofing shingle is arranged in registration with the release strip and pressure relief channel of the other roofing shingle.

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

Portable hot room system and method of use
Patent No. 12291886

Inventor(s): Brandon Hayden Hunt (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18130787 on 04/04/2023 (763 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable hot room system includes a plurality of panels creating an inner area; a plurality of adjustable supports configured to support the plurality of panels; a heat source disposed within the inner area; a humidity source disposed within the inner area; wherein the plurality of adjustable supports configured to hold the plurality of panels from a ground position to a ceiling position.

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

Door management
Patent No. 12291917

Inventor(s): John Robert Wittmaak, Jr. (Newark, TX), Michael Rinehart (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18226431 on 07/26/2023 (650 days app to issue)

Abstract: A door management system on an aircraft includes a fuselage extending along a longitudinal axis in a fore-aft direction parallel to forward flight, an opening in a sidewall of the fuselage, a door mounted on the sidewall to slide in the fore-aft direction between a closed position covering the opening and an open position revealing the opening, a cable attached to the fuselage and the door and a speed governor operatively coupled to the cable to limit a velocity of the door as it moves between the open position and the closed position.

[E05F] DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING

Downhole perforating gun system
Patent No. 12291945

Inventor(s): Dan Salkhai Ang (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): SWM International, LLC (Pampa, TX)
Law Firm: Cabello Hall Zinda, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18317485 on 05/15/2023 (722 days app to issue)

Abstract: A downhole perforating gun system provides wireless electrical communication between an inner body conductor, a switch, a detonator, and a feedthrough, and further comprising a weight module and a bearing assembly wherein the weight module is rotatable by a weight via a bearing assembly based on gravity acting on one or more of the weights.

[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]

Downhole perforating gun system and methods of manufacture, assembly and use
Patent No. 12291946

Abstract: A downhole perforating gun system provides wireless electrical communication between an inner body conductor, a switch, a detonator, and a feedthrough. Ends on gun carriers of the system couple together end-to-end at end connections. Internal tapered thread is defined in an interior of each carrier’’s first end, and external tapered thread is defined externally on each carrier’’s second end. The internal tapered thread of one carrier can thread to the external tapered thread of another carrier. A metal-to-metal contact and/or an annular seal can seal the carriers’’ interiors from an external environment, and bulkheads can seal between the carrier’’s interiors at the end connections. Each bulkhead can have a feedthrough conductor to electrically conduct across the end connections. A bulkhead flange can be captured between a distal face and an internal shoulder at the end connection, and a switch can be disposed on the bulkhead.

System and method for enhanced geothermal energy extraction
Patent No. 12291951

Inventor(s): Christopher A. Lane (Rockwall, TX), Gunther H. H. von Gynz-Rekowski (Montgomery, TX), James D. Franks (Louisville, KY), John S. Burkhart (Dallas, TX), Todd W. Benson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Hunt Energy, L.L.C. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Law Office of Bill Naifeh (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18488856 on 10/17/2023 (567 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided are a system and method for actively recovering thermal energy, hydrocarbons, and other energy resources from a formation. In one example, multiple fluid conduits are inserted into a borehole. Combustion fluid is injected into the formation via one of the conduits. The combustion fluid is used to ignite and maintain a combustion zone by burning fuel in the formation. To extract thermal energy, cool fluid is circulated through the borehole via another conduit and heated by the thermal energy in the combustion zone. Thermal energy may be recovered from the heated fluid or other processing may be performed for various types of energy recovery. A fluid flow and composition of the combustion fluid and a fluid flow rate of the cool fluid may be individually controlled for purposes such as regulating heat transfer, balancing thermal energy recovery with enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and regulating temperature and pressure for safety.

Systems and methods for drilling a well
Patent No. 12293424

Inventor(s): John Burkhart (Dallas, TX), Teddy C. Chen (Austin, TX), Todd 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: 18734583 on 06/05/2024 (335 days app to issue)

Abstract: A drilling system may have a drilling rig with a drill string including a BHA with a drill bit. The method may include determining a current BHA location and a future BHA location based on the current BHA location and a current trajectory of the BHA and comparing the future BHA location to a target drilling path. When the future BHA location is a predetermined distance from the target drilling path, then a plurality of geometric convergence paths may be generated, each providing a convergence solution from the current BHA location toward the target drilling path. The method may include determining (i) a distance to drill, (ii) an overall curvature, and (iii) a time required for drilling, of each of the geometric convergence paths and selecting a geometric convergence path responsive to the above. The wellbore may be drilled in accordance with the selected one of the plurality of geometric convergence paths.

M E C H A N I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G
LIGHTING | HEATING | WEAPONS | BLASTING

Injection molded cold-expansion compression collar
Patent No. 12290969

Inventor(s): Gary L. Runyan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Zurn Water, LLC (Milwaukee, WI)
Law Firm: Husch Blackwell LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18180557 on 03/08/2023 (790 days app to issue)

Abstract: A compression collar is manufactured for use in reinforcing an interference fit between an end of a pipe and a fitting. A precursor form is injection molded using a cold-expansion material. The precursor form has a tubular body with an initially closed axial end and a bore that is initially blind formed in the other axial end. Material is removed from the initially closed axial end of the tubular body of the precursor form to form an opening in the initially closed axial end that connects to the bore thereby forming the compression collar. The opening has an inner periphery with a profile in axial cross section that is different than any profile in axial cross section of an inner periphery of the bore. The collar formed may lack knitlines and may include tabs formed during the removal step which help to position the collar on a pipe.

[F16L] PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL

High pressure pump
Patent No. 12292040

Inventor(s): Micheal Cole Thomas (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): Kerr Machine Co. (Sulphur, OK)
Law Firm: Tomlinson McKinstry, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18750835 on 06/21/2024 (319 days app to issue)

Abstract: A high pressure pump. The pump comprises a fluid end assembly supported on a power end assembly. The power end assembly is modular and held together by a first set of stay rods. The fluid end assembly comprises a plurality of fluid end sections positioned in a side-by-side relationship. Each fluid end section comprises a housing made of multiple-piece construction. One or more pieces of the housing are configured to having a second set of stay rods attached thereto. The second set of stay rods interconnect the fluid end assembly and a power end assembly and are vertically offset from the first set of stay rods.

[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)

Hydrogen refueling IR interference shield
Patent No. 12292162

Inventor(s): Dallas K. Fox (Yorba Linda, CA), Giorgio L. Zoia (Los Angeles, CA), Hannah L. White (Redondo Beach, CA), Jacquelyn A. Birdsall (Yorba Linda, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17700957 on 03/22/2022 (1141 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus, namely an infrared (IR) interference shield, is described that can be utilized with a vehicle that employs hydrogen fueling, such as a fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV). For example, the IR interference shield is mounted onto the vehicle’’s hydrogen fueling receptacle. The IR interference shield is distinctly structured to reduce or prevent interference of IR wireless communication between a vehicle-side IR transmitter on the receptacle, and an IR receiver of the hydrogen fueling station. The IR interference shield can block interference to IR signals that may negatively affect IR wireless communication between the hydrogen fueling station and the vehicle. Thus, the IR interference shield improves reliability of the communication between the vehicle and the hydrogen fueling station, thereby improving the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the hydrogen refueling process.

[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)

Pivotal tactical lights for firearms
Patent No. 12292259

Inventor(s): Jonathan V. Huseman (Granbury, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: bobharter.com (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18382492 on 10/21/2023 (563 days app to issue)

Abstract: A light apparatus for firearms can pivot between a safety position and a shooting position. In the safety position, a light mounted to the firearm can point straight ahead at a target, while the firearm’’s barrel is pointed downward. In the shooting position, both the light and the barrel point in the same direction. In some examples, the light is supported by a gun mounting member that is fastened to the underside of the firearm, while the light is offset to one side of the barrel. In some examples, the light is connected to a foregrip, so the light and the foregrip can pivot together as a unit relative to the barrel. Some examples of the light apparatus include various devices for holding the light at the safety and/or shooting position.

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

P H Y S I C S

Plant stake and display tag holder
Patent No. 12290036

Inventor(s): Julie Ellis (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ORORA VISUAL LLC (Buena Park, CA)
Law Firm: Martin Ferraro, LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18438326 on 02/09/2024 (452 days app to issue)

Abstract: A plant stake and display tag holder for use with a nursery container such as a pot or free-standing planter. The display tag is attached to the container and is accessible and visible to the consumer without obstruction from the container or plant contained therein. The bottom of the plant stake inserts into a slit in the rim portion of a nursery container and locks into place to hold the plant stake upright and securely in place. The display tag is held above the soil line and avoids the common problems associated with display tag holders inserted below the soil line.

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

Flow device and associated method and system
Patent No. 12292362

Inventor(s): Adam D. McBrady (Dallas, TX), Andy Walker Brown (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: ALSTON BIRD LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18399419 on 12/28/2023 (495 days app to issue)

Abstract: A flow device, method, and system are provided for determining the fluid particle composition. An example flow device includes a fluid sensor configured to monitor at least one particle characteristic of fluid flowing through the fluid sensor. The example flow device also includes at least one processor configured to, upon determining the at least one particle characteristic satisfies a particle criteria, generate a control signal for an external device. The example flow device also includes a fluid composition sensor configured to be powered based on the control signal and further configured to capture data relating to the fluid particle composition. The example flow device is also configured to generate one or more particle profiles of at least one component of the fluid based on the data captured by the fluid composition sensor.

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

Highly selective chromatography-molecular rotational resonance spectroscopy systems and methods
Patent No. 12292399

Inventor(s): Daniel W. Armstrong (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): BrightSpec, Inc. (Charlottesville, VA)
Law Firm: Smith Baluch LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17609246 on 05/07/2020 (1825 days app to issue)

Abstract: The capabilities of a gas or liquid chromatography-molecular rotational resonance (GC/LC-MRR) instrument exceed those of high-resolution mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance in terms of selectivity, resolution, and compound identification. MRR detection provides high specificity for selective gas- or liquid-phase separations, including the ability to resolve co-eluting peaks and isomeric compounds without any loss of specificity or accuracy. MRR can perform both qualitative identification and absolute quantification of analyte components separated by GC or LC without a reference standard. GC-MRR is ideal for compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) and can identify enantiomers and enantiomeric excess. GC-MRR measurements are especially useful for studying biosynthetic/degradation and geochemical isotopic compounds.

[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)

Resonant frequency change detection
Patent No. 12292461

Inventor(s): Florian Thomas Mller (Buch am Erlbach, DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17682506 on 02/28/2022 (1163 days app to issue)

Abstract: At a switch terminal of a flyback converter in a discontinuous conduction mode in a power meter, an apparatus determines a resonant frequency of the flyback converter. The apparatus determines whether the resonant frequency satisfies a condition. Through a controller, the apparatus triggers an event responsive to determining that the resonant frequency satisfies the condition.

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

Method for road debris detection using low-cost LIDAR
Patent No. 12292511

Inventor(s): Paul D. Schmalenberg (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18537327 on 12/12/2023 (511 days app to issue)

Abstract: Improved systems and methods are provided to implement anomaly detection. The method includes a FMCW LIDAR system that steers the laser beam of the LIDAR system via the wavelength tuning of a FMCW. The direction of the laser beam can be diffracted and controlled by the optical grating antennas which may diffract the laser beam as a function of wavelength. The method may also provide a LIDAR sensor with exhibits a controlled and wide-angle fill or output without the use of conventional mechanical mechanisms for scanning. The LIDAR system provides a cost-effective method to reduce scan dimensionality without sacrificing performance.

[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

Providing a location as a service
Patent No. 12292512

Inventor(s): Christopher N. Delregno (Garland, TX), Mohammed M. Rahman (Allen, TX), Sumanth S. Mallya (Dallas, TX), William F. Copeland (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17454319 on 11/10/2021 (1273 days app to issue)

Abstract: A microservice node can receive a request for information identifying a corrected physical location of a client device. The request can include raw satellite data associated with the client device. The microservice node can convert the raw satellite data to a Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) format. The microservice node can determine, based on converting the raw satellite data to the RTCM format, an estimated physical location of the client device. The microservice node can receive, based on transmitting a request to a network real-time kinematics (RTK) device, corrections data associated with the estimated physical location of the client device. The microservice node can determine, using a cloud RTK engine, the corrected physical location of the client device based on the estimated physical location and corrections data. The microservice node can transmit, to the client device, the information identifying the corrected physical location of the client device.

Directed energy distribution
Patent No. 12292722

Inventor(s): Maximilian Parness (Takoma Park, MD), Norman Lu (Fairview, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17746014 on 05/17/2022 (1085 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining at least one high-priority device at a location, determining a loss of electricity at the location has occurred thereby rendering the device unusable, and directing electricity from a vehicle to the device, based on a need being over a threshold.

[G05B] CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (fluid-pressure actuators or systems acting by means of fluids in general F15B; valves per se F16K; characterised by mechanical features only G05G; sensitive elements, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. G12B, subclasses of G01, H01; correcting units, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. H02K)

Fast power-up scheme for current mirrors
Patent No. 12292755

Inventor(s): Saurabh Pandey (Bangalore, IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17966253 on 10/14/2022 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: An automatic charge/discharge circuit is presented that allows a current mirror circuit with a high capacitance to quickly and automatically charge or discharge the capacitance in order to allow for a fast start-up power supply. The charge/discharge circuit automatically stops charging or discharging as the voltage on the capacitance approached a desired steady state.

[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]

Single-wire interface protocol to synchronize device states between multiple devices
Patent No. 12292771

Inventor(s): Karl John Wallinger (Dallas, TX), Kevin William Brandon (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18141258 on 04/28/2023 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: Example systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to implement a single-wire interface protocol to synchronize device states between multiple devices. Example logic circuitry disclosed herein for a first device includes transmit circuitry configured to pull a terminal of the first device to a first logic value for a first duration corresponding to a first command to be communicated via the terminal, wherein the first duration is one of a plurality of at least three possible durations corresponding respectively to a plurality of possible commands including the first command, and the plurality of possible commands is associated with device operation states synchronized between the first device and a second device coupled to the terminal. The example logic circuitry also includes receive circuitry configured to monitor the terminal.

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

Systems and methods for evaluating, validating, correcting, and loading data feeds based on artificial intelligence input
Patent No. 12292784

Inventor(s): Rama Venkata S. Kavali (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18418458 on 01/22/2024 (470 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for evaluating, validating, correcting, and loading data feeds based on artificial intelligence input. The present invention may be configured to receive a data feed from a source for loading to a target data structure, analyze, based on historical feed data, metadata of the data feed to determine a likelihood of the data feed failing to load, and determine whether the likelihood of the data feed failing to load satisfies a threshold. The present invention may be configured to load the data feed to the target data structure, determine, after loading the data feed to the target data structure, whether the data feed failed to load, and either correct errors in the data feed or add error-containing portions of the data feed to a failed data log.

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

Erasure coding techniques for flash memory
Patent No. 12292792

Inventor(s): Craig Robertson (Simi Valley, CA), Mike Jadon (Manhattan Beach, CA), Robert Lercari (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Assignee(s): Radian Memory Systems, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18199456 on 05/19/2023 (718 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure provides a memory controller for asymmetric non-volatile memory, such as flash memory, and related host and memory system architectures. The memory controller is configured to automatically generate and transmit redundancy information to a destination, e.g., a host or another memory drive, to provide for cross-drive redundancy. This redundancy information can be error correction (EC) information, which is linearly combined with similar information from other drives to create ‘’superparity.’’ If EC information is lost for one drive, it can be rebuilt by retrieving the superparity, retrieving or newly generating EC information for uncompromised drives, and linearly combining these values. In one embodiment, multiple error correction schemes are used, including a first intra-drive scheme to permit recovery of up to x structure-based failures, and the just-described redundancy scheme, to provide enhanced security for greater than x structure-based failures.

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

Apparatus and method for simultaneously clearing and installing data on a plurality of computing devices
Patent No. 12292808

Inventor(s): Austin Gunter (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Communications Test Design, Inc. (West Chester, PA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18062664 on 12/07/2022 (881 days app to issue)

Abstract: This application relates to apparatus and methods for simultaneously servicing a plurality of computing devices. In one example, a testing system includes a testing frame with a plurality of cabinets, each of the plurality of cabinets housing a computing device under test. Further, the testing frame includes a control cabinet housing a testing computing device, where the testing computing device is communicatively coupled, through one or more hubs located in one or more networking cabinets of the testing frame, to each of the plurality of computing devices under test. The testing frame may also include a bracket that secures a monitor and a keyboard, where the monitor and keyboard are communicatively coupled to the testing computing device. The testing computing device can simultaneously service the plurality of computing devices, such as by causing the deletion of user data, the loading of software, and the testing of various functions.

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

Write merging on stores with different privilege levels
Patent No. 12292839

Inventor(s): Naveen Bhoria (Plano, TX), Pete Hippleheuser (Murphy, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18497005 on 10/30/2023 (554 days app to issue)

Abstract: A caching system including a first sub-cache, a second sub-cache, coupled in parallel with the first sub-cache, for storing write-memory commands that are not cached in the first sub-cache, the second sub-cache including privilege bits configured to store an indication that a corresponding cache line of the second sub-cache is associated with a level of privilege, and wherein the second sub-cache is further configured to receive a first write memory command for a memory address associated with a first level of privilege, store, in the second sub-cache, first data associated with the first write memory command and the level of privilege associated with the cache line, receive a second write memory command for the cache line, the second write memory command associated with a second level of privilege, merge the first level of privilege with the second level of privilege, and output the merged privilege level with the cache line.

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

Surgical video retrieval based on preoperative images
Patent No. 12292926

Inventor(s): Jolle K. Barral (Mountain View, CA), Lin Yang (Sunnyvale, CA), Martin Habbecke (Palo Alto, CA), Xing Jin (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Christensen O’’Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18132769 on 04/10/2023 (757 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a display, and a database including surgical videos, images of organs in a human body obtained from a medical imaging device, and images of disease in a human body obtained from the medical imaging device. A controller including a processor is coupled to memory, the database, and the display, and the memory stores information that when executed by the processor causes the system to perform operations. For example, the processor may determine first organ information from the images of the organs, and first disease information from the images of the disease. The processor my calculate a similarity score between the first organ information and the first disease information and second disease information and second organ information indexed to the surgical videos. The processor selects one or more of the surgical videos based on the similarity score, and displays the surgical videos on the display.

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

Method and system for freedom from interference (FFI)
Patent No. 12292967

Inventor(s): Amritpal Singh Mundra (Allen, TX), Gregory Raymond Shurtz (Houston, TX), Kedar Satish Chitnis (Bengaluru, IN), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, IN), Prithvi Shankar Yeyyadi Anantha (Bangalore, IN), Robert John Tivy (Ojai, CA,
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18662227 on 05/13/2024 (358 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices, systems and techniques for implementing freedom from interference (FFI) access rules. In an example, a device includes a set of primary components, a set of secondary components, and an interconnected coupled between the two sets of components. Each primary component of the set of primary components has an access identifier, among multiple access attributes, and an access attribute, among multiple access modes. Each secondary component of the set of secondary components is protected by a firewall. Each firewall is configured to specify, for each specific combination of an access identifier and access attribute, whether access to the associated secondary component is permitted and what type of access is permitted.

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

Data swapping using a categorized data mesh
Patent No. 12292992

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18201515 on 05/24/2023 (713 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems for securely trade data from one node by another node is provided. Methods may include receiving raw data at a node. Methods may include categorizing the data. Methods may include classifying the data. Methods may include assigning data grades to the data. Methods may include assigning security levels to the data. Methods may include storing the data at a data mesh. Methods may include determining a resource consumption metric (‘’RCM’’) for the data. Methods may include transmitting the data. The dataset may be acquired for a value specified by the RCM. Methods may include improving the data. Methods may include recategorizing, reclassifying and reassigning a security level to the data. Methods may include storing the improved data in the data mesh. Methods may include determining a new RCM for the improved data. Methods may include transmitting the improved data. Methods may include managing the transmission of the data with a third node.

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

Apparatuses and methods for memory alignment
Patent No. 12293105

Inventor(s): John D. Leidel (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18343929 on 06/29/2023 (677 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to memory alignment. An example method comprises performing an alignment operation on a first byte-based memory element and a second byte-based memory element such that a padding bit of the first byte-based memory element is logically adjacent to a padding bit of the second byte-based memory element and a data bit of the first byte-based memory element is logically adjacent to a data bit of the second byte-based memory element.

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

Devices and techniques to perform entropy-based randomness via a contactless card
Patent No. 12293164

Inventor(s): Sarah Olsen (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: KDW FIRM PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17464387 on 09/01/2021 (1343 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and techniques to generate random numbers via contactless cards.

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

Apparatus and methods for automatically removing data of mobile devices
Patent No. 12293181

Inventor(s): Austin Gunter (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Communications Test Design, Inc. (West Chester, PA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18989075 on 12/20/2024 (137 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for automatically removing customer data of a mobile device are disclosed according to various embodiments. In one example, a disclosed method comprises: detecting a mobile device connected to a slot; automatically determining whether the mobile device is valid based on data in a file system; upon determining that the mobile device is valid, automatically determining an operating system managing the mobile device; and automatically removing customer data of the mobile device based on the operating system.

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

Efficient processing of nested loops for computing device with multiple configurable processing elements using multiple spoke counts
Patent No. 12293187

Inventor(s): Douglas Vanesko (Dallas, TX), Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18524942 on 11/30/2023 (523 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed in some examples, are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for more efficient CGRA execution by assigning different initiation intervals to different PEs executing a same code base. The initiation intervals may be a multiple of each other and the PE with the lowest initiation interval may be used to execute instructions of the code that is to be executed at a greater frequency than other instructions than other instructions that may be assigned to PEs with higher initiation intervals.

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

Managing commit order for an external instruction relative to queued instructions
Patent No. 12293190

Inventor(s): David Albert Carlson (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. (Singapore, SG)
Law Firm: Young Basile Hanlon MacFarlane, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17036028 on 09/29/2020 (1680 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a pipeline configured for out-of-order issuing, handling translation of virtual addresses to physical addresses includes: storing translations in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), and updating at least one entry in the TLB based at least in part on an external instruction received from outside a first processor core. Managing external instructions includes: updating issue status information for each of multiple instructions stored in an instruction queue, processing the issue status information in response to receiving a first external instruction to identify at least two instructions in the instruction queue, including a first queued instruction and a second queued instruction. An instruction for performing an operation associated with the first external instruction is inserted into a stage of the pipeline so that the operation associated with the first external instruction is committed before the first queued instruction is committed and after the second queued instruction is committed.

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

Method and system for performing domain level scheduling of an application in a distributed multi-tiered computing environment
Patent No. 12293222

Inventor(s): William Jeffery White (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): DELL PRODUCTS L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams Aughtry (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17721987 on 04/15/2022 (1117 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a distributed multi-tiered computing (DMC) environment. The method includes identifying, by a local controller associated with an DMC domain, a domain scheduling event associated with a scheduling job; and in response to identifying the domain scheduling event: identifying a candidate list of devices of the DMC domain to schedule tasks associated with the scheduling job based on a location and service level objectives; refining the candidate list of devices based on device configuration requirements, device management requirements, and security requirements to generate a final candidate list; scheduling tasks to devices using the final candidate list; generating scheduling assignments and provisioning command packages based on the scheduled tasks; providing the scheduling assignments and the provision command packages to the devices; and updating a graph based on the scheduling assignments.

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

Method for determining data to be transmitted off-aircraft for processing of aircraft weight and center of gravity information
Patent No. 12293376

Inventor(s): C Kirk Nance (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Decker Jones, PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17886677 on 08/12/2022 (998 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft operation method of providing weight and center of gravity information is used to dispatch the aircraft. The aircraft has telescoping landing gear struts and strut seals that interfere with the free movement of the strut. An event trigger generated manually or automatically by an activation device triggers measurement and recording of internal strut pressure for a period of time. The recorded pressure measurements are transmitted to a first off-aircraft computer, which determines the total weight and center of gravity of the aircraft and provides the information to an operator of the aircraft.

[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 incentivizing saving
Patent No. 12293407

Inventor(s): Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, TX), Yan Pei (Frisco, TX), Yogen Rai (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17866954 on 07/18/2022 (1023 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may include a processor that may receive an indication of an amount of funds deposited into an account, convert the amount of funds into a number of tokens using a multiplier, and generate a visualization representative of a growth rate of the number of tokens over a period of based on an interest rate. The interest rate may be defined by a user with supervisor authority over the account. The processor may then display the visualization via an electronic display and periodically transfer an additional amount of funds from an additional account associated with the user to the account in response to the amount of funds remaining in the account after a period of time.

Device and method for automatically identifying and categorizing waste, and directing a desired user action
Patent No. 12293561

Inventor(s): Christopher Heney (Plano, TX), Clifton Luce (Plano, TX), Cristopher Luce (The Colony, TX), Maithreya Chakravarthula (Richardson, TX), Wolfgang Decker (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Thrasher Associates (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17736078 on 05/03/2022 (1099 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiment herein discloses methods and devices for waste management by using an artificial intelligence based waste object categorizing engine. The method includes acquiring at least one image and detecting at least one waste object from the at least one acquired image. Additionally, the method determines that the at least one detected waste object matches with a pre-stored waste object and identifies a type of the detected waste object using the pre-stored waste object. Furthermore, the method includes displaying the type of the detected waste object based on the identification.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Verifying mobile telematics with vehicle information
Patent No. 12293614

Inventor(s): Benjamin Bowne (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc. (Cambridge, MA)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17675030 on 02/18/2022 (1173 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for verifying mobile telematics with vehicle information can include receiving, from a mobile device, first trip information recorded by the mobile device during a trip undertaken by a connected vehicle; in response to receiving the first trip information from the mobile device, transmitting a request for second trip information stored on the connected vehicle; receiving the second trip information; and verifying that the mobile device was in the connected vehicle based on the first trip information and the second trip information. Methods include comparing mobile device telematics information with telematics information received from a vehicle to confirm that the telematics information accumulated by the mobile device corresponds to a vehicle and a trip.

[G07C] TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE (identification of persons A61B 5/117; indicating or recording apparatus for measuring in general, analogous apparatus but in which the input is not a variable to be measured, e.g. a hand operation, G01D; clocks, clock mechanisms G04B, G04C; time-interval measuring G04F; counting mechanisms per se G06M)

Systems and methods for mitigating lane-change disturbance based on cooperative maneuvering
Patent No. 12293657

Inventor(s): Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, CA), Sergei S. Avedisov (Mountain View, CA), Yashar Zeiynali Farid (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17830776 on 06/02/2022 (1069 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for mitigating lane-change disturbance based on cooperative maneuvering includes obtaining traffic data from a target lane, determining whether a traffic in the target lane becomes string unstable in response to an ego vehicle moving to the target lane based on learned car-following models and the traffic data, identifying a connected vehicle in the target lane in response to determining that the traffic in the target lane becomes string unstable in response to an ego vehicle moving to the target lane, and requesting that the identified connected vehicle change lanes from the target lane to another lane to obtain an empty space between a vehicle in front of the identified connected vehicle and a vehicle behind the identified connected vehicle or follow a suggested speed profile to obtain an empty space between the identified connected vehicle and a vehicle in front of the identified connected vehicle.

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

Systems and methods for identifying vehicles to communicate safety messages
Patent No. 12293666

Inventor(s): Onur Altintas (Mountain View, CA), Rui Guo (San Jose, CA), Sergei S. Avedisov (Mountain View, CA), Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DARROW MUSTAFA PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17894620 on 08/24/2022 (986 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to identifying connected vehicles through invoking maneuvers by vehicles that assist with distinguishing between safety messages having unassociated identifiers originating from the connected vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying surrounding vehicles including indeterminate vehicles from a driving environment using temporary identifiers received from the surrounding vehicles. The method also includes generating trajectories for the indeterminate vehicles. The method also includes distinguishing the indeterminate vehicles from communications using the temporary identifiers by observing execution of the trajectories by the indeterminate vehicles. The method also includes executing a planning task by a subject vehicle using safety information from the communications.

Intercepting or surrounding a group of hostile UAVs with a net
Patent No. 12293675

Inventor(s): Animesh Chakravarthy (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17313410 on 05/06/2021 (1461 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure addresses the problem of UAVs pursuing a swarm of target UAVs. The target UAVs are flying together as a flock that are initially modeled as a circle having a time-varying radius or an arbitrarily-shaped swarm that may change in size. Guidance of the pursuing UAVs is developed based on a collision cone framework, wherein the pursuing UAVs cooperatively steer the velocity vector of any point in their convex hull, to intercept the target. Also, the problem of capturing a swarm of intruder UAVs using a net manipulated by a team of defense UAVs is disclosed. The intruder UAV swarm may be stationary, in motion, and even maneuver. Collision cones in 3-dimensional space are used to determine the strategy used by the net carrying UAVs to maneuver or manipulate the net in space in order to capture the intruders.

Aircraft cockpit training simulator and associated method
Patent No. 12293677

Inventor(s): Brian L. Collen (Arlington, TX), Christopher A. Johnson (Arlington, TX), Jimmie M. Davis, Jr. (Arlington, TX), Michael A. Gardner (Arlington, TX), William L. Hunter, Jr. (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): CAE USA INC. (Tampa, FL)
Law Firm: ALLEN, DYER, DOPPELT, + GILCHRIST, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17448212 on 09/21/2021 (1323 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft cockpit training simulator includes a plurality of aircraft cockpit simulation panels and power over Ethernet (POE) cabling extending therebetween. Each panel includes a simulator user interface device, an input circuit or an output circuit, a POE interface circuit, and a distributed controller coupled to the input circuit or output circuit and POE interface device and asynchronously communicating with other controllers using a publish/subscribe protocol. A host controller is coupled to the distributed controllers via the POE cabling and operates the aircraft cockpit simulation panels using a host computer model. The distributed controllers may operate independent of the host computer model.

[G09B] EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Flip chip semiconductor device package with mold compound seal
Patent No. 12293948

Inventor(s): Amit Sureshkumar Nangia (Murphy, TX), Gregory Thomas Ostrowicki (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17487318 on 09/28/2021 (1316 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, an apparatus includes: a semiconductor die with a component on a device side surface; a die seal surrounding the component on the device side surface; a package substrate having bond pads on a die side surface; a package substrate seal formed on the die side surface of the package substrate corresponding to the die seal on the semiconductor die; the semiconductor die flip chip mounted on the bond pads of the package substrate with solder joints connecting post connects on the semiconductor die to the bond pads of the package substrate; a mold compound seal formed by the die seal and the package substrate seal; and mold compound covering a portion of the semiconductor die, a portion of the die side of the package substrate, and contacting the mold compound seal, the mold compound spaced from the component.

[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]

Edge bend for isolation packages
Patent No. 12293953

Inventor(s): Chang-Yen Ko (Taipei, TW), John Paul Tellkamp (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16709497 on 12/10/2019 (1974 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor isolation package includes a leadframe that includes a plurality of leadframe leads. At least one of the plurality of leadframe leads includes a lead body having a first end that comprises an external pin portion and a second end. The lead body has a leg portion coupled to a central lead portion that is coupled to an edge bend portion. The edge bend portion is formed by a first bend on the lead body proximate the second end between the central lead portion and edge bend portion. The first bend is in the direction of the first end on the leg portion. The edge bend assists in shielding electronic fields. Other aspects are presented.

Segmented Schottky diode
Patent No. 12294032

Inventor(s): Zachary K. Lee (Fremont, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18405053 on 01/05/2024 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a Schottky diode on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The Schottky diode includes a guard ring with a first guard ring segment contacting a barrier region on a first lateral side of the barrier region, and a second guard ring segment contacting the barrier region on a second, opposite, lateral side of the barrier region. The first and second guard ring segments extend deeper in the semiconductor layer than the barrier region. The Schottky diode further includes a drift region contacting the barrier region, and may include a buried layer having the same conductivity type as the barrier region, extending at least partway under the drift region. The barrier region is isolated from the substrate dielectric layer of the SOI substrate by an isolation region having the same conductivity type as the guard ring. A metal containing layer is formed on the barrier region.

Systems and methods for powering down a generator including a fuel cell
Patent No. 12294125

Inventor(s): Dakota Kelley (Garland, TX), Daniel Charles Folick (Long Beach, CA), Matthew K. McClory (Aliso Viejo, 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: 17566074 on 12/30/2021 (1223 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to safely ceasing fuel cell (FC) operation and idling components of a generator. In one embodiment, a method includes ceasing power generation by reducing fuel to an FC within a generator while maintaining energy to sensitive components by a battery. The method also includes idling a direct current (DC) converter and a load inverter associated with the power generation before idling the battery. The method also includes, upon successfully completing tests and powering down non-critical components of the generator, entering the generator into a standby status.

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

Dual-polarized radiating elements for base station antennas having feed stalks with spiral-shaped inductors therein
Patent No. 12294159

Inventor(s): Mohammad Vatankhah Varnoosfaderani (Plano, TX), Peter J. Bisiules (LaGrange Park, IL)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18671137 on 05/22/2024 (349 days app to issue)

Abstract: An antenna includes a reflector and a pair of feed stalks on a forward facing surface of the reflector. The pair of feed stalks includes: (i) a first feed stalk having first and second ports, and first and second spiral inductors electrically connected to the corresponding first and second ports, respectively, and (ii) a second feed stalk having first and second ports and first and second spiral inductors electrically connected to the corresponding first and second ports, respectively. First and second pairs of radiating arms are provided. The first pair of radiating arms are electrically connected to the first and second ports of the first feed stalk and the second pair of radiating arms are electrically connected to the first and second ports of the second feed stalk.

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

Ganged coaxial connector assembly
Patent No. 12294189

Inventor(s): Jeffrey D. Paynter (Momence, IL)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17844379 on 06/20/2022 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: A coaxial connector assembly includes:

[H01R] ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS (switches, fuses H01H; coupling devices of the waveguide type H01P 5/00; switching arrangements for the supply or distribution of electric power H02B; installations of electric cables or lines, or of combined optical and electric cables or lines, or of auxiliary apparatus H02G; printed means for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits H05K)

Automated cable runner
Patent No. 12294203

Inventor(s): Sheridan Jarrett Wendt (Dallas, 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: 18588867 on 02/27/2024 (434 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of deploying cabling in a tray using an automated cable runner (ACR). The ACR includes a pathway, a carriage operable to travel along the pathway, a plurality of supports connectable to the pathway and connectable to the tray and configured to support the pathway over the tray, and a cabling holder attached to the carriage. The carriage includes a drive wheel structured and arranged to contact the pathway, a motor operable to rotate the drive wheel, and a power source connected to motor. The method includes attaching the carriage to the pathway, connecting an end of a cabling to the cabling holder, and powering the motor to rotate the drive wheel to drive the carriage to travel along the pathway from a desired start point to a desired end point to deploy cabling into the tray from the start point to the end point.

[H02G] INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES (insulated conductors or cables with arrangements for facilitating mounting or securing H01B 7/40; distribution points incorporating switches H02B; guiding telephone cords H04M 1/15; cable ducts or mountings for telephone or telegraph exchange installations H04Q 1/06)

Integrated circuit with electrostatic discharge protected power supply
Patent No. 12294211

Inventor(s): Cetin Kaya (Plano, TX), Karim Thomas Taghizadeh Kaschani (Freising, BY), Michael Lders (Inzell, DE)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17704205 on 03/25/2022 (1138 days app to issue)

Abstract: An IC, comprising a first rail supply, a second rail supply, an external pad coupled to one of the first rail supply and the second rail supply, and an ESD protection circuit coupled to the external pad. The ESD protection circuit includes a slew rate detector coupled to the external pad, an amplifier coupled to an output of the slew rate detector, a one-shot coupled to an output of the amplifier, and a clamp circuit coupled an output of the one-shot.

[H02H] EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS (indicating or signalling undesired working conditions G01R, e.g. G01R 31/00, G08B; locating faults along lines G01R 31/08; emergency protective devices H01H)

Printed conductor and rectifier package for power transfer
Patent No. 12294223

Inventor(s): Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, MI), Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, MI), Yanghe Liu (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17411444 on 08/25/2021 (1350 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to using a printed conductor and a rectifier in the same enclosure for transferring power. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a conductor, printed on a substrate housed in an enclosure, that generates alternating current caused by a magnetic field emitted by a transmitter, wherein the conductor is a trace spanning layers. The apparatus also includes a rectifier, on a device housed in the enclosure, that receives the alternating current through a terminal connected with the conductor and converts the alternating current to a direct current for powering a load, wherein an insulator between the conductor and the rectifier isolates the magnetic field.

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

Switching converter with analog on-time extension control
Patent No. 12294298

Inventor(s): Songming Zhou (Shanghai, CN), Yu Wang (Shanghai, CN), Zejing Wang (Shanghai, CN), Zhujun Li (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18398802 on 12/28/2023 (495 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes: 1) a battery configured to provide an input voltage (VIN); 2) switching converter circuitry coupled to the battery, wherein the switching converter circuitry includes a power switch; 3) a load coupled to an output of the switching converter circuitry; and 4) a control circuit coupled to the power switch. The control circuit includes: 1) a switch driver circuit coupled to the power switch; 2) a summing comparator circuit configured to output a first control signal that indicates when to turn the power switch on; and 3) an analog on-time extension circuit configured to extend an on-time of the power switch by gating a second control signal with the first control signal, wherein the second control signal indicates when to turn the power switch off.

[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]

Integrated circuit (IC) including a level shifter having fail-safe implementation
Patent No. 12294365

Inventor(s): Niharika Khare (Bangalore, IN), Rajat Kulshrestha (Bangalore, IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18174930 on 02/27/2023 (799 days app to issue)

Abstract: An IC including a level shifter core circuit configured to receive an input signal at an input node from a low-voltage circuit portion configured to operate with a low voltage supply level, and to translate the input signal to an output signal at an output node, the output signal having a maximum voltage greater than the low voltage supply level; and a fail-safe circuit including first and second pull-down transistors configured to respectively connect the input node and the output node to a reference voltage rail in the event that the low voltage supply level drops below a threshold level. The fail-safe circuit may also include a supply cutoff switch configured to effectuate a gated connection to the low voltage supply level in response to detecting that it is below the threshold level.

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

Pulse width distortion correction
Patent No. 12294374

Inventor(s): Adam Shook (Carollton, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18678075 on 05/30/2024 (341 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a signal detection circuit having a signal detection circuit input and a signal detection circuit output. The IC further includes a reference voltage circuit having a reference voltage circuit input and a reference voltage circuit output. The IC also includes a comparator having a first comparator input and a second comparator input. The first comparator input is coupled to the reference voltage circuit output, and the second comparator input is coupled to the signal detection circuit output. The IC includes a clamp circuit having a clamp circuit input and a clamp circuit output. The clamp circuit input is coupled to the signal detection circuit, and the clamp circuit output is coupled to the reference voltage circuit output.

Voltage identification signal decoder with precharging
Patent No. 12294384

Inventor(s): Mayank Jain (Bangalore, IN), Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bangalore, IN), Vishal Shaw (Howrah, IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18086204 on 12/21/2022 (867 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus includes a first decoder circuit having a first voltage identification (VID) analog input and a first digital output. The apparatus also includes a precharge circuit having a digital input and a first analog output, the digital input coupled to the first digital output. The apparatus also includes a second decoder circuit having a second VID analog input, a precharge analog input and a second digital output, the precharge analog input coupled to the first digital output. The apparatus also includes a multiplexer having a multiplexer output and first and second multiplexer inputs, the first multiplexer input coupled to the first digital output, and the second multiplexer input coupled to the second digital output.

[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]

CSI assisted CRS-IM advanced receivers
Patent No. 12294397

Inventor(s): Navin Hathiramani (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, FI)
Law Firm: McCarter English, LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17847376 on 06/23/2022 (1048 days app to issue)

Abstract: A UE receives configuration for interference mitigation pattern(s) indicating which resource elements in a time-frequency resource space should be measured. The UE performs interference measurements based on the received one or more interference mitigation patterns. A network node determines configuration for interference mitigation pattern(s0 indicating which resource elements in a time-frequency resource space should be measured by a user equipment. The network node sends, toward the user equipment, the configuration for use by the user equipment to perform interference measurements of the one or more interference mitigation patterns.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Estimating and correcting transmitter local oscillator leakage in loopback path
Patent No. 12294398

Inventor(s): Prakhar Agrawal (Bangalore, IN), Rohit Chatterjee (Bangalore, IN), Sucheth Sureshbabu Kuncham (Bangalore, IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18308556 on 04/27/2023 (740 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an example, a system includes a receiver configured to receive a differential input signal from a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmitter at a differential interface that includes a first input and a second input. The system also includes a first switch coupled to the first input and a second switch coupled to the second input, where the first switch and second switch are configured to couple the first input and the second input to a complex mixer in a non-inverting configuration. The system includes a third switch coupled to the first input and a fourth switch coupled to the second input, where the third switch and the fourth switch are configured to couple the first input and the second input to the complex mixer in an inverting configuration. The complex mixer is configured to produce an output signal based on the non-inverting configuration and the inverting configuration.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Systems and methods for fiber upstream trace determination
Patent No. 12294407

Inventor(s): Jeremy S. Papke (Monroe, WA), Ryan C. Bennett (Arlington, WA)
Assignee(s): FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18800598 on 08/12/2024 (267 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for performing an upstream trace operation are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a new service location of a passive optical network (PON); detecting a physical polyline route, within the PON, from an on-ramp facility corresponding to the new service location to a serving office of the PON, the detecting based on (i) respective geospatial locations of a plurality of optical components of the PON, and (ii) interconnections of the plurality of optical components, and the plurality of optical components including the on-ramp location, a terminal disposed at the serving office, and at least one optical fiber optically connecting the on-ramp location and the terminal; and causing optical services to be delivered from the serving office to the new service location via the detected physical polyline route.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Signal processing device and base station antenna
Patent No. 12294430

Inventor(s): Dingshu Jin (Suzhou, CN), Fangwen Wan (Suzhou, CN), Zhiwei Yin (Suzhou, CN)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18092965 on 01/04/2023 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and a base station antenna. The signal processing device comprises: a substrate; a beam-forming network, which is provided on one side of the substrate; and a calibration circuit, which is provided on the same side of the substrate on which the beam-forming network is provided; wherein the beam-forming network is connected to the calibration circuit via a connecting trace on the substrate.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus for SCell beam failure recovery configuration
Patent No. 12294438

Inventor(s): Chia-Hao Yu (Yilan, TW), Chia-Hung Wei (Hsinchu, TW)
Assignee(s): Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Cole Schotz P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18222789 on 07/17/2023 (659 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for SCell BFR performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first SCell BFR configuration corresponding to a first SCell, the first SCell BFR configuration including at least one of a resource list for BFD and a resource list for NBI; detecting a beam failure condition in the first SCell by measuring at least one BFD reference signal; determining a first new candidate beam index for the first SCell based on the first SCell BFR configuration; and transmitting a beam failure recovery request that includes a cell index of the first SCell in which beam failure occurs and the determined first new candidate beam index.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for handling stacked channels
Patent No. 12294447

Inventor(s): Brian Sprague (Irvine, CA), Glenn Chang (Carlsbad, CA), Madhukar Reddy (Carlsbad, CA)
Assignee(s): Entropic Communications, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Arch Lake LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17674201 on 02/17/2022 (1174 days app to issue)

Abstract: A satellite reception assembly may include a housing configured to support receipt and handling of a plurality of satellite signals. The housing may include circuitry incorporating integrated stacking architecture for supporting and/or providing channel and/or band stacking whereby particular channels or bands, from multiple satellite signals that are received via the satellite reception assembly, may be combined onto a single output signal that may be communicated from the satellite reception assembly to a gateway device for concurrent distribution thereby to a plurality of client devices serviced by the gateway device.

[H04H] BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication H04J; pictorial communication aspects of broadcast systems H04N)

System and method for detecting and controlling contraband devices in a correctional facility utilizing portable electronic devices
Patent No. 12294452

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: 18120200 on 03/10/2023 (788 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides details of a system and method for detecting and monitoring a contraband device including communication devices and drones/UAVs by utilizing a combination of mobile devices, fixed monitoring devices, and a contraband monitoring center. The mobile devices include smart phones or tablets that are borrowed, rented, or purchased by an inmate from a correctional facility. These mobile devices are configured to detect, monitor, and intervene in the communications of target devices. Further, the mobile devices are configured to communicate with fixed monitoring devices located throughout the correctional facility in performing intervention operations. The contraband monitoring center may also be utilized in the coordination, monitoring, and intervention of target devices.

[H04K] SECRET COMMUNICATION; JAMMING OF COMMUNICATION

Software-based cross domain solutions
Patent No. 12294472

Inventor(s): Jeffery L. Hampton (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: Zilka-Kotab, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18201028 on 05/23/2023 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes receiving, by a sender multi-protocol gateway (MPG) implemented in software, data from a sender application for transmission to a receiver endpoint. The data is validated against a predefined schema definition by the sender MPG. In response to successfully validating the data, a service request is made, by the sender MPG, using preconfigured information. An endpoint of the service request is a receiver MPG configured to forward the validated data to a receiver application in communication with the receiver endpoint. The receiver MPG is configured to not reply in any way to the sender MPG and sender application in response to receiving the service request.

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

Platform for automated management of servers
Patent No. 12294509

Inventor(s): Sandeep Ravi (Coppell, TX), Sunny Behl (Irving, TX), Suresh Kanyaka Billa (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): CITIGROUP TECHNOLOGY, INC. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18394929 on 12/22/2023 (501 days app to issue)

Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods for managing networked environments. A computer system may provide a user interface for configuring a plurality of groups of servers each hosting a resource for an application. The user interface may include: a first element configured to select, upon interaction, at least one group of servers from the plurality of groups of servers to which to install a patch for the application; a second element configured to identify, upon interaction, a first group of servers of the plurality of groups of servers to which to transfer network traffic associated with the application and communicated with a second group of servers of the plurality of groups of servers; and a third element configured to provide, upon interaction, one or more performance indicators for at least one of a plurality of functions of the application.

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

Connectionless-virtual private network for secure cloud to user communication over the internet using a plurality of servers
Patent No. 12294568

Inventor(s): Kirit K. Talati (Sunnyvale, TX)
Assignee(s): Talati Family LP (Sunnyvale, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18759479 on 06/28/2024 (312 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure provides a system/method/scheme to securely send data from a cloud, or cloud service provider, to users via a secure connectionless system, referred to herein as a C-VPN communication infrastructure (C-VPN CI). In one example a method of communicating from a cloud service provider to a user via a C-VPN CI includes: (1) obtaining, by a cloud service provider, security parameters from a SDE Cloud server operating on a computing system of the cloud service provider, wherein the security parameters include a set of mathematical rules and values for converting plain text to ciphertext, (2) creating a secure communication using the security parameters received from the SDE Cloud server, wherein the secure communication includes a secure header and secure data, and (3) sending the secure communication to the user via a generic electronic message delivery system.

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

System for implementing multifactor authentication based on secure tokenization
Patent No. 12294576

Inventor(s): Michael Wm. Whitaker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18604577 on 03/14/2024 (418 days app to issue)

Abstract: Leveraging secure tokenization, such as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), for purposes of multifactor and/or elevated user authentication. In this regard, an authentication NFT is generated based at least on a user’’s authentication credentials. Subsequently, the authentication NFT is verified/validated via a private distributed trust computing network and stored, in a deactivated state, on a distributed ledger. Once the user is confronted with an elevated and/or multifactored authentication process, the user may initiates use of the authentication NFT by checking-out the authentication NFT from the distributed ledger and moving the authentication NFT from the deactivated state to an activated state, in which the user credentials are accessible to the user for purposes of authentication.

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

Detection of anomalous behavior on online platforms using machine learning techniques
Patent No. 12294601

Inventor(s): Aravind Reddy Lakkadi (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Ryan, Mason Lewis, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18336594 on 06/16/2023 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for detection of anomalous behavior on online platforms using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example method includes obtaining a set of machine learning models configured to detect anomalous behavior associated with users interacting with an online platform and performing an incremental machine learning process on one or more of the machine learning models in the set. The incremental machine learning process may include obtaining data related to interactions of users with the online platform, updating at least one of the machine learning models in the set based on the obtained data, comparing the machine learning models, and selecting one of the machine learning models from the set to be used by the online platform based on the comparison. The method may further include determining, utilizing the selected machine learning model, that a given user is exhibiting anomalous behavior on the online platform.

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

Dynamic and optimal selection of internet of things (IoT) hubs in cellular networks
Patent No. 12294629

Inventor(s): Basavaraj Patil (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Mobility II LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18297911 on 04/10/2023 (757 days app to issue)

Abstract: An architecture for dynamically selecting and routing traffic from Internet of things (IoT) devices and sensors to the nearest or most proximate IoT hub device. A method can comprise receiving a connection request from a user device; retrieving address data representing a network device of a group of network devices; and sending the address data to the user device.

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

Non-fungible token with adaptable digital files
Patent No. 12294653

Abstract: Adaptation/alteration of the digital file referenced to an underlying Non-Fungible Token (NFT). Adaptation/alteration of the digital file occurs via NFT metadata-defined adaptation rules and criteria, i.e., predefined conditions or events that trigger the occurrence of digital file adaptation. The adapted digital file may be presented to users to indicate a change in a state associated with a specific type of NFT. For example, the NFT may be an authentication NFT used to verify the identity of a user/users and the digital file may be presented within computing networks or applications as a means of conveying user authenticity to other users within the computing network or application. The predefined conditions are security events that have a positive/negative impact on the authenticity of the user or group of users. Occurrence of one or more of the predefined security events triggers adaptation and presentation of the adapted digital file which provides an indication of an increase/decrease in the level of authenticity associated with the user/users.

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

Reducing context coded and bypass coded bins to improve context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) throughput
Patent No. 12294708

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX), Vivienne Sze (Cambridge, MA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18623323 on 04/01/2024 (400 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) coding with a reduced number of context coded and/or bypass coded bins are provided. Rather than using only truncated unary binarization for the syntax element representing the delta quantization parameter and context coding all of the resulting bins as in the prior art, a different binarization is used and only part of the resulting bins are context coded, thus reducing the worst case number of context coded bins for this syntax element. Further, binarization techniques for the syntax element representing the remaining actual value of a transform coefficient are provided that restrict the maximum codeword length of this syntax element to 32 bits or less, thus reducing the number of bypass coded bins for this syntax element over the prior art.

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

Systems and methods for external ethernet qualification
Patent No. 12294819

Abstract: Systems and methods for qualifying external network facilities for a service location of a passive optical network (PON) of a PON service provider are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a service location of the PON and an indication of a set of required optical services at the service location; determining a group of candidate external network provider facilities for the service location of the PON based on geospatial coordinates of the service location and respective geospatial coordinates of the candidate external network provider facilities included in the group; selecting, from among the group of candidate external network provider facilities, an external network provider facility for providing the set of required optical services to the service location; and causing one or more optical services to be delivered to the service location via the selected external network provider facility.

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

Systems and methods for providing route redundancy in networking systems
Patent No. 12294820

Abstract: Techniques for providing route redundancy for services at a service location of a PON include obtaining indications of a service location of the PON and a set of required services for the location; and detecting, based on geospatial locations and interconnections of optical components of the PON, that two or more physical polyline routes (each configured to support the set of required services at the service location) include different elements, e.g., different on-ramp facilities, network serving equipment, physical polyline route segments connecting to a common component of each of the two or more routes, or serving facilities of one or more providers. The detected two or more routes may be configured to be a set of redundant physical polyline routes for providing the required services to the location. One or more services may be caused to be delivered to the location via the configured set of redundant physical polyline routes.

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

Systems and methods for authenticating users for subscribed services
Patent No. 12294855

Inventor(s): Jaykishan Tiwari (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17854350 on 06/30/2022 (1041 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a first device may connect to a network, wherein the first device is associated with a first application that is associated with a service provider. The first device may detect that a second device connected to the network is associated with a second application that is associated with the service provider. The first device may receive, from the second device, identification information associated with the second device. The first device may transmit, to a third device associated with the service provider, the identification information associated with the second device. The first device may receive, from the third device, authentication information permitting the first application to operate on the network based on the third device receiving the identification information associated with the second device.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Phantom call reduction for cellular networks
Patent No. 12294861

Inventor(s): Mukesh Mantan (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17819011 on 08/11/2022 (999 days app to issue)

Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards reducing unwanted cellular network activities, such as phantom 911 calls or other unwanted cellular network activities. Machine learning models described herein can be trained, using device level data and network level data, to identify devices that are likely to engage in an unwanted cellular network activity. A trained machine learning model can be deployed to identify devices, and devices identified by the trained machine learning model can be re-configured to prevent them from engaging in the unwanted cellular network activity. Devices likely to engage in the unwanted cellular network activity are thus identified and reconfigured to prevent future unwanted cellular network activity before it occurs.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Fraudulent call monitoring
Patent No. 12294862

Inventor(s): Hollie Ilene King (Frisco, TX), Nicholas C. Wheeler (The Colony, TX), Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, TX), Samantha Elizabeth Taylor (Frisco, TX), Victor Kwak (Frisco, TX), Yogen Rai (Plano, TX), Zachery C. Lake (Aubrey,
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17085453 on 10/30/2020 (1649 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fraud detection system includes a source communication device associated with a source and a client device associated with a client to identify fraudulent calls to provide mitigating or remedial actions. The client device includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor that executes the instructions. The instructions cause the client device to monitor a wireless communication between the client device and the source communication device to identify a keyword, a combination of keywords, a context, and/or a topic of the wireless communication. Moreover, the instructions cause the client device to identify fraudulent detection characteristics of the wireless communication based at least in part of the keyword, the combination of keywords, the context, and/or the topic, identify the wireless communication as fraudulent communication based on the fraudulent detection characteristics, and identify and implement a remedial action based at least in part on a threshold of the wireless communication.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Location simulation for wireless devices
Patent No. 12294876

Inventor(s): Dennis Jarret Guill, Jr. (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17548469 on 12/10/2021 (1243 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining a reliability of a wireless device to estimate its location under a simulated environmental condition includes simulating an environmental condition inside a test chamber by controlling a physical parameter. The test chamber contains the wireless user device configured to estimate a location of the wireless user device based on reference signals received from a signal source. The method includes communicating a pattern of reference signals having varying signal propagation characteristics in the test chamber. The method includes receiving an indication of an estimated location calculated by the wireless user device based on the pattern of reference signals. The reliability of the wireless device to estimate its location under the simulated environmental condition is determined based on a comparison of the estimated location with the simulated location.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for inter-cell downlink and uplink beam indication, measurement and reporting
Patent No. 12294884

Inventor(s): Dalin Zhu (Allen, TX), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18460505 on 09/01/2023 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information for a physical cell identifier (PCI) different from a serving cell PCI; receiving second information for source or measurement reference signals (RSs) for the PCI; determining, based on one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, the first information, and the second information, a reception spatial domain filter for reception of at least one of downlink (DL) RSs and channels from the PCI; and measuring, based on the first information and the second information, the measurement RS. The method further includes determining, based on the measured measurement RSs, the first information, and the second information, a beam report and transmitting the beam report for the PCI on an uplink (UL) channel. A beam refers to a spatial property used to receive or transmit a source RS or a channel.

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

Method and system for managing mobile network congestion
Patent No. 12294888

Inventor(s): Kamakshi Sridhar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Amarok IP Inc. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18351895 on 07/13/2023 (663 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for managing mobile network congestion including: determining cell metrics over a predetermined time interval for each cell of a plurality of cells; determining correlations between the cell metrics for each cell; determining whether any cell of the plurality of cell are congestion based on the correlations; determining a type of congestion for any cell determined to be congested; and determining traffic actions based on the type of congestion. A system for managing mobile network congestion having: a collection module configured to determine cell metrics over a predetermined time interval for each cell of a plurality of cells; a correlation module configured to determine correlations between the cell metrics; an analysis module configured to determine whether any cell is congestion based on the correlations and a type of congestion for any cell determined to be congested; and a traffic action module configured to determine traffic actions.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Rapid user equipment route selection policy rule processing
Patent No. 12294929

Inventor(s): Serge Manning (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, KS)
Law Firm: Jones Robb, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17734553 on 05/02/2022 (1100 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for rapid user equipment route selection policy rule processing. A method includes determining an applicable routing policy based on user equipment route selection policy (URSP) rules for an established protocol data unit (PDU) session and storing PDU session information with the established uplink PDU session in a cache. The method further includes examining subsequent uplink packets for PDU session information and checking the cache for an established PDU session with matching uplink PDU session information. The method additionally includes routing the subsequent uplink packets to the established PDU session having the matching PDU session information, causing the subsequent uplink packet to be processed in accordance with the applicable routing policy as previously determined based on the URSP rules.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing a devices network capabilities in private networks
Patent No. 12294932

Inventor(s): Sung Hwan Won (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, FI)
Law Firm: ALSTON BIRD LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17176306 on 02/16/2021 (1540 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described is an approach for managing network capabilities for a user equipment (UE). A UE can maintain subscriber data that comprises an entry index of networks for which various access modes are enabled/disabled, and a counter for each network/access mode combination. After requesting access to a network, the UE may receive a non-integrity protected rejection message that indicates the network does not allow a particular access mode. Based on the cause of access rejection, the UE can disallow the particular access mode for the network, start a timer, and increment a counter associated with the network/access mode combination. Once the timer expires, if the counter value is below a threshold the UE re-enables the particular access mode for the network, or if the counter value is at or above the threshold, the UE removes the respective entry index for the particular access mode for the network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Synchronized downlink and uplink multi-user MIMO candidate selection in massive-MIMO system
Patent No. 12294941

Inventor(s): Manoharan Ramalingam (Bengaluru, IN)
Assignee(s): Mavenir Networks, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Ruggiero McAllister McMahon LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17846788 on 06/22/2022 (1049 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for synchronized selection of user equipments (UEs) for both downlink (DL) Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) operation and uplink (UL) MU-MIMO operation includes: applying a common set of selection criteria for selecting a common pool of UE candidates for both DL and UL MU-MIMO operations, wherein the common set of selection criteria are applied in Stage-1 selection process to select Stage-1 candidates for a UE candidates list; and if the Stage-1 selection process applying the common set of selection criteria is not able to find UE candidates to fill available slots in the UE candidates list, initiating Stage-2 selection process involving 1) applying a first set of Stage-2 selection criteria to select DL-only traffic UEs as Stage-2 candidates for the UE candidates list, and 2) applying a second set of Stage-2 selection criteria to select UL-only traffic UEs as Stage-2 candidates for the UE candidates list.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Transmitting a type 2 power headroom value for a primary cell
Patent No. 12294958

Inventor(s): Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA)
Assignee(s): Peninsula Technologies, LLC (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Ascenda Law Group, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18437599 on 02/09/2024 (452 days app to issue)

Abstract: A base station transmits one or more parameters indicating whether simultaneous physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission is configured for a PUCCH secondary cell. The base station receives a power headroom report, wherein, in response to the PUCCH secondary cell being activated, the power headroom report comprises a first Type 2 power headroom value for a primary cell and a second Type 2 power headroom value for the PUCCH secondary cell.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Node synchronization for networks
Patent No. 12294963

Inventor(s): Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, TX), Jianwei Zhou (Allen, TX), Xiaolin Lu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18406881 on 01/08/2024 (484 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network includes an intermediate node to communicate with a child node via a wireless network protocol. An intermediate node synchronizer in the intermediate node facilitates time synchronization with its parent node and with the child node. A child node synchronizer in the child node to facilitates time synchronization with the intermediate node. The intermediate node synchronizer exchanges synchronization data with the child node synchronizer to enable the child node to be time synchronized to the intermediate node before the intermediate node is synchronized to its parent node if the intermediate node has not synchronized to its parent node within a predetermined guard time period established for the child node.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Managing local emergency numbers
Patent No. 12294968

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Malikie Innovations Limited (Dublin, IE)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18432865 on 02/05/2024 (456 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described herein is a system and method in a user equipment (UE) supporting registration using third generation partnership project (3GPP) access and using non-3GPP access, the method comprising storing, in a memory of the UE, first emergency information received using first registration procedures; receiving, by the UE, a REGISTRATION ACCEPT message using second registration procedures via non-3GPP access; and keeping, in the memory, the first emergency information after receiving the REGISTRATION ACCEPT message.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Channel aware application data transmission for BLE devices
Patent No. 12294985

Inventor(s): Chia-Jung Lee (Kolsaas, NO), Maital Hahn (Petach-Tikva, IL), Maxim Altshul (Hod Hasharon, IL), Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, IL)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17387692 on 07/28/2021 (1378 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device (e.g., a BLUETOOTH device) includes memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to implement a BLUETOOTH host, a BLUETOOTH host-controller interface, and a BLUETOOTH controller. The one or more processors are further configured to cause the BLUETOOTH controller to receive, from the BLUETOOTH host via the BLUETOOTH host-controller interface, a message indicating first channel and timing information for sending data corresponding to a BLUETOOTH application. The one or more processors are further configured to cause the BLUETOOTH controller to initiate sending the data based on the first channel and timing information.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for S-SSB transmission and measurement in unlicensed operation
Patent No. 12294988

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17807678 on 06/17/2022 (1054 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a UE includes receiving a set of configurations; determining, based on the set of configurations, a number N[subscript]period[/subscript][superscript]S-SSB [/superscript]of sidelink synchronization signals and physical sidelink broadcast channel (S-SS/PSBCH) blocks to transmit in a period; and determining, based on the set of configurations, a transmission window for transmitting the S-SS/PSBCH blocks in the period. The method further includes determining a set of candidate slots for transmitting the S-SS/PSBCH blocks in the transmission window; performing channel access procedures before the set of candidate slots for transmitting the S-SS/PSBCH blocks in the transmission window; and transmitting, to another UE, the S-SS/PSBCH blocks over a sidelink channel with shared channel access, upon successfully performing the channel access procedures.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for channel occupancy sharing with sidelink
Patent No. 12295029

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17813859 on 07/20/2022 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for channel occupancy sharing with a sidelink in a wireless communication system. A method of a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a set of configurations, determining a channel occupancy initiated by the BS based on the set of configurations, determining a set of resources for a first sidelink transmission within the channel occupancy based on the set of configurations, and determining a sidelink channel access procedure associated with the first sidelink transmission based on the set of configurations. The method further includes performing the sidelink channel access procedure and transmitting, to at least one other UE, the first sidelink transmission within the channel occupancy upon successfully performing the sidelink channel access procedure.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Network assisted connection
Patent No. 12295056

Inventor(s): Jayshree Bharatia (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (Philadelphia, PA)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16712827 on 12/12/2019 (1972 days app to issue)

Abstract: Wireless communications are described for connection setup resume, and/or release of a wireless device. The wireless device may communicate with a network device using more than one access technology. The network device may assist in an operation for the wireless device, such as for a transition from one state to another state for a first access technology, using a second access technology.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for updating user equipment capability
Patent No. 12295072

Inventor(s): Haibo Xu (Beijing, CN), Jian Wang (Beijing, CN), Nathan Edward Tenny (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18301317 on 04/17/2023 (750 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes detecting an occurrence of an overheating condition in the UE, and based thereon, determining a first set of operating capabilities of the UE from a second set of operating capabilities of the UE, where the first and second set of operating capabilities are associated with a connection between the UE and a network entity, and where the first set of operating capabilities is a reduction in operating capability of the UE when compared to the second set of operating capabilities, triggering a transfer of UE capability information associated with the first set of operating capabilities, and applying, by the UE, the first set of operating capabilities to the connection.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Fault diagnosis apparatus and method
Patent No. 12295080

Inventor(s): Akshay Panchamukhi (Hubballi, IN), Arvind Patil (Hubballi, IN), Dongjie Cheng (Murphy, TX), Harish Raikar (Belagavi, IN)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18055555 on 11/15/2022 (903 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a clamping circuit configured to provide a predetermined voltage at an output of the clamping circuit, a clamping switch coupled to the output of the clamping circuit, and a pass device connected between the clamping switch and an input/output terminal of a controller.

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

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Hose container
Patent No. D1073447

Inventor(s): Larry Ray Buck (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29905029 on 10/16/2023 (568 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Occupancy sensor
Patent No. D1073509

Inventor(s): Lauren Makechnie (Hampton Falls, NH)
Assignee(s): Schneider Electric Buildings Americas, Inc. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Troutman Pepper Locke LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29881237 on 12/29/2022 (859 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Stowable table and frame for a canopy for a vehicle, truck, light delivery vehicle or similar vehicle
Patent No. D1073580

Inventor(s): Michael Voss (Aledo, TX)
Assignee(s): Rock Solid Industries International (Pty) Ltd (Pietermaritzburgh, ZA)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29853280 on 09/14/2022 (965 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Recessed power cable transition panel
Patent No. D1073626

Inventor(s): John P. Higgins (Dallas, TX), Mark G. Spaulding (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)
Law Firm: Muncy, Geissler, Olds Lowe, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29858441 on 10/31/2022 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body
Patent No. D1073819

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Jory Sprowl (Howe, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Skylar Hagler (Anna, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29907986 on 01/10/2024 (482 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body assembly
Patent No. D1073820

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Jory Sprowl (Howe, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29916827 on 11/15/2023 (538 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle tailgate assembly
Patent No. D1073821

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Noah House (Sachse, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Trent Collins (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29894958 on 06/15/2023 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Faucet
Patent No. D1073868

Inventor(s): Peyton Michele Hartis (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): DELTA FAUCET COMPANY (Indianapolis, IN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29903638 on 09/26/2023 (588 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Faucet
Patent No. D1073872

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Fire pit cover
Patent No. D1073891

Inventor(s): Alexander K. Maghsadi (Lewisville, TX), Jeffrey R. Weilert (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): SOLO BRANDS, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29754955 on 10/15/2020 (1664 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Plastic waste compactor
Patent No. D1074107

Inventor(s): Ivan Arbouzov (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29878547 on 06/23/2023 (683 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Organic material collector
Patent No. D1074108

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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