Dallas Invents is a weekly look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can indicate future economic growth, as well as the development of emerging markets and talent attraction. By tracking both inventors and assignees in the region, we aim to provide a broader view of the region’s inventive activity. Listings are organized by Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC).
THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 1/14/25 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)
154 patents granted
Ranked No. 9 in patent production out of 250 metros
NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION
A: Human Necessities 17
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 16
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 2
E: Fixed Constructions 4
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 8
G: Physics 52
H: Electricity 52
Design: 5
TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)
Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 20
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 8
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 6
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 6
Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano) 6
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 5
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 4
Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas) 4
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 3
Unassigned 5
TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)
Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 3
Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano) 3
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 3
Simon P. Roberts (Celina) 3
Yang Ding (Montreal, Canada) 3
Christian Gratton (Eaton Rapids, Mich.) 2
Cory M. Frank (Frisco) 2
Damien Patton (Plano) 2
Gang Xu (Allen) 2
Jessica May (Danbury) 2
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Patent information is provided by Joe Chiarella, founder of patent analytics company Patent Index and publisher of The Inventiveness Index. For additional details on the patents granted below, search the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database.
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