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 Nov. 7, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 16
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 12
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 8
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 6
G: PHYSICS 51
H: ELECTRICITY 64

DESIGN: 3

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 24
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano) 8
Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) 7
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 7
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 5
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 3
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison) 3
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm, SE) 3
Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano) 3

UNASSIGNED 11

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Tony M. Brewer (Plano) 5
Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine) 3
Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano) 2
Daniel W. Reaser (Oak Point) 2
Derek A. Thompson (Dallas) 2
Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI) 2
Hollie Ilene King (Frisco) 2
Hongbo Si (Plano) 2
Imed Bouazizi (Frisco) 2
Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Safe launcher-projectile assembly for pets
Patent No. 11805755

Inventor(s): Ryan D. Wills (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): FETCHFIX, LLC (Carollton, TX)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16399826 on 04/30/2019 (1652 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure describes a launcher and a projectile for fetch games with pets. The launcher, in certain implementations, may be used to pick up and launch the projectile that has a core to engage with a head of the launcher. Same size cores may be used in projectiles of different sizes, appearances, shapes, and materials (for different pets) such that a common launcher can be used.

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

Composition and method for germinative compounds in probiotic food and beverage products for human consumption
Patent No. 11805800

Inventor(s): Amanda Rosmarin (Lantana, TX), Charles Greenwald (Irving, TX), Daniel Aberle (Irving, TX), Gabriel F. K. Everett (Mansfield, TX), George Aboagye (Derby, , GB), Jordan E. Church (Carrollton, TX), Judy Pruitt (Mesquite, TX, U
Assignee(s): NCH Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17530731 on 11/19/2021 (718 days app to issue)

Abstract: A composition and method for activating probiotic spores in food and beverage products, such as steeped teas, coffee, soups, and sauces. A nutrient-germinant composition comprises one or more L-amino acids, optionally one or more buffers to maintain the pH of the composition when added to water in a range of around 6-8, optionally D-glucose, D-fructose, or both D-glucose and D-fructose, and optionally, an osmoprotectant. The nutrient-germinant composition, one or more species of [i]Bacillus [/i]spores, and a food or beverage product may be pre-mixed in any combination. Water is added to the mixture and heated to a temperature range of 42 to 100 C. to germinate the probiotic spores prior to being consumed.

[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)

Devices, systems, and methods for real-time peeling
Patent No. 11805801

Inventor(s): Christopher Koci (Austin, TX), Keith Chan (Plano, TX), Sean Eichenlaub (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Frito-Lay North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Barnes Thornburg LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17406555 on 08/19/2021 (810 days app to issue)

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for real-time peeling are disclosed. Peeling can include including evaluating and controlling one or more peelers to remove peel from organic materials. Evaluation can be performed by an evaluation system including a convolutional neural network to determine a peel value. Control can be performed by a machine learning model on the basis of the peel value. Control can include determination of real-time settings for peeler tool speed and/or gate position. NULL

Footwear with enhanced toe post
Patent No. 11805847

Inventor(s): Jeremy Carl Stewart (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): HARI MARI LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: NorthStar Law Group (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17186586 on 02/26/2021 (984 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to the various embodiments of the present disclosure, footwear with an enhanced toe post is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the footwear may comprise a sole portion to support and protect a wearer’s foot, a strap portion attached to the sole to bind the footwear to a wearer”s foot, and at least one toe post passing between a wearer’s toes constructed at least partially of memory foam or other cushioning materials.

[A43B] CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR

Spring loaded translating lateral retractor blade
Patent No. 11806004

Inventor(s): Joel Gambrell (Irving, TX), Keith Klausman (Irving, TX), Thomas Purcell (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): ASTURA MEDICAL (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17739105 on 05/07/2022 (549 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tissue retractor having a spring loaded retractor blade that provides constant downward pressure on the spine to eliminate/reduce tissue from creeping underneath the tips of the blades during use, which decreases operation time and reduces patient risk.

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

Polymeric vertebral retaining devices
Patent No. 11806053

Inventor(s): Alain Paris (Pontarlier, , FR), David Chenaux (Corcelles, , CH), Lukas Glutz (Ins, , CH), Nick Koske (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Orthofix US LLC (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17682920 on 02/28/2022 (617 days app to issue)

Abstract: Vertebral retaining devices and instruments are provided. A retaining device may include a first monolithic body having a first handle and first jaw pivotably coupled to a second monolithic body having a second handle and a second jaw. The first body and the second body may be pivotably coupled to one another at an intermediate region between the respective handles and jaws. In some aspects, the first and second bodies may be polymeric. The first jaw and second jaw may be shaped to provide an access region between the first jaw and the second jaw when the retaining device is coupled to bone fasteners attached to the vertebrae. The retaining device may include a locking assembly coupled to the first handle and the second handle, and configured to retain the first jaw and the second jaw in a spaced relationship relative to one another.

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

Customized bone distraction method, device and system
Patent No. 11806055

Inventor(s): Christopher Derderian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17027347 on 09/21/2020 (1142 days app to issue)

Abstract: A bone distractor device and method of bone distraction in osteogenesis, the bone distractor having releasable bone plates, created using computer-aided design to conform to the surface of a bone, attached to a distraction mechanism, wherein the distractor device is affixed to the bone, the distraction mechanism is removed from the bone plates, the osteotomy is performed using a guide edge provided on at least one of the bone plates, and the distraction mechanism is re-attached to the bone plates such that distraction can be initiated.

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

Limited-use tool disposable enclosure
Patent No. 11806108

Inventor(s): Matthew Jones (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Insurgical, Inc. (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Clearpat Services, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17207898 on 03/22/2021 (960 days app to issue)

Abstract: A re-usable medical procedure power tool includes enclosed housing including a tool attachment portion, a handle portion connected to a tool attachment portion and a power portion. A removable, single use, contamination-blocking cover substantially covering the housing, the handle portion the power portion. The cover also includes an opening adjacent an exposed first end of the tool attachment portion, whereby a tool accessory is selectively attached to and removed from the first end of the tool attachment portion during a medical procedure.

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

Three-dimensional lattice structures for implants
Patent No. 11806240

Inventor(s): Jason Tinley (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): NANOHIVE MEDICAL LLC (Woburn, MA)
Law Firm: McDermott Will Emery LLP (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16518281 on 07/22/2019 (1569 days app to issue)

Abstract: The three-dimensional lattice structures disclosed herein have applications including use in medical implants. Some examples of the lattice structure are structural in that they can be used to provide structural support or mechanical spacing. In some examples, the lattice can be configured as a scaffold to support bone or tissue growth. Some examples can use a repeating modified rhombic dodecahedron or radial dodeca-rhombus unit cell. The lattice structures are also capable of providing a lattice structure with anisotropic properties to better suit the lattice for its intended purpose.

[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]

Exoskeleton wheelchair system
Patent No. 11806289

Inventor(s): Christopher Paul Lee (Newark, CA), Douglas Moore (Livermore, 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: 17373994 on 07/13/2021 (847 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exoskeleton wheelchair system includes a base, one or more wheels coupled to the base, a body support connected to the base comprising: a back support; and one or more leg supports pivotally coupled to the back support, and a gait wheel linked with the one or more leg supports via one or more gait linkages and configured to rotate the one or more leg supports. The one or more leg supports are configured to pivot about a first axis when the back support is in a standing position mode. The back support is maintained at a fixed position relative to a location of the base when the one or more leg supports pivot about the first axis while the back support is in the standing position mode.

[A61G] TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H 3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N 1/00)

Regenerating cavernous tissue to reverse sexual disfunction
Patent No. 11806301

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Nuziard (Colleyville, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Culhane Meadows PLLC (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17901571 on 09/01/2022 (432 days app to issue)

Abstract: A treatment that regenerates cells, remodels collagen, and reverses atrophy to restore full sexual function of human genitalia.

[A61H] PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY (electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, radiation therapy, ultrasound therapy A61N)

Method and compositions for treating Coronavirus infection
Patent No. 11806359

Inventor(s): Jose R. Matos (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): PHOENIX BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC. (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: INNOVAR, L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17554639 on 12/17/2021 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of treating viral infection, such as viral infection caused by a virus of the Coronaviridae family, is provided. A composition having at least oleandrin or digoxin is used to treat the viral infection or the disease state of said viral infection.

Fusion proteins comprising an anti-CD40 antibody and cancer antigens
Patent No. 11806390

Inventor(s): Anne-Laure Flamar (New York, NY), Gerard Zurawski (Midlothian, TX), Jacques F. Banchereau (Montclair, NJ), Keiko Akagawa (Tokyo, , JP), Peter Klucar (Magnolia, AR), Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, TX), SangKon Oh (Baltimore, M
Assignee(s): BAYLOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17301704 on 04/12/2021 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention includes compositions and methods for the expression, secretion and use of novel compositions for use as, e.g., vaccines and antigen delivery vectors, to delivery antigens to antigen presenting cells. In one embodiment, the vector is an anti-CD40 antibody, or fragments thereof, and one or more antigenic peptides linked to the anti-CD40 antibody or fragments thereof, including humanized antibodies.

Compositions and methods of use thereof for antiseptic mouth rinses
Patent No. 11806420

Inventor(s): Kendell Dean (Aubrey, TX), William O. Kling (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Benova Rx LLC (Aubrey, TX)
Law Firm: Winstead PC (Local + 2 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17691002 on 03/09/2022 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a two-part oral rinse composition having a first rinse portion and a second rinse portion. In some embodiments, the first mouth rinse portion includes sodium chlorite (NaClO[subscript]2[/subscript]) in a first solution. In some embodiments, the second mouth rinse portion includes a sugar alcohol, a licorice root extract, and an enzyme in a second solution. In some embodiments, the enzyme can include, without limitation bromelain, actinidin, ficin, papain, and combinations thereof. In some embodiments, the first solution has a pH in a range of approximately 8.0 to approximately 12. In some embodiments, the second solution has a pH in a range of approximately 5.0 to approximately 6.5.

Systems and methods for managing remote therapy sessions
Patent No. 11806540

Inventor(s): Doug Lautner (Frisco, TX), Germinal Ibarrola (Prosper, TX), Scott DeBates (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17065176 on 10/07/2020 (1126 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for managing communications in a remote therapy system. A method includes initiating a remote therapy session by establishing communications between a patient device and an implantable medical device implanted in a patient, and establishing communications between the patient device and a clinician device, determining, using the patient device, a distance between the patient and the patient device, comparing, using the patient device, the determined distance to a threshold distance, and managing the communications between the patient device and the implantable medical device based on the comparison.

[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 ball marker
Patent No. 11806594

Inventor(s): Robert Pitre (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18306146 on 04/24/2023 (197 days app to issue)

Abstract: A golf ball marker is disclosed. In one embodiment, an upper display is visible at an upper surface of the golf ball marker and a lower display is visible at a lower surface thereof. The golf ball marker may display various data on upper display and the lower display, such as a temperature reading from a temperature sensor, a slope reading from an inclinometer, a direction associated with a slope reading, and a humidity reading from a humidity sensor.

[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

Floating wheel cover
Patent No. 11807041

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Paul Smith (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: SEED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW GROUP LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16936058 on 07/22/2020 (1203 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a wheel cover that is coupled to a wheel of a vehicle utilizing a mounting assembly that has a bearing block. A retainer assembly in combination with the bearing block of the mounting assembly allows the wheel cover to be coupled to the wheel in a manner such that the wheel cover does not rotate with the forward and backward rotation of the wheel when the vehicle is being driven. The wheel cover covers the wheel and partially covers a gap or space between a tire of the wheel and a fender of the vehicle, which increases the aerodynamic performance of the vehicle. The retainer assembly provides at least one degree of freedom such that the wheel cover may move with the wheel when steering the vehicle in a leftward direction and a rightward direction.

[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

Vehicle configured to assist with crane relocation
Patent No. 11807151

Inventor(s): James Larry Jester (Whitewright, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16520601 on 07/24/2019 (1567 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle may be configured with an adjustable horizontal planar platform for receiving a load, such as a boom arm of a crane and transporting the load to a new location. In some cases, the platform is configured to swivel and tilt in order to maintain an alignment with a second vehicle during transport of a load.

[B60P] VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G 3/00)

Methods and systems for controlling image capture sessions with external devices
Patent No. 11807188

Inventor(s): Masashi Nakagawa (Sunnyvale, 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: 17148792 on 01/14/2021 (1027 days app to issue)

Abstract: Vehicles and a method for initiating, maintaining, and terminating an image capture session with an external image capture component. The method includes initiating an image capture session with an image capture component that is external to the vehicle, receiving, from the image capture component, an image, determining whether image data of the image includes identifying information associated with the vehicle, and instructing the image capture component to maintain the image capture session associated with the vehicle in response to determining that the image data includes identifying information associated with the vehicle. Additionally, the method includes terminating the image capture session with the image capture component in response to determining that the image data does not include the identifying information.

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

Sensing interactions with unpermitted components within a vehicle
Patent No. 11807257

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Macpherson (Plano, TX), Daniel W. Reaser (Oak Point, TX), Derek A. Thompson (Dallas, TX), Keaton Khonsari (Dallas, TX), Sergei I. Gage (Redford, MI), Simon P. Roberts (Celina, TX), Yang Ding (Montreal, ,
Assignee(s): Toyota Connected North America, Inc. (Plano, TX), Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17340963 on 06/07/2021 (883 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to sensing interactions of a passenger with components within a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring, from a radar of a vehicle, radar data about a passenger cabin of the vehicle. The method includes determining a current state of the passenger cabin according to the radar data. The method includes, responsive to identifying that the current state indicates that a passenger satisfies a threshold in relation to an unpermitted action, generating a response that counters the unpermitted action.

[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]

Radar detection of unsafe seating conditions in a vehicle
Patent No. 11807258

Abstract: A system for controlling operation of a vehicle includes a millimeter-wave radar sensor, a processor, and a memory communicably coupled to the processor. The memory stores a sensor control module configured to control operation of the radar sensor to acquire data for determining and updating a number of occupants in the vehicle. Upon receiving a control command whose execution will result in movement of the vehicle, a pre-movement radar scan of the vehicle interior is performed. Using information acquired by the pre-movement scan, the sensor control module determines if an excessive occupant condition exists in the vehicle interior. Responsive to a determination that an excessive occupant condition exists, the sensor control module may control an operation of the vehicle other than executing the control command.

Composite insulated boxcar floor
Patent No. 11807280

Inventor(s): Codrington E. Barzey (Melbourne, FL), Kenneth W. Huck (Fairview, TX), Marco A. Morales (Flower Mound, TX), Ricky A. Cribbs (Ovilla, TX), Scott M. Lewit (Indialantic, FL)
Assignee(s): TRINITY RAIL GROUP, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17097225 on 11/13/2020 (1089 days app to issue)

Abstract: A floor section for an insulated railcar includes a floor plate and a composite section coupled to the floor plate. The composite section includes a plurality of composite beams aligned parallel to one another. Each composite beam of the plurality of composite beams includes an inner core and an outer material surrounding the inner core. The inner core includes an insulating material and is configured to support the outer material. An upper surface of each composite beam of the plurality of composite beams, which extends along a length of the composite beam, is coupled to an underside of the floor plate.

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

Advanced cementitious composite floating platforms and method of manufacture
Patent No. 11807346

Inventor(s): David Pigram (Sydney, , AU), John Buttles (Los Angeles, CA), Jordan Michael Powell (Tyler, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Wind Tower Co. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18181384 on 03/09/2023 (243 days app to issue)

Abstract: Semi-submersible wind turbine platforms capable of floating on a body of water and supporting wind turbines, and a method of manufacturing the semi-submersible wind turbine platforms from advanced cementitious composite material are provided. The method includes determining at a first iteration topological outputs of the wind turbine platform including a plurality of modular sections consisting of an advanced cementitious composite (ACC) material, obtaining a second iteration from the topological outputs, the second iteration including a second model platform and a second model tower of the wind turbine platform, and obtaining addition iterations via simulation to attain a final model platform and a final model tower, the final model platform and the final model tower including a layout of the plurality of modular sections and connections for a platform and a tower of the wind turbine platform.

[B63B] SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING (arrangements of vessel ventilation, heating, cooling, or air-conditioning B63J 2/00; floating substructures as supports of dredgers or soil-shifting machines E02F 9/06) [2]

Tilting hexrotor aircraft
Patent No. 11807357

Inventor(s): Danielle Lynn Moore (Arlington, TX), Kirk L. Groninga (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17527900 on 11/16/2021 (721 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment is an aircraft operable in a hover mode and a cruise mode and including a fuselage; wings connected on opposite sides of the fuselage; a canard connected to the fuselage forward of the wings; forward propulsion systems connected to a trailing edge of the canard on opposite sides of the fuselage; aft propulsion systems connected to trailing edges of the wings; and wing-mounted propulsion systems connected to leading edges of the wings. The aft propulsion systems are tiltable between a first position when the aircraft is in the hover mode and a second position when the aircraft is in the cruise mode. Each of the propulsion systems includes a rotor assembly comprising a plurality of rotor blades. The propulsion systems are substantially equidistant from a center of gravity (CG) of the aircraft.

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

Submersible drone delivery and recovery system using waterproof aerial drone
Patent No. 11807358

Inventor(s): Brian Erik Barnes (Bedford, TX), Gary Miller (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17074172 on 10/19/2020 (1114 days app to issue)

Abstract: A submersion system for a rotorcraft is described and includes a control module for controlling a depth to which the rotorcraft is submerged in a body of water; a compressed air chamber associated with the control module; and at least one flotation pod including a sealable opening on a top surface thereof and an opening on a bottom surface thereof. The control module selectively causes water to be taken into the at least one flotation pod to cause the submersion system to submerge in the body of water and selectively causes water to be evacuated from the at least one flotation pod to cause the submersion system to float in the body of water.

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

Container with knockout-stackable gable with top tab
Patent No. 11807428

Inventor(s): Arie Sharon (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Menasha Corporation (Neenah, WI)
Law Firm: GREENSFELDER, HEMKER GALE, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17702441 on 03/23/2022 (594 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention is directed to a stackable container having a gable type top wall and a gable type bottom wall. The top wall of the container can include an upwardly extending tab that cooperates with a slot in the bottom wall of a like container to facilitate stacking of two or more containers. The container includes a front opening.

[B65D] CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES

Apparatus, system and method for mixing liquid in a beverage container
Patent No. 11807513

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: 17453440 on 11/03/2021 (734 days app to issue)

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include an apparatus that can be connected to a valve on a keg, such as a Sankey-D valve, and can be used to add gas into the keg to mix the contents, which may be including alcoholic spirts and a non-alcoholic drink mix. The apparatus has an upper structure which is coupled to a lower portion configured to mate with a keg valve. The filling apparatus may be designed to depress the ball valve and ring valve portions of the keg valve to allow for both the addition of gas and venting of gas from the keg simultaneously.

[B67D] DISPENSING, DELIVERING, OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes B08B 9/02; emptying or filling of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers, not otherwise provided for B67C; water supply E03; pipe systems F17D; domestic hot-water supply systems F24D; measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level, metering by volume G01F; coin-freed or like apparatus G07F) [5]

Waveguide enhanced analyte detection apparatus
Patent No. 11808569

Inventor(s): Daniel Carothers (Lucas, TX)
Assignee(s): Strike Photonics, Inc. (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17204276 on 03/17/2021 (965 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure provides photonic integrated chip that has an optical waveguide located on a photonic circuit substrate that includes a photonic circuit that is optically coupled to the waveguide. A microfluidic channel is in a silicon substrate and is attached to the photonic circuit substrate. The microfluidic channel is positioned over the optical waveguide such that its side surfaces and an outermost surface extend into the microfluidic channel. The microfluidic channel extends along a length of the optical waveguide, and nanoparticles are located on or adjacent the optical waveguide located within the microfluidic channel.

[B01L] CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE (apparatus for medical or pharmaceutical purposes A61; apparatus for industrial purposes or laboratory apparatus whose construction and performance are comparable to that of similar industrial apparatus, see the relevant classes for industrial apparatus, particularly subclasses of B01 and C12; separating or distilling apparatus B01D; mixing or stirring devices B01F; atomisers B05B; sieves B07B; corks, bungs B65D; handling liquids in general B67; vacuum pumps F04; siphons F04F 10/00; taps, stop-cocks F16K; tubes, tube joints F16L; apparatus specially adapted for investigating or analysing materials G01, particularly G01N; electrical or optical apparatus, see the relevant classes in sections G and H)

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

Emulsion compositions for priming a pavement surface
Patent No. 11807759

Inventor(s): Adam Meyers (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, MN)
Law Firm: Stinson LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17015455 on 09/09/2020 (1154 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aqueous base- or acid-stabilized emulsions are provided for use on a pavement surface, and for use in an aqueous priming base emulsion that is used for priming a pavement surface. Any of the emulsions can be applied to a pavement surface to form a primed pavement surface, and then cured so that the pavement is available for use in preparing a pavement.

[C08L] COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS (compositions based on polymerisable monomers C08F, C08G; artificial filaments or fibres D01F; textile treating compositions D06) [2]

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

Roofing membranes and related methods
Patent No. 11807785

Inventor(s): Li-Ying Yang (Whippany, NJ), Paul C. Lem (Mountain Lakes, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18151140 on 01/06/2023 (305 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a roofing membrane. The roofing membrane comprises a scrim. The scrim has a top surface and a bottom surface. The roofing membrane comprises a cap layer on the top surface of the scrim. The cap layer comprises a first non-styrenic polypropylene polymer, a first polypropylene impact copolymer, and a first olefin block copolymer. The roofing membrane comprises a core layer on the bottom surface of the scrim. The core layer comprises a second non-styrenic polypropylene polymer, a second polypropylene impact copolymer, and a second olefin block copolymer. The roofing membrane is configured to prevent migration of at least one oil from a layer to the roofing membrane. Some embodiments relate to a roofing structure comprising the roofing membrane, a method for installing the roofing membrane, and the like.

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

Thermal and acoustic insulating and sealing system for a safing slot in a curtain wall
Patent No. 11808036

Inventor(s): Arndt Andresen (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (Schaan, , LI)
Law Firm: Grneberg and Myers PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17232518 on 04/16/2021 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described is a construction and parts of the construction for effectively thermally and acoustically insulating and sealing of a safing slot between a floor of a building and an exterior wall construction wherein the exterior wall construction comprises a curtain wall configuration utilizing an interior panel module design. In particular, the thermal insulating and sealing system comprises a first element comprising a top framing component having an interior wall surface and an opening, positioned substantially in the height of the floor, wherein the top framing component is located on top of the interior wall surface of the spandrel panel, and a second element comprised of a thermally resistant and/or air tight material for insulating, positioned at least partially in the top framing component of the first element, wherein the second element includes an inner end surface positionable in abutment with respect to the outer edge of the floor for sealing thereadjacent, outer end surface positionable in abutment with respect the interior wall surface of the top framing component, a lower facing surface extending between the inner end surface and the outer end surface and facing downwardly therebetween, and an upper facing surface extending between the inner end surface and the outer end surface and facing upwardly therebetween.

[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)

Impact resistant roofing systems and methods
Patent No. 11808041

Inventor(s): Adem Chich (Kearney, NJ), Yan Zheng (Livingston, NJ), Yixi Xiao (Edison, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: WOMBLE BOND DICKINSON (US) LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17394452 on 08/05/2021 (824 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hail resistant roofing system and method includes a roofing substrate such as a shingle or tile or membrane having an array of exposed upwardly projecting features. The features may rise to sharp points and may have side surfaces that are angled relative to the plane of the roofing substrate. The features are spaced and arranged so that a large hail stone capable of damaging the roofing substrate will always impact one or more of the exposed features. This can break up the hail stone into smaller benign pieces or can redirect the energy and direction of the hail stone so that the impact is absorbed without damage to the roofing substrate.

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

Door unlock mechanism
Patent No. 11808063

Inventor(s): Emiliano Mario Piccinelli (Cavenago, , IT), Keith Walters (Bloomington, MN), Williamson Sy (Oak Park, MI)
Assignee(s): STMicroelectronics, Inc. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18178201 on 03/03/2023 (249 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and device for unlatching a door from a frame, using a keyless door latch system, is provided. In one embodiment, a secondary unlocking component receives a signal and derives power from the signal to provide a power source for the keyless door latch system. A microcontroller generates a control signal and an actuator, in response to receiving the control signal, actuates the secondary unlocking component, which allows an energy source, from an exterior of the door, to be transferred to the keyless door latch system for the unlatching of the door.

[E05B] LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS

Shock insulating door system and method
Patent No. 11808081

Inventor(s): Federico Romero (Corpus Christi, TX)
Assignee(s): Overhead Door Corporation (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17233160 on 04/16/2021 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: A door system includes a door having a frame forming at least a portion of a perimeter of the door and a sleeve configured to encase at least a portion of the frame. The frame is constructed from a first material and the sleeve is constructed from a different second material. The first material may be electrically conductive and the second material may be electrically insulating. Alternatively or additionally, the first material may be susceptible to wear and tear and the sleeve may be resilient and replaceable.

[E06B] FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES, OR LIKE ENCLOSURES, IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES (shades or blinds for greenhouses A01G 9/22; curtains A47H; lids for car boots or bonnets B62D 25/10; sky-lights E04B 7/18; sunshades, awnings E04F 10/00)

Connector for perforating gun system
Patent No. 11808116

Inventor(s): Camille Anne Bryant (Cleburne, TX), Courtney Ann Thain Roberts (Crowley, TX), Joseph Todd MacGillivray (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: C. Tumey Law Group PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17306649 on 05/03/2021 (918 days app to issue)

Abstract: A perforating gun connection whereby a signal may be carried from surface, down through a wireline or other conveyance, and across the connection from the pin on one perforating gun to an electrical contact structure on the next perforating gun in the string. In an example, the connection includes a connector body with an electrical pin positioned for contact with an electrical contact structure on the next perforating gun. The electrical contact structure has a contact tab aligned for engagement by the pin when connected with the connector body. The electrical contact structure may be unitarily formed to include a number of features to facilitate connection between perforating guns.

[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]

Downhole telemetry during fluid injection operations
Patent No. 11808145

Inventor(s): Sean Christopher Canning (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: DELIZIO, PEACOCK, LEWIN GUERRA (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17452982 on 10/29/2021 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fluid signal generator configured to produce fluid pulses in a fluid column of a wellbore are described. The fluid pulses represent data and/or other information to be transmitted from a downhole device, such as a fluid plug apparatus located within the borehole of the wellbore, to one or more other devices located away from the downhole device, including devices located above a surface of the wellbore. The fluid plug may be configured to provide a fluid seal between a first portion of the wellbore and a second portion of the wellbore prior to and during a fluid treatment procedure being performed on the wellbore.

Synchronized lighting with toggle system
Patent No. 11812533

Inventor(s): Donald Y. Perkins, Jr. (Richardson, TX), Jerry B. Chrane (Argyle, TX)
Assignee(s): GMI Holdings, Inc. (Mount Hope, OH)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17342325 on 06/08/2021 (882 days app to issue)

Abstract: A light system for a barrier operator includes a plurality of barrier operators each in communication with a respective wall console. The light system further includes a plurality of light kits, each light kit of the plurality of light kits being in communication with at least one barrier operator of the plurality of barrier operators. Each barrier operator of the plurality of barrier operators is configured to select one of the light kits of the plurality of light kits as a master light kit, receive a state information from the master light kit, and transmit the state information of the master light kit to other light kits of the plurality of light kits. As such the lights connected to a barrier operator may become synchronized.

[E05F] DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING

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

Modular systems and methods for transporting tower assembly of wind turbine
Patent No. 11807153

Inventor(s): Evan Keller (Houston, TX), Joseph M. Sindelar (Houston, TX), Marco A. Poisler (Houston, TX)
Assignee(s): BNSF Logistics, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16934517 on 07/21/2020 (1204 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are used for transporting a plurality of tower sections of a wind turbine on beds of transport devices, such as flat railcars. Supports affix at support locations on beds to accommodate at least one of the tower sections on each of the transport devices. The supports can include bed supports, such as tabs, extending from the beds, and can include cradle supports with slots that engage on the tabs. A circumferential dimension of a cradle is adjusted on each of the supports against which the tower section rests. Each of the tower sections is then supported with at least two of the supports by loading the tower sections on the transport devices. An end of each of the tower sections is then affixed to a flange on at least one of the supports on each of the transport devices.

[F03D] WIND MOTORS

Fresh air intake for low NOx emission furnace
Patent No. 11808449

Inventor(s): Eric Chanthalangsy (Grand Prairie, TX), Eric Perez (Hickory Creek, TX), Randal Poirier (The Colony, TX), Steven Schneider (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16925446 on 07/10/2020 (1215 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fresh-air intake according to aspects of the disclosure includes an outer cover having a pair of side panels disposed in a generally parallel spaced relationship, a top panel coupled to, and disposed generally perpendicular to, each panel of the pair of side panels, a bottom panel disposed generally parallel to the top panel, and a front panel coupled to, and disposed generally perpendicular to, each panel of the pair of side panels and the top panel, the front panel having a window formed therein, a supply line coupled to the bottom panel, a weir extending above the bottom panel and surrounding a junction with the supply line, a baffle disposed inside the outer cover, the baffle being disposed inwardly of the window so as to prevent infiltration of moisture into the supply line, and a weep hole formed in the bottom panel.

[F23D] BURNERS

Heat pump water heater systems and methods for low ambient temperature conditions
Patent No. 11808494

Inventor(s): Sivakumar Gopalnarayanan (Plano, TX), Yang Zou (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Rheem Manufacturing Company (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17510642 on 10/26/2021 (742 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed technology includes devices, systems, and methods for heat pump systems configured to operate in low ambient temperatures. The disclosed technology can include a heat pump water heater system having an evaporator, a first compressor configured to compress refrigerant to a first pressure, and a second compressor configured to compress the refrigerant to a second pressure. The second pressure can be greater than the first pressure. The heat pump water heater system can include a preheater configured to receive the refrigerant at the first pressure and heat water and a condenser configured to receive the refrigerant at the second pressure and heat water. The water can be passed through the preheater before being passed through the condenser.

[F25B] REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS, OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials, e.g. refrigerants, or materials for the production of heat or cold by chemical reactions other than by combustion C09K 5/00; pumps, compressors F04; use of heat pumps for domestic or space-heating or for domestic hot-water supply F24D; air-conditioning, air-humidification F24F; fluid heaters using heat pumps F24H)

Refrigerant metering refrigerant evaporator coil (REC) repair method
Patent No. 11808497

Inventor(s): Kenneth Ray Green (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17894630 on 08/24/2022 (440 days app to issue)

Abstract: A refrigerant metering system/method incorporating a manual expansion valve (MEV), condenser isolation valve (CIV), flow isolation valve (FIV), and evaporator isolation valve (EIV) is disclosed. The MEV is configured to replace a conventional automated expansion valve (AEV) that controls a refrigerant flow valve (RFV) that is positioned in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system between a refrigerant condenser coil (RCC) and a refrigerant evaporator coil (REC) and permits manual metering of refrigerant by the RFV from the RCC to the REC and also allows complete shutoff of refrigerant flow by the RFV from the RCC to the REC. The MEV allows rapid HVAC repair and restoration of service where a replacement AEV is not readily available. The CIV/FIV/EIV are positioned in the refrigerant flow lines to permit the AEV and/or REC to be isolated from HVAC refrigerant flow for repairs to the AEV and/or REC.

Method and apparatus for storing and dispensing bagged ice
Patent No. 11808511

Inventor(s): Henrik Pape (Horsens, , DK)
Assignee(s): REDDY ICE LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18177555 on 03/02/2023 (250 days app to issue)

Abstract: An article storage and dispensing apparatus and method in which articles made by series production are distributed from an article supplier into a storage compartment of predetermined dimensions for storage of articles in front and rear rows of article storage positions. An article distributor in the storage compartment has a carriage, a carriage drive which is configured to drive the carriage in a reversible horizontal carriage drive direction across at least part of the width of the storage compartment, and an article support mounted on the carriage and configured to receive articles from the article supplier above the support when the carriage is in a start position. An article dispenser is associated with the article support to dispense articles selectively in opposite horizontal dispensing directions transverse to the carriage drive direction off the front and rear ends of the support to drop into front and rear article rows.

[F25C] PRODUCTION, WORKING, STORING OR DISTRIBUTION OF ICE (frozen sweets, including ice-cream, their production A23G 9/00; concentrating solutions by removing frozen solvents B01D 9/04; purification of water by freezing C02F 1/22; refrigeration machines, plants, or systems F25B; solidification of gases or gaseous mixtures F25J; freeze-drying F26B) [2]

Power plant cooling systems
Patent No. 11808524

Inventor(s): Bob Burkett (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17475310 on 09/14/2021 (784 days app to issue)

Abstract: Power Plant Cooling Systems are designed to replace Once-Through Cooling systems and/or cooling towers currently used to cool power plants that generate electricity. The intake and discharge piping of the cooling water would be connected by piping/tubing that would serve as a geothermal loop that would be underground and/or in a body of water next to the power plant that would serve as a heat exchange medium. An alternative embodiment would use a latticework of piping/tubing over the turbine hall (equipment building) and/or the containment building(s) to serve as a heat exchange medium when the atmospheric conditions are proper.

[F28D] HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT (heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials C09K 5/00; fluid heaters having heat generating means and heat transferring means F24H; furnaces F27; details of heat-exchange apparatus of general application F28F); HEAT STORAGE PLANTS OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL [4]

P H Y S I C S

Educational electronic circuit block set and simulation board displaying electric current flow
Patent No. 11806632

Inventor(s): Asim Gazi (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16706543 on 12/06/2019 (1432 days app to issue)

Abstract: An educational game includes a controller and a computer to operate software; a game board, having a first transparent layer with slots arranged in a grid; a second layer housing a plurality of LEDs; a third layer housing the controller and computer; and an activation button; blocks to engage with the slots, each of the blocks having an encoding on a bottom surface; the blocks represent circuit elements and the slots represent electrically active slots for the circuit elements, thereby forming a circuit; the blocks allow a user to create a user modeled circuit; and the computer creates the user modeled circuit and analyzes the user modeled circuit to create a visualization feedback associated with the user modeled circuit, the visual feedback providing one or more unique LED patterns and one or more LED brightness variables to symbolize current flow and power intensity.

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

Systems and methods for improving the brightness of a transparent display using supplemental light sources that include ambient light collected by an array of metasurface lenses
Patent No. 11807167

Inventor(s): Danny J. Lohan (Northville, MI), Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini (Ann Arbor, MI), Hiroshi Ando (Nagoya, , JP), Kojiro Tachi (Nagakute, , JP), Masaaki Kawauchi (Chita County, , JP), Sean
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18072138 on 11/30/2022 (342 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for improving the brightness of a transparent display are disclosed herein. One embodiment collects ambient light using an array of metasurface lenses disposed on an external surface of a vehicle; collects internal light from the vehicle”s headlights; filters the ambient light and the internal light to produce filtered ambient light and filtered internal light; generates primary-source light using a light-emitting-diode (LED) light source; and injects, into a transparent edge-lit liquid crystal waveguide display deployed in at least a portion of a window of the vehicle, the primary-source light, the filtered ambient light, and the filtered internal light in a color-synchronized manner. The filtered ambient light and the filtered internal light improve the brightness of the transparent edge-lit liquid crystal waveguide display.

[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]

Encapsulant barrier
Patent No. 11807522

Inventor(s): Gary Philip Thomson (Rowlett, TX), Jane Qian Liu (Plano, TX), Richard Allen Richter (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16927648 on 07/13/2020 (1212 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples, a device mounted on a substrate includes an encapsulant. In at least one example, an encapsulant barrier is deposited along a scribe line, along which the substrate is singulatable. To encapsulate one or more terminals of the substrate, an encapsulant is deposited between the encapsulant barrier and an edge of the device parallel to the encapsulant barrier.

Robust step detection using low cost MEMS accelerometer in mobile applications, and processing methods, apparatus and systems
Patent No. 11808605

Inventor(s): Goutam Dutta (Karnataka, , IN), Jayawardan Janardhanan (Karnataka, , IN), Sandeep Rao (Karnataka, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17674993 on 02/18/2022 (627 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system ([b]10[/b]) for pedestrian use includes an accelerometer ([b]110[/b]) having multiple electronic sensors; an electronic circuit ([b]100[/b]) operable to generate a signal stream representing magnitude of overall acceleration sensed by the accelerometer ([b]110[/b]), and to electronically correlate a sliding window ([b]520[/b]) of the signal stream with itself to produce peaks at least some of which represent walking steps, and further operable to electronically execute a periodicity check ([b]540[/b]) to compare different step periods for similarity, and if sufficiently similar then to update ([b]560[/b]) a portion of the circuit substantially representing a walking-step count; and an electronic display ([b]190[/b]) responsive to the electronic circuit ([b]100[/b]) to display information at least in part based on the step count. Other systems, electronic circuits and processes are disclosed.

[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)

Apparatus and methods for sampling air-borne particles
Patent No. 11808673

Inventor(s): Antonio Alcam Pertejo (Madrid, , ES), Jos Luis Prez Daz (Valdemoro, , ES)
Assignee(s): COUNTERFOG CORPORATION (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17687066 on 03/04/2022 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for sampling air-borne particles. According to one embodiment a nozzle is used to generate a jet of fog that includes a gas and liquid droplets of different sizes. The jet of fog is formed by the nozzle in a way to cause particles in the air surrounding the jet of fog to be drawn into the jet of fog and to further cause the particles to aggregate with the liquid droplets inside the jet of fog. A sample collecting surface is located opposite and spaced apart from an outlet of the nozzle. The sample collecting surface is preferably sloped so that the liquid sample can be forced by gravity off the collecting surface and into a vial or other liquid sample container. Inside the jet of fog and on the sample collection surface the liquid droplets merge with one another to form larger sized droplets that are collectable in the liquid sample container.

[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)

Multi-level voltage detector
Patent No. 11808792

Inventor(s): Keliu Shu (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16729339 on 12/28/2019 (1410 days app to issue)

Abstract: A voltage detector comprises an input, a resistor divider circuit having resistors coupled in series with one another between the input and a reference node, and N intermediate nodes joining adjacent pairs of the resistors. The voltage detector has N switches coupled to the respective intermediate nodes, as well as a comparator with an input coupled to the switches, a state machine having an input coupled to the output of the comparator, and a decoder having N decoder outputs coupled to respective control terminals of the N switches.

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

Hemispherical dome electrode configuration and method of use
Patent No. 11808797

Inventor(s): Frederick Hershel Savage (Austin, TX), John Bryant (Dallas, TX), Timothy Beets (Austin, TX)
Assignee(s): EarthSystems Technologies, Inc. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Schultz Associates, P.C. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17249974 on 03/19/2021 (963 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electrical resistivity tomography system having a novel electrode geometry and method of use is provided. The novel electrode geometry radiates a uniform electric field which produces greatly improved resistivity data.

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

AT-speed test access port operations
Patent No. 11808810

Inventor(s): Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18111679 on 02/20/2023 (260 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, an integrated circuit comprises: a TDI input, a TDO output, a TCK input and a TMS input; a TAP state machine (TSM) having an input coupled to the TCK input, an input coupled to the TMS input, an instruction register control output, a TSM data register control (DRC) output, and a TSM state output; an instruction register having an input coupled to the TDI input, an output coupled to the TDO output, and a control input coupled to the instruction register control output of the TAP state machine; router circuitry including a TSM DRC input coupled to the TSM DRC output, a control DRC input coupled to the TSM state output, and a router DRC output; and a data register having an input coupled to the TDI input, an output coupled to the TDO output, and a data register DRC input coupled to the router DRC output.

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

Apparatus and method for controlling unit specific junction temperature with high temporal resolution for concurrent central processing unit (CPU) core testing
Patent No. 11808813

Inventor(s): Shoujie He (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: VIERING, JENTSCHURA PARTNER MBB (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17692248 on 03/11/2022 (606 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor configured to control an automatic test equipment (ATE) to measure one or more parameters of a current test instance for testing a device under test (DUT), during execution of the current test instance on the DUT, and determine, based on the measured one or more parameters, one or more controls for controlling a temperature of a thermal head connected to the DUT so that a junction temperature of the DUT corresponds to a predetermined test temperature. The processor is further configured to control the temperature of the thermal head, based on the determined one or more controls.

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

Methods and apparatus to implement compensation circuitry in an envelope detector
Patent No. 11809206

Inventor(s): Anant Shankar Kamath (Bangalore, , IN), Kishalay Datta (Kolkata, , IN), Kumar Anurag Shrivastava (Bangalore, , IN), Swaminathan Sankaran (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17446132 on 08/26/2021 (803 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a compensation circuit including: a current compensation output, a first transistor with a first current terminal and a first control terminal, the first current terminal coupled to the current compensation output, and a resistor ladder with a tap terminal coupled to the first control terminal, a current mirror circuit having a mirror input and a mirror output, the mirror input coupled to the current compensation output, and a rectification circuit having an input coupled to the mirror output.

[G05F] SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING ELECTRIC OR MAGNETIC VARIABLES (regulating the timing or recurrence frequency of pulses in radar or radio navigation systems G01S; regulation of current or voltage, specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces G04G 19/02; closed-loop systems for regulating non-electric variables by electric means G05D; regulating power supply of digital computers G06F 1/26; for obtaining desired operating characteristics of electromagnets with armatures H01F 7/18; regulating electric power distribution networks H02J; regulating the charging of batteries H02J 7/00; regulating of the output of static converters, e.g. switching regulators, H02M; regulation of the output of electric generators H02N, H02P 9/00; controlling transformers, reactors or choke coils H02P 13/00; regulating frequency response, gain, maximum output, amplitude or bandwidth of amplifiers H03G; regulating tuning of resonant circuits H03J; controlling generators of electronic oscillations or pulses H03L; regulating characteristics of transmission lines H04B; controlling electric light sources H05B 37/02, H05B 39/04, H05B 41/36; electric control of X-ray apparatus H05G 1/30) [5]

Container-based stateful application resilience to node failure
Patent No. 11809276

Inventor(s): Thomas L Watson (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Hopkinton, MA)
Law Firm: Ryan, Mason Lewis, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17186562 on 02/26/2021 (984 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques for managing node failures in container environments are disclosed. In one example, a method determines when a first node executing at least one containerized workload has failed. In response to determining the first node has failed, the method marks a configuration object for the first node with an indicator that the first node is not to be used to schedule execution of a subsequent containerized workload, isolates from the first node one or more storage volumes used by the first node, and deletes configuration objects for the one or more storage volumes and for the containerized workload. The method then causes creation of a replacement containerized workload for execution on a second node, removes one or more artifacts associated with the containerized workload from the first node, and removes the indicator from the configuration object for the first node.

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

Systems and methods for generating modified applications for concurrent testing
Patent No. 11809305

Inventor(s): Abhilash Paul (Irving, TX), Senthil Muthusamy (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16832838 on 03/27/2020 (1320 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive parameters to test modifications to an application associated with a product and/or a service, and may process data identifying the parameters and the application, with a machine learning model, to generate test applications for testing corresponding modifications to the application. The device may define test group sizes of test groups for testing the test applications, and may receive, from user devices, requests for accessing the application. The device may assign, based on the test group sizes, sets of the user devices to the test groups for testing the test applications, and may provide the test applications concurrently to the corresponding sets of the user devices based on the test groups. The device may receive, from the corresponding sets of the user devices, feedback associated with the test applications, and may perform one or more actions based on the feedback.

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

Transporting request types with different latencies
Patent No. 11809343

Inventor(s): Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17961229 on 10/06/2022 (397 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes multiple memory-compute nodes coupled to one another over a scale fabric, where each memory-compute node includes a hybrid threading processor; a memory controller; a fabric interface; and a network on chip (NOC) that provides communication between the hybrid threading processor, the fabric interface, and the memory controller, wherein the fabric interface supports a first virtual channel (VC0), and a second virtual channel (VC1) to the NOC, and supports the first virtual channel (VC0), the second virtual channel (VC1), and a third virtual channel (VC2) to the scale fabric.

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

Digital bus activity monitor
Patent No. 11809348

Inventor(s): Gary Franklin Chard (Murphy, TX), Harshil Atulkumar Shah (Mckinney, TX), Tpinn Ronnie Koh (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17888687 on 08/16/2022 (448 days app to issue)

Abstract: One example relates to a device that includes an activity monitor. The activity monitor includes a bus interface having inputs coupled to receive signals from a bus and having outputs coupled to provide signals to an other device. The activity monitor monitors the bus for a message directed to a predefined address that is associated with the other device in response to detecting that the other device is a low power sleep mode, the activity monitor outputs the predefined address to the other device to enable the other device to capture the predefined address, via the bus interface, in response to the monitored address matching the predefined address that is associated with the other device.

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

Superimposing butterfly network controls for pattern combinations
Patent No. 11809362

Inventor(s): Dheera Balasubramanian (Richardson, TX), Joseph Zbiciak (San Jose, CA), Sureshkumar Govindaraj (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17571612 on 01/10/2022 (666 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multilayer butterfly network is shown that is operable to transform and align a plurality of fields from an input to an output data stream. Many transformations are possible with such a network which may include separate control of each multiplexer. This invention supports a limited set of multiplexer control signals, which enables a similarly limited set of data transformations. This limited capability is offset by the reduced complexity of the multiplexor control circuits. This invention used precalculated inputs and simple combinatorial logic to generate control signals for the butterfly network. Controls are independent for each layer and therefore are dependent only on the input and output patterns. Controls for the layers can be calculated in parallel.

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

Multi-threaded, self-scheduling processor
Patent No. 11809368

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: 17390897 on 07/31/2021 (829 days app to issue)

Abstract: Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for a self-scheduling processor which also provides additional functionality. Representative embodiments include a self-scheduling processor, comprising: a processor core adapted to execute a received instruction; and a core control circuit adapted to automatically schedule an instruction for execution by the processor core in response to a received work descriptor data packet. In another embodiment, the core control circuit is also adapted to schedule a fiber create instruction for execution by the processor core, to reserve a predetermined amount of memory space in a thread control memory to store return arguments, and to generate one or more work descriptor data packets to another processor or hybrid threading fabric circuit for execution of a corresponding plurality of execution threads. Event processing, data path management, system calls, memory requests, and other new instructions are also disclosed.

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

Event messaging in a system having a self-scheduling processor and a hybrid threading fabric
Patent No. 11809369

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

Database search query enhancer
Patent No. 11809420

Inventor(s): Matthew Morgan Lane (Southlake, TX), Saunvit Dinesh Pandya (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): SABRE GLBL INC. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16992975 on 08/13/2020 (1181 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor that receives a query from a device. The query includes first search parameters. The processor also retrieves, from a database and based on the first search parameters, a plurality of previously issued queries and applies a machine learning algorithm on the plurality of previously issued queries to determine second search parameters. The processor further adds the second search parameters to the query to form an enhanced query and communicates the enhanced query to a plurality of response systems. The processor then receives, from the plurality of response systems, a plurality of responses to the enhanced query, constructs, based on the plurality of responses to the enhanced query, an enhanced response to the query, and communicates the enhanced response to the device for selection of a response from the plurality of responses.

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

Systems and methods for location processing and geocoding optimization
Patent No. 11809464

Inventor(s): Daniel S Clausen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing InG. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16791450 on 02/14/2020 (1362 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may obtain a location. The device may process the location to form a processed address. The device may obtain, from a plurality of geocoders, a plurality of sets of geographic coordinate candidates for the processed address. The device may obtain confidence information regarding the plurality of sets of geographic coordinate candidates. The device may determine a set of geographic coordinates for the processed address based on the plurality of sets of geographic coordinate candidates and the confidence information regarding the plurality of sets of geographic coordinate candidates. The device may assign a key to the processed address and the set of geographic coordinates for the processed address. The device may store, in a storage device, the key in association with the processed address and the set of geographic coordinates to facilitate access to the processed address or the set of geographic coordinates for the processed address.

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

Training of differentiable renderer and neural network for query of 3D model database
Patent No. 11809484

Inventor(s): Benjamin Planche (New Brunswick, NJ), Rajat Vikram Singh (Santa Clara, CA)
Assignee(s): Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17905260 on 08/28/2020 (1166 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and method for differentiable networks trainable to learn an optimized query of a 3D model database used for object recognition includes training a first differentiable network configured as a differentiable renderer by generating 2D images from 3D models of a first object of a dissimilar second object while optimizing rendering parameters for producing 2D images by gradient descent of a first triple loss function. Visual variation among the images is maximized. A second differentiable network configured as a convolutional neural network defined by a regression function is trained by generating searchable feature vectors of the 2D images. The feature vectors are determined using optimized neural network parameters determined by gradient descent of a second triple loss function to achieve high correlation to an input image of the first object and low correlation to images of the second object.

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

Aggregated physical and logical network mesh view
Patent No. 11809495

Inventor(s): Koustuv Chatterjee (Gilbert, AZ), Mayuri Deb (Bangalore, , IN), Narasimha Kamath (Bangalore, , IN), Prashant Jhaba (Dehradun, , IN), S Pandiarajan (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): o9 Solutions, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17979498 on 11/02/2022 (370 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and techniques for aggregated physical and logical network mesh view are described herein. A selection may be obtained of a portion of a graph network data structure. Nodes may be identified in the portion of the graph network data structure. Geolocation data may be determined for each node of the nodes. Geographical boundaries may be calculated for the portion of the graph network data structure. A geographical map and a network map may be generated. A physical network view may be generated for display in the user interface as an aggregated view of the geographical map and the network map. The geographical map may represent a physical layer and the network map may represent a logical layer. The aggregated view may be output for display with a set of controls that correspond to the physical layer and a set of controls that correspond to the logical layer.

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

Platform and method for assessment and verification of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and vulnerabilities across a software supply chain life cycle using blockchain
Patent No. 11809575

Inventor(s): Ashok Reddy (Plano, TX), Robert Kent Lamb (Middletown, NJ), Shoeb Javed (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): CRYPTOSOFT INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18139274 on 04/25/2023 (196 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a blockchain based platform and method for assessment and verification of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) across a software supply chain life cycle using blockchain. The method comprising generating the SBOM automatically from a software source code to automate governance of a software asset using blockchain smart contracts, publishing the generated SBOMs to a permissioned blockchain through secure publish, automatically recording timestamps and ownership stamps to the published SBOM”s, analysing the software asset for supply chain information to verify if the software asset meets the minimum policy requirements for compliance based on provenance, licensing, vulnerability and security criteria set by the company, determining if a third-party software component is approved for use in the company”s applications based on policy and compliance rules and identifying current vulnerabilities and potential remediation for software in use by the company.

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

Travel identity tokening
Patent No. 11809596

Inventor(s): Daniel J. Serna (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18124067 on 03/21/2023 (231 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for leveraging a tokening system to authenticate a traveler while maintaining anonymity of the traveler is provided. The system may include a secure central server configured to store identification data associated with a plurality of users. The system may also include a mobile token application for providing a token identifier representing a user”s identification data. The mobile token application may be activated by the central server on a mobile device of the user registered with the central server and stored in a secure storage on the mobile device of the user. The system may also include a travel service provider. The travel service provider may be configured to enable reserving a travel reservation file. The travel service provider may be enabled to retrieve a token identifier from the user”s mobile device as representing the identification of the user and verify the token identifier with the central server.

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

Defensible regulated electronic communication disposition system
Patent No. 11809604

Inventor(s): Bryan L. Ford (Addison, TX), Srinivasa Madireddi (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17376872 on 07/15/2021 (845 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fully-automated, defensible and highly-scalable system for disposition decisioning and, where applicable deleting previously archived electronic communications. In this regard, the present invention is capable of determining, on an individual e-communication basis, whether an e-communication should be deleted/purged from archive or retained in archive taking into account applicable rules and policies based on the geographic location from which the e-communication was sent, received or posted, as well as, based on the status on the sender/poster and/or recipient.

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

Hardware protection of inline cryptographic processor
Patent No. 11809610

Inventor(s): Amritpal S. Mundra (Allen, TX), William C. Wallace (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 14305713 on 06/16/2014 (3431 days app to issue)

Abstract: A real time, on-the-fly data encryption system is shown operable to encrypt and decrypt the data flow between a secure processor and an unsecure external memory system. Multiple memory segments are supported, each with its own separate encryption capability, or no encryption at all. Data integrity is ensured by hardware protection from code attempting to access data across memory segment boundaries. Protection is also provided against dictionary attacks by monitoring multiple access attempts to the same memory location.

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

User interface navigation method for event-related video
Patent No. 11809675

Inventor(s): Clifford Cox (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): CARRIER CORPORATION (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
Law Firm: CANTOR COLBURN LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18184723 on 03/16/2023 (236 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for analyzing and displaying surveillance video including: capturing, using a first video camera, a first plurality of video frames of a first area at a first time; analyzing the first plurality of video frames or linking to one or more alarms received; determining a first activity of interest within one or more first video frames of the first plurality of video frames; generating a first activity of interest video clip from the one or more first video frames; and displaying the first activity of interest video clip within a first carousel on a display device, wherein the first activity of interest video clip is configured to rotate around a first axis within the first carousel on the display device.

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

Tree frog computer navigation system for the hierarchical visualization of data
Patent No. 11809676

Inventor(s): Ken Grifno (The Colony, TX), Scott Roloff (Arlington, TX), William McCallum (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Integer Health Technologies, LLC (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15950681 on 04/11/2018 (2036 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer navigation system that represents categories and sub-categories of material with functionally labeled objects connected in a hierarchical organization. Descending nodes represent more detailed subsets of material. Hovering the computer mouse over a node displays thumbnails of the items available under it, enabling the user to search for items without opening the respective pages, transforming a literal or verbal data filing and retrieval process into a more intuitive and easy to use visual one. Once the user hovers the computer mouse over the node with the desired item and sees its thumbnail the user clicks on the node, opening the screen from which the user can access that item (or upload a similar one), or clicks on the thumbnail to access the item directly. In addition, the system employs algorithms to group items into various categories and sub-categories and assigns them to the appropriate nodes.

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

Interface for data communication between chiplets or other integrated circuits on an interposer
Patent No. 11809800

Abstract: A representative system, apparatus, method and protocol are disclosed for data communication between chiplets or SOCs on a common interposer. A representative system comprises: an interposer; a first integrated circuit arranged on the interposer, the first integrated circuit comprising a first common protocol interface circuit; a communication link coupled to the first common protocol interface circuit; and a second integrated circuit arranged on the interposer, the second integrated circuit comprising a second common protocol interface circuit coupled to the communication link to form a serial protocol interface between the first common protocol interface circuit and the second common protocol interface circuit. Serial data and control packets and parallel data and control packets having specified, ordered fields are also disclosed.

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

Dynamic operating room scheduler using machine learning
Patent No. 11809823

Inventor(s): Lee Carbonell (Flower Mound, TX), Steven Keller (Euless, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: Edell, Shapiro Finnan, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15834707 on 12/07/2017 (2161 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are provided. A computing system collects information related to a patient”s preparation for a medical procedure and provides information regarding the medical procedure and a medical condition of the patient to at least one member of a medical procedure team. Data pertaining to performance of the medical procedure in an operating room is collected from multiple sensors. Progress of the medical procedure is monitored in real time by analyzing the collected data, a procedure reference library, and a physician history to determine a status of the medical procedure. A schedule of one or more subsequent medical procedures for the operating room is adjusted in real time based on the monitored progress. Notifications of the adjusted schedule may be transmitted to participants of the one or more subsequent medical procedures. NULL

Method and system for protocol processing
Patent No. 11809848

Inventor(s): Kari Vierimaa (Kempele, , FI)
Assignee(s): SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18021959 on 08/28/2020 (1166 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of protocol processing including a main program code that has one or more code segments and instructions for processing different protocol elements of a data packet stream of a transport protocol is disclosed herein. The method includes assigning a latency requirement and/or bandwidth requirement to one or more of the code segments of the main program code; and compiling each of the code segments according to the assigned latency and/or bandwidth requirement into a respective target code for executing each of the target codes by different processors.

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

Live firmware update switchover
Patent No. 11809857

Inventor(s): Baskaran Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu, , IN), Sira Parasurama Rao (Richmond, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17692670 on 03/11/2022 (606 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a microcontroller, a live firmware update (LFU) command from an external host; and downloading, by the microcontroller, an image of a new version of firmware responsive to the LFU command. During a first time period, the method includes initializing only variables contained in the new version that are not contained in an old version of firmware. During a second time period, the method includes updating one or more of an interrupt vector table, a function pointer, and/or a stack pointer responsive to the new version. The second time period begins responsive to completing initialization of the variables.

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

Thread commencement using a work descriptor packet in a self-scheduling processor
Patent No. 11809872

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

Optimizing user experiences using a feedback loop
Patent No. 11810004

Inventor(s): Dustin Douglas (Plano, TX), Elizabeth Claire Maue (Dallas, TX), Rohit Sarin (Dallas, TX), Weiyan Sun (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16903836 on 06/17/2020 (1238 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for predicting an outcome of a user journey. For example, a method may include: identifying a plurality of patterns based on a plurality of user interactions of a plurality of users with a plurality of touchpoints; applying a parameter to filter the plurality of patterns; evaluating the filtered plurality of patterns based an evaluation criterion; and applying a feedback loop based on the evaluation of the filtered patterns to modify the parameter or adjust a user experience.

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

Disclosure quality assurance
Patent No. 11810042

Inventor(s): Hollie Ilene King (Frisco, TX), Nicholas C. Wheeler (The Colony, TX), Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, TX), Samantha Elizabeth Taylor (Frisco, TX), Victor Kwak (Frisco, TX), Yogen Rai (Plano, TX), Zachery C. Lake (Aubrey,
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17085447 on 10/30/2020 (1103 days app to issue)

Abstract: A customer service system that includes a customer device associated with a customer, an agent device associated with an agent, and a monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor that executes the instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the monitoring system to monitor a conversation between the customer device and the agent device to identify a context of the conversation. Moreover, the instructions cause the monitoring system to identify a disclosure notice based at least part on the context of the conversation, in which the disclosure notice comprises an indication of a disclosure to be read in light of the context of the conversation. Furthermore, the instructions cause the monitoring system to provide the disclosure notice to the agent, by rendering the disclosure notice in a graphical user interface (GUI) of the agent device, monitor and evaluate a disclosure provision of the disclosure notice from the agent to the customer, and provide disclosure provision feedback regarding evaluation of the disclosure provision to the agent.

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

System and method of providing a supply chain digital hub
Patent No. 11810044

Inventor(s): Ripu Daman Singh (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Blue Yonder Group, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Law Firm: Spencer Fane LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15484999 on 04/11/2017 (2401 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed including a digital hub and a cloud database. The digital hub encodes, as a virtual supply chain network, the structure, one or more objectives, and one or more states of a supply chain network and contextualizes data received from one or more supply chain entities and one or more external data sources with the virtual supply chain network. The digital hub further employs machine learning to extract insights from the contextualized data and monitors external data sources for an event that may impact the one or more objectives of the supply chain network. Responsive to identifying an event that may impact the one or more objectives, the digital hub automatically adjusts one or more of robotic warehouse systems, robotic inventory systems, automated guided vehicles, mobile racking units, automated robotic production machinery, and robotic devices.

Methods and systems for detecting delivery trip events and improving delivery driver safety
Patent No. 11810053

Inventor(s): Alex Kuznicki (Plano, TX), Ananda Sankaran (Plano, TX), Munawer Baig (Plano, TX), Taniya Riar (Plano, TX), Tiffany Buettner (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Yum Connect, LLC (Louisville, KY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17559937 on 12/22/2021 (685 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting predetermined events occurring during delivery of an ordered product to a delivery address is provided. Upon receipt of a customer order, delivery of the ordered product is assigned to a delivery driver/vehicle which includes a stand-alone communication device disposed in the delivery vehicle. As the delivery trip begins, various position and acceleration information is collected by the communication device, processed to determine whether a predetermined driving event has occurred, and stored. This information is transmitted periodically to a processing system for eventual communication to a home location store associated with the delivery order. Additional processing of the delivery trip data may occur to enable a review of the delivery trip and any detected events along the delivery path.

Systems and methods for product ordering and delivery for inmates
Patent No. 11810180

Inventor(s): Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17877479 on 07/29/2022 (466 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system that includes an order processing subsystem and a delivery processing subsystem comprising at least one database and one or more processors. The one or more processors of the delivery processing subsystem is configured to receive a request for a user to access the delivery processing subsystem and a scanning device, authenticate the user by verifying the request with user credentials stored in the at least one database, provide the user with access to the delivery processing subsystem and the scanning device, receive scanned data from the scanning device, retrieve package data regarding a package for an inmate based on the scanned data from the scanning device, and generate, based on the package data, a route in the correctional facility for delivery of the package to the inmate in the correctional facility, wherein the route does not include an identity of the inmate.

Systems and methods for asset sharing using distributed ledger techniques
Patent No. 11810183

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: 16795297 on 02/19/2020 (1357 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein facilitate the tracking of shared ownership of assets, such as real property as well as other types of property, using distributed ledger technology (DLT) techniques. For example, in timesharing scenarios, by storing data relating to shared ownership of particular assets in a distributed ledger, such as a blockchain, various aspects of the shared ownership of the shared asset may be tracked in an immutable and secure manner with all parties involved having transparency into the data relating to the shared asset. For example, the embodiments described herein enable tracking of certain aspects relating to shared ownership of a shared asset, such as scheduling of time periods during which certain share owners may take custody, tracking of transfers of custody of the shared asset between share owners, transfer of control of smart devices associated with the shared asset, and so forth.

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

Systems and methods for image processing using mobile devices
Patent No. 11810363

Inventor(s): Charan Lota (Frisco, TX), Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16263444 on 01/31/2019 (1741 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system described herein includes a vehicle comprising one or more imaging devices configured to capture one or more images, and a first mobile computing device communicatively coupled to the vehicle. The first mobile computing device includes one or more processors; one or more memory modules; and machine readable and executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the first mobile computing device to: receive the one or more images including an external object from the vehicle; process the image to determine an identification of the external object; and transmit information about the identification of the external object to a remote server or the vehicle. NULL

Systems and methods for managing individual enrollment data
Patent No. 11810413

Inventor(s): William Daniel Farmer (Carrollton, 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: 17851489 on 06/28/2022 (497 days app to issue)

Abstract: An enrollment data management system includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to receive sensor data from one or more sensors located at a property, wherein the sensor data indicates a plurality of individual detection events that each indicate presence of an individual at the property. The instructions are executable by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to analyze the sensor data to determine that the property qualifies as a residence of the individual, access information relevant to the property from one or more databases, utilize the information relevant to the property as enrollment information for an enrollment process for the individual.

[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)

Intelligently providing user-specific transportation-related information
Patent No. 11810456

Inventor(s): Carlos J. Lebrilla (Frisco, TX), Linda Rolfes (Plano, TX), Marc Rush (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): III Holdings 1, LLC (Wilmington, DE)
Law Firm: Crowell Moring LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17571823 on 01/10/2022 (666 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for distributing transportation alerts to computing devices in accordance with factors, such as device-specific and location-specific factors. In embodiments of the present invention, travel alerts, including public alerts associated with certain areas, are formatted or held prior to delivery, based on safety concerns, legal requirements, device settings, or other considerations.

[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]

System and method for demonstrating an optical disorder
Patent No. 11810468

Inventor(s): Gabriel Keita (Dallas, TX), John Guerra (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-pont, , FR)
Law Firm: NIXON VANDERHYE (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16745908 on 01/17/2020 (1390 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for demonstrating an optical disorder includes providing two ophthalmic lenses in a first position relative to each other. Each lens includes a first vision zone and a second vision zone. The first vision zone includes a distance vision zone having a distance vision reference point and a power of between about 1.00 Diopters and 4.00 Diopters. The second vision zone includes a near vision zone having a near vision reference point and a power of between about +1.00 Diopters and about +4.00 Diopters. Each lens includes an Add power of between +2.00 Diopters and +3.25 Diopters; the ophthalmic lenses are repositioned to a second position relative to each other, so the distance vision zone of each lens is viewable by a wearer through the near vision zone and the near vision zone of each lens is viewable by a wearer through the distance vision zone.

[G02C] SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES

Systems and methods for neural pathways creation/reinforcement by neural detection with virtual feedback
Patent No. 11810474

Inventor(s): Veena Somareddy (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Neuromersive, Inc (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17562855 on 12/27/2021 (680 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing virtual feedback of a neural pattern to create a neural pathway corresponding to an action of an affected limb of a brain injury patient. Embodiments provide for detecting a neural pattern and determining a target action associated with the detected neural pattern. A virtual feedback is generated that includes a virtual action to be performed in a virtual representation of the affected limb. In embodiments, the brain injury may prevent the affected limb from performing the target action. The virtual representation of the affected limb is superimposed over a real-world presence of the affected limb such that the virtual representation is presented to the patient in lieu of the real-world presence, and the virtual action is performed in the virtual representation, such that the virtual action is presented to the patient in lieu of the target action in the real-world.

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

Non-volatile memory with efficient testing during erase
Patent No. 11810628

Inventor(s): Dana Lee (Saratoga, CA), Jayavel Pachamuthu (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17673172 on 02/16/2022 (629 days app to issue)

Abstract: When erasing multiple sub-blocks of a block, erase verify is performed for memory cells connected to even word lines to generate even results and for memory cells connected to odd word lines to generate odd results. The even results and the odd results are used to determine that the erase verify process successfully completed. For each NAND string of a first sub-block, a last even result for the NAND string is compared to a last odd result for the NAND string. Despite the determination that the first sub-block successfully completed erase verify, the erasing failed for the first sub-block because the number of NAND strings that have the last even result different than the last odd result is greater than a limit. The system determines that one or more additional sub-blocks also failed erasing based on and in response to determining that the first sub-block failed erasing.

[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)

Apparatuses and method for trimming input buffers based on identified mismatches
Patent No. 11810641

Inventor(s): Christian N. Mohr (Allen, TX), Vijayakrishna J. Vankayala (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Dorsey Whitney LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16926505 on 07/10/2020 (1215 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for trimming input buffers based on identified mismatches. An example apparatus includes an input buffer having a first input stage circuit configured to receive a first signal, a second input stage circuit configured to receive a second signal, and an output stage coupled to the first and second input stage circuits and configured to provide an output signal. The first input stage circuit includes serially-coupled transistor pairs that are each coupled between the output stage and a bias voltage. Each of the plurality of serially-coupled transistors pairs are selectively enabled in response to a respective enable signal. The apparatus further including a trim circuit coupled to the first input stage circuit and comprising a plurality of programmable components. The trim circuit is configured to be programmed to provide the respective enable signals based on a detected transition voltage offset relative to a target transition voltage.

System for providing a coach with live training data of an athlete as the athlete is training
Patent No. 11810656

Inventor(s): Todd Martin (Lexington, OH)
Assignee(s): Finish Time Holdings, LLC (Aubrey, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17730756 on 04/27/2022 (559 days app to issue)

Abstract: An athlete tracking system and method for tracking an athlete during training sessions. The system includes a mobile tracking device wearable around a portion of the athlete”s head, and a training log server for maintaining an athlete profile that includes a training record updatable by the athlete and a training plan supplied by a coach. NULL

Method, apparatus, and computer program
Patent No. 11811625

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: ALSTON BIRD LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17267227 on 08/10/2018 (1915 days app to issue)

Abstract: Preference information is received at a network repository function from a first network function, the preference information indicating one or more optional preferences for a respective second network function or network function service. Information is provided to the first network function about one or more second network functions or network function services, the one or more second network functions or network function services being selected taking into account the preference information.

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

Systems and methods for high availability and performance preservation for groups of network functions
Patent No. 11811632

Inventor(s): Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17821216 on 08/22/2022 (442 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for the proactive failover of groups of Virtualized Network Functions (”VNFs”) based on monitoring Key Performance Indicators (”KPIs”) associated with the VNFs. KPIs associated with a particular VNF or a set of VNFs may be monitored, and a failover event indicating service degradation or imminent service degradation may be detected based on the KPIs associated with the particular VNF or set of VNFs. Additional VNFs, associated with the particular VNF or set of VNFs, may be further identified for failover from a first data center to a second data center. The additional VNFs may be identified for failover without necessarily monitoring KPIs associated with the additional VNFs, and/or based on factors in addition to KPIs associated with the additional VNFs. For example, the additional VNFs may be failed over based on the KPIs associated with the particular VNF or set of VNFs.

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

Generating and deploying software architectures using telecommunication resources
Patent No. 11811681

Inventor(s): James Hodgen (Weatherford, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Bellevue, WA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17863291 on 07/12/2022 (483 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and methods for generating a deployment, such as a software architecture, using existing telecommunication resources, such as microservices, data sources, and/or communication channels. A plain language message is received that describes requirements of a desired deployment. One or more entities are extracted from the plain language message. Based on the extracted entities, the system recommends one or more existing telecommunication resources for use in the desired deployment. In some implementations, recommendations are generated using a machine learning model that generates relevance scores for each of multiple existing telecommunication resources. A selection is received from among the recommended telecommunication resources, and the desired deployment is generated using the selected telecommunication resources.

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

Virtual boundary processing simplification for adaptive loop filtering (ALF) in video coding
Patent No. 11812014

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16899653 on 06/12/2020 (1243 days app to issue)

Abstract: Virtual boundary processing in adaptive loop filtering (ALF) requires that padded values be substituted for unavailable pixel rows outside the virtual boundaries. Methods and apparatus are provided for virtual boundary processing in ALF that allow the use of more actual pixel values for padding than in the prior art.

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

Systems and methods for presenting image classification results
Patent No. 11812184

Inventor(s): Chi-San Ho (Allen, TX), Micah Price (The Colony, TX), Yue Duan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17106851 on 11/30/2020 (1072 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for performing image searches including a camera, storage devices storing a set of instructions, and a processor coupled to the at least one storage device and the camera. The instructions configure the at least one processor to perform operations including identifying attributes of the captured image using a classification model; identifying first results based on the identified attributes; selecting a subset of first results based on corresponding probability scores, generating a first graphical user interface including interactive icons corresponding to first results in the subset, an input icon, and a first button. The operations may also include receiving a selection of the first button, performing a search to identify second results, and generating a second graphical user interface displaying the second results.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Provisioning wireless mesh networks for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems
Patent No. 11808471

Inventor(s): Elena Smirnova (Plano, TX), Mansoor Ahmed (Parker, TX)
Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17005655 on 08/28/2020 (1166 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system that includes a plurality of controllers that are each controller is configured to operate at least a portion of a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The plurality of controllers are members of an unprovisioned mesh network. The system further includes a network provisioning device that is configured to establish a peer-to-peer connection with the controller. The device is further configured send a request to the controller to identify a wireless network that is in range of one or more controllers that are members of the unprovisioned mesh network and to obtain network credentials for the identified wireless network. The network device is further configured to send the network credentials to the controller to join a provisioned mesh network. The controller is configured to propagate the network credentials to other controllers within the unprovisioned mesh network.

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

Maximum voltage selector circuit having adaptive current bias generator
Patent No. 11809210

Inventor(s): Andres Blanco (Garland, TX), Ming Luo (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17399310 on 08/11/2021 (818 days app to issue)

Abstract: A voltage selector circuit includes a voltage comparator, a multiplexer, and an adaptive current bias generator. The voltage comparator receives first and second input voltages, and outputs a comparator signal based on the first and second input voltages. The multiplexer selects a larger of the first and second input voltages in time based on first comparator signal. The adaptive current bias generator generates a bias current for the voltage comparator during a transition from a first state to a second state. The first input voltage is continuously larger than the second input voltage during the first state, and the second input voltage is continuously larger than the first input voltage in the second state. The bias current during the transition has a time-varying current level that is proportional to a time-varying difference between the first input voltage and the second input voltage during the transition.

[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]

Generating boosted voltages with a hybrid charge pump
Patent No. 11810626

Inventor(s): Ankit Rehani (Burari, , IN), V. S. N. K. Chaitanya G. (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17670317 on 02/11/2022 (634 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid charge pump is disclosed that employs novel arrangements of depletion-mode n-channel semiconductor devices and enhancement-mode p-channel semiconductor devices that eliminate or otherwise substantially reduce voltage drops that would otherwise occur across semiconductor device arrangements in existing charge pumps. As a result, the hybrid charge pump disclosed herein achieves the same output voltages as conventional charge pumps while requiring a reduced physical die area. Additionally, a hybrid charge pump arrangement disclosed herein employs a novel clocking scheme that reduces or eliminates reverse currents in the hybrid charge pump arrangement.

Wafer scale enhanced gain electron bombarded CMOS imager
Patent No. 11810747

Inventor(s): Arlynn W. Smith (Blue Ridge, VA), Dan W. Chilcott (Buchanan, VA), John B. Hammond (Roanoke, VA)
Assignee(s): Elbit Systems of America, LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: KL Gates LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17377065 on 07/15/2021 (845 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus, system and method is provided for producing stacked wafers containing an array of image intensifiers that can be evacuated on a wafer scale. The wafer scale fabrication techniques, including bonding, evacuation, and compression sealing concurrently forms a plurality of EBCMOS imager anodes with design elements that enable high voltage operation with optional enhancement of additional gain via TMSE amplification. The TMSE amplification is preferably one or more multiplication semiconductor wafers of an array of EBD die placed between a photocathode within a photocathode wafer and an imager anode that is preferably an EBCMOS imager anode bonded to or integrated within an interconnect die within an interconnect wafer.

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

Integrated capacitor with extended head bump bond pillar
Patent No. 11810843

Inventor(s): Sreenivasan K. Koduri (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17404970 on 08/17/2021 (812 days app to issue)

Abstract: A microelectronic device has a die with a first electrically conductive pillar, and a second electrically conductive pillar, mechanically coupled to the die. The microelectronic device includes a first electrically conductive extended head electrically coupled to the first pillar, and a second electrically conductive extended head electrically coupled to the second pillar. The first pillar and the second pillar have equal compositions of electrically conductive material, as a result of being formed concurrently. Similarly, the first extended head and the second extended head have equal compositions of electrically conductive material, as a result of being formed concurrently. The first extended head provides a bump pad, and the second extended head provides at least a portion of a first plate of an integrated capacitor. A second plate may be located in the die, between the first plate and the die, or on an opposite of the first plate from the die.

[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]

Electrolytes with ultrahigh closo-borate concentrations
Patent No. 11811020

Inventor(s): Michael John Counihan (Urbana, IL), Oscar Tutusaus (Ann Arbor, MI), Rana Mohtadi (Northville, 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: 17165230 on 02/02/2021 (1008 days app to issue)

Abstract: An ultrahigh closo-borate concentration solid-state electrolyte is presented that is a combined salt of an alkali metal or alkali earth metal closo-borate and conductivity enhancing SISE. The combined salt allows significantly higher conductivities in the solid state than the included alkali metal or alkali earth metal closo-borate. The combined salt can be prepared by mechanical combination or combination in solution. The salts can be used in solid-state electrochemical devices.

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

Embedded sensors for in-situ cell monitoring of batteries
Patent No. 11811099

Inventor(s): Aleksandra Fortier (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17403726 on 08/16/2021 (813 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed principles provide techniques for 3D fabrication of sensing systems embedded inside battery cells and provide cell parameter data for a comprehensive and robust battery management system. The disclosed principles provide online and real-time monitoring battery state-of-health down to the individual cell level of each battery using embedded sensors on one or more of the internal layers of a cell, such as the dielectric separators found in such battery cells. The implementation of the disclosed principles in individual battery cells therefore provides an increased likelihood to mitigate catastrophic failures in batteries. In addition, the disclosed fabrication processes for printing sensors directly on one or more of the components or layers within each individual battery cell significantly reduce manufacturing steps required by conventional battery management systems. The disclosed principles also provided for a unique silica-based ink for use in the 3D printing of such embedded cell sensing components.

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

Systems and methods of capturing nitrogen from fuel cell
Patent No. 11811118

Inventor(s): Chris Lee Rovik (McKinney, TX)
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: 17586348 on 01/27/2022 (649 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for capturing gas byproducts of a fuel cell system, such as nitrogen. Instead of dispelling the gas byproducts, a byproduct management system can engage in selective isolation, compression, and storage of the gas byproducts in various storage tanks. The compression and storage of the gas byproducts can be effectuated using excess energy, e.g., regenerative energy.

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

Modular low profile raceway to provide power and/or data connectivity
Patent No. 11811177

Inventor(s): Clinton Strong (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Strong Products Group, Ltd. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17201668 on 03/15/2021 (967 days app to issue)

Abstract: In various implementations, a raceway may be provided that is capable of providing power and/or data connectivity to items (e.g., devices, articles of furniture, etc.) coupled to the raceway. The raceway may be low profile. The raceway may be disposed on floor and/or under floor. The raceway may include an integrated power housing. The raceway may include segments that are selected, as desired for an application configuration, and that are coupleable to each other or other components of the raceway (e.g., nodes, joints, etc.). The housing of component(s) of the raceway may include a base and wall(s) with at least curved section and at least one straight section.

[H01R] ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS (switches, fuses H01H; coupling devices of the waveguide type H01P 5/00; switching arrangements for the supply or distribution of electric power H02B; installations of electric cables or lines, or of combined optical and electric cables or lines, or of auxiliary apparatus H02G; printed means for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits H05K)

Bottom emitting VCSEL
Patent No. 11811197

Inventor(s): Hao Chen (Allen, TX), James K. Guenter (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): II-VI DELAWARE, INC. (Wilmington, DE)
Law Firm: Blank Rome LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16858135 on 04/24/2020 (1292 days app to issue)

Abstract: A VCSEL can include: a substrate that passes light therethrough; a phase matching layer over a top mirror stack; a first metal layer over the phase matching layer; and an end metal region over the first metal layer. The phase matching layer and first metal layer have a cooperative thickness to provide reflectivity of at least a predetermined reflectivity threshold for the emission wavelength. A method of making a VCSEL can include: providing a substrate; forming a first mirror stack above the substrate; forming an active region above the first mirror stack; and forming a reflective end above the active region, the reflective end having a phase matching layer and a first metal layer. The phase matching layer and first metal layer have a combined thickness for the reflective end to have a reflectivity of at least a predetermined reflectivity threshold for an emission wavelength of the VCSEL.

[H01S] DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION

Methods and apparatus to improve power factor correction circuits with voltage multiplier assist
Patent No. 11811307

Inventor(s): Isaac Cohen (Dix Hills, NY)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17084133 on 10/29/2020 (1104 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example controller includes: an absolute value circuit having a voltage output and first and second power inputs, the first and second power inputs adapted to be coupled to an alternating current (AC) power source, and a comparator having a comparator output and first and second comparator inputs, the first comparator input coupled to the voltage output, the second comparator input adapted to be coupled to an output terminal of a power factor correction (PFC) circuit, and the comparator output adapted to be coupled to a control input of the PFC circuit.

Multi-mode power converter with programmable control
Patent No. 11811314

Inventor(s): Mayank Jain (Ambala Cantt, , IN), Muthusubramanian Venkateswaran (Bangalore, , IN), Naman Bafna (Balaghat, , IN), Pamidi Ramasiddaiah (Bengaluru, , IN), Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bangalore, , IN), Vikas Lakhanpal (Bengaluru, ,
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17138484 on 12/30/2020 (1042 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a circuit includes a state machine. The state machine is configured to operate in a first state in which the state machine gates a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal provided for control of a power converter according to a first signal provided by a voltage control loop. The state machine is configured to operate in a second state in which the state machine gates the PWM signal according to a second signal provided by a current limit comparator. The state machine is configured to transition from the first state to the second state responsive to the second signal being asserted after the first signal is asserted in a switching cycle of the power converter. The state machine is configured to transition from the current state to the first state responsive to the first signal being asserted after the second signal in a switching cycle of the power converter.

Reducing transients for multiphase power regulators
Patent No. 11811326

Inventor(s): Ammineni Balaji (Andhra Pradesh, , IN), Cheng Wei Chen (Manchester, NH), Naman Bafna (Madhya Pradesh, , IN), Preetam Charan Anand Tadeparthy (Bangalore, , IN), Sreelakshmi Suresh (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17682747 on 02/28/2022 (617 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example circuit includes a loop controller having current phase inputs, a feedback input, a control loop output and a transient event output. The feedback input is adapted to be coupled to an output terminal of a multi-phase power stage. A PWM circuit has a blanking input, a control input and a PWM output, the control input coupled to the control loop output. A phase management circuit has a transient detect input, a PWM input, a blanking output and phase outputs. The transient detect input is coupled to the transient event output. The PWM input is coupled to the PWM output and the blanking output is coupled to the blanking input. Each of the phase outputs is adapted to be coupled to a respective phase of the multi-phase power stage. The phase management circuit is configured to provide a blanking control signal representative of a variable blanking time.

Ripple counter with dynamic bandpass filter for DC motor
Patent No. 11811342

Inventor(s): Ashish Ojha (Bangalore, , IN), Chinmay Jain (Bangalore, , IN), Kalpana Suryawanshi (Bangalore, , IN), Krishnamurthy Shankar (Bangalore, , IN), Priyank Anand (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17101861 on 11/23/2020 (1079 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a ripple counter with a dynamic bandpass filter for a DC motor. The ripple counter includes a current sense amplifier configured to provide an analog voltage responsive to an inline current in rotor windings of the DC motor. The ripple counter also includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to provide a digital signal responsive to the analog voltage. The ripple counter also includes a digital filter configured to receive the digital signal and a clock signal and configured to vary a frequency response to provide a filtered ripple current. The ripple counter also includes a digital comparator circuit configured to receive the filtered ripple current and to provide a pulsed output. The ripple counter also includes a clock generator configured to detect the frequency of the pulsed output and to provide the clock signal responsive to the detected frequency.

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

Instrumentation amplifier and related apparatus
Patent No. 11811372

Inventor(s): Jussi Matti Aleksi Srkk (Oulunsalo, , FI)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17067299 on 10/09/2020 (1124 days app to issue)

Abstract: A feedback network has a feedback output terminal. A digital to analog converter has an analog output terminal. An amplifier includes an input differential pair having an inverting input terminal, a non-inverting input terminal, a first output current terminal and a second output current terminal. The inverting input terminal is coupled to the feedback output terminal, and the non-inverting input terminal is coupled to the analog output terminal. The amplifier includes a feedback differential pair having a third output current terminal, a fourth output current terminal, a first input terminal and a second input terminal. The third output current terminal is coupled to the first output current terminal, and the fourth output current terminal is coupled to the second output current terminal. The amplifier includes an amplifier output terminal coupled to the first input terminal and the second input terminal.

[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)

Glitch filter system
Patent No. 11811411

Inventor(s): Abhijit Kumar Das (Plano, TX), Ryan Alexander Smith (Lucas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17734227 on 05/02/2022 (554 days app to issue)

Abstract: A glitch filter system includes an input stage to receive an input signal, a first output to provide a first digital signal, and a second output to provide a second digital signal. A C-element of such system receives the first digital signal and the second digital signal and provides a third digital signal at a first logic state in response to each of the first and second digital signals having a second logic state opposite the first logic state. An output latch of such system provides an output signal at the second logic state in response to the first logic state of the third digital. The output latch also receives the first and second digital signals to maintain the first logic state of the third digital signal in response to one of the first and second digital signals changing from the second logic state to the first logic state.

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

Method and apparatus for RC/CR phase error calibration of measurement receiver
Patent No. 11811412

Inventor(s): Xuya Qiu (Summerfield, NC), Zhenguo Cheng (Superior, CO)
Assignee(s): FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17935556 on 09/26/2022 (407 days app to issue)

Abstract: A circuit includes a RC-CR circuit and a second circuit. The RC-CR circuit outputs a first signal at a first output node over a RC path, and a second signal at a second output node over a CR path. The second circuit is coupled to the RC-CR circuit at the first output node over the RC path. The second circuit includes an array of capacitors coupled in parallel and a plurality of switches, and each of the array of capacitors is connected, in series, to a corresponding switch in the plurality of switches. Each of the array of capacitors and its corresponding switch are coupled between the first output node and a ground. The plurality of switches is switched on or off such that the first signal and the second signal have a phase difference that falls within a predetermined phase range.

Digital-to-analog converter with cascaded least significant bit (LSB) interpolator circuit
Patent No. 11811420

Inventor(s): Abdullah Yilmaz (Tucson, AZ)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17581516 on 01/21/2022 (655 days app to issue)

Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for converting a digital input word to an analog output signal includes a string DAC, a first interpolator and a second interpolator. The string DAC outputs a first voltage and a second voltage in response to M most significant bits of the digital input word. The first interpolator interpolates between the first and second voltages in response to middle Q least significant bits of the digital input word and provides a first interpolated voltage. The second interpolator interpolates between the first interpolated voltage and the second voltage in response to lower P least significant bits of the digital input word.

[H03M] CODING, DECODING OR CODE CONVERSION, IN GENERAL (using fluidic means F15C 4/00; optical analogue/digital converters G02F 7/00; coding, decoding or code conversion, specially adapted for particular applications, see the relevant subclasses, e.g. G01D, G01R, G06F, G06T, G09G, G10L, G11B, G11C, H04B, H04L, H04M, H04N; ciphering or deciphering for cryptography or other purposes involving the need for secrecy G09C) [4]

Coordinated access to a satellite link using data profiles
Patent No. 11811493

Inventor(s): Vijay Lewis (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): Skylo (Mountain View, CA), Skylo Technologies, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17901981 on 09/02/2022 (431 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated access to a wireless link through data profiles are disclosed. One method includes receiving through the wireless link, by each hub associated with a base station, one or more data profiles from a network management element, receiving, by each hub, data from data sources associated with the hub, controlling, by each hub, a timing of communication of the data for each of the data sources from the hub to the base station through the wireless link based on the one or more data profiles, allocating preamble codes to each of the data sources, wherein different preamble codes are allocated to different data sources of different hubs that report within a margin of time of each other, and including the allocated preamble codes with the data of each of the data sources.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

System and method for encoding image data and other data types into one data format and decoding of same
Patent No. 11811521

Inventor(s): Adena Collard-Harmon (Fort Worth, TX), Changhong Gong (Plano, TX), Charles Gong (Plano, TX), Jesse Collard (Irving, TX), Taha Kadado (Sachse, TX)
Assignee(s): C-HEAR, INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17735360 on 05/03/2022 (553 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for encoding data streams into a combined file and decoding of same, including accessing a first file having a first plurality of data bytes, accessing a second file having a second plurality of data bytes, combining the first file and the second file, comprising the steps of storing a block of data bytes of a first byte block size in the body of the combined file as a first file byte block, storing a block of data bytes of a second byte block size in the body of the combined file as a second file byte block, repeating the first and second storing steps to sequentially store all of the data bytes in the first file and the second file in the combined file, and decoding the combined file to separate the bytes of the first file and the bytes of the second file from the combined file.

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

Mobile application gateway for connecting devices on a cellular network with individual enterprise and data networks
Patent No. 11811554

Inventor(s): Andrew Silver (Frisco, TX), Glen Schmid (Stittsville, , CA), Lathan Lewis (Dallas, TX), Patricia Landgren (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TANGO NETWORKS, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15484779 on 04/11/2017 (2401 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile application gateway for connecting devices on a cellular network with individual networks, such as enterprise voice and data networks and/or residential networks. The effects of the present invention are far reaching in terms of transferring effective call control from the cellular network into the control of the individual network such as the enterprise, and enabling new business models for the purchase of cellular service from a public cellular carrier by an enterprise. The invention may consist of a primarily of core network and services components based on the IMS network architecture, and is backward compatible to support legacy systems in place in current telecom and data networks.

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

Detection of in-band interference
Patent No. 11811574

Inventor(s): Anil Mani (Bangalore, , IN), Peter Aberl (Kranzberg, , DE), Sandeep Rao (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17722542 on 04/18/2022 (568 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method is provided. In some examples, the method includes performing, by processing circuitry, a first transform operation on a first time-domain data set to generate a frequency-domain data set. In addition, the method includes determining, by the processing circuitry, that at least one portion of the frequency-domain data set satisfies a first threshold magnitude. The method also includes performing, by the processing circuitry, an inverse transform operation on the at least one portion of the frequency-domain data set to generate a second time-domain data set. The method further includes identifying, by the processing circuitry and based on the second time-domain data set, a region of interference in the first time-domain data set.

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

System and method for automatically identifying failure in services deployed by mobile network operators
Patent No. 11811584

Inventor(s): Balaji Ratakonda (Dallas, TX), John P. Curtin (Richardson, TX), Vignesh Janakiraman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Tektronix Texas, LLC (Westford, MA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 14931617 on 11/03/2015 (2926 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network monitoring system is provided that includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. A plurality of services provided by a network operator is identified. A plurality of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) associated with the identified plurality of services is calculated on a per service basis. Individual services provided by the network operator are characterized based on the calculated plurality of KPIs. A root cause of service level failures for one or more of the plurality of services is identified, in response to determining that at least one of the characterized service levels does not meet predefined service level objectives for the one or more of the plurality of services.

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

Configuration management and analytics in cellular networks
Patent No. 11811588

Inventor(s): Mandar N. Kulkarni (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17192780 on 03/04/2021 (978 days app to issue)

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for identifying network anomalies. A method includes determining a cumulative anomaly score over a predefined time range based on a subset of historical PM samples and determining an anomaly ratio of a first time window and a second time window, based on the cumulative anomaly score. The method also includes determining one or more anomaly events coinciding with CM parameter changes based on the anomaly ratio; collating the PM, alarm, and CM data into a combined data set based on matching fields and timestamps; generating a set of rules linking one or more CM parameter changes and the collated data to anomaly events; and generating root cause explanations for CM parameter changes that are linked to anomaly events.

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

Discovering and grouping application endpoints in a network environment
Patent No. 11811603

Inventor(s): Sachin Waman Danait (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Polsinelli (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17110522 on 12/03/2020 (1069 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example method for discovering and grouping application endpoints in a network environment is provided and includes discovering endpoints communicating in a network environment, calculating affinity between the discovered endpoints, and grouping the endpoints into separate endpoint groups (EPGs) according to the calculated affinity, each EPG comprising a logical grouping of similar endpoints for applying common forwarding and policy logic according to logical application boundaries. In specific embodiments, the affinity includes a weighted average of network affinity, compute affinity and user specified affinity.

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

System and method for predicting anomalous requests and preventing anomalous interactions in a network
Patent No. 11811616

Inventor(s): Nathan Alexander Dalpini (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18173654 on 02/23/2023 (257 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for predicting an anomalous request comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to parse a user profile from a plurality of user profiles to generate a first set of data objects associated with the first user profile. The processor is configured to compare the first set of the data objects to approved data and audit data to generate a second set of data objects with a set of anomalous data indicators for the first user profile. The processor is further configured to process the second set of the data objects through an anomaly learning model to determine a predictive degree of approval associated with the user profile. The processor is further configured to determine to approve, flag or disapprove the user profile based on the predictive degree of approval. The processor is further configured to assign a profile indicator to the user profile.

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

Systems and methods for network analytics service automation
Patent No. 11811620

Inventor(s): Ravi Potluri (Coppell, TX), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17702915 on 03/24/2022 (593 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method may include identifying service requirements associated with a network service, identifying at least one analytics component to monitor the network service and identifying network functions to implement the network service. The method may also include deploying the network functions to monitor the network service, deploying the at least one analytics component and obtaining data associated with monitoring the network service. The method may further include forwarding, by the network functions, the data to the at least one analytics component and determining, by the least one analytics component, whether to take a control action with respect to the network service.

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

System and method for quality of experience management through the allocation of bandwidth per service category
Patent No. 11811621

Inventor(s): Kamakshi Sridhar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Amarok IP Inc. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17339062 on 06/04/2021 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for Quality of Experience (QoE) management on a network. The method including: determining a set of service categories for an operator”s traffic, wherein at least one of the service categories is video streaming; mapping a plurality of traffic flows to each of the service categories; determining a target and minimum intent for each of the service categories; measuring a score and bandwidth use for each of the service category; determining whether each of the service categories are reaching an associated minimum bandwidth intent; if the minimum bandwidth intent is not being reached for at least one service category, adjusting the minimum intent for at least one of the service categories; allocating a bandwidth per service category based on the adjusted minimum intent; and shaping the traffic flow to the allocated bandwidth; otherwise allowing the traffic flow to continue with a current bandwidth allocation.

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

Systems and methods for user plane function (”UPF”) offload at configurable routing fabric
Patent No. 11811650

Inventor(s): Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, TX), Myron Eugene Bagwell (Southlake, TX), Niranjan B. Avula (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17815327 on 07/27/2022 (468 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the separation of functions associated with a User Plane Function (”UPF”) in a wireless network (e.g., a Fifth Generation (”5G”) network), such that routing devices associated with the wireless network may perform functionality that would otherwise be performed by virtualized hosts or other configurable resources. For example, routing components which form a backhaul or other portion of the network may process traffic according to a suitable set of policies (e.g., Quality of Service (”QoS”) policies, content filtering policies, queueing policies, and/or other policies) instead of transmitting such traffic to a UPF associated with the network core for processing.

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

Reduced density channel state information reference signal
Patent No. 11811688

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Christopher Weisberg, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16088348 on 03/30/2017 (2413 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node of transmitting channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) comprises transmitting a number M of CSI-RS ports to one or more wireless devices. A fraction of the M ports are transmitted over a first physical resource block (PRB) and a remaining fraction of the M ports are transmitted over a second PRB. Some embodiments further comprise mapping the number M of CSI-RS ports to resource elements of a radio subframe. A fraction of the M ports are mapped to a first PRB of the subframe and a remaining fraction of the M ports are mapped to a second PRB of the subframe.

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

System and method for flexible channel state information-reference signal transmission
Patent No. 11811702

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: BAKER BOTTS L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17867251 on 07/18/2022 (477 days app to issue)

Abstract: System and method for flexible channel state information-reference signal transmission A method by a wireless device is provided for restricting channel state information (CSI) measurement. The method includes receiving, from a network node, information identifying a first subset of channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources to be used in performing CSI measurements. The first subset of CSI-RS resources are associated with a first portion of a frequency band that is less than all of the frequency band. CSI measurements are performed in the first subset of CSI-RS resources that are associated with the first portion of the frequency band.

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

Online service store for endpoints
Patent No. 11811743

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Charles Shiner (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig (27 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17485204 on 09/24/2021 (774 days app to issue)

Abstract: An online service store to configure services for endpoints in connection with validating authenticity of the endpoints. For example, a service can be ordered for an endpoint prior to the use of the endpoint. After receiving a request having identity data generated by a memory device configured in the endpoint, a server system can determine, based on a secret of the memory device and other data stored about the endpoint, the validity of the identity data and thus the authenticity of the endpoint. Based on the service ordered for the endpoint, the server system causes the endpoint to be connected to a client server to receive the service. The server system can cause the firmware of the endpoint to be updated to enable the endpoint to receive the service from the client server.

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

Attention (AT) interface for radio access network bitrate recommendations
Patent No. 11811842

Inventor(s): Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17361700 on 06/29/2021 (861 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments may provide streaming service downlink assistance and/or uplink assistance mechanisms for a wireless device using attention (AT) commands exchanged between a modem processor of the wireless device and another processor of the wireless device. Various embodiments may include an AT command that is a bitrate recommendation action command including an indication of a stream identifier, an indication of a requested bitrate, and an indication of a direction. Various embodiments may include an AT response that is a bitrate recommendation response, the bitrate recommendation response including an indication of a stream identifier, an indication of a bitrate recommendation, and an indication of a direction.

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

Supporting quality of service for media communications
Patent No. 11811843

Inventor(s): Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): QUALCOMM INCORPORATED (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Shumaker Sieffert, P.A (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17818566 on 08/09/2022 (455 days app to issue)

Abstract: A client device (e.g., user equipment or ”UE”) may be configured to engage in a media communication session, such as a WebRTC session, with another client device. The client devices may separate a quality of service (QoS) specification from a QoS flow definition, to allow for separate interactive connectivity establishment (ICE) negotiation. The QoS specification may cover all segments of a connection for the media communication session. For example, QoS may be requested for a case where a server (e.g., a Traversal Using Relay Network Address Translation (TURN) server) is hosted by a mobile network operator (MNO). The QoS specification and the QoS flow description may be linked.

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

Pre-fetch engine with security access controls for mesh data network
Patent No. 11811896

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18115820 on 03/01/2023 (251 days app to issue)

Abstract: Arrangements for controlling data retrieval are provided. In some aspects, a data request may be received by a computing platform. A pre-fetch engine may be executed to analyze the data request and generate, using a machine learning model, a pre-fetch template identifying data sets responsive to the request. The pre-fetch template may be transmitted to one or more data repositories and response data sets may be received. The response data sets may be generated by a data controller associated with a respective data repository. The data controller may identify data sets and evaluate the date sets to determine whether they meet local requirements of the geographic location of the data repository. The received data sets may be analyzed to identify missing data sets. If missing data sets are identified, the data may be processed by ignoring the missing data sets or inserting a substitute value for the missing data sets.

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

Resilient hashing for forwarding packets
Patent No. 11811902

Inventor(s): Patrick Bosshart (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Barefoot Networks, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Essential Patents Group, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17152658 on 01/19/2021 (1022 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of identifying a path for forwarding a packet by a packet forwarding element. The method receives a packet that includes a plurality of fields that identify a particular packet flow. The method computes a plurality of hash values from the plurality of fields that identify the particular packet flow. Each hash value computed using a different hash algorithm. Based on the plurality of hash values, the method identifies a plurality of paths configured to forward the packets of the particular flow. The method identifies the status of each of the plurality of paths. Each path status identifies whether or not the corresponding path is operational. The method selects an operational path in the plurality of paths to forward the packet based on a priority scheme using said plurality of identified status bits.

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

Remote hardware execution service with customer consented debugging
Patent No. 11811919

Inventor(s): Rodrigo Rubira Branco (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
Law Firm: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin Goetzel, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18045068 on 10/07/2022 (396 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system coordinates with remote hardware to execute customer workloads. The system uses an architecture for ensuring trust to ensure that debugging is not performed at the remote hardware while the customer workload is being executed on the remote hardware without customer consent. For example, debugging at the remote hardware may enable an entity performing the debugging to view certain aspects of the customer”s workload. The architecture for ensuring trusts uses a shared secret to ensure customer consent is given before debugging can be performed while the customer”s workload is being executed on the remote hardware.

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

System for real-time assessment of authenticity of a resource using non-fungible tokens
Patent No. 11811931

Inventor(s): Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17475418 on 09/15/2021 (783 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for real-time assessment of authenticity of a resource using non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The present invention is configured to receive, from a computing device of a user, an indication that a resource has been restored using a first resource portion, wherein the resource is associated with a first NFT; retrieve an NFT associated with the first resource portion; retrieve a value of the NFT associated with the first resource portion; generate, using the NFT generator, a second NFT for the resource; link the NFT associated with the first resource portion with the second NFT; determine, using an NFT valuation engine, a value for the second NFT based on at least a value of the NFT associated with the first resource portion; and record the second NFT on a distributed ledger.

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

Public/private key biometric authentication system
Patent No. 11811936

Inventor(s): Charles H. Herder, III (Dallas, TX), Tina P. Srivastava (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Badge Inc. (Newark, CA)
Law Firm: Sunstein LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17005941 on 08/28/2020 (1166 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device, method, and computer readable storage medium generate a biometric public key for an individual based on both the individual”s biometric data and a secret, in a manner that verifiably characterizes both while tending to prevent recovery of either by anyone other than the individual. The biometric public key may be later used to authenticate a subject purporting to be the individual, using a computing facility that need not rely on a hardware root of trust. Such biometric public keys may be distributed without compromising the individual”s biometric data, and may be used to provide authentication in addition to, or in lieu of, passwords or cryptographic tokens. Various use cases are disclosed, including: enrollment, authentication, establishing and using a secure communications channel, and cryptographically signing a message.

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

IP-enabled information delivery
Patent No. 11811966

Inventor(s): Monica Rose Martino (Plano, TX), Taylor Cleghorn (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): First Orion Corp. (North Little Rock, AR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17808095 on 06/21/2022 (504 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for providing Internet protocol enabled information delivery are provided. Information from a calling party is received at an Internet protocol enabled device. A lookup of information relating to the calling party is performed in a database via an Internet protocol connection. A message is received from the database comprising information relating to the calling party.

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

Method and apparatus for sample adaptive offset parameter estimation for image and video coding
Patent No. 11812034

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17521249 on 11/08/2021 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding video. The method includes determining a sample adaptive offset edge type of at least a portion of the image, determining a boundary edge type of the at least a portion of the image, modifying the sample adaptive offset edge type of the at least a portion of the image according to the determined edge type of the at least a portion of the image, selecting a sample adaptive offset type according to at least one of the determined sample adaptive offset edge type or the modified sample adaptive offset edge type, and filtering at least a portion of the image utilizing the selected filter type.

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

Fast motion estimation for hierarchical coding structures
Patent No. 11812041

Inventor(s): Akira Osamoto (Plano, TX), Hideo Tamama (The Colony, TX), Hyung Joon Kim (McKinney, TX), Minhua Zhou (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17560703 on 12/23/2021 (684 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for motion estimation is provided that includes determining a first motion vector for a first child coding unit (CU) of a parent CU and a second motion vector for a second child CU of the parent CU, wherein the first child CU, the second child CU, and the parent CU are in a CU hierarchy, wherein the first and second child CUs are smallest size CUs in the CU hierarchy, and wherein a first motion search type is used to determine the first motion vector and the second motion vector, selecting the first and second motion vectors as candidate predictors for the parent CU, selecting a predictor for a prediction unit (PU) of the first parent CU from the candidate predictors, and refining the predictor using a second motion search type to determine a motion vector for the PU.

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

Set-top box with interactive portal and system and method for use of same
Patent No. 11812068

Inventor(s): Thomas R. Miller (Plano, TX), Vanessa Ogle (Fairview, TX), William C. Fang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Enseo, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17516882 on 11/02/2021 (735 days app to issue)

Abstract: A set-top box with an interactive portal and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, the set-top box is deployed to provide an interactive portal in a hospitality establishment having multiple rooms, such as a hotel. The set-top box is associated with a room and includes a housing that secures a television input, a television output, a processor, a transceiver, and memory therein in an interconnected bus architecture. The set-top box generates a default interactive portal as well as a guest-specific interactive portal, which is generated from a guest configuration profile having information including guest identification, a guest channel preference presentation, and a guest service preference presentation with guest account information. The guest configuration profile may also enable the creation of a local area wireless network with substantially the same behavior as the guest”s home wireless network.

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

Asymmetry sound absorbing system via shunted speakers
Patent No. 11812219

Inventor(s): Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, MI), Jae Seung Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, MI), Ziqi Yu (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: 17384125 on 07/23/2021 (837 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments for one-way sound absorbing systems are described herein. In one example, a sound absorbing system includes a waveguide having open ends for receiving an incoming acoustic wave and wall portions defining a first port and a second port. A first electroacoustic absorber is mounted to the first port and is electrically connected to a shunting circuit, while a second electroacoustic absorber is mounted to the second port and is electrically connected to an open circuit. The sound absorption of the system is directional dependent.

[H04R] LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K) [6]

Vehicle audio communication system
Patent No. 11812233

Inventor(s): Buddy Johnson (Mesquite, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17553288 on 12/16/2021 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: A communication system for vehicles allowing occupants of an interior cab of the vehicle to orally communicate with persons outside the vehicle while all windows and doors of the vehicle are closed. The system employs an internal communications component in operative communication with an exterior communications component to communicate voice communications to and from both the person outside the vehicle and the occupants of the sealed interior cab of the vehicle.

Parallel data provision
Patent No. 11812256

Inventor(s): Hollie Ilene King (Frisco, TX), Nicholas C. Wheeler (The Colony, TX), Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, TX), Samantha Elizabeth Taylor (Frisco, TX), Victor Kwak (Frisco, TX), Yogen Rai (Plano, TX), Zachery C. Lake (Aubrey,
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18086911 on 12/22/2022 (320 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a client device including a processor, a telephony radio that supports telephony communications, and a data radio that supports data communications. The client device conducts, via the telephony radio, a call with a telephony service. Further the client device identifies a context of the call, identifies a subset of stored private data associated with the context of the call; and in parallel with the call, provides the subset of the stored private data, via a data radio, to a data service.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for network-based authentication for connected vehicle access
Patent No. 11812266

Inventor(s): Mun Wei Low (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17304517 on 06/22/2021 (868 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, an authentication system may receive a user authentication request identifying a primary device. The authentication system may generate a challenge associated with a user profile mapped to the primary device. The authentication system may transmit a challenge message including the challenge. The authentication system may receive a challenge response including a response to the challenge, wherein the response to the challenge includes identification information regarding the user profile. The authentication system may determine a set of primary services associated with the user profile mapped to the primary device and a set of secondary services associated with a set of secondary devices. The authentication system may generate a set of security keys mapped to the set of primary services and the set of secondary services. The authentication system may provision the primary device and the set of secondary devices with the set of security keys.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Data integrity options for wireless management of modular subsystems
Patent No. 11812268

Inventor(s): Alexis Justine Burnight (Dallas, TX), Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, TX), Karl-Heinz Steinmetz (Durmersheim, , DE), Ramanuja Vedantham (Frisco, TX), Vishal Coelho (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17491218 on 09/30/2021 (768 days app to issue)

Abstract: A communication circuit for communications between a controller and a subsystem with a monitored electrical component is described. The communication circuit includes network formation circuitry configured to establish a wireless network between a primary wireless node adapted to be coupled to the controller and a secondary wireless node coupled to the subsystem. The communication circuit also includes data transfer circuitry configured to perform data transfers between the primary wireless node and the secondary wireless node. The communication circuit further includes data integrity circuitry configured to: generate a hash for data received by the communication circuit; and verify the hash before the data transfer circuitry performs a data transfer of the data between the primary wireless node and the secondary wireless node.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for reduction in fronthaul interface bandwidth for cloud RAN
Patent No. 11812302

Inventor(s): Sridhar Rajagopal (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): MAVENIR NETWORKS, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Ruggiero, McAllister McMahon LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17472123 on 09/10/2021 (788 days app to issue)

Abstract: There are provided systems, methods, and interfaces for optimization of the fronthaul interface bandwidth for Radio Access Networks and Cloud Radio Access Networks.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Preserving emergency call during failure to transfer
Patent No. 11812318

Inventor(s): Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Ontario, , CA)
Law Firm: Conley Rose, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17747494 on 05/18/2022 (538 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method in a user equipment (UE) for transferring an emergency session from a first network to a second network. The method includes transmitting a first registration request message to the second network; receiving a registration reject message from the second network; detecting the emergency session between the UE and the first network is ongoing; transmitting a second registration request message comprising an emergency registration request to the second network; and receiving a registration accept message for the emergency session.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for controlling and managing integrated access and backhaul
Patent No. 11812346

Inventor(s): David Taft (Keller, TX), Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, TX), Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, TX), Maqbool Chauhan (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17199996 on 03/12/2021 (970 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device may receive Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) and network information from network components and from a set of Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes; generate descriptions of, or updates to the descriptions of, routing paths based on the NSSAI and the network information; and send the descriptions or the updates to the IAB nodes. The routing paths may include one or more backhaul links between the IAB nodes, and the descriptions and the updates associate each of the routing paths with one or more Single-NSSAIs (S-NSSAIs).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and systems for provisioning emergency numbers
Patent No. 11812357

Abstract: There is provided a method and device for provisioning emergency number information on a user equipment. When a dialed number matches an emergency number from the provisioned emergency number information, the user equipment selects either the circuit switched domain or the packet switched domain and executes a call setup procedure for that domain.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for efficient wakeup for beacon reception
Patent No. 11812382

Inventor(s): Asaf Even-Chen (Rehobot, , IL), Liran Brecher (Kfar Saba, , IL), Oran Naftali (Petah Tikva, , IL), Yuval Jakira (Tel-Aviv, , IL)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17462050 on 08/31/2021 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a system and method is disclosed for efficient wake up in a wireless communication device for receiving beacons without significantly affecting the battery power and data throughput. Wireless device receives beacons from network elements such as access points. If beacons are not received as scheduled within defined intervals, then the wireless device determines a pattern of beacon reception timings and uses a weighted score process to select the best possible reception timing pattern and uses it as the schedule for receiving beacons on going forward basis, thus avoiding staying awake at all time to receive misaligned beacons.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Layer 1 and layer 2 channel state information rich reporting mechanisms
Patent No. 11812435

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Christopher Weisberg, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17361597 on 06/29/2021 (861 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system for reporting multi-beam channel state information, CSI, in a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes providing an indication of a plurality of beam index pairs, (l[subscript]k[/subscript], m[subscript]k[/subscript]), in the UCI in a first transmission, each beam index pair corresponding to a beam k. The method also includes providing an indication of at least one of a beam power, a beam rotation and a channel quality index, CQI, in the UCI in a second transmission. The method also includes transmitting at least one of the indication of beam index pairs, beam power, beam rotation and CQI.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

NLOS wireless backhaul uplink communication
Patent No. 11812437

Inventor(s): June Chul Roh (Allen, TX), Mohamed Farouk Mansour (Richardson, TX), Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, , FR), Srinath Hosur (Plano, TX), Vijay Pothukuchi (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17929481 on 09/02/2022 (431 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for uplink (UL) wireless backhaul communication at a wireless backhaul remote unit in a radio access network comprising receiving a configuration for radio frames and a transmission schedule through a downlink (DL) physical layer broadcast channel, wherein the transmission schedule comprises a transmission allocation for the remote unit, generating a UL data frame, wherein generating the UL data frame comprises performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on a data bit stream to generate a plurality of FEC codewords, wherein performing the FEC encoding comprises performing Reed Solomon (RS) encoding on the data bit stream to generate a plurality of RS codewords, performing byte interleaving on the RS codewords, and performing Turbo encoding on the byte interleaved RS codewords to generate one or more Turbo codewords, wherein each Turbo codeword is encoded from more than one RS codeword, and transmitting the UL data frame according to the transmission allocation.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Interference avoidance based on multiple outer loop link adaptation (OLLA) processes
Patent No. 11812456

Inventor(s): Chin Chiu (Allen, TX), Jack Anthony Smith (Melissa, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17158446 on 01/26/2021 (1015 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments are directed toward improvements in dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) between cellular network technologies. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising initiating scheduling for a resource in a slot and determining a neighboring base station associated with user equipment (UE). The method then determines a type of interference associated with the neighboring base station and the slot and identifies an outer loop link adaptation (OLLA) value associated with the type of interference. An effective data rate is calculated based on the OLLA value and the method completes scheduling using the effective data rate.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for adapting a channel sensing threshold
Patent No. 11812469

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17929658 on 09/02/2022 (431 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for adapting a channel sensing threshold in a wireless communication system operating with shared spectrum channel access. A method for operating a base station (BS) includes determining whether an antenna configuration for channel sensing is omni-directional or directional and determining a channel sensing threshold. The channel sensing threshold includes two parts: a first part of the channel sensing threshold being common for omni-directional and directional antenna configurations and a second part of the channel sensing threshold depending on the antenna configuration. The method further includes performing a channel sensing procedure based on the antenna configuration and the channel sensing threshold and transmitting downlink (DL) data over a channel based on the channel being sensed as idle in the channel sensing procedure.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

TCP acknowledgment latency optimization
Patent No. 11812511

Inventor(s): Manoharan Ramalingam (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): MAVENIR NETWORKS, INC. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: Ruggiero, McAllister McMahon LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17159364 on 01/27/2021 (1014 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of reducing the transmission control protocol acknowledgment (TCP ACK) latency, e.g., in 5G New Radio (NR) or LTE system, is provided, which method is triggered, e.g., for user equipments (UEs) with uplink (UL) inactivity. The time estimation to find the TCP ACK packet arrival is based on estimation time split up in the UE side. In addition, the TCP ACK size estimation is based on the number of TCP data packets sent in Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH). Furthermore, the first ”proactive allocation window” (the number of the transmission time intervals (TTIs) over which the proactive allocations are given to UE) is set to 4, and subsequently the ”proactive allocation window” may be adapted based on learning.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for timing configuration of discovery signal and channel
Patent No. 11812517

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17303271 on 05/25/2021 (896 days app to issue)

Abstract: A UE in a wireless communication system supporting a shared spectrum channel access is provided. The method comprises: determining a set of DSCH transmission windows based on a window periodicity, a window duration, and a window offset; determining a first set of SS/PBCH blocks within a DSCH transmission window of the set of DSCH transmission windows, wherein the first set of SS/PBCH blocks is QCLed; determining a second set of SS/PBCH blocks across at least two DSCH transmission windows being different DSCH windows of the set of DSCH transmission windows, wherein the second set of SS/PBCH blocks is QCLed; and receiving at least one SS/PBCH block that is located in the first set of SS/PBCH blocks or the second set of SS/PBCH blocks based on QCL information of the first set of SS/PBCH blocks or the second set of SS/PBCH blocks within the DSCH transmission window.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Methods and systems for providing network connectivity to a secure access service edge (SASE) domain
Patent No. 11812520

Inventor(s): Chitresh Yadav (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Versa Networks, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: LOZA LOZA, LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17486320 on 09/27/2021 (771 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and system for providing network connectivity are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for providing network connectivity involves receiving from a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) an access ID and an IP address at a SASE domain, wherein the access ID and the IP address correspond to a wireless device, generating an IP address-to-tenant mapping at the SASE domain by applying the access ID and the IP address to an access ID-to-tenant mapping, and forwarding traffic received at the SASE domain from the wireless device via the MNO according to the IP address-to-tenant mapping.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Embedding method of a flat heat pipe into PCB for active device cooling
Patent No. 11812550

Inventor(s): Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Feng Zhou (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: 17166205 on 02/03/2021 (1007 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embedded cooling systems and methods of forming the same are disclosed. A system includes a PCB stack comprising a first major substrate opposite a second major substrate, a pre-preg layer disposed between the first and second major substrates, a power device stack embedded within the PCB stack and comprising a substrate, a power device coupled to the substrate of each power device stack, and a flat heat pipe having a first end embedded in the PCB stack and a second end extending outside the PCB stack, the power device stack being coupled to the flat heat pipe.

[H05K] PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS (details of instruments or comparable details of other apparatus not otherwise provided for G12B; thin-film or thick-film circuits H01L 27/01, H01L 27/13; non-printed means for electric connections to or between printed circuits H01R; casings for, or constructional details of, particular types of apparatus, see the relevant subclasses; processes involving only a single technical art, e.g. heating, spraying, for which provision exists elsewhere, see the relevant classes)

Protective skirt for telecommunications cables
Patent No. 11812574

Inventor(s): Diana Rodriguez (Fort Worth, TX), Nathan Grant Castleberry (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Corning Research Development Corporation (Corning, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17351339 on 06/18/2021 (872 days app to issue)

Abstract: A protective apparatus for telecommunications cables is provided including a mounting frame configured to be affixed to a wall and a protective skirt configured to be selectively engaged with the mounting frame to define an internal volume configured for routing of the telecommunications cables. The mounting frame or the protective skirt including a U-channel dispose at an edge and the other of the protective skirt and the mounting frame including a flange configured to be received in the U-channel. The protective skirt is engaged with the mounting frame when the flange is inserted into the U-channel and the protective skirt is disengaged from the mounting frame by flexion of the protective skirt causing the flange to withdraw from the U-channel.

[H02G] INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES (insulated conductors or cables with arrangements for facilitating mounting or securing H01B 7/40; distribution points incorporating switches H02B; guiding telephone cords H04M 1/15; cable ducts or mountings for telephone or telegraph exchange installations H04Q 1/06)

Multi-layer electomagnetic shielding composite
Patent No. 11812597

Inventor(s): Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, MI), Hiroki Nishijima (Nisshin, , JP), Xiaoshi Su (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: 17090328 on 11/05/2020 (1097 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-layered material is provided for shielding low-frequency electromagnetic waves. The multi-layered material may include a plurality of repeating sets of alternating layers of materials. Each repeating set of alternating layers may include an electrically conductive layer and a magnetic layer including a continuous layer of a magnetic material. The multi-layered material is generally configured to shield electromagnetic waves having a frequency of less than about 1 MHz. In various aspects, the electrically conductive layer may include a conductive metal layer, or a two-dimensional transitional metal carbide. The multi-layered material may be provided as a thin film, or can be shaped or sized as flakes for use with a resin composite that is deposited via a spray application technique.

Memory device including laterally perforated support pillar structures surrounding contact via structures and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 11812598

Inventor(s): Kazuto Watanabe (Nagoya, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17355883 on 06/23/2021 (867 days app to issue)

Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, memory stack structures vertically extending through the alternating stack, a retro-stepped dielectric material portion overlying stepped surfaces of the alternating stack, a laterally perforated support pillar structure vertically extending through the alternating stack and the retro-stepped dielectric material portion, and a layer contact via structure laterally surrounded by the laterally perforated support pillar structure and contacting a top surface of a topmost electrically conductive layer within an area of the laterally perforated support pillar structure. Each electrically conductive layer within the area of the laterally perforated support pillar structure extends through the lateral openings. NULL

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Patent No. D003641

Inventor(s): Jack Wayne Johnson (McKinney, TX), John R. Kutzke (The Colony, TX), Matthew Dewey (Aubrey, TX), Randall Joseph Kastalanych (Plano, TX), Robert Scharfenkamp (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): SMITH SYSTEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Price Heneveld LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29813515 on 10/29/2021 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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Patent No. D003727

Inventor(s): Xuzhong Wang (Shenzen, , CN)
Assignee(s): ABORDER PRODUCTS, INC. (Grand Prairie, TX)
Law Firm: KLEMCHUK PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29788651 on 07/09/2021 (851 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Accessory mount for a vehicle
Patent No. D003805

Inventor(s): Robert Bresnahan (Kemp, TX)
Assignee(s): Larson Electronics, LLC (Kemp, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29735690 on 05/22/2020 (1264 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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