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