Patented: Island Technology’s Web Browser Data Deletion and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 25 with a total of 124 patents granted.

This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • 7-Eleven's event trigger based on region-of-interest near hand-shelf interaction
  • Agnuity's photon source for promoting the growth and maturation rate of members of the Plantae and Protista kingdoms
  • Essilor International's functional wafers by 3D printing
  • Fasikl's waterproof button structure
  • GetChkd's securing and sharing data using distributed ledger technology
  • HG Partners' continuous-wave radar system for detecting ferrous and non-ferrous metals in saltwater environments
  • Jentek Water Treatment's monitoring water treatment systems
  • Optum's domain-aware autocomplete
  • Securus Technologies' termination switch for controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices
  • Thinaer's data acquisition management system
  • Toyota's kinetic seat cushions for vehicles
  • UNTHSC's nitric oxide donor and anti-oxidant compounds
  • UnitedHealth Group's medical fraud detection
  • Verily Life Sciences' robotic surgery depth detection and modeling


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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 2/25/2025  |  Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 

124 patents granted    
Ranked No. 13 in patent production out of 250 metros


NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 11
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 11
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 5
E: Fixed Constructions 1
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 2
G: Physics 52
H: Electricity 30

Design: 12


TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 17
Topgolf International Inc. (Dallas) 6
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 5
Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock) 5
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 4
7-Eleven Inc. (Irving) 3
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 3
Arteriors Home (Lewisville) 2
Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, France) 2

Unassigned 8


TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS) 

Michael Hallack (Carlsbad, Calif.) 6
Matt Kovacevich (Carlsbad, Calif.) 5
Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving) 3
Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina) 3
Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine) 3
Chih-Hsiang Chow (Coppell) 2
David Gan (Southlake) 2
Eloy Francisco Macha (Crowley) 2
Haifeng Shan (Dallas) 2
Michelle Hines (Hickory Creek) 2


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