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 4/29/2025 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 16
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 6
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 1
E: Fixed Constructions 5
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 3
G: Physics 25
H: Electricity 18

DESIGN: 6

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 7
Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano) 4
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 3
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 2
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin) 2
Citibank N.A. (New York) 2
Herzog Railroad Services Inc. (St. Joseph, Mo.) 2
Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson) 2
Mary Kay Inc. (Addison) 2

Unassigned: 7

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Damien Patton (Plano) 3
Alex Jensen (Fort Worth) 2
Christian Gratton (Eaton Rapids, Mich.) 2
Manu Kurian (Dallas) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Pet immobilizer system
Patent No. 12284985

Inventor(s): John M. Howard (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Invention To Patent Services (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17589934 on 02/01/2022 (1183 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pet immobilizing system utilizes a vest to located a bladder between a pet’’s legs. The bladder is rapidly inflated to hinder the pet’’s movement or to immobilize the pet. A remote electronic device sends a wireless signal to a wireless signal receiver coupled with the pressure source to activate inflation of the bladder. A pressure source may be canister or chemical inflation pressure source that produces an inflation fluid from the reaction of two or more chemicals. A vest may include a waist portion that extends around the pet’s waist. A bladder compartment may be configured in the vest for retaining the bladder. A bladder compartment may have an opening to direct the inflation of the bladder out between the pet’’s legs. A remote electronic device may be a mobile phone that operates an App with an activation button to initiate inflation of the bladder.

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

Portable, collapsible ocean fishing and game hunting system
Patent No. 12285004

Inventor(s): James Michael Aaron (Haltom City, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17967635 on 10/17/2022 (925 days app to issue)

Abstract: A collapsible system for water body fishing and game hunting comprises a folding frame with an attached platform, all made from galvanized aluminum. The folding frame includes a front left and front right vertical pipe, and a left bent angle and right bent angle pipe, with the left bent angle and right bent angle pipe joined at a vertex with an attached towing hitch. The folding frame also uses horizontal and diagonal braces attachable and connecting the front left and front right vertical pipe to the left bent angle and right bent angle pipe with a lower left horizontal brace and lower right horizontal brace attached to a lower rear horizontal brace or lower front horizontal brace so as to pivot. The folding frame further comprising a rear horizontal stability brace/platform holder and a front horizontal stability brace/platform holder attachable to a left side horizontal stability brace/platform holder and a right side horizontal stability brace/platform holder, with the attached rear horizontal stability brace/platform holder, front horizontal stability brace/platform holder, left side horizontal stability brace/platform holder, and right side horizontal stability brace/platform holder supporting a platform. The attachable components facilitate folding and collapsing the folding frame including the left side horizontal stability brace/platform holder and the right side horizontal stability brace/platform holder attached to the front left and front right vertical pipe and t

[A01M] CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS (appliances for catching swarms or drone-catching A01K 57/00; fishing A01K 69/00-A01K 97/00; biocides, pest repellants or attractants A01N); APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS

Clothing for concealed carry access
Patent No. 12285066

Inventor(s): Gustavo Molina (Dallas, TX), Roberto Edmundo Nuez Mateo (Tegucigalpa, , HN)
Assignee(s): Tarnkappe Gear LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18505088 on 11/08/2023 (538 days app to issue)

Abstract: An article of clothing including outer and inner plackets. The outer placket including hole embroideries evenly spaced on an outer layer, non-functional visible fasteners applied to a first subset of the hole embroideries, and first fasteners offset from the hole embroideries. The inner placket including second fasteners configured to extend through a second subset of the hole embroideries and third fastener configured to couple with the first fasteners.

[A41F] GARMENT FASTENINGS; SUSPENDERS

Energy generation
Patent No. 12285097

Inventor(s): Connor Garrison (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, DC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17016483 on 09/10/2020 (1692 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments are described that relate to energy generation. A housing can retain a spring coupled to a gear set. As the spring experiences linear compression and extension, the spring can cause rotational movement in the gear set. The rotational movement from the gear set can cause rotation of a rotational magnet. The rotational magnet, when rotated about a coil set, can convert an energy. The energy can be used to charge a battery.

[A45F] TRAVELLING OR CAMP EQUIPMENT; SACKS OR PACKS CARRIED ON THE BODY [2006.01]

Automated cooking systems and methods of operating thereof
Patent No. 12285136

Inventor(s): Dmitry Rumyantsev (Saint Petersburg, , RU), Gennadiy Goldenshteyn (Dallas, TX), Val Ginzburg (Rumford, RI), Vladimir Gordeev (Saint Petersburg, , RU)
Assignee(s): Dinemic Ventures LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Polygon IP, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18780115 on 07/22/2024 (281 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described herein are automated cooking apparatuses for storing and cooking food items as well as methods of operating such apparatuses. In some examples, an automated cooking apparatus comprises a storage unit, a delivery unit, and a cooking unit. The storage unit may be equipped with a refrigeration unit and a container delivery opening. The delivery unit is aligned with this opening and configured to load a set amount of the food items into each food compartment of the cooking unit. The cooking unit moves its food compartments through a cooking tank (e.g., filled with a cooking liquid and heated using a set of heating elements) and into a cooked food receiver. The storage unit or, more specifically, its uncooked food container unit is positioned proximate (e.g., within 200 millimeters) to the cooking tank thereby reducing the time for transporting the food items relative to the cooking time.

[A23L] FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES A21D OR A23B-A23J; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OF NUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT (shaping or working, not fully covered by this subclass, A23P); PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL

Blood collection tube holder with single needle
Patent No. 12285253

Inventor(s): Mark Small (Heavener, OK), Ni Zhu (Plano, TX), Thomas J. Shaw (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Retractable Technologies, Inc. (Little Elm, TX)
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16219094 on 12/13/2018 (2329 days app to issue)

Abstract: A blood collection tube holder having a retractable single needle and a body comprising substantially parallel and laterally spaced apart barrel and needle retraction cavities separated by a partial wall that facilitates lateral movement of the single needle from the barrel cavity into alignment with the needle retraction cavity to initiate needle retraction. The barrel and a frontal attachment to the barrel are cooperatively configured to facilitate relative sliding movement between in a direction that is transverse to the longitudinal axis through the retractable single needle to initiate needle retraction.

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

Methods to automatically remove collisions between digital mesh objects and smoothly move mesh objects between spatial arrangements
Patent No. 12285309

Inventor(s): Arash Sangari (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Solventum Intellectual Properties Company (Maplewood, MN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17413652 on 12/24/2019 (1953 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods for automatically removing collisions between digital mesh objects and moving digital mesh objects between spatial arrangements. The collisions are removed from a set of digital mesh objects using a perturbation method or a mesh deformation method. After removing the collisions, the digital mesh objects are output in a state without collisions between them. The digital mesh objects can be moved between initial and final states based upon motion constraints of the mesh objects and interpolated states of them between the initial and final states. Based upon the constraints and interpolated states, a number of states for movement of the set of digital mesh objects is determined either collectively for the set or individually for each mesh object. The states can be used as digital setups for dental or orthodontic treatment planning.

[A61C] DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE (non-driven toothbrushes A46B; preparations for dentistry A61K 6/00; preparations for cleaning the teeth or mouth A61K 8/00, A61Q 11/00)

Intraocular lenses having zone-by-zone step height control
Patent No. 12285329

Inventor(s): Shinwook Lee (Arlington, TX), Xin Hong (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: PATTERSON + SHERIDAN, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18587687 on 02/26/2024 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system provide an ophthalmic device. The ophthalmic device includes an ophthalmic lens having anterior surface, a posterior surface and at least one diffractive structure including a plurality of zones. The at least one diffractive structure is for at least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface. Each zone includes at least one echelette having a least one step height. The step height(s) are individually optimized for each zone. To compensate chromatic aberration of eye from distance to a range of vision, a greater than 2 phase step height may be employed and the step height(s) folded by a phase, which is an integer multiple of two multiplied by . Hence chromatic aberration of eye may be compensated to improve vision from distance to near.

[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]

Programmable therapeutic agent delivery from eye mounted device
Patent No. 12285356

Inventor(s): Christian Gutierrez (Pacifica, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17941353 on 09/09/2022 (963 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to relates to systems and methods for on-demand delivery of a therapeutic agent from an eye mounted device. Particularly, aspects of the present invention are directed to a method of delivering a therapeutic agent, the method including receiving, at a controller of a therapeutic agent release and delivery device, a first command signal for delivery of a therapeutic agent based on a dosing time window. Upon receipt of the first command signal, the controller determines whether one or more compliance conditions are satisfied. When the one or more conditions are satisfied, the controller initiate a release and delivery protocol that commands a signal generator to generate and send a second command signal causing a capacitor or one or more circuits to deliver an actuation signal causing one or more therapeutic agent delivery mechanisms to open and release the therapeutic agent from one or more reservoirs.

Topical skin compositions for treating rosacea and skin redness
Patent No. 12285457

Inventor(s): David Gan (Southlake, TX), Geetha Kalahasti (Plano, 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: 18436343 on 02/08/2024 (446 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of topically applying to skin a composition comprising a water soluble [i]Phoenix dactylifera [/i]seed extract, an essential oil from the leaves of tea tree, an aqueous [i]Myrothamnus flabellifolia [/i]leaf and stem extract, and a saccharide isomerate comprising an exopolysaccharide of [i]Vibrio alginolyticus [/i]is disclosed.

[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)

Glyceryl and glycol acid compounds
Patent No. 12285509

Inventor(s): Anton A. Mentlik (Dallas, TX), James Swanzy (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18367713 on 09/13/2023 (594 days app to issue)

Abstract:

Vehicle cleaning subsystem and method of cleaning a vehicle
Patent No. 12285536

Inventor(s): Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini (Ann Arbor, MI), Paul D. Schmalenberg (Pittsburg, PA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17220997 on 04/02/2021 (1488 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle subsystem for cleaning a vehicle cabin may include one or more light sources, a sensor module, and a vehicle cleaning control module. The one or more light sources are mounted in the vehicle cabin to project a collimated beam of light to contact one or more target surfaces in the vehicle cabin. The sensor module includes an array of one or more sensors mounted adjacent to the one or more target surfaces, to detect as sensor data the light reflected from the one or more target surfaces. The vehicle cleaning control module includes one or more processors, coupled to the sensor module, to execute a set of instructions to conduct, in response to the detection, specular reflection analysis of the sensor data, and determine, in response to the specular reflection analysis, a state of cleanliness of the vehicle cabin.

[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]

Ultraviolet air sanitizer apparatus for HVAC systems
Patent No. 12285549

Inventor(s): Phillip S. Eggers (Pilot Point, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17889263 on 08/16/2022 (987 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ultraviolet air sanitizer apparatus for HVAC systems has a frame defining a flow passage therethrough configured such that the frame rear is insertable into a return air inlet of the HVAC system. A sanitizer light is disposed within the flow passage. When activated, the sanitizer light emits germicidal ultraviolet light into the surrounding flow passage. A light baffle is disposed within the flow passage upstream of the sanitizer light and allows air flow but blocks light. An air pressure sensing switch is electrically connected to the sanitizing light and configured to measure air pressure differential across an air filter. When the air pressure differential is a predetermined value or greater, which is indicative of air circulation by the HVAC system, the switch turns on the sanitizer light. When the pressure differential is less than the predetermined value, the switch turns off the sanitizer light.

Cannula device for high flow therapy
Patent No. 12285563

Inventor(s): George C. Dungan, II (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): VAPOTHERM, INC. (Exeter, NH)
Law Firm: McDermott Will Emery LLP (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17680576 on 02/25/2022 (1159 days app to issue)

Abstract: A nasal cannula is described herein for respiratory therapy which includes a first gas supply tub with a distal end terminating in a first connector, and a nasal cannula body which includes a first end rotatably coupled to the first connector, a second end opposite the first end, a longitudinal axis extending from the first end to the second end, and a first nasal prong in fluid communication with the first gas supply tube. The first nasal prong is rotatable relative to the first gas supply tube about the longitudinal axis of the nasal cannula body.

[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]

Anatomical targeting of neuromodulation
Patent No. 12285608

Inventor(s): Bradley Lawrence Hershey (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation (Valencia, CA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17065162 on 10/07/2020 (1665 days app to issue)

Abstract: A neuromodulation targeting system includes a GUI that facilitates selection of one or more neuromodulation target regions. The GUI provides an interactive display representing anatomy of a patient with user-selectable portions corresponding to a plurality of predefined anatomical regions associated with distinct localized clinical effects of neuromodulation. The system further includes a targeting selector engine that is responsive to user selection of a first portion of the interactive display by configuring delivery of neuromodulation therapy to a first target region to produce a first localized clinical effect in the patient at a location corresponding to the first portion of the display, upon administration of the neuromodulation therapy to the patient.

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

Display system
Patent No. 12288485

Inventor(s): Larry Johnson (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: The Law Office of Austin Bonderer, PC (Local + 217 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18355225 on 07/19/2023 (650 days app to issue)

Abstract: A display includes a riser and a cap where articles, such as jewelry elements and their holders, can be placed. The riser has a riser base and a riser side and the cap includes a cap side and a cap platform, wherein the cap side is in at least one of sliding and removable engagement with the riser side. In an alternative embodiment, the riser has a riser guide coupled with the riser side or the riser base, and the display further includes a drawer. The drawer has a drawer top, a drawer side, a drawer side guide coupled with the drawer side, and a drawer top guide. In yet another embodiment, the display further includes removable light fixtures having light emitting diodes.

[A47F] SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS, OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS

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

Wedge driver and method therefor
Patent No. 12285796

Inventor(s): Larry C. Valentine (Berryton, KS), Mike E. Teaford (Topeka, KS), Ryan L. Kimberlin (Meriden, KS)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18390619 on 12/20/2023 (496 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wedge driver and method therefor is presented. A wedge driver can be operably coupled to different ends of a link joiner to drive a wedge therebetween to form a single link. The wedge driver can also drive the wedge out of the link joiner. The present disclosure provides the benefit of allowing the safe and effective removal of the link joiner by preventing violent or forceful decoupling of a link joiner. The wedge driver can include a trunk, a first prong, a second prong, a bolt, and a driver. The driver can be spring enabled, such that the driver can recede into the trunk as the bolt egresses the trunk. A bolt of the wedge driver can push a driver out of the trunk to axially drive the wedge into (or out of) a link joiner without rotating the wedge.

[B21L] MAKING METAL CHAINS (making chains or chain links by casting B22D 25/02; chains in general F16G)

System and method for RF based robot localization
Patent No. 12285855

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Indranil Sinharoy (Richardson, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (Dallas, TX), Songwei Li (McKinney, TX), Yuming Zhu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17938300 on 10/05/2022 (937 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes, when a handheld device is in motion within a service area to be traversed by a robot: obtaining ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging measurements between the handheld device and multiple anchors located in the service area; and obtaining image data and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. The method also includes determining a trajectory of motion of the handheld device based on the UWB ranging measurements. The method also includes adjusting the trajectory based on image features obtained from the image data and motion estimates obtained from the IMU data. The method also includes identifying the adjusted trajectory as a boundary of the service area.

[B25J] MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES (robotic devices for individually picking fruits, vegetables, hops or the like A01D 46/30; needle manipulators for surgery A61B 17/062; manipulators associated with rolling mills B21B 39/20; manipulators associated with forging machines B21J 13/10; means for holding wheels or parts thereof B60B 30/00; cranes B66C; arrangements for handling fuel or other materials which are used within nuclear reactors G21C 19/00; structural combination of manipulators with cells or rooms shielded against radiation G21F 7/06) [5]

Systems and methods for identifying overlaps via robotic process automation (rpa)
Patent No. 12285868

Inventor(s): Christopher Russell (The Colony, TX), Timothy Benjamin Czerlinsky (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17668998 on 02/10/2022 (1174 days app to issue)

Abstract: Overlapping functions called in robotic process automation scripts may be used to create new efficiencies in an IT infrastructure. For example, the overlaps may be used to identify code modification impact in the IT infrastructure, may be used to remediate duplication of coding efforts across silos in an organization, and may be merged to create new efficiencies in code/script storage and/or sustaining efforts.

Adaptive driveforce for speed limit control
Patent No. 12286109

Inventor(s): Thomas S. Hawley (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Snell Wilmer LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18089295 on 12/27/2022 (854 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and apparatuses for a driveforce speed control system for a vehicle. The driveforce speed control system includes a sensor configured to detect a speed limit, and an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the sensor. The ECU is configured to calculate a road load and a mass condition, determine a speed limit based on the sensor, and activate a speed control based on the road load, the mass condition, and the speed limit.

[B60W] CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT [2006.01]

Hopper railroad car having top hatch cover assembly
Patent No. 12286141

Inventor(s): Daniel J. Schuller (North Richland Hills, TX), Peter L. Jones (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Gunderson LLC (Lake Oswego, OR)
Law Firm: Neal, Gerber Eisenberg LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17498217 on 10/11/2021 (1296 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hopper railroad car top hatch cover assembly including a hatch cover and a hatch cover securer configured to secure the hatch cover in a closed position engaging a coaming of the hopper railroad car.

[B61D] BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES (vehicles in general B60; adaptation of vehicles to special systems B61B; underframes B61F)

Systems and methods for construction of structures using additive manufacturing
Patent No. 12286804

Inventor(s): Craig Pettit (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): My Robot Builds LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17740972 on 05/10/2022 (1085 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for building construction from extrudable materials with improved accuracy due to increased stability of components. In some aspects, a construction system includes a frame assembly disposed at a building site and a moveable frame assembly (e.g., gantry) coupled to the frame assembly and configured to move along a first axis. A moveable platform is coupled to and configured to move along the moveable frame assembly along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The moveable platform has an opening and a guide structure is disposed within the opening and configured to move along a third axis that is perpendicular to the first and second axes. The guide structure holds a conduit configured to deposit, via a nozzle, extrudable building material at the building site. Use of the guide structure, disposed within the opening, stabilizes the nozzle during material deposition.

[B33Y] ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING [2015.01]

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

Inhibitors of receptor interacting protein kinase I for the treatment of disease
Patent No. 12286406

Inventor(s): Naphtali Reyna (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Global Patent Group Inc. (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18355792 on 07/20/2023 (649 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds which inhibit RIPK1, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treatment of RIPK1-mediated diseases, such as neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory disorders, and cancer.

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

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

Rail tie plate singulating and orienting machine
Patent No. 12286758

Inventor(s): Alex Jensen (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Herzog Railroad Services, Inc. (St. Joseph, MO)
Law Firm: AVEK IP, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18462131 on 09/06/2023 (601 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rail tie plate singulating machine comprises a lift conveyor sloping upward and adjacent to a singulating conveyor. The lift conveyor extends below the singulating conveyor from a lift conveyor inlet end to a y-axis intercept between the conveyors and above the singulating conveyor past the y-axis intercept. A transfer guide extending above the lift conveyor redirects rail tie plates laterally off the lift conveyor onto the singulating conveyor past the y-axis intercept. A singulating guide extending in spaced relation above the singulating conveyor redirects tie plates thereon toward an edge adjacent the lift conveyor in a spacing that allows rail tie plates oriented longitudinally to advance therealong. A driven roller supported over the reduced width section engages a rail tie plate supported on top of another rail tie plate to advance the engaged rail tie plate laterally onto the lift conveyor.

[E01B] PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS (derailing or rerailing blocks on track, track brakes or retarders B61K; removal of foreign matter from the permanent way, vegetation control, applying liquids E01H)

Rail tie plate orienting and distribution system and method
Patent No. 12286759

Abstract: A method for singulating, orientating and distributing tie plates along a section of a track of a railroad is disclosed using a vehicle adapted to travel on rails including a tie plate singulating assembly, a tie plate flipping assembly, a tie plate quarter turn assembly, and a distribution assembly. The tie plate flipping assembly flips shoulder-side down tie plates into a shoulder-side up orientation while maintaining shoulder-side up tie plates in the shoulder-side up orientation. A diverter of the tie plate quarter turn assembly advances tie plates into a rotation inducing abutment resulting in the tie plates turning toward a desired orientation. The distribution assembly distributes tie plates to accumulation slides, controlling distribution with a dealer assembly and orienting discharge assembly to distribute the tie plates in a desired spacing and orientation along the track of a railroad.

Synthetic fabric having slip resistant properties and method of making same
Patent No. 12286790

Inventor(s): Gurpreet Singh Sandhar (Langley, , CA)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18463860 on 09/08/2023 (599 days app to issue)

Abstract: A synthetic nonwoven fabric having bonded fibers forming channels surrounding unbonded fibers forming raised slip resistant spots. The fabric is made by extruding hot polymer through a spinneret die onto a moving belt to form a sheet of random fibers, which sheet undergoes a calendering process between a pair of heated rollers, one of which rollers having a plurality of cavities defined in its surface. The resulting fabric can be laminated and otherwise combined with other layers as desired to provide an end product having good slip resistant properties.

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

Continuous recirculation for separation of fluids produced during drill out and flow back
Patent No. 12286847

Inventor(s): Tracy Turner (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, L.L.P. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18941013 on 11/08/2024 (172 days app to issue)

Abstract: One or two continuous recirculation loops are utilized for the well-site equipment that separates produced fluids into sand, liquid, and gas during drill out and flow back that occurs after fracturing a subterranean formation. When one recirculation loop is utilized, the recirculation loop continuously recirculates fluid between the recirculation chamber of the disclosed sand removal apparatus and a shaker device. When two recirculation loops are utilized, the first recirculation loop continuously recirculates fluid between a recirculation chamber of the disclosed sand removal apparatus and a shaker device, and the second recirculation loop continuously recirculates fluid between the recirculation chamber and a gas separator.

[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]

Self-shunting detonator for well perforating gun
Patent No. 12286867

Inventor(s): Joseph Todd MacGillivray (Alvarado, TX), Kevin C. Cook (Alvarado, TX), Matthew Craig Mlcak (Alvarado, TX), Stuart Michael Wood (Alvarado, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17988913 on 11/17/2022 (894 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various well-perforating systems and methods are disclosed incorporating a self-shunting detonator. The detonator may include an electrically-conductive detonator body. A resistor initiator inside the detonator body includes first and second leads. A grounding element inside the detonator body couples the detonator body to the first lead. An electrically-conductive clip coupled to the second lead includes an arm biased to electrical contact with an external surface of the detonator body to shunt the detonator. The arm is moveable away from the detonator body to un-shunt the detonator, such as automatically in response to insertion into a detonator housing.

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

Corrugated diaphragm actuator
Patent No. 12286983

Inventor(s): Muthu Wijesundara (Fort Worth, TX), Veysel Erel (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17700385 on 03/21/2022 (1135 days app to issue)

Abstract: A corrugated diaphragm actuator may include a chamber body including a plurality of walls defining a cavity. The plurality of walls may include a first wall including a first corrugated diaphragm defining at least one first corrugated channel, and the corrugated diaphragm may be configured for expanding outwardly when a positive pressure is applied within the cavity.

[F15B] SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (motors, turbines, compressors, blowers, pumps F01-F04; fluid dynamics F15D; fluid clutches or brakes F16D; fluid springs F16F; fluid gearing F16H; pistons, cylinders, packing F16J; valves, taps, cocks, actuating-floats F16K; safety valves with auxiliary fluid operation of the main valve F16K 17/10; fluid-operating means for valves F16K 31/12; pipes, pipe joints F16L; lubricating F16N)

Modular cooking appliance having a grease shield
Patent No. 12287098

Inventor(s): Lee T. Vanlanen (McKinney, TX), Philip R. McKee (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Automation Tech, LLC (Elgin, IL)
Law Firm: Amster, Rothstein Ebenstein LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16997375 on 08/19/2020 (1714 days app to issue)

Abstract: A modular cooking apparatus is disclosed. The modular cooking apparatus includes a housing for containing a first and second interchangeable cooking modules. The first interchangeable cooking module contains a first oven, and the second interchangeable cooking module contains a second oven. A grease shield is located within the first oven. The second oven is different from the first oven. The modular cooking apparatus also includes a control panel for receiving cooking inputs, a controller for controlling the first and second interchangeable cooking modules, and a single power plug for receiving electrical power from a wall outlet.

[F24C] OTHER DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION (radiator stoves of the fluid-circulating type F24H)

Indoor air quality monitors for HVAC systems
Patent No. 12287107

Inventor(s): Henry Todd Greist (Gainesville, FL), Rajesh Alayil (Kerala, , IN), Sanjeev Hingorani (Gainesville, FL), Thomas John Wolowicz (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Johnston IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17829171 on 05/31/2022 (1064 days app to issue)

Abstract: A heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes at least one indoor air quality monitor. The indoor air quality monitor is formed with an arrangement of chambersintake chamber, low-flow chamber, and outlet chambersuch that a particulate sensor on an interior and another air quality sensor are neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed by air flow to the sensors. The indoor air quality monitor may be arranged for attaching to a surface in a conditioned space for sampling air therein or may include a bypass chamber that fluidly couples to an HVAC duct.

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

P H Y S I C S

Foundation monitoring system
Patent No. 12286764

Inventor(s): Antonio Savarese (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17930702 on 09/08/2022 (964 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention comprises a system for monitoring the angular movement of a structure’’s foundation, wall, beam and/or column with one or more monitoring devices in communication with either a local computing device (a hub) that displays the current angular deviation and direction from an initialized state, a remote server capable of generating a web page display of the current angular deviation and direction from an initialized state, or both. Additionally, the hub can be connected to the internet where data from the monitoring devices it is in communication with can be shared with a remote monitoring service, off-site server or both.

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

Managing transport occupants during transport events
Patent No. 12287218

Inventor(s): Anil Nagpal (Plano, TX), Emily S. Lerner (Ypsilanti, MI), Nutonya L Parker (Dallas, TX), Randall M. Harris (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18213256 on 06/22/2023 (677 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a target device has entered a transport and has initiated a transport event at a target location, applying permissions, associated with the target device, to the transport event, determining a transport event modification has occurred, when the transport has stopped moving for a predetermined period of time and one or more transport operations have occurred, prior to arriving at a transport event destination, determining whether the permissions permit the transport event modification, and notifying one or more registered devices associated with the target device of the transport event modification.

Sensor element and method for producing a sensor element
Patent No. 12287246

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Krotosky (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TDK Electronics AG (Munich, , DE)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17639781 on 08/31/2021 (1337 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment a sensor element includes at least one carrier having a top side and a bottom side, the top side being electrically insulating, at least one functional layer including a material with a temperature-dependent electrical resistance, the functional layer being arranged on the carrier, at least two electrodes arranged on the carrier at a distance from one another and at least two contact pads configured for electrically contacting the sensor element, wherein a respective contact pad is arranged directly on a partial region of one of the electrodes, wherein the sensor element is configured to measure a temperature, and wherein the sensor element is configured for direct integration into an electrical system as a discrete component.

[G01K] MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (radiation pyrometry G01J 5/00)

System and method for determining an ambient concentration of compositions for bathroom cleaning
Patent No. 12287306

Inventor(s): John Robert Keller (Plano, TX), Matthew O’’Daniel Redmond (Denton, TX), Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17455775 on 11/19/2021 (1257 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for determining an ambient concentration of compositions for bathroom cleaning comprises a processor operable to receive a concentration measurement from a sensor over a network within a first period of time. The processor is operable to compare the received concentration measurement to a first threshold and to a second threshold greater than the first threshold. The processor is operable to instruct a memory communicatively coupled to the processor to store an indication that a bathroom was cleaned in response to a determination that the received concentration measurement is greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold. The processor is operable to send an alert for display on a user device indicating either that the sensor has been tampered or that a spill event has occurred in response to a determination that the received concentration measurement is greater than the second threshold.

[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)

Companion diagnostics for NSAIDS and donepezil for treating specific subpopulations of patients suffering from Alzheimer’’s disease
Patent No. 12287324

Inventor(s): Sid E. O’’Bryant (Aledo, TX)
Assignee(s): University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: SAUL EWING LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16962917 on 01/14/2019 (2297 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes a method for identifying a patient response to treatment for Alzheimer’’s Disease with a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) or an acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor drug comprising: obtaining a blood or serum sample from the patient; determining the presence of a proinflammatory endophenotype in the blood or serum sample of the patient; using the proinflammatory endophenotype to detect treatment response (a responder, a stable, a non-responder or an adverse responder); and treating the patient with the NSAID or the AChE inhibitor if the patient is in the responder or the stable treatment response phenotype group; or preventing a treatment with the NSAID or the AChE inhibitor if the patient is a non-responder or an adverse responder.

Cable fault detection
Patent No. 12287377

Inventor(s): Arihant Jain (Milpitas, CA), Ashwin Ramachandran (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17692467 on 03/11/2022 (1145 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for detecting a fault with a cable having a resistor divider couple to the cable. The method includes converting a first sense voltage from the resistor divider network to a first digital code, determining whether the first digital code falls within a first range of digital codes corresponding to a first fault associated with the cable, and responsive to determining that the first digital code falls within the first range of digital codes, generating an indication of the first fault.

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

Camera mounting assembly
Patent No. 12287559

Inventor(s): Carson Billings (Garland, TX), Colby Festner (Houston, TX)
Assignee(s): BEARCOM GROUP, INC. (Garland, TX)
Law Firm: Jeffer Mangels Butler Mitchell LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18092607 on 01/03/2023 (847 days app to issue)

Abstract: Camera mounting assemblies and mounting plates. A mounting plate includes a body. The body includes a center portion. The body further includes an extension member extending away from the center portion in a coplanar direction. The body further includes a first mounting hole located on the extension member. The first mounting hole is configured to receive a first attachment. The body further includes a second mounting hole. The second mounting hole is located on the center portion and is configured to receive a second attachment, the second attachment being different than the first attachment. The body further includes an opening. The opening is located on the center portion and is configured to provide a path for an electrical conduit to be coupled to the second attachment.

[G03B] APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR (optical parts of such apparatus G02B; photosensitive materials or processes for photographic purposes G03C; apparatus for processing exposed photographic materials G03D) [4]

Control systems for use in critical power applications
Patent No. 12287656

Inventor(s): Brandon McDaniel (Flower Mound, TX), John A. Musilli, Jr. (San Diego, CA), Matthew Douglas Koerner (Ashburn, VA)
Assignee(s): Caeli, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17805859 on 06/07/2022 (1057 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving temperature measurements from multiple temperature sensors in a power supply system that includes multiple coils arranged in a series downstream of a turbine, each coil configured to receive thermal energy from an air stream exhausted from the turbine as the air stream moves toward a data center, each coil associated with at least one fluid loop. The method also includes using a first subset of the temperature measurements to determine a blended fluid mix from a primary fluid path and a heated fluid reservoir in order to obtain a predetermined leaving fluid temperature at a first coil of the multiple coils. The method further includes controlling a position of one or more valves associated with the primary fluid path and the heated fluid reservoir to achieve the determined blended fluid mix.

[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)

System, method, and computer program for platform independent JSON configuration based reporting services
Patent No. 12287769

Inventor(s): Hans P Nirmal (Frisco, 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: 18208568 on 06/12/2023 (687 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for generating platform and database agnostic reports without depending on reporting services are disclosed. A processor receives a configuration file via a user interface, the configuration file including reporting configurations for components associated with reporting service; interprets the configuration file by utilizing corresponding interpreter libraries; invokes, in response to interpreting the configuration file, a predefined application programming interface (API); processes, in response to invoking the API, the reporting configurations using the interpreter libraries to process data object references and pre-configured report layout formats; receives a request from a user to generate a custom report; and automatically renders, in response to receiving the request, a platform and a database agnostic report by implementing a desired visualization techniques.

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

Apparatus and method for filtering data from or across different analytics platforms
Patent No. 12287802

Inventor(s): Jerry Lynn Moore, Jr. (Lucas, TX), Scott Masson (Ottawa, , CA)
Assignee(s): DIGITAL HIVE, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Pauley Erickson Swanson (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17843050 on 06/17/2022 (1047 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for combining data from disparate business intelligence systems and data sources. The method includes aggregating data in real-time across multiple, disparate data platforms of more than one third party, by mapping nonmatching data parameters used in the different platforms to a common data field. The business intelligence systems are queried to identify responsive data fields, which are then meshed in a translation and/or unification module into the common data field for display. The meshing of the data allows for efficient filtering according to user inputs. The system and method further include applications to allow users to create parameter mappings for the data meshing.

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

Transport limitation for data reads
Patent No. 12287910

Inventor(s): Roger J. Baker (Frisco, TX), Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17470260 on 09/09/2021 (1328 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a portion of memory in a transport for storing sensitive temporary data, setting a hardware threshold of a maximum number of reads of the data from the portion of memory, and clearing the data from the portion of memory with a hardware-enabled trigger in response to the maximum number of reads is reached.

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

Multi-interface container storage interface driver deployment model
Patent No. 12287989

Inventor(s): Thomas L. Watson (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Ryan, Mason Lewis, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18103643 on 01/31/2023 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for container environment management are disclosed. For example, a method comprises deploying a first container storage interface driver, wherein the first container storage interface driver comprises multiple interfaces and is configured to: (i) receive a first request from a host configured to execute an application program, wherein the first request is related to a first storage volume associated with a storage system; (ii) receive a second request from a second container storage interface driver configured to provide an additional functionality with respect to the first container storage interface driver, wherein the second request is related to a second storage volume associated with the storage system; and (iii) send the first request and the second request to the storage system.

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

Stream data unit with multiple head registers
Patent No. 12288069

Inventor(s): Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18607703 on 03/18/2024 (407 days app to issue)

Abstract: A streaming engine employed in a digital signal processor specifies a fixed read only data stream. Once fetched the data stream is stored in two head registers for presentation to functional units in the fixed order. Data use by the functional unit is preferably controlled using the input operand fields of the corresponding instruction. A first read only operand coding supplies data from the first head register. A first read/advance operand coding supplies data from the first head register and also advances the stream to the next sequential data elements. Corresponding second read only operand coding and second read/advance operand coding operate similarly with the second head register. A third read only operand coding supplies double width data from both head registers.

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

Automatic machine deployment and configuration
Patent No. 12288082

Inventor(s): Jeffrey David Moore (Croton on Hudson, NY), Joshua E Aaron (Allen, TX), Sean Eren Maloney (Shasta Lake, CA)
Assignee(s): Aiden Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: IP Spring (Local + 502 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18099585 on 01/20/2023 (830 days app to issue)

Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated computer configuration. In some implementations, a method includes providing a configuration tool on a computer. The method further includes determining compliance of the computer with an IT policy for access to one or more computer systems remote to the computer, and automatically configuring the computer, by execution of the configuration tool, with particular software that is identified based on particular settings.

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

System and method for constructing a layered artificial intelligence model
Patent No. 12288148

Inventor(s): Manjit Rajaretnam (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): CITIBANK, N.A. (, NY)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18932531 on 10/30/2024 (181 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for constructing a layered artificial intelligence (AI) model are provided. The technology determines a set of layers and a set of variables for each layer for the AI model, with each layer relating to a specific domain context of the AI model. Using the layers, the AI model is trained to create layer-specific model logic for each layer using the variables of the layer. By applying the layer-specific model logic to incoming command sets, the model produces detailed layer-specific responses. The trained AI model then generates overall responses to command sets by aggregating the layer-specific responses, along with weights for each layer.

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

Deriving employee context from structured communication
Patent No. 12288177

Inventor(s): Andrew W. Kittler (Atherton, CA), Guy R. VanBuskirk (Greenville, SC), Steven Paul Russell (Menlo Park, CA)
Assignee(s): Theatro Labs, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18406122 on 01/06/2024 (479 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a method of identifying a metric associated with a business, a computer system associated with the business recognizes a first user associated with a first communication device and a second user associated with a second communication device, wherein the first user is recognized as an employee of the business and the second user is recognized as an employee of the business. The computer system observes signals in between the first communication device and the second communication device, wherein at least a portion of the communication is an audible communication. The computer system identifies a metric based on the signals in the communication between the first communication device and the second communication device. The metric is then made available for decision making purposes.

[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]

Software development lifecycle traceability tool
Patent No. 12288192

Inventor(s): Badari Narayana Shanka Prasad (Irving, TX), Mayank Vinayaka (Irving, TX), Richard Lawton (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): CITIBANK, N.A. (, NY)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18925536 on 10/24/2024 (187 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for a software development lifecycle traceability tool. In some aspects, the system may implement a traceability tool that generates a system data stream for an SDLC management platform that stitches together source data from multiple sources, trains a machine learning model to generate progress information and execution risks for a user story on the SDLC management platform, generates a graphical user interface with information for each user story and corresponding progress tracking indicia based on output from the machine learning model, and generates an event-based view of prior actions for each user story and one or more recommended actions to address execution risks.

Vehicle listing generation and optimization system
Patent No. 12288243

Inventor(s): Chih-Hsiang Chow (Plano, TX), Elizabeth Furlan (Plano, TX), Steven Dang (Plano, 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: 18732752 on 06/04/2024 (329 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a vehicle listing generation and optimization system. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to generate a vehicle listing to sell a vehicle on a website. A plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehicle to be sold are determined, the plurality of vehicle listings including a plurality of features providing information about a respective vehicle featured in the vehicle listing and a performance metric indicating an effectiveness of a respective listing. A first cluster of listings from the plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehicle are identified based on based on performing artificial intelligence clustering with respect to the metric. Common features amongst a subset of the first cluster of listings are identified. A user interface of a sales template for selling the vehicle associated with the request via the website is generated, wherein the sales template includes the common identified features.

Transaction flow with master account ledger and escrow ledger interaction
Patent No. 12288259

Inventor(s): Christian Gratton (Eaton Rapids, MI), Damien Patton (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TRETE Inc. (Prosper, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18959306 on 11/25/2024 (155 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for completing a sale of digital shares representing an interest in an asset in an exchange, wherein the exchange comprising a transfer agent, includes registering, by the transfer agent, a user on an exchange; presenting to the user, by the transfer agent an interface allowing the user to select an interest in an asset to sell; communicating, by the transfer agent, with a broker dealer to transmit a sell contract to the user; pairing, by the transfer agent, a buyer with the user to sell the interest in the asset to the buyer; and executing, by the transfer agent, a sale of digital shares representing the interest in the asset.

Transaction flow with master account ledger and escrow ledger interaction
Patent No. 12288260

Data retrieval and validation for asset onboarding
Patent No. 12288261

Inventor(s): Damien Patton (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TRETE Inc. (Propser, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18963512 on 11/28/2024 (152 days app to issue)

Abstract: In certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes collecting, via an artificial intelligence module, a first set of data associated with an asset and creating identifiers associated with the first set of data. The method includes collecting a second set of data associated with the asset based on the identifiers and comparing the first set of data and the second set of data based on the identifiers. The method includes determining validation of the first set of data based on the comparison and generating a result of approval or rejection based on the comparison.

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

Systems and methods of identifying individual retail products in a product storage area based on an image of the product storage area
Patent No. 12288408

Inventor(s): Han Zhang (Allen, TX), Lingfeng Zhang (Dallas, TX), Mingquan Yuan (Flower Mound, TX), Zhaoliang Duan (Frisco, TX), Zhiwei Huang (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Walmart Apollo, LLC (Bentonville, AR)
Law Firm: Foley IP Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17963802 on 10/11/2022 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to extract meta data from the packaging the individual products to detect one more keywords and determine the locations of the detected keywords on the packaging, and then utilize this information to predict an identity of the products associated with the packaging.

[G06V] IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

On-component tracking of maintenance, usage, and remaining useful life
Patent No. 12288424

Inventor(s): Brian Tucker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17321072 on 05/14/2021 (1446 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment is a system including a component for installation on a vehicle comprising a central maintenance computer (‘’CMC’’); a configuration/maintenance module (‘’CMM’’) associated with the component and including memory for storing component information, a sensor for detecting a condition and generating data indicative thereof; a microprocessor for processing the sensor data and updating the component information with the processing results; and a communications interface between the CMM and the CMC. The system further includes a remaining useful life (‘’RUL’’) module associated with the component that periodically updates an RUL, the RUL module periodically updating an RUL value for the component and communicating the updated RUL value to the CMM for storage in the memory. The CMC communicates with the CMM to update the component information included in the memory based on information input to the CMC by a user or changes in a condition of the vehicle.

[G07C] TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE (identification of persons A61B 5/117; indicating or recording apparatus for measuring in general, analogous apparatus but in which the input is not a variable to be measured, e.g. a hand operation, G01D; clocks, clock mechanisms G04B, G04C; time-interval measuring G04F; counting mechanisms per se G06M)

Systems and methods for providing an interactive asynchronous video learning platform
Patent No. 12288481

Inventor(s): Ellen Cassidy (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: DUBOIS, BRYANT CAMPBELL, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18207782 on 06/09/2023 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for providing an interactive asynchronous video learning platform is disclosed, including at least one user computing device in operable connection with a network. A server is in operable communication with the user network to host an interactive asynchronous video learning platform for providing interactive asynchronous video learning. The application program includes a user interface module for providing access to the interactive asynchronous video learning platform through the at least one user computing device. A learning module provides at least one prompt and at least one learner skill demonstration. A self-check module provides a guided review of a learner’’s previously submitted learner skill demonstrations.

[G09B] EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS

Adaptive context sensitive time division multiplexed control of a high frequency ablation device
Patent No. 12288605

Inventor(s): Binesh Balasingh (Prosper, TX), Mary Khun Hor-Lao (Prosper, TX), Scott DeBates (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17338460 on 06/03/2021 (1426 days app to issue)

Abstract: Implementations for adaptive context sensitive time division multiplexed scheduling and execution of tasks to be performed by a high frequency ablation system, such as an RF ablation system, are disclosed. The implementations may be effectuated in software, firmware, or both. Tasks may be categorized into categories corresponding to task priorities. Time blocks may be allocated during which execution of the tasks may be performed. The time blocks may be divided into time slots. A task may be assigned to a time slot based, at least in part, on a categorization priority of the task. Additionally, each task may be executed according to the schedule delineated by the time slots. An assignment of tasks to time slots may be adjusted based, at least in part, on data received at a high frequency ablation device of the high frequency ablation system.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Over the air analytics
Patent No. 12288059

Inventor(s): Jiju Thomas (Allen, TX), Sergei Gage (Dallas, TX), Yusra El-Sharkawy (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Toyota, , JP), TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18160853 on 01/27/2023 (823 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system is provided for use with over-the-air (OTA) analytic data corresponding to OTA aggregate data associated with an OTA push of a software update to a plurality of devices. The system includes: a data receiver configured to receive the OTA aggregate data; a memory having instructions stored therein; and a processor configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to cause the system to: store the received OTA aggregate data into the memory; analyze the OTA aggregate data to determine an optimized time period for the OTA push; predict a future OTA push time period based on the optimized time period; and generate a future OTA push instruction based on the predicted future OTA push time period.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Flip chip package assembly having post connects with solder-based joints
Patent No. 12288763

Inventor(s): Rafael Jose Lizares Guevara (Manila, , PH)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17710201 on 03/31/2022 (1125 days app to issue)

Abstract: A described example includes: a semiconductor die having bond pads on a device side surface; a passivation layer overlying the device side surface of the semiconductor die with openings in the passivation layer, the passivation layer having a planar surface facing away from the device side surface of the semiconductor die; post connects formed on the bond pads and in the openings in the passivation layer, the post connects having a proximate end on the bond pads and extending from the bond pads to a distal end that lies beneath the planar surface of the passivation layer; solder at the distal ends of the post connects and contacting sidewalls of the openings in the passivation layer; and solder joints formed between the solder at the distal ends of the post connects and a package substrate, the device side surface of the semiconductor die facing the package 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]

Technologies for providing contingency vehicular caution/emergency signaling
Patent No. 12289008

Inventor(s): Allen Palmer (Celina, TX), James Roberts (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): DeadOn, LLC (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: The Belles Group, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18117827 on 03/06/2023 (785 days app to issue)

Abstract: Technologies are disclosed for contingency vehicular signaling. A first DC power source may be connected with one or more indicators. The first DC power source may be connected with a second DC power source, and/or a third DC power source, via a semiconductor. The first DC power source may be configured to receive a second DC current flow from the second DC power source, and/or a third DC current flow from the third DC power source. The semiconductor may be configured to block a first DC current flow from the first DC power source to the second DC power source, and/or the third DC power source. The first DC power source may be configured to provide the one or more indicators with the first DC current flow via the at least one electrical switch regardless of a magnitude of the second DC current flow, and/or the third DC current flow.

[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)

Power stealing using a current transformer
Patent No. 12289047

Inventor(s): Manu Balakrishnan (Kollam, , IN), Navaneeth Kumar Narayanasamy (Coimbatore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18587119 on 02/26/2024 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a first rectifier having a first rectifier input and a first rectifier output. The circuit also includes a bridge circuit and a second rectifier. The bridge circuit is coupled to the first rectifier output. The bridge circuit has first, second, third, and fourth terminals. The first and second terminals are coupled to the first rectifier output, and the third and fourth terminals are adapted to be coupled to a primary winding of a transformer. The second rectifier has a second rectifier input and a second rectifier output. The second rectifier input is adapted to be coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer.

[H02M] APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF (conversion of current or voltage specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/02; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables in general, e.g. using transformers, reactors or choke coils, combination of such systems with static converters G05F; for digital computers G06F 1/00; transformers H01F; connection or control of one converter with regard to conjoint operation with a similar or other source of supply H02J; dynamo-electric converters H02K 47/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils, control or regulation of electric motors, generators or dynamo-electric converters H02P; pulse generators H03K) [5]

Motor inductance calibration system and method
Patent No. 12289066

Inventor(s): Kishor Satish Gaikwad (Dallas, TX), Nasim Arbab Rahman (Allen, TX), Palanivel Subramaniam (Richardson, TX), Stephen J. Vendt (Carrollton, TX), Sunil K. Khiani (Plano, TX), Yan Yang (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18346900 on 07/05/2023 (664 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for calibrating inductance at a motor comprises the motor, a motor drive circuit, and a processor operably coupled to the motor. The processor determines inductance map data that comprises a set of inductance values associated with a set of current values. The processor determines that the motor is in operation. In response, the processor determines current values with which the motor is being operated. The processor determines inductance values associated with the determined current values. The processor determines reference current values at the motor based on the determined inductance values. The processor also determines a speed, angle, flux, and torque associated with the motor based at least on the determined inductance values. The processor then controls the operation of the motor based on the determined reference currents, the speed, and the torque.

[H02P] CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS [4]

High tolerance variable gain amplifiers
Patent No. 12289084

Inventor(s): Gabriel Hernandez De La Cruz (Richardson, TX), Lawrence Cotton (Allen, TX), Masahiro Yoshioka (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17588662 on 01/31/2022 (1184 days app to issue)

Abstract: Examples of amplifier circuitry regulate a transconductance value (G[subscript]m[/subscript]) of operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) in the amplifier to be approximately the same, which value is based on a supply voltage and a reference voltage applied to a reference OTA and the internal resistance of the reference OTA. The reference OTA generates an output current based on G[subscript]m [/subscript]and the reference voltage, which current is compared to current generated by the supply voltage and internal resistance of the reference OTA. A tail current transistor of each of the reference OTA and a main OTA that mirrors the G[subscript]m [/subscript]of the reference OTA provide a tail current feedback path by which G[subscript]m [/subscript]is regulated. Amplifying circuitry is coupled to the main OTA to receive current signals. Based on the received current signals, amplifying circuitry generates a differential output voltage signal. The gain of the amplifying circuitry is proportional to the supply voltage and remains relatively constant across process temperature variations.

[H03F] AMPLIFIERS (measuring, testing G01R; optical parametric amplifiers G02F; circuit arrangements with secondary emission tubes H01J 43/30; masers, lasers H01S; dynamo-electric amplifiers H02K; control of amplification H03G; coupling arrangements independent of the nature of the amplifier, voltage dividers H03H; amplifiers capable only of dealing with pulses H03K; repeater circuits in transmission lines H04B 3/36, H04B 3/58; application of speech amplifiers in telephonic communication H04M 1/60, H04M 3/40)

Methods and apparatus to retime data using a programmable delay
Patent No. 12289114

Inventor(s): Abhijit Kumar Das (Plano, TX), Bhavesh G. Bhakta (Richardson, TX), Venkateswara Reddy Pothireddy (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18678824 on 05/30/2024 (334 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example system includes a controller having a first controller terminal, a second controller terminal, and a third controller terminal and digitally locked loop (DLL) circuitry having a first DLL terminal and a second DLL terminal, the first DLL terminal coupled to the first controller terminal. The system also includes first retimer circuitry having a first retimer terminal, and a second retimer terminal, and a third retimer terminal, the first retimer terminal coupled to the second DLL terminal and the second retimer terminal coupled to the second controller terminal and second retimer circuitry having a fourth retimer terminal, a fifth retimer terminal, and a sixth retimer terminal, the fourth retimer terminal coupled to the second DLL terminal and the fifth retimer terminal coupled to the third controller terminal.

[H03L] AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES (of dynamo-electric generators H02P) [3]

Vehicle DCM routing management
Patent No. 12289180

Inventor(s): Mark R. Klausner (San Diego, CA), Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr. (Allen, 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: 17899783 on 08/31/2022 (972 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining a data communication module (DCM) in a vehicle is unable to send a message, routing the message from the DCM to a device detachably connected to the vehicle, and sending, by the device detachably connected to the vehicle, the routed message to a device external to the vehicle.

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

Virtualized cell site routers with layer 2 forwarding
Patent No. 12289233

Inventor(s): Muhammad Qasim Arham (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Juniper Networks, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)
Law Firm: Shumaker Sieffert, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18432150 on 02/05/2024 (449 days app to issue)

Abstract: In general, techniques are described for deploying virtualized cell site routers (vCSRs). In an example, a method comprises receiving, at a forwarding plane of a virtualized cell site router (vCSR) of a first Distributed Unit (DU) of a plurality of DU servers of a cell site for a 5G radio access network, the vCSR having a containerized routing protocol process and a forwarding plane configured to perform Layer 2 (L2) switching, L2 packets on a second interface for a second physical link connecting the first DU server to an L2 switch; and switching, by the forwarding plane of the vCSR of the first DU, the L2 packets on a first interface for a first physical link connecting the first DU server to a second DU server of the plurality of DU servers.

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

Single-domain registration initiated cancellation
Patent No. 12289287

Inventor(s): Lee B. Valerius (Carrollton, TX), Mathew M. Kaippallimalil (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, TX)
Law Firm: Yao Legal Services, Inc. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17945881 on 09/15/2022 (957 days app to issue)

Abstract: One aspect can provide a system and method for enforcing a single-domain registration of a user equipment (UE) roaming across different provider networks. During operation, the system can receive, at a subscriber-management entity (SME) from a first service node within a first provider’’s network, a location-update message associated with the UE. The system can identify a second service node within a second provider’’s network with which the UE has a previous registration and query a subscriber-information database to determine whether a single-domain-registration feature is enabled at the SME for the UE. In response to determining that the single-domain-registration feature is enabled, the system can send a location-cancellation message to the second service node to cause the second service node to cancel the previous registration of the UE and register the UE at the SME.

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

System and methods for controlled access to computer resources
Patent No. 12289313

Inventor(s): Jassem Shakil (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18510312 on 11/15/2023 (531 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a system and method for enabling of access to a computer resource by a computer system comprising: providing to a user an interface configured to receive a request for access to a computer resource; determining if the user is permitted to access the computer resource based on a user profile; providing a user verification interface configured to receive user identity verification information; determining if the user identity verification information is valid in response to a reply to the request for user identify verification information; and in response to determining that the user is permitted access to the computer resource and that the user verification information is valid: updating a security policy to reflect that the user is permitted to access the computer resource, and providing access to the computer resource for a limited time duration.

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

System and method for performing interactions across geographical regions within a metaverse
Patent No. 12289315

Inventor(s): Jayachandra Varma (Irving, TX), Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18664144 on 05/14/2024 (350 days app to issue)

Abstract: A processor is configured to access a virtual environment comprising a plurality of virtual locations. The processor is configured to generate a primary avatar in a first virtual location based on a superset of the user data associated with a first set of the interaction criteria objects. The processor is configured to receive an interaction request from a user device for an interaction with the entity in a second virtual location. The processor is configured to generate a secondary set of user data based on the superset of the user data and the second set of the interaction criteria objects. The processor is configured to generate a secondary avatar associated with the user device in the second virtual location. The processor is further configured to conduct the interaction between the secondary avatar and the entity in the second virtual location based on the second set of the interaction criteria objects.

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

Multi-leveled data transfer
Patent No. 12289316

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18200677 on 05/23/2023 (707 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for controlled data transmission within leveled data environments is provided. Methods may include transmitting a dataset, using a data driver, from a first data environment to a second data environment. Methods may include intercepting the dataset at a reception gateway. Methods may include transmitting an identification. The identification request may request an original data environment from which the data originated; and a destination data environment to which the data is being transmitted. Methods may include in response to receiving a reply to the identification request, authenticating the reply. Methods may include initiating a security level compatibility check. Methods may include determining whether the first data environment is compatible with the second data environment. Methods may include transmitting the dataset through an auto-sanitization engine. Methods may include fragmenting the data into a plurality of data segments. Methods may include assigning to each data segment a security level. Methods may include masking data segments determined to have a security clearance level greater than the security level of the second data environment. Methods may include building a second dataset with remaining data segments. Methods may include storing the second dataset at the second data environment.

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

Electronic artificial intelligence system for authenticating software
Patent No. 12289326

Inventor(s): Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17887089 on 08/12/2022 (991 days app to issue)

Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) (collectively ‘’AI/ML’’) system that provides dynamic detection of potential of resource updates, authentication of the resources updates, and tracking of the links between resources through the use of resource signatures. The resource signatures may provide an indication of the application information, the resources that are accessed by the application, and the resources that access the application. As such, the AI/ML system can monitor and track the applications and updated resources that interact with the applications in order to identify any potential security issues, as well as to optimize and standardize the use of resources by the users when developing applications.

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

Sensor package for automated remote data capture in property appraisals
Patent No. 12289519

Inventor(s): Martin Lopez (Frisco, TX), Nicole Ferretti (Plano, TX), Sayeef Rahim (Allen, TX), Snehal Desai (Richardson, 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: 18192900 on 03/30/2023 (761 days app to issue)

Abstract: A package in which an onboard computing system and a plurality of sensor devices are embedded. The package includes a plurality of cameras that are positioned against sidewalls of the package in order to capture image data of the external environment. When the computing system determines the package has arrived at a predesignated set of coordinates corresponding to a target property for which an appraisal is to be performed, the cameras are activated and begin collecting image data. The image data is transmitted to a remote server which will store the image data for review by insurance personnel.

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

Computer-based systems configured for managing mesh networks having integrated roofing components and methods of use thereof
Patent No. 12289631

Inventor(s): Xavier Riley (San Jose, CA), Zachary Richard Campau (Novato, CA)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18149878 on 01/04/2023 (846 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable mesh network capacity management via network metering using a processor an integrated roofing mesh network node in a mesh network to receive and transmit data packets in the mesh network. Each data packet includes a source address, a destination address, and a payload of data. The processor determines passthrough traffic including a subset of data packets routed between radio nodes of the mesh network through the gateway based on the source address and the destination address of each data packet and an address associated with the gateway. The processor determines a passthrough data capacity based on the payload of each data packet in the subset and determines a metric based on the passthrough data capacity to signify an amount of mesh network bandwidth provided by the integrated roofing mesh network node.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Avoiding media access control padding of trigger-based physical layer convergence protocol data unit
Patent No. 12289638

Inventor(s): Matan Ben-Shachar (Kibbutz Givat Haim Ihud, , IL), Oren Aharon Shani (Kfar-Saba, , IL), Shai Erez (Tsofit, , IL)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18327338 on 06/01/2023 (698 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wireless station (STA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) performs a method to avoid media access control (MAC) padding of a physical layer convergence protocol data unit (PPDU) (e.g., a trigger-based (TB) PPDU, etc.). The method can reduce current or power consumption by the STA, which can in turn optimize the STA and, in certain instances, the WLAN as whole. In one example, the method includes the STA receiving a trigger frame from an access point (AP). The trigger frame specifies a length of a PPDU. The method further includes the STA generating a TB PPDU based on the specifications in the trigger frame. In particular, the STA generates a PPDU that has a length that is less than the length specified by the trigger frame. The method also includes the STA transmitting the generated PPDU to the AP.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

LED color and brightness control apparatus and method
Patent No. 12289807

Inventor(s): Dongjie Cheng (Murphy, TX), Joy Das (Shyamnagar, , IN), Sumit Bhat (Hubballi, , IN), Vijay Hugar (Hubballi, , IN)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18046568 on 10/14/2022 (928 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of MOSFET device groups connected in parallel, wherein a first common node of the plurality of MOSFET device groups is coupled to a cathode of a light emitting diode channel of a plurality of light emitting diode channels, and a second common node of the plurality of MOSFET device groups is connected to ground, and a control circuit configured to generate gate drive signals for the plurality of MOSFET device groups, wherein the gate drive signals are configured to adjust a current flowing through the light emitting diode channel based on a predetermined color and a predetermined brightness level of the light emitting diode channel, and under different duty cycles, the control circuit is configured to control the current flowing through the light emitting diode channel to be proportional to a corresponding duty cycle.

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

DESIGN PATENTS

Wheel hub
Patent No. D1072702

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: 29834698 on 04/13/2022 (1112 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Digital recorder
Patent No. D1072782

Inventor(s): Tan Han Nguyen (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Trancao Ventures LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Fleit Intellectual Property Law (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29902207 on 09/11/2023 (596 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen with a graphical user interface for electronic messaging
Patent No. D1072856

Inventor(s): Dante Diaz (Frisco, TX), Kristi M. Emery (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): CITIBANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29743048 on 07/17/2020 (1747 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Portable modular enclosure for an engine generator set
Patent No. D1072889

Inventor(s): Christian Lobo (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Cummins Power Generation Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29750221 on 09/11/2020 (1691 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body assembly
Patent No. D1072962

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Jory Sprowl (Howe, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowiett, TX), Skylar Hagler (Anna, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29907966 on 01/10/2024 (475 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Faucet handle
Patent No. D1073025

Inventor(s): Peyton Michele Hartis (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): DELTA FAUCET COMPANY (Indianapolis, IN)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29903624 on 09/26/2023 (581 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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