UTILITY PATENTS

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Animal wearable tracker device and related methods
Patent No. 12193412 

Inventor(s): Brent Duncan (Richardson, TX), Colby Ryan (Richardson, TX), Eugene Van Beljon (Grapevine, TX), Paulina Mosley (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): SMART TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (Jacksonville, FL)
Law Firm: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt + Gilchrist, PA (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17809576 on 06/29/2022 (930 days app to issue)

Abstract: An animal collar device may include a circuit board, a sensing component carried by the circuit board and configured to collect data about an animal, a first elongate patch antenna carried by the circuit board and having a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side opposing the first longitudinal side, and a first end and a second end opposing the first end. The first and second ends are between the first and second longitudinal sides. The second longitudinal side may include a slots. The animal collar device may include a processor carried by the circuit board and coupled to the sensing component and the first elongate patch antenna, the processor configured to communicate the data about the animal to a base station and a mobile device.

[A01K] ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS

Rotating organizer
Patent No. 12193566 

Inventor(s): Bruce Gary Wilder (Frisco, TX), Mitchell Henry Harrison Kadel (Granite Falls, NC)
Assignee(s): Cynosure Holdings, LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18755566 on 06/26/2024 (202 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a rotational organizer includes first and second support frames, first and second side supports configured to couple to the first and second support frames via a tab and slot arrangement to span the first and second support frames, first and second end caps, and an axle configured to pass through a center point of the first and second end caps to pivotally couple at a first end to the first support frame and at a second end to the second support frame, wherein the axle couples to the first and second end caps via a snap-fit, and wherein the axle comprises a lattice reinforcement structure.

[A47B] TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE (jointing of furniture F16B 12/00)

Systems and methods for secure package delivery and retrieval
Patent No. 12193584 

Inventor(s): Jay Houser (Argyle, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18120722 on 03/13/2023 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for smooth attended or unattended package delivery and retrieval may be provided through a container locker. Delivery companies and their respective delivery means may interact with the container locker wirelessly, through handheld devices, or through mechanisms provided on the container locker itself. The processes of receiving or pickup of a parcel or other item may be facilitated, regardless the user’s presence or absence from the delivery/pickup location. Systems and methods may receive, secure, maintain, and temporarily house delivery or pickup items and concomitantly document, verify, confirm, and communicate data in varied forms to the parties interested or engaged in such deliveries or retrievals through a variety of connected networks, communication means and the use thereof.

[A47G] HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT (book-ends A47B 65/00; knives B26B)

Lateral rod reducer
Patent No. 12193715 

Inventor(s): Ross Dusterhoft (Irving, TX), Thomas Purcell (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): ASTURA MEDICAL INC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17981378 on 11/04/2022 (802 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a rod reducer that is both a lateral rod reducer and an axial rod reducer that uses an entirely different mechanism never before used for lateral rod reduction. The lateral rod reducer is configured to move a spinal fixation rod that is not aligned with the pedicle screw to a position above the tulip slot or U-shaped channel. Once in position, the lateral rod reducer also provides an axial rod reducer to advance the spinal fixation rod axially into the tulip slot. Splitting the reducer body geometry to create a hinged jaw that is then driven by a linkage system is novel. The lateral rod reducer of the present invention allows for incremental lateral reduction that utilizes a threaded linkage feature for increased power/mechanical advantage when laterally reducing. This will allow for new techniques of lateral rod manipulation in deformity cases.

[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]

Neural interface device manufacturing method
Patent No. 12193821 

Inventor(s): Stuart F. Cogan (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX), Trustees of Boston University (Boston, MA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17559835 on 12/22/2021 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: Manufacturing a neural interface device. Forming a neural interface probe of an implantable microelectrode body. PECVD a first amorphous silicon carbide insulation layer, forming a thin film metal trace and interface pad on the first layer, the pad on a portion of the trace. PECVD a second amorphous silicon carbide insulation layer on the first layer and covering the trace and the pad. Forming an opening in the second layer to expose the pad to an ambient environment. Patterning the first and second layers to define the neural interface probe. The probe has a rectangular cuboid shape, a cross-sectional area perpendicularly transverse to a long axis length of the probe and through any perpendicularly transverse cross-section along the long axis length is less than about 50 microns. The layers are the principle material of construction of the probe.

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

Devices and methods for partly isolating a target biological structure
Patent No. 12193885 

Inventor(s): Benjamin K. Yaffe (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17127494 on 12/18/2020 (1488 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for partly isolating a target biological structure. The device may include a main body comprising a front face and a rear face, the main body having a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end may be arcuate in a first state and may be substantially planar in a second state. The device may further include one or more balloons disposed on the distal end of the main body. Each of the one or more balloons is deflated in the first state and each of the one or more balloons is inflated in the second state. The distal end of the main body is configured to deform to be substantially planar when each of the one or more balloons are inflated in the second state.

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

In-situ adjustable intraocular lens
Patent No. 12193929 

Inventor(s): Ali Akinay (Southlake, TX), Jian Liu (Keller, TX), Jingbo Liu (Keller, TX), Xuwei Jiang (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18325280 on 05/30/2023 (595 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an intralocular-lens (IOL) or ophthalmic device including an optic and at least one haptic, at least a portion of which is formed from a photoresponsive shape memory polymer network, such as a polydomain azo liquid crystalline polymer network (PD-LCN). The present disclosure further provides systems and methods for adjusting the position of such an IOL or other ophthalmic device using polarized laser radiation.

[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]

Topical skin care formulations comprising botanical extracts
Patent No. 12194135 

Inventor(s): David Gan (Southlake, TX), Michelle Hines (Hickory Creek, TX), Tiffany Carle (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17718781 on 04/12/2022 (1008 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of administering a composition that includes an extract of [i]Brachychiton acerifolius [/i]to a person’s skin is disclosed. The method can include topically applying the composition to the person’s skin.

[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)

Mobile sterilization apparatus and method for using the same
Patent No. 12194165 

Inventor(s): Maryellen Keenan (Nutley, NJ), Michele Mauzerall (St. Petersburg, FL)
Assignee(s): SteriCUBE Surgical Systems, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18300797 on 04/14/2023 (641 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sterilization cabinet, comprising a top panel, at least two side panels, and a floor panel forming a part of a chamber of the sterilization cabinet; one or more dividers segmenting the chamber into sections; at least one door a plurality of doors connected to at least one of the at least two side panels of the sterilization cabinet; a vent formed in at least one of the two side panels; at least one first filter covering the vent and a filter cover configured to hold the first filter against the vent; at least one drain positioned in the floor panel, wherein the floor panel has a slope configured to cause condensate within the chamber to flow into the drain and wherein the drain is the only outlet for the condensate along the floor panel; and a second filter covering the drain such that condensate flowing into the drain passes through the second filter.

[A61L] METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES (preservation of bodies or disinfecting characterised by the agent employed A01N; preserving, e.g. sterilising, food or foodstuffs A23; preparations for medical, dental or toilet purposes A61K) [4]

Hypoxia training device
Patent No. 12194242 

Inventor(s): Geoffrey Duncan Hitchens (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Lynntech, Inc. (College Station, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17353470 on 06/21/2021 (1303 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes a device for hypoxia training comprising: one or more electrochemical cells each comprising: a cathode and an anode separated by a proton exchange membrane, each of the anode and cathode in communication with an input and an output, wherein the input of the cathode is in fluid communication with ambient air, and wherein the input of the anode is in fluid communication with a source of liquid water; a power supply connected to the one or more electrochemical cells; and a mask in fluid communication with the output from the cathode of the one or more electrochemical cells, wherein oxygen is removed from the ambient air during contact with the cathode when hydrogen ions separated from liquid water by a catalyst on the anode convert oxygen in the ambient air into water.

[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]

Medicament delivery device
Patent No. 12194274 

Inventor(s): Andrew Nelson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, , DE)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18085193 on 12/20/2022 (756 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medicament delivery device. The medicament delivery device comprises a housing, a needle and a reservoir. The needle is configured to project from a distal end of the housing. The reservoir is disposed in the housing and has a flexible wall. The medicament delivery device further comprises a dispensing member and a biasing member. The dispensing member is disposed in the housing and the biasing member is configured to bias the dispensing member to move in an arcuate path relative to the housing such that the dispensing member moves across the flexible wall of the reservoir to dispense medicament from the reservoir when the reservoir contains medicament.

[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]

Adaptable competitive sports video gaming system and processes
Patent No. 12194380 

Inventor(s): Fraydoon Nafissi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Plager Schack LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18620700 on 03/28/2024 (292 days app to issue)

Abstract: An adaptable competitive sports video gaming system and processes are disclosed with revamped scoring, red card, substitution and time-management rules of soccer, and offering several different scoring scenarios. The system provides a platform to reforge rules and scoring scenarios of a traditional competitive sports video game and offer a variation to users of video games. The system includes (i) a game play framework that implements game play rules, competitive play components, and a competitive play area of a reforged adaptable sport video game, (ii) an alternate game play rules manager, (iii) an event framework, (iv) a game play rules engine, and (v) a game play and scoring engine. The system also has multiple databases to store game play rules, alternate rules, scoring scenarios, play components, etc., of the reforged adaptable sport video game.

[A63F] CARD, BOARD OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [5]

Remote monitoring of water distribution system
Patent No. 12196736 

Inventor(s): Brian Morrow (Carrollton, TX), Charles Kitowski (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): MCWANE, INC. (Birmingham, AL)
Law Firm: Maynard Nexsen PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17899313 on 08/30/2022 (868 days app to issue)

Abstract: A liquid monitoring system includes a remote measurement device located at a location of the fire hydrant that is in contact with water provided by a water main. The remote measurement device has sensors that measure characteristics of the water and a communication interface that transmits measured information to a communication network device that may be located elsewhere on the fire hydrant. The communication network device communicates with a communication network.

[A62C] FIRE-FIGHTING (fire-extinguishing compositions, use of chemical substances in extinguishing fires A62D 1/00; spraying, applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05; fire-fighting aircraft B64D 1/16; alarm arrangements G08B, e.g. fire alarms actuated by smoke or gases G08B 17/10)

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Sorting of contaminants
Patent No. 12194506 

Inventor(s): Nalin Kumar (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): SORTERA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Markle, IN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17752669 on 05/24/2022 (966 days app to issue)

Abstract: A material sorting system sorts materials utilizing a vision system that implements a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, which are then sorted into separate groups based on such an identification or classification. The material sorting system can sort material pieces containing contaminants, such as copper from steel.

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

Transparent coating removal through laser ablation
Patent No. 12194569 

Inventor(s): Daniel John Flanagan (Fort Worth, TX), David Haynes Coleman (Fort Worth, TX), Jeffrey P. Langevin (Fort Worth, TX), Jeffrey T. Drewett (Kennedale, TX), Steven E. Twaddle (Aledo, TX)
Assignee(s): Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17398459 on 08/10/2021 (1253 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a robotic arm, a rotisserie control linkage, and a computer system. The robotic arm includes a touch probe and laser head. The rotisserie control linkage is configured to couple to a transport cart. The computer system is communicatively coupled to the robotic arm and the rotisserie control linkage and is configured to control the system to probe, using the touch probe of the robotic arm, a transparent outer layer of an aircraft canopy located on the transport cart in order to determine surface measurements of the aircraft canopy. The computer system also controls the system to ablate, using a plurality of predetermined parameters and the laser head of the robotic arm, an interface layer located between the transparent outer layer and the aircraft canopy, wherein movements of the robotic arm during the ablation are based on the surface measurements.

[B23K] SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM (making metal-coated products by extruding metal B21C 23/22; building up linings or coverings by casting B22D 19/08; casting by dipping B22D 23/04; manufacture of composite layers by sintering metal powder B22F 7/00; arrangements on machine tools for copying or controlling B23Q; covering metals or covering materials with metals, not otherwise provided for C23C; burners F23D)

Tire tread with reduced rolling resistance
Patent No. 12194781 

Inventor(s): Jeffrey P. Smith (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17485029 on 09/24/2021 (1208 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tire comprising a plurality of tread blocks. At least one tread block includes one or more piers for stiffening the tread blocks while allowing normal lateral (tangential) or circumferential strain for normal braking and motive traction. The piers can extend the entire length dimension of the tread block or portions thereof.

[B60C] VEHICLE TYRES (manufacture, repairing B29); TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES (testing of tyres G01M 17/02) [5]

Shiftable wheel end reduction for wheeled vehicles
Patent No. 12194841 

Inventor(s): Jordan Michael Houser (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18444347 on 02/16/2024 (333 days app to issue)

Abstract: A shiftable wheel end reduction may be mechanically coupled to a driven axle shaft and to a driven wheel of a wheeled vehicle. The shiftable wheel end reduction may be switched between a first operating mode, in which torque carried by the driven axle shaft is increased and transferred to the driven wheel by the shiftable wheel end reduction, and a second operating mode, in which torque carried by the driven axle shaft is maintained and transferred to the driven wheel by the shiftable wheel end reduction.

[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]

Systems and methods for providing power to an electric motor from an inverter
Patent No. 12194858 

Inventor(s): Luke A. Rippelmeyer (Plano, TX), Patrick Francis Lawless (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota, , JP), Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17968346 on 10/18/2022 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and devices for configuring the output provided by an inverter to an electric motor based on the position of the electric motor with respect to another electric motor.

[B60L] PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K 1/00, B60K 6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K 17/12, B60K 17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C 15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D 1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H 1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES [4]

Seat assemblies having fixed frames and movable seat cushions and movable seat backs with upper pivot mechanisms and rigid linkage assemblies
Patent No. 12194903 

Inventor(s): Charles P. Patterson (New Boston, MI), Leon T. Toma (Commerce Township, MI), Matthew R. Speck (Plymouth, MI), Peter J. Moegling (Whitmore Lake, MI), Todd Rupert Muck (Fowlerville, 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: 17873572 on 07/26/2022 (903 days app to issue)

Abstract: A kinetic seat assembly includes a primary seat back frame, a secondary seat back frame, and an upper pivot mechanism coupling the secondary seat back frame to the primary seat back frame. The upper pivot mechanism includes a bracket, and a pivotable link extending from a pair of opposite sides of the bracket and interconnecting the bracket and the primary seat back frame. A first end of each of the pivotable links is pivotally attached to the bracket, which is coupled to the secondary seat back frame, and an opposite second end each of the pivotable links is pivotally fixed to the primary seat back frame. The secondary seat back frame is permitted to move in a kinetic seat vertical direction relative to the primary seat back frame as the pivotable links permit the bracket to move in the kinetic seat vertical direction relative to the primary seat back frame.

[B60N] VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (furniture construction A47)

System and method of establishing a communication link between lead and remote vehicles of a consist
Patent No. 12195054 

Inventor(s): Brian Joseph McManus (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Transportation IP Holdings, LLC (Norwalk, CT)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17743512 on 05/13/2022 (977 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method includes a first control system having one or more processors onboard a lead vehicle of a vehicle system that includes the lead vehicle and a remote vehicle. The second control system automatically restricts movement of the vehicle system based on a location of the vehicle system. The processors detect a signal instance of an operator actuating an input device, and communicate a vehicle information request message to the second control system. The second control system communicates a list of vehicle identifiers, that includes a vehicle identifier associated with the remote vehicle, to the processors. The processors communicate a wireless linking message, including a request to establish a communication link, to the remote vehicle based on the vehicle identifier associated with the remote vehicle.

[B61C] LOCOMOTIVES; MOTOR RAILCARS (vehicles in general B60; frames or bogies B61F; special railroad equipment for locomotives B61J, B61K)

System and method for virtual approach signal restriction upgrade
Patent No. 12195061 

Inventor(s): Michael E. Ramolt (Shawnee, KS), Mitchell W. Beard (Shawnee, KS), Scott D. Sapp (Smithville, MO)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18514690 on 11/20/2023 (421 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for providing a virtual approach signal restriction upgrade between physical signaling components is presented. In one embodiment, in a CTC type of operation, the use of a virtual signal with signal type functionality to split a block into two or more sections can allow a train currently governed by an approach indication to accelerate on a clear indication if the advance signal indication upgrades. The addition of audio frequency type circuits with the advance signal indication can allow a train to upgrade from a restricting indication to an approach or clear indication, while protecting open HT switches, broken rail, hazards, and follow up moves. The present invention provides a system for allowing trains to upgrade from a ‘’restricting’ indication to an ‘’approach’ or ‘’clear and accelerate’ indication with an upgraded PTC track line for the segment.

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

Real-time control of off-lining of locomotives for energy management
Patent No. 12195067 

Inventor(s): Keith Wesley Wait (Flower Mound, TX), Marcos Blanco Fernandes (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Progress Rail Services Corporation (Albertville, AL)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18081022 on 12/14/2022 (762 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of controlling one or more locomotives in a train includes using a machine learning engine and a virtual system modeling engine to model and classify sections of track along which the train is traveling according to the tractive power needs for the train traversing each section of track as a function of an effective weight profile for the train in the section and an effective friction profile for the train in the section of track. The method includes using the results of the effective weight profile, the effective friction profile, and an effective power availability profile to train the virtual system modeling engine using the machine learning engine to model designated areas of the track where the total tractive effort force or dynamic braking force applied by all of the locomotives in the train is less than a tractive effort force or dynamic braking force, respectively, that can be provided by a subset of the available locomotives in the train.

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

Differential thrust vectoring system
Patent No. 12195177 

Inventor(s): Daniel Bryan Robertson (Southlake, TX), Kirk Landon Groninga (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Lightfoot Alford PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17752542 on 05/24/2022 (966 days app to issue)

Abstract: A differential thrust vectoring system includes a first thruster, a second thruster, a main actuator, and a trim actuator. The system is configured such that actuation of the main actuator causes rotation of the thrusters together about an axis, whereas actuation of the trim actuator causes relative rotation of the first and second thrusters about the axis.

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

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Liquid sulfur degassing
Patent No. 12195333 

Inventor(s): Stephen N. Fenderson (Gladewater, TX), Thomas K. T. Chow (Villa Park, CA)
Assignee(s): FLUOR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18334960 on 06/14/2023 (580 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system for liquid sulfur degassing is disclosed. The method and system generally involve degassing liquid sulfur in a degassing vessel, and the level of the liquid sulfur in the degassing vessel is controlled in the degassing vessel by determining the level of liquid sulfur in the degassing vessel.

[C01B] NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF (fermentation or enzyme-using processes for the preparation of elements or inorganic compounds except carbon dioxide C12P 3/00; production of non-metallic elements or inorganic compounds by electrolysis or electrophoresis C25B)

UV lamp and anti-scale water treatment water heater apparatus with sanitation loop
Patent No. 12195378 

Inventor(s): Paul Bothner (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Watts Regulator Co. (North Andover, MA)
Law Firm: Harris Beach PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17846183 on 06/22/2022 (937 days app to issue)

Abstract: A water heating and treatment system with UV lamp water treatment sanitation for suppression of pathogens and undesired bacterial content in a domestic water system includes a water heater, and a cold water supply line to supply water to the water heater. The cold water supply line includes a UV sanitation lamp. A single or multiple temperature regulating mixing station supplies a temperature regulated heated water to one or multiple temperature zones. A water heater controller causes an activation of the water heater sanitation loop and a water temperature of the water heater to increase momentarily to a sanitization temperature above 151 F. (66 C.) for one or more periods of at least two minutes in a sanitation loop mode. A method for treating hot water to suppress pathogens including undesired bacterial content in a domestic water system is also described.

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

Pyrimidine tricyclic enone derivatives for inhibition of ROR-gamma and other uses
Patent No. 12195443 

Inventor(s): Bradley William Caprathe (Livonia, MI), Brian Kornberg (Ann Arbor, MI), Chitase Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Christopher F. Bender (Garland, TX), Gary Bolton (Ann Arbor, MI), Martha R. Hotema (Hurst, TX), Melean Visnick (Irving,
Assignee(s): REATA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17577456 on 01/18/2022 (1092 days app to issue)

Abstract:

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

Compositions for facilitating biological stain removal
Patent No. 12195704 

Inventor(s): Hongfei Jia (Ann Arbor, MI), Masahiko Ishii (Okazaki, , JP), Minjuan Zhang (Ann Arbor, MI), Songtao Wu (Ann Arbor, 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: 18114051 on 02/24/2023 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A liquid bioactive composition is provided that includes an enzyme with enzymatic activity toward a component of a biological stain. Also provided is a process for facilitating the removal of a biological stain is provided wherein the enzyme in the liquid bioactive coating material is capable of enzymatically degrading of one or more components of the biological stain to facilitate biological stain removal from a substrate.

[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

Metal roofing shingles with alignment, sealing and aesthetic features
Patent No. 12195966 

Inventor(s): Eric R. Anderson (Montclair, NJ), James A. Svec (Kearny, NJ), Steven V. Boehling (Wilmington, NC)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17343855 on 06/10/2021 (1314 days app to issue)

Abstract: A roofing system has metal roofing shingles that have formed side lap features that are configured to facilitate alignment of adjacent side lapped metal roofing shingles of a shingle installation along a roofing structure and that couple the metal roofing shingles together and form seals and seams along their side lapped peripheral edges. The metal roofing shingles also can have alignment features that cooperate to align shingles in one course with shingles in a next lower course within their headlap regions. The roofing system also has standing seam features configured to couple to the metal roofing shingles to cover the formed seams.

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

Roofing systems and related methods
Patent No. 12195974 

Inventor(s): Li-Ying Yang (Whippany, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18506481 on 11/10/2023 (431 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a roofing system. In some embodiments, the roofing system includes a roofing membrane, which may include a cap, a scrim, and a core. In some embodiments, the roofing system may also include an adhesive film, which may include a first adhesive layer adhered to the roofing membrane, a second adhesive layer configured to adhere the roofing membrane to a roofing substrate, and a barrier layer positioned between the first and second adhesive layers. Methods of manufacturing roofing systems are also disclosed.

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

Device for leveling and aligning tiles and method for leveling and aligning tiles
Patent No. 12195980 

Inventor(s): Clinton D. Bunch (Keller, TX), Joshua A. Bunch (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Acufloor, LLC (North Richland Hills, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17516095 on 11/01/2021 (1170 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for leveling and aligning tiles and method for leveling and aligning tiles are disclosed. In one embodiment, the leveling device includes a body and two spaced and parallel strip members extending transversely from the body. Each of the spaced and parallel strip members extend to the front and rear of the body. Two opposing lateral open windows are formed in the body. A breakaway section is defined along the body. A wedge device is provided for penetrating one or more of the two opposing lateral open windows and exerting a force on the tiles for leveling them relative to each other.

[E04F] FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS (windows, doors E06B)

Shutter assemblies and systems for windows and doors
Patent No. 12196038 

Inventor(s): Ryan D. Fitzgerald (Doonan, , AU)
Assignee(s): Alwood Industries (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Young Basile Hanlon MacFarlane, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17636583 on 09/03/2020 (1594 days app to issue)

Abstract: A shutter system for a window or door is disclosed that includes at least one panel. The at least one panel includes: an inner frame; an outer frame configured for connection to the inner frame; a drive train that is supported by the inner frame; and a plurality of louvers that are connected to the drive train such that operation of the drive train moves the plurality of louvers between open and closed positions. The inner frame includes first segments each defining a longitudinal axis and a plurality of corner stakes that extend between and connecting the first segments. The outer frame includes second segments each defining a longitudinal axis and a plurality of brackets extending between and connecting the second segments.

[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)

Reusable switch module for gun system
Patent No. 12196064 

Inventor(s): Carson Brooks (Whitney, TX), Michael Wroblicky (Granbury, TX), Seth Powers (Weatherford, TX), Timothy Wayne Sampson (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): GEODYNAMICS, INC. (Millsap, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17940839 on 09/08/2022 (859 days app to issue)

Abstract: A housing for an electrical component of a gun system is disclosed. The housing includes a housing body, an uphole bulkhead, and a downhole bulkhead. The housing body defines a cavity. The uphole bulkhead is disposed at least partially within the cavity. The downhole bulkhead is disposed at least partially within the cavity and opposite to the uphole bulkhead. The downhole bulkhead includes an electrical contact extending between a first end and a second end of the downhole bulkhead. The cavity, the uphole bulkhead, and the second end of the downhole bulkhead define a sealed volume configured to receive and isolate the electrical component. The electrical contact is configured to be electrically connected to the electrical component.

[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]

Surface steerable drilling system for use with rotary steerable system
Patent No. 12196069 

Inventor(s): Joel Wilmes (Spring, TX), Teddy Chen (Austin, TX), Todd W. Benson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MOTIVE DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15930291 on 05/12/2020 (1708 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for drilling, comprising receiving, by a surface steerable system coupled to a drilling rig, BHA information from a rotary steerable bottom hole assembly (BHA) located in a borehole, calculating, by the surface steerable system, torsional and spatial forces acting on the rotary steerable BHA at a first location of the rotary steerable BHA with respect to a target drilling path responsive to the BHA information, calculating, by the surface steerable system, a first vector to create a convergence path from the first location of the rotary steerable BHA to the target drilling path that accounts for the torsional and the spatial forces acting on the rotary steerable BHA, causing, by the surface steerable system, at least one drilling parameter to be modified in order to alter a drilling direction of the rotary steerable BHA based on the calculated first vector, transmitting the at least one drilling parameter to the drilling rig to target the rotary steerable BHA in accordance with the first vector, and drilling the borehole using the rotary steerable BHA in response to the at least one drilling parameter.

[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]

Sensor for quantifying production fluid percentage content
Patent No. 12196077 

Inventor(s): Stephen Michael Greci (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17878600 on 08/01/2022 (897 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a downhole tool and a well system. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes a tubular providing one or more production fluid flow paths for a production fluid. The downhole tool, according to this aspect, further includes one or more float chambers located within the tubular, and two or more floats located within the one or more float chambers. In one aspect, a first of the two or more floats has a first density ([subscript]1[/subscript]) between a density of gas ([subscript]g[/subscript]) and a density of oil ([subscript]o[/subscript]), and a second of the two or more floats has a second density ([subscript]2[/subscript]) between the density of oil ([subscript]o[/subscript]) and a density of water ([subscript]w[/subscript]). The downhole tool, according to this aspect, further includes two or more non-contact proximity sensors configured to sense a radial location of the two or more floats to determine a gas:oil ratio and oil:water ratio.

[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

Articulated clamp fixture for wind turbine blade
Patent No. 12196176 

Inventor(s): Alejandra Soltero (Fort Worth, TX), Andrew J. Sullivan (Bedford, TX), Christof J. Hettiger (Irving, TX), Dwayne M. Ganner (Grapevine, TX), James W. V. Tabije (Coppell, TX), John L. Ferris (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Logistics, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17860476 on 07/08/2022 (921 days app to issue)

Abstract: An articulated support fixture for a wind turbine blade includes a base frame with first and second bearing slide areas and first and second bearing blocks disposed to slide thereabout, each bearing block including a laterally oriented bearing. A fixture mount with a laterally oriented axle engages the laterally oriented bearings enabling the fixture mount to articulate about the lateral axle. The first and second bearing slide areas are configured to enable the first and second bearing blocks, together with the fixture mount, to slide along a generally longitudinal path, and to enable rotation of the fixture mount about a vertical axis as the first and second bearing blocks cooperatively slide upon the first and second bearing slide areas. A wind turbine blade interface is attached to the fixture mount, to enable engagement with, and support of, the wind turbine blade.

[F03D] WIND MOTORS

Intermittent flushing plunger packing assembly
Patent No. 12196199 

Inventor(s): Bryan Wagner (Fort Worth, TX), Chandu Kumar (Fort Worth, TX), Joe Allen Sutton (Weatherford, TX), John McCrady (Burleson, TX), Richard David Peer (Tomball, TX), Wesley P. Clark (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): SPM Oil Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17907092 on 03/23/2021 (1393 days app to issue)

Abstract: An intermittent flushing plunger packing assembly is described herein. The packing assembly includes a plurality of annular seals disposed about the plunger configured to reciprocate along a linear axis within the fluid bore of the pump, and an annular packing nut disposed circumferentially about the plunger and configured to retain the plurality of annular seals and adjust a combined height of the plurality of annular seals. A selected one of the plurality of annular seals proximate to the fluid cylinder of the pump has a flushing fluid chamber in fluid communication with a flushing fluid port coupled to a first one-way check valve allowing a pressurized flushing fluid to be introduced and retained within the flushing fluid chamber and creating a fluid barrier to prevent frac fluid in the fluid cylinder from bypassing the annular seals.

[F04B] POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F; crankshafts, crossheads, connecting-rods F16C; flywheels F16F; gearings for interconverting rotary motion and reciprocating motion in general F16H; pistons, piston-rods, cylinders, in general F16J; ion pumps H01J 41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K 44/02)

Clip and seal holiday light ground stakes
Patent No. 12196395 

Inventor(s): Tim Nichols (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17743719 on 05/13/2022 (977 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for mounting a light bulb and bulb base to a ground stake having a mounting ring for attaching a bulb and a bulb base to the ground stake. A sealing ring is disposed in the mounting ring having the bulb received in an upper end of the sealing ring and the bulb base secured to the lower end of the sealing ring whereby the sealing ring restricts moisture from flowing around the bulb and into the bulb base when the bulb is screwed into the sealing ring.

[F21V] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [7]

Ridgeline roof clip
Patent No. 12196396 

Inventor(s): Stacy L. Kennedy (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): Canny Systems, LLC (Mansfield, TX)
Law Firm: Ice Miller LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17535332 on 11/24/2021 (1147 days app to issue)

Abstract: A clip device for holding a bulb in fixed relationship relative to a ridgeline of a roof. The clip device includes a front side and a back side opposite the front side, a top side and a bottom side opposite the top side, and a first side and a second side opposite the first side. Two shoulders transition into corresponding legs having at least one hook on each leg. A top portion of the clip device includes a finger portions terminating with respective clip portions at their tips. Tabs are arranged along the fingers. The legs are configured such that spreading the legs away from one another causes the finger portions to bend toward one another, and squeezing the legs together causes the finger portions to bend away from one another.

[F21V] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [7]

Heat deflector
Patent No. 12196424 

Inventor(s): Alexander K. Maghsadi (Fort Worth, TX), Jeffrey R. Weilert (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Solo Brands, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18424315 on 01/26/2024 (354 days app to issue)

Abstract: A heat deflector is disclosed that includes a first portion having a first outer edge and a center and a first surface extending from the first outer edge to the center of the first portion. The first surface sloping downward from the first outer edge toward the center of the first portion. The heat deflector further includes a second portion having an inner edge and an outer edge. The inner edge of the second portion is adjacent to the first outer edge of the first portion. The heat deflector further includes a third portion having a third outer edge and a third inner edge and a second surface extending from the third outer edge of the third portion to the third inner edge of the third portion. The second surface sloping downward from the third outer edge of the third portion to the third inner edge of the third portion.

[F24B] DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES FOR SOLID FUELS; IMPLEMENTS FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH STOVES OR RANGES [6]

UV lamp and anti-scale water treatment water heater apparatus with sanitation loop
Patent No. 12196430 

Inventor(s): Paul Bothner (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Watts Regulator Co. (North Andover, MA)
Law Firm: Harris Beach PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17812038 on 07/12/2022 (917 days app to issue)

Abstract: A water heating and treatment system with UV lamp water treatment sanitation for suppression of pathogens and undesired bacterial content in a domestic hot water system includes a water heater, and a cold water supply line to supply water to the water heater. The cold water supply line includes a UV sanitation lamp. A single or multiple temperature regulating mixing station supplies a temperature regulated heated water to one or multiple temperature zones. A three-way return water diverter valve provides a portion of a re-circulated hot water from a hot water recirculation line including a temperature sensor to the single or multiple temperature regulating mixing station and a remaining portion of the re-circulated hot water to the drain. A method for treating hot water to suppress pathogens and undesired bacterial content in a domestic hot water system is also described.

[F24D] DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR (preventing corrosion C23F; water supply in general E03; using steam or condensate extracted or exhausted from steam engine plants for heating purposes F01K 17/02; steam traps F16T; domestic stoves or ranges F24B, F24C; water or air heaters having heat generating means F24H; combined heating and refrigeration systems F25B; heat exchange apparatus or elements F28; removing furring F28G; electric heating elements or arrangements H05B)

Electronic expansion valve and superheat control in an HVAC system
Patent No. 12196463 

Inventor(s): Reza Khatami (Centerville, OH), Richard Zane DeLoach (Wentzville, MO)
Assignee(s): Kova Comfort, Inc. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Haverstock Owens, A Law Corporation (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18198776 on 05/17/2023 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: An EXV (electronic expansion valve) control system includes an EXV controller for controlling an EXV within the refrigerant loop of an HVAC system. The EXV controller implements a master control algorithm that includes a plurality of sub-control algorithms and an initial series of branching decision points to determine the current mode of operation and to execute select sub-control algorithms corresponding to the current mode of operation, while not executing the sub-control algorithms corresponding to the other modes of operation. The sub-control algorithms implement various combinations of PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) control and feed-forward control, the results of which can be mapped to specific control instructions for the EXV.

[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

Apparatus and method for image-guided interventions with hyperspectral imaging
Patent No. 12193786 

Inventor(s): Baowei Fei (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Boards of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Stanek Lemon Crouse Meeks PA (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18500771 on 11/02/2023 (439 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hyperspectral imaging system can include a first hyperspectral imaging camera that is configured to provide first hyperspectral image data of an object in a first field of view. A second hyperspectral imaging camera can be separated from the first hyperspectral imaging camera, where the second hyperspectral imaging camera is configured to provide second hyperspectral image data of the object in a second field of view. A processor circuit can be operatively coupled to the first and second hyperspectral imaging cameras, where the processor circuit configured to combine the first and second hyperspectral image data to generate a hypercube of data for the object comprising spectral data included in the first and second hyperspectral image data.

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

Reserving a charging station
Patent No. 12194880 

Inventor(s): Christopher E. Yang (Frisco, TX), James D. Wilder (Dallas, TX), James G. Swartz (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Aichi-ken, , JP), TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18430629 on 02/01/2024 (348 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of reserving an available charging point at a charging station for a vehicle at an arrival time at the charging station when one other charging point at the charging station will be available for one other vehicle in a time less than a threshold time after the arrival time.

[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]

Gas volume determination in fluid
Patent No. 12196587 

Inventor(s): Anand Dabak (Plano, TX), Srinivas Lingam (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18449463 on 08/14/2023 (519 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes one or more central processing unit (CPU) cores configured to cause a first ultrasonic transducer to generate ultrasonic signals into a fluid moving in a pipe and the first or a second ultrasonic transducer to receive the ultrasonic signals from the fluid. The CPU core(s) also compute a first value indicative of at least one of a standard deviation and a time correlation based on the received ultrasonic signals. The CPU core(s) further determine a second value indicative of a volume of gas bubbles in the fluid using the computed first value indicative of the at least one of the standard deviation and time correlation.

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

System and method for detecting biofilm growth in water systems
Patent No. 12196666 

Inventor(s): Adrian J. Denvir (Richardson, TX), David F. Vela (Euless, TX), Matthew C. Holloway (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): NCH Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17569684 on 01/06/2022 (1104 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for monitoring or detecting a level of biofilm growth in a fluid system and controlling operating parameters of the fluid system based a measured level of growth. The monitoring system and method comprises a dye injection system for periodically injecting dye into a portion of fluid from the fluid system, passing the portion of fluid though a narrow lumen tube to achieve laminar flow and using a light source and optical sensor to detect a transmission or emission indicating a level of biofilm growth in the tube corresponding to a level of growth on components in the fluid system. Information based upon the measurements or calculations made by the monitoring system may be used to manually or automatically alter various operating parameters to control the fluid system and aid in maintaining stable operation of the fluid system within preferred specifications.

[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)

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sample testing
Patent No. 12196672 

Inventor(s): Moin Shafai (Plano, TX), William McGraw (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Hand Held Products, Inc. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17302536 on 05/05/2021 (1350 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems associated with a sample testing device are provided. For example, an example sample testing device may include a substrate layer defining a bottom surface of the sample testing device, as well as a waveguide disposed on the substrate layer and includes at least one reference channel and at least one sample channel.

[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)

Compositions and methods for predicting post-surgical cardiovascular events
Patent No. 12196763 

Inventor(s): Emile R. Mohler, III (Philadelphia, PA), Jana M. Schmierer (Philadelphia, PA), Jonni S. Moore (Philadelphia, PA), Wade T. Rogers (Philadelphia, PA)
Assignee(s): AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, INC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: PEARL COHEN ZEDEK LATZER BARATZ LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16622499 on 06/13/2018 (2407 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure provides for compositions and methods that can be used to predict an individual’s risk for experiencing a cardiovascular event following a surgical procedure (e.g., a non-cardiac surgical procedure).

[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)

Range resolution in FMCW radars
Patent No. 12196847 

Inventor(s): Brian Ginsburg (Allen, TX), Jawaharlal Tangudu (Bangalore, , IN), Karthik Ramasubramanian (Bangalore, , IN), Karthik Subburaj (Bangalore, , IN), Sachin Bharadwaj (Bangalore, , IN), Sandeep Rao (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16121689 on 09/05/2018 (2323 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure provides a radar apparatus for estimating a range of an obstacle. The radar apparatus includes a local oscillator that generates a first ramp segment and a second ramp segment. The first ramp segment and the second ramp segment each includes a start frequency, a first frequency and a second frequency. The first frequency of the second ramp segment is equal to or greater than the second frequency of the first ramp segment when a slope of the first ramp segment and a slope of the second ramp segment are equal and positive. The first frequency of the second ramp segment is equal to or less than the second frequency of the first ramp segment when the slope of the first ramp segment and the slope of the second ramp segment are equal and negative.

[G01S] RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES

Optical element comprising mix of NIR dyes for broader NIR cut and better aesthetic
Patent No. 12196989 

Inventor(s): Haifeng Shan (Dallas, TX), Hao-Wen Chiu (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, , FR)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17442473 on 03/23/2020 (1758 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are optical elements that contains two or more near infrared absorbers and methods of producing the same. Two near infrared absorbers with different near infrared wavelengths absorption ranges and residual colors are mixed with a precursor of an optical substrate. The resulting mixture is subsequently processed to produce optical elements that have a broad near infrared wavelength absorption range and a neutral residual color.

[G02B] OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS (G02F takes precedence; optical elements specially adapted for use in lighting devices or systems thereof F21V 1/00-F21V 13/00; measuring-instruments, see the relevant subclass of class G01, e.g. optical rangefinders G01C; testing of optical elements, systems, or apparatus G01M 11/00; spectacles G02C; apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them G03B; sound lenses G10K 11/30; electron and ion “optics” H01J; X-ray “optics” H01J, H05G 1/00; optical elements structurally combined with electric discharge tubes H01J 5/16, H01J 29/89, H01J 37/22; microwave “optics” H01Q; combination of optical elements with television receivers H04N 5/72; optical systems or arrangements in colour television systems H04N 9/00; heating arrangements specially adapted for transparent or reflecting areas H05B 3/84) [7]

Self-propelled device with color differentiated functions
Patent No. 12197226 

Inventor(s): Jeff Wiencrot (Boulder, CO)
Assignee(s): Sphero, Inc. (Greenville, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17590361 on 02/01/2022 (1078 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for operating a self-propelled device. In examples, an indication of a surface color on which the self-propelled device operates is received from one or more optical sensors. A color transition from a first color to a second color may be determined based on the received indication. Based on the determined color transition, an activity may be determined. For example, an activity may cause the self-propelled device to move, emit a sound, or illuminate a light, such as an LED. The determined activity may then be performed. In some examples, a hysteresis band may limit the effects of noise and other variations in the color signal. Accordingly, a color transition may occur when color values associated with the surface color indicated are within a first area but not within a second area.

[G05D] SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES (for continuous casting of metals B22D 11/16; valves per se F16K; sensing non-electric variables, see the relevant subclasses of G01; for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F)

Power management for a memory device
Patent No. 12197264 

Inventor(s): Gary L. Howe (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Holland Hart LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17094579 on 11/10/2020 (1526 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for power management for a memory device are described. For example, a memory device may include one or more memory dies and may be configured to operate using a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage. The first supply voltage may be associated with a first defined voltage range, and the second supply voltage may be associated with a second defined voltage range. The memory device may include a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) that is coupled with the one or more memory dies and provides the supply voltages to the one or more memory dies. The PMIC may be configured to provide, to the one or more memory dies, a first voltage that is within the first defined voltage range as the first supply voltage and a second voltage that is outside the second defined voltage range as the second supply voltage.

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

Hardware coherence signaling protocol
Patent No. 12197331 

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX), Naveen Bhoria (Plano, TX), Pete Michael Hippleheuser (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18487196 on 10/16/2023 (456 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a CPU core and a L1 cache subsystem including a L1 main cache, a L1 victim cache, and a L1 controller. The apparatus includes a L2 cache subsystem including a L2 main cache, a shadow L1 main cache, a shadow L1 victim cache, and a L2 controller configured to receive a read request from the L1 controller as a single transaction. Read request includes a read address, a first indication of an address and a coherence state of a cache line A to be moved from the L1 main cache to the L1 victim cache to allocate space for data returned in response to the read request, and a second indication of an address and a coherence state of a cache line B to be removed from the L1 victim cache in response to the cache line A being moved to the L1 victim cache.

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

Memory pipeline control in a hierarchical memory system
Patent No. 12197332 

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, TX), David Matthew Thompson (Dallas, TX), Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Timothy Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18584181 on 02/22/2024 (327 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a processor system includes a processor core generating memory transactions, a lower level cache memory with a lower memory controller, and a higher level cache memory with a higher memory controller having a memory pipeline. The higher memory controller is connected to the lower memory controller by a bypass path that skips the memory pipeline. The higher memory controller: determines whether a memory transaction is a bypass write, which is a memory write request indicated not to result in a corresponding write being directed to the higher level cache memory; if the memory transaction is determined a bypass write, determines whether a memory transaction that prevents passing is in the memory pipeline; and if no transaction that prevents passing is determined to be in the memory pipeline, sends the memory transaction to the lower memory controller using the bypass path.

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

Zero latency prefetching in caches
Patent No. 12197334 

Inventor(s): Hung Ong (Plano, TX), Oluleye Olorode (Garland, TX), Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17940070 on 09/08/2022 (859 days app to issue)

Abstract: This invention involves a cache system in a digital data processing apparatus including: a central processing unit core; a level one instruction cache; and a level two cache. The cache lines in the second level cache are twice the size of the cache lines in the first level instruction cache. The central processing unit core requests additional program instructions when needed via a request address. Upon a miss in the level one instruction cache that causes a hit in the upper half of a level two cache line, the level two cache supplies the upper half level cache line to the level one instruction cache. On a following level two cache memory cycle, the level two cache supplies the lower half of the cache line to the level one instruction cache. This cache technique thus prefetches the lower half level two cache line employing fewer resources than an ordinary prefetch.

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

Streaming engine with multi dimensional circular addressing selectable at each dimension
Patent No. 12197343 

Inventor(s): Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18357732 on 07/24/2023 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: A streaming engine employed in a digital data processor may specify a fixed read-only data stream defined by plural nested loops. An address generator produces address of data elements for the nested loops. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. A stream template register independently specifies a linear address or a circular address mode for each of the nested loops.

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

Methods and apparatus to reduce bank pressure using aggressive write merging
Patent No. 12197347 

Inventor(s): Naveen Bhoria (Plano, TX), Pete Michael Hippleheuser (Murphy, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18362015 on 07/31/2023 (533 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to reduce bank pressure using aggressive write merging are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first cache storage; a second cache storage; a store queue coupled to at least one of the first cache storage and the second cache storage and operable to: receive a first memory operation; process the first memory operation for storing the first set of data in at least one of the first cache storage and the second cache storage; receive a second memory operation; and prior to storing the first set of data in the at least one of the first cache storage and the second cache storage, merge the first memory operation and the second memory operation.

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

Methods and systems for requesting atomic operations in a computing system
Patent No. 12197351 

Inventor(s): Christopher Baronne (Allen, TX), Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17813780 on 07/20/2022 (909 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for requesting an atomic operation. A first hardware compute element may send a first request via a network structure, where the first request comprises an atomic opcode indicating an atomic operation to be performed by a second hardware compute element. The network structure may provide an address bus from the first hardware compute element for providing the atomic opcode to the second hardware compute element. The second hardware compute element may execute the atomic operation and send confirmation data indicating completion of the atomic operation. The network structure may provide a second bus from the second hardware compute element and the first hardware compute element. The second bus may be for providing the confirmation data from the second hardware compute element to the first hardware compute element.

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

Algorithmic TCAM based ternary lookup
Patent No. 12197509 

Inventor(s): Patrick Bosshart (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Barefoot Networks, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Essential Patents Group, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18088182 on 12/23/2022 (753 days app to issue)

Abstract: An algorithmic TCAM based ternary lookup method is provided. The method stores entries for ternary lookup into several sub-tables. All entries in each sub-table have a sub-table key that includes the same common portion of the entry. No two sub-tables are associated with the same sub-table key. The method stores the keys in a sub-table keys table in TCAM. Each key has a different priority. The method stores the entries for each sub-table in random access memory. Each entry in a sub-table has a different priority. The method receives a search request to perform a ternary lookup for an input data item. A ternary lookup into the ternary sub-table key table stored in TCAM is performed to retrieve a sub-table index. The method performs a ternary lookup across the entries of the sub-table associated with the retrieved index to identify the highest priority matched entry for the input data item.

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

Reusable capability component shared by multiple web applications
Patent No. 12197527 

Inventor(s): Jonathan Ricklis (Richardson, TX), Venkata Sudharsan Dasa (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17308378 on 05/05/2021 (1350 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, apparatus, device, method and/or computer program product are disclosed for sharing a reusable capability component among multiple web applications. A device is configured to operate a web browser to load at least a portion of a first web application and render a page of the first web application to be displayed on a display device. The page includes a placeholder to indicate a placement for a reusable capability component including a frontend component and an associated backend component. The frontend component and the backend component of the reusable capability component can form an independent web application that can be used by the first and a second web application. Upon detection of a user navigation on the placeholder, the device loads, from a server, the frontend component of the reusable capability component to be rendered and placed within the page according to the placement indicated by the placeholder.

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

Multi-computer system for performing vulnerability analysis and alert generation
Patent No. 12197587 

Inventor(s): Ramkumar Korlepara (McKinney, TX), Viswanathan Venkatasubramanian (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17847805 on 06/23/2022 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: Arrangements for providing software vulnerability analysis and monitoring are provided. In some aspects, software bill of materials (SBOM) data may be received and software attributes may be extracted from the SBOM data. Author data may be received and analyzed using natural language processing and/or machine learning to identify author attributes. Current event or vulnerability data may be received. In some examples, one or more machine learning models may be executed to determine a confidence score associated with the software being analyzed. For instance, software attributes, author attributes, and current event data may be used as inputs in the machine learning model and a confidence score may be output. Based on the confidence score, one or more alerts may be generated and transmitted to one or more enterprise organization computing devices.

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

Processors with security levels adjustable per applications
Patent No. 12197627 

Inventor(s): Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, IL)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17393248 on 08/03/2021 (1260 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to adjustable security levels in processors are described. A processor may have functional units and a register configured to control security operations of the functional units. The register configures the functional units to operate in a first mode of security operations when the register contains a first setting; and the register configures the functional units to operate in a second mode of security operations when the register contains a second setting (e.g., to skip/bypassing a set of security operation circuit for enhanced execution speed).

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

Security management of ferroelectric memory device
Patent No. 12197631 

Inventor(s): Craig A. Jones (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Brooks, Cameron Huebsch, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17562916 on 12/27/2021 (1114 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to security management for a ferroelectric memory device are described. An example method can include receiving, at a memory controller and from a host, a command and firmware data. The memory controller can manage a non-volatile memory device, such as a ferroelectric memory device, and the host and the memory controller can communicate using a compute express link (CXL) protocol. The command can be executed to update firmware stored on the non-volatile memory device. The method can further include accessing a first public key from the non-volatile memory device. The method can further include validating the first public key with a second public key within the firmware data. The method can further include validating the firmware data. The method can further include verifying a security version of the firmware data. The method can further include updating the non-volatile memory device with the firmware data.

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

Methods and apparatus to schedule memory operations
Patent No. 12197730 

Inventor(s): Mihir Mody (Bangalore, , IN), Prithvi Y. A. (Bangalore, , IN), Srirama Govindarajan (Bangalore, , IN), Vignesh Raghavendra (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17848159 on 06/23/2022 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example device includes: a compute core configured to: send a first request to flash manager circuitry, the first request to store write data in a flash memory; and send a second request to the flash manager circuitry, the second request sent after the first request, the second request to transfer an XIP read operation to the flash memory; the flash manager circuitry configured to: receive the first request; transmit the write data to the flash memory for storing in the flash memory; receive the second request before the storing of the write data is complete; determine whether to preempt the storing of the write data, transmit, in response to a determination to preempt, the XIP read operation to the flash; and the flash memory configured to provide data to the compute core based on the transmitted XIP read operation.

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

Command and address sequencing in parallel with data operations
Patent No. 12197783 

Inventor(s): Fanglin Zhang (Fremont, CA), Hua-Ling Cynthia Hsu (Fremont, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17732260 on 04/28/2022 (992 days app to issue)

Abstract: A command/address sequence associated with a read/write operation for a memory device that utilizes an existing test data bus in a novel way that obviates the need to utilize an I/O bus for the command/address sequence. As such, the command/address sequence can be performed in parallel with the read/write operations, thereby removing a performance bottleneck that would otherwise be caused by the command and address sequencing. The command/address sequence detects a first enable signal and a data signal on the test data bus and decodes the data signal to obtain at least one of a command latch enable signal and address latch enable signal and at least one of a command code and an address code.

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

Probabilistic design for metamaterials represented as program code
Patent No. 12197819 

Inventor(s): Elena Arvanitis (Somerville, NJ), Pratik Thakkar (Harrison, NJ), Reed Williams (Princeton, NJ), Scott Kolb (Hopewell, NJ), Sudipta Pathak (Lawrence, NJ), Wesley Reinhart (Boalsburg, PA)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17904239 on 02/25/2020 (1785 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computing system may include a metamaterial representation engine configured to represent a metamaterial of a three-dimensional (3D) object as program code. The metamaterial may define an internal geometry of the 3D object and may be configured to be physically constructed via additive manufacturing. Representation of the metamaterial as program code may include assigning a value of a code parameter of the metamaterial as a probability distribution. The computing system may also include a metamaterial analysis engine configured to analyze the metamaterial through the probability distribution assigned for the value of the code parameter of the program code.

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

Techniques for modeling and verification of convergence for hierarchical domain crossings
Patent No. 12197840 

Inventor(s): Sudhakar Surendran (Bengaluru, , IN), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17562728 on 12/27/2021 (1114 days app to issue)

Abstract: A technique for convergence verification including receiving a data object representation of a first circuit block, receiving one or more assumptions associated with the first circuit block, identifying a synchronization scheme coupled to a port of the first circuit block, determining that the synchronization scheme is within a threshold flip-flop depth, identifying, based on the determination that the synchronization scheme is within the threshold flip-flop depth, a type of the synchronization scheme and a flip-flop depth between the synchronization scheme and the port, generating first convergence information for the first circuit block based on the identified type and flip-flop depth of the synchronization scheme, and outputting the generated convergence information.

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

Exit history based branch prediction
Patent No. 12197917 

Inventor(s): David E. Smith, Jr. (Allen, TX), Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Paul D. Gauvreau (Dallas, TX), Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17849994 on 06/27/2022 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes fetching a fetch-packet containing a first hyper-block from a first address of a memory. The fetch-packet contains a bitwise distance from an entry point of the first hyper-block to a predicted exit point. A first branch instruction of the first hyper-block is executed that corresponds to a first exit point. The first branch instruction includes an address corresponding to an entry point of a second hyper-block. Responsive to executing the first branch instruction, a bitwise distance from the entry point of the first hyper-block to the first exit point is stored. A program counter is moved from the first exit point of the first hyper-block to the entry point of the second hyper-block.

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

Method and system for hosting platform in public cloud computing environment
Patent No. 12197957 

Inventor(s): Ilya Slavin (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: GREENBLUM BERNSTEIN, P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17661609 on 05/02/2022 (988 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and a system for hosting a market data distribution platform that is widely used by many financial organizations, such as Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform (TREP), in a public cloud computing environment is provided. The method includes facilitating a communication between the market data distribution platform and at least one server that operates in the public cloud; monitoring an amount of data being distributed on the platform and a number of clients that are accessing the platform; determining a minimum number of cloud servers required for servicing the clients; accessing at least the determined minimum number of servers; and facilitating communications between the servers and the platform. The number of servers and/or load amounts being handled by each server may be adjusted based on varying amounts of data and/or varying numbers of clients.

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

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating alternative evaluation messages
Patent No. 12197972 

Inventor(s): Stacy Hopkins (Tucker, GA)
Assignee(s): McKesson Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17705919 on 03/28/2022 (1023 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating a first evaluation message and an alternative evaluation messages in response to an electronic message from a requesting computer. Multiple responses, including a first evaluation message response and at least one alternative evaluation message response are returned to the requesting computer. A user can select one of the multiple responses for further forwarding to a verification system via a service provider computer. The service provider computer further facilitates verification of the selected response, such as an alternative evaluation system, via the verification system. The system enables generation of multiple pricing inquiries for alternative therapy and/or via different pricing schemas, to be imitated by a pharmacy computer upon a patient requesting a prescription refill.

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

Machine learning model training system
Patent No. 12198016 

Inventor(s): Bharathiraja Krishnamoorthy (Plano, TX), Emad Noorizadeh (Plano, TX), Ion Gerald McCusker (Allen, TX), Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony, TX), Ravisha Andar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16997179 on 08/19/2020 (1609 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for horizontal scaling of retraining machine learning models across operational domains is provided. The system may reduce computational overhead associated model retraining. The system may include an artificial intelligence (‘’AI’) engine that determines target machine learning models that need to be retrained in response to changed training data. The AI engine may assign daemons to the target models. The daemons may gather retraining requirements such as source code and training data. The daemons may schedule the target models for retraining on a CPU or a GPU based model training system.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Executing a network of chatbots using a parallel bot approach
Patent No. 12198074 

Inventor(s): Emad Noorizadeh (Plano, TX), Priyank R. Shah (Plano, TX), Ramakrishna R. Yannam (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17243750 on 04/29/2021 (1356 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for parallel intent processing at a network of chatbots may be provided. A query may be received at a user interface. The query may be transmitted to multiple chatbots at the same time. Each chatbot may identify an intent for the query. Each chatbot may also identify a percentage of accuracy that the chatbot considers that the intent corresponds to the query. The chatbots may present the intents to the user interface. The user interface may rank the intents. The user interface may display the ranked intents to the user. The user interface may receive an intent selection from the user. The user interface may direct the user to the chatbot that identified the selected intent.

[G06N] COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

Hot-desking station and system
Patent No. 12198106 

Inventor(s): William Braaf (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Crestron Electronics, Inc. (Rockleigh, NJ)
Law Firm: Crestron Electronics, Inc. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17718953 on 04/12/2022 (1008 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hot-desking system includes a hot-desking station, including a hot-desking station device, and a hot-desking panel configured to display information regarding status of the hot-desking station and a 2D code associated with the hot-desking station. A docking station associated with the at least one hot-desking station includes input and output ports connected to the hot-desking station device. A hot-desking portal controls operation of and configuration of the hot-desking station, the docking station, and the hot-desking panel.

[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]

Automatically inserting an identifier into an item record using a web interface in embedded code on a website associated with a nonprofit entity, and generating, using the identifier, an impact statement communicating a value in charitable go
Patent No. 12198165 

Inventor(s): Raymond J. Gary, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): iDonate LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18882480 on 09/11/2024 (125 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method of processing, within a single procedure, cash equivalents and fix assets from any disposition class. The method includes identifying the benefactor and asset to be donation. Once identified, the asset is classified into one of three disposition classes. The disposition classes are used to determine the value for valuing. Once the value is determined, an impact statement is generated. Depending on the disposition class, the item is either converted to funds directly or through an intermediary. Once the item is converted to funds, the funds are transferred to the identified benefactor.

[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]

Method and system for determining an actual cost of ownership
Patent No. 12198168 

Inventor(s): Avid Ghamsari (Plano, TX), Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Jason Hoover (Grapevine, TX), Micah Price (The Colony, TX), Qiaochu Tang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18178265 on 03/03/2023 (683 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining an actual cost of ownership of a purchase product may include determining a baseline value of the purchase product, and receiving usage information representative of usage of a user product from a computing device in communication with the user product. The purchase product and the user product may belong to a same class of products. The method also may include determining a user cost component based on the received usage information, and determining an actual cost of ownership of the purchase product based on at least the baseline value and the user cost component.

[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]

System and method for blockchain-based network transitioned by a legal contract
Patent No. 12198212 

Inventor(s): Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Docusign, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Shumaker Sieffert, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18343810 on 06/29/2023 (565 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for transitioning a distributed ledger network according to a legal contract that includes: establishing a contract, which comprises generating a set of programmable clauses for the contract by implementing a templating system comprised of a template model that contains the logic of each programmable clause of the set of programmable clauses; operating a distributed ledger network between participants, wherein the distributed ledger network is configured with an application model that maps to the template model; updating the contract state; updating the distributed ledger network according to the application model; in response to at least one update to the contract state, recording an update to the distributed ledger network; and in response to at least one contract-associated update in the distributed ledger network, initiating execution of at least one programmable clause of the contract and recording a subsequent update to the distributed ledger network.

[G06Q] DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [2006.01]

Systems and methods for personality analysis for selection of courses, colleges, and/or careers
Patent No. 12198213 

Inventor(s): Sameer Ranjan (Richardson, TX), Sandhya Ganesan (Chennai, , IN), Shivakumar Viswanathan (Karnataka, , IN), Vishwa Karthik (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Catenate LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Ellenoff Grossman Schole LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17365227 on 07/01/2021 (1293 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and career planning system may receive inputs from a user in response to questions related to personality and may provide outputs related to preferences for schooling and other career options, such as courses, colleges, universities, programs, majors, careers, jobs, and/or companies. The personality of the user may be broken into four (or other numbers) different pillars, life vectors, and/or personality characteristics and the user may be provided a score in each of the pillars, life vectors, and/or personality characteristics based on the responses to the questions. These scores for each of the pillars, life vectors, and/or personality characteristics may be then matched to various schooling and career option recommendations for the user.

[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]

Detection and prevention of inmate to inmate message relay
Patent No. 12198214 

Inventor(s): Stephen L. Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18138553 on 04/24/2023 (631 days app to issue)

Abstract: Secure system and method of detecting and preventing inmate to inmate message relays. A system and method which monitors inmate communications for similar phrases that occur as part of two or more separate inmate messages. These similar phrases may be overlapping in real time as in a conference call or can occur at separate times in separate messages. The communications that appear similar are assigned a score and the score is compared to a threshold. If the score is above a certain threshold, the communication is flagged and remedial actions are taken. If the flagged communication contains illegal matter then the communication can be disconnected or restricted in the future.

[G06Q] DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [2006.01]

Systems and methods for virtual physical distancing
Patent No. 12198282 

Inventor(s): Bradley Jay Billman (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18494973 on 10/26/2023 (446 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for helping a user carrying a smart device to maintain safe distances from other persons during an epidemic or a pandemic. A portable smart device measures the approximate distance to persons in the vicinity of the user, and notifies the user whenever he or she is too close to other persons. The portable smart device may overlay augmented reality graphics (such as arcs, lines, text, numbers, or other graphics) over images captured by the smart device’s camera, to indicate safe distances. The graphics serve to inform and/or warn the user that he or she may be getting too close to other persons.

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

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for creating 3-dimensional representations exhibiting geometric and surface characteristics of brain lesions
Patent No. 12198352 

Inventor(s): Darin T Okuda (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18449417 on 08/14/2023 (519 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and implementations for creating 3-dimensional (3D) representations exhibiting geometric and surface characteristics of brain lesions are disclosed. 2D and/or 3D MRI images of the brain may be acquired. Brain lesions and other abnormalities may be identified and isolated with each lesion serving as a region of interest (ROI). Saved ROI may be converted into stereolithography format, maximum intensity projection (MIP) images, and/or orthographic projection images. Data corresponding to these resulting 3D brain lesion images may be used to create 3D printed models of the isolated brain lesions using 3D printing technology. Analysis of the 3D brain lesion images and the 3D printed brain lesion models may enable a more efficient and accurate way of determining brain lesion etiologies.

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

Systems and methods for reconstructing objects using transitional images
Patent No. 12198363 

Inventor(s): Rachel Kohler (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: 18459332 on 08/31/2023 (502 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an object reconstruction module, a first image and a second image. The first image includes a first region of an object and the second image comprises a second region of the object. The method also includes identifying, by the object reconstruction module, a transitional image. The transitional image includes the first region of the object and the second region of the object. The method further includes determining, by the object reconstruction module, that the first region of the object in the transitional image and the first region of the object in the first image are equivalent regions and generating, by the object reconstruction module, a reconstruction of the object using the first image and the transitional image. The reconstruction of the object includes the first region of the object and the second region of the object and excludes equivalent regions.

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

Hand detection trigger for item identification
Patent No. 12198431 

Inventor(s): Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, TX), Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, TX), Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17455902 on 11/19/2021 (1152 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device configured to capture a first overhead depth image of the platform using a three-dimensional (3D) sensor at a first time instance and a second overhead depth image of a first object using the 3D sensor at a second time instance. The device is further configured to determine that a first portion of the first object is within a region-of-interest and a second portion of the first object is outside the region-of-interest in the second overhead depth image. The device is further configured to capture a third overhead depth image of a second object placed on the platform using the 3D sensor at a third time instance. The device is further configured to capture a first image of the second object using a camera in response to determining that the first object is outside of the region-of-interest and the second object is within the region-of-interest for the platform.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Yard mapping and asset tracking system
Patent No. 12198439 

Inventor(s): Ashutosh Prasad (Dallas, TX), Vivek Prasad (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): KoiReader Technologies, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18641560 on 04/22/2024 (267 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for generating a pixel map of a yard or facility in substantially real-time. The pixel map may be generated on-the-fly with virtual slots based on various vehicles and containers entering and exiting the yard or facility. In some cases, the pixel map may be utilized to track assets within the facility even if the physical identifier of the asset is unknown or the asset transitions between field of view of various image devices associated with the system.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Security camera device
Patent No. 12198516 

Inventor(s): Marcus-Alan Gilbert (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (, WA)
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17953780 on 09/27/2022 (840 days app to issue)

Abstract: An audio/video (A/V) device includes a first housing and a second housing rotatably coupled to the first housing. The first housing includes a camera oriented in a first direction, one or more microphones oriented in the first direction, one or more first lighting elements oriented in the first direction, one or more second lighting elements oriented in a second direction, one or more third lighting elements oriented in a third direction, and one or more first contacts. The second housing includes a loudspeaker oriented in a fourth direction and one or more second contacts configured to engage with the one or one first contacts. An engagement between the one or more first contacts and the one or more second contacts communicatively couples the loudspeaker to computing components with the first housing.

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

Drone warning system for preventing wrong-way collisions
Patent No. 12198551 

Inventor(s): James P. Bradley (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Terrile, Cannatti Chambers, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18385678 on 10/31/2023 (441 days app to issue)

Abstract: A roadway safety system, method, and apparatus are provided for preventing a wrong-way collisions on roadways and exit ramps of roadways by maintaining robotic drones at a drone docking station located along the roadway and/or at or near an exit ramp of the roadway; monitoring the exit ramp to detect a wrong-way vehicle that enters the exit ramp in a wrong direction; transmitting a first communication signal to a safety control system upon detecting the wrong-way vehicle; launching at least a first robotic drone from the one or more robotic drones toward the wrong-way vehicle in response to the first communication signal; and generating an alert or warning message from at least the first robotic drone to notify a driver of the wrong-way vehicle that the wrong-way vehicle is traveling in the wrong direction.

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

Systems and methods for multilingual dialogue interactions using dynamic automatic speech recognition and processing
Patent No. 12198689 

Inventor(s): Daniel Lee Whitenack (West Lafayette, IN), Joshua John Nemecek (Vienna, VA), Stephen Anthony Moitozo, II (Lewiston, ME)
Assignee(s): Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17398826 on 08/10/2021 (1253 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a processor; a memory; an electronic network; an application including computing instructions configured to be executed by the processor; and a multilingual dialogue server accessible by the application, comprising a language detection model, and an automatic speech recognition model; wherein the computing instructions of the app, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the one or more processors to: receive input; analyze the input using the trained model; select a speech model; analyze the input; generate metadata; and transmit the metadata. A method includes receiving input; analyzing the input; selecting a speech model; analyzing the input; generating metadata; and transmitting the metadata. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to: receive input; analyze the input; select a trained speech model; analyze the input; generate metadata; and transmit the metadata.

[G10L] SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING [4]

Data labeling system and method operative with patient and clinician controller devices disposed in a remote care architecture
Patent No. 12198821 

Inventor(s): Douglas Alfred Lautner (Frisco, TX), James Nagle (Celina, TX), Scott DeBates (Frisco, TX), Tucker Tomlinson (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18331342 on 06/08/2023 (586 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating remote care management involving a patient having an implantable medical device (IMD). Upon establishing a remote care session between a patient controller device and a clinician programmer, wherein the clinician and the patient are remotely located with respect to each other, input from the patient or the clinician may be received via a user interface control associated with a particular functionality or aspect of the remote care session, including audiovisual (AV) communications, remote therapy programming, and related context. Responsive to the user input, a dialog interface is effectuated at one of the patient controller device and/or the clinician programmer. A user characterization label is received via the dialog interface from the user, wherein the user characterization label is indicative of a subjective assessment of the particular functionality of the remote care session, which may be used in generating user-labeled data pertaining thereto.

[G16H] HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA

Optical system including light control film and Fresnel lens
Patent No. 12201005 

Inventor(s): Caleb T. Nelson (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (St. Paul, MN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18643225 on 04/23/2024 (266 days app to issue)

Abstract: An optical system includes an optical film curved about a first axis and a light control film curved about the first axis. The light control film can be disposed between a light source and the optical film. The optical film includes a microstructured first major surface and an opposing second major surface. The microstructured first major surface defines a linear Fresnel lens including a plurality of Fresnel elements extending longitudinally along the first axis. The first major surface of the optical film faces the light control film. The light control film can include a plurality of alternating optically transmissive and optically absorptive regions extending longitudinally along the first axis such that in a cross-section orthogonal to the first axis, for at least a majority of the optically transmissive regions, a centerline between adjacent optically absorptive regions is substantially normal to a major surface of the light control film.

[G02B] OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS (G02F takes precedence; optical elements specially adapted for use in lighting devices or systems thereof F21V 1/00-F21V 13/00; measuring-instruments, see the relevant subclass of class G01, e.g. optical rangefinders G01C; testing of optical elements, systems, or apparatus G01M 11/00; spectacles G02C; apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them G03B; sound lenses G10K 11/30; electron and ion “optics” H01J; X-ray “optics” H01J, H05G 1/00; optical elements structurally combined with electric discharge tubes H01J 5/16, H01J 29/89, H01J 37/22; microwave “optics” H01Q; combination of optical elements with television receivers H04N 5/72; optical systems or arrangements in colour television systems H04N 9/00; heating arrangements specially adapted for transparent or reflecting areas H05B 3/84) [7]

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Microchannel plate and method of making the microchannel plate with metal contacts selectively formed on one side of channel openings
Patent No. 12198916 

Inventor(s): Cooper Gray Temple (Christiansburg, VA), Matthew Robert Curtis (Blue Ridge, VA), Stephen Carroll (Salem, VA), William J. Baney (Roanoke, VA)
Assignee(s): Elbit Systems of America, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18442690 on 02/15/2024 (334 days app to issue)

Abstract: A night vision system, a microchannel plate (MCP), and a planetary deposition system and methodology are provided for selectively depositing an electrode contact metal on one side of MCP channel openings. MCPs can be secured to a face of a platter that rotates about its central platter axis. The rotating platter can be tilted on a fixture surrounding an evaporative source of contact metal. A mask with a variable size mask opening is arranged between the rotating platter and the evaporative source. While the mask orbits around the evaporative source with the rotating platter, the mask does not rotate along its own axis as does the rotating platter. Depending on the opening of the non-rotating mask, and the tilt angle of the rotating platter, the respective circumferential distance around and the depth into the shaded first side of the channel opening is controlled.

[H01J] ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS (spark-gaps H01T; arc lamps with consumable electrodes H05B; particle accelerators H05H)

Laser dicing for singulation
Patent No. 12198982 

Inventor(s): Dave Charles Stepniak (Allen, TX), Genki Yano (Beppu, , JP), Matthew John Sherbin (Dallas, TX), Michael Todd Wyant (Dallas, TX), Sada Hiroyuki (Beppu, , JP), Shoichi Iriguchi (Beppu, , JP)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17960568 on 10/05/2022 (832 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, a method includes: applying a dicing tape over a metal layer covering a portion of a surface of scribe streets on a device side of a semiconductor wafer that includes semiconductor device dies formed thereon separated from one another by the scribe streets; and placing the semiconductor wafer with the device side facing away from a laser in a stealth dicing machine. A power of a laser beam is adjusted to a first power level. The laser beam is focused through the non-device side of the semiconductor wafer to a first focal depth in the metal layer. The laser beam scans across the scribe streets and ablates the metal layer in the scribe streets. The method continues by singulating the semiconductor device dies using stealth dicing along the scribe streets in the stealth dicing machine.

[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]

Covers for semiconductor package components
Patent No. 12198995 

Inventor(s): Leslie Edward Stark (Heath, TX), Sreenivasan Kalyani Koduri (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18484321 on 10/10/2023 (462 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a semiconductor package comprises a semiconductor die; an operational component on an active surface of the semiconductor die; and a cover coupled to the active surface of the semiconductor die and covering the operational component. The cover comprises a monolithic structure including a vertical portion and a horizontal portion. A hollow area is between the cover and the operational component. The package also includes a mold compound covering the semiconductor die and the cover.

[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]

Package heat dissipation including a die attach film
Patent No. 12199008 

Inventor(s): Jaimal Mallory Williamson (McKinney, TX), Rongwei Zhang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17219602 on 03/31/2021 (1385 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, a semiconductor package comprises a substrate including a conductive layer; a conductive pillar coupled to the conductive layer; and a semiconductor die having first and second opposing surfaces. The first surface is coupled to the conductive pillar. The package also includes a die attach film abutting the second surface of the semiconductor die and a metal layer abutting the die attach film and having a metal layer surface facing away from the die attach film. The metal layer surface is exposed to an exterior of the FCCSP. The package includes a mold compound layer covering the substrate.

[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]

Shallow trench isolation processing with local oxidation of silicon
Patent No. 12199091 

Inventor(s): Li Wang (Plano, TX), Robert Martin Higgins (Plano, TX), Venugopal Balakrishna Menon (Dallas, TX), Xiaoju Wu (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17503877 on 10/18/2021 (1184 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure on or in a semiconductor surface layer and forming a mask on the semiconductor surface layer, where the mask exposes a surface of a dielectric material of the STI structure and a prospective local oxidation of silicon (LOCOS) portion of a surface of the semiconductor surface layer. The method also includes performing an oxidation process using the mask to oxidize silicon in an indent in the dielectric material of the STI structure and to grow an oxide material on the exposed LOCOS portion of the surface of the semiconductor surface layer.

[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]

Trench Schottky barrier rectifier and method for fabricating same
Patent No. 12199192 

Inventor(s): Bau-Shun Huang (New Taipei, , TW), Pin-Hao Huang (New Taipei, , TW), Tao Long (Shanghai, , CN), Ze Rui Chen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18415503 on 01/17/2024 (363 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor rectifier device includes: an epitaxial layer, having a top surface and a bottom surface; a first doped region having a first conductivity type, located in the epitaxial layer; a first trench structure, located in the first doped region; a second trench structure adjacent to the first trench structure, located in the first doped region; a second doped region having a second conductivity type, located in the epitaxial layer between the first trench structure and the second trench structure, wherein a depth of the second doped region is less than a depth of the first trench structure; and a metal layer, located on the top surface of the epitaxial layer, covering the first trench structure, the second trench structure, and the second doped region, wherein the metal layer is in contact with the top surface, forming a Schottky interface.

[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]

Compounds for the application of thick coating layer in Li metal battery and solid electrolyte in all-solid-state lithium batteries
Patent No. 12199278 

Inventor(s): Chen Ling (Troy, MI)
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: 18425245 on 01/29/2024 (351 days app to issue)

Abstract: Lithium antimony sulfide compounds having crystal structure of a space group selected from P4/mmm, P2[subscript]1[/subscript], P2[subscript]1[/subscript]2[subscript]1[/subscript]2[subscript]1[/subscript], Pmma, P2/c and Pnma and having a lithium ion conductivity of at least 10[superscript]5 [/superscript]S/cm are described. The materials are useful as coatings of lithium metal anodes to prevent dendrite formation and to provide solid-state lithium batteries having high energy density.

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

Support members for fuel cell fluid flow networks
Patent No. 12199320 

Inventor(s): Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17085822 on 10/30/2020 (1537 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fuel cell may include a first fuel cell bipolar plate defining an air layer, a second fuel cell bipolar plate defining a hydrogen layer, and a coolant layer defined by the air layer and the hydrogen layer. The coolant layer includes a plurality of coolant microchannels that facilitate flow of a coolant. One or more support members are to extend between the air layer and the hydrogen layer to define one or more additional coolant flow paths between the air layer and the hydrogen layer.

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

Base station antennas having compact dual-polarized box dipole radiating elements therein that support high band cloaking
Patent No. 12199345 

Inventor(s): Bo Wu (Allen, TX), Mohammed Vatankhah Varnoosfaderani (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Claremont, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18245141 on 09/16/2021 (1216 days app to issue)

Abstract: A box dipole radiating element uses a compact quad arrangement of substantially coplanar radiating arms to support slant-polarized radiation, in response to differential-mode currents generated along four sides thereof and in response to common-mode currents, which may be generated in substantially the same plane as the differential-mode currents. A feed signal routing network is provided, which includes a feed signal routing substrate on portions of the radiating arms, first through fourth signal traces on a forward face of the substrate, and first through fourth ground plane segments on a rear face of the substrate. These first through fourth ground plane segments are capacitively coupled to the radiating arms. Each of the signal traces receives a corresponding feed signal, and spans a corresponding air gap between a pair of the radiating arms.

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

System and method for recharging a battery
Patent No. 12199463 

Inventor(s): Chutao Zhang (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17331678 on 05/27/2021 (1328 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes detecting a voltage of the battery, detecting a current of the battery, determining a depth of discharge of the battery based on the voltage and the current of the battery, and controlling terminating charging of the battery responsive to the determined depth of discharge of the battery reaching a depth of discharge threshold. A system includes a battery gauge circuit and a processor coupled to the battery gauge circuit. The battery gauge circuit has a voltage sense input and a current sense input and is configured to determine a depth of discharge of a battery based on a battery voltage at the voltage sense input and a battery current at the current sense input. The processor is configured to control terminating charging of the battery responsive to the determined depth of discharge reaching a depth of discharge threshold.

[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)

Artificial muscles, artificial muscle assemblies, and methods of using same
Patent No. 12199527 

Inventor(s): Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, 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: 17953611 on 09/27/2022 (840 days app to issue)

Abstract: An artificial muscle including a housing, an electrode pair positioned in an electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode each including a pair of tab portions and a bridge portion, the pair of tab portions extending parallel to one another to define a gap portion between the pair of tab portions, the gap portion having a constant gap width extending along a tab length of the pair of tab portions, the bridge portion interconnecting the pair of tab portions, and a dielectric fluid housed within the housing, wherein the electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into an expandable fluid region of the housing.

[H02N] ELECTRIC MACHINES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Artificial muscles including closing aid, artificial muscle assemblies, and methods of using same
Patent No. 12199528 

Inventor(s): Erin J. Rutledge (Tipton, MI), Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, 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: 18058488 on 11/23/2022 (783 days app to issue)

Abstract: An artificial muscle including a housing, an electrode pair positioned in an electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode each including a pair of tab portions and a bridge portion interconnecting the pair of tab portions, and a first closing aid provided exteriorly of the housing opposite the electrode pair and applying a force in a direction toward the electrode region of the housing, wherein the electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state results in attraction of the first electrode and the second electrode.

[H02N] ELECTRIC MACHINES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Semiconductor switches for high voltage operations
Patent No. 12199597 

Inventor(s): Rajat Kulshrestha (Bangalore, , IN), Rohan Sinha (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18350874 on 07/12/2023 (552 days app to issue)

Abstract: Semiconductor switches for high voltage operations are described. The semiconductor switch includes a first DE-NMOS FET including a gate coupled to a node of the switch with its source and drain coupled to input and output nodes, respectively. The switch also includes a second DE-NMOS FET with a drain coupled to the node. A gate of the second DE-NMOS FET is configured to receive a signal enabling or disabling the switch. The switch includes a voltage source (e.g., a voltage-controlled voltage source) coupled to the node, which supplies a first voltage at the node. The first voltage is greater than a second voltage at the input node by a predetermined amount such that the first DE-NMOS FET may operate within a safe operating area while supporting high voltage operations. The switch also includes a current source configured to supply current to the voltage source.

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

Power transistor thermal control via integrated thermoelectric device
Patent No. 12199607 

Inventor(s): Andres Arturo Blanco (Garland, TX), Ankur Chauhan (Kharapur, , IN), Henry Litzmann Edwards (Garland, TX), Kushal D. Murthy (Bangalore, , IN), Orlando Lazaro (Cary, NC)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18103753 on 01/31/2023 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure introduces integrated circuits and related manufacturing methods, wherein each integrated circuit includes an electronic device and a thermoelectric circuit. The electronic device is formed in and/or over a semiconductor substrate. The thermoelectric circuit includes thermopiles formed in and/or over the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected in series. The thermoelectric circuit is configured to modulate operation of the electronic device in response to a potential produced by the plurality of thermopiles.

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

Oscillator circuit with open loop frequency modulation
Patent No. 12199611 

Inventor(s): Tianyu Chang (Richardson, TX), Vishnu Ravinuthula (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18171413 on 02/20/2023 (694 days app to issue)

Abstract: An oscillator circuit includes a ring oscillator and a ramp generator. The ring oscillator includes a first inverter and a second inverter. The first inverter has and a first inverter input, a first inverter output, and a first power terminal. The second inverter has a second inverter input, a second inverter output, and a second power terminal. The second inverter input is coupled to the first inverter output and the second inverter output is coupled to the first inverter input. The ramp generator circuit has a ramp output coupled to the first power terminal and the second power terminal.

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

Programmable gain amplifier and a delta sigma analog-to-digital converter containing the PGA
Patent No. 12199630 

Inventor(s): Jun Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18061512 on 12/05/2022 (771 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes an operational amplifier and a resistor network coupled to an output of the operational amplifier. The resistor network includes a first set of resistors coupled between the output of the operational amplifier and a first node of the resistor network, wherein the resistors of the first set are electrically connected in series with each other, a second set of resistors coupled between the first node and a second node of the resistor network, wherein the resistors of the second set are electrically connected in series with each other and include a first number of resistors, a third set of resistors coupled between the second node and a third node of the resistor network, wherein the third node is coupled to a first voltage, and wherein the resistors of the third set are electrically connected in parallel with each other and include a second number of resistors, and a resistor coupled between the first node and the second node and arranged in parallel with the second set of resistors.

[H03G] CONTROL OF AMPLIFICATION (impedance networks, e.g. attenuators, H03H; control of transmission in lines H04B 3/04)

Pseudo channel hopping using scan dwell times in mesh networks without time synchronization
Patent No. 12199660 

Inventor(s): Arvind Kandhalu Raghu (Plano, TX), Kaichien Tsai (Allen, TX), Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17853660 on 06/29/2022 (930 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for pseudo channel hopping in a node of a wireless mesh network is provided that includes scanning each channel of a plurality of channels used for packet transmission by the node, wherein each channel is scanned for a scan dwell time associated with the channel, updating statistics for each channel based on packets received by the node during the scanning of the channel, and changing scan dwell times of the plurality of channels periodically based on the statistics.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Method and apparatus for multi panel radar operation
Patent No. 12199684 

Inventor(s): Anum Ali (Plano, TX), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Jianhua Mo (Allen, TX), Vutha Va (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17585450 on 01/26/2022 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and a wireless communication device for managing activation of radar modules in the device are disclosed herein. The device comprises a plurality of wireless communication modules, a plurality of radar modules, and a processor. The wireless communication modules comprise one or more antennas that are configured to transmit and receive wireless communication signals, and the radar modules comprise one or more antennas that are configured to transmit and receive radar signals. The processor is configured to determine which of the wireless communication modules are active, obtain spatial information comprising spatial positions within the device of the wireless communication modules and the radar modules, determine one or more transmission characteristics of the active wireless communication modules and the radar modules, determine a set of the plurality of radar modules to activate based on the spatial information and the transmission characteristics, and activate the determined set of radar modules.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Data transmission via power line
Patent No. 12199694 

Inventor(s): Gary Chard (Murphy, TX), Mark Alan McAdams (Plano, TX), Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, TX), Win Naing Maung (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18461574 on 09/06/2023 (496 days app to issue)

Abstract: At least some aspects of the present disclosure provide for a method. In some examples, the method includes receiving 2-line data in an embedded Universal Serial Bus (eUSB) format. The method further includes encoding the 2-line data into a single signal. The single signal comprises a first symbol corresponding to a first state change of the 2-line data and a second symbol corresponding to a second state change of the 2-line data.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

System and method for remote monitoring of released individual
Patent No. 12199698 

Inventor(s): Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18205259 on 06/02/2023 (592 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for activating remote monitoring functionality of a personal wireless device associated with a released individual. After incarceration, former inmates are released under a variety of different circumstances, many of which require follow-up check-ins with case managers or other individuals. As part of their release, inmates often agree to multiple restrictions and requirements. In order to better monitor compliance with those requirements, a personal wireless device assigned to the released individual can be programmed with certain rules and automatically trigger when a violation is detected. As a result of a detected violation, the personal wireless device activates certain devices, such as a camera, microphone, etc., to capture data in order to remotely monitor the released individual. A case manager can also manually activate monitoring.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Sector-splitting multi-beam base station antennas having multiple beamforming networks per polarization
Patent No. 12199703 

Inventor(s): Xiangyang Ai (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Claremont, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18071779 on 11/30/2022 (776 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sector-splitting base station antenna includes a plurality of RF ports, a plurality of columns of radiating elements, a first beamforming network that is coupled between a first subset of the RF ports and a first antenna array that comprises a first subset of the columns of radiating elements, and a second beamforming network that is coupled between a second subset of the RF ports and a second antenna array that comprises a second subset of the columns of radiating elements. The first beamforming network and the first antenna array are configured to generate a first plurality of antenna beams that provide coverage to a first side of a sector of a cell of a cellular communications system but not to a second side of the sector, and the second beamforming network and the second antenna array are configured to generate a second plurality of antenna beams that provide coverage to the second side of the sector but not to the first side of the sector.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

System and method for time-delay based hybrid beamforming
Patent No. 12199724 

Inventor(s): Ahmad AlAmmouri (Garland, TX), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Gang Xu (Allen, TX), Jianhua Mo (Allen, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (Dallas, TX), Jin Yuan (Plano, TX), Shadi Abu-Surra (Plano, TX), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, TX,
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18047963 on 10/19/2022 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes determining one or more delay values and one or more phase shift values for generation of multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams. The method also includes configuring one or more true-time delay (TTD) elements and one or more phase shifters of a transceiver based on the one or more delay values and the one or more phase shift values, the transceiver having one or more radio-frequency (RF) chains connected to multiple antennas via the one or more TTD elements and the one or more phase shifters. The method also includes operating the transceiver to generate the multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Optical transmission system, optical transmission device, and optical transmission method
Patent No. 12199741 

Inventor(s): David Dal Farra (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Fujitsu Limited (Kawasaki, , JP)
Law Firm: STAAS HALSEY LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17954985 on 09/28/2022 (839 days app to issue)

Abstract: An optical transmission device configured to: receive an input of signal interruption information from a second optical transmission device that detects a signal interruption of signal light on a transmission path, and to receive an input of ASE light after the signal interruption, has a wavelength selective switch configured to drop and/or add signal light; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: switch, based on the input of the signal interruption information from the second optical transmission device, control of output of the wavelength selective switch from a constant level control of the output, to a constant level control of attenuation for holding an amount of the attenuation of the signal light constant; and return the constant level control of the attenuation to the constant level control of the output, after the input of the ASE light.

[H04J] MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION (peculiar to transmission of digital information H04L 5/00; systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal H04N 7/08; in exchanges H04Q 11/00)

Passive optical network (PON) frame design
Patent No. 12199758 

Inventor(s): Frank Effenberger (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17449790 on 10/01/2021 (1201 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method comprises generating a PON frame comprising a plurality of FEC codewords, the FEC codewords comprise a first codeword, and the first codeword comprises a PSB; and transmitting the PON frame. A method comprises receiving a PON frame comprising a plurality of FEC codewords, the FEC codewords comprise a first codeword, and the first codeword comprises a PSB; and processing the PON frame.

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

Hospitality property management tool and system and method for use of same
Patent No. 12199791 

Inventor(s): 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: 17545344 on 12/08/2021 (1133 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hospitality property management tool and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, thermostats are located in respective rooms at a hospitality establishment. The thermostats are joined in network communication with environmental amenities, such as lights and a thermostat that respectively controls lighting and temperature. The thermostats utilize an unoccupied room profile and an occupied room profile to set the environmental conditions, such as the lighting and the temperature, in the rooms. A guest preference profile may be activated within a room to provide guest-specific environmental conditions in the room associated with a guest.

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

Method and system for network function migration procedures for a signaling control plane
Patent No. 12199809 

Inventor(s): Kazi Bashir (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): DISH Wireless L.L.C. (Englewood, CO)
Law Firm: KW Law, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18511277 on 11/16/2023 (425 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to migrate a set of network functions between control planes of a network slice A and a network slice B; and a migration management unit to manage a gradual staged transfer of a subset of the plurality of network functions originally contained in the control plane of the network slice A to the control plane of network slice B wherein the gradual transfer is a migration of the plurality of network functions in a set of multiple stages to create the subset of the plurality of network functions in the control plane of slice B, wherein each gradual staged transfer includes the migration of a reduced subset of the plurality of network functions contained in the control plane of the network slice A reconfigured to the control plane of the network slice B.

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

Augmented reality environment for providing instructions for repairing a PON device
Patent No. 12199814 

Inventor(s): Bryan Pauling (Rochester, NY), Eduardo Flores (Frisco, TX), John Valdez (Copper Canyon, TX)
Assignee(s): FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18636823 on 04/16/2024 (273 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for augmenting repair of a network failure in a Passive Optical Network (PON) include receiving sensor data at a client device indicating a current environment that includes an optical network terminal (ONT) in a PON. The PON includes an optical line terminal (OLT) optically connected to the ONT via one or more optical fibers. The client device analyzes the current environment to detect a cause of a network failure corresponding to the ONT, and generates a set of instructions for repairing the ONT based on the detected cause of the network failure. Then the client device provides the set of instructions for a user to follow to repair the ONT. The set of instructions are provided as the user repairs the ONT.

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

Cloud infrastructure for isolation and run-time behavioral tuning through configuration externalization
Patent No. 12199818 

Inventor(s): Anurag Andoji (Frisco, TX), Gopi Kancharla (Frisco, TX), Parvesh Kumar (Plano, TX), Praveen K. Tandra (Allen, TX), Raman Bajaj (Frisco, TX), Sanjiv Yajnik (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18112313 on 02/21/2023 (693 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to a cloud computing infrastructure and method of operating the same including at least: receiving a configuration file from a configuration repository; receiving a request from a first device to configure an application rule set of one or more nodes based on the configuration file; transmitting the request to a receiver node selected from the one or more nodes; generating a notification alerting the one or more nodes that the request is stored on a database; distributing the configuration file to a subset of the one or more nodes based on receipt of an access request from the one or more nodes; and updating the application rule set of the subset of the one or more nodes based on the configuration file.

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

Systems and methods for orchestration of network functions
Patent No. 12199825 

Inventor(s): Abhishek Kumar (Irving, TX), Bharath Thiruveedula (Irving, TX), Myron Eugene Bagwell (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking, Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18175594 on 02/28/2023 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network function virtualization (NFV) orchestration service includes a centralized orchestration device and a multi-cluster container management (MCCM) platform. The centralized orchestration device stores a catalog of virtual network function descriptors (VNFDs) in an input language; generates, based on the catalog of VNFDs, intents for containerized network function (CNF) services; and stores the generated intents as blocks in a central intent database, wherein the blocks include an input data model for the CNF services. The MCCM platform includes one or more processors to receive and store a copy of the intent database; read design time policies from the copy of the intent database; and convert the input data model into a vendor-specific output data model in an output language.

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

Method and apparatus for CSI feedback in comp (coordinated multi-point) system
Patent No. 12199894 

Inventor(s): Runhua Chen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17537177 on 11/29/2021 (1142 days app to issue)

Abstract: For coordinated multi-point communication (CoMP), UE measures the downlink wireless propagation channel corresponding to multiple geographically separated transmission points. The network configures multiple channel state indicator-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, each of which is associated with a TP. UE measures the downlink channel using the multiple configured CSI-RS resources, and reports multiple CSIs in the uplink feedback channel. Each CSI report is defined as a ‘’CSI-process’, where a CSI-process with a lower CSI-process-index has a higher priority. Multiple CSI-processes can be reported periodically. Each periodic CSI feedback comprises a single CSI-process. Different CSI-processes are time-domain-multiplexed on different uplink feedback time instances, and are not multiplexed in the same feedback time instance. If two CSI-processes collide in the time domain, the CSI-process of a higher priority is reported, and the CSI-process of a lower priority is dropped. The UE can also feedback multiple CSI-processes in an aperiodic manner, where multiple CSI-processes are reported simultaneously. Aperiodic feedback by the UE is triggered by an n-bit CSI-triggering field in an uplink grant transmitted by the network. Each codepoint of the n-bit triggering field triggers feedback of a subset of CSI-processes configured by the higher-layer. If a UE is configured with CoMP and without carrier aggregation (CA), CSI-processes are ordered by decreasing CSI-process priority. If

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

Tic detection-based video authentication method and system
Patent No. 12199964 

Inventor(s): Ryan Thomas Russell (The Colony, TX), William Daniel Farmer (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17514458 on 10/29/2021 (1173 days app to issue)

Abstract: A user specific tic behavior detection-based method and system of performing an authentication of video of a person in order to authorize access to a secured resource. The user provides audio and/or video data in which they exhibit one or more tic behaviors. When a person later requests access to the user’s account, the system and method are configured to capture a video and/or audio recording of the person requesting access. The data is evaluated to determine whether the previously detected tic behavior is present. If the tic behavior is present, the system determines the image or voice is authentic and can verify an identity of the person. In some cases, the system can further be configured to automatically grant the person access to one or more services, features, or information for which he or she is authorized.

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

Secured platform for managing transportation logistics
Patent No. 12199974 

Inventor(s): Brennan Bailey (Dallas, TX), Brittany Harlan Graft (University Park, TX), Charles Dew (Monroe, LA), Charles Jordan Graft (University Park, TX), Clark Taylor (Dallas, TX), John Harlan (Buena Vista, CO), Lawson Hopkins (Dal
Assignee(s): HIGHWAY APP, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17816634 on 08/01/2022 (897 days app to issue)

Abstract: A platform for creating secured connections between motor carriers and intermediaries by requiring physical identity verification of users and authentication of association with regulated entities. The platform may also offer security through distinguishing between authorized motor carrier personnel and third party dispatcher services.

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

Apparatus and methods for automating password generators
Patent No. 12199975 

Inventor(s): Marcus R. Matos (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17453014 on 11/01/2021 (1170 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for automating replacement and disablement of one-time password (‘’OTP’) generators are provided. The apparatus and methods may include an authentication engine on a server and an OTP generator that may generate a standard OTP or an enhanced OTP that includes additional information beyond the standard OTP. The authentication engine may analyze the additional information when an enhanced OTP is received, and in response to that additional information, execute an operation. The operation may include initiating the sending of a new OTP generator to a user when the OTP generator’s battery is failing or the OTP generator has been damaged or disabling an OTP generator when the OTP generator has been tampered with.

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

Cognitive information security using a behavior recognition system
Patent No. 12200002 

Inventor(s): Aaron Poffenberger (Houston, TX), Benjamin A. Konosky (Friendswood, TX), Charles Richard Morgan (Katy, TX), Cody Shay Falcon (Katy, TX), Curtis Edward Cole, Jr. (Spring, TX), Ming-Jung Seow (The Woodlands, TX), Thong Toan
Assignee(s): Intellective Ai, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18379711 on 10/13/2023 (459 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments presented herein describe a method for processing streams of data of one or more networked computer systems. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an ordered stream of normalized vectors corresponding to information security data obtained from one or more sensors monitoring a computer network is received. A neuro-linguistic model of the information security data is generated by clustering the ordered stream of vectors and assigning a letter to each cluster, outputting an ordered sequence of letters based on a mapping of the ordered stream of normalized vectors to the clusters, building a dictionary of words from of the ordered output of letters, outputting an ordered stream of words based on the ordered output of letters, and generating a plurality of phrases based on the ordered output of words.

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

System and method for detecting cyberattacks impersonating legitimate sources
Patent No. 12200013 

Inventor(s): Fahim Abbasi (Auckland, , NZ), Hassan Ahmed (Lahore Punjab, , PK), Mohsin Saeed (Lahore Punjab, , PK), Muhammad Zain ul abadin Gardezi (Milpitas, CA)
Assignee(s): Musarubra US LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Rutan Tucker, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18456953 on 08/28/2023 (505 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for detecting phishing cyberattacks. The method involves parsing a code segment retrieved using a suspect uniform resource locator (URL) to identify any links included in the code segment. From these links, additional code segments may be recovered in accordance with a code segment recovery scheme. Thereafter, analytics are performed on the retrieved and possibly recovered code segments. The analytics include determining whether any of the code segments is correlated with a code segment associated with a known prior phishing cyberattack. Upon completing the analytics, an alert message including meta-information associated with results from the analytics is generated to identify that the URL is associated with a known prior phishing cyberattack when one or perhaps a combination of code segments associated with the URL are correlated to any code segment associated with a known prior phishing cyberattack.

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

Secure multi-verification of biometric data in a distributed computing environment
Patent No. 12200132 

Inventor(s): Jeff J. Stapleton (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17895469 on 08/25/2022 (873 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for secure multi-verification of biometric data in a distributed computing environment. The techniques include receiving a request to grant authorization to a second user. The request can include biometric data of the first user and second user. An authorization token can be generated based on the request, which can be transmitted to a second computing device of the second user. A second request can be received from a third computing device that includes the authorization token and third biometric data. The second request can be verified based on the authorization token, the third biometric data, and provenance data, and an indication that the grant of authorization to the second user is verified can be transmitted to the first, second, or third computing devices.

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

System and method of establishing a trusted relationship in a distributed system
Patent No. 12200138 

Inventor(s): Jian Li (Plano, TX), Lifeng Liu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17832410 on 06/03/2022 (956 days app to issue)

Abstract: A node in a distributed network computes a hash of content for a service received in a data packet. The node verifies the data packet by comparing the hash of the content of a service received from a neighboring node to a hash of the content computed by the node. An amount of content of the service having a same identification is accumulated in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the node, and a signature based on code stored in a TEE of the node is generated. The node then sends the data packet to the next neighboring node, where the service-related information includes the service ID, a hash of the service content and the signature. The service records with the accumulated amount of service content, accumulated hash values, and nodes’ signatures are sent to the validation nodes to reach consensus for the service provided.

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

Systems and methods for conducting remote attestation
Patent No. 12200141 

Inventor(s): Abel Fletcher (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17494716 on 10/05/2021 (1197 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a system that may receive a document associated with an entity and may generate a first hash associated with the document. The system may prompt a first user to provide a first signature of the document and may generate a second hash associated with the first signature. The system may prompt the first user to provide authentication information and may determine whether received authentication information matches stored authentication information. In response to determining the authentication information matches the stored authentication information, the system may prompt a second user to provide a second signature of the document, may generate a third hash associated with the second signature, may generate a fourth hash associated with a verified record of the first, second, and third hashes, may generate a block comprising the first, second, third, and fourth hashes, and may publish the block to a blockchain.

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

Security system for inmate wireless devices
Patent No. 12200159 

Inventor(s): Stephen Lee Hodge (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17576282 on 01/14/2022 (1096 days app to issue)

Abstract: A layered security suite is disclosed wherein multiple security barriers that prevent the unsanctioned use of a mobile device issued by a controlled-environment facility. The security barriers are implemented along multiple points within the communication path between the mobile device with outside networks, including on the mobile device, on wireless access points that serve data traffic for the mobile device, and a firewall device that monitors all data coming to and from the wireless access points. The barriers on the mobile device prevent the user from performing unsanctioned application and settings changes, including both software and hardware components, while the barrier on the wireless access point detects and prevents unauthorized connections between mobile devices and unsanctioned wireless access points. The firewall device discards packets with unsanctioned internet addresses. The layers work in concert to prevent all manner of tampering with the mobile device by members of the controlled-environment facility.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Supporting captions for devices without native captions capability
Patent No. 12200168 

Inventor(s): Manish Joshi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17682584 on 02/28/2022 (1051 days app to issue)

Abstract: A call is conducted with a first device of a user, the first device lacking captions capability. A second device of the user is identified for receiving captions for the call from among a plurality of second devices of the user based on one or more from a group of distances of the second devices to a location of the first device, display quality of the second devices, status of the second devices, and user preferences for the second devices. An identified second device is joined to the call to receive the captions during the call conducted with the first device.

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

Method and system for reducing slice header parsing overhead in video coding
Patent No. 12200194 

Inventor(s): Minhua Zhou (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18201296 on 05/24/2023 (601 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for encoding a picture of a video sequence in a bit stream that reduces slice header parsing overhead is provided. The method includes determining weighting factors that may be used for weighted prediction in encoding at least one slice of the picture, wherein a total number of the weighting factors is constrained to not exceed a predetermined threshold number of weighting factors, wherein the threshold number is less than a maximum possible number of weighting factors, and signaling weighted prediction parameters including the weighting factors in a slice header in the bit stream.

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

System and method for determination and reconstruction of video and entertainment sessions in packet data networks
Patent No. 12200286 

Inventor(s): Hao Kang (Plano, TX), Natalia Schenck (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17901972 on 09/02/2022 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a plurality uplink data packets on a network, the plurality of uplink data packets conveying application protocol messages from an application on a mobile device to an application server providing a service to the application on the mobile device over the network; providing data packets of the plurality uplink data packets to a machine learning model, the machine learning model trained to identify respective application protocol messages from the data packets; receiving from the machine learning model an indication that a start video download application protocol message has been identified by the machine learning model, the start video download application protocol message requesting initiation of a video download to the application on the mobile device from the application server; detecting a plurality of downlink data packets on the network, the plurality of downlink data packets conveying video content data to the mobile device in response to the start video download application protocol message; comparing a watch time for displaying the video content data on the mobile device by the application and a download data time; and determining a stall event has occurred based on the comparing. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Set-top box with enhanced behavioral controls and system and method for use of same
Patent No. 12200295 

Inventor(s): William C. Fang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Enseo, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18330207 on 06/06/2023 (588 days app to issue)

Abstract: A set-top box with enhanced behavioral controls and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a signal input, a signal output, a processor, and memory. The set-top box may pair with an electronic door locking apparatus coupled to a door that is room-collocated with the set-top box in a hospitality establishment. The set-top box may then reprogram the electronic door locking apparatus as well as control amenities, such as a display, in response to presence signal from the electronic door locking apparatus.

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

Ambient light sensing
Patent No. 12200367 

Inventor(s): Karthik Rajagopal Ganapathy (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17827645 on 05/27/2022 (963 days app to issue)

Abstract: A camera system includes a camera, an illumination source, a first light sensor having a first light sensor output, and a second light sensor having a second light sensor output. A processor has inputs coupled to the camera’s output, the first light sensor output, and the second light sensor output, and the processor has an output coupled to the input of the illumination source. The processor receives a first light signal from the first light sensor output, receive a second light signal from the second light sensor output, determine a first weight for the first light signal and a second weight for the second light signal based on a difference between the first and second light signals, calculate a weighted average of the first and second light signals using the first and second weights, and determine whether to turn on the illumination source based on the weighted average.

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

Pixel blending for synthesizing video frames with occlusion and watermark handling
Patent No. 12200398 

Inventor(s): Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, TX), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, TX), Michael O. Polley (Garland, TX), Yingmao Li (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17591040 on 02/02/2022 (1077 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one processing device configured to obtain input frames from a video. The at least one processing device is also configured to generate a forward flow from a first input frame to a second input frame and a backward flow from the second input frame to the first input frame. The at least one processing device is further configured to generate an occlusion map at an interpolated frame coordinate using the forward flow and the backward flow. The at least one processing device is also configured to generate a consistency map at the interpolated frame coordinate using the forward flow and the backward flow. In addition, the at least one processing device is configured to perform blending using the occlusion map and the consistency map to generate an interpolated frame at the interpolated frame coordinate.

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

Badge with integral camera
Patent No. 12200408 

Inventor(s): Laura Ngwisang (Fort Worth, TX), Vanessa Shabu Fahdeen (Plano, TX), Wilson Ekanyie Ashu (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15938179 on 03/28/2018 (2484 days app to issue)

Abstract: A badge formed of a planar sheet includes a front surface, a rear surface and a central opening. A camera module is attached to the rear surface and includes a camera lens and control panel positioned within the central opening. The camera is activated either manually using the control panel or automatically by one or more atmospheric sensors. The badge further includes a wireless-telephone transmitter for automatically transmitting the images to a remote electronic device to assist others with properly assessing and investigating an ongoing crime or emergency event.

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

Systems and methods for a quantum proxy server handover mechanism
Patent No. 12200480 

Inventor(s): Mun Wei Low (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17580250 on 01/20/2022 (1090 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to obtain a quantum key generated using quantum random numbers received from a quantum random number generator. The processor may be further configured to obtain a digital signature for a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the obtained quantum key, wherein the digital signature is received from a security device configured to provide the quantum key to a user equipment (UE) device; receive a request from an application server to function as a proxy for a secure session with the UE device; authenticate the secure session with the UE device using the quantum key and the digital signature; and proxy the secure session between the UE device and the application server.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Integrating security and routing policies in wireless telecommunication networks
Patent No. 12200495 

Inventor(s): Serge Manning (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17989886 on 11/18/2022 (788 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a policy control function (PCF) that receives an indication from a mobile device in a wireless cellular network that indicates a secure connection between the mobile device and an endpoint in the wireless cellular network. The secure connection is associated with a security policy that includes a first set of parameters and operates at a first level of granularity and a routing policy that includes a second set of parameters and operates at a second level of granularity. The PCF then determines a mapping between the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters that aligns the first level of granularity with the second level of granularity. In an example, the alignment improves the utilization of network resources in the wireless cellular network. The mapping is then transmitted to the mobile device, which enables the mobile device to use the secure connection.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Audio stream identification by a wireless network controller
Patent No. 12200504 

Inventor(s): Alon Cheifetz (Moshav Yanuv, , IL), Alon Paycher (Moshav Bait Hanania, , IL), Dotan Ziv (Tel Aviv, , IL), Yonathan Shavit (Kfar Saba, , IL)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18310254 on 05/01/2023 (624 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting audio with coexisting wireless networks. In one embodiment, a wireless device includes a first wireless network controller and a second wireless network controller. The first wireless network controller and the second wireless network controller are configured to access a wireless communication medium via a shared antenna, and to transmit, via the wireless communication medium, data received from a host device. The second wireless network controller includes an audio stream detector configured to determine, based on the contents of the data received from the host device, whether an audio stream is to be transmitted via the second wireless network controller, and to request that the second wireless network controller be given access priority to the antenna over the first wireless network controller, based on a determination that the audio stream is to be transmitted via the second wireless network controller.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Apparatuses and methods for facilitating network connectivity based on identified conditions
Patent No. 12200510 

Inventor(s): Hongyan Lei (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17529328 on 11/18/2021 (1153 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first report comprising first data, obtaining a second report comprising second data, analyzing at least the first data and the second data to identify characteristics of an environment where a communication device is located, based at least in part on the characteristics, determining whether dual connectivity is appropriate for providing a communication service to the communication device, resulting in a determination of dual connectivity, and selectively enabling or disabling dual connectivity in respect of the communication device based on the determination of dual connectivity. Other embodiments are disclosed.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

E911 backhaul routing tests remote from coverage area
Patent No. 12200516 

Inventor(s): Ehab Bahjat (Rowlett, TX), Ronald Royer (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Spirent Communications, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Haynes Beffel Wolfeld LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17858013 on 07/05/2022 (924 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches testing voice connection routing over 911 circuits as if voice calls originated from an E911 device in coverage areas of cell tower locations, without requiring a physical presence of the E911 device in each coverage area. A remote test agent audio bridge and tester originates a first call to a test user with a first phone number, creates a media bridge, emulates an E911-compliant mobile device to originate a second call to a 911 operator, relays audio over the media bridge as a verbal exchange between the first and the second calls, and logs an evaluation of the verbal exchange. The emulation includes spoofing a call origination from an origination location being tested, the spoofed origination location being within coverage of an originating cell.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for identifying and correcting issues associated with a wireless network
Patent No. 12200536 

Inventor(s): John F. Moore (Roanoke, TX), Karthik Ramaswamy (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17663054 on 05/12/2022 (978 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive network data identifying an SINR, an RSSI, congestion, and throughput associated with a RAN, device data identifying latency and packet loss associated with the RAN, and an issue inference confidence score associated with a machine learning model. The device may process the network data, the device data, and the issue inference confidence score, with a model, to determine one or more issues. The device may adjust TTI bundling to generate adjusted TTI bundling, may lower a QCI or a QFI and adjust associated parameters to generate QCI/QFI adjusted parameters, may adjust slice parameters to generate adjusted slice parameters, or may adjust DRX parameters to generate adjusted DRX parameters based on the one or more issues with the RAN. The device may cause the adjusted TTI bundling, the QCI/QFI adjusted parameters, the adjusted slice parameters, or the adjusted DRX parameters to be implemented by the RAN.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for dynamic handover threshold adjustment based on cell load in a wireless network
Patent No. 12200561 

Inventor(s): Chin Chiu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17660435 on 04/25/2022 (995 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may receive respective measures of load associated with first and second cells of a wireless network. The system may receive a measures of utilization associated with the first and second cells, as determined by a User Equipment (‘’UE’) that is connected to the first cell. The system may determine whether the UE should be handed over from the first cell to the second cell, and further based on the measures of load associated with the first and second cells, the measures of utilization associated with the first and second cells, as determined by the UE. The system may cause the UE to be handed over from the first cell to the second cell based on the determining.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Reporting power headroom for aggregated carriers
Patent No. 12200636 

Inventor(s): Sean McBeath (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18435488 on 02/07/2024 (342 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for beam measurement, reporting and indication
Patent No. 12200641 

Inventor(s): Dalin Zhu (Richardson, TX), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17447916 on 09/16/2021 (1216 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for beam measurement, reporting, and indication operations. A method for a user equipment includes receiving first configuration information for joint reporting, in a same reporting instance, of both one or more synchronization signal block resource indicators (SSBRIs) and channel state information reference signal resource indicators (CRIs); and receiving second configuration information for differential reference signal received power (RSRP) reporting of RSRP values for the one or more SSBRIs and CRIs, respectively. The method further includes determining, based on the first configuration information, the one or more SSBRIs and CRIs and determining, based on the second configuration information, the RSRP values for the one or more SSBRIs and CRIs, respectively. The method further includes transmitting position information associated with the RSRP values included in the joint reporting and transmitting, in the reporting instance, the joint reporting including the one or more SSBRIs and CRIs and the RSRP values.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Geolocationing system and method for use of same
Patent No. 12200655 

Inventor(s): Raymond S. Horton (McKinney, TX), Thomas R. Miller (Plano, TX), William C. Fang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Enseo, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17671544 on 02/14/2022 (1065 days app to issue)

Abstract: A geolocationing system and method for providing awareness in a multi-space environment, such as a hospitality environment or educational environment, are presented. In one embodiment of the geolocationing system, a vertical and horizontal array of gateway devices is provided. The vertical and horizontal array of gateway devices form a mesh network. Each gateway device includes a gateway device identification providing an accurately-known fixed location within the multi-space environment. Each gateway device includes a wireless transceiver that receives a beacon signal from a proximate wireless-enabled personal locator device. The gateway devices, in turn, send gateway signals via the mesh network to a server, which determines estimated location of the wireless-enabled personal location device with received signal characteristic modeling.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for multi-carrier network operation
Patent No. 12200678 

Inventor(s): Jun Li (Richardson, TX), Sean Michael McBeath (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18492942 on 10/24/2023 (448 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for multi-carrier network operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing channel scrambling in a multi-carrier network, wherein the multi-carrier network includes a first component carrier (‘’CC’) and a second CC between a base station and a user equipment (‘’UE’) comprises receiving a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (‘’C-RNTI’) and a cell identification (‘’ID’) for at least one of the first CC and the second CC; and using the RNTI and the cell ID to perform scrambling of information transmitted on at least one of the first CC and the second CC.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Selective indications towards user equipment
Patent No. 12200813 

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Carter, DeLuca Farrell LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17758322 on 11/13/2020 (1523 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for selective indications towards a UE ([b]110[/b]), for example, at de-registration ([b]110[/b]) from an AMF with request to re-register ([b]130[/b]) with another AMF, are provided.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

LED driver dimming control
Patent No. 12200837 

Inventor(s): Jiana Lou (Shanghai, , CN), Yichao Tang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18150839 on 01/06/2023 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) dimming circuit includes an amplifier, a switch, a pulse extension circuit, and a reference shaping circuit. The amplifier has an amplifier output, a first amplifier input, and a second amplifier input. The first amplifier input is coupled to a current sense terminal. The switch has a first switch terminal, a second switch terminal, and a switch control input. The first switch terminal is coupled to the amplifier output. The pulse extension circuit has an extended pulse output and a pulse input. The extended pulse output is coupled to the switch control input. The pulse input is coupled to a pulse width modulation (PWM) terminal. The reference shaping circuit has a reference input and reference control input. The reference input is coupled to the second amplifier input. The reference control input is coupled to the PWM terminal.

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

Three-dimensional memory device and method of making the same using differential thinning of vertical channels
Patent No. 12200932 

Inventor(s): Kosaku Yamashita (Yokkaichi, , JP), Yasuaki Yonemochi (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17532015 on 11/22/2021 (1149 days app to issue)

Abstract: An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over a substrate. An insulating cap layer is formed thereupon. A memory opening is formed, which has a greater lateral dimension at a level of an upper insulating cap sublayer than at a level of a lower insulating cap sublayer. A memory film and a semiconductor channel material layer is formed in the memory opening. Ions of at least one dopant species is implanted into a top portion of the semiconductor channel material layer. An isotropic etch process etches an unimplanted portion of the semiconductor channel material layer at a higher etch rate than the implanted top portion of the semiconductor channel material layer to form a vertical semiconductor channel.

[H10B] ELECTRONIC MEMORY DEVICES

DESIGN PATENTS

Tray assembly
Patent No. D1057422 

Inventor(s): Vineta Partridge (Cumby, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Jeff Williams PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29836675 on 04/28/2022 (992 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Locking tab for tamper-evident box
Patent No. D1057557 

Inventor(s): Hector Nava (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc. (Brookhaven, GA)
Law Firm: Taylor English Duma LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29748620 on 08/31/2020 (1597 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Omni wheel
Patent No. D1057627 

Inventor(s): David Aaron Yanoshak (Dallas, TX), Gregory Elliott Needel (Coppell, TX), Nicholas James Coussens (Chicago, IL), Orion Christopher DeYoe (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): REV Robotics LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29834697 on 04/13/2022 (1007 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Vehicle wheel
Patent No. D1057628 

Inventor(s): Alberto Echazabal (Prosper, TX), Jakin C. Wilson (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29892532 on 05/18/2023 (607 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent No. D1057731 

Inventor(s): Rona Sfakianakis (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ExactNote, Inc. (Middletown, DE)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29750661 on 09/15/2020 (1582 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Multipurpose forceps
Patent No. D1057947 

Inventor(s): Stephen J. Sullivan (Colleyville, TX), Trevor R. Kurz (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Gynex Corporation (North Richland Hills, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29883137 on 01/24/2023 (721 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Electronic vaporizer
Patent No. D1058040 

Inventor(s): Blake Reid (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29813437 on 10/28/2021 (1174 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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