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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of Feb. 20, 2024 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

138 patents granted
Ranked No. 12 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 7
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 12
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 4
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 3
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 6
G: PHYSICS 44
H: ELECTRICITY 63

Design: 17

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas) 15
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 7
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) 5
BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth) 4
Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, CH) 4
Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA) 4
Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano) 4
Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) 4
CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC) 3

UNASSIGNED 8

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Chance Tarver (Arlington) 2
Jialing Liu (Palatine, IL) 2
Khurram Muhammad (Southlake) 2
Matthew Tonnemacher (Allen) 2
Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas) 2
Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan (Plano) 2
Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound) 2
Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, IL) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Loupe-face shield protector
Patent No. 11903431

Inventor(s): Stephen Montero (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED

Law Firm: Temmerman Law (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17232032 on 04/15/2021 (1041 days app to issue)

Abstract: A face protecting apparatus for protecting a user from droplets and solids containing bacteria, viruses, and other hazardous materials. The apparatus includes a face shield and a frame member. The face shield includes an elongated planar surface, a plurality of bilateral angled creases and a plurality of openings. The elongated planar surface creates a seal at the user”s chest when the user bends forward thereby providing a protective barrier to ejected debris. The bilateral angled creases provide a concave configuration to the face shield that brings the face shield into close proximity to the face of the user. The openings enable a fiber optic LED light and a plurality of loupe magnifiers of a loupe device worn by the user to protrude therethrough thus enabling the user to wear the face protecting apparatus in combination with the loupe device and the fiber optic LED light without any obstruction.

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

Mechanism for articulating convertible furniture
Patent No. 11903488

Inventor(s): Anders Larsen (Coppell, TX), Douglas L. Gasal (Dallas, TX), Kevin Nguyen (Carrollton, TX), Stephen Stockton (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): American Leather Operations, LLC (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17985521 on 11/11/2022 (466 days app to issue)

Abstract: Convertible furniture includes a first arm, a first seat, and a base. The first seat is adjacent the first arm and includes a head panel, a mid-panel, and a foot panel. The first seat has a seat configuration in which the head panel is in a vertical orientation. The first seat has a bed configuration in which the head panel, the mid-panel, and the foot panel are each in a horizontal orientation with a top surface of each cooperating to form a flat surface. The base has a side rail that is secured to the first arm and a center support parallel to and spaced apart from the first arm. The head panel of the first seat at least partially supported by the side rail and the center support in the deployed position thereof when the first seat is in the bed configuration.

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

Trocar-cannula assembly cap
Patent No. 11903573

Inventor(s): Russell Finlay (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17811127 on 07/07/2022 (593 days app to issue)

Abstract: A trocar-cannula insertion tool for ophthalmic procedures may include a cap with a body having a proximal end and a distal end opposite the proximal end. A marking element extends in a distal direction from the distal end of the body and includes at least one marking tip for forming one or more indentations on a patient”s eye during an ophthalmic procedure. A manipulation element extends from the body in a direction different from the marking element and includes at least one manipulation tip for gripping a tissue of the patient”s eye during the ophthalmic procedure. The cap may further include at least one window for exposing a photoluminescent cannula of the trocar-cannula insertion tool to light, enabling the cannula to absorb photons prior to insertion thereof.

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

Method and system for measuring binocular alignment
Patent No. 11903645

Inventor(s): Aric Plumley (Costa Mesa, CA), Jeffrey P. Krall (Mitchell, SD)
Assignee(s): Neurolens, Inc. (Coppell, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18065182 on 12/13/2022 (434 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method to determine a binocular alignment, the method comprising: measuring a disassociated phoria of a first eye and a second eye of a patient at an apparent distance; and determining an accommodative convergence of the first eye and the second eye at the apparent distance using the measured disassociated phoria. In other embodiments, a system to determine a binocular alignment comprises a stereo display, for a projection of images for a first eye and a second eye; an accommodation optics, to modify the projection of the images according to an apparent distance; an eye tracker, to track an orientation of the first eye and the second eye; and a computer, coupled to the stereo display, the accommodation optics and the eye tracker, to manage a determination of the binocular alignment.

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

Sensor devices and systems for monitoring markers in breath
Patent No. 11903695

Inventor(s): Edward C. Allegra (Dallas, TX), Jack P. Reynolds (Dallas, TX), Miguel E. Quimbar (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Biolum Sciences LLC (Houston, TX)

Law Firm: McDermott Will and Emery LLP (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16981237 on 03/13/2019 (1805 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure relates to devices, systems and methods for detecting markers in breath, more specifically volatile and non-volatile markers associated with pulmonary diseases such as, for example, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or cystic fibrosis (CF), in exhaled breath condensate (EBC).

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

Ophthalmic lenses having an extended depth of focus for improving intermediate vision
Patent No. 11903819

Inventor(s): Myoung-Taek Choi (Arlington, TX), Sangyeol Lee (North Richland Hills, TX), Shinwook Lee (Arlington, TX), Wangkuen Lee (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)

Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17231374 on 04/15/2021 (1041 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ophthalmic lens (such as an IOL) that is designed to enhance depth of focus for intermediate vision performance, while maintaining distance vision. The lens may include an optic having an anterior surface and a posterior surface disposed about an optical axis. One of the surfaces (e.g., the anterior surface) may have a surface profile involving a superposition of at least three structures or profiles, including a base structure, a phase shift structure having an inner region, an outer region and a transition region, and a zonal structure having an inner power zone and an outer transition zone.

[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]

Three-lens intraocular lens system
Patent No. 11903820

Inventor(s): Philip Matthew McCulloch (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17653898 on 03/08/2022 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a three-lens IOL system including a first, anterior lens, a second, posterior lens rigidly connected to the first lens by at least one rigid member such that the second lens is a fixed distance from the first lens along an axis, a third, center, moveable lens positioned between the first lens and the second lens and adapted to move linearly along the axis anteriorly in a direction of the first lens or posteriorly in a direction of the second lens to change an optical power of the system, and an articulating actuator that contacts the moveable lens and a capsular bag of an eye when the IOL system is implanted in the capsular bag, the articulating actuator adapted to move the moveable lens linearly along the axis.

Push mechanism for interfacing a drive mechanism handpiece with an introacular lens cartridge
Patent No. 11903822

Inventor(s): Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)

Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16999415 on 08/21/2020 (1278 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for inserting an intraocular lens (IOL) into an eye, are provided. The apparatus comprises an IOL cartridge comprising a nozzle, a compartment, a plunger, and a plunger case. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the compartment, and the plunger case is in fluid communication with the compartment. The plunger is disposed within the plunger case. The plunger case includes flexible members extending from an outer surface of the plunger case. The IOL cartridge is configured to removably attach to a handpiece.

Wheelchair armrest storage systems and subassemblies
Patent No. 11903885

Inventor(s): Christopher Paul Lee (Little Elm, TX), Douglas A. Moore (Fairview, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16667005 on 10/29/2019 (1575 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wheelchair armrest storage system may include a housing for a wheelchair, where: the housing includes a proximal portion, a distal portion, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side, the housing extends longitudinally between the proximal portion and the distal portion, and at least one cover receiving cavity is defined in each of the first lateral side and the second lateral side. The wheelchair armrest storage system may further include a storage area defined within the housing, and a cover configured to translate within each of the at least one cover receiving cavity defined in each of the first lateral side and the second lateral side.

[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)

Massage apparatus, systems and methods
Patent No. 11903899

Inventor(s): James Alan Palma, Jr. (Coppell, TX), Jerry Douglas Leopold (Yukon, OK), Mitchell Edmund Ziska (Little Elm, TX), Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): RLSmith Holdings LLC (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: Knobbe Martens Olson Bear, LLP (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074422 on 10/19/2020 (1219 days app to issue)

Abstract: A massage system includes a massage head configured to contact a treatment region of a patient during a massage treatment procedure, a body having a handle, a connector having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is releasable secured to the body and the second end is coupled to the massage head, a motor positioned within the body and configured to drive movement of the massage head relative to the body, and a platform configured to be placed against the patient during a massage treatment procedure. The platform defines an opening. The platform is positioned so that the massage head extends at least partially through the opening during movement of the massage head relative to the body, and the platform surrounds the massage head in at least one dimension during movement of the massage head relative to the body.

[A61H] PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY (electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, radiation therapy, ultrasound therapy A61N)

Systems and methods for treating coronavirus
Patent No. 11903921

Inventor(s): Michael Mong (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED

Law Firm: DLA Piper LLP (US) (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17222718 on 04/05/2021 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treatment, including methods of treating subjects having or at risk of having or having a viral infection, and specifically a SARS-CoV-2 viral infection. The methods provided include the administration of 4-methylumbelliferone (4-MU), palmitoylethanolamide (PEA), resveratrol, fisetin, H[subscript]2[/subscript], nebulized hyaluronidase or combinations thereof. Also provided herein are a respiratory assistance device, methods of generating a customized respiratory assistance device, methods of treating a coronavirus infection, and methods of inhibiting a coronavirus infectivity, virulence and/or spread.

[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]

Use of dihydroberberine or its derivatives to enhance muscle function
Patent No. 11903932

Inventor(s): Shawn Wells (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): NANJING NUTRABUILDING BIO-TECH CO., LTD. (Nanjing, , CN)

Law Firm: ANOVA LAW GROUP, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17976066 on 10/28/2022 (480 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides novel methods for enhancing muscle function in a mammal, the method includes administration to the mammal of a composition comprising therapeutically effective amount of dihydroberberine (DHB) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, acid, ester, analog or derivative thereof. The present invention also provides a composition including therapeutically effective amount of dihydroberberine (DHB) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, acid, ester, analog or derivative thereof, for enhancing muscle function. In addition, the present invention provides methods for preparing any compositions disclosed herein.

[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)

Systems and methods for closed loop, real-time modifications of patient cells
Patent No. 11904081

Inventor(s): David Peritt (Irving, TX), Nripendra Das (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Lupagen, Inc. (Irving, TX)

Law Firm: Rimon PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17054734 on 05/13/2019 (1744 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein are bedside systems and methods for performing customized cell-based therapies and treatments in a patient-connected, closed-loop continuous-flow manner, including cellular modifications and treatments, e.g., to produce chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cells among other cellular modifications and treatments.

Systems and methods for topical application of molecular hydrogen
Patent No. 11904124

Inventor(s): Vladimir L. Safonov (Grandbury, TX)
Assignee(s): H2 Universe, LLC. (Granbury, TX)

Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16376894 on 04/05/2019 (1782 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hydrogen-delivering system for topical application of molecular hydrogen is provided. The system includes a housing that comprises at least one dry chemical and a liquid composition sealed therein, and that is configured to be attached to a target area of a subject”s skin. The dry chemical and the aqueous composition are separated within the housing until the system is activated and the dry chemical and the aqueous composition are mixed to generate molecular hydrogen. The molecular hydrogen passes through a skin-facing surface of the housing, which is permeable to hydrogen and not permeable to the dry chemical and the aqueous composition, and is delivered to the subject”s body.

Implantable stimulation lead including a coiled lead body and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 11904159

Inventor(s): Aaron Raines (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17008058 on 08/31/2020 (1268 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of forming a stimulation lead includes forming an implantable lead body, including helically winding at least one cable about a mandrel to form a coiled cable assembly in a first, restrained state. Helically winding the at least one cable includes applying a tensile force to the at least one cable as the at least one cable is wound about the mandrel. Forming the lead body also includes releasing the tensile force from the at least one cable to allow the coiled cable assembly to release stored mechanical energy and transition from the restrained state to a second, relaxed state in which the coiled cable assembly is substantially free of stored mechanical energy. The method further includes subjecting the lead body to a reflow process by applying heat to the lead body, where the tensile force is released prior to the lead body being subjected to the reflow process.

[A61N] ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY (measurement of bioelectric currents A61B; surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body A61B 18/00; anaesthetic apparatus in general A61M; incandescent lamps H01K; infra-red radiators for heating H05B) [6]

Neuromodulation calibration based on health-related parameter
Patent No. 11904168

Inventor(s): Bradley Lawrence Hershey (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation (Valencia, CA)

Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16569393 on 09/12/2019 (1622 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example of a system may include electrodes on at least one lead configured to be operationally positioned for use in modulating a volume of neural tissue, where the neural tissue has an activation function. The system may further include a neural modulation generator configured to deliver energy using at least some electrodes to generate a modulation field within the volume of neural tissue. The neural modulation generator may be configured to use a programmed modulation parameter set to generate the modulation field. The programmed modulation parameter set having values selected to control energy delivery using the at least some electrodes to achieve an objective function specific to the activation function of the volume of neural tissue to promote uniformity of a response to the modulation field in the volume of neural tissue along a span of the at least one lead.

Gymnastic training apparatus and methods
Patent No. 11904215

Inventor(s): Tamas Reszeli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Max Hayden Enterprises, LLC (Augusta, GA)

Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16993947 on 08/14/2020 (1285 days app to issue)

Abstract: Athletic, and more particularly gymnastic, training apparatus and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a pommel portion of a pommel horse training apparatus, the pommel portion including a plurality of elongate pommel segments. A first pommel segment from the plurality of elongate pommel segments is coupled to a second pommel segment from the plurality of elongate pommel segments. A centerline of the first pommel segment is non-parallel to a centerline of the second pommel segment. The centerline of the first pommel segment is coplanar with the centerline of the second pommel segment.

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

System and method for a magnetic block assembly
Patent No. 11904254

Inventor(s): Aaron August Hart (Greenville, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED

Law Firm: Bold IP, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17899165 on 08/30/2022 (539 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for magnetic building block toys that provide free rotation in any direction creating a higher freedom of movement and design whereby when assembled, the building blocks create effects only typically seen in digital environments such as computer aided designs or video game, whereby due to utilizing magnets for these connections, the base play area is no longer restricted to a flat horizontal playing area such as the table or the ground and instead a piece of ferromagnetic material including an iron plate may be utilized as a design area allowing for greater flexibility for creativity.

[A63H] TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS, BUILDING BLOCKS

Snake repellant compound
Patent No. 11903389

Inventor(s): Felix Osawey (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED

Law Firm: The Iwashko Law Firm, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17677405 on 02/22/2022 (728 days app to issue)

Abstract: A snake repellant compound, including a main body, a first plant disposed on and within at least a portion of the main body, a second plant disposed on and within at least a portion of the main body, and at least one seed disposed on and within at least a portion of the main body, such that collectively, the first plant, the second plant, and the at least one seed repel a snake therefrom.

[A01N] PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF (preservation of food or foodstuff A23); BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES (preparations for medical, dental or toilet purposes which kill or prevent the growth or proliferation of unwanted organisms A61K); PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS (mixtures of pesticides with fertilisers C05G)

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

Polymer seal for a wellbore downhole tool with dimension mechanical property grading and manufacture thereof
Patent No. 11904546

Inventor(s): Anthony Phan (Carrollton, TX), Chad William Glaesman (McKinney, TX), Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)

Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17109275 on 12/02/2020 (1175 days app to issue)

Abstract: Method of manufacturing a wellbore downhole tool, including providing a pre-polymer resin and processing the pre-polymer resin. Processing the pre-polymer resin includes applying directed energy from a directed energy source such that the pre-polymer resin is at least partially polymerized to form a polymer seal of the wellbore downhole tool, the polymer seal having one of more mechanical properties that differ along one or more dimensions of the polymer seal. A downhole tool for use in a wellbore, the downhole tool including a polymer seal. The polymer seal is a continuous single monolithic piece, includes polymer structures having a polymer chain including same types of monomers that are bonded together, and the polymer structures are altered along one or more dimensions of the polymer seal and one of more mechanical properties of the polymer seal differ along a same corresponding one of the or more dimensions of the polymer seal.

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

Hydraulic gooseneck trailer coupler system and method
Patent No. 11904646

Inventor(s): Ronald L. Perdue (Kennedale, TX), William K. Chapin (Cumby, TX)
Assignee(s): New Wave Gooseneck Traller Couplers, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)

Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17750344 on 05/21/2022 (640 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of raising and lowering a ball coupler for coupling to a ball hitch is provided. A combination of hydraulic pump and hydraulic piston are employed to raise and lower the ball coupler of a gooseneck trailer. Both custom and off the shelf parts combine to create a user friendly system to couple and uncouple a gooseneck trailer to the truck. The system described herein replaces the need to raise and lower a gooseneck trailer”s coupling system by hand crank and gear box and even the need to climb into the back of the truck bed. Varying trailer frame configurations and ball coupler sizes can be employed with the present invention. Also described and shown in this provisional is a non-rotating free end hydraulic piston device and method. Also described and shown is a coupling bushing device and method for securing a conventional coupler to piston rod.

[B60D] VEHICLE CONNECTIONS (components of brake systems B60T 17/04)

GPU-less instrument cluster system with full asset sweep
Patent No. 11904690

Inventor(s): Nikhil Nandkishor Devshatwar (Bangalore, , IN), Santhana Bharathi N (Tamil Nadu, , IN), Shravan Karthik (Bangalore, , IN), Subhajit Paul (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17201136 on 03/15/2021 (1072 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for implementing a full sweep in a digital instrument cluster system without a graphical processing unit (GPU) is disclosed. The method includes displaying a static asset as background for displaying of dynamic assets that point to different position values on the static asset, sequentially retrieving each of a plurality of subsets of dynamic assets such that each subset provides position indicators with a different level of position granularity, wherein an order of retrieving each subset moves from a lowest granularity subset to a highest granularity subset until all of the plurality of subsets of dynamic assets have been retrieved, and performing a full sweep, prior to retrieving of the dynamic assets, by sequentially displaying the dynamic assets from a minimum position to a maximum position of the static asset, and back, the sequentially displaying being based on a highest available granularity of dynamic assets that have been retrieved.

[B60K] ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES [2006.01]

Cooperative driving system and method
Patent No. 11904855

Inventor(s): Ahmed H. Sakr (Mountain View, CA), Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, CA), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, CA), Rui Guo (San Jose, CA), Sergei S. Avedisov (Cupertino, CA), Ziran Wang (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17174998 on 02/12/2021 (1103 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cooperative driving system includes a processor and a memory having one or more modules. The modules cause the processor to determine a route that includes a road segment to a destination for an ego vehicle based on (1) an ego vehicle operating parameter that has information regarding a preferred operation of an ego vehicle by an occupant, and (2) a location of a like vehicle with respect to the ego vehicle when the ego vehicle is traveling on at least a portion of the route. The one or more modules also cause the processor to determine a road-segment-level decision for the ego vehicle for the road segment based on the ego vehicle operating parameter, communicate with the like vehicle near the road segment to negotiate the road-segment-level decision to generate a negotiated road-segment-level decision, and maneuver the ego vehicle inside the road segment using the negotiated road-segment-level decision.

[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]

Systems and methods for brain-machine interfaces and EEG-based driver identification
Patent No. 11904866

Inventor(s): Chungchih Chou (Ann Arbor, MI), Muhamed Kusay Farooq (Dearborn, 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: 16776699 on 01/30/2020 (1482 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of confirming an identity of a user, including displaying a first visual indicator, where the first visual indicator is flashing at a first frequency to induce a first brainwave activity. The first brainwave activity of the user may be measured by a sensor. The measured first brainwave activity may be compared against a user profile to confirm the identity of the user.

Velocity adjustments based on roadway scene comprehension
Patent No. 11904889

Inventor(s): Matthew D. Markel (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): GHOST AUTONOMY INC. (Mountain View, CA)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18300257 on 04/13/2023 (313 days app to issue)

Abstract: Velocity adjustments based on roadway scene comprehension may include controlling an ego vehicle traveling in a first lane, wherein the first lane comprises a lane of travel for the ego vehicle of a multilane roadway including at least the first lane and a second lane; capturing object ranges by the ego vehicle using at least a first sensor corresponding to a first sensor type; identifying a first vehicle operating in the second lane from the first sensor; determining a first velocity of the first vehicle; generating a first lane flow rate for the second lane from one or more captured object velocities, wherein the lane flow rate of the second lane is based on at least the first velocity of the first vehicle and a traffic density estimation; determining whether to modify an ego vehicle velocity based on the first lane flow rate; and in response to determining whether to modify the ego vehicle velocity, generating instructions for the ego vehicle”s velocity.

Systems and methods for identifying potential deficiencies in railway environment objects
Patent No. 11904914

Inventor(s): Aaron Thomas Ratledge (Haslet, TX), Corey Tremain Pasta (Topeka, KS), Dennis William Morgart (Topeka, KS), Joshua John McBain (Lawrence, KS)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)

Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16827238 on 03/23/2020 (1429 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes capturing, by a machine vision device, an image of an object in a railway environment. The machine vision device is attached to a first train car that is moving in a first direction along a first railroad track of the railway environment. The method also includes analyzing, by the machine vision device, the image of the object using one or more machine vision algorithms to determine a value associated with the object. The method further includes determining, by the machine vision device, that the value associated with the object indicates a potential deficiency of the object and communicating, by the machine vision device, an alert to a component external to the first train car. The alert comprises an indication of the potential deficiency of the object.

[B61L] GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC (brakes or auxiliary equipment B61H, B61K; point or crossing construction E01B)

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

Anti-malarial agents
Patent No. 11903936

Inventor(s): Margaret Phillips (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MMV MEDICINES FOR MALARIA VENTURE (Geneva, , CH), THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)

Law Firm: SALIWANCHIK, LLOYD EISENSCHENK (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17787378 on 12/18/2020 (1159 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention is related to new pyrrole derivatives in the manufacture of a medicament for preventing or treating malaria. Specifically, the present invention is related to pyrrole derivatives useful for the preparation of a pharmaceutical formulation for the inhibition of malaria parasite proliferation.

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

OX2R compounds
Patent No. 11905297

Inventor(s): Daniel Rosenbaum (Dallas, TX), Jef De Brabander (Dallas, TX), Qiren Liang (Dallas, TX), Wentian Wang (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17971547 on 10/21/2022 (487 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and compositions for agonizing a type-2 orexin receptor (OX2R) in a cell determined to be in need thereof, including the general method of (a) administering to a subject a cyclic guanidinyl OX2R agonist and (b) detecting a resultant enhanced wakefulness or increased resistance to diet-induced accumulation of body fat, or abbreviated recovery from general anesthesia or jet lag.

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

Thermoplastic vulcanizate compositions
Patent No. 11905401

Inventor(s): Antonios K. Doufas (Houston, TX), Eric P Jourdain (Rhode Saint Genese, , BE), Katya N. Reyna (Kemah, TX), Kelly Kirkendall (Deer Park, TX), Krishnan Anantha Narayana Iyer (Pearland, TX), Michael J. Goncy (Mont Belvieu, TX)
Assignee(s): Celanese International Corporation (Irving, TX)

Law Firm: Dority Manning, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17728367 on 04/25/2022 (666 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) composition is provided. The TPV composition includes a thermoplastic polyolefin; and an ethylene based copolymer rubber, wherein the ethylene based copolymer rubber has: a Mw of from 500,000 g/mol to 3,000,000 g/mol, a Mw/Mn of 4.0 or lower, and a g[subscript]vis [/subscript]of 0.90 or greater. In another embodiment, a TPV composition includes a thermoplastic phase and an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer, wherein the thermoplastic vulcanizate composition has: a hardness of from 20 Shore A to 60 Shore D; and a stress relaxation slope of 1 to 5 (l/min) as measured by an Elastocon stress relaxation instrument.

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

Scale inhibitors and related controlled release particles
Patent No. 11905460

Inventor(s): Ramanathan S. Lalgudi (Westerville, OH)
Assignee(s): LFS CHEMISTRY INCORPORATED (Cresson, TX)

Law Firm: Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18003442 on 07/20/2022 (580 days app to issue)

Abstract: Controlled release particles may include stimuli-responsive coatings on porous particles to allow for controlled release of a material in the pores of the porous particles. For example, a composition may comprise: a porous particle; a material in pores of the porous particle; and a coating bonded to a surface of the porous particle, wherein the coating comprises a multi-urethane compound capable of reversibly converting between a condensed state and an expanded state upon exposure to a stimuli.

[C09K] MATERIALS FOR APPLICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Fabric detergent formulation
Patent No. 11905494

Inventor(s): Aukje van Kooij (Haarlem, , NL), Sylvia Nefkens (Amsterdam, , NL)
Assignee(s): Celanese International Corporation (Irving, TX)

Law Firm: Dority Manning, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17166213 on 02/03/2021 (1112 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fabric detergent formulation is provided. The formulation comprises a preservative system that includes one or more sorbates in an amount of from about 0.01 wt. % to about 0.8 wt. % of the fabric detergent formulation; one or more anionic surfactants, wherein the weight ratio of the anionic surfactants to the sorbates is about 10 or more; and a solvent system that includes water in an amount of from about 50 wt. % to 100 wt. % of the fabric detergent formulation. The pH of the fabric detergent formulation is about 6.5 or more.

[C11D] DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL

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

Roofing accessories with radiofrequency radiation shielding capabilities and methods of making and use thereof
Patent No. 11905710

Inventor(s): Xavier Riley (San Jose, CA), Zachary Richard Campau (Novato, CA)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17978805 on 11/01/2022 (476 days app to issue)

Abstract: At least some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a roofing accessory that includes a radiofrequency radiation shielding non-woven fiber composite material. The radiofrequency shielding non-woven fiber composite material includes a first fiber type that includes a conductive material, where the radiofrequency shielding non-woven fiber composite material has a sufficient amount of the first fiber type so as to result, when the radiofrequency shielding non-woven fiber composite material is positioned on a roof structure, in the radiofrequency shielding non-woven fiber composite material allowing for shielding a predetermined percentage of electromagnetic radiation passing through the roof structure. The radiofrequency shielding non-woven fiber composite material includes a second fiber type that includes a non-conductive material. The first fiber type and the second fiber type are randomly dispersed within the radiofrequency shielding non-woven fiber composite.

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

Polymeric wind and debris resistant garage door window frame and method of manufacture
Patent No. 11905756

Inventor(s): James P. Webb (Arlington, TX), Jorge Prieto (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): National Door Industries, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)

Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17199606 on 03/12/2021 (1075 days app to issue)

Abstract: A window frame assembly for installation within a garage door having front and rear exposed surfaces and one or more window openings. The assembly includes front and rear window frame members which are installed within the door openings in the garage door. The front and rear members are brought toward each other to sandwich the borders of each of the window openings while also capturing an associated transparent pane. A series of fastening members are used to hold the front and rear frame members securely against each other. The front and rear window frame members are made of synthetic polymeric starting stock starting materials which, together with the transparent panes, are able to withstand hurricane force winds and associated blowing debris.

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

Linear wellhead connection systems and methods
Patent No. 11905781

Inventor(s): Steven Post (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): FORUM US, INC. (Houston, TX)

Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18196702 on 05/12/2023 (284 days app to issue)

Abstract: Linear wellhead connection systems and related methods of pumping fluid into a plurality of wellheads. The linear wellhead connection system uses linear movement of an inlet conduit to transition between multiple discharge conduits that are connected to different wellheads to pump pressurized fluid from a manifold to the different wellheads. The inlet conduit is moveable in a linear direction along a track system relative to the discharge conduits.

[E21B] EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING (mining, quarrying E21C; making shafts, driving galleries or tunnels E21D); OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS [5]

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

Fan wheel systems and methods
Patent No. 11905965

Inventor(s): Luis Leonardo Vargas (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC (Milwaukee, WI)

Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17688642 on 03/07/2022 (715 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fan wheel includes a hub having a passage extending along an axis, where the passage is configured to receive a shaft. The hub includes a first mounting surface positioned at a first location along the axis and a second mounting surface offset from the first mounting surface and positioned at a second location along the axis. The fan wheel also includes a fan blade having a first mounting tab and a second mounting tab, where first mounting tab is configured to engage with and couple to the first mounting surface and the second mounting tab is configured to engage with and couple to the second mounting surface.

[F04D] NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; ion pumps H01J 41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K 44/02)

Outdoor lighting apparatus
Patent No. 11906133

Inventor(s): Clark McCune (Roanoke, TX), Jimmy Prieto (Trophy Club, TX), Todd Lee Marcucci (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): Alliance Sports Group, L.P. (Roanoke, TX)

Law Firm: Thorpe North Western, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18128428 on 03/30/2023 (327 days app to issue)

Abstract: An outdoor lighting device is disclosed having a vertical stand and a curved rigid housing disposed about a top of the stand coupled to a power source, wherein the curved housing has a curved planar surface having a radius of curvature. The curved housing has an outside side and an inner side, the inner side having a curved COB LED assembly with a radius of curvature that is substantially the same as the radius of curvature of the housing. A gear is coupled to the stand and the curved housing and is configured to permit the curved housing to be rotated 360 degrees radially with respect to the stand and 90 degrees vertically with respect to the stand.

[F21S] NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF [7]

Overflow sensor assembly in temperature control systems
Patent No. 11906183

Inventor(s): Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Rheem Manufacturing Company (Atlanta, GA)

Law Firm: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17986674 on 11/14/2022 (463 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments include overflow sensor assemblies for water heaters, HVAC systems, and other devices for which temperature control systems may be used. An example overflow sensor assembly for detecting fluid leaks at a device may include a sensor probe configured to be in electrical communication with a power supply, and a sensor mounting bracket that forms a ground, the sensor mounting bracket configured to attach to a mounting surface on the device and suspend the sensor probe in a condensate drain pan of the device. An overflow detection circuit can be activated when the sensor probe and the sensor mounting bracket come in contact with a condensate fluid.

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

Exhaust fan unit of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system
Patent No. 11906201

Inventor(s): Juan Kennedy (Plano, TX), Luis L. Vargas (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): AIR DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGIES IP, LLC (Milwaukee, WI)

Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18100246 on 01/23/2023 (393 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exhaust fan unit of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes an outer fluid path of a nozzle assembly of the exhaust fan unit defined by and between an outer wall of the nozzle assembly and an inner wall of the nozzle assembly, an inner fluid path of the nozzle assembly defined by and radially inward from the inner wall, and a plurality of entrainment ports extending from the outer wall to the inner wall and configured to enable environmental air to pass to the inner fluid path, where each entrainment port includes a bottom surface that tapers downwardly from the inner wall to the outer wall.

Systems and methods for determining a fault of an air system for heating, ventilation and/or cooling
Patent No. 11906223

Inventor(s): Ammar K. Sakarwala (Lewisville, TX), Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Rheem Manufacturing Company (Atlanta, GA)

Law Firm: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17192078 on 03/04/2021 (1083 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a method for identifying and determining a fault or a potential fault in an air system having an outdoor unit and an indoor unit in fluid communication via a refrigerant circuit. The method can include receiving, from a sensor, vibration data indicative of one or more sounds or vibrations detected by at least a portion of the refrigerant circuit. The method can include identifying, based at least in part on the vibration data and stored baseline vibration data, an abnormality in the vibration data. The abnormality can be indicated by vibration data indicative of a frequency that is outside a range of acceptable frequencies. The method can include analyzing the identified abnormality according to a predetermined set of evaluation factors to determine the fault or the potential fault.

[F25B] REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS, OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials, e.g. refrigerants, or materials for the production of heat or cold by chemical reactions other than by combustion C09K 5/00; pumps, compressors F04; use of heat pumps for domestic or space-heating or for domestic hot-water supply F24D; air-conditioning, air-humidification F24F; fluid heaters using heat pumps F24H)

P H Y S I C S

Method and apparatus for providing a map matcher tolerant to wrong map features
Patent No. 11906309

Inventor(s): Qi Mao (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, , NL)

Law Firm: HERE GLOBAL B.V. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17031494 on 09/24/2020 (1244 days app to issue)

Abstract: An approach is provided for providing a map matcher tolerant to wrong map features. The approach involves, for instance, finding a segment of a probe trajectory containing a plurality of low-speed probe points. The approach also involves forming a line between a first and a last probe point of the segment. The approach further involves calculating a distance from each probe point of the segment to the line. The approach further involves splitting the segment based on comparing the distance to a threshold at a turning point of the segment. The approach further involves creating a new probe trajectory based on a plurality of high-speed probe points in the probe trajectory and the turning point. The approach further involves estimating a heading of the turning point of the segment based on the new trajectory, and then performing a feasibility check between two consecutive probe points of the new trajectory.

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

Personalized routing based on driver fatigue map
Patent No. 11906318

Inventor(s): Chengcheng Jia (Plano, TX), Hai Yu (Plano, TX), Lei Yang (Plano, TX), Wei Huang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)

Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17486335 on 09/27/2021 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for a navigation system that enhances the safety of drivers using fatigue detection mapping. The navigation system accesses data sources storing map data a route for drivers of one or more first vehicles. Based on the map data, a personalized fatigue map for a driver of a second vehicle is generated based on the map data. The personalized fatigue map displays predicted driver fatigue of the driver of the second vehicle on the route. Drivers in the first and second vehicles are monitored to detect driver fatigue and a level of the driver fatigue is measured according to a calculated fatigue score. When driver fatigue is detected, a recommendation is output to the driver of the second vehicle that is based on the level of the driver fatigue. The personalized fatigue map is updated to reflect the recommendation.

System, method and apparatus for lading measurement in a rail car
Patent No. 11906343

Inventor(s): Corey D. Wills (Berryton, KS), Darrell Robert Krueger (Lecompton, KS)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)

Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17810104 on 06/30/2022 (600 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rail vehicle includes a truck having wheels for engaging a railroad track, a bolster supported by the truck, and a tank supported by the bolster for storing a lading. A measurement system measures the level of the lading within the tank and includes gauges and a controller. The gauges are disposed at selected points on the bolster for sensing at least one of lateral and longitudinal localized displacement experienced by the bolster during motion of the rail vehicle. The controller calculates the level of the lading within the tank and compensates for changes in the level of the lading during motion of the rail vehicle in response to signals generated by the gauges.

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

Molecule collection devices and system for environment monitoring
Patent No. 11906403

Inventor(s): Guido Fridolin Verbeck, IV (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): University of North Texas (Denton, TX)

Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17536293 on 11/29/2021 (813 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, method, and apparatus for detecting chemical effluents in an environment using Teslin substrates. To illustrate, a system includes one or more Teslin substrates which can capture molecules present in an ambient environment. The system includes a housing with the one or more Teslin substrates disposed within the housing. The system further includes means for selectively exposing different portions of the one or more Teslin substrates to the ambient environment, in which the molecules present in the ambient environment are captured by the different portions of the one or more Teslin substrates as the different portions of the one or more Teslin substrates are exposed. The system can include that the means for selectively exposing different portions of the one or more Teslin substrates is an aperture in the housing.

[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)

Stressed rock perforating-charge testing system
Patent No. 11906480

Inventor(s): Brenden Michael Grove (Mansfield, TX), John Douglas Manning (Alvarado, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)

Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17043916 on 08/01/2018 (2029 days app to issue)

Abstract: Shaped charges used in wellbore perforating operations may be tested using a stressed rock perforating-charge testing system. The system includes a shaped charge testing chamber. The shaped charge testing chamber may include a loading and ejection piston and a core sample chamber. The core sample chamber is in mechanical communication with the loading and ejection piston and is sized to receive a core sample. The shaped charge testing chamber also includes a core sample stress applicator to apply stress to the core sample. Further, the system includes an ejection mechanism adjacent to the shaped charge testing chamber to provide an ejecting force on the loading and ejection piston.

Methods for identifying LILRB-blocking antibodies
Patent No. 11906519

Inventor(s): Chengcheng Zhang (Dallas, TX), Mi Deng (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)

Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16321745 on 07/27/2017 (2399 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions for the identification of modulators of ApoE-induced LILRB activation. Also provided herein are methods of treating cancer comprising the administration of an inhibitor of ApoE-induced LILRB activation. Also provided are methods of treating autoimmune disease or inhibiting the onset of transplant rejection or treating an inflammatory disorder comprising administering an agonist of ApoE-induced LILRB activation to a subject.

Shadow access port method and apparatus
Patent No. 11906582

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18108720 on 02/13/2023 (372 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for providing a shadow access port within a device. The shadow access port is accessed to perform operations in the device by reusing the TDI, TMS, TCK and TDO signals that are used to operate a test access port within the device. The presence and operation of the shadow access port is transparent to the presence and operation of the test access port. According to the disclosure, the shadow access port operates on the falling edge of the TCK signal while the test access port conventionally operates on the rising edge of the TCK signal.

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

Dual side view waveguide liquid crystal displays
Patent No. 11906832

Inventor(s): Deng-Ke Yang (Kent, OH), Guangkui Qin (Beijing, , CN), Sean P. Rodrigues (Ann Arbor, MI), Yunho Shin (Kent, OH)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17875779 on 07/28/2022 (572 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dual side view display includes a waveguide with an inside transparent layer and an outside transparent layer spaced apart from and parallel to the inside transparent layer, and a plurality of inside view liquid crystal (LC) pixels and a plurality of outside view LC pixels disposed within the waveguide. The plurality of outside view LC pixels are disposed within the waveguide parallel to and in-plane with the plurality of inside view LC pixels. The plurality of inside LC pixels includes a plurality of outside blocking layers configured to block light scattered in the plurality of inside view LC pixels from propagating through the outside transparent layer. Also, the plurality of outside view LC pixels includes a plurality of inside blocking layers configured to block light scattered in the plurality of outside view LC pixels from propagating through the inside transparent layer.

[G02F] DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH IS MODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THE DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY, COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g. SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING; TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF; FREQUENCY-CHANGING; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS [4]

Voltage overshoot dampener in dropout condition
Patent No. 11906999

Inventor(s): Ramakrishna Ankamreddi (Bangalore, , IN), Saurabh Rai (Bangalore, , IN), Venkateswarlu Ramaswamy Tiruvamattur (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17708350 on 03/30/2022 (692 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described embodiments include a circuit for dampening overshoot in a voltage regulator. The circuit includes a first and second offset voltage circuits, each having an input coupled to an input voltage terminal. A first comparator has a first comparator input coupled to the first offset output, and a second comparator input coupled to a reference voltage terminal. A second comparator has a third comparator input coupled to an output of the second offset circuit, and a fourth comparator input coupled to a voltage regulator output. An OR gate has first and second logic inputs and a logic output. The first and second logic inputs are coupled to the outputs of the first and second comparators, respectively. A turn-off circuit has a turn-off input coupled to the logic output, and is configured to provide a turn-off signal at a turn-off output to stop current flow from the voltage regulator output.

[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]

Generation of trace messages including an instruction retirement count and a stall count
Patent No. 11907100

Inventor(s): Iain Robertson (Bedford, , GB)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16850100 on 04/16/2020 (1405 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of tracing instruction execution on a processor of an integrated circuit chip in real time whilst the processor continues to execute instructions during clock cycles of the processor. The instruction execution of the processor is monitored by counting the number of successive instructions which are retired contiguously in time to form an instruction count, and counting the number of subsequent contiguous clock cycles of the processor during which no instruction is retired to form a stall count. A trace message is generated which includes the instruction count and the stall count, and the trace message is outputted.

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

Systems and methods for leader node election in cluster server configurations
Patent No. 11907137

Inventor(s): Rohit Joshi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)

Law Firm: HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17585387 on 01/26/2022 (755 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for leader node election, comprising a cluster system including a plurality of nodes, a node registry, wherein nodes are configured to transmit registration requests to the node registry, receive node data is response, and to determine a leader node based on the earliest registered node, and wherein the leader node is configured to dynamically allocate data slots between the plurality of nodes, and each of the nodes are configured to store data associated with allocated data slots in an in-memory least recently used component and data associated with all of the data slots in a persistent storage component.

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

Integrated circuit device with multiple direct memory access (DMA) data paths
Patent No. 11907145

Inventor(s): Brian Jason Karguth (Van Alstyne, TX), Charles Lance Fuoco (Allen, TX), Michael Anthony Denio (Allen, TX), Samuel Paul Visalli (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17971707 on 10/24/2022 (484 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes first and second memory devices and a bridge. The IC also includes a first interconnect segment coupled between the first memory device and the bridge. The IC further includes a second interconnect segment coupled between the first and second memory devices, and a third interconnect segment coupled between the bridge and the second memory device. The IC includes a first DMA circuit coupled to the first interconnect segment, and a second DMA circuit coupled to the second interconnect segment. A fourth interconnect segment is coupled between the first and second DMA circuits.

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

Vector processor with vector first and multiple lane configuration
Patent No. 11907158

Inventor(s): Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)

Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17135465 on 12/28/2020 (1149 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vector processor with a vector first and multi-lane configuration. A vector operation for a vector processor can include a single vector or multiple vectors as input. Multiple lanes for the input can be used to accelerate the operation in parallel. And, a vector first configuration can enhance the multiple lanes by reducing the number of elements accessed in the lanes to perform the operation in parallel.

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

Persistent memory management
Patent No. 11907200

Inventor(s): David Flynn (Sandy, UT), Nisha Talagala (Livermore, CA), Swaminathan Sundararaman (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Kunzler Bean Adamson (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17037445 on 09/29/2020 (1239 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for persistent memory management. Persistent memory management may include replicating a persistent data structure in volatile memory buffers of at least two non-volatile storage devices. Persistent memory management may include preserving a snapshot copy of data in association with completion of a barrier operation for the data. Persistent memory management may include determining which interface of a plurality of supported interfaces is to be used to flush data from a processor complex.

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

Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for performing a free-form query
Patent No. 11907246

Inventor(s): Geoffrey David Bourne (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Round Rock, TX)

Law Firm: Jenkins, Taylor Hunt, P.A. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16038408 on 07/18/2018 (2043 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for performing a free-form query are disclosed. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for performing a free-form query includes receiving free-form information for requesting information about a computing system, converting the free-form information into at least one compatible query for querying at least one data set, querying, using the at least one compatible query, the at least one data set for the information about the computing system, and providing the information about the computing system.

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

System and method of immutable electronic health record data storage
Patent No. 11907248

Inventor(s): Ronald Raymond Austring (English Harbour, , AG)
Assignee(s): Technologies IP, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)

Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17730804 on 04/27/2022 (664 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of immutable electronic health record data storage is presented. The present disclosure provides for a system integrated into a practical application with meaningful limitations to provide a system having an immutable data storage protocol used to capture database operations on an immutable ledger. The protocol can consist of one or more operation codes. The immutable electronic health record data storage system can provide a blockchain, transaction blockchain API, a blockchain writer API, a formatting module, and a messaging module, among others, that can format, process, and store data according to an immutable data storage protocol.

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

System and method for data pruning via dynamic partition management
Patent No. 11907262

Inventor(s): Robert McKinley Collins, Jr. (Argyle, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)

Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17937454 on 10/02/2022 (506 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for managing data lifecycles that can provide an adaptable data management system configured to optimize the lifecycles of data and the reliability of databases. The system can provide data management systems with the ability to attach, detach, and drop segments of data based on key partitions of the data objects to optimize database utilization. By including the key partitions to the data objects, the database including the data objects can now perform data management operations based on the key partitions. The system, based on the key partitions, can identify a location of the data object to attach row entries, detach row entries from the existing tables, and delete the detached row entries from the database altogether. The system can operate on any relational database management system.

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

Systems and methods for classifying documents
Patent No. 11907306

Inventor(s): Aaron Attar (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)

Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17568004 on 01/04/2022 (777 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may iteratively scan a portion of a document, extract first data from the portion of the document, and determine, using a trained model, whether the first data corresponds to one or more document types based on one or more confidence thresholds. The system may repeat this process, increasing the portion of the document scanned by a predetermined amount each iteration, until the first data corresponds to the one or more document types based on the one or more confidence thresholds. Responsive to determining the first data corresponds to the one or more document types based on the one or more confidence thresholds, the system may cause a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device to display a notification indicating a document type match.

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

Guided form generation in a document management system
Patent No. 11907324

Inventor(s): Vasudevan Sampath (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): DocuSign, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)

Law Firm: Shumaker Sieffert, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17733849 on 04/29/2022 (662 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating and modifying a workflow comprising a series of webpages based on an online document. A document management system accesses an online document selected by a user and classifies each field of the online document into one of a set of categories. For each category, the system generates a form webpage comprising questions corresponding to each field classified as the category and combines the generated webpages to create a workflow. The system may modify the workflow by generating and adding one or more additional form webpages based on one or more answers provided by an entity completing the webform page. In response to the entity completing the modified generated workflow, the system generates a completed document based on the online document and the answers provided by the entity.

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

Event-based user state synchronization in a local cloud of a cloud storage system
Patent No. 11907359

Inventor(s): Kalpesh Patel (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Egnyte, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)

Law Firm: Henneman Associates, PLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17890654 on 08/18/2022 (551 days app to issue)

Abstract: Cloud storage systems and methods are described for providing event-based user state synchronization among the various cloud elements. A global user directory is maintained on a remote cloud storage system. The global user directory includes a plurality of global user definitions associated with a plurality of user accounts, where each of the user accounts has access to at least one of a remote file system hosted by the remote cloud storage system and a local file system hosted by a local cloud storage system. As global user definition are altered on the remote cloud storage system, user events are generated and communicated to the local cloud storage system, where they are applied to synchronize the local user definitions with the global user definitions. The invention facilitates centralized control of user definitions, near real-time event delivery to local cloud storage systems, and separation of authentication processes from customers” active directory services.

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

Creating a secure searchable path by hashing each component of the path
Patent No. 11907379

Inventor(s): David Craig Lawson (Richardson, TX), Michael A Phillips (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)

Law Firm: Egan, Enders Huston LLP. (10 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16356707 on 03/18/2019 (1800 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a computing device creates an event log when an event occurs. If the event log includes a path comprising one or more components, the computing device may determine a hash, using a hash function and a salt, for each of the components and substitute each component in the path with an index to the hash stored in a dictionary. In this way, the computing device replaces each component of the path with an index to a hash in the dictionary to create a modified path. The resulting modified path can be traversed and searched. For example, a search term may be hashed using the hash function and salt, and the dictionary associated with the logs searched for a match. In this way, a particular file name or a particular folder name can be identified in the modified path.

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

Multi-processor bridge with cache allocate awareness
Patent No. 11907528

Inventor(s): Daniel Wu (Plano, TX), Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Matthew David Pierson (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17380297 on 07/20/2021 (945 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for loading data, comprising receiving a memory management command to perform a memory management operation to load data into the cache memory before execution of an instruction that requests the data, formatting the memory management command into one or more instruction for a cache controller associated with the cache memory, and outputting an instruction to the cache controller to load the data into the cache memory based on the memory management command.

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

On-the-fly multiplexing scheme for compressed soft bit data in non-volatile memories
Patent No. 11907545

Inventor(s): Chen Chen (Mountain View, CA), Hua-Ling Cynthia Hsu (Fremont, CA), Siddarth Naga Murty Bassa (San Jose, CA), YenLung Li (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)

Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17731971 on 04/28/2022 (663 days app to issue)

Abstract: For a non-volatile memory that uses hard bit and soft bit data in error correction operations, to reduce the amount of soft bit data that needs to be transferred from a memory to the controller and improve memory system performance, the soft bit data can be compressed before transfer. After the soft bit data is read and stored into the internal data latches associated with the sense amplifiers, it is compressed within these internal data latches. The compressed soft bit data can then be transferred to the transfer data latches of a cache buffer, where the compressed soft bit data can be consolidated and transferred out over an input-output interface. Within the input-output interface, the compressed data can be reshuffled to put into logical user data order if needed.

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

Surface patch techniques for computational geometry
Patent No. 11907617

Inventor(s): Alyn P. Rockwood (Niwot, CO)
Assignee(s): CAD-Sense LLC (Frisco, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17816718 on 08/01/2022 (568 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system for computer aided design (CAD) is disclosed for designing geometric objects, wherein interpolation and/or blending between such objects is performed while deformation data is being input. Thus, a designer obtains immediate feedback to input modifications without separately entering a command(s) for performing such deformations. A novel N-sided surface generation technique is also disclosed herein to efficiently and accurately convert surfaces of high polynomial degree into a collection of lower degree surfaces. E.g., the N-sided surface generation technique disclosed herein subdivides parameter space objects (e.g., polygons) of seven or more sides into a collection of subpolygons, wherein each subpolygon has a reduced number of sides. More particularly, each subpolygon has 3 or 4 sides. The present disclosure is particularly useful for designing the shape of surfaces. Thus, the present disclosure is applicable to various design domains such as the design of, e.g., bottles, vehicles, and watercraft. Additionally, the present disclosure provides for efficient animation via repeatedly modifying surfaces of an animated object such as a representation of a face.

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

Methods and systems for artificial intelligence- assisted document annotation
Patent No. 11907650

Inventor(s): Abhishek Sanghavi (Dallas, TX), Lindsey P. Lewis (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PwC Product Sales LLC (New York, NY)

Law Firm: Morrison Foerster LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17861805 on 07/11/2022 (589 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted document annotation and training of machine learning-based models for document data extraction are described. The methods and systems described herein take advantage of a continuous machine learning approach to create document processing pipelines that provide accurate and efficient data extraction from documents that include structured text, semi-structured text, unstructured text, or any combination thereof.

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

Enhancing chatbot recognition of user intent through graph analysis
Patent No. 11907673

Inventor(s): Tieyi Guo (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): FMR, LLC (Boston, MA)

Law Firm: Cesari and McKenna, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18115496 on 02/28/2023 (357 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for enhancing chatbot recognition of user intent through graph analysis. A computing device classifies user messages associated with a chat session as either comprehensible user messages that are mapped to a user intent or incomprehensible utterances that are not mapped to a user intent. The computing device arranges the comprehensible messages into first clusters and arranges the incomprehensible messages into second clusters. The computing device generates a first sub-graph for each first cluster and generates a second sub-graph for each second cluster. The computing device calculates a graph kernel matrix using the sub-graphs and trains a classification model using the graph kernel matrix. The computing device executes the trained classification model using the graph kernel matrix as input to generate a predicted intent identifier for the incomprehensible messages.

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

Loop execution in a reconfigurable compute fabric using flow controllers for respective synchronous flows
Patent No. 11907718

Inventor(s): Bryan Hornung (Plano, TX), Douglas Vanesko (Dallas, TX), Patrick Estep (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)

Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17405371 on 08/18/2021 (916 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for executing a loop in a reconfigurable compute fabric. A first flow controller may initiate a first thread at a first synchronous flow to execute a first portion of a first iteration of the loop. A second flow controller may receive a first asynchronous message instructing the second flow controller to initiate a first thread at a second synchronous flow to execute a second portion of the first iteration. The second flow controller may determine that the first iteration of the loop is the last iteration of the loop to be executed and initiate the first thread at the second synchronous flow with a last iteration flag set.

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

Inserting predefined pad values into a stream of vectors
Patent No. 11907721

Inventor(s): Asheesh Bhardwaj (Allen, TX), Son Hung Tran (Murphy, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17379528 on 07/19/2021 (946 days app to issue)

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

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

Controller with caching and non-caching modes
Patent No. 11907753

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University City, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17981591 on 11/07/2022 (470 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a CPU core, a first cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core, and a second memory coupled to the cache subsystem. The first cache subsystem includes a configuration register, a first memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a request directed to an address in the second memory and, in response to the configuration register having a first value, operate in a non-caching mode. In the non-caching mode, the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory without caching data returned by the request in the first memory. In response to the configuration register having a second value, the controller is configured to operate in a caching mode. In the caching mode the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory and cache data returned by the request in the first memory.

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

Method and system for generating a dynamic sequence of actions
Patent No. 11907840

Inventor(s): Sumit Singh (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18061189 on 12/02/2022 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive historical data and real-time data associated with a troubleshooting service, identify, using a machine learning model, an optimal resolution based on the historical data and the real-time data, and identify, using a graph analytics model, an optimal path of actions based on the optimal resolution. The machine learning model may be trained to identify one of the set of historical issues associated with the unresolved issue, and identify the optimal resolution based on one of the set of historical resolutions associated with the one of the set of historical issues. The graph analytics model may be trained to generate a set of paths of actions based on the historical data, and identify the optimal path based on respective numbers of actions associated with the set of paths. The device may identify optimal action based on the optimal path and the prior action.

[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]

Moderating action requests and structured communications within an observation platform
Patent No. 11907884

Inventor(s): Christopher N. Todd (Dallas, TX), Guy R. VanBuskirk (Grapevine, TX), Ravi Shankar Kumar (Richardson, TX), Shiva Cheedella (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Theatro Labs, Inc. (Richardson, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18122265 on 03/16/2023 (341 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a method of moderating action requests and structured communications within an observation platform, in response to a request interaction a computer system sets up an action request regarding a structured communication in the observation platform. The computer system analyzes the action request with respect to context in the observation platform, where the context is one of user context in the observation platform and device context in the observation platform. The computer system analyzes the action request with respect to status in the observation platform, where the status is one of user status in the observation platform and device status in the observation platform. The computer system moderates an action in the observation platform with respect to the structured communication based on results of the context and status analyses.

Systems and methods of product recognition through multi-model image processing
Patent No. 11907901

Inventor(s): Priyanka Paliwal (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)

Law Firm: Foley IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18101902 on 01/26/2023 (390 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.

Inventory management application for sales consultant users
Patent No. 11907903

Inventor(s): Hope Elston (Addison, TX), Jamie Schott (Addison, TX), John Kreusch (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)

Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17354923 on 06/22/2021 (973 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile application may be used to track sales consultants” businesses, such as by tracking a local inventory maintained by the consultant. Determining whether local inventory is sufficient for fulfilling a sales order may be assisted by updating a database of the application with restocking information. Such restocking information may be obtained through a camera of the mobile device scanning a barcode or QR code or other information, such as recognizing text on a package. Information in the picture may be associated with inventory restocking information or be used to fetch restocking information.

Specialty application electronic exchange mitigation platform
Patent No. 11907937

Inventor(s): Ruchira Ghosh (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)

Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17227277 on 04/10/2021 (1046 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for probing and identifying unique transaction characteristics associated with digital resource exchange platforms. The system identifies the unique characteristics and stores them as digital resource exchange identifiers capable of being cross-referenced with real-time or stored transaction data from multiple transaction channels in order to intelligently identify transactions involving one or more entity resource accounts and digital resource exchanges. Various decisioning steps are described which may be automated following the identification of a transaction or entity resource account involving one or more digital resource exchanges.

Device, method, and computer-readable media for recommendation networking based on connections, characteristics, and assets using machine learning
Patent No. 11907997

Inventor(s): Avid Ghamsari (Carrollton, TX), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Micah Price (The Colony, TX), Qiaochu Tang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)

Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17488505 on 09/29/2021 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for providing purchase recommendations by analyzing social networks using machine learning. A machine learning model may be trained to select one or more of the first plurality of users. Purchase intention data that indicates an intention of a first user to acquire a type of asset may be received. Social networking data that comprises a plurality of associations between a second plurality of users may be received. Purchase history data indicating one or more purchases, of one or more assets associated with the type of asset, made by the second plurality of users may be received. The trained machine learning model may be provided the data. In return, the trained machine learning model may provide an indication of a second user. A notification may be sent to the second user.

Methods and systems for updating a user interface based on level of user interest
Patent No. 11908003

Inventor(s): Chi-san Ho (Allen, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Yue Duan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)

Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17000480 on 08/24/2020 (1275 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing a personalized interface to a user based on whether the user is serious about making a purchase may include: obtaining customer identification data and customer input data a customer, wherein the customer input data comprises a request from the customer; determining a request status of the customer based on the customer identification data and the customer input data; obtaining customer interface activity data of the customer based on the request status; obtaining customer purchasing data of the customer based on the request status; generating a prediction model based on the customer interface activity data and the customer purchasing data; training the generated prediction model by classifying the customer based on the customer interface activity data and the customer purchasing data; obtaining user identification data and user interface activity data of a user via a user device, the user interface activity data indicating interactive activities between the user and a user interface displayed on the user device; determining a rating of the user to purchase a product based on the user identification data, the user interface activity data, and the prediction model; and providing, to the user, an updated user interface on the user device based on the determined rating.

System and method for providing an aggregation tool
Patent No. 11908005

Inventor(s): Jean-Dominique Morani (Irving, TX), Magali Courbage (Richardson, TX), Richard Rodenbusch (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED

Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17818066 on 08/08/2022 (561 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.

Machine and process for managing a service account
Patent No. 11908029

Inventor(s): Charles Craig Bullard (Aledo, TX), David DuWayne Wise (Bedford, TX), Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): TouchPay Holdings, LLC (Reston, VA)

Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17373056 on 07/12/2021 (953 days app to issue)

Abstract: A machine and process for managing restrictions of a wireless device associated with an inmate service account. The machine and process include a kiosk operable to exchange data with the wireless device, including limited-use restrictions related to: an inmate associated with the inmate service account, a correctional facility, and/or a parole requirement. The kiosk may also unlock the wireless device when the inmate is released from the correctional facility by removing the limited-use restrictions from the wireless device.

System and platform for engaging educational institutions and stakeholders
Patent No. 11908031

Inventor(s): Cameron Fowler (Fort Worth, TX), Matthew Sullivan (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): Digital Seat Media, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)

Law Firm: Vos-IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17938708 on 10/07/2022 (501 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for pushing a data within a template in an educational setting comprising: scanning, via a first user device, a first tag, said first user device having first a unique ID and said first tag being a master tag and comprising a first tag ID; scanning, via a second user device, a second tag, said second user device having a second unique ID and said second tag having a second tag ID and being controlled by said master tag; defining a template being loaded onto said second user device upon the scanning of the second tag; and wherein the template comprises data corresponding to said second tag ID, said second unique ID, and a time corresponding to the scanning of said second tag.

Systems and methods for calibrating image capturing models
Patent No. 11908165

Inventor(s): Darrell R. Krueger (Lawrence, KS), Garrett Smitley (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)

Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17535153 on 11/24/2021 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes capturing, by a camera of an image capturing module, a first image of a target. The image capturing module and a drum are attached to a fixture and the target is attached to the drum. The method also includes determining a number of lateral pixels in a lateral pitch distance of the image of the target, determining a lateral object pixel size based on the number of lateral pixels, and determining a drum encoder rate based on the lateral object pixel size. The drum encoder rate is programmed into a drum encoder. The method further includes capturing, by the camera, a second image of the target while the target is rotated about an axis of the drum, determining a number of longitudinal pixels in a longitudinal pitch distance of the second image, and comparing the number of lateral pixels to the number of longitudinal pixels.

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

Interface sharpness distraction mitigation method and system
Patent No. 11908208

Inventor(s): Benjamin P. Austin (Saline, MI), George M. Evans (Ann Arbor, MI), John K Lenneman (Okemos, MI), Joshua E. Domeyer (Madison, WI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074727 on 10/20/2020 (1218 days app to issue)

Abstract: A driver monitor system and method of optimizing use of cognitive resources of a user in a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes in-cabin video cameras, a display device, and processing circuitry. The method performed by the processing circuitry includes monitoring eye gaze direction using images from the in-cabin video cameras, gradually softening image regions and lines displayed in the display device that are outside a first vision area of the user of the vehicle, and using the eye gaze direction to predict whether the user is transitioning into a new focus vision area that had been outside the first vision area. When the user”s eyes begin to move, begin sharpening softened image regions and lines such that by the time eyes have shifted into the new focus vision area, the image regions and lines in the new focus vision area reach full sharpness. NULL

Systems and methods for collecting tolls along a toll road
Patent No. 11908247

Inventor(s): Brittney Nicole Ferrell (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17354539 on 06/22/2021 (973 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for collecting a toll owed by a rental vehicle traveling along a toll road includes network interface hardware. a memory module, and a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface hardware and the memory module. Wherein the memory module stores logic that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive a rental start notification from the network interface hardware; and automatically execute toll payment logic stored on the memory module in response to receipt of the rental start notification. The toll payment logic causes the processor to detect and toll payment event throughout a rental period.

[G07B] TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; TAXIMETERS; ARRANGEMENTS OR APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING FARES, TOLLS OR ENTRANCE FEES AT ONE OR MORE CONTROL POINTS; FRANKING APPARATUS

Systems and methods for confirming property services
Patent No. 11908297

Inventor(s): Brian F. Shipley (Plano, TX), Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX), Snehal Desai (Richardson, 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: 17365799 on 07/01/2021 (964 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a first indication indicative of presence of a person arriving at a location associated with a scheduled service. The process may also be configured to determine whether the first indication corresponds to an expected arrival time of the scheduled service. Additionally, the processor may receive activity data in response to determining that the indication corresponds to the expected arrival time. Further, the processor may receive a second indication indicative that the person has completed the scheduled service. Further still, the processor may determine whether the scheduled service is completed based at least in part on the activity data. Even further, the processor may transmit a service confirmation to a computing device associated with a property owner of the location in response to determining that the scheduled service is completed.

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

Display backplane with shared drivers for light source devices
Patent No. 11908387

Inventor(s): Chun Chiu Daniel Wong (Palo Alto, CA), Craig Michael Waller (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Syndiant, Inc. (Dallas, TX), XDMicro (Zhongshan) Optoelectronics Semiconductor Co., LTD (Zhongshan, , CN)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17981987 on 11/07/2022 (470 days app to issue)

Abstract: A display with multiple light sources sharing a device driver is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention a display includes a first device driver, a first light source, a second light source and a first light-source selection circuit which is coupled to the first device driver, the first light source and the second light source. The first light-source selection circuit is configured to pair the first device driver with the first light source during a first time interval and to pair the first device driver with the second light source in a second time interval.

[G09G] ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F 3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F 9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H01L, H05B 33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N 1/00) [5]

Ergonomic instrument pick
Patent No. 11908436

Inventor(s): Kevin Randall Goold (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED

Law Firm: Dunlap Bennett Ludwig, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17937249 on 09/30/2022 (508 days app to issue)

Abstract: An instrument pick has a triangular planar body; a concave thumb platform; and an index finger slot. The body has rounded vertices, including a plucking vertex. The thumb platform has concentric grooves and a thumb cavity sidewall extending between the thumb platform and the body to form a drainage cavity. The thumb platform sidewall has an opening that connects to the drainage cavity. The finger slot has a base flanked by a pair of curved side walls. The side walls taper together to form a ridge that resist the user”s index finger from sliding towards the plucking vertex. The finger slot has ventilation openings that connect to the drainage cavity to collect perspiration. The pick stays in place between thumb and finger even with a loose grip and can be customized for different playing styles.

[G10D] STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (non-musical aspects of musical toy instruments A63H 5/00; organs, harmoniums or like musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments G10H; instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means or electronic generators, or in which the tones are synthesised from a data store G10H)

Apparatus with input signal quality feedback
Patent No. 11908509

Inventor(s): Gary L. Howe (Allen, TX), John E. Riley (McKinney, TX), Scott E. Smith (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)

Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17701950 on 03/23/2022 (699 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to operations for managing the quality of an input signal received by a device and for providing feedback in real-time. A controller can provide a reference signal to the device for the input quality check. The memory can implement the input quality check by counting the number of transitions of the reference signal for a set time period and store the resulting count value(s). The memory can use the count value(s) to determine a condition or a quality for the reference signal.

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

Senior living engagement and care support platforms
Patent No. 11908578

Inventor(s): Nirav Patel (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (Bloomington, IL)

Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18162551 on 01/31/2023 (385 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein is an engagement and care support platform (”ECSP”) computer system including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device for facilitating senior user engagement. The processor is programmed to: (i) register a user through an application, (ii) register a caregiver associated with the user through the application, (iii) generate a senior profile based upon user personal and scheduling data, (iv) build a daily interactive user interface that reflects the senior profile, (v) display the daily interactive user interface at a first client device associated with the user, (vi) cause the first client device to initiate a daily interaction prompt to the user, (vii) determine whether any user interaction was received in response to the daily interaction prompt, and (viii) transmit a daily update message to a second client device associated with the caregiver, including an indication of whether any user interaction was received. NULL

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Interconnect singulation
Patent No. 11908705

Inventor(s): Chih-Chien Ho (New Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17504148 on 10/18/2021 (855 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for aligning interconnects that includes trimming and forming a frame of strips of interconnects. The frame of strips of interconnects includes interdigitated pins. The method also includes removing siderails from the frame of strips of interconnects to provide an array of strips of interconnects. The method includes aligning a first set of strips of interconnects in the array of strips of interconnects such that pins of the first set of strips of interconnects are aligned with pins of a second set of strips of interconnects in the array of strips of interconnects. A strip of interconnects of the first set of strips of interconnects are adjacent to a strip of interconnects of the second set of strips of interconnects to provide an aligned array of strips of interconnects. The method further includes singulating the aligned array of strips of interconnects.

[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]

Transfer robot for reduced footprint platform architecture
Patent No. 11908714

Inventor(s): Richard H. Gould (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): Lam Research Corporation (Fremont, CA)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17981997 on 11/07/2022 (470 days app to issue)

Abstract: A transfer robot assembly arranged within an ATV transfer module includes a transfer robot that includes an end effector and one or more arm segments connected between the end effector and a transfer robot platform. A first robot alignment arm is connected to the transfer robot platform. A second robot alignment arm is connected to the first robot alignment arm and to a mounting chassis of the ATV transfer module. The transfer robot assembly is configured to actuate the first robot alignment arm and the second robot alignment arm to raise and lower the transfer robot to adjust a position of the transfer robot in a vertical direction and in a horizontal direction. The transfer robot is configured to fold into a folded configuration having a narrow profile occupying less than 50% of an overall depth of the ATV transfer module.

Selective etches for reducing cone formation in shallow trench isolations
Patent No. 11908729

Inventor(s): Jonathan Philip Davis (Allen, TX), Karen Hildegard Ralston Kirmse (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17478306 on 09/17/2021 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques of fabricating shallow trench isolation structures that reduce or minimize the number of trench cones during the formation of shallow trenches. The disclosed techniques introduce separate etch steps for etching shallow trenches with small feature dimensions and for etching shallow trenches with large feature dimensions. As an example, the disclosed techniques involve etching a first shallow trench in a first region of a substrate with a first etching parameter, and etching a second shallow trench in a second region of a substrate with a second etching parameter different from the first etching parameter. Among other things, the etching parameter may include an etching selectivity ratio of silicon to an etch retardant that contributes to cone formations. Because of the separate etch steps, the disclosed techniques allow the sidewall slopes between the first and second shallow trenches to be within a few degrees of deviation.

Semiconductor device with metal die attach to substrate with multi-size cavity
Patent No. 11908776

Inventor(s): Benjamin Stassen Cook (Addison, TX), Nazila Dadvand (Richardson, TX), Sreenivasan Koduri (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17142598 on 01/06/2021 (1140 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a metal substrate including a through-hole aperture having a multi-size cavity including a larger area first cavity portion above a smaller area second cavity portion that defines a first ring around the second cavity portion, where the first cavity portion is sized with area dimensions to receive a semiconductor die having a top side with circuitry coupled to bond pads thereon and a back side with a metal (BSM) layer thereon. The semiconductor die is mounted top side up with the BSM layer on the first ring. A metal die attach layer directly contacts the BSM layer, sidewalls of the bottom cavity portion, and a bottom side of the metal substrate.

Semiconductor package with solder standoff
Patent No. 11908780

Inventor(s): Jonathan Almeria Noquil (Plano, TX), Lance Cole Wright (Allen, TX), Osvaldo Jorge Lopez (Annadale, NJ), Satyendra Singh Chauhan (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17518554 on 11/03/2021 (839 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a leadframe including a die pad and a plurality of lead terminals. A vertical semiconductor device is attached on a first side by a die attach material to the die pad. A first clip is on the first vertical device that is solder connected to a terminal of the first vertical device on a second side opposite to the first side providing a first solder bonded interface, wherein the first clip is connected to at least a first of the lead terminals. The first solder bonded interface includes a first protruding surface standoff therein that extends from a surface on the second side of the first vertical device to physically contact the first clip.

Semiconductor packages and associated methods with solder mask opening(s) for in-package ground and conformal coating contact
Patent No. 11908805

Inventor(s): Gary A. Monroe (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)

Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17071951 on 10/15/2020 (1223 days app to issue)

Abstract: Semiconductor devices with a conformal coating in contact with a ground plane at a bottom side of the semiconductor devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die coupled to a first surface of a package substrate. The semiconductor device can also include a molded material covering at least a portion of the package substrate and the semiconductor die. The semiconductor device can also include a ground plane in the package substrate and exposed through an opening in a second surface of the package substrate opposite the first surface. The semiconductor device can also include a conformal coating coupled to the ground plane through the opening that can shield the semiconductor device from electromagnetic interference.

Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) with embedded transmission line (ETL) ground shielding
Patent No. 11908808

Inventor(s): Andrew Arthur Ketterson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Qorvo US, Inc. (Greensboro, NC)

Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, P.L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18097901 on 01/17/2023 (399 days app to issue)

Abstract: A monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) with embedded transmission line (ETL) ground shielding is provided. In an exemplary aspect, an ETL MMIC according to this disclosure includes a MMIC substrate having an active side, an ETL dielectric layer covering the active side, and a topside ground plane over the ETL dielectric layer. The active side includes one or more transmission lines or other components which may undesirably couple to metal signal lines (e.g., package metal interconnects) in an external circuit assembly. The topside ground plane in the ETL MMIC provides shielding to reduce such electromagnetic coupling. The topside ground plane can also facilitate improved thermal paths for heat dissipation, such as through a redistribution layer (RDL) to a next higher assembly (NHA) and/or through a backside ground plane of the MMIC substrate.

Multi-chip package with reinforced isolation
Patent No. 11908834

Inventor(s): Vivek Arora (San Jose, CA), Woochan Kim (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17741402 on 05/10/2022 (651 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-chip isolation (ISO) device package includes a leadframe including leads, an interposer substrate including a top copper layer and a bottom metal layer, with a dielectric layer in-between. A first IC die and a second IC die include circuitry including a transmitter or a receiver, and first and second bond pads are both attached top side up in the package. A laminate transformer is attached to the top copper layer positioned lateral to the IC die. Bondwires wirebond the first bond pads to first pads on the laminate transformer and to a first group of the leads or the lead terminals, and bondwires wirebond the second bond pads to second pads on the laminate transformer and to a second group of the leads or the lead terminals. A mold compound provides encapsulation.

Antenna system
Patent No. 11909090

Inventor(s): George Alexander Bednekoff (Plano, TX), Michael A. Neenan (Plano, TX), Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Parsec Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17712000 on 04/01/2022 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-band antenna has a feed point, a grounding location, a first portion for low band operation, a second portion for low band operation, and one or more portions for high band operation. The ground reference of the feed point for the multi-band antenna is connected to a separate object that may provide a base for the multi-band antenna. The feed point of the multi-band antenna may be spaced above the base and have a space between the feed point and a location for the ground point. The low band portion has multiple resonances that are often odd multiples of the lowest resonant response. The portions that resonant most dominantly in the high band often have multiple resonances that are even multiples of the lowest high band resonance. The multi-band antenna has resonances spaced closely enough to appear to be a wide band antenna above the fundamental high band resonance.

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

Small cell base station integrated with storefront sign
Patent No. 11909111

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Cook (Allen, TX), Julian Colapietro (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Hickory, NC)

Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17422969 on 01/17/2020 (1495 days app to issue)

Abstract: An assembly includes: a) a housing comprising a floor, a ceiling, a rear wall, a front wall, and opposed side walls that define a cavity, wherein the side walls include illuminable informational markings; an antenna; c) a radio residing in the cavity of the housing connected with the antenna; and d) a power source attached to the radio; wherein the power source is employed to illuminate the informational markings.

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

Squinted feeds in lens-based array antennas
Patent No. 11909113

Inventor(s): Igor Timofeev (Dallas, TX), Serguei Matitsine (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Matsing, Inc. (Irvine, CA)

Law Firm: Fish IP Law, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18101022 on 01/24/2023 (392 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radio frequency antenna array uses lenses and RF elements, to provide ground-based coverage for cellular communication. The antenna array can include two spherical lenses, where each spherical lens has at least two associated RF elements. Each of the RF elements associated with a given lens produces an output beam with an output area. Each lens is positioned with the other lenses in a staggered arrangement. The antenna includes a control mechanism configured to enable a user to move the RF elements along their respective tracks, and automatically phase compensate the output beams produced by the RF elements based on the relative distance between the RF elements.

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

Radiating elements having angled feed stalks and base station antennas including same
Patent No. 11909121

Inventor(s): Haifeng Li (Richardson, TX), XiaoHua Hou (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)

Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18048085 on 10/20/2022 (488 days app to issue)

Abstract: Radiating elements of first and second linear arrays of radiating elements have respective feed stalks that can reside at an angle to provide a balanced dipole arm with an inner end portion laterally offset to be closer to a right or left side of the base station antenna and reflector than an outer end portion that faces a radome of the base station antenna. The feed stalk can include sheet metal legs and printed circuit boards providing an RF transmission line(s).

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

Low profile raceway
Patent No. 11909190

Inventor(s): Clinton Strong (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Strong Products Group, Ltd. (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17208969 on 03/22/2021 (1065 days app to issue)

Abstract: In various implementations, a raceway may include a housing with walls and arms extending from the housing. A cavity may be disposed in the housing and cables may reside in the cavity, during use. The cables may provide connectivity to receptacles of the raceway and thus a variety of devices. A cover may be utilized with the housing to facilitate access to the cables in the cavity of the housing. In some implementations, the cover may be retained by flexible arms of the housing. The raceway may be configured to receive wire clips to retain cables and/or conduit disposed in a cavity of the raceway.

[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)

Wireless charging transmitter and wireless charger
Patent No. 11909225

Inventor(s): Songnan Yang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Halo Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (Foshan, , CN)

Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17363443 on 06/30/2021 (965 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireless charging transmitter includes at least two transmit coils and at least two transmit circuit units; wherein the at least two transmit coils are configured to simultaneously transmit electric energy to an external receive coil, the at least two transmit coils are coupled such that orientations of magnetic fields generated by currents on the at least two transmit coils are not parallel and form a first angle, a coupling coefficient between the at least two transmit coils is less than a predetermined threshold and each of the transmit circuit units is electrically connected to each of the transmit coils and configured to supply a current to the transmit coil. Therefore, the current on each of the transmit coils in the wireless charging transmitter generates a corresponding 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)

Rotor configuration for switched reluctance motor with minimized torque ripple
Patent No. 11909264

Inventor(s): Babak Fahimi (Plano, TX), Mehdi Moallem (Plano, TX), Seyed Ehsan Movahed Mohammadi (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)

Law Firm: Schultz Associates, P.C. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17305761 on 07/14/2021 (951 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid switched reluctance motor is provided that reduces torque ripple. A novel rotor design includes flux barriers. The flux barriers are positioned and shaped to create implicit saliency and reluctance torque for the motor. A gradual change in the motor reluctance results which avoids rapid increases in flux density. The rotor also increases efficiency by reducing acoustical and vibrational responses and associated energy loses.

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

Parallel hybrid converter apparatus and method
Patent No. 11909326

Inventor(s): Daoshen Chen (Allen, TX), Dianbo Fu (Frisco, TX), Heping Dai (Plano, TX), Liming Ye (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)

Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16726678 on 12/24/2019 (1519 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes an isolated power converter having an input connected to an input dc power source, a first output and a second output, and a non-isolated power converter having an input connected to the second output of the isolated power converter, wherein the first output of the isolated power converter and an output of the non-isolated power converter are connected in series.

[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]

Apparatus and methods for receiving signals using optical lens as a beamformer
Patent No. 11909424

Inventor(s): Dennis Prather (Newark, DE), Garrett Schneider (New Castle, DE), Janusz Murakowski (Bear, DE), Munawar Kermalli (Morris Plains, NJ), Shouyuan Shi (Newark, DE), Stefano Galli (New York, NY), Xiao-Feng Qi (Westfield, NJ
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17457519 on 12/03/2021 (809 days app to issue)

Abstract: In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a switch matrix and frequency band isolation circuitry. The switch matrix is configured to receive, at an input port, an electrical signal, which corresponds to a transmission signal received at antennas of an antenna array. The transmission signal corresponds to a transmission spatial sector of the array. The electrical signal includes first and second signal portions in first and second frequency bands, respectively, the electrical signal having been generated from an optical signal that corresponds to the transmission signal. The switch matrix is configured to direct, via an output port and in accordance with a control signal, the electrical signal to a first of multiple signal conversion paths.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Universal digital card (UDC) for use as digital donor card or digital distribution card
Patent No. 11909432

Inventor(s): Ahmed H. Hmimy (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): CommScope Technologies LLC (Hickory, NC)

Law Firm: Fogg Powers LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17391570 on 08/02/2021 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a universal digital card (UDC) for use in a node of a distributed antenna system (DAS). The UDC is configured to convert data between an external interface format used to communicate on an external communication link and a fronthaul interface format natively used in the DAS. The UDC is configured to be selectively used either as: a donor card to communicatively couple the node to one or more base station entities via the external digital interface or a distribution card to communicatively couple the node to one or more non-DAS nodes, hubs, switches, or remote radio heads or one or more other DAS nodes access points. Other embodiments are disclosed.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Global equalizer self interference cancelation for hybrid MIMO systems
Patent No. 11909455

Inventor(s): Chance Tarver (Arlington, TX), Khurram Muhammad (Southlake, TX), Matthew Tonnemacher (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17818692 on 08/09/2022 (560 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by a transceiver configured to concurrently transmit over multiple transmit paths and receive over multiple receive paths, one or more signals, the transceiver comprising multiple transmit antennas and multiple receive antennas. The method also includes, for at least one of the multiple receive antennas: receiving one or more feedback signals from one or more power amplifiers associated with the one or more transmitted signals; calculating one or more estimated self-interference (SI) signals based on the one or more feedback signals using an equalizer array comprising a predetermined channel model; and subtracting the one or more estimated SI signals from one or more receive signals received at the at least one receive antenna to obtain one or more residual signals.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Equalizer digital self interference cancelation for hybrid MIMO transmitters
Patent No. 11909457

Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by a transceiver configured to concurrently transmit over multiple transmit paths and receive over multiple receive paths, one or more signals, the transceiver comprising multiple transmit antennas and multiple receive antennas. The method also includes, for at least one of the multiple receive antennas: applying a transmit path model to one or more transmitted signals to generate one or more transmit path estimates, the transmit path model determined based on multiple analog power amplifiers associated with the multiple transmit paths; calculating one or more estimated self-interference (SI) signals based on the one or more transmit path estimates using an equalizer array comprising a predetermined channel model; and subtracting the one or more estimated SI signals from one or more receive signals received at the at least one receive antenna to obtain one or more residual signals.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Device, network, and method for receiving data transmission under scheduling decoding delay in mmWave communication
Patent No. 11909476

Inventor(s): Jialing Liu (Palatine, IL), Qian Cheng (Naperville, IL), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, IL)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17124959 on 12/17/2020 (1160 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a first example embodiment, a control transmission portion of a mmWave communication is received at a user equipment. The control transmission portion is divided into a plurality of control transmission portion sub-regions, each sub-region scheduling a data transmission for a corresponding sub-region of a data transmission portion of the mmWave communication. Then a first of the control transmission portion sub-regions is demodulated and decoded. A receive analog antenna beamforming is armed according to the demodulated and decoded first of the control transmission portion sub-regions. Beamforming is performed on a first sub-region of the data transmission portion of the mmWave communication, the first sub-region of the data transmission portion corresponding to the first of the control transmission portion sub-regions. During the arming and performing, a second of the control transmission portion sub-regions is demodulated and decoded.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Connections and accesses for hierarchical path computation element (PCE)
Patent No. 11909596

Inventor(s): Huaimo Chen (Bolton, MA)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Addison, TX)

Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876868 on 07/29/2022 (571 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for constructing an abstract domain topology. In one embodiment, a Path Computation Element (PCE) is configured as a parent PCE to at least one child PCE. Each of the child PCEs is responsible for providing path computational services for a domain. Communication is established between the parent PCE and the at least one child PCE. The parent PCE receives from each of its child PCEs domain connection information corresponding to the domain of each child PCE. The parent PCE builds and maintains an abstract domain topology based on the domain connection information that it receives from its child PCEs. In one embodiment, the domain connection information is communicated from the child PCE to the parent PCE by adding a new notification-type (NT) and notification-value (NV) to a notification object in a Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) notification message.

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

Device, network, and method for communications with spatial-specific sensing
Patent No. 11909704

Inventor(s): Jialing Liu (Palatine, IL), Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, IL)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17455787 on 11/19/2021 (823 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device, a network, and a method for wireless communication are provided. In an embodiment, the method, performed by a first communication node, includes generating at least one of a spatial-specific receiving pattern and a first spatial-specific processing pattern, receiving a waveform signal from one or more second nodes in accordance with the at least one of the spatial-specific receiving pattern or the first spatial-specific processing pattern, determining a second spatial-specific processing pattern and a channel status of a channel, wherein the channel status of the channel is according to the at least one of the spatial-specific receiving pattern and the second spatial-specific processing pattern and transmitting a signal along a transmission direction, wherein the transmission direction is in accordance with the at least one of the spatial-specific receiving pattern and the second spatial-specific processing pattern.

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

Application and network slice security profile mapping for secure tunneling
Patent No. 11909724

Inventor(s): Amir Saghir (Frisco, TX), Mun Wei Low (Irving, TX), Nimalan Kanagasabai (Grapevine, TX), Said Hanbaly (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17736359 on 05/04/2022 (657 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network node residing in a mobile network identifies a first network slice of the mobile network for use by a first session between a first user equipment device (UE) and a first application hosted by a first hosting device. The network node obtains a first security profile based on an identity of the first application and based on the identified first network slice, and establishes, using the obtained first security profile, a first secure tunnel between the network node and the first hosting device for transporting first data units associated with the first session between the network node and the first hosting device.

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

Authentication of networked devices having low computational capacity
Patent No. 11909730

Inventor(s): Arvind K. Raghu (Dallas, TX), Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, TX), Oliver Shih (Pittsburgh, PA), Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, TX), Xiaolin Lu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17963411 on 10/11/2022 (497 days app to issue)

Abstract: Authentication of a networked device with limited computational resources for secure communications over a network. Authentication of the device begins with the supplicant node transmitting a signed digital certificate with its authentication credentials to a proxy node. Upon verifying the certificate, the proxy node then authenticates the supplicant”s credentials with an authentication server accessible over the network, acting as a proxy for the supplicant node. Typically, this verification includes decryption according to a public/private key scheme. Upon successful authentication, the authentication server creates a session key for the supplicant node and communicates it to the proxy node. The proxy node encrypts the session key with a symmetric key, and transmits the encrypted session key to the supplicant node which, after decryption, uses the session key for secure communications. In some embodiments, the authentication server encrypts the session key with the symmetric key.

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

Method and system for evaluating cyber security risks
Patent No. 11909758

Inventor(s): Allison J. Ashford (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18181774 on 03/10/2023 (347 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a cyber risk assessment service. A computing device determines weights for techniques of a cyber security framework based on historical industry impact. The computing device associates an enterprise network with an industry identifier, obtains customer risk data for the enterprise network, and normalizes and/or combines the customer risk data to form normalized risk scores. The computing device maps the customer risk data to corresponding techniques in the cyber security framework, generates technique scores based on the mapping and the normalized risk scores, and generates weighted technique scores using some of the weights selected based on the industry identifier. The computing device calculates an overall security score for the enterprise network based on the weighted technique scores, identifies a corrective recommendation for the overall security score, and provides the overall security score and the corrective recommendation for presentation to a user.

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

Systems and methods for using machine learning techniques for network-implemented spam call detection
Patent No. 11909782

Inventor(s): Stuart R. Burkhart (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17659509 on 04/18/2022 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for Embodiments described herein provide for the use of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and/or other techniques for network-implemented spam call detection. Calls may be screened prior to notifying a called User Equipment (”UE”) that a call has been placed to the called UE. A Machine Learning Spam Detection Component (”MLSDC”) may screen a call, such as a voice call, by initiating a call session between the MLSDC and a calling UE, from which the call was requested. Via the established call session, the MLSDC may receive communications, such as voice communications, from the UE, and may determine a measure of likelihood that the call request is associated with spam by using machine learning or other techniques to compare the received communications against one or more models that indicate attributes of calls that have been identified as spam.

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

Certificate-based pairing of key fob device and control unit
Patent No. 11909863

Inventor(s): Eric Peeters (Frisco, TX), Jin-Meng Ho (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16417876 on 05/21/2019 (1736 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device, in disclosed embodiments, includes an antenna, transceiver circuitry coupled to the antenna, a memory configured to store a first operation key and instructions, and a processor coupled to the transceiver and to the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to cause the electronic device to, in response to receiving a first transmission containing an encrypted version of a second operation key that is encrypted by the first operation key, decrypt the encrypted version of the second operation key using the first operation key to recover the second operation key, store the second operation key in the memory, transmitting, by a transmitter of the electronic device, a second transmission that contains the first operation key and a command.

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

Systems and methods for authenticating a user on an augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality platform to deploy experiences
Patent No. 11909878

Inventor(s): James-Micheal A. Reed (Shreveport, LA), Terry L. Bennett (Sherman, TX), Volkan Seymen (Istanbul, , TR)
Assignee(s): PRACTICALVR, INC. (Carrollton, TX)

Law Firm: KLEMCHUK PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17131667 on 12/22/2020 (1155 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating a user on an augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality platform are provided. Once the user is authenticated, advertisements, experiences, appless apps, and/or tools may be deployed to a user, such as transforming an object on gaze into an advertisement, experience, scripted or un-scripted 3D object, animated or still 2D image, appless app, and/or tool. Using augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality technology, when a user looks/gazes at a virtual object, the bubble may then pop, transitioning into a video screen. The video screen is not being augmented on the virtual object itself.

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

Charging policy information for a home session management function
Patent No. 11909907

Inventor(s): Jayshree Bharatia (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Ofinno, LLC (Reston, VA)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17245756 on 04/30/2021 (1026 days app to issue)

Abstract: A home session management function (SMF) of a home public land mobile network (PLMN) receives, from a visited SMF of a visited PLMN from a visited SMF of a visited PLMN, a request for creation of a packet data unit (PDU) session of a wireless device. The request comprises first charging policy information determined based on a first policy of the visited PLMN. The home SMF sends, to the visited SMF and based on the request, a second charging policy information comprising: a charging method for the PDU session; and a charging parameter indicating a charging level for the PDU session.

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

Methods and apparatus for call traffic anomaly mitigation
Patent No. 11909912

Inventor(s): John W. Hutchins (Groton, MA), Shaun J. Bharrat (Edison, NJ)
Assignee(s): Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Brooks, Cameron Huebsch, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17510589 on 10/26/2021 (847 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for call traffic anomaly mitigation are described herein. One or more embodiments include receiving a scoring request including a telephone number associated with a telephone call at a scoring device from a call processing entity, receiving a violator list of telephone numbers and their corresponding severity values at the scoring device from an anomaly analyzer, determining a severity value associated with the telephone number by performing a lookup operation in the violator list, performing a random simulation using the severity value as a probability to determine an indicator value, and inputting the indicator value into a model to determine a call reputation score.

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

Intra block copy (IntraBC) cost estimation
Patent No. 11910006

Inventor(s): Do-Kyoung Kwon (Allen, TX), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17380403 on 07/20/2021 (945 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for encoding video data is provided that includes determining whether or not a parent coding unit of a coding unit of the video data was predicted in intra-prediction block copy (IntraBC) mode and, when it is determined that the parent coding unit was not predicted in IntraBC mode: computing activity of the coding unit, determining an IntraBC coding cost of the coding unit by computing the IntraBC coding cost of the coding unit using a two dimensional (2D) search when the activity of the coding unit is not than an activity threshold, and computing the IntraBC coding cost of the coding unit using a one dimensional (1D) search when the activity of the coding unit is less than the activity threshold, using the IntraBC coding cost to select an encoding mode from one of a plurality of encoding modes, encoding the coding unit using the selected encoding mode.

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

Thermostat and system and method for use of same
Patent No. 11910031

Inventor(s): Raymond S. Horton (McKinney, TX), Thomas R. Miller (Plano, TX), Vanessa Ogle (Fairview, TX), William C. Fang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Enseo, LLC (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17810800 on 07/05/2022 (595 days app to issue)

Abstract: A thermostat and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, multiple wireless transceivers are located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a processor and memory. To improve convenience, the thermostat may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Virtual remote control functionality for various amenities may then be provided. To improve safety, the thermostat may be incorporated into a geolocation and safety network.

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

Adaptive adjustment for target wake time duration configuration
Patent No. 11910225

Inventor(s): Abhishek Sehgal (Plano, TX), Guanbo Chen (Allen, TX), Wenxun Qiu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17444981 on 08/12/2021 (922 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireless communication device comprising a processor configured to obtain first information on network conditions and second information on packets delivered to another communication device during a current target wake time (TWT) session, and to update a TWT service period (SP) duration for a future TWT session based on the first information and the second information.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

User plane function (UPF) load balancing based on current UPF load and thresholds that depend on UPF capacity
Patent No. 11910237

Inventor(s): Ashish Bansal (Frisco, TX), Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): DISH Wireless L.L.C. (Englewood, CO)

Law Firm: VLP Law Group LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18093710 on 01/05/2023 (411 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards embodiments are directed toward systems and methods for user plane function (UPF) and network slice load balancing within a 5G network. Example embodiments include systems and methods for load balancing based on current UPF load and thresholds that depend on UPF capacity; UPF load balancing using predicted throughput of new UE on the network based on network data analytics; UPF load balancing based on special considerations for low latency traffic; UPF load balancing supporting multiple slices, maintaining several load-thresholds for each UPF and each slice depending on the UPF and network slice capacity; and UPF load balancing using predicted central processing unit (CPU) utilization and/or predicted memory utilization of new UE on the network based on network data analytics.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System, method, and computer-readable medium for concurrent termination of multiple calls at a mobile terminal
Patent No. 11910259

Inventor(s): Andrew Silver (Frisco, TX), Douglas J. Bartek (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TANGO NETWORKS, INC. (Frisco, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17968743 on 10/18/2022 (490 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for allocating multiple subscriptions to a single mobile terminal thereby allowing concurrent termination of multiple calls at the mobile terminal are provided. A mobile terminal adapted to terminate multiple concurrent calls is described. In one implementation, a network need not have any configuration data regarding the multi-line capabilities of the mobile terminal. In other implementations, network-centric mechanisms are provided for allowing multiple concurrent calls to be terminated by a mobile terminal. Multiple concurrent calls may be terminated at a mobile terminal on separate carrier frequencies or alternatively may be terminated on a common carrier frequency.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for wireless audio
Patent No. 11910289

Inventor(s): Srinath Arunachalam (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED (Stamford, CT)

Law Firm: McCoy Russell LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17228470 on 04/12/2021 (1044 days app to issue)

Abstract: Examples are disclosed for systems and methods for supporting transmission of audio streams (e.g., streams of audio data or audio information) for different audio signals to different end-point devices. In one embodiment, a method comprises forming, with a Bluetooth Classic or BR/EDR based master circuitry, a piconet with a plurality of Bluetooth Classic or BR/EDR based slave circuitries through a respectively corresponding plurality of point-to-point wireless connections; and generating, from the master circuitry, a plurality of streams of packets respectively corresponding to the plurality of point-to-point wireless connections, wherein the plurality of streams of packets respectively correspond to a plurality of distinct transport identifiers; wherein the plurality of streams of packets carry audio data for different audio channels; and wherein the plurality of streams of packets are for BR/EDR transmission in compliance with revision 2.0 of the Bluetooth core specification.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and methods for controlling out-of-network D2D communications
Patent No. 11910342

Inventor(s): Anthony C. K. Soong (Plano, TX), Brian Classon (Beijing, , CN), George Calcev (Hoffman Estates, IL), Mazin Al-Shalash (Frisco, TX), Philippe Sartori (Plainfield, IL), Vipul Desai (Palatine, IL)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17410846 on 08/24/2021 (910 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are provided herein for determining a synchronizing master for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a cellular network environment. In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives a discovery signal comprising a timing reference, and determines a transmitter of the discovery signal. In accordance with the determination of the transmitter of the discovery signal, the UE performs one of synchronizing to the timing reference in the discovery signal and transmitting a second discovery signal. The UE performs the synchronizing to the timing reference if the transmitter of the discovery is a cellular network. Alternatively, the UE transmits the second discovery signal upon determining that the transmitter of the discovery signal is a second UE that is out of coverage of a cellular network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and apparatuses for scheduling request resource prioritization for beam failure recovery
Patent No. 11910432

Inventor(s): Chie-Ming Chou (Taipei, , TW), Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, , TW), Hsin-Hsi Tsai (Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco, TX)

Law Firm: Cole Schotz, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17557540 on 12/21/2021 (791 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for Scheduling Request (SR) resource prioritization for Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a first SR configuration from a Base Station (BS), receiving a second SR configuration from the BS, triggering a first SR procedure for a BFR procedure based on the first SR configuration, triggering a second SR procedure for a Buffer Status Report (BSR) procedure based on the second SR configuration, in a case that the first SR procedure and the second SR procedure are triggered and not cancelled and the first SR resource overlaps the second SR resource in the time domain, prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource, and transmitting an SR on the first SR resource after prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for cell selection and reselection based on user equipment (”UE”) access level
Patent No. 11910472

Inventor(s): Bibi M. Hakimzadeh (Fort Worth, TX), Christopher Jermaine Sheppard (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17552049 on 12/15/2021 (797 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for providing high priority access to one or more particular priority cells implemented by a base station of a radio access network (”RAN”) associated with a wireless telecommunications network. A first group of User Equipment (”UEs”) may be High Priority Access (”HPA”) UEs, and a second group of UEs may be non-HPA UEs. In response to triggering events, system broadcast messages and/or Radio Resource Control (”RRC”) release messages may be used to cause HPA UEs to connect to the priority cells, and may cause non-HPA UEs to connect to other (e.g., non-priority) cells implemented by the base station.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for enabling efficient establishment of policy control associations
Patent No. 11910475

Inventor(s): Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17713367 on 04/05/2022 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable mediums may provide receiving, at a request to establish an access and mobility (AM) policy control association in relation to an establishment of a data session requested by a user associated with a user equipment (UE) device; generating a query to a network device via a network interface, for AM policy control data and for at least one of UE policy control data or session management (SM) policy control data; receiving the AM policy control data and the at least one of the UE policy control data or the SM policy control data from the network device, creating the AM policy control association based on the received AM policy control data; and storing the at least one of the UE policy control data or the SM policy control data.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for null-scheme access authorization
Patent No. 11910480

Abstract: A method may include receiving, at a network device, a registration request that comprises a subscription concealed identifier (SUCI) associated with a particular user equipment (UE) device. The network device determines whether the SUCI indicates a request for null-scheme network access; and retrieves a scheme authorization parameter for the UE device when it is determined that the SUCI indicates a request for null-scheme network access. The scheme authorization parameter indicates whether the UE device is authorized for null-scheme access to a service provider network. The network device determines whether the UE device is authorized for null-scheme network access based on the retrieved scheme authorization parameter and performs processing associated with null-scheme network access when it is determined that the particular UE device is authorized for null-scheme network access.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Point of load module and heatsink therefor
Patent No. 11910517

Inventor(s): Alok K. Lohia (Dallas, TX), Arturo Silva (Allen, TX), John Andrew Trelford (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): AcLeap Power Inc. (Taipei, , TW)

Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17550707 on 12/14/2021 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system including a point of load converter module (POL). The POL module includes a point of load printed circuit board. At least one inductor is mounted to the point of load printed circuit board. The POL module includes a power network. The point of load converter module is configured to be surface mounted. The system includes a heat sink including a first leg configured to be surface mounted adjacent the point of load printed circuit board, a second leg configured to be surface mounted adjacent the point of load printed circuit board opposite the first leg, and a cap portion connecting the first leg to the second leg. The heat sink is sized and shaped to encompass the POL and configured to connect to the power network. The power network may be a PGND network.

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

Power device assemblies having embedded PCBS and enhanced cooling and methods of fabricating the same
Patent No. 11910521

Inventor(s): Ercan Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, MI), Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17699389 on 03/21/2022 (701 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods for a power electronics assembly that includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and an electrical insulation portion. The PCB includes a plurality of embedded power devices and a substrate layer having a plurality of metal inverse opal (MIO) portions. The electrically insulating portion is positioned between each of the MIO portions. The plurality of MIO portions is thermally coupled to the plurality of embedded power devices.

DESIGN PATENTS

Cargo decking beam end retaining latch
Patent No. D1015117

Inventor(s): Jerrell P. Squyres (Point, TX)
Assignee(s): B2B Casuals, Inc. (Dallas, TX)

Law Firm: Yee Associates, P.C. (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29788887 on 08/10/2021 (924 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Tabletop touchscreen panel
Patent No. D1015286

Inventor(s): Srinivas Vunnava (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Crestron Electronics, Inc. (Rockleigh, NJ)

Law Firm: Crestron Electronics, Inc. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29780953 on 04/27/2021 (1029 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent No. D1015369

Inventor(s): Ben Cline (Salt Lake City, UT), Daniel Hall (Dallas, TX), John Weston Pierce (Salt Lake City, UT), Louie Solomon (Richardson, TX), Tuhin Diptiman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)

Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29890151 on 04/20/2023 (306 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle spoiler
Patent No. D1015442

Inventor(s): Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29730229 on 04/02/2020 (1419 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle drag start light
Patent No. D1015443

Inventor(s): Jaime Felix Barajas (Dallas, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Terry Soward (Van Alstyne, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29806218 on 09/01/2021 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Percussive massage device
Patent No. D1015557

Inventor(s): Malinda Hansen (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED

Law Firm: Patterson Thuente, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29797443 on 06/30/2021 (965 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Block
Patent No. D1015573

Inventor(s): William H. Karau (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): PAVESTONE, LLC (Atlanta, GA)

Law Firm: Jackson Walker LLP (Local + 3 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29799372 on 07/14/2021 (951 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Wheeled cart
Patent No. D1015675

Inventor(s): Edwin Arthur MacDonald (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED

Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29748675 on 08/31/2020 (1268 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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