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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of Dec. 5, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

153 patents granted
Ranked No. 8 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 15
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 16
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 6
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 11
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 5
G: PHYSICS 51
H: ELECTRICITY 39

DESIGN: 10

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, CH) – 2
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) – 2
Bmic LLC (Dallas) – 4
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (New York, NY) – 3
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) – 4
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas) – 19
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) – 8
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) – 5
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) – 5

Unassigned – 19

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Rebecca Hadley (Flower Mound) 6
Lee D. Whetsel (Parker) 3
Nolan Serrao (Plano) 3
Casey Christen Jens Christensen (McKinney) 2
Chih-Ming Hung (McKinney) 2
Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove) 2
Kent Poteet (Lucas) 2
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Chocolate replicas produced from individual components
Patent No. 11832632

Inventor(s): Daniel Assad Saad (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Voyage Foods, Inc. (Oakland, CA)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17865729 on 07/15/2022 (508 days app to issue)

Abstract: Materials and methods for producing chocolate replicas from individual components are provided herein. NULL

Pipe and cartridge for a smokable media
Patent No. 11832642

Inventor(s): Benjamin Adam Johns (Parker, TX), Benjamin Michael Johns (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Johns Family Irrevocable Trust (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17449141 on 09/28/2021 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pipe and cartridge for smokable media are disclosed. The pipe and cartridge can be used in combination as a pipe and cartridge system. The cartridge is configured to hold an amount of smokable medium, can be sealed on top and bottom to maintain freshness of the smokable medium prior to consumption, and has a side wall configured such that a space for heat convection is formed between the side wall and a side wall of a recess of a pipe. The pipe can include a body, a recess configured to hold the cartridge such that a space for heat convection is formed between the side wall of the recess and the side wall of the cartridge, a channel formed in the body and that extends from a bottom of the recess to a side wall of the body, and an optional lid.

[A24D] CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES

Cap protector
Patent No. 11832671

Inventor(s): Manuel Christian Cardenas, III (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17481116 on 09/21/2021 (805 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cap protector includes a unitary rigid shell having an open rear in communication with an interior chamber that is dimensioned and configured to receive the crown portion of a cap. Integrally extending from the lower, front portion of the shell is a substantially planar panel configured to resemble the cap”s bill. The panel includes a slot in communication with an interior cavity that is dimensioned to firmly receive the cap bill. On the upper surface of the shell is a grommet with a locking mechanism that grips the cap”s crown button.

[A42B] HATS; HEAD COVERINGS (headbands, head-scarves A41D 20/00, A41D 23/00)

Cleaning tool for string trimmers
Patent No. 11832714

Inventor(s): John D Sheppard (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17200807 on 03/13/2021 (997 days app to issue)

Abstract: Cleaning tools are mounted directly to rotary spindles of conventional string trimmers. The cleaning tools have brush channels which extend through one or more sides thereof, with each brush channel having an edge channel and a bristle channel. The edge channels are disposed interiorly within the body of respective ones of the bristle channels. Channel brush inserts are secured in respective ones of the brush channels, and each includes a mounting base and a bristle body. The mounting bases are inserted into respective ones of the edge channels and the bristle bodies extend from a respective one of the mounting bases through the bristle channels, from the one or more sides and exteriorly of the cleaning tool. One cleaning tool has three brush channels formed to extend into a laterally extending sidewall. In another cleaning tool the brush channels are formed to extend into the bottom end surface thereof.

[A46B] BRUSHES (handles not integral with brushware B25G)

Self-mechanical-cleaning toilet system with water-splash cleaning options
Patent No. 11832771

Inventor(s): Xiao Li (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17673771 on 02/16/2022 (657 days app to issue)

Abstract: A self-mechanical-cleaning toilet system with water-splash cleaning options provides a more sanitary and comfortable bathroom experience with minimum water usage. The system includes a receiving trough, a removal scraper, a guide bar, a back door, a first translation mechanism, a second translation mechanism, and a controller. The receiving trough collects the excrement, while the removal scraper moves the excrement out. The guide bar controls the movement of the removal scraper along the receiving trough. The back door separates the receiving trough from an excrement storage compartment/sewer system. The first translation mechanism moves the removal scraper, while the second translation mechanism moves the back door as necessary. The controller monitors and controls the cycles of the operation of the first translation mechanism and the second translation mechanism. The water-splash cleaning options dispense specified amounts of fluids for cleaning and sanitation purposes. The system also includes means to eliminate unpleasant odors instantly.

[A47K] SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (connecting to water supply or waste pipe, sinks E03C; water-closets E03D); TOILET ACCESSORIES (cosmetic equipment A45D)

Dynamic locking device
Patent No. 11832831

Inventor(s): Martin Masson (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC. (Jacksonville, FL)
Law Firm: Carter, DeLuca Farrell LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17526167 on 11/15/2021 (750 days app to issue)

Abstract: A surgical instrument including a tool, a handpiece, and a locking member. The handpiece includes both a coupling member configured to cooperate with the tool, and a driver for rotating the tool. The locking member is movable from an unlocked position to a locked position in response to centrifugal force generated during rotation of the locking member. The locking member is configured to secure the tool to the handpiece when in the locked position.

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

Surgical suite integration and optimization
Patent No. 11832901

Inventor(s): Paul R. Hallen (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17469562 on 09/08/2021 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for integrating and optimizing a surgical suite. An ophthalmic suite can include a surgical console, a heads-up display communicatively coupled with a surgical camera for capturing a three-dimensional image of an eye, and a surgical suite optimization engine. The surgical suite optimization engine can performs a wide variety of actions in response to action codes received from the other components in the surgical suite. The surgical suite optimization engine can be integrated within another component of the surgical suite, can be a stand-alone module, and can be a cloud-based tool.

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

Systems and methods for portable monitoring of incentive spirometry
Patent No. 11832930

Inventor(s): Farid Farahmand (Plano, TX), Foad Farahmand (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TIDAL MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16782840 on 02/05/2020 (1399 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable incentive spirometry monitoring device and method of use. The device connected to the base of an incentive spirometer and is capable of monitoring inspiration within the incentive spirometer. The portable incentive spirometry monitoring device has a user interface for inputting a variety of different parameters, including a desired air volume, as well as attempt thresholds. Results can be stored such that medical personnel can review attempts by a patient to monitor therapeutic use, as well as encouraging patient use. The portable incentive spirometry monitoring device may be reused with different incentive spirometers without the need for extensive sterilization.

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

Systems and methods for producing stimuli in a visual interface
Patent No. 11832946

Inventor(s): Chungchih Chou (Ann Arbor, MI), Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Muhamed Farooq (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17528601 on 11/17/2021 (748 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to controlling display attributes within a visual interface for enhancing stimuli and responses of a user. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting display attributes related to a first layer of an image and a second layer of the image, wherein the image is associated with an interface to control a component. The method also includes oscillating, at a frequency, between first values of the display attributes for displaying the first layer. The method also includes oscillating, at a harmonic of the frequency, between second values of the display attributes for displaying the second layer in parallel with the first layer until detecting a selection associated with the interface.

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

Root canal sealing instrument
Patent No. 11832999

Inventor(s): William L. Wildey (Bridgeport, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Dority Manning, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17717689 on 04/11/2022 (603 days app to issue)

Abstract: A root canal sealing instrument includes an elongated member that includes a shaft and a spiraled member. The root canal sealing instrument further includes a housing that encompasses at least a portion of the elongated member, wherein the housing is configured to slidably move with respect to the elongated member. The housing includes a proximal opening and a distal opening at opposing ends of the housing, wherein the proximal opening is closer to a proximal end of the elongated member than a distal end of the elongated member, and the distal opening is closer to the distal end of the elongated member than the proximal end of the elongated member. The housing further includes an interior chamber with a diameter at least as large as a first diameter of the spiraled member and a second diameter of the shaft.

[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)

Retractable cap actuation for an intraocular lens cartridge
Patent No. 11833032

Inventor(s): Douglas Brent Wensrich (Bedford, TX), Sudarshan B. Singh (Euless, TX), Todd Taber (Keller, TX), Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16999449 on 08/21/2020 (1201 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for removably attaching a drive mechanism handpiece to an intraocular lens (IOL) cartridge that folds the IOL upon retraction of a cap, are provided. The IOL cartridge comprises a nozzle and a compartment configured to receive an IOL. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the compartment. The IOL cartridge also includes a retractable cap that covers the nozzle and the compartment. The retractable cap is configured to expose the nozzle and fold the IOL upon retraction of the retractable cap. The IOL cartridge may also include a plunger case that is in fluid communication with the compartment, wherein a plunger is movably disposed within the plunger case.

[A61F] FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) [2006.01]

Topical skin care formulations comprising plant extracts
Patent No. 11833240

Inventor(s): David Gan (Southlake, TX), Michelle Hines (Hickory Creek, TX), Tiffany Florence (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17199815 on 03/12/2021 (998 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for treating skin of a person is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to the skin of the person a composition comprising an effective amount of an aqueous, alcoholic, or aqueous-alcoholic extract from [i]Livistona chinensis[/i], wherein the composition reduces tyrosinase activity or melanin production in the skin, increases antioxidant activity in the skin, and/or increases skin moisture content.

[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)

Pore minimizer
Patent No. 11833243

Inventor(s): David Gan (Addison, TX), Geetha Kalahasti (Addison, TX), Lisha Van Pelt (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): MARY KAY INC. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17319996 on 05/13/2021 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for reducing the appearance of a skin pore in skin of a subject in need thereof is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to the skin pore a composition comprising effective amount of [i]Albizia julibrissin [/i]bark extract, and hydrolyzed soy flour, wherein topical application of the composition reduces the appearance of the size of the skin pore.

Bulkhead anchor for medical device leads
Patent No. 11833359

Inventor(s): Aaron Raines (Dallas, TX), Adam Jackson (Cambridge, , GB), Chris Dawson (Cambridge, , GB), Manasi Reardon (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17228238 on 04/12/2021 (967 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods which provide a bulkhead anchor configuration in which an anchor body includes flexure finger members and a radial bulkhead operable in cooperation to impart a radial compressive force to a corresponding lead body are described. A first portion of a bulkhead anchor body may comprise a plurality of flexure finger members disposed in a corolla configuration forming an anchor lumen through which a lead body may be inserted. A second portion of the bulkhead anchor body may comprise a radial bulkhead having a flexure profile configured to operatively engage the flexure finger members. A locking mechanism may be used to retain the first and second portions of the bulkhead anchor in their relative positions such that the radial compressive force is maintained upon the lead body indefinitely.

[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]

Golf cup lighting fixture
Patent No. 11833399

Inventor(s): Bucky Day Thrash (Prosper, TX), Dusty Lee Thrash (Lubbock, TX)
Assignee(s): Nite Putter Pro, LLC (Prosper, TX)
Law Firm: Scale LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17716840 on 04/08/2022 (606 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure provides a golf cup lighting fixture. The system includes a cup, a light source, a catch removeably coupled to the cup. The system also includes a cover located below the catch which covers the light source. The light source is accessible when the catch and cover are removed. The cup can be placed in a hole and then the light source illuminates the hole. A golfer can see the illuminated hole. Replacing the light source, or performing maintenance, is enhanced as the cup need not be removed to conduct such maintenance.

[A63B] APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

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

Device cleaning system and method of use
Patent No. 11833557

Inventor(s): Derrick James Hoover (Lipan, TX), Jay Riley (Lipan, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16354568 on 03/15/2019 (1726 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device cleaning system cycles a fluid by a clogged or non-functioning device to remove the substances that are built-up on it. The fluid could be heated to facilitate removal and it is considered of importance to use a fluid that is safe environmentally. A clean and functioning verification device is run in the system to compare readings from the non-functioning device. The system is intended to run until the provide similar readings.

[B08B] CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL (brushes A46; devices for domestic or like cleaning A47L; separation of particles from liquids or gases B01D; separation of solids B03, B07; spraying or applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces in general B05; cleaning devices for conveyors B65G 45/10; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C 7/00; inhibiting corrosion or incrustation in general C23; cleaning streets, permanent ways, beaches or land E01H; parts, details or accessories of swimming or splash baths or pools, specially adapted for cleaning E04H 4/16; preventing or removing electrostatic charges H05F)

Pipe bell end ring flare system and method of use thereof
Patent No. 11833735

Inventor(s): Steve D. Ediger (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): CANTEX, INC. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: MILES STOCKBRIDGE P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18121077 on 03/14/2023 (266 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pipe bell-end ring flare device for use with a mandrel to form bell ends with a flared outer edge in plastic pipe sections either as part of the pipe manufacturing process or subsequent to the manufacturing process. The flared edge creating a wider bell end opening to make it easier to insert a non-bell end of another pipe into the flared bell end.

[B29C] SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B 11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B 37/00-B32B 41/00) [4]

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for edge sealing laminate wafers containing a soft deformable inner film
Patent No. 11833772

Inventor(s): Ahmed Drammeh (Dallas, TX), Eric Begg (Dallas, TX), Hao-Wen Chiu (Dallas, TX), Zbigniew Tokarski (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, , FR)
Law Firm: NIXON VANDERHYE (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17120638 on 12/14/2020 (1086 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems, apparatuses, and methods for an optical system. In some aspects, the systems and devices may produce a wafer for use in the manufacture of an optical article. The wafer includes a laminate having a first layer that includes a first matrix material having a lower surface and an upper surface opposite the lower surface and a second layer that includes a second matrix material, the second layer is coupled to the first layer and covers at least a portion of the lower surface or the upper surface. The first layer includes a first thickness at a central portion that is greater than a second thickness at an edge portion.

[B29D] PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE (making granules B29B 9/00; making preforms B29B 11/00) [4]

Retention mechanisms for service access doors
Patent No. 11833896

Inventor(s): John J. Salvia, III (Ann Arbor, MI), Lynne Susan Dykins (Brighton, MI), Patrick J. Edgar (Ann Arbor, MI), Robert J. Hazlewood (Plymouth, MI), Sathya Shankar Kuttumukkula Chandrasekaran (Novi, MI), Vikas Bhatia (South Lyon, MI
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17231203 on 04/15/2021 (964 days app to issue)

Abstract: A retention mechanism for a removable access door includes a retention tab positioned along a side of the access door. The retention tab includes a resiliently deflectable stem and at least two engagement heads projecting from the stem. The tab extends to a first distance from a reference surface of the access door. An overstress prevention structure is positioned along the side of the access door so as to enable the retention tab to contact the overstress prevention structure when the stem is deflected a predetermined amount. The overstress prevention structure extends to a second distance from the reference surface, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance. Support walls may strengthen the overstress prevention structure against forces exerted by the retention tabs during deflection of the tabs. The support walls may form a protective ”shroud” around the retention tab.

[B60K] ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES [2006.01]

System and method for dynamic excitation of an energy storage element configured for use in an electric aircraft
Patent No. 11833911

Inventor(s): Steven J. Foland (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): BETA AIR, LLC (South Burlington, VT)
Law Firm: CALDWELL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17876801 on 07/29/2022 (494 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for dynamic excitation of an energy storage element configured for use in an electric aircraft includes a plurality of propulsors mechanically connected to the electric aircraft. The system includes a plurality of energy storage elements electrically connected to the plurality of propulsors. The system includes a bus element, wherein the bus element is electrically connected to the plurality of energy storage elements and a cross tie element connected to the bus element configured to disconnect a first energy storage element from a second energy storage element. The system includes a modulator unit electrically connected to the bus element configured to modulate a first electrical command to the first energy storage element and a second electrical command to the second energy storage element. The system includes at least a sensor configured to detect an energy datum corresponding to the first energy storage element as a function of the modulation.

[B64D] EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT

Integrated assist grip device
Patent No. 11833949

Inventor(s): Alexander L. Paradis (Ann Arbor, MI), Frank A. Richards (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17576789 on 01/14/2022 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems are provided for integrating a deployable grip with a vehicle. The deployable grip may comprise a support coupled to a portion of a vehicle and a handle attached to the support and configured to move between a deployed position and a retracted position relative to the support upon application of a force on the handle. The handle provides a physical aid, when deployed, to an occupant of the vehicle while the occupant is entering or exiting the vehicle, is deployable when a door of the vehicle proximal to which the support is coupled to the portion of the vehicle is open, is not deployable when the door is closed.

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

Object detection systems for vehicles and methods of controlling airbags using object detection systems
Patent No. 11833989

Inventor(s): Kenan Kurtovic (Troy, OH)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17880000 on 08/03/2022 (489 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle structure an airbag deployment location and an external skin layer that covers the airbag deployment location. An object detection sensor is located on or covered by the external skin layer of a vehicle component and located within an object detection zone. The object detection sensor is configured to provide a signal to a controller upon detecting an object within the object detection zone.

[B60R] VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for vehicles A62C 3/07)

Method for motion estimation in a vehicle, corresponding device and computer program product
Patent No. 11834054

Inventor(s): Andrea Donadel (Meda, , IT), Jolle Philippe (Le Mans, , FR), Leonardo Colombo (Lecco, , IT), Mahaveer Jain (Milpitas, CA), Nicola Matteo Palella (Rivolta D”Adda, , IT), Roberto Mura (Milan, , IT)
Assignee(s): STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: SEED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW GROUP LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17470962 on 09/09/2021 (817 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes inertial sensors and a GPS. The system generates a first estimated vehicle velocity based on motion data and positioning data, generates a second estimated vehicle velocity based on the processed motion data and the first estimated vehicle velocity, and generates fused datasets indicative of position, velocity and attitude of a vehicle based on the processed motion data, the positioning data and the second estimated vehicle velocity. The generating the second estimated vehicle velocity includes: filtering the motion data, transforming the filtered motion data in a frequency domain based on the first estimated vehicle velocity, generating spectral power density signals, generating an estimated wheel angular frequency and an estimated wheel size based on the spectral power density signals, and generating the second estimated vehicle velocity as a function of the estimated wheel angular frequency and the estimated wheel size.

[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]

Stroller
Patent No. 11834092

Inventor(s): Danyel Fisher (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17335815 on 06/01/2021 (917 days app to issue)

Abstract: A stroller includes a support frame mounted on pneumatic tires that allow the stroller to easily traverse irregular or soft terrain. The support frame includes a handlebar assembly having a hammock-style seat mounted thereon. A canopy suspended above the seat contains integral speakers for streaming music from an electronic device and light strings for illuminating a seated child. The seat also includes a heater and a cooling fan for comforting a seated child during extreme temperatures.

[B62B] HAND-PROPELLED VEHICLES, e.g. HAND CARTS OR PERAMBULATORS; SLEDGES (characterised by animal propulsion B62C; propulsion of sledges by driver or engine B62M)

Systems, apparatus, and methods for steering a towed vehicle in reverse
Patent No. 11834096

Inventor(s): Stephen L. Robertson (Surprise, AZ)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17192858 on 03/04/2021 (1006 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for steering one or more wheels of a flat-towed vehicle moving in reverse. A system may include a power steering mechanism configured to steer the one or more wheels. The system may further include a connector configured to carry one or more signals from a towing vehicle to the flat-towed vehicle. The system may further include an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the power steering mechanism and the connector. The ECU may receive a signal that one or more reverse lights of the towing vehicle are lit or on. The ECU may be configured to actuate the power steering mechanism to steer the one or more wheels to a straight position upon receiving the signal.

[B62D] MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS (steering, or guiding on a desired track, of agricultural machines or implements A01B 69/00; wheels, castors, axles, increasing wheel adhesion B60B; vehicle tyres, tyre inflation or tyre changing B60C; connections between vehicles of a train or the like B60D; vehicles for use on rail and road, amphibious or convertible vehicles B60F; suspension arrangements B60G; heating, cooling, ventilating or other air treating devices B60H; windows, windscreens, non-fixed roofs, doors or similar devices, protective coverings for vehicles not in use B60J; propulsion plant arrangements, auxiliary drives, transmissions, controls, instrumentation or dashboards B60K; electric equipment or propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L; power supply for electrically-propelled vehicles B60M; passenger accommodation not otherwise provided for B60N; adaptations for load transportation or to carry special loads or objects B60P; arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general B60Q; vehicles, vehicle fittings or vehicle parts, not otherwise provided for B60R; servicing, cleaning, repairing, supporting, lifting, or manoeuvring, not otherwise provided for B60S; brake arrangements, brake control systems or parts thereof B60T; air-cushion vehicles B60V; motorcycles, accessories therefor B62J, B62K; testing of vehicles G01M)

Landing gear wheel retention device
Patent No. 11834155

Inventor(s): Samuel J. Reiss (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): GOODRICH CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER L.L.P. (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17210273 on 03/23/2021 (987 days app to issue)

Abstract: A wheel retaining assembly for a landing gear having an axle and an outer wheel bearing, the axle defining an axial direction along an axial centerline, is disclosed. In various embodiments, the wheel retaining assembly includes a first wheel spacer configured to slide over the axle and to abut the outer wheel bearing, the first wheel spacer having an axially outward portion; and a second wheel spacer configured to slide over the axle, the second wheel spacer having an axially inward portion configured to engage the axially outward portion of the first wheel spacer.

[B60B] VEHICLE WHEELS (making wheels or wheel parts by rolling B21H 1/00, by forging, hammering or pressing B21K 1/28); CASTORS; AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION

Energy attenuation stabilizers and methods
Patent No. 11834177

Inventor(s): Eric Sinusas (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Pramudji Law Group PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17958901 on 10/03/2022 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a stabilizer of an aircraft includes an energy attenuating portion. The energy attenuating portion includes first and second edge sections separated by an adaptable section. The adaptable section may be rigid in a first range of directions and compressible in a second range of directions.

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

Method of bonding a blade cuff to a rotor blade
Patent No. 11834200

Inventor(s): David Littlejohn (Haslet, TX), Scott Oren Smith (Bedford, TX), Sven Roy Lofstrom (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, CT)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16874747 on 05/15/2020 (1299 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of bonding a blade cuff to a rotor blade includes installing the blade cuff to a root end of the rotor blade. The method includes mounting the rotor blade within a plurality of supports. The method includes coupling the blade cuff to a first fixture. The method includes installing a second fixture about the blade cuff. The method further includes applying localized and constant heat and pressure to the blade cuff via the second fixture.

[B64F] GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Chain slack adjustment mechanism for mail sortation systems
Patent No. 11834275

Inventor(s): Fred Ayala (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): National Presort, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17864988 on 07/14/2022 (509 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mail sortation system includes a frame system, a conveyor carried by the frame system, a driven axle on one end of the conveyor, a pair of split idler axles, one idler axel on each side of the conveyor, a chain from each idler axel to the driven axel, and a chain slack adjustment mechanism. The idler axels are configured to rotate independently of each other. The chains are coupled to the conveyor, such that rotation of the driven axle causes the idler axles to rotate and the conveyor to translate. The chain slack adjustment mechanisms remove slack in each chain by increasing the distance between the driven axle and the idler axles.

[B65G] TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable or mobile lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F 9/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C 9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D)

Apparatus, system and method for filling a beverage container
Patent No. 11834317

Inventor(s): Benjamin Simon (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CRAFT STANDARD ENTERPRISES, INC. (Fayetteville, AR)
Law Firm: Hoffman Warnick LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17365833 on 07/01/2021 (887 days app to issue)

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include a filling apparatus that can be connected to a valve on a keg, such as a Sankey-D valve, and can be used to pour alcohol and other liquids into the keg, which may be pre-filled with a non-alcoholic drink mix. The filling apparatus has an upper structure coupled to a valve assembly which is coupled to a lower structure configured to mate with a keg valve. The filling apparatus may be designed to depress portions of the keg valve to allow for both filling and venting of the keg simultaneously. The filling apparatus may include a Sankey-D coupler or a coupler with a probe portion as the lower body portion.

[B67C] FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS

MEMS encapsulation employing lower pressure and higher pressure deposition processes
Patent No. 11834331

Inventor(s): Adam Joseph Fruehling (Garland, TX), Scott Robert Summerfelt (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17514282 on 10/29/2021 (767 days app to issue)

Abstract: A micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device includes a moveable element within a cavity. The MEMS device also includes a first layer over the cavity, the first layer having a first hole and a second hole. The first hole has a first diameter. The second hole has a second diameter. The second diameter is larger than the first diameter, and the second hole is farther from the moveable element than the first hole. The first hole is sealed with a first dielectric material. The second hole is sealed with a second dielectric material. The cavity filled with a gas at a pressure of at least approximately 10 torr.

[B81C] PROCESSES OR APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS (making microcapsules or microballoons B01J 13/02; processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of piezo-electric, electrostrictive or magnetostrictive elements per se H01L 41/22) [7]

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

Iron compositions and methods of making and using the same
Patent No. 11834471

Inventor(s): Alvaro F. Guillem (Lantana, TX), Donald Jeffrey Keyser (Southlake, TX), Richard A. Zager (Seattle, WA)
Assignee(s): Renibus Therapeutics, Inc. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Culhane Meadows PLLC (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17979490 on 11/02/2022 (398 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention involves a novel aqueous iron composition. The aqueous iron composition includes iron sucrose and bicarbonate. The aqueous iron composition of the invention exhibits enhanced renal protective effects relative to conventional iron sucrose compositions.

[C07H] SUGARS; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; NUCLEIC ACIDS (derivatives of aldonic or saccharic acids C07C, C07D; aldonic acids, saccharic acids C07C 59/105, C07C 59/285; cyanohydrins C07C 255/16; glycals C07D; compounds of unknown constitution C07G; polysaccharides, derivatives thereof C08B; DNA or RNA concerning genetic engineering, vectors, e.g. plasmids, or their isolation, preparation or purification C12N 15/00; sugar industry C13) [2]

Modifiers for luxury vinyl tile to increase hardness and rigidity
Patent No. 11834557

Inventor(s): Karena Kaye Linkenhoger (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): LANXESS Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17254599 on 06/28/2019 (1621 days app to issue)

Abstract: Modifiers for use in vinyl flooring applications reduce or eliminate the need for traditional, general-purpose plasticizers in applications that require increased hardness or rigidity. High solvating, fast fusing modifiers, such as dibenzoates, added to LVT formulations provide unexpectedly increased flexural strength, hardness, indentation resistance and deflection not heretofore known or recognized in luxury vinyl tile formulations.

[C08J] WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H (working, e.g. shaping, of plastics B29) [2]

Polymer reinforced glass mat with enhanced nail shank shear resistance, shingles including the same, and methods of manufacturing the same
Patent No. 11834562

Inventor(s): Brian Lee (Linden, NJ), Jim Svec (Kearny, NJ), Ming-Liang Shiao (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17706009 on 03/28/2022 (617 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an article comprising a reinforced glass mat. In some embodiments, the reinforced glass mat includes a glass mat and a reinforcement material. In some embodiments, the glass mat includes a web of glass fibers. In some embodiments, the reinforcement material is embedded into the web of glass fibers of the glass mat. In some embodiments, the reinforced glass mat includes a sufficient amount of the reinforcement material, so as to result in a nail shank shear resistance of 13 lbs to 17 lbs, when the article is tested according to ASTM 1761 at 140 F. Methods of making the article, specific embodiments of the reinforcement material in the form of a polymeric binder, and methods of forming a roofing shingle from the article are also disclosed.

[C08J] WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H (working, e.g. shaping, of plastics B29) [2]

Near infrared reflective copper oxide coated particles
Patent No. 11834579

Inventor(s): Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, MI), Krishna Gunugunuri (Canton, MI), Songtao Wu (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17168281 on 02/05/2021 (1033 days app to issue)

Abstract: A copper oxide coated pigment including a particle having an outer surface, and a layer of copper oxide on the outer surface. The pigment has a reflectivity of electromagnetic radiation in a visible spectrum less than or equal to 5%, and a reflectivity of electromagnetic radiation in a near-IR and LiDAR spectrum greater than or equal to 5%. The particle is cobalt oxide or carbon black. A method for forming copper oxide coated particles includes combining a precipitating agent with a solution of copper nitrate and particles, forming coated particles. The particles are cobalt oxide or carbon black. Washing the particles, obtaining washed coated particles, and filtering the washed coated particles, obtaining filtered coated particles. Drying the filtered coated particles, obtaining dried coated particles, and calcining the dried coated particles to form the copper oxide coated particles.

[C01G] COMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C01D OR C01F (metal hydrides C01B 6/00; salts of oxyacids of halogens C01B 11/00; peroxides, salts of peroxyacids C01B 15/00; thiosulfates, dithionites, polythionates C01B 17/64; compounds containing selenium or tellurium C01B 19/00; binary compounds of nitrogen with metals C01B 21/06; azides C01B 21/08; metal amides C01B 21/092; nitrites C01B 21/50; phosphides C01B 25/08; salts of oxyacids of phosphorus C01B 25/16; carbides C01B 32/90; compounds containing silicon C01B 33/00; compounds containing boron C01B 35/00; compounds having molecular sieve properties but not having base-exchange properties C01B 37/00; compounds having molecular sieve and base-exchange properties, e.g. crystalline zeolites, C01B 39/00; cyanides C01C 3/08; salts of cyanic acid C01C 3/14; salts of cyanamide C01C 3/16; thiocyanates C01C 3/20; fermentation or enzyme-using processes for the preparation of elements or inorganic compounds except carbon dioxide C12P 3/00; obtaining metal compounds from mixtures, e.g. ores, which are intermediate compounds in a metallurgical process for obtaining a free metal C21B, C22B; production of non-metallic elements or inorganic compounds by electrolysis or electrophoresis C25B)

Injection fluids for stimulating fractured formations
Patent No. 11834609

Inventor(s): Dustin L. Walker (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. (San Ramon, CA)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16635906 on 07/31/2018 (1953 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include compositions and methods that stabilize a injection fluid when exposed to reservoir conditions, reducing formation damage and increasing the amount of hydrocarbon recovered. Specifically, the formulation is a single-phase liquid surfactant package which comprises a surfactant and optionally one or more secondary surfactants. Also provided are methods of using the stabilized injection fluids in stimulation operations.

[C09K] MATERIALS FOR APPLICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Device and uses thereof for treating diabetes
Patent No. 11834640

Inventor(s): Caleb Liebman (Arlington, TX), Michael Cho (Arlington, 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: 17021771 on 09/15/2020 (1176 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are devices for improving viability of isolated islets or -cells and stimulating insulin production from isolated islets or -cells and uses thereof for treating type 1 diabetes.

[C12M] APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY (installations for fermenting manure A01C 3/02; preservation of living parts of humans or animals A01N 1/02; brewing apparatus C12C; fermentation apparatus for wine C12G; apparatus for preparing vinegar C12J 1/10) [3]

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

Building structure inside and above a swimming pool or man-made lagoon pool
Patent No. 11834801

Inventor(s): Adelinda Lynn Ware (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17724293 on 04/19/2022 (595 days app to issue)

Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to provide a method of constructing a building structure inside and above a swimming pool or, man-made lagoon pool to produce the tropical, exotic resort experience of being surrounded by water in a building. This invention is new because of the use of the invention method of constructing over inside and above a pool or man-made lagoon/body of water pool, instead of an ocean, lake, or other natural body of water. The method of constructing in a pool is the innovation.

[E02B] HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING (ship-lifting E02C; dredging E02F)

Geophysical sensor retrieval system
Patent No. 11834807

Inventor(s): Robert Hauser (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Geophysical Technology, Inc. (Bellaire, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17175153 on 02/12/2021 (1026 days app to issue)

Abstract: A sensor retrieval system includes a self-propelled unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) having a control system including a navigation controller, an excavator controller and an extractor controller. The navigation controller has instructions to move the UGV to proximate a geodetic position of a sensor disposed proximate a surface of the ground. The UGV further comprises a sensor position locator arranged to determine distance, direction and relative elevation of the sensor with respect to the UGV. An extractor is in signal communication with the extractor controller. The extractor comprises means for lifting the sensor from the ground to a predetermined depth. An excavator is in signal communication with the excavator controller. The excavator comprises means for removing overburden from above the sensor to leave the overburden to at most the predetermined depth. The navigation controller has instructions to position the UGV such that the extractor is disposed above the sensor when the relative elevation is at most the predetermined depth and to position the UGV such that the excavator is disposed above the sensor when the relative elevation is above the predetermined depth. The navigation controller, the extractor controller and the excavator controller have instructions to position the UGV, operate the extractor and operate the excavator to remove excess overburden and extract the sensor based on the relative elevation.

[E02F] DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C 49/00)

Programmable dredge spoils slurry process and dewatering system
Patent No. 11834808

Inventor(s): Gordon R. England (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): DYNO OIL AND ELECTRIC LLC (Kemah, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16915973 on 06/29/2020 (1254 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dewatering system for separating water from solids in dredged slurries in real-time, parallel to the dredging of harbors, stream, and lakes. Water removed from the solids can be returned to the body of water from which it came. After the system removes debris and sand from the slurry, the system removes capillary water the remaining fines and filters out most toxic particles.

[E02F] DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C 49/00)

Process for assembling a fireproof system within a stick build exterior dynamic curtain wall faade
Patent No. 11834824

Inventor(s): Arndt Andresen (North Richland Hills, TX), Chad Stroike (Roanoke, TX), Nathan Jennings (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Schaan, , LI)
Law Firm: Grneberg and Myers PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17938738 on 10/07/2022 (424 days app to issue)

Abstract: An approved dynamic construction is used for effectively thermally insulating and sealing of a sating slat between a floor of a building and an exterior wall construction. The exterior wall construction includes a curtain wall configuration defined by an interior wall glass surface, including one or more aluminum framing members. In particular, a process is useful for assembling a fireproof system within a stick build exterior dynamic curtain wall faade, which includes glass, especially vision glass extending to the finished floor level below.

[E04B] GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS (border constructions of openings in walls, floors, or ceilings E06B 1/00)

Roofing shingles with registered self-seal strip patterns
Patent No. 11834831

Inventor(s): Olan T. Leitch (Mt. Juliet, TN)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17826308 on 05/27/2022 (557 days app to issue)

Abstract: Shingles have self-seal strips with features that include sealant dashes or dots separated by drainage gaps. The self-seal strips are registered with each shingle so that the features are positioned at the same locations on each shingle. A method of making such shingles includes synchronizing the rotation of sealant applicator wheels with the shingle chop cutter so that cuts are made at repeated designated locations along the applied self-seal strips.

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

Interlocking laminated structural roofing panels
Patent No. 11834835

Inventor(s): Daniel E. Boss (Morris Township, NJ), James A. Svec (Kearny, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17215011 on 03/29/2021 (981 days app to issue)

Abstract: Interlocking laminated structural roofing panels have a lightweight foamed core sandwiched between outer and inner layers of materials such as wood, polymer materials, fire resistant and/or waterproof membranes, and metal layers. At least one layer is a self-gripping metal sheet that grips and bonds mechanically to adjacent layers such as wood layers. A self-gripping metal sheet may be used on both sides of the roofing panels to form a panel that is strong, structurally robust, and able to span between relatively widely spaced roof rafters with little or no mid-span support. Interlocking features along the edges of the panels interlock adjacent panels together to form a strong monolithic roof covering for a roof.

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

Roofing systems and related methods
Patent No. 11834836

Inventor(s): Li-Ying Yang (Whippany, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17897852 on 08/29/2022 (463 days app to issue)

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

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

Shear coupling for sucker rod string
Patent No. 11834916

Inventor(s): Felipe Correa (Fort Worth, TX), Ramamurthy Narasimhan (Bangalore, , IN), Sean Terrill (Crowley, TX), Sergio Granados (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): HARBISON-FISCHER, INC. (Crowley, TX)
Law Firm: PCFB LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17550221 on 12/14/2021 (721 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to a shear pin including a cylindrical shape positioned along a vertical axis having a first end having a common diameter with a second end; the first end and containing a first clutch at a point along the vertical axis that is furthest from the second end, the first clutch containing one of a recessing shape and a protruding shape; (c) the second end containing a second clutch at a point along the vertical axis that is furthest from the first end, the second clutch containing one of a recessing shape and a protruding shape; and (d) the curved portion including a diameter that is largest where the curved portion connects to each of the first end and the second end and then narrows along the curved portion, forming a curve that culminates at a neck where the diameter is smallest.

[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]

Shaped charge load tube with integrated detonation cord retention mechanism
Patent No. 11834935

Inventor(s): James A. Rollins (Lipan, TX), Wenbo Yang (Kennedale, TX)
Assignee(s): GEODYNAMICS, INC. (Millsap, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17315922 on 05/10/2021 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: A loading tube is configured to receive one or more shaped charges to form a perforating gun. The loading tube includes a tubular body extending along a longitudinal axis; a cord passage formed into the tubular body; a retention cutoff formed into the tubular body and configured to receive a detonator cord; and a holding element extending into the retention cutoff and being integrally made with a wall of the tubular body, wherein the holding element is configured to hold the detonator cord into the retention cutoff. The cord passage is configured to receive the detonator cord from a bore of the tubular body and to direct the detonator cord outside the bore of the tubular body.

Dissolvable time delay firing head and method
Patent No. 11834936

Inventor(s): Michael D. Wroblicky (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): GEODYNAMICS, INC. (Millsap, TX)
Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis Bockius LLP (13 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17347665 on 06/15/2021 (903 days app to issue)

Abstract: A firing head configured to initiate the firing of an element in a perforating gun. The firing head includes an insert having a bore extending along a longitudinal direction X; a percussion detonator facing the bore and including an explosive material that is configured to detonate; a firing pin located partially in the bore; and a retention mechanism located on the firing pin and preventing the firing pin to move along the longitudinal direction X into the bore. The retention mechanism includes a degradable material that is configured to chemically react with a well fluid so that the retention mechanism degrades until freeing the firing pin so that the firing pin moves along the longitudinal direction X into the bore and strikes the percussion detonator.

Systems and methods for a bypass plunger
Patent No. 11834937

Inventor(s): Daniel Jay Herman (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): EnerVest, Ltd. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Hogan Lovells US LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17836427 on 06/09/2022 (544 days app to issue)

Abstract: A plunger assembly includes a cage having a body extending from a first end to a second end, the cage having a bore extending from the first end to the second end and one or more radial openings. The plunger assembly also includes a stinger positioned at least partially within the bore, the stinger being axially movable along an axis aligned with the bore between an open position and a closed position, wherein at least a portion of the stringer blocks at least a portion of the one or more radial openings in the closed position. The plunger assembly further includes a magnetic positioning system configured to hold the stinger in at least one of the open position or the closed position, the magnetic positioning system having one or more magnetic components that interact with at least one magnetic portion of the stinger.

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

Vent tube for bottling machine and related methods
Patent No. 11834316

Inventor(s): Alton W. Mowdy (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): MM Machinery Services, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Fitch, Even, Tabin Flannery, LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17976390 on 10/28/2022 (403 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gas stem assembly is disclosed including a vent tube having at least one protrusion extending radially from the vent tube and a receiver having a non-circular opening and an attachment surface at an end of the non-circular opening. The vent tube is at least partially insertable through the non-circular opening of the receiver when the vent tube and the at least one protrusion are aligned with the non-circular opening. The attachment surface of the receiver contacts the at least one protrusion to inhibit the at least one protrusion from passing back through the non-circular opening when the at least one protrusion is misaligned with the non-circular opening.

[F16L] PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL

Mastless wind turbine with stationary sails for improved power generation
Patent No. 11835031

Inventor(s): Steven C. Hench (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): J. Hench Consulting, Inc. (Benbrook, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17826206 on 05/27/2022 (557 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure disclose a turbine that includes multiple rotating sails and multiple stationary sails. A mastless vertical axis wind turbine includes a first plurality of sails that are configured to rotate about a vertical axis under the influence of wind. A platform is coupled to the first plurality of sails. During operation of the mastless vertical axis wind turbine, the platform is in tension with the first plurality of sails at one or more points about a particular end of the first plurality of the sails. The mastless vertical axis wind turbine also includes a second plurality of sails having respective first ends that are coupled together and second ends that are each coupled to one or more stationary surfaces. The second plurality of sails are configured to remain stationary as the first plurality of sails rotate under the influence of the wind.

[F03D] WIND MOTORS

Valve handles and dual-valve assemblies having valve handles
Patent No. 11835151

Inventor(s): Justin Masias (McKinney, TX), Steven Landry Peek (Denison, TX)
Assignee(s): Emerson Process Management Regulator Tech., Inc. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: HANLEY, FLIGHT ZIMMERMAN, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17726035 on 04/21/2022 (593 days app to issue)

Abstract: Valve handles and dual-valve assemblies having handles are disclosed herein. An example dual-valve assembly includes a first valve having a first shaft. The first valve has a plate with a notch. The dual-valve assembly also includes a second valve having a second shaft. The dual-valve assembly further includes a handle coupled to the first and second shafts, such that when the handle is rotated, the first and second shafts are rotated simultaneously. The handle includes a body and a flexible arm coupled to and extending from the body. The flexible arm has a lock edge sized to fit within the notch to limit rotation of the handle relative to the first and second valves.

[F16K] VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING

Booster-ejector system for capturing and recycling leakage fluids
Patent No. 11835183

Inventor(s): Dennis van Graefschepe (Terneuzen, , NL), Luis Figueroa (Calgary, , CA)
Assignee(s): Flowserve Management Company (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Maine Cernota Curran (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18104347 on 02/01/2023 (307 days app to issue)

Abstract: A booster-ejector system captures and recycles leakage fluids from a process. When a pressure differential (head) of the process is above a threshold value, an ejector system uses motive fluid from a process high-pressure (HP) region to entrain and compress the leakage fluid, and direct it to a low pressure (LP) region. When the head is below the threshold value, a controller reconfigures a plumbing system and activates a leakage pump to pump the leakage fluid to the LP region. The system can include only one ejector, or a plurality thereof, which can be coupled such that the diffuser output of each ejector is directed to the suction input of the next ejector. At least one of the ejectors can include an exchangeable throat, which can impart a rotational component to the fluid. The HP and LP regions can be the output and input, respectively, of a compressor.

[F17D] PIPE-LINE SYSTEMS; PIPE-LINES (distributing water E03B; pumps or compressors F04; fluid dynamics F15D; valves or the like F16K; pipes, laying pipes, supports, joints, branches, repairing, work on the entire line, accessories F16L; steam traps or the like F16T; fluid-pressure electric cables H01B 9/06)

Finned tube heat exchangers and methods for manufacturing same
Patent No. 11835306

Inventor(s): Yang Zou (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Rheem Manufacturing Company (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17190596 on 03/03/2021 (1007 days app to issue)

Abstract: A heat exchanger fin is disclosed. The fin can include a fin portion and a collar portion defining a fin aperture that has a central axis passing therethrough. The collar portion can include a nesting end including a nesting portion and a receiving end that (i) is located apart from the nesting end in an axial direction and (ii) comprises one or more bends to form an overhang portion that defines a gap located radially inward of the overhang portion. The gap can be dimensioned to at least partially receive the nesting portion. The collar portion can also include a contact portion extending between the nesting end and the receiving end, and the contact portion can be configured to abut an outer surface of a tube when the tube is at least partially inserted into the fin aperture.

[F28F] DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE OR HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials C09K 5/00; water or air traps, air venting F16)

P H Y S I C S

Parking spot route optimization systems and methods for optimizing parking spot databases
Patent No. 11835355

Inventor(s): Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, CA), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17165197 on 02/02/2021 (1036 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for optimizing a parking spot database is provided including determining a utility score of a candidate route to a candidate parking spot of a plurality of parking spots of a parking spot database based on an availability status of a non-candidate parking spot along the candidate route, and selecting the candidate route from a plurality of candidate routes based on the utility score.

[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)

Fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same
Patent No. 11835432

Inventor(s): Adam Dewey McBrady (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17080344 on 10/26/2020 (1135 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for detecting fluid particles and their characteristics. In various embodiments, a device for detecting fluid particles and their characteristics may comprise a fluid composition sensor configured to receive a volume of fluid. The fluid composition sensor has a collection media housing configured to receive a portion of a collection media, a pump for moving a volume of fluid over the collection media housing, an imaging device configured to capture an image of particles on the collection media, and a particle matter mass concentration calculation circuitry configured to calculate a total particle matter mass. The particle matter mass concentration calculation circuitry is connected with the imaging device and the pump. The particle matter mass concentration calculation circuitry is configured to adjust the volume of fluid over the collection media housing.

[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)

Breath analysis system
Patent No. 11835514

Inventor(s): Ayman Luqman (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Invoy Holdings Inc. (Irvine, CA)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18054324 on 11/10/2022 (390 days app to issue)

Abstract: A breath analyte capture device includes a breath input port into which a user exhales a breath sample, and a cartridge insertion port for receiving a disposable cartridge containing an interactant. During exhalation of a breath sample, at least a portion of the breath sample is routed through the cartridge such that the analyte (such as breath acetone) is captured by the interactant. In some embodiments, the concentration of the analyte in the breath sample is measured by monitoring a chemical reaction that occurs in the disposable cartridge. The chemical reaction may be monitored by illuminating the cartridge at each of multiple light wavelengths while measuring reflected light.

TSV testing method and apparatus
Patent No. 11835573

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17557512 on 12/21/2021 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit die includes a substrate of semiconductor material having a top surface, a bottom surface, and an opening through the substrate between the top surface and the bottom surface. A through silicon via (TSV) has a conductive body in the opening, has a top contact point coupled to the body at the top surface, and has a bottom contact point coupled to the body at the bottom surface. A scan cell has a serial input, a serial output, control inputs, a voltage reference input, a response input coupled to one of the contact points, and a stimulus output coupled to the other one of the contact points.

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

Selectable JTAG or trace access with data store and output
Patent No. 11835578

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17579629 on 01/20/2022 (684 days app to issue)

Abstract: An address and command port interface selectively enables JTAG TAP domain operations and Trace domain operations within an IC. The port carries TMS and TDI input and TDO output on a single pin and receives a clock signal on a separate pin. The addressable two pin interface loads and updates instructions and data to the TAP domain within the IC. The instruction or data update operations in multiple ICs occur simultaneously. A process transmits data from an addressed target device to a controller using data frames, each data frame comprising a header bit and data bits. The logic level of the header bit is used to start, continue, and stop the data transmission to the controller. A data and clock signal interface between a controller and multiple target devices provides for each target device to be individually addressed and commanded to perform a JTAG or Trace operation.

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

Interposer circuit
Patent No. 11835581

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18111682 on 02/20/2023 (288 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for improving interposers that connected stacked die assemblies to system substrates. The improvement includes the addition of IEEE 1149.1 circuitry within interposers to allow simplifying interconnect testing of digital and analog signal connections between the interposer and system substrate it is attached too. The improvement also includes the additional 1149.1 controlled circuitry that allows real time monitoring of voltage supply and ground buses in the interposer. The improvement also includes the additional of 1149.1 controlled circuitry that allows real time monitoring of functional digital and analog input and output signals in the interposer. The improvement also provides the ability to selectively serially link the 1149.1 circuitry in the interposer with 1149.1 circuitry in the die of the stack.

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

Partially synchronized multilateration or trilateration method and system for positional finding using RF
Patent No. 11835639

Inventor(s): Felix Markhovsky (Dallas, TX), Russ Markhovsky (Dallas, TX), Truman Prevatt (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15595702 on 05/15/2017 (2395 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a location of one or more user equipment (UE) in a wireless system can comprise receiving reference signals via a location management unit having two or more co-located channels, wherein the two or more co-located channels are tightly synchronized with each other and utilizing the received reference signals to calculate a location of at least one UE among the one or more UE. Embodiments include multichannel synchronization with a standard deviation of less than or equal 10 ns. Embodiments can include two LMUs, with each LMU having internal synchronization, or one LMU with tightly synchronized signals.

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

Reconfigurable RF front end and antenna arrays for radar mode switching
Patent No. 11835645

Inventor(s): Chih-Ming Hung (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Han IP PLLC (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15620854 on 06/13/2017 (2366 days app to issue)

Abstract: Concepts and examples pertaining to reconfigurable radio frequency (RF) front end and antenna arrays for radar mode switching are described. A processor associated with a radar system selects a mode of a plurality of modes in which to operate the radar system. The processor then controls the radar system to operate in the selected mode by utilizing a plurality of antennas in a respective configuration of a plurality of configurations of the antennas which corresponds to the selected mode. Each configuration of the plurality of configurations of the antennas results in respective antenna characteristics. Each configuration of the plurality of configurations of the antennas utilizes a respective number of antennas of the plurality of antennas.

Dark mirror thin films
Patent No. 11835739

Inventor(s): John Charles Ehmke (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17124158 on 12/16/2020 (1084 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes an optical film stack, where the optical film stack includes a substrate and a first inorganic layer on the substrate. The optical film stack also includes a first dielectric layer on the first inorganic layer and a first metal layer on the first dielectric layer. The optical film stack also includes a second dielectric layer on the first metal layer and a second inorganic layer on the second dielectric layer. The optical film stack also includes a second metal layer on the second inorganic layer.

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

Watch cover
Patent No. 11835926

Inventor(s): Juan Manuel Trevino De La Garza (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18457203 on 08/28/2023 (99 days app to issue)

Abstract: A watch cover that covers the face of a watch. The watch cover has a plurality of receivers around the circumference of the watch cover. The plurality of receivers receive either a plastic or a glass capsule that snaps into the plurality of receivers. The plastic or the glass capsules have removable caps that allow the plastic or glass capsules to be filled with either a liquid or solid material prior to the plastic or the glass capsules being snapped into the plurality of receivers. The watch cover can have two wrist bands that attach to the watch cover. The wrist bands will have a plurality of wrist receivers throughout the length of the wrist bands. The wrist receivers will receive either the plastic or the glass capsules after they are filled with the liquid or the solid materials.

[G04B] MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME-PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON, OR STARS (spring- or weight-driven mechanisms in general F03G; electromechanical clocks or watches G04C; electromechanical clocks with attached or built-in means operating any device at preselected times or after predetermined time intervals G04C 23/00; clocks or watches with stop devices G04F 7/08; structural details or housings specially adapted for electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 17/00)

System and method for automated secondary or disaster-recovery data center site failover
Patent No. 11836058

Inventor(s): Shankaran Krishnaswamy (Plano, 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: 17649482 on 01/31/2022 (673 days app to issue)

Abstract: Automated disaster recovery site failover of a messaging platform is disclosed. A processor establishes a communication link between a first data center site and a second data center site via a communication network. The first data center site includes a first database in an active state and the second data center site includes a second database in a passive state during which data replication flows from the first database to the second database. The processor monitors states of the first database and the second database; detects, in response to monitoring, that the first database has changed its state from the active state to the passive state and that the second database has changed its state from the passive state to the active state; and automatically switches, in response to detecting, the data replication flows during which the data replication flows from the second database to the first database.

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

Machine learning techniques for schema mapping
Patent No. 11836120

Inventor(s): Sravan Kumar Ananthula (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA)
Law Firm: Invoke (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17383909 on 07/23/2021 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating a database schema using trained machine learning models that, in some embodiments, may include graph neural networks (GNN). A GNN may identify source to target database schema mappings using, among other features of the graph, context data associated with each node in a graph. Context data describes relationships between a particular node and some (or all) of the other nodes in the graph. The system may use this context data (and other graph data) in combination with a trained GNN model to identify a mapping between one or more source database entities to corresponding target database entities.

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

Systems and methods for screenshot linking
Patent No. 11836208

Inventor(s): Andrew Cummins (Brooklyn, NY), Elias Jason Mablekos (New York, NY), Jason Ellis Pearlman (Lloyd Harbor, NY)
Assignee(s): rewardStyle, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18169488 on 02/15/2023 (293 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for analyzing screenshots can include a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory and a display screen configured to display content. The system can include an application stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The application can include a screenshot receiver configured to access, from storage to which a screenshot of the content displayed on the display screen captured using a screenshot function of the computing device is stored, the screenshot including an image and a predetermined marker. The application can include a marker detector configured to detect the predetermined marker included in the screenshot. The application can include a link identifier configured to identify, using the predetermined marker, a link to a resource mapped to the image included in the screenshot, the resource accessible by the computing device via the link.

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

Secure biometric-based smart card activation method and system
Patent No. 11836232

Inventor(s): Nolan Serrao (Plano, 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: 17219140 on 03/31/2021 (979 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system of performing an authentication of a person in order to activate a smart card for access to a secured resource is disclosed. The system and method are configured to collect image data and compare the image data to facial model data stored on the smart card. The system detects whether there is a match between the image data and any facial signatures previously collected and stored in the smart card. If there is a match, the system verifies an identity of the person and can be configured to automatically activate the smart card for a limited period of time.

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

Machine learning-based clustering for curvilinear layout designs
Patent No. 11836423

Inventor(s): Fan Jiang (Beaverton, OR), Le Hong (Benicia, CA), Lianghong Yin (Fremont, CA), Shumay D. Shang (Saratoga, CA)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17654319 on 03/10/2022 (635 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosed technology relate to techniques for classifying layout patterns. First, a set of density feature vectors for a set of layout regions in the layout design are extracted using a set of rings. Each component of a density feature vector in the set of density feature vectors corresponds to a ring in the set of rings. The set of rings do not overlap with each other and cover a whole area of a circle when being placed together. Next, a machine learning-based clustering process is performed to separate layout features in the set of layout regions into clusters of layout features based on the set of density feature vectors. Each of the clusters of layout features may be further divided into subclusters based on one or more properties.

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

System and method for browser based polling
Patent No. 11836472

Inventor(s): Andy Clark Coleman (Allen, TX), Anil Kumar Raut (Plano, TX), Mark Philip Anderson (Allen, TX), Ravi Vijaykumar Vanjani (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Terrile, Cannatti Chambers (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17371209 on 07/09/2021 (879 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for browser based polling of jobs used to build a web page of a web application. A web browser builds the web page of the web application and connects with one or more web services for jobs used to build the web page of the web application. A reusable service from a library is downloaded and is used at the web browser to poll the jobs as they are received from the web services. Polling the jobs is performed until download is complete. The web page application is updated when the download is complete.

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

System and method for addressing data in memory
Patent No. 11836494

Inventor(s): Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, TX), Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, CA), Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17387450 on 07/28/2021 (860 days app to issue)

Abstract: A digital signal processor having a CPU with a program counter register and, optionally, an event context stack pointer register for saving and restoring the event handler context when higher priority event preempts a lower priority event handler. The CPU is configured to use a minimized set of addressing modes that includes using the event context stack pointer register and program counter register to compute an address for storing data in memory. The CPU may also eliminate post-decrement, pre-increment and post-decrement addressing and rely only on post-increment addressing.

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

System and method of operating system executables with information handling systems (IHS)
Patent No. 11836499

Inventor(s): Dongli Wu (Allen, TX), James Darrell Testerman (McKinney, TX), Kristopher Anthony Slocum (Sachse, TX), Sai Sivakumar Dhakshinamurthy (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: McDermott Will Emery LLP (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17644715 on 12/16/2021 (719 days app to issue)

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more methods may: execute a first information handling system (IHS) initialization executable via an environment associated with IHS firmware; register, by the first IHS initialization executable, a process configured to store multiple IHS initialization executable/OS executable pairs via a volatile memory medium of the IHS; for each IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair of the multiple IHS initialization executable/OS executable pairs: call, by an IHS initialization executable of the IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair, the process; and copy, by the process, an OS executable of the IHS initialization executable/OS executable pair from the first non-volatile memory medium to the volatile memory medium; retrieve a driver via a network; execute the driver; and copy, by the driver, each OS executable, which was copied to the volatile memory medium, to a non-volatile memory medium of the IHS.

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

Triggered queue transformation
Patent No. 11836521

Inventor(s): Gary Yu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (Beverly Hills, CA)
Law Firm: MUGHAL GAUDRY FRANKLIN PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18175496 on 02/27/2023 (281 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to evaluating resource loads to determine when to transform queues and to specific techniques for transforming at least part of queues so as to correspond to alternative resources.

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

Memory interface for a multi-threaded, self-scheduling reconfigurable computing fabric
Patent No. 11836524

Inventor(s): Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Gamburd Law Group LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16997180 on 08/19/2020 (1203 days app to issue)

Abstract: Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. A representative memory interface circuit comprises: a plurality of registers storing a plurality of tables, a state machine circuit, and a plurality of queues. The plurality of tables include a memory request table, a memory request identifier table, a memory response table, a memory data message table, and a memory response buffer. The state machine circuit is adapted to receive a load request, and in response, to obtain a first memory request identifier from the load request, to store the first memory request identifier in the memory request identifier table, to generate one or more memory load request data packets having the memory request identifier for transmission to the memory circuit, and to store load request information in the memory request table. The plurality of queues store one or more data packets for transmission.

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

Instantiating VNFs which include VNFCs that are composed of independently manageable software modules
Patent No. 11836542

Inventor(s): Keith William Melkild (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17324040 on 05/18/2021 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation may include a method comprising one or more of receiving a VNF instance creation request from a NFVO, retrieving one or more VNFC Module LCM scripts and software loads, reserving one or more NFVI VM/container resources required for a VNF instance, instantiating one or more VNFCIs associated with the VNF instance wherein installation includes at least one or more of deploying the one or more VNFC module LCM scripts and software loads to the one or more reserved NFVI VM/containers, installing the VNFC modules on the one or more VM/containers, and starting the VNFC modules on the one or more VM/containers, sending a VNF instance creation completed notification.

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

Electronic system for data processing by a self-correcting, deep neural network integrated within a memory resource
Patent No. 11836618

Inventor(s): Ananthakrishnan Venkataraman (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16997456 on 08/19/2020 (1203 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and computer program product for processing data analytics within memory. The system first receives a request for data associated with a database. The system utilizes a feature catalog and a deep learning neural network to determine the data that comprises the one or more desired features. The system can also provide the requested data to a computing device.

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

Systems and methods for continuous availability of account information
Patent No. 11836699

Inventor(s): Priyank Tiwari (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16802362 on 02/26/2020 (1378 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system including a network interface circuit and a processing circuit. The processing circuit includes one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory. The processing circuit is configured to receive a request for account information. The account information relates to an account of a user. The processing circuit is further configured to perform asynchronous data gathering to retrieve the account information based on the request. The processing circuit is further configured to provide the account information to an active cache of a user device. The account information is stored in the active cache of the user device for later retrieval.

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

Systems and methods for facilitating payment application provisioning and transacting
Patent No. 11836710

Inventor(s): Shadman Zafar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP (19 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17110242 on 12/02/2020 (1098 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating payment application provisioning and transacting are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for provisioning a token to a third party payment application on a mobile device may include (1) receiving a logon from a customer using a mobile application for a financial institution executed on a mobile device and a device identifier for the mobile device; (2) receiving a request to provision a token for a third party payment application; (3) authenticating the customer using the logon information and the device identifier; (4) provisioning a token for a payment device associated with the customer; and (5) providing the token to the third party payment application for transaction processing.

Systems and methods for account matching based on partial profile data
Patent No. 11836722

Inventor(s): Tuan Dao (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP (19 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16936305 on 07/22/2020 (1231 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for account matching based on partial profile data are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for account matching based on partial profile data may include: (1) receiving, from a merchant, partial payment card information for a merchant customer, wherein the merchant customer is also a financial institution customer; (2) querying a database to identify a plurality of payment card accounts matching the partial payment card information; (3) requesting a transaction over a payment network for the plurality of payment card accounts matching the partial payment card information; (4) monitoring the payment network for the transaction involving one of the plurality of payment card accounts matching the partial payment card information; and (5) associating the payment card account involved in the transaction as the payment card account associated with the merchant customer.

Countless system for pre-staging and executing transactions
Patent No. 11836740

Inventor(s): Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16888747 on 05/31/2020 (1283 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for staging and executing secure, service-based, transactions. The transactions are staged by a mobile device. The system may include a receiver. The receiver receives a communication from the mobile device in order to stage a transaction. The system may also include a near-field communication (NFC) device mounted in the CSC. The NFC device may communicate with the receiver. When the receiver receives a pre-staging communication, the receiver sets the NFC device to a staged state. In the staged state, the NFC device performs an NFC handshake with the mobile device. Following the NFC handshake, the receiver receives a signal from the mobile device. The signal includes a biometric confirmation of the identity of the user and an identification of the mobile device. The biometric confirmation may be derived by the mobile device from a biometric parameter associated with the user. The handshake initiates completion of the transaction.

Systems and methods for providing improved recommendations
Patent No. 11836765

Inventor(s): Amit Deshpande (McKinney, TX), Ben Hoang (Garland, TX), Jacob Anderson (Plano, TX), Mithra Kosur Venuraju (Frisco, TX), Shilpa Mittal (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: DLA Piper LLP US (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17408917 on 08/23/2021 (834 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing improved recommendations are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods may be used for vehicle recommendations. The system may include a server system configured to receive user historical vehicle preferences, user vehicle preferences, generate weighted feature data sets, and apply a similarity model to the generated weighted feature data set in order to determine a vehicle recommendation data set. A visual representation of the vehicle recommendation data set may then be provided to an interface associated with a user.

Community-based digital transaction authentication
Patent No. 11836767

Inventor(s): Nolan Serrao (Plano, TX), Snehal Desai (Richardson, 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: 17944012 on 09/13/2022 (448 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present application is generally directed to a decentralized identity management system that has one or more processors configured to receive a review from a user regarding an entity, determine one or more locations associated with the entity, determine a location associated with the user; and determine a reputation score for the entity based on the review, a location of the one or more locations, and the location associated with the user. Additionally, the one or more processors are configured to cause the reputation score to be recorded on a distributed ledger.

Systems and methods to process eyewear orders
Patent No. 11836770

Inventor(s): Michael Filipovich (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, , FR)
Law Firm: Oblon, McClelland, Maier Neustadt, L.L.P. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15941742 on 03/30/2018 (2076 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods to process an eyewear order. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining order information indicative of an order to assemble an eyewear at an eyewear processing facility, where the order is first received at an order origination facility remote from the processing facility. The method also includes determining a status of the order. The method further includes generating an up-to-date invoice of the order if the eyewear is ready for shipping. The method further includes generating an electronic file comprising the order information and the up-to-date invoice of the eyewear.

Systems, methods, and manufactures for utilizing machine learning models to generate recommendations
Patent No. 11836779

Inventor(s): Kaiss K. Alahmady (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16678882 on 11/08/2019 (1488 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive customer data associated with customers of items, and may identify customer characteristics based on the customer data. The device may process the customer characteristics, with a first model, to group the customers into groups of customers, and may process item data and data identifying the groups of customers, with a second model, to determine associations between the item data and the groups of customers. The device may receive, from a user device associated with a particular customer, particular customer data, and may identify particular customer characteristics based on the particular customer data. The device may assign the particular customer to a particular group, of the groups of customers, based on the particular customer characteristics, and may generate an item recommendation, for the particular customer, based on the item data associated with the particular group. The device may provide the item recommendation to the user device.

Hydrogen sharing network
Patent No. 11836814

Inventor(s): Makoto Tanaka (San Jose, CA), Masashi Nakagawa (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17356315 on 06/23/2021 (895 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for an energy or fuel sharing network system. The energy or fuel sharing network system includes an in-house fuel cell apparatus that is coupled or included within a home. The in-house fuel cell apparatus includes a generation and distribution unit. The generation and distribution unit is configured to generate energy or fuel and provide the energy or fuel to a vehicle. The energy or fuel sharing network system includes an energy or fuel sharing platform. The energy or fuel sharing platform includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine a location of the in-house fuel cell apparatus, and provide the location of the in-house fuel cell apparatus to the vehicle or a user device.

Network-enabled fuel dispensing system
Patent No. 11836815

Inventor(s): Boonchai Matthew Ragan (Lewisville, TX), Gurmeet Singh (Irving, TX), Maninder Singh Suri (Irving, TX), Matthew O”Daniel Redmond (Denton, TX), Vivek Malik (Farmers Branch, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17833594 on 06/06/2022 (547 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system that includes a fuel dispenser terminal and a remote controller. The fuel dispenser terminal is configured to send a service request for a fuel purchase to the remote controller and receive a personalized offer in response to sending the service request. The fuel dispenser terminal is further configured to display the personalized offer, receive a user response indicating the personalized offer was accepted, and send the user response to the remote controller. The fuel dispenser terminal is further configured to receive an authorization token for retrieving the personalized offer and output the authorization token to the customer. The remote controller is configured to update the service request by adding a purchase associated with the personized offer to the fuel purchase, send an encrypted service request to a service processor, generate the authorization token, and send the authorization token to the fuel dispenser terminal.

System for an electronic document with state variable integration to external computing resources
Patent No. 11836817

Inventor(s): Peter Geoffrey Lerato Hunn (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): DocuSign, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: KDW FIRM PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17105147 on 11/25/2020 (1105 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for an electronic document that includes one or more electronic components comprising: natural language content; and a programmable component that comprises computer executable instructions that define: one or more state objects that indicate compliance with the natural language content, wherein a state object comprises a state variable; and logic that programmatically change, based on an application programming interface input, one or more state variables indicating a compliance event effect of the programmable component; an indication of one or more application programming inputs configured to cause execution, based on an input message from an external computing resource, of at least one programmable component of the one or more electronic component; and an indication of one or more contract outputs configured to indicate a value of at least one state variable to an external computing resource.

Systems and methods for virtual physical distancing
Patent No. 11836870

Inventor(s): Bradley Jay Billman (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17578721 on 01/19/2022 (685 days app to issue)

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

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

Intra-oral scanning device with active delete of unwanted scanned items
Patent No. 11836881

Inventor(s): Jessica Hawkins (Richardson, TX), Justin G. Graham (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): D4D Technologies, LLC (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17591212 on 02/02/2022 (671 days app to issue)

Abstract: An intra-oral scanning device and system are augmented to provide an active delete (or filter) tool. The tool automatically detects and deletes unwanted items and artifacts capturing as the scan is being done. The technique provides a better user experience by automatically removing items the deletion of which that may otherwise be time-consuming, frustrating, or impossible for the user to delete any other way.

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

Method and apparatus for processing RGB-infrared (RGB-IR) sensor
Patent No. 11836888

Inventor(s): Gang Hua (Katy, TX), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, , IN), Shashank Dabral (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17129818 on 12/21/2020 (1079 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for processing RGB-Infrared (RGB-IR) sensor data is provided that includes receiving a raw RGB-IR image, determining whether to process the raw RGB-IR image in day mode or night mode, generating, when day mode is determined, an infrared (IR) subtracted raw Bayer image from the raw RGB-IR image and processing the IR subtracted raw Bayer image in an image signal processor (ISP), and generating, when night mode is determined, an IR image from the raw RGB-IR image.

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

Event trigger based on region-of-interest near hand-shelf interaction
Patent No. 11836957

Inventor(s): Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy (Irving, TX), Shahmeer Ali Mirza (Celina, TX), Sumedh Vilas Datar (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): 7-ELEVEN, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17847880 on 06/23/2022 (530 days app to issue)

Abstract: An image sensor is positioned such that a field-of-view of the image sensor encompasses at least a portion of a rack storing items. The image sensor generates angled-view images of the items stored on the rack. A tracking subsystem determines that a person is within a threshold distance of the rack and receives image frames of the angled-view images. A pixel position of a wrist of the person is determined in at least a subset of the received image frames, thereby determining a set of pixel positions of the wrist. An aggregated wrist position is determined based on the set of pixel positions. If the aggregated wrist position is determined to correspond to a position on a shelf of the rack, a trigger signal is provided indicating a shelf-interaction event has occurred.

[G06K] RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (printing per se B41J)

Universal secure mobile device entry upgrade electronics unit for electronic locks and method of use thereof
Patent No. 11837037

Inventor(s): Christopher Shane Hickingbottom (Oak Point, TX), Eric Daley (Franklin, MA), Stephen Vincent Zsigray, III (Plano, TX), Todd J. Person (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): OpenKey, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17093231 on 11/09/2020 (1121 days app to issue)

Abstract: A universal secure mobile device entry upgrade for electronic locks adds a wireless unlocking functionality to an existing host lock assembly. An electronics unit having a processing unit, a wireless communication device, a lock input, and a lock output is installed between a host motor output and host motor of a host lock. The original unlocking functionality of the host lock is maintained by either repeating an unlock signal from the host motor output to the host motor using the processing unit, or through a two-position switch that passes a host unlock signal to the host motor by default, but switches to a second position that allows an unlock signal to be sent to the host motor when a wireless unlocking is signaled from a mobile unlocking device such as a smartphone or the like. An integrated security chip and real-time clock may be included to increase security.

[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)

Credit card with location tracking device
Patent No. 11837058

Inventor(s): Nicole Williamson (Grand Prairie, 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: 18068851 on 12/20/2022 (350 days app to issue)

Abstract: A card with an embedded location tracker that can assist with locating a misplaced, lost, or stolen card is described. The location tracking device is embedded into the material forming the card. Other devices can form a crowdsourced network covering a wide geographic area that may be used to detect signals from the location tracking device of the card using a short-range wireless communication technology. When the card becomes misplaced, lost, or stolen, the card holder or the card issuer may use the embedded location tracking device to determine the current location of the card. In one embodiment, a tamper mechanism may also be provided to disable a chip of the card in response to an attempt to deactivate, destroy, or remove the embedded location tracking device from the card.

[G07F] COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D 3/00; coin testing G07D 5/00) [7]

Wrong way driving prevention
Patent No. 11837082

Inventor(s): Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr. (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17991786 on 11/21/2022 (379 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of initially determining, via one or more sensors on a transport, that the transport is approaching a one-way road in a wrong direction based on a slowing down of the transport and a movement of the transport toward the one-way road, notifying, via the one or more sensors, one or more occupants of the transport about the approaching, and in response to the transport continuing to approach in the wrong direction, slowing the transport, by a computer associated with the transport, to not permit entry into the one-way road.

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

Method and system for rapid graduated motor vehicle detection
Patent No. 11837085

Abstract: Methods and systems for a graduated process of increasing bandwidth and increasing complexity to identify and confirm a location of a target vehicle based on information received from motor vehicles are described. In one embodiment, a method for detection of a target vehicle includes requesting, from one or more remote devices in a geographic area, information associated with a target vehicle. The method also includes receiving, from the one or more remote devices, information associated with the target vehicle. The method further includes determining whether the received information associated with the target vehicle matches the requested information. Upon determining that the received information matches the requested information, the method includes increasing at least one of a bandwidth or a complexity level of the requested information associated with the target vehicle and decreasing the geographic area associated with the request.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method
Patent No. 11837094

Inventor(s): Eduard Vandersmitte (McKinney, TX), Gunnar Heinisch (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA (Toyota, , JP)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17397402 on 08/09/2021 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire occupant information regarding an occupant in a vehicle trying to park in a parking lot, and identify a parking position appropriate for the vehicle in the parking lot based on the occupant information.

Box string instrument simulator
Patent No. 11837104

Inventor(s): Nicole Melrose (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17816124 on 07/29/2022 (494 days app to issue)

Abstract: A simulated musical string instrument formed of plural shaped sheets of rigid material, such as cardboard. There is a top sheet forming a top surface of the simulated string instrument body, and a bottom sheet forming a bottom surface, and multiple sheets between. A simulated fingerboard is attached to the top surface. The top sheet and fingerboard gets stickers that show parts of the simulated string instrument body including openings and notes. There is also a simulated bow guide and a simulated bow.

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

Torsional based tremolo system with a moving bridge
Patent No. 11837202

Inventor(s): John Michael Kebrle (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Bill Naifeh (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17591871 on 02/03/2022 (670 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a torsion based tremolo apparatus that includes a moving plate rotatably coupled to a mounting plate. A torsion device imparts torsional force to the moving plate relative to the mounting plate around an axis of rotation. The mounting plate is used to attach the tremolo apparatus to a guitar or other string musical instrument. Adjustable bridge clamps and tuning plates coupled to the moving plate may be used to set the tension on the instrument strings as desired. Rotation of the moving plate relative to the mounting plate alters the tension on the instrument strings.

[G10D] STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (non-musical aspects of musical toy instruments A63H 5/00; organs, harmoniums or like musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments G10H; instruments in which the tones are generated by electromechanical means or electronic generators, or in which the tones are synthesised from a data store G10H)

Systems and methods for secure authentication based on machine learning techniques
Patent No. 11837239

Inventor(s): Corbin Pierce Moline (Irving, TX), Sumanth S. Mallya (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17934273 on 09/22/2022 (439 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for the use of machine learning techniques to perform authentication, such as biometrics-based user authentication. For example, user biometric information (e.g., facial features, fingerprints, voice, etc.) of a user may be used to train a machine learning model, in addition to a noise vector. A representation of the biometric information (e.g., an image file including a picture of the user”s face, an encoded file with vectors or other representation of the user”s fingerprint, a sound file including the user”s voice, etc.) may be iteratively transformed until the transformed biometric information matches the noise vector, and the machine learning model may be trained based on the set of transformations that ultimately yield the noise vector, when given the biometric information.

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

String or block or die level dependent source line voltage for neighbor drain side select gate interference compensation
Patent No. 11837292

Inventor(s): Jiacen Guo (Cupertino, CA), Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): San Disk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17561016 on 12/23/2021 (712 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The memory apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and disposed in memory holes. The memory cells are connected in series between a drain-side select gate transistor on a drain-side and connected to one of a plurality of bit lines and a source line on a source-side. A control means is configured to apply a first and a second select gate voltage to the drain-side select gate transistor while applying a predetermined source line voltage to the source line of selected ones of the memory holes in a predetermined grouping and a read level voltage to at least one of the word lines associated with the predetermined grouping. The control means counts the memory cells conducting during each of a first and a second read operation and adjusts the predetermined source line voltage accordingly.

[G11C] STATIC STORES (information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B; semiconductor devices for storage H01L, e.g. H01L 27/108-H01L 27/11597; pulse technique in general H03K, e.g. electronic switches H03K 17/00)

Non-volatile memory with adjusted bit line voltage during verify
Patent No. 11837296

Inventor(s): Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, CA), Ohwon Kwon (Pleasanton, CA), Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17505179 on 10/19/2021 (777 days app to issue)

Abstract: A control circuit connected to non-volatile memory cells applies a programming signal to a plurality of the non-volatile memory cells in order to program the plurality of the non-volatile memory cells to a set of data states. The control circuit performs program verification for the non-volatile memory cells, including applying bit line voltages during program verification based on word line position and data state being verified.

Smart erase verify in non-volatile memory structures
Patent No. 11837297

Inventor(s): Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17344135 on 06/10/2021 (908 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for dynamically adjusting an erase voltage level to be applied in a subsequent erase cycle, comprising: in a current erase cycle, initiating a current erase/verify loop by applying an initial stored erase voltage level according to an erase sequence in which each successive erase/verify loop is incremented by a pre-determined voltage amount, storing an erase/verify loop count, and determining whether the current erase cycle is complete according to a pass criterion. If the erase cycle is complete, a determination is made as to whether the stored erase/verify loop count equals a pre-defined threshold count. Further, if the stored count does not equal the pre-defined threshold count, the initial stored erase voltage level is adjusted such that, upon applying the adjusted erase voltage level in a subsequent erase cycle, an erase/verify loop count will now equal the pre-defined threshold count.

Apparatuses and methods to mask write operations
Patent No. 11837316

Inventor(s): Harish V. Gadamsetty (Allen, TX), Scott E. Smith (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Dorsey Whitney LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17812139 on 07/12/2022 (511 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exemplary semiconductor device includes circuitry to implement data mask operations by sending bit-specific, write enable signals (WREN) to control connection of a main or global data line to local data lines during a write operation. For example, a plurality of even sense amplifier stripes each receive a first set of WREN signals to control a corresponding passgate responsible for coupling one global data line to one local data line and a plurality of odd sense amplifier stripes each receive a second set of WREN signals to control a corresponding passgate responsible for coupling one global data line to one local data line.

Temperature-sensitive transistor gate driver
Patent No. 11838011

Inventor(s): Toru Tanaka (Plano, TX), Xiong Li (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17495968 on 10/07/2021 (789 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system comprises a gate driver that is configured to couple to a transistor disposed in a transistor module via a first pin. The gate driver comprises a duty cycle measurement circuit having a first input terminal and a first output terminal, the first input terminal coupled to a second pin via an isolator. The duty cycle measurement circuit comprises a flip-flop, a counter, a shift register, and a comparator. The system comprises an analog to digital converter circuit having a second input terminal, a second output terminal, and a reference terminal, the second input terminal coupled to a third pin configured to couple to a temperature-sensitive device disposed in the transistor module, the second output terminal coupled to a fourth pin via the isolator, and the reference terminal coupled to the first output terminal.

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

Method and system for application service management
Patent No. 11838838

Inventor(s): Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17224393 on 04/07/2021 (972 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an application layer network management service is provided. The service may allow third parties associated with an application layer network to develop and on-board application-aware logic that manages application services. The application-aware logic may include optimization of the application service and remedial procedures that address events associated with degradation and/or performance of the application service. The application-aware logic may be implemented in conjunction with other logic provisioned by a network provider.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Movable barrier apparatus and methods for responding to barrier travel obstructions and abnormalities
Patent No. 11834887

Inventor(s): Robert E. Thomas, Jr. (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): GMI Holdings, Inc. (Mount Hope, OH)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17184366 on 02/24/2021 (1014 days app to issue)

Abstract: Movable barrier monitoring apparatus and methods are provided for rapidly responding to barrier travel obstructions and other abnormal occurrences to cause the movable barrier operator to halt barrier travel or stop and reverse barrier travel, while ignoring typical and normal impediments to barrier travel. Alternate methods are described for programming the barrier operator controller to compare characteristics of the monitored barrier run over the defined travel path with the characteristics of a good barrier run without interruption to barrier travel, with the degree of differentiation of such characteristics determinative of whether the operator controller is to interrupt barrier travel or not.

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

High-temperature chamber and chamber component cleaning and maintenance method and apparatus
Patent No. 11837448

Inventor(s): Jiyong Huang (Rockwall, TX)
Assignee(s): Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17242059 on 04/27/2021 (952 days app to issue)

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a method and apparatus for cleaning and repairing a substrate support having a heater disposed therein. A method includes (a) cleaning a surface of a substrate support having a bulk layer, the substrate support is disposed in a processing environment configured to process substrates. The cleaning process includes forming a plasma at a high temperature from a cleaning gas mixture having a fluorine containing gas and oxygen. The method includes (b) removing oxygen radicals from the processing environment with a treatment plasma formed from a treatment gas mixture. The treatment gas mixture includes the fluorine containing gas. The method further includes (c) repairing an interface of the substrate support and the bulk layer with a post-treatment plasma. The post-treatment plasma is formed from a post-treatment gas mixture including a nitrogen containing gas. The high temperature is greater than or equal to about 500 degrees Celsius.

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

O-ring seals for fluid sensing
Patent No. 11837513

Inventor(s): Bernhard Peter Lange (Freising, , DE), Sebastian Meier (Munich, , DE)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16932128 on 07/17/2020 (1236 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a device comprises a substrate including a notch formed in a surface of the substrate and a semiconductor die positioned in the notch and including an electrochemical sensor on an active surface of the semiconductor die. The device also comprises a chemically inert member abutting the surface of the substrate and including an orifice in vertical alignment with the electrochemical sensor as a result of the semiconductor die being positioned in the notch. The device also comprises a compressed o-ring seal positioned between the chemically inert member and the active surface of the semiconductor die, the compressed o-ring seal circumscribing the electrochemical sensor.

[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]

Coated semiconductor dies
Patent No. 11837518

Inventor(s): Christopher Daniel Manack (Flower Mound, TX), Matthew John Sherbin (Dallas, TX), Michael Todd Wyant (Dallas, TX), Patrick Francis Thompson (Allen, TX), You Chye How (Melaka, , MY)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17003382 on 08/26/2020 (1196 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, a chip scale package (CSP) comprises a semiconductor die; a conductive terminal coupled to the semiconductor die; and a non-conductive coat covering a backside of the semiconductor die and a sidewall of the semiconductor die. The non-conductive coat has a thickness of less than 45 microns.

Wire bonded air heat sink
Patent No. 11837521

Inventor(s): Alyson M. Tuttle (Plano, TX), James S. Wilson (Hurst, TX), Karl L. Worthen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: CANTOR COLBURN LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17233824 on 04/19/2021 (960 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device includes a semiconductor substrate and a heat sink arranged on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The heat sink includes a plurality of metal filaments that each includes a first end joined to the surface, a second end, and a body over the surface such that the body is surrounded by a coolant medium to dissipate heat. The heat sink is not part of an electrical network.

Localized targeted thermoelectric cooling thermal control of integrated circuits with sub-device scale resolution
Patent No. 11837524

Inventor(s): Paul T. Hartin (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: CANTOR COLBURN LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17352612 on 06/21/2021 (897 days app to issue)

Abstract: A cooling device for integrated circuits. The device includes: a plurality TEC cooling cells arranged in an array, wherein each of the cells includes a controller coupled to at least one TEC device; and a single power connector that provides power to all the cells in the array. The controller of each cell in the array is operable to control the at least one TEC it is coupled to with power received from the single power connector.

Semiconductor package with top circuit and an IC with a gap over the IC
Patent No. 11837529

Inventor(s): Barry Jon Male (West Granby, CT), Paul Merle Emerson (Madison, AL), Sandeep Shylaja Krishnan (Kerala, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17698855 on 03/18/2022 (627 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged integrated circuit (IC) includes a leadframe including a die pad and leads around the die pad, an analog IC die having first bond pads on its active top side, and a second circuit including second circuit bond pads attached to the analog IC die by an attachment layer configured as a ring with a hollow center that provides an inner gap. A bottom side of the analog IC or the second circuit is attached to the die pad. Bond wires couple at least some of the first bond pads or some of the second circuit bond pads to the leads, and there is a second coupling between others of the second circuit bond pads and others of the first bond pads. A mold compound is for encapsulating the second circuit and the analog IC.

Leadframe with delamination resistant feature
Patent No. 11837532

Inventor(s): Adi Irwan Bin Herman (Selangor, , MY), Amirul Afiq Bin Hud (Melaka, , MY), Sueann Wei Fen Lim (Melaka, , MY)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16743067 on 01/15/2020 (1420 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packaged semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having a top side including a semiconductor surface layer having circuitry configured for a function coupled to bond pads, and a bottom side. A leadframe includes a die pad and leads or lead terminals on at least two sides of the die pad. At least one non-through hole for delamination prevention is in at least one of the die pad and the lead or the lead terminals. The semiconductor die is mounted by a die attach material with the bottom side down on the die pad. A mold compound provides encapsulation for the package semiconductor device except for at least a bottom side of the lead terminals or sidewalls of the package for the leads. The non-through hole is a filled hole filled with either the die attach material or the mold compound.

Semiconductor package with layer structures, antenna layer and electronic component
Patent No. 11837552

Inventor(s): Chih-Ming Hung (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): MediaTek Inc. (Hsin-Chu, , TW)
Law Firm: Wolf, Greenfield Sacks, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17748308 on 05/19/2022 (565 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a first substrate, a first layer structure, a second layer structure, a first antenna layer and an electronic component. The first antenna layer is formed on at least one of the first layer structure and the second layer structure, wherein the first antenna layer has an upper surface flush with a layer upper surface of the first layer structure or the second layer structure. The electronic component is disposed on a substrate lower surface of the first substrate and exposed from the first substrate. The first layer structure is formed between the first substrate and the second layer structure.

Transistor circuits including fringeless transistors and method of making the same
Patent No. 11837601

Inventor(s): Dai Iwata (Yokkaichi, , JP), Eiichi Fujikura (Yokkaichi, , JP), Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Yokkaichi, , JP), Hiroyuki Ogawa (Nagoya, , JP), Jun Akaiwa (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17316079 on 05/10/2021 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: A field effect transistor includes a gate dielectric and a gate electrode overlying an active region and contacting a sidewall of a trench isolation structure. The transistor may be a fringeless transistor in which the gate electrode does not overlie a portion of the trench isolation region. A planar dielectric spacer plate and a conductive gate cap structure may overlie the gate electrode. The conductive gate cap structure may have a z-shaped vertical cross-sectional profile to contact the gate electrode and to provide a segment overlying the planar dielectric spacer plate. Alternatively or additionally, a conductive gate connection structure may be provided to provide electrical connection between two electrodes of adjacent field effect transistors.

Transistors with stepped contact via structures and methods of forming the same
Patent No. 11837640

Inventor(s): Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Yokkaichi, , JP), Mitsuhiro Togo (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17362121 on 06/29/2021 (889 days app to issue)

Abstract: A transistor includes a semiconductor substrate including a first active region, a second active region, and a semiconductor channel, a gate stack structure that overlies the semiconductor channel, a proximal dielectric material layer overlying the semiconductor substrate, laterally surrounding the gate stack structure, a distal dielectric material layer overlying the proximal dielectric material layer, and a first contact via structure contacting the first active region having a greater lateral extent at a level of the proximal dielectric material layer than at a level of the distal dielectric material layer.

Poly-layered, poly-dimensional solar-stack structure
Patent No. 11837674

Inventor(s): Mohammed Alboury Njie (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17668465 on 02/10/2022 (663 days app to issue)

Abstract: A poly-layered, poly-dimensional solar photovoltaic stack structure may be provided in a tower form. A plurality of solar panels may be stacked on top of one another to create a solar stack tower. Using the solar stack tower, reflection, refraction, diffusion, and transportation of light may transmit photons from a higher area of photon saturation to a lower area of photon saturation. The solar stack tower may provide an enclosed structure, protecting and insulating the solar panels from heat, moisture, dust, and other elements that usually damage solar panels over time.

Modules for cellular base stations and bracket assemblies for mounting same
Patent No. 11837772

Inventor(s): Jignesh Patel (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Claremont, NC)
Law Firm: Myers Bigel, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17687043 on 03/04/2022 (641 days app to issue)

Abstract: An antenna-RRU module for a cellular base station includes first, second and third antenna-RRU assemblies mounted on a pole. Each of the first, second and third antenna-RRU assemblies includes: a pole mounting bracket; a subassembly mounting bracket mounted on the pole mounting bracket; an antenna-RRU unit fixed relative to the subassembly mounting bracket; and a shroud mounted to at least partially cover the antenna-RRU unit. The pole mounting brackets of the first, second and third antenna-RRU assemblies are mounted on the pole at approximately 120 degree intervals.

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

Microelectronic device package including antenna and semiconductor device
Patent No. 11837775

Inventor(s): Juan Alejandro Herbsommer (Allen, TX), Rajen Manicon Murugan (Dallas, TX), Yiqi Tang (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17539110 on 11/30/2021 (735 days app to issue)

Abstract: A described example includes: an antenna formed in a first conductor layer on a device side surface of a multilayer package substrate, the multilayer package substrate including conductor layers spaced from one another by dielectric material and coupled to one another by conductive vertical connection layers, the multilayer package substrate having a board side surface opposite the device side surface; and a semiconductor die mounted to the device side surface of the multilayer package substrate spaced from and coupled to the antenna.

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

ESD protection apparatus and control method
Patent No. 11837866

Inventor(s): Gangqiang Zhang (Plano, TX), Wenchao Qu (Plano, TX), Zhao Fang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Halo Microelectronics International (Campbell, CA)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17855293 on 06/30/2022 (523 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ESD protection apparatus includes a discharge resistor and a transistor connected in series between a first voltage rail and a second voltage rail, a first coupling capacitor, a diode and a first bias resistor connected in series between the first voltage rail and the second voltage rail, wherein a common node of the diode and the first bias resistor is connected to a gate of the transistor, and an ESD protection device connected between the first voltage rail and the second voltage rail.

[H02H] EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS (indicating or signalling undesired working conditions G01R, e.g. G01R 31/00, G08B; locating faults along lines G01R 31/08; emergency protective devices H01H)

Inductively coupled charger
Patent No. 11837906

Inventor(s): Paul Brohlin (Parker, TX), Stephen C. Terry (Knoxville, TN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17212808 on 03/25/2021 (985 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device includes a charge controller to regulate a battery output voltage based on an input voltage and an input current received from a charging circuit. A loop controller monitors the input voltage and the input current to generate a feedback signal to adjust the input voltage to the charge controller.

[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)

Dynamic signal slope compensation
Patent No. 11837948

Inventor(s): Jiancong Ruan (Shenzhen, , CN), Runqin Tan (Shenzhen, , CN), Zhicheng Hu (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17896122 on 08/26/2022 (466 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some aspects of the present disclosure provide for a circuit. In at least some examples, the circuit includes an integrator coupled between a first node and a second node and a filter coupled between the second node and a third node. The circuit further includes a buffer coupled between the third node and a fourth node and a first switch coupled between the fourth node and a fifth node. The circuit further includes a first capacitor coupled between the fifth node and a ground node, a first resistor comprising a first terminal coupled to the fifth node and a second terminal, a second switch coupled between the second terminal of the first resistor and the ground node.

[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]

Differential amplifier with variable neutralization
Patent No. 11837997

Inventor(s): Brian P. Ginsburg (Allen, TX), Krishnanshu Dandu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17118366 on 12/10/2020 (1090 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed examples include differential amplifier circuits and variable neutralization circuits for providing an adjustable neutralization impedance between an amplifier input node and an amplifier output node, including neutralization impedance T circuits with first and second impedance elements in series between the amplifier input and output, and a third impedance element, including a first terminal connected to a node between the first and second impedance elements, and a second terminal connected to a transistor. The transistor operates according to a control signal to control the neutralization impedance between the amplifier input node and the amplifier output node.

[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)

Acoustic device package and method of making
Patent No. 11838004

Inventor(s): Abram Castro (Fort Worth, TX), Enis Tuncer (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16356890 on 03/18/2019 (1723 days app to issue)

Abstract: An assembly including an electrical connection substrate formed of material having a Young”s modulus of less than about 10 MPa, an acoustic device die having opposite end portions mounted on and electrically connected to the electrical connection substrate and a mold compound layer encapsulating the acoustic device die and interfacing with the substrate.

[H03H] IMPEDANCE NETWORKS, e.g. RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS (measuring, testing G01R; arrangements for producing a reverberation or echo sound G10K 15/08; impedance networks or resonators consisting of distributed impedances, e.g. of the waveguide type, H01P; control of amplification, e.g. bandwidth control of amplifiers, H03G; tuning resonant circuits, e.g. tuning coupled resonant circuits, H03J; networks for modifying the frequency characteristics of communication systems H04B)

Wireless repeater apparatus and methods of operation
Patent No. 11838088

Inventor(s): Ramneek Bali (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC (St. Louis, MO)
Law Firm: Patent Beach PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17019033 on 09/11/2020 (1180 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for repeater/extender operation of a wireless-enabled device, including for extending the range or coverage in a wireless network subject to poor signal propagation or obstructions. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods leverage use of a CPE (consumer premises equipment) configured as a 5G mmWave extender to extend RF signals from one or more base stations (e.g., a NodeB) to one or more other premises. In one variant, the CPE includes (i) a internal unit configured to provide 5G and Wi-Fi services to local UE, as well as other standard CPE functions; (ii) a donor apparatus configured to receive/transmit 5G signals to/from the one or more base stations; and (iii) a service apparatus configured to radiate 5G signals to UE/CPE with weak or no NodeB connectivity. The CPE is configured to create and dynamically update a weighted beam matrix used to select beams.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Apparatus, method and computer program for user plane function control by a set of controllers
Patent No. 11838120

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17607935 on 05/02/2019 (1678 days app to issue)

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for providing, from a first function instance of a set of first function instances to a second function, first information comprising an indication that a protocol session between the first function and the second function is controllable by different instances of the set of first function instances and receiving, at one of the set of first function instances from the second function, a protocol session related message based on the first information.

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

Code block segmentation and configuration for concatenated turbo and RS coding
Patent No. 11838122

Inventor(s): June Chul Roh (Allen, TX), Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, , FR)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17582976 on 01/24/2022 (680 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for performing code block segmentation for wireless transmission using concatenated forward error correction encoding includes receiving a transport block of data for transmission having a transport block size, along with one or more parameters that define a target code rate. A number N of inner code blocks needed to transmit the transport block is determined. A number Mouter code blocks may be calculated based on the number of inner code blocks and on encoding parameters for the outer code blocks. The transport block may then be segmented and encoded according to the calculated encoding parameters.

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

Automated access to racks in a colocation data center
Patent No. 11838182

Inventor(s): Adam Scott Wayne (Keller, TX), David Hess (Arlington, TX), Jason Anthony Lochhead (Frisco, TX), Manikandan Subramanian (Flower Mound, TX), Michael Andra Ballard (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Cyxtera Data Centers, Inc. (Coral Gables, FL)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17962780 on 10/10/2022 (421 days app to issue)

Abstract: Top-of-rack (TOR) switches are connected to a network fabric of a data center. Each TOR switch corresponds to a rack of the data center, and is configured to provide access to the network fabric for computing devices mounted in the rack. In one method, a TOR switch is mounted in a rack. The TOR switch is connected to a network fabric of a data center. A lock is used to control physical access to the rack. A request to physically access the rack is received from a computing device (e.g., a badge implementing a security token, or a mobile device). The request includes authentication credentials. The computing device is then authenticated. In response to authenticating the computing device, the lock is configured to provide physical access to the rack.

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

Local congestion mitigation
Patent No. 11838210

Inventor(s): Eleni Palkopoulou (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17387225 on 07/28/2021 (860 days app to issue)

Abstract: Local Congestion Mitigation re-routes traffic around a congested network segment without regard for end point destinations of the re-routed traffic. By inhibiting consideration of end point destinations, determinations of alternate routes are simplified relative to techniques that compute new end-to-end routes for traffic when a congested segment is encountered. These methods therefore remain relatively efficient as a network grows in size and network routes within the network become increasingly complex.

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

Run-time configurable cybersecurity system
Patent No. 11838300

Inventor(s): Sagar Khangan (Pune, , IN), Sai Vashisht (Morgan Hill, CA)
Assignee(s): Musarubra US LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Rutan Tucker, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17133397 on 12/23/2020 (1077 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for conducting cyberthreat analytics on a submitted object to determine whether the object is malicious is described. The system features a cybersecurity system operating with a cloud platform, which is configured to host resources including cloud processing resources and cloud storage resources. The cybersecurity system is configured to analyze one or more received objects included as part of a submission received from a subscriber after authentication of the subscriber and verification that the subscriber is authorized to perform one or more tasks associated with the submission. The cybersecurity system is configured to operate as a multi-tenant Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) that relies upon the cloud processing resources and the cloud storage resources provided by the cloud platform in performing the cybersecurity operations.

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

Remote network management infrastructure for cloud-based deployments
Patent No. 11838374

Inventor(s): William Joseph Schuller (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): ServiceNow, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: FLETCHER YODER PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17651018 on 02/14/2022 (659 days app to issue)

Abstract: A software architecture within a public cloud network may include units of: (i) a plurality of computational instances respectively related to managed networks, (ii) a plurality of servers configurable as load simulators, (iii) administrative components configured to deploy and update the software architecture, and (iv) shared infrastructure services, wherein the units of the software architecture are implemented on virtual machines of the public cloud network and are connected to but logically isolated from one another by way of different access controls or policies. A provider network, coupled to the software architecture by way of network gateways within the shared infrastructure services, may be configured to deliver the configuration, software packages, and database schema to the infrastructure-as-code platform.

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

Edge application context relocation and replication
Patent No. 11838383

Inventor(s): Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17233237 on 04/16/2021 (963 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, by an edge enabler client of the UE, to trigger generation of a shadow application context to support an application that is associated with an application context and that is served by an edge network device. The UE may determine, by the edge enabler client, to transfer support of the application from the application context to the shadow application context, and transfer, by the edge enabler client, support of the application from the application context to the shadow application context. In some aspects, an application context may be transferred between a UE and an edge network directly, without the shadow application context. Numerous other aspects are provided.

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

Calibration of a surround view camera system
Patent No. 11838497

Inventor(s): Anand Yalgurdrao Kulkarni (Bangalore, , IN), Do-Kyoung Kwon (Allen, TX), Sujith Shivalingappa (Bangalore, , IN), Vikram Appia (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17118310 on 12/10/2020 (1090 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for automatic generation of calibration parameters for a surround view (SV) camera system is provided that includes capturing a video stream from each camera comprised in the SV camera system, wherein each video stream captures two calibration charts in a field of view of the camera generating the video stream; displaying the video streams in a calibration screen on a display device coupled to the SV camera system, wherein a bounding box is overlaid on each calibration chart, detecting feature points of the calibration charts, displaying the video streams in the calibration screen with the bounding box overlaid on each calibration chart and detected features points overlaid on respective calibration charts, computing calibration parameters based on the feature points and platform dependent parameters comprising data regarding size and placement of the calibration charts, and storing the calibration parameters in the SV camera system.

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

Systems and methods for content discovery by automatic organization of collections or rails
Patent No. 11838597

Inventor(s): Haripriya Srinivasaraghavan (Plano, TX), Vamshi Gillipalli (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17651519 on 02/17/2022 (656 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive historical content data indicating historical characteristics associated with one or more groups of content. The device may determine, based on the historical content data, one or more characteristics associated with a time period. The device may determine, based on the one or more characteristics, a new group of content associated with the time period. The device may generate a display element for accessing content included in the new group of content during the time period.

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

Secure video visitation system
Patent No. 11838685

Inventor(s): Stephen L. Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17875968 on 07/28/2022 (495 days app to issue)

Abstract: Video conferencing in a controlled environment facility entails significant security concerns. These concerns are even more prevalent in a system that permits residents of such facilities to communicate via their own personal devices. Therefore, in order to alleviate these concerns and provide a secure system in which a resident is able to make video calls using their personal device, a kiosk unit is provided to which the personal device must be linked for completing a video call. When making the video call, the camera and display on the personal device are disabled, and all video data is captured and displayed by the kiosk unit. The link between the kiosk unit and the personal device facilitates the exchange of the image information for transmission to the outside party, or display to the user. By providing a fixed camera, and disabling the personal device camera, security can be maintained while permitting video calling services.

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

Uplink congestion control based on sip messaging
Patent No. 11838747

Inventor(s): Jonathan Daniel Bahta (Dallas, TX), Yves Tegaboue (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17729567 on 04/26/2022 (588 days app to issue)

Abstract: Uplink congestion control based on session initiation protocol (SIP) messaging includes receiving SIP messages from user equipment devices (UEs) via established wireless uplink connections; and monitoring a rate of the SIP messages received from the UEs. Uplink congestion control further includes identifying whether the rate of received SIP messages exceeds a first threshold during a first period of time; and sending SIP response messages to the UEs to reduce congestion on the wireless uplink connections upon identifying that the rate of received SIP messages exceeded the first threshold over the first period of time, where the sent SIP response messages instruct the UEs to resend the SIP messages after predetermined time delays.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Self-configuring multiple-antenna system
Patent No. 11838769

Inventor(s): Mansoor Ahmed (Parker, TX), Steve Lazar (Fair Oaks Ranch, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17874721 on 07/27/2022 (496 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, a multiple-antenna heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a first antenna disposed along a return airflow path from an enclosed space to the multiple-antenna HVAC system, where the multiple-antenna HVAC system supplies conditioned air to the enclosed space. The multiple-antenna HVAC system also includes a second antenna disposed outside the return airflow path. The multiple-antenna HVAC system also includes a controller in communication with the first antenna and the second antenna, where the controller wirelessly communicates via the first antenna and the second antenna.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Messaging devices and methods
Patent No. 11838785

Inventor(s): David Andersen (Dillon, CO), J. Roy Pottle (Wellesley, MA), Jamie Gordon Nichol (Arlington, MA), John F. Nagel (Southlake, TX), Peter C. Barnett (Mason, OH), Sangsoo Kim (Seoul, , KR)
Assignee(s): AMERICAN MESSAGING SERVICES, INC. (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: Ulmer Berne LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17864718 on 07/14/2022 (509 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic messaging device includes a receiver configured to receive a message at one of a first operational frequency and second operational frequency. The messaging device can added to a message distribution group comprising a plurality of existing messaging devices. A test communication can be sent through a coupling to test an operation of the messaging device and confirming the addition of the messaging device to the message distribution group without communicating with the existing messaging devices.

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

Signaling and trigger mechanisms for handover
Patent No. 11838807

Inventor(s): Kyeongin Jeong (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17394277 on 08/04/2021 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for signaling and trigger mechanisms for handover in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving system information and information corresponding to different classes for handover signaling; transmitting a capability information including information indicating support of enhanced signaling mechanisms; receiving configuration information including measurement information and handover information based on the capability information; determining completion of handover based on the configuration information; and transmitting a completion of handover indication using a non-Radio Resource Control mechanism based on the completion of handover determination.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Techniques for selecting network protocols
Patent No. 11838822

Inventor(s): Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17846482 on 06/22/2022 (531 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for selecting network protocols using heatmaps. For instance, a system may receive radio frequency information from one or more sources located within an environment. The system may then generate heatmaps using the radio frequency information, where the heatmaps represent characteristics associated with different network protocols. The characteristics may include signal strengths, throughputs, data packet drop rates, data packet retry rates, and/or the like for various locations within the environment. A user device may then receive the heatmaps from the system. Using a location of the user device and the heatmaps, the user device may determine to communicate using a network protocol from the different network protocols. The user device may then establish a connection using the network protocol.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

State pooling for stateful re-homing in a disaggregated radio access network
Patent No. 11838845

Inventor(s): Ashish Bansal (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): DISH Wireless L.L.C (Littleton, CO)
Law Firm: KILPATRICK TOWNSEND STOCKTON LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17375858 on 07/14/2021 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques described herein provide pooling of radio access network (RAN) resources in a disaggregated RAN in a manner that enables dynamic re-homing of RAN functions with minimal disruption to stateful communications. The RAN is a hierarchical arrangement of RAN units, each having an associated state at any given time. A RAN state pooling system (RSPS) is in communication with a pool of the RAN units via a high-speed communication channel. The RSPS is configured to maintain an updated repository of the state information for the RAN units in its serviced pool. In the event of re-homing from a first RAN unit to a second RAN unit in the pool (e.g., due to the first RAN unit failing, becoming overloaded, etc.), the RSPS provides the second RAN unit with the updated state information for the first RAN unit to facilitate a stateful re-homing.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for configuration of common search space for discovery signal and channel
Patent No. 11838899

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17446225 on 08/27/2021 (830 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of a UE in a wireless communication system supporting a shared spectrum channel access is provided. The UE comprises: receiving, from a BS over a first downlink channel, a SS/PBCH block; determining a transmission window in which the received SS/PBCH block is located; determining whether a CORESET for Type0-PDCCH CSS is present based on the received SS/PBCH block; determining a parameter for a QCL assumption of candidate SS/PBCH blocks within the transmission window; determining a group of QCLed candidate SS/PBCH blocks within the transmission window based on the determined parameter for the QCL assumption; determining a group of slots including the Type0-PDCCH CSS, wherein each slot of the group of slots corresponds to a candidate SS/PBCH block within the group of QCLed candidate SS/PBCH blocks; and receiving, over a second downlink channel, at least one Type0-PDCCH based on the determined groups of slots including the Type0-PDCCH CSS.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for sharing a control channel for carrier aggregation
Patent No. 11838919

Inventor(s): Sean Michael McBeath (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD. (Guangdong, , CN)
Law Firm: PERKINS COIE LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17373689 on 07/12/2021 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

TDM transmission for inter-RAT dual connectivity UE
Patent No. 11838975

Inventor(s): Yang Li (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17993215 on 11/23/2022 (377 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform substantially concurrent communications with a next generation network node and a legacy network node. The wireless device may be configured to stablish a first wireless link with a first cell according to a RAT, where the first cell operates in a first system bandwidth and establish a second wireless link with a second cell according to a RAT, where the second cell operates in a second system bandwidth. Further, the wireless device may be configured to perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT by TDM uplink data for the first RAT and uplink data for the second RAT if uplink activity is scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

DESIGN PATENTS

Fork spreader tool
Patent No. D006583

Inventor(s): Paul Allen Wolfe (Bridgeport, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Patent 360 (Local + 459 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29828791 on 02/28/2022 (645 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Clamp
Patent No. D006609

Inventor(s): Jason Mote (Dallas, TX), Thomas Frosell (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): CECO ENVIRONMENTAL IP INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29779464 on 04/19/2021 (960 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Mountable chart
Patent No. D006871

Inventor(s): Rebecca Hadley (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Goldstein Law Offices, P.C. (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29804724 on 08/23/2021 (834 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Mountable chart
Patent No. D006872

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Mountable chart
Patent No. D006873

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Mountable chart
Patent No. D006874

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Mountable chart
Patent No. D006875

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Educational poster
Patent No. D006876

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body mount
Patent No. D006891

Inventor(s): Casey Christen Jens Christensen (McKinney, TX), Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29815712 on 11/16/2021 (749 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body reinforcement
Patent No. D006900

Inventor(s): Casey Christen Jens Christensen (McKinney, TX), Jaime Felix Barajas (Dallas, TX), Jory Sprowl (Honey Grove, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29815679 on 11/16/2021 (749 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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