Patented: NTT DATA Services’ Dynamic Optimization of Bot Schedules and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of June 17 with a total of 147 patents granted.

In addition to NTTData Services’ patent, this week’s patents include:

  • 7-Eleven’s anomaly detection and controlling operations of fuel dispensing terminal during operations
  • Amazon’s device with rotatable privacy cover
  • Citibank’s cohort-based predictions in clustered time-series data in order to detect significant rate-of-change events
  • Cornell University’s optimizing bra sizing according to the 3D shape of breasts
  • Discord’s machine-learning notification service
  • Intellifuse’s implant including nanogenerator
  • Lennox Industries’ leak sensors for a HVAC system
  • ProBiora Health’s foods providing probiotic bacteria
  • Samsung’s high-density neuromorphic computing element
  • Sentient Technology Holdings’ power line fault detection
  • Sol-Ark’s battery management including bypassing battery cells in a battery pack
  • Synerio Technologies’ natural language query processing and visualization
  • Texas Instruments’ compact chip scale lidar solution
  • Toyota’s assembly line charging of vehicle batteries
  • Unthink’s personalized and immersive shopping experience
  • USAA’s temporary digital wallet

 

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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of 6/17/2025  |  Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 

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


NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 12
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 8
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 6
D: Textiles; Paper 1
E: Fixed Constructions 3
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 6
G: Physics 50
H: Electricity 56

DESIGN: 5


TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 26
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.) 8
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 5
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (Houston) 4
Traxxas L.P. (McKinney) 4
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) 4
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 3
Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) 3
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 3

Unassigned 7


TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS) 

Kent Poteet (Lucas) 4
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 4
Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 3
Christopher A. Grace (Carrollton) 2
Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell) 2
Hongyan Lei (Plano) 2
Md. Saifur Rahman (Plano) 2
Ross Martin (Roanoke) 2
Satyajit Sajanrao Nalavade (McKinney) 2
Sayeef Rahim (Allen) 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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