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 1/16/24 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 10
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 13
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 5
E: FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS 2
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 4
G: PHYSICS 41
H: ELECTRICITY 48

DESIGN:4
REISSUE: 2

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas) 28
SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison) 5
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 5
Toyota Motor North America Inc. (Plano) 4
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 4
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, VA) 3
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) 3
Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI) 3
Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC) 2

UNASSIGNED 9

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney) 2
Micah Price (Plano) 2
Qiaochu Tang (The Colony) 2
Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, TX)

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Sealing corner bracket for receiving two frame members and cabinet including corner bracket
Patent No. 11871843

Inventor(s): William Julius McPhil Giraud (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): Corning Research Development Corporation (Corning, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17536255 on 11/29/2021 (778 days app to issue)

Abstract: A corner bracket may include first and second retainers configured to receive respective ends of first and second frame members, such that the first and second frame members are substantially perpendicular with respect to one another. The first and second retainers may include structural and sealing portions, wherein the structural portion includes a first material and the sealing portion includes a second material, with the first material being relatively more rigid than the second material, and the second material being relatively more elastic than the first material. The corner bracket may also include first and second exterior surfaces at least partially including the second material and first and second door panel interfaces configured to provide a seal between the first and second exterior surfaces and interior surfaces of first and second door panels in a closed position. The corner bracket may be incorporated into a frame for a cabinet.

[A47B] TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE (jointing of furniture F16B 12/00)

Methods for surgical guidance in breast cancer surgery and lymph node dissection using two or more implantation devices comprising a capsule and a population of ultrasound-switchable fluorophores incorporated in the capsule
Patent No. 11872092

Inventor(s): Baohong Yuan (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Maynard Nexsen PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17095121 on 11/11/2020 (1161 days app to issue)

Abstract: A tissue implantation device comprises a capsule; and a population of ultrasound-switchable fluorophores incorporated in the capsule. A method of imaging a tissue implantation device in a biological environment comprises disposing the tissue implantation device in a biological environment, the population of ultrasound-switchable fluorophores having a switching threshold in the biological environment; exposing the biological environment to an ultrasound beam to form an activation region within the biological environment; switching the ultrasound-switchable fluorophores in the activation region from an off state to an on state; exciting the ultrasound-switchable fluorophores in the activation region with a beam of electromagnetic radiation; and detecting light emitted by the ultrasound-switchable fluorophores.

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

Push and twist mechanism for interfacing a drive mechanism handpiece with an intraocular lens cartridge
Patent No. 11872121

Inventor(s): Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16999394 on 08/21/2020 (1243 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for inserting an intraocular lens (IOL) into an eye, are provided. An apparatus comprises an IOL cartridge comprising a nozzle, a compartment, and a plunger case. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the compartment, and the plunger case is in fluid communication with the compartment. The plunger is disposed within the plunger case. The plunger case is configured to removably attach to a handpiece.

[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]

Intervertebral disc prosthesis
Patent No. 11872138

Inventor(s): Ralph Rashbaum (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): LDR MEDICAL (Rosieres Pres Troyes, , FR)
Law Firm: Sheridan Ross P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16698485 on 11/27/2019 (1511 days app to issue)

Abstract: An intervertebral disc prosthesis is disclosed comprising at least two plates, namely first and second plates, articulated about each other by means of a curved surface, namely articulation, of at least one of the plates, each of the plates comprising a surface known as a contact surface, intended to be in contact with a vertebral plate of one of the vertebrae between which the prosthesis is intended to be inserted, this contact surface for each of the plates comprising a geometrical centre at equal distance from at least two diametrically opposite points located on the periphery of the plate, in which the geometric centres of the plates are not vertically aligned, this off-setting of the geometrical centres of the plates engendering an off-setting of the edges of the plates in at least one direction perpendicular to the vertical axis of the spinal column.

System and method for a medical implant with integrated propulsors
Patent No. 11872141

Inventor(s): Ian A. Lee (Carrollton, TX), Randall F. Lee (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Bill Naifeh (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18196755 on 05/12/2023 (249 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of medical implants containing an integrated propulsor system. Additionally, methods of insertion are also disclosed.

Appendage pressurization devices comprising artificial muscles
Patent No. 11872152

Inventor(s): Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, 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: 16931608 on 07/17/2020 (1278 days app to issue)

Abstract: An appendage pressurization device includes an appendage strap and one or more artificial muscles communicatively coupled to a controller. Each artificial muscle includes a housing having an electrode region, an expandable fluid region, a dielectric fluid housed within the housing, and an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region of the housing. The electrode pair includes a first electrode fixed to a first surface of the housing and a second electrode fixed to a second surface of the housing, wherein the electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated state and an actuated state. Actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into the expandable fluid region. A pressure sensor is communicatively coupled to the controller, wherein the pressure sensor outputs a current pressure value to the controller and actuation of the electrode pair is based on the current pressure value.

Compositions and methods for intrathecal administration of MCOPPB for pain relief
Patent No. 11872219

Inventor(s): Barton Harley Manning (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Centrexion Therapeutics Corporation (Boston, MA)
Law Firm: Dechert LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17327888 on 05/24/2021 (967 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for intrathecal administration of the compound MCOPPB or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for treating pain, such as neuropathic pain suffered by an adult human.

[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)

Methods for colonizing with beneficial oral bacteria
Patent No. 11872254

Inventor(s): Christine Koski (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ProBiora Health, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Fish IP Law, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17477380 on 09/16/2021 (852 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods are provided for controlled release of stabilized bacteria into the oral cavity on consumption of a food, candy, gum, or similar substance so as to promote colonization of oral surface by the bacteria. Bacteria are selected to treat an oral condition, such as oral disease, halitosis, and/or stained enamel on consumption of the food.

[A01N] PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTS THEREOF (preservation of food or foodstuff A23); BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES OR AS HERBICIDES (preparations for medical, dental or toilet purposes which kill or prevent the growth or proliferation of unwanted organisms A61K); PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS (mixtures of pesticides with fertilisers C05G)

Cassette apparatus utilizing venting for processing of blood to remove pathogen cells therein
Patent No. 11872333

Inventor(s): Dale B. Nixon (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17814549 on 07/25/2022 (540 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for locating and venting pathogen cells in blood. A cassette has a plurality of thin holding chambers that are filled with blood drawn from a patient. A light source illuminates each of the holding chambers and passes light to an underlying sensor array such that the cells in the blood produce shadow images of the cells in the sensor array. A processor performs pattern recognition to identify and locate the pathogen cells by use of an image library. After the pathogen cells are located, a pump is operated to move the identified cells to a processing zone. When each identified cell reaches the processing zone, a control voltage is generated to open a valve to vent the identified pathogen cells. The pump refills the cassette holding chambers, returns the processed blood to the patient, and the procedure is repeated for a treatment time period.

[A61M] DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D 7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F 13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J 1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L; magnetotherapy using magnetic elements placed within the body A61N 2/10); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR [5]

Golf club head or other ball striking device having impact-influencing body features
Patent No. 11872453

Inventor(s): Eric A. Larson (Arlington, TX), Joshua M. Boggs (Aledo, TX), Kevin Harper (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Karsten Manufacturing Corporation (Phoenix, AZ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17944099 on 09/13/2022 (490 days app to issue)

Abstract: A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, has a face with a striking surface configured for striking a ball and a channel extending across a portion of the sole. The channel may be recessed from adjacent surfaces of the sole and have a depth of recession from the adjacent surfaces of the sole. The channel may have a cross-sectional profile that is asymmetric with a front wall and a rear wall where the front wall is longer than the rear wall. The channel may also have a center thickness that is different than a thickness at the heel and toe sides.

[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

Portable pressure swing adsorption method and system for fuel gas conditioning
Patent No. 11872518

Inventor(s): Gerald Bowen Gump (Allen, TX), Jason G. S. Ho (Houston, TX), Pedro T. Santos (Houston, TX), Xuepei Yuan (Humble, TX)
Assignee(s): Coldstream Energy IP, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Frederic Dorwart, Lawyers PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18075911 on 12/06/2022 (406 days app to issue)

Abstract: A portable pressure swing adsorption method and system for fuel gas conditioning. A fuel gas conditioning system includes a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system fluidly coupled to a rich gas stream, the PSA system including a plurality of adsorbent beds and configured to condition the rich natural gas stream and produce therefrom a high-quality fuel gas and gaseous separated heavier hydrocarbons, a product end of the adsorbent beds fluidly coupled to a fuel gas line, wherein the high-quality fuel gas is discharged from the product end and supplied to the fuel gas line, and a feed end of the adsorbent beds configured to be fluidly coupled to the rich natural gas stream or a raw natural gas stream, wherein the produced gaseous separated heavier hydrocarbons are recirculated into the rich natural gas stream or the raw natural gas stream.

[B01D] SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D, by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B, by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges B04B; vortex apparatus B04C; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B 9/02) [5]

Mixing bowl tilting assembly
Patent No. 11872536

Inventor(s): Amy Burrow (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17382090 on 07/21/2021 (909 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mixing bowl tilting assembly includes a support frame that can be positioned on a support surface. A pair of uprights is each pivotally coupled to the support frame. Each of the uprights is positionable in a deployed position having each of the uprights being vertically oriented on the support frame. A pair of ratchets is each of the ratchets is integrated into a respective one of the uprights. A mixing bowl is provided and the mixing bowl can pour contents of the mixing bowl when the mixing bowl is tipped. A pair of arms is each pivotally coupled to the bowl and each of the arms engages a respective one of the ratchets. Each of the ratchets rotates when the mixing bowl is tipped to pour the ingredients without requiring a user to support the mixing bowl.

[B01F] MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING, DISPERSING (mixing paints B44D 3/06)

End effector features for additively manufactured components
Patent No. 11872689

Inventor(s): Oussama Rawas (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Los Angeles, CA)
Law Firm: ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15925640 on 03/19/2018 (2129 days app to issue)

Abstract: One aspect is an apparatus including an additively manufactured component including a surface with an end effector feature, the end effector feature co-additively manufactured with the additively manufactured component and configured to be gripped by a corresponding end effector on a robot. In an aspect, the end effector feature includes a recess in the surface. In another aspect, the recess includes an angled face. In an aspect, the recess has a teardrop shape. An aspect further includes an identification feature. In an aspect, the end effector feature includes a plurality of recesses in the surface. In another aspect, the end effector feature enables a 3-point kinematic self-aligning positive control lock.

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

Method and apparatus for fabricating a hybrid tube
Patent No. 11872772

Inventor(s): Akhilesh Sanjay Somani (McKinney, TX), Gowtham Kuntumalla (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, IL)
Law Firm: Crowell Moring LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17379056 on 07/19/2021 (911 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating a hybrid tube includes a rotatable mandrel and a first housing configured to translate alongside the rotatable mandrel while dispensing a first strip to be helically wound about the mandrel. The first housing includes an angle adjustment mechanism to control a dispensation angle of the first strip. The apparatus also includes least one energy or adhesive source for bonding overlapping strip portions on the rotatable mandrel and forming the hybrid tube. The at least one energy or adhesive source is configured for translation alongside the rotatable mandrel.

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

Closed loop feedback press
Patent No. 11872796

Inventor(s): Daniel Black Thayer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NIKE, Inc. (Beaverton, OR)
Law Firm: SHOOK, HARDY BACON L.L.P. (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17986608 on 11/14/2022 (428 days app to issue)

Abstract: The pressing of an article is achieved with a closed-loop feedback press. The closed-loop feedback press is effective to measure an amount of pressure applied and adjust the pressure to achieve a prescribed amount of compression on the article. Further, the press may leverage a closed-loop feedback system to maintain a consistent temperature of one or more platens. The press is able to adjust a pressure applied one or more times during a pressing operation to accelerate a temperature change in the pressed article while reducing the pressure applied as the temperature approaches a target temperature to limit unintentional deformation and bleeding of the pressed material of the article.

[B32B] LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM

Modification of transport functionality based on carbon footprint
Patent No. 11872891

Inventor(s): Trent B. Bennett (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17208629 on 03/22/2021 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: To encourage users to improve their carbon footprint, a transport may be provided with an enhanced operating manner in response to external events that lower the carbon footprint of one or more occupants of the transport. Events, such as lowering the energy consumption of a person”s home dwelling, may be communicated to the transport and trigger an enhanced mode in the transport, such as an enhanced driving mode (e.g. sport mode) or an enhanced charging mode.

[B60L] PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K 1/00, B60K 6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K 17/12, B60K 17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C 15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D 1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H 1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES [4]

Wireless protocol for battery management
Patent No. 11872905

Inventor(s): Alexis Justine Burnight (Dallas, TX), Archanaa Santhana Krishnan (Worcester, MA), Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, TX), Jesus Daniel Torres Bardales (Plano, TX), Minghua Fu (Plano, TX), Ramanuja Vedantham (Frisco, TX), Torbjrn Srb
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17233106 on 04/16/2021 (1005 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a battery controller, a set of battery cells, a primary network node coupled to the battery controller, and a secondary network node coupled to the set of battery cells. The primary and secondary network nodes are configured to wirelessly communicate with each other using frames that share a common frame format. The frame format includes one or more bits and a status of the one or more bits indicates whether the secondary network node is to communicate with the primary network node on behalf of another secondary network node.

Tail lamp back door/tailgate activation switch
Patent No. 11872927

Inventor(s): Kevin J. James (Saline, MI), Taun-Min Chan (Northville, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16874797 on 05/15/2020 (1341 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for controlling a function of a vehicle by activation of a vehicle button includes a vehicle component configured to receive a signal and to perform an electrical or mechanical function in response to receiving the signal. The system further includes a physical structure located on an exterior of the vehicle and having an integrated button such that at least one of manual actuation of or physical proximity to the physical structure initiates a button selection event. The system further includes an electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the vehicle component and to the integrated button and configured to identify the button selection event and to transmit the signal to the vehicle component in response to identifying the button selection event to cause the vehicle component to perform the electrical or mechanical function.

[B60Q] ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL [4]

Determining a setting for a cruise control
Patent No. 11872985

Inventor(s): Chase C. Violetta (Plymouth, MI), John K Lenneman (Okemos, MI), Kyungtae Han (Palo Alto, CA), Miles J. Johnson (Ann Arbor, MI), Prashant Tiwari (Santa Clara, CA), Toshinori Esaka (Ann Arbor, MI), Ziran Wang (San Jose, CA,
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17216924 on 03/30/2021 (1022 days app to issue)

Abstract: Based on a model and an identity of an operator of a vehicle, a setting for a cruise control to maintain a distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle can be determined. The model can be based on historical distances maintained by the operator. The model can also be based on information about an environment in which the vehicle is operating or information about a state of the operator. The identity can be received from an interface configured to receive information associated with the identity, a cloud computing platform, or a biometric system configured to determine the identity. The cruise control can be caused to operate according to the setting. A rate of energy consumption by the vehicle when the vehicle is controlled by the cruise control can be less than the rate of energy consumption when the vehicle lacks being controlled by the cruise control.

[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]

Gesture detection for transport control
Patent No. 11873000

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Risberg (Flower Mound, TX), Manoj Kalamkar (McKinney, TX), Sachin J. Ahire (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16794214 on 02/18/2020 (1428 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting a movement in a transport, determining whether the movement includes a gesture definition, when the movement includes a gesture definition, identifying a gesture associated with the gesture definition, and performing an action, via the transport, corresponding to the identified gesture.

Supplemental engine power control
Patent No. 11873081

Inventor(s): Charles Eric Covington (Colleyville, TX), Chia-Wei Su (Lewisville, TX), Cody Earl Fegely (Irving, TX), Darren Gregory Lang (Dallas, TX), Thomas Parsons (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17342963 on 06/09/2021 (951 days app to issue)

Abstract: A rotorcraft has a drive system including a main rotor coupled to a main rotor gearbox to rotate the main rotor at a rotor speed, a main engine coupled to the drive system to provide a first power, a supplemental engine coupled, when a first clutch is engaged, to the drive system to provide a second power additive to the first power, and a control system operable to control the main engine and the supplemental engine to provide a total power demand, where the main engine is controlled based on variations in rotor speed and a power compensation command to produce the first power, and the supplemental engine is controlled to produce the second power in response to a supplemental power demand.

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

VTOL aircraft with tilting rotors and tilting ducted fans
Patent No. 11873085

Inventor(s): Daniel B. Robertson (Southlake, TX), Kirk L. Groninga (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17366834 on 07/02/2021 (928 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exemplary tiltrotor aircraft having a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight mode and a forward flight mode includes tiltable rotors located at forward boom ends, tiltable ducted fans located at wings aft of the forward boom ends, and aft rotors located on aft boom portions.

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

Fuel cell protection system
Patent No. 11873111

Inventor(s): Douglas Howard Hamelwright (Grapevine, TX), Joshua Andrew Emrich (Grapevine, TX), Timothy Brian Carr (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17143387 on 01/07/2021 (1104 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a fuel cell protection system comprising an aircraft fuselage having an inner surface and an outer surface, an attachment point mounted on the outer surface, an aircraft fuel cell spaced apart from the inner surface, and a plate positioned between the inner surface and the aircraft fuel system, the plate spaced apart from the inner surface to create a void space. The attachment point may be a cargo hook. The void space is configured to receive all or a portion of the cargo hook after a crash. The plate creating the void space may be a rigid material or may be a ballistic fabric material.

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

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

Concrete composition for use in construction and methods of applying the same
Patent No. 11873251

Inventor(s): Mohamed Kassim Jahaber (Dubai, , AE)
Assignee(s): ONX, INC. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Haverstock Owens, A Law Corporation (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18111265 on 02/17/2023 (333 days app to issue)

Abstract: A concrete composition for use in construction that is free of cement includes calcium sulfate hemihydrate (CSH), polypropylene (PP) fiber, sand, retarders, and superplasticizers. The retarders include poly condensed amino acid and calcium (Ca) salt. The superplasticizers include specially formulated polycarboxylate powder. Further, a method of using the concrete composition in one or more construction related activities (e.g., architectural applications) includes adding the concrete composition to water in a mixer, the concrete composition including CSH, PP fiber, sand, a retarder, and a superplasticizer; and blending the concrete composition with water in the mixer for a first predetermined amount of time. The method further includes mixing the concrete composition with water at a predetermined sheer in the mixer for a second predetermined amount of time. The method excludes the steps of steam curing, accelerated curing, and water curing that are used in conventional solutions.

[C04B] LIME; MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDING MATERIALS; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CERAMICS (devitrified glass-ceramics C03C 10/00); REFRACTORIES (alloys based on refractory metals C22C); TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE [4]

Quinoline cGAS antagonist compounds
Patent No. 11873291

Inventor(s): Chuo Chen (Dallas, TX), Heping Shi (Coppell, TX), Hulling Tan (Dallas, TX), Jian Qiu (Dallas, TX), Lijun Sun (Dallas, TX), Matt Tschantz (Plano, TX), Qi Wei (Dallas, TX), Youtong Wu (Dallas, TX), Zhijian Chen (Dal
Assignee(s): IMMUNESENSOR THERAPEUTICS, INC. (Dallas, TX), THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Fenwick West LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17446951 on 09/03/2021 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds that are cGAS antagonists, methods of preparation of the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and their use in medical therapy.

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

2,2-difluoropropionamide derivatives of bardoxolone methyl, polymorphic forms and methods of use thereof
Patent No. 11873320

Inventor(s): Ahmad Y. Sheikh (Deerfield, IL), Alessandra Mattei (Chicago, IL), Xiu C. Wang (Green Oaks, IL)
Assignee(s): REATA PHARMACEUTICALS HOLDINGS, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17444594 on 08/06/2021 (893 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the compound:

[C07J] STEROIDS (seco-steroids C07C) [2]

Anti-folate receptor 1 antibodies and uses thereof
Patent No. 11873335

Inventor(s): Hui Zou (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Phanes Therapeutics, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Ice Miller LLP (8 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15733541 on 03/07/2019 (1776 days app to issue)

Abstract: Anti-FOLR1 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are described. Also described are nucleic acids encoding the antibodies, compositions comprising the antibodies, methods of producing the antibodies, and methods of using the antibodies for treating or preventing diseases, such as cancer.

[C07K] PEPTIDES (peptides containing ﬂ-lactam rings C07D; cyclic dipeptides not having in their molecule any other peptide link than those which form their ring, e.g. piperazine-2,5-diones, C07D; ergot alkaloids of the cyclic peptide type C07D 519/02; single cell proteins, enzymes C12N; genetic engineering processes for obtaining peptides C12N 15/00) [4]

Near-infrared emissive graphene quantum dots method of manufacture and uses thereof
Patent No. 11873433

Inventor(s): Anton V. Naumov (Arlington, TX), Tanvir Hasan (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: WHITAKER CHALK SWINDLE SCHWARTZ PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17249331 on 02/26/2021 (1054 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure comprises graphene quantum dots that exhibit emission in the near-infrared region in response to a variety of excitation wavelengths. The exciting wavelengths may be in the visible region, near-infrared region, or both. The quantum dots may be synthesized via a top-down method or a bottom-up method. The quantum dots are useful in imaging, drug delivery, and biosensing. The quantum dots comprise carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and metal atoms in various combinations.

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

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

Casing equipment for pulsed power drilling
Patent No. 11873697

Inventor(s): Neal Gregory Skinner (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, CA), Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX), SDG LLC (Minden, NV)
Law Firm: DeLizio, Peacock, Lewin Guerra, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16965627 on 08/30/2019 (1600 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a plug for cementing a wellbore. The plug may include a cylinder. The cylinder may include at least one body including a non-conductive material with conductive filaments dispersed within the non-conductive material. The present disclosure also includes float equipment for cementing a wellbore. The float equipment may include a casing segment including an inner surface, drillable material affixed to the inner surface of the casing segment, and a check valve attached to the drillable material. The drillable material may include a non-conductive material and conductive filaments dispersed within the non-conductive material.

[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]

Pump-out plug for multi-stage cementer
Patent No. 11873698

Inventor(s): Timothy James Weber (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: McAfee Taft (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17957452 on 09/30/2022 (473 days app to issue)

Abstract: A downhole tool has a tubular body defining an outer wall. A port is defined in the outer wall and a plug is received in the port. The plug is detachably connected to the outer wall and expellable into an annulus between the tubular body and a wellbore in which the downhole tool is placed upon the application of pressure in an interior of the tubular body.

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

Gimbal joint and method
Patent No. 11873925

Inventor(s): Juan J. Lara (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Eaton Intelligent Power Limited (Dublin, , IE)
Law Firm: Merchant and Gould, PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16131638 on 09/14/2018 (1950 days app to issue)

Abstract: A gimbal joint includes a monolithic first member including a first connection portion; and a monolithic second member including a second connection portion engaged with the first connection portion such that the monolithic first member and the monolithic second member are configured to move relative to each other about a plurality of axes. The first member may include a plurality of structural portions and a support base. The support base may include an axially-extending aperture that extends through the support base.

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

Parallel flow and counterflow insulated preconditioned air delivery and recirculation system
Patent No. 11874010

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Giblin (Irving, TX), Joe D Gracey (Lewisville, TX), William Tyler (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): TWG Supply, LLC (Grapevine, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17162383 on 01/29/2021 (1082 days app to issue)

Abstract: A self-insulating air delivery and recirculation system maintains a desired air temperature of the conditioned air supplied thereinto for delivery to an aircraft. The system uses insulating airflow layers; a parallel layer and a counterflow layer. A starting section connects to a PCA unit and delivers conditioned air therefrom to an interior supply hose. The starting section supplies conditioned insulating air to an interior insulating hose that is annularly outward of the supply hose and in which air flows parallel to airflow in the supply hose. A reversing connector indirectly connects the supply hose to the aircraft and reverses the flow of air from the interior insulating hose to flow back toward the PCA unit in an exterior counterflow hose that is annularly outward of the interior insulating hose and connects at its far end to provide intake airflow to the PCA unit.

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

Intelligent commissioning of building automation controllers
Patent No. 11874011

Inventor(s): Babak Haghayeghi (Belmont, LA), David Keefer (Willshire, OH), David Shike (Rockton, IL), Kevin Sweeney (Methuen, MA), Shawn Lambert (Andover, MA)
Assignee(s): Schneider Electric Buildings Americas, Inc. (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: Locke Lord LLP (Local + 12 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16474797 on 01/18/2019 (1824 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems/methods for intelligent commissioning of an HVAC system provide a control node and at least a first network node coupled to communicate with the control node, the first network node configured to retrieve via a user interface objects configured at the control node, configure at least a second network node using the retrieved objects, and report the configuration of the second network node at the control node. A user interface of a first network node can access the objects at the control node. The first network node can apply the accessed objects to configure a second network node using a commissioning tool. The commissioning tool can be activated specifically for certain authorized HVAC personas or roles. The first network node can report the configuring at the control node. The commissioning tool can be voice-enabled to allow a single user to configure the HVAC system via voice commands.

Firearm muzzle accessory
Patent No. 11874078

Inventor(s): Benjamin Ni Ye (North Richland Hills, TX), Richard Trevor Simpson Roe (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Shadow Systems LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Taylor English Duma LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17680067 on 02/24/2022 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: A muzzle accessory for installation on a barrel of a firearm is provided. The muzzle accessory includes an accessory body having a through-channel sized to receive the barrel of the firearm; and a locking member structured to engage the groove of the barrel to lock the muzzle accessory to the barrel.

[F41A] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE [5]

P H Y S I C S

Systems and methods for utilizing machine learning to minimize a potential of damage to fiber optic cables
Patent No. 11874160

Inventor(s): Glenn A. Wellbrock (Wylie, TX), Tiejun J. Xia (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): NEC Corporation (Tokyo, , JP), NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (Princeton, NJ), Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17088195 on 11/03/2020 (1169 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive, from a fiber sensor device, sensing data associated with a fiber optic cable, the sensing data being produced by an activity that poses a threat of damage to the fiber optic cable, and the sensing data identifying: amplitudes of vibration signals, frequencies of the vibration signals, patterns of the vibration signals, times associated with the vibration signals, and locations along the fiber optic cable associated with the vibration signals. The device may process, with a machine learning model, the sensing data to determine a threat level of the activity to the fiber optic cable, the machine learning model having been trained based on historical information regarding detected vibrations, historical information regarding sources of the detected vibrations, and historical information regarding threat levels to the fiber optic cable. The device may perform one or more actions based on the threat level to the fiber optic cable.

[G01H] MEASUREMENT OF MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OR ULTRASONIC, SONIC OR INFRASONIC WAVES [4]

System and method using IR radiation and fluid channel to detect contaminants and salts in fluids
Patent No. 11874222

Inventor(s): Ecatherina Roodenko Fuchs (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Max-IR Labs, Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17678721 on 02/23/2022 (692 days app to issue)

Abstract: An infrared (IR) radiation sensor for detection of an analyte in a fluid. The IR sensor comprises: i) a housing; ii) a reservoir disposed in the housing and configured to contain the fluid; iii) a fluid channel in communication with the reservoir; and iv) a preconcentration material associated with the fluid channel. The preconcentration material enhances IR bands in an IR spectra. The IR sensor also includes a photonic integrated circuit disposed in the housing. The photonic integrated circuit includes an IR source configured to transmit IR light toward the fluid channel and the preconcentration material. A spectral characteristic of the IR light is changed by the analyte in the fluid in the fluid channel that is trapped in the preconcentration material. The photonic IC also includes an IR detector configured to receive IR light transmitted through or reflected off the preconcentration material and detect the spectral characteristic.

[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)

Systems and methods for reporting performance of agricultural inputs
Patent No. 11874264

Inventor(s): Bruce A. Jump (Grabill, IN)
Assignee(s): Heritage Landscape Supply Group, Inc. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16530347 on 08/02/2019 (1628 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for reporting performance of an agricultural input for a plant involves: storing in a computer database a set of agricultural inputs, plants for which the agricultural inputs are used, performance attributes of the agricultural inputs, historical agricultural input performance values, and a relative significance of each of the agricultural inputs for the performance attribute. A computer processor is used to receive a plant selection; receive an attribute to be targeted for the plant selection; identify a plurality of agricultural inputs for affecting the targeted attribute for the plant using the historical agricultural input performance values; rank the plurality of agricultural inputs for affecting the targeted attribute for the selected plant using the relative significance associated therewith; and display the plurality of agricultural inputs and corresponding ranks for the received attribute associated with the selected plant.

Techniques for rapid detection and quantitation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using breath samples
Patent No. 11874270

Inventor(s): Guido Fridolin Verbeck, IV (Lewisville, TX), John Redmond (Frisco, TX), Luke Keiser (Frisco, TX), Tim C. Wing (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): InspectIR Systems, LLC (Frisco, TX), University of North Texas (Denton, TX)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17033596 on 09/25/2020 (1208 days app to issue)

Abstract: An exemplary breath analysis system may include a sampling chamber having a molecule collector disposed therein. The molecule collector may be configured such that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in a breath sample introduced to the sampling chamber adhere to the molecule collector. A photodiode array configured to excite and/or heat the molecule collector to release at least a portion of the VOCs from the molecule collector to release at least the portion of the VOCs adhered to the molecule collector. An analysis device (e.g., a mass spectrometer or Terahertz (THz) spectrometer) may identify one or more target VOCs from among at least the portion of the VOCs released from the molecule collector and generate an output representative of the identified target VOC(s). The output may include information that quantitates a concentration of the target VOC(s) with respect to a source of the breath sample.

Mobile device three-dimensional location service
Patent No. 11874387

Inventor(s): Eric Parker (Plano, TX), Roy Areeckal (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16864801 on 05/01/2020 (1355 days app to issue)

Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may obtain a location of a mobile device and a barometric pressure reading of the mobile device, identify a weather reference area and a ground reference area containing the location, and calculate an elevation of the mobile device from the barometric pressure reading of the mobile device and a barometric pressure metric of a weather reference point of the weather reference area, where the weather reference point has a predetermined elevation. The processing system may then determine a height of the mobile device over a ground level of the location based upon the elevation of the mobile device that is calculated and based upon an elevation of a ground reference area containing the location and provide a report of the location of mobile device including the height of the mobile device over the ground level that is determined.

[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)

Non-active chirp dithering in FMCW radar
Patent No. 11874392

Inventor(s): Karthik Subburaj (Bengaluru, , IN), Piyush Soni (Bengaluru, , IN), Shailesh Joshi (Bengaluru, , IN), Shankar Ram Narayana Moorthy (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17498342 on 10/11/2021 (827 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage device stores machine instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to determine a chirp period Tc for radar chirps in a radar frame. The chirp period Tc comprises a rising period Trise and a falling period Tfall. The processor determines, for each radar chirp in the radar frame, a corresponding randomized frequency characteristic during Tfall, and causes a radar sensor circuit to generate the radar chirps in the radar frame based on Tc, Trise, Tfall, and the corresponding randomized frequency characteristics. In some implementations, the machine instructions to determine the corresponding randomized frequency characteristic comprise machine instructions to determine a frequency step having a frequency f_step and a period Tstep. At least one of the frequency f_step and the period Tstep is dithered across radar chirps in the radar frame.

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

System and method for improving signal qualification
Patent No. 11874394

Inventor(s): Clint W. McLaughlin (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Law Firm: Suiter Swantz pc llo (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17196435 on 03/09/2021 (1043 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may include a processor configured to: receive ambient data from an environment; calculate an average amplitude of the ambient data as a measure of a noise floor; receive a signal of interest found by the signal exceeding a noise riding threshold, the noise riding floor being an upward offset from the noise floor; calculate a running average for amplitude and frequency of the signal of interest; calculate a running variance for the amplitude and the frequency of the signal of interest; use the running average and the running variance to provide an adjustment to limits for modulation detection; use an offset from the noise riding threshold to provide a signal qualification minimum amplitude; and qualify the signal of interest based at least on the signal qualification minimum amplitude.

Radar processing chain for frequency-modulated continuous wave radar systems
Patent No. 11874395

Inventor(s): June Chul Roh (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17474133 on 09/14/2021 (854 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a radar processing chain for frequency-modulated continuous wave radar systems. A transmitter transmits a plurality of chirps, each comprising an electromagnetic radiation signal, at a region of interest. A receiver front-end receives reflected electromagnetic radiation for each chirp and generates a time series of beat-signal samples for each chirp at each antenna of a plurality of antennas. A signal processor detects objects within the region of interest by providing a frequency domain representation of each time series of beat-signal samples as sample values for a set of range bins representing respective distances from the receiver, correcting the sample values for each of the set of range bins to provide a set of clutter corrected samples for each range bin, and determining an angular spectrum for each of a subset of the set of range bins from the clutter corrected samples.

Compact display with extended pixel resolution
Patent No. 11874486

Inventor(s): Stephen Aldridge Shaw (Plano, TX), Terry Alan Bartlett (Dallas, TX), Vivek Kumar Thakur (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17458917 on 08/27/2021 (872 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described examples include a display having a first light source configured to provide a first light and a second light source configured to provide a second light. The display also having a spatial light modulator configured to produce a first modulated light by modulating the first light and configured to produce a second modulated light by modulating the second light. The display also having a first diffractive optical element configured to receive the first modulated light and configured to provide a first image having a first characteristic to display optics; and a second diffractive optical element configured to receive the second modulated light and configured to provide a second image having a second characteristic to the display optics.

[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]

Position or velocity control system and method
Patent No. 11874644

Inventor(s): David Patrick Magee (Allen, TX), Rajan Lakshmi Narasimha (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17146083 on 01/11/2021 (1100 days app to issue)

Abstract: In described examples of methods and control systems to control a position and/or velocity of a machine, control circuitry is coupled to receive and dither a control signal, and to compute a control output value according to the dithered control signal and a control function. An inverter is coupled to the control circuitry, to control the position and/or velocity according to the control output value.

[G05B] CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (fluid-pressure actuators or systems acting by means of fluids in general F15B; valves per se F16K; characterised by mechanical features only G05G; sensitive elements, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. G12B, subclasses of G01, H01; correcting units, see the appropriate subclasses, e.g. H02K)

Frame-based, low power interfaces between devices with different I/O signals
Patent No. 11874718

Inventor(s): Bharath Kumar Singareddy (Bangalore, , IN), Douglas Edward Wente (Murphy, TX), Mustafa Ulvi Erdogan (Allen, TX), Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17330027 on 05/25/2021 (966 days app to issue)

Abstract: High-speed data communication devices, e.g., repeaters, interfacing between a host and a peripheral operate such that high-speed components except for a host-side squelch detector are set or maintained in a deactivated state during an idle period of a micro frame. In an example, a start of a micro frame is detected on a data bus during a first time period. In a second time period after the first time period, the high-speed communication device determines whether at least one data packet is contained in the micro frame. When it is determined during the second time period that no data packet is contained in the micro frame, active components, except a squelch detector, are controlled to be inactive during a third time period after the second time period.

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

Predicting and mitigating memory leakage in a computer system
Patent No. 11874731

Inventor(s): Gregory B. Goslen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, TX)
Law Firm: Trop, Pruner Hu, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17513663 on 10/28/2021 (810 days app to issue)

Abstract: The system determines a first and a second snapshot of memory usage by processes in a computing system based on a predetermined time interval, wherein a respective snapshot indicates, for a respective process, memory usage corresponding to memory types including private memory and shared memory. The system computes, for processes common to the first and the second snapshots, a likelihood of memory leak for a process and memory type based on: an increase in an amount of heap memory and private memory; an increase in an amount of shared memory; and an increase in a total amount of private and shared memory. The system compares the computed likelihood for the process with a predetermined threshold. Responsive to determining that the computed likelihood for the process exceeds the predetermined threshold, the system performs a corrective action to address memory leak associated with the process.

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

Recording processor instruction execution cycle and non-cycle count trace events
Patent No. 11874759

Inventor(s): Gilbert Laurenti (St. Paul, , FR)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16840721 on 04/06/2020 (1380 days app to issue)

Abstract: A program is executed on a processor to produce execution events. The execution events are traced using a first trace mode during a first portion of the program execution, wherein a portion of trace information for the execution events is omitted from a trace report while tracing in the first trace mode. The mode of tracing is dynamically changed to a second trace mode in response to an event trigger, such that all execution events that occur during the change of mode are captured. Execution events are traced during a second portion of the program execution using the second trace mode, wherein additional trace information for the execution events is included in the trace report while tracing in the second trace mode. The trace mode may be dynamically switched between the two trace modes during execution of the program.

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

Optimizing distributed and parallelized batch data processing
Patent No. 11874817

Inventor(s): Marcus Matos (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17218722 on 03/31/2021 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing and maintaining efficient and effective processing of sets of work items in enterprise computing environments by optimizing distributed and parallelized batch data processing. A computing platform may initialize a monitoring process configured to monitor a pending workload in a work queue database. Subsequently, the computing platform may cause the monitoring process to query the work queue database and create one or more historical records indicative of a workload processing status associated with one or more processing workers. Then, the computing platform may identify one or more new parameter values for one or more processing parameters associated with the one or more processing workers based on the one or more historical records. Thereafter, the computing platform may configure the one or more processing workers based on the one or more new parameter values identified for the one or more processing parameters.

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

Agnostic image digitizer to detect fraud
Patent No. 11874823

Inventor(s): Marcus R. Matos (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Weiss Arons LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17874714 on 07/27/2022 (538 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods for enhancing compatibility of a document of an entity with an organization”s database on a computer server to facilitate detection of a fraudulent submission. Methods may include receiving a populated document in a first format from the entity, using a processor to digitize the document into a digital format, such as bytes, and further into a second format, where the first format may not be compatible with the database and the second format may be compatible with the database. Methods may include using the processor, optionally running a statistical model, to determine an entity identifier, a predicted value of a data field in the document, and whether there is a difference between the value in the predicted data field and a corresponding value in the populated document. Methods may include implementing a corrective action, such as raising a fraud alert at the organization, when there is a difference.

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

Automated dataset placement for application execution
Patent No. 11874848

Inventor(s): William Jeffery White (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Hopkinton, MA)
Law Firm: Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams Aughtry (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17460487 on 08/30/2021 (869 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for distributed data management. The method may include obtaining data descriptors for an application executing on a data host, performing a dataset policy analysis using the data descriptors to determine a data placement for a dataset associated with the application using a global name repository, performing, based on the data policy analysis, the data placement, and based on the data placement, updating the global name repository.

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

Providing user-induced variable identification of end-to-end computing system security impact information systems and methods
Patent No. 11874934

Inventor(s): Prithvi Narayana Rao (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18327040 on 05/31/2023 (230 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing user-induced variable identification of end-to-end computing system security impact information via a user interface are disclosed. The system receives at a graphical user interface (GUI), a user calibration of a graphical security vulnerability element. The system then determines a set of computing system components that interact with data associated with the network operation based on a transmission of the network operation associated with a computing system. The system then determines a set of security vulnerabilities associated with each computing system component of the set of computing system components using a third-party resource. The system then applies a decision engine on the set of security vulnerabilities to determine a set of impacted computing-aspects associated with the set of computing system components. The system then generates for display a graphical representation of the set of impacted computing-aspects satisfying the security condition of the user calibration.

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

Loop dependent word line ramp start time for program verify of multi-level NAND memory
Patent No. 11875043

Inventor(s): Abu Naser Zainuddin (Milpitas, CA), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, CA), Toru Miwa (Yokohama, , JP)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17943560 on 09/13/2022 (490 days app to issue)

Abstract: To reduce spikes in the current used by a NAND memory die during a write operation using smart verify, different amounts of delay are introduced into the loops of the programing algorithm. Depending on the number of verify levels following a programming pulse, differing amounts of wait time are used before biasing a selected word line to the verify levels or levels. For example, if only a single verify level is used, a shorter delay is used than if two verify levels are used.

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

Local memory use for perspective transform engine
Patent No. 11875047

Inventor(s): Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, , IN), Niraj Nandan (Plano, TX), Rajasekhar Reddy Allu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18084635 on 12/20/2022 (392 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes: a local memory; and a first processing circuit coupled to the local memory. The first processing component is configured to: receive a first set of image data; perform a first image processing operation on the first set of image data to produce a second set of image data; and store at least some of the second set of image data into the local memory. The integrated circuit also includes a second processing circuit coupled to the local memory and configured to: receive at least some of the second set of image data from the local memory; and perform a second image processing operation on the second set of image data to produce a third set of image data.

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

Method for data-driven comparison of aerodynamic simulations
Patent No. 11875091

Inventor(s): Brian T. Thurgate (Ypsilanti, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16561422 on 09/05/2019 (1594 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for evaluating computational fluid dynamic simulation results. The method includes, based on a set of initial conditions, performing a first baseline run and a second baseline run of a simulated area or volume containing a vehicle body shape, and then performing a change run of the simulated area or volume containing a modified vehicle body shape, and performing the following actions within the simulated area or volume: plotting an iso line of the first baseline run and a corresponding iso line of the second baseline run, plotting an iso line of the change run that corresponds to the iso line of the two baseline runs, and comparing whether the iso line of the change run falls between the iso lines of the two basline runs. If not, then the modification to the vehicle body shape may be considered significant.

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

Method and apparatus for adding new inline prompts to a program development environment
Patent No. 11875137

Inventor(s): Harshal S Chhaya (Plano, TX), Malgorzata Anna Brothers (Plano, TX), Michael Georges Stella (Dallas, TX), Pedro Edyvan Hernandez (Aguascalientes, , MX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17223386 on 04/06/2021 (1015 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for Python programming on a handheld device is provided that includes installing a module in a Python development environment on the handheld device, wherein the module includes a definition of a new inline prompt, and adding the new inline prompt to a plurality of pre-defined inline prompts included in the Python development environment.

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

Processing device with a microbranch target buffer for branch prediction using loop iteration count
Patent No. 11875155

Inventor(s): David Edward Smith, Jr. (Allen, TX), Kai Chirca (Dallas, TX), Paul Daniel Gauvreau (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17578516 on 01/19/2022 (727 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.

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

Real-time arbitration of shared resources in a multi-master communication and control system
Patent No. 11875183

Inventor(s): Thomas Anton Leyrer (Geisenhausen, , DE), William Cronin Wallace (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16424667 on 05/29/2019 (1693 days app to issue)

Abstract: A spinlock circuit connected to one or more first processors through one or more broadside interfaces. The spinlock circuit is configured to receive a plurality of requests for use of a computing resource from one or more first processors, and reply to each of the plurality of requests within a single clock cycle of the one or more first processors. The spinlock circuit can reply to each of the plurality of requests within a single clock cycle of the one or more first processors by alternately assigning the computing resource to a requesting processor from among the one or more first processors or indicating to the requesting processor from among the one or more first processors that the computing resource is not available.

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

Method and system for managing mainframe billable resources
Patent No. 11875290

Inventor(s): Debabrata Ghosh (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: GREENBLUM BERNSTEIN P.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17070524 on 10/14/2020 (1189 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for managing mainframe billable resources for a plurality of mainframe environments is provided. The method includes receiving a job file from a user, the job file including a batch file relating to a mainframe job and a mainframe task; identifying an override statement in the job file; determining, based on a result of the identifying, a mapping strategy according to a predetermined criterion, the mapping strategy relating to a mapping of the job file to a billing entity identifier; authorizing the job file based on the billing entity identifier and a logon identifier corresponding to the user; mapping the job file to the billing entity identifier based on the determined mapping strategy; recording, in a memory, information relating to the mapping; and executing, in a mainframe environment, the job file.

[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]

Normalization grid for secured multi-lender platform
Patent No. 11875308

Inventor(s): Alan Ilango (Mckinney, TX), Dinesh Sundaram (Plano, TX), Katelyn Ge (Frisco, 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: 17411115 on 08/25/2021 (874 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-lender architecture evaluates applicant data against lending rule sets of multiple lenders. Rule sets provided by different lenders may be expressed differently. The multi-lender architecture transforms the rules in each rule set and represents the rules in a normalization grid. The normalization grid allows a single algorithm to evaluate the rules of different lenders.

System for providing goods and services based on accrued but unpaid earnings
Patent No. 11875316

Inventor(s): Anthony M. Cacheria (Coppell, TX), Arthur Martin Holbrook (Carrollton, TX), Barrett Jenkins (Plano, TX), David Hooker (Forney, TX), Kristopher Glover (Dallas, TX), Mohamed Safir Salihu (Coppell, TX), Purnendu Mishra (Fris
Assignee(s): Ganart Technologies, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18121723 on 03/15/2023 (307 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for interfacing predetermined services to a user at a fixed location includes a processing platform running an operating system. The system further includes a data store for storing configuration information for enabling the operating system to interface with available physical system resources through the physical system resource interface associated therewith. A communication resource for interfacing with the operating system allows communication of the operating system with a central office for downloading configuration information to selectively enable ones of the available physical system resources to interface with the operating system through associated ones of the physical system resource interfaces in accordance with the configuration information and the predetermined service selected by a user. A plurality of configurations is stored in the data store, and each is associated with a predetermined service and one or more of the available physical system resources.

Smartphone application for securing purchase transactions between a customer and a merchant with self-checkout
Patent No. 11875332

Inventor(s): Sharonda Phillips (Flower Mound, TX), Vidya Nagarajan (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17833225 on 06/06/2022 (589 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile computing device that is configured to secure a purchase transaction between a customer and merchant, and facilitate self-checkout between the user and any of several merchants. The system provides a payment processing network that achieves secure transactions free from fraud, while also having low fees. The system is based on establishing a relationship between a merchant”s bank and a customer”s bank, prior to a purchase transaction by the customer. The customer may then authorize their own bank to push funds to the merchant”s bank in order to purchase goods or services using their smartphone, without the need to share any financial information between the user and merchant themselves. The smartphone is further configured to draw from multiple merchant product databases so that the customer may self-checkout, without the need to use a merchant-specific app, all within one app-linked system for payment and shopping.

Methods and systems for providing personalized purchasing information
Patent No. 11875401

Inventor(s): Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17453058 on 11/01/2021 (806 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing personalized purchasing information to a user may include: obtaining first identification data of the user from a first engine; verifying a registration status of the user based on the first identification data; obtaining second identification data of the user from a second engine based on the registration status of the user; comparing the first identification data of the user and the second identification data of the user; initiating a real-time credit monitoring session based on the comparison between the first identification data of the user and the second identification data of the user; generating the personalized purchasing information of the user based on the real-time credit score of the user; and demonstrating the personalized purchasing information on a display of a device associated with the user.

Centralized checklist management
Patent No. 11875420

Inventor(s): Paige Wilbur (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: Shumaker Sieffert, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17200373 on 03/12/2021 (1040 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are described that provide a centralized system to coordinate disparate teams involved in handling various tasks, including, for example, the tasks relating to settling the affairs of an estate. In one described example, such techniques provide a centralized estate resource system (ERS) to create, manage, track, and coordinate task checklists and actions for each of the teams including interactions between teams. The ERS may assign specific personnel within each team to a given estate, send notifications and warnings to appropriate team members when tasks are due or complete, and facilitate messaging between team members to communicate when information is needed or has become available. The ERS may provide updated status and information across teams without violating privacy or security regulations, as may be the case with email, text messages, or voice messages.

Surround view
Patent No. 11875450

Inventor(s): Hemant Hariyani (Plano, TX), Lucas Weaver (Dallas, TX), Shashank Dabral (Allen, TX), Vikram Appia (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17853220 on 06/29/2022 (566 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system on a chip (SoC) includes a digital signal processor (DSP) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled to the DSP. The DSP is configured to receive a stream of received depth measurements and generate a virtual bowl surface based on the stream of received depth measurements. The DSP is also configured to generate a bowl to physical camera mapping based on the virtual bowl surface. The GPU is configured to receive a first texture and receive a second texture. The GPU is also configured to perform physical camera to virtual camera transformation on the first texture and on the second texture, based on the bowl to physical camera mapping, to generate an output image.

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

Matching content to a spatial 3D environment
Patent No. 11875466

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Edward Ruediger (McKinney, TX), John A. Gotcher (Prosper, TX), Matthew Schon Bogue (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Vista IP Law Group, LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17663792 on 05/17/2022 (609 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for matching content elements to surfaces in a spatially organized 3D environment. The method includes receiving content, identifying one or more elements in the content, determining one or more surfaces, matching the one or more elements to the one or more surfaces, and displaying the one or more elements as virtual content onto the one or more surfaces.

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

Partial access metadata for video-based point cloud compression data
Patent No. 11875539

Inventor(s): Youngkwon Lim (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17108918 on 12/01/2020 (1141 days app to issue)

Abstract: A decoding device, method, and computer readable medium for partial access metadata for video-based point cloud compression data are disclosed. The decoding device for point cloud decoding includes a communication interface and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The communication interface receives a compressed bitstream and metadata related to the compressed bitstream. The processor identifies, in the metadata, region information that indicates a region of a point cloud based on a user perspective; locates a track of the compressed bitstream that corresponds to the region information; identifies, in the track, objects corresponding to the region of the point cloud; and decodes for display of an object, included in the objects identified in the track, that is visible from the user perspective.

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

Systems and methods for personalized augmented reality view
Patent No. 11875563

Inventor(s): Geoffrey Dagley (McKinney, TX), Jason Richard Hoover (Grapevine, TX), Micah Price (Plano, TX), Qiaochu Tang (The Colony, TX), Stephen Michael Wylie (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT DUNNER, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17226540 on 04/09/2021 (1012 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting an augmented reality view are disclosed. Embodiments include a system with a database for personalizing an augmented reality view of a physical environment using at least one of a location of a physical environment or a location of a user. The system may further include a hardware device in communication with the database, the hardware device including a renderer configured to render the augmented reality view for display and a controller configured to determine a scope of the augmented reality view authenticating the augmented reality view. The hardware device may include a processor configured to receive the augmented reality view of the physical environment, and present, via a display, augmented reality content to the user while the user is present in the physical environment, based on the determined scope of the augmented reality view. NULL

Systems and methods for determining hand poses in artificial reality environments
Patent No. 11875604

Inventor(s): Andrew Mitchell Welch (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC (Menlo Park, CA)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17181723 on 02/22/2021 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes a computing system receiving an image of a real-world environment, the image including at least a portion of a hand of a user of an artificial reality device, the hand comprising a palm and a plurality of fingers. The computing system determines a hand pose of the hand using the image, and defines, based on the hand pose, a three-dimensional surface positioned in the palm of the hand. The computing system determines, based on the hand pose, distances between predetermined portions of the plurality of fingers and the three-dimensional surface. The computing system assigns, based on the distances, a pose value for each of the plurality of fingers of the hand and determines, based on the pose values for the plurality of fingers, a grab state of the hand. NULL

Motion-based transport assessment
Patent No. 11875613

Inventor(s): Felipe G. Salles (Garland, TX), Jaya Bharath R. Goluguri (McKinney, TX), Joshua V. Marasigan (Carrollton, TX), Robert D. Slater (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17890230 on 08/17/2022 (517 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of obtaining, by a moving vehicle, a first data including one or more of at least one first video and at least one first image of a moving transport, analyzing the first data, by the moving vehicle, to determine an initial issue, querying, by the moving vehicle, a server for a second data based on the analyzing, wherein the second data is one or more of at least one second video and at least one second image of the moving transport at a previous time, verifying, by the moving vehicle, an issue exists based on a delta above a threshold between the first data and the second data, and sending, by the moving vehicle, the verified issue to the server.

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

Systems, methods and devices for processing batches of coins utilizing coin imaging sensor assemblies
Patent No. 11875626

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Rourk (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Jackson Walker LLP (Local + 3 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17389514 on 07/30/2021 (900 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for identifying counterfeit coins, comprising receiving surface image data and edge image data of the coin at a processor. Identifying a plurality of defects using the processor. Comparing each of the plurality of defects to a database of known authentic coin image data defects to determine whether the coin is authentic.

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

Systems and methods for automated machine learning model training quality control
Patent No. 11875706

Inventor(s): Scott Hellman (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. (Bloomington, MN)
Law Firm: Quarles Brady LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16281014 on 02/20/2019 (1791 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated custom training of a scoring model are disclosed herein. The method include: receiving a plurality of responses received from a plurality of students in response to providing of a prompt; identifying an evaluation model relevant to the provided prompt, which evaluation model can be a machine learning model trained to output a score relevant to at least portions of a response; generating a training indicator that provides a graphical depiction of the degree to which the identified evaluation model is trained; determining a training status of the model; receiving at least one evaluation input when the model is identified as insufficiently trained; updating training of the evaluation model based on the at least one received evaluation input; and controlling the training indicator to reflect the degree to which the evaluation model is trained subsequent to the updating of the training of the evaluation model.

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

Methods and systems for optimized selection of data features for a neuro-linguistic cognitive artificial intelligence system
Patent No. 11875784

Inventor(s): Gang Xu (Katy, TX), Ming-Jung Seow (The Woodlands, TX), Tao Yang (Katy, TX)
Assignee(s): Intellective Ai, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: COOLEY LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17107383 on 11/30/2020 (1142 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to optimize feature selection in generating betas for a feature dictionary of a neuro-linguistic Cognitive AI System. A machine learning engine receives a sample vector of input data to be analyzed by the neuro-linguistic Cognitive AI System. The neuro-linguistic Cognitive AI System is configured to generate multiple betas for each of a plurality of sensors. The machine learning engine identifies a sensor specified in the sample vector and selects optimization parameters for generating betas based on the identified sensor.

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

Systems and methods for staggering read operation of sub-blocks
Patent No. 11875842

Inventor(s): Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, CA), Tai-Yuan Tseng (Milpitas, CA), Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: Dickinson Wright PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17522414 on 11/09/2021 (798 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device with one or more planes having sub-blocks is disclosed. The memory device may further include a voltage switch transistor for each of sub-blocks. Additionally, the memory device may further include a row decoder for each of sub-blocks. As a result, an operation to two sub-blocks can be performed at different times. For example, using a row decoder and voltage switch transistor, a sub-block can be initially read, followed by a subsequent read of another sub-block using a separate row decoder and voltage switch transistor. By staggering the read operations through a time delay, the peak current Icc associated with the supply voltage can be reduced.

[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)

Monitoring circuit for photovoltaic module
Patent No. 11877106

Inventor(s): Suheng Chen (Plano, TX), Timothy Patrick Pauletti (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17733619 on 04/29/2022 (627 days app to issue)

Abstract: A monitoring circuit for a photovoltaic module includes a measurement conditioning circuit, a microcontroller circuit, and a transmitter circuit. The measurement conditioning circuit includes a voltage sense terminal, a voltage reference terminal, and a digital measurement data output. The microcontroller circuit includes a digital measurement data input coupled with the digital measurement data output, a modulation clock input, a measurement data stream output, and a transmit select output. The transmitter circuit includes a measurement data stream input coupled with the measurement data stream output, a modulation clock output coupled with the modulation clock input, a transmit select input coupled with the transmit select output, and positive and negative output communication terminals.

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

Additively manufactured energetic material anti-tamper feature and implementation
Patent No. 11877389

Inventor(s): Mark Andrew Schoelen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC. (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Law Firm: CANTOR COLBURN LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17120574 on 12/14/2020 (1128 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus with an anti-tamper architecture includes a substrate and a layer of a pyrotechnic composite arranged on a surface of the substrate. The pyrotechnic composite includes a metal and a metal oxide, and the layer has a thickness of about 1 micrometer to about 10 millimeters. A reaction of the pyrotechnic composite is an exothermic reaction and at least partially fractures the substrate after the reaction is initiated.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Method and device for hydrogen sulfide dissociation in electric arc
Patent No. 11875975

Inventor(s): Alexander Gutsol (Flourtown, PA), Yuriy Mirochnik (Philadelphia, PA)
Assignee(s): REDSHIFT ENERGY, INC. (Midlothian, TX)
Law Firm: Bardmesser Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17015505 on 09/09/2020 (1224 days app to issue)

Abstract: Device for hydrogen sulfide plasma dissociation includes a plasma chemical reactor including an arc plasma generator that has a cathode and an anode; the anode having a working surface for contacting hydrogen sulfide plasma, wherein the working surface is made from a material that includes stainless steel, tungsten or molybdenum; the cathode having a tip for arc attachment where a cathode spot is formed, wherein the cathode tip is made from pure tungsten, pure molybdenum, a tungsten or molybdenum alloy with tungsten as a major component or a composite material in which tungsten or molybdenum is the major component; and a flow path configured to have an inlet for gaseous hydrogen sulfide for dissociation in plasma into hydrogen and sulfur, and an outlet for gaseous products of hydrogen sulfide plasma dissociation. Optionally, the alloy or composite material has up to 10% low work function elements (thorium, cerium, lanthanum, or zirconium).

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

Silicon nitride metal layer covers
Patent No. 11876056

Inventor(s): Jonathan Andrew Montoya (Dallas, TX), Salvatore Franks Pavone (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17246561 on 04/30/2021 (991 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die; a passivation layer abutting a device side of the semiconductor die; a first conductive layer abutting the device side of the semiconductor die; a second conductive layer abutting the first conductive layer and the passivation layer; a silicon nitride layer abutting the second conductive layer, the silicon nitride layer having a thickness ranging from 300 Angstroms to 3000 Angstroms; and a third conductive layer coupled to the second conductive layer at a gap in the silicon nitride layer, the third conductive layer configured to receive a solder ball.

[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]

Flip chip package assembly
Patent No. 11876065

Inventor(s): Katleen Fajardo Timbol (Tarlac, , PH), Rafael Jose Lizares Guevara (Manila, , PH), Salvatore Frank Pavone (Murphy, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17491496 on 09/30/2021 (838 days app to issue)

Abstract: In a described example, an apparatus includes: a semiconductor die having a device side surface; bond pads on the semiconductor die on the device side surface; post connects having a proximate end on the bond pads and extending from the bond pads to a distal end, the diameter of the post connects at the proximate end being the same as the diameter of the post connects at the distal end; polyimide material covering sides of the post connects and covering at least a portion of the bond pads; and solder bumps on the distal end of the post connects.

Field effect transistors with reduced gate fringe area and method of making the same
Patent No. 11876096

Inventor(s): Hiroyuki Ogawa (Nagoya, , JP), Kiyokazu Shishido (Yokkaichi, , JP), Takahito Fujita (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17496122 on 10/07/2021 (831 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes at least two field effect transistors. A gate strip including a plurality of gate dielectrics and a gate electrode strip can be formed over a plurality of semiconductor active regions. Source/drain implantation is conducted using the gate strip as a mask. The gate strip is divided into gate electrodes after the implantation.

Transistor device with buffered drain
Patent No. 11876134

Inventor(s): Henry Litzmann Edwards (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17489513 on 09/29/2021 (839 days app to issue)

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a source region. A drain region has a first conductivity type and a second dopant concentration spaced apart from the source region. A first drift region is located between the source region and the drain region and has the first conductivity type and a first dopant concentration that is lower than the second dopant concentration of the drain region. An oxide structure includes a first portion on or over the first drift region and a tapered portion between the first portion and the drain region. A substrate surface extension is between the tapered portion and the drain region. A buffer region has the first conductivity type between the first drift region and the drain region and under the tapered portion of the oxide structure. The buffer region has a third dopant concentration between the second dopant concentration and the first dopant concentration.

Fuel cell power unbalancing to control degradation and improve performance
Patent No. 11876262

Inventor(s): Takehito Yokoo (Aliso Viejo, CA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law, LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17193188 on 03/05/2021 (1047 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for technology to detect an unbalanced degradation among a plurality of fuel cells in an automotive system and apply an unbalanced control across the plurality of fuel cells based on the unbalanced degradation. In one example, the unbalanced control balances the degradation among the plurality of fuel cells.

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

Polarization shifting devices and systems for interference mitigation
Patent No. 11876296

Inventor(s): Richard Loy Smith, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): ISCO International, LLC (Schaumburg, IL)
Law Firm: Guntin Gust, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18179812 on 03/07/2023 (315 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a polarization shifter including a lower substrate having disposed thereon first and second transmission lines for coupling to a feed network, an upper substrate having disposed thereon third and fourth transmission lines for respective communicative coupling to orthogonally-polarized elements of a radiating element, and a dielectric layer residing between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, the upper substrate being configured to mechanically couple to the radiating element, the dielectric layer coupling the first transmission line with the third transmission line and coupling the second transmission line with the fourth transmission line, the upper substrate being rotatable relative to the lower substrate to effect polarization adjusting for the radiating element to facilitate avoidance of interference or passive intermodulation (PIM). Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Motor controller including resonant controllers
Patent No. 11876471

Inventor(s): Prasad Kulkarni (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17358147 on 06/25/2021 (935 days app to issue)

Abstract: A motor controller integrated circuit (IC) includes a storage device containing software. The IC also includes a processor core coupled to the storage device. The processor core has an output adapted to be coupled to a motor. The processor core is configured to execute the software to implement a resonant controller at a frequency that is a harmonic of a speed of a motor.

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

Compensation of thermally induced voltage errors
Patent No. 11876490

Inventor(s): Akshay Yashwant Jadhav (Pune, , IN), Sandeep Shylaja Krishnan (Bangalore, , IN), Tallam Vishwanath (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17587105 on 01/28/2022 (718 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described embodiments include an integrated circuit for temperature gradient compensation of a bandgap voltage. A bandgap core circuit has a bandgap feedback input, a bandgap adjustment input and a bandgap reference output. A resistor is coupled between the bandgap adjustment input and a ground terminal. An offset and slope correction circuit has an offset correction output that is coupled to the bandgap adjustment input. A signal at the offset correction output is trimmed at an ambient temperature. A thermal error cancellation (TEC) circuit has a TEC output coupled to the bandgap adjustment input. The TEC circuit includes first and second temperature sensors that are located apart from each other. A signal at the TEC output is responsive to temperatures at the first and second temperature sensors. An amplifier has an amplifier input and an amplifier output. The amplifier input is coupled to the bandgap reference output.

[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)

Digital predistortion calibration
Patent No. 11876491

Inventor(s): Harish Kumar Ramesh (Bangalore, , IN), John Roshan Samuel Chandran (Bangalore, , IN), Lakshmi Bala Krishna Manoja Vinnakota (Richardson, TX), Raghu Ganesan (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17501212 on 10/14/2021 (824 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for digital predistortion (DPD) calibration in a wireless communication device is provided that includes transmitting, by transmission circuitry of the wireless communication device, a plurality of pulses, where each pulse corresponds to an amplitude step in a pattern of amplitude steps, where the amplitude steps are separated by silence gaps, receiving each pulse in receiver circuitry of the wireless communication device, generating, by an accumulator component of the wireless communication device, an accumulated sample for each pulse based on a plurality of samples output by the receiver circuitry for the pulse, and computing, by a processor of the wireless communication device, amplitude dependent gain (AM/AM) and amplitude dependent phase shift (AM/PM) values for each accumulated sample.

Differential input circuits with input voltage protection
Patent No. 11876496

Inventor(s): Srinivas Kumar Pulijala (Tucson, AZ), Vadim Valerievich Ivanov (Tucson, AZ)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17386979 on 07/28/2021 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: Differential input circuits employ protection transistors and feedback paths to limit the differential voltage applied to input transistors. In an example arrangement, a differential input voltage is applied to terminals of the protection transistors, and current paths couple the respective protection transistors to control terminals of the input transistors, respectively. A control terminal drive voltage source is coupled to the control terminals of the input protection transistors to control the drive voltage applied to those terminals. Feedback paths, one for each of the input transistors, control voltages applied to the control terminals of the input transistors, maintaining the input differential voltage at a relatively low level and defined by the product of a specified current value and a specified resistance value.

Gate drive apparatus control method
Patent No. 11876511

Inventor(s): Chiao-Shun Chuang (Kaohsiung, , TW), Ke-Horng Chen (HsinChu, , TW), Ta-Chuan Kuo (New Taipei, , TW)
Assignee(s): Diodes Incorporated (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17370054 on 07/08/2021 (922 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes a capacitive device configured to provide bias power for a high-side switch, a gate drive path having variable resistance connected between the capacitive device and a gate of the high-side switch, wherein the gate drive path having variable resistance is of a first resistance value in response to a turn-on of the high-side switch, and the gate drive path having variable resistance is of a second resistance value in response to a turn-off of the high-side switch, and wherein the second resistance value is greater than the first resistance value, and a control switch connected between the gate of the high-side switch and ground.

[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]

Stackable timer
Patent No. 11876518

Inventor(s): Rakesh Hariharan (Bangalore, , IN), Sumantha Manoor Madhyastha (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17463829 on 09/01/2021 (867 days app to issue)

Abstract: An system-on-a-chip (”SoC”) is provided. In some examples, the SoC includes a processor and a plurality of timer circuit blocks including at least a first timer circuit block and a second timer circuit block. Each of the plurality of timer circuit blocks may be selectively coupled by at least one of a first programmable matrix and a second programmable matrix. In some examples, the first programmable matrix may be configured to couple a second trigger input of the first timer circuit block with a first trigger output of the second timer circuit block. In some examples, the second programmable matrix is configured to couple a second fault input of the first timer circuit block with a first fault output of the second timer circuit block.

Low power bi-directional architecture for current output digital to analog conversion
Patent No. 11876530

Inventor(s): Atul Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, , IN), Kanak Chandra Das (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17491391 on 09/30/2021 (838 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a voltage-to-current circuit including a first input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal, a subtraction circuit including a second input terminal and a third output terminal, the second input terminal coupled to the second output terminal, a first driver circuit including a third input terminal and a fourth output terminal, the third input terminal coupled to the third output terminal, and a second driver circuit including a fourth input terminal and a fifth output terminal, the fourth input terminal coupled to the first output terminal, the fifth output coupled to the fourth output terminal.

[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]

Devices, systems, and software including signal power measuring and methods and software for measuring signal power
Patent No. 11876569

Inventor(s): Jerrold Prothero (Delray Beach, FL), Tanay Bhatt (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Astrapi Corporation (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Law Office of Michael Antone, LLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16819126 on 03/15/2020 (1402 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, devices, software, and methods of the present invention enable frequency-based signal power analyses in software suitable for signal with either stationary and non-stationary spectrums. The methods that may be used throughout various systems including transmitters receivers, repeater, controllers, monitors, etc. and in software simulators to enable various signal power calculations and analyses, such as frequency spectrum analysis, throughout operating systems and that may be consistently applied in system design and operation simulations.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

CSI reporting on small control channels
Patent No. 11876581

Inventor(s): Robert M Harrison (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17573171 on 01/11/2022 (735 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for Channel State Information (CSI) feedback on small control channels are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a second node connected to a first node in a wireless communication network includes reporting CSI feedback to the first node on a physical channel. In some embodiments, this is accomplished by identifying a subset of codebook entries from an advanced CSI codebook of coefficients; selecting a codebook entry from the subset of codebook entries; and reporting an index of the selected codebook entry from the subset of codebook entries. This may allow robust feedback and allow variably sized cophasing and beam index indicators to be carried on the channel. Also, this may allow periodic feedback of advanced CSI on existing Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) Format 2.

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

Beam management techniques for beam calibration
Patent No. 11876588

Inventor(s): Bin Liu (San Diego, CA), Pengfei Xia (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17663573 on 05/16/2022 (610 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide techniques for determining a device”s beam correspondence status. As used herein, a device is considered to have ”beam correspondence” when the device”s TX and RX antennas satisfy a calibration criteria. In one example, a device”s TX and RX antennas satisfy the calibration criteria when a difference between quality parameters corresponding to reference signals transmitted and received using corresponding TX and RX beams is less than a threshold. In another example, a device”s TX and RX antennas satisfy the calibration criteria when a list of indices ranking the device”s TX beams matches a list of indices ranking the device”s RX beams. The lists of indices may be derived by transmitting and receiving references signals according to the devices RX and TX beams, and then generating list of indices based on quality parameters of the respective RX and TX beams.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for SCell beam failure recovery configuration
Patent No. 11876592

Inventor(s): Chia-Hao Yu (Yilan, , TW), Chia-Hung Wei (Hsinchu, , TW)
Assignee(s): Hannibal IP LLC (Frisco, TX)
Law Firm: Cole Schotz, P.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17942659 on 09/12/2022 (491 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for SCell BFR performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first SCell BFR configuration corresponding to a first SCell, the first SCell BFR configuration including at least one of a resource list for BFD and a resource list for NBI; detecting a beam failure condition in the first SCell by measuring at least one BFD reference signal; determining a first new candidate beam index for the first SCell based on the first SCell BFR configuration; and transmitting a beam failure recovery request that includes a cell index of the first SCell in which beam failure occurs and the determined first new candidate beam index.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for providing network support services and premises gateway support infrastructure
Patent No. 11876637

Inventor(s): Alvin R. McQuarters (Euless, TX), Amir Ansari (Plano, TX), George A. Cowgill (Farmersville, TX), Jude P. Ramayya (Richardson, TX), Ramprakash Masina (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): KIP PROD P1 LP (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17341569 on 06/08/2021 (952 days app to issue)

Abstract: A service management system communicates via wide area network with gateway devices located at respective user premises. The service management system remotely manages delivery of application services, which can be voice controlled, by a gateway, e.g. by selectively activating/deactivating service logic modules in the gateway. The service management system also may selectively provide secure communications and exchange of information among gateway devices and among associated endpoint devices. An exemplary service management system includes a router connected to the network and one or more computer platforms, for implementing management functions. Examples of the functions include a connection manager for controlling system communications with the gateway devices, an authentication manager for authenticating each gateway device and controlling the connection manager and a subscription manager for managing applications services and/or features offered by the gateway devices. A service manager, controlled by the subscription manager, distributes service specific configuration data to authenticated gateway devices.

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

Communication network gateways and associated methods
Patent No. 11876645

Inventor(s): Dennis Alan Brown (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (Louisville, CO)
Law Firm: PdZ Patent Law, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18189926 on 03/24/2023 (298 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method operable by a communication network gateway for providing communication services includes (a) supporting respective communication links with a plurality of communication service providers, (b) supporting a plurality of virtual local area networks (VLANs), (c) associating each virtual local area network (VLAN) with a respective communication service provider of the plurality of communication service providers, and (d) routing data between each VLAN and the respective communication link of the respective communication service provider associated with the VLAN.

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

DFE implementation for wireline applications
Patent No. 11876648

Inventor(s): Kalpesh Rajai (Bangalore, , IN), Raghu Ganesan (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17733843 on 04/29/2022 (627 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) comprising an N-bit parallel input adapted to be coupled to a communication channel and configured to receive consecutive communication symbols, a first DFE path including a first path input configured to receive communication symbols, and a first adder having a first adder input coupled to the first path input. There is a first DFE filter having outputs responsive to the first DFE filter inputs, the outputs coupled to the second adder input. The DFE includes a first path having a first slicer and a first multiplexer, a first path multiplexer output, and a second DFE path including a second path input configured to receive a second communication symbol, a second adder, a second DFE filter, a second slicer, and a second multiplexer.

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

Telecommunication call emulation
Patent No. 11876687

Inventor(s): Cyril D P Raymond (Bengaluru, , IN), Surya Kumar Kovvali (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): RIBBON COMMUNICATIONS (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16962826 on 07/12/2019 (1649 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes, receiving protocol event data from a plurality of probes within the telecommunication system, associating the protocol event data into a call, wherein the protocol event data comprises processes in a plurality of protocols, mapping the protocol event data into a per-call finite state machine, wherein the finite state machine represents possible call states in multiple protocols between call setup and termination, wherein the mapping is performed at least in part within a duration of the call, and after termination of the call, creating a call data record that includes information from the per-call finite state machine and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) information of the call.

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

Systems and methods for policy-based monitoring of network key performance indicators
Patent No. 11876688

Inventor(s): Mahesh Chapalamadugu (Plano, TX), Raghuram Parvataneni (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17813775 on 07/20/2022 (545 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may monitor, on an ongoing basis, a Key Performance Indicators (”KPIs”) associated with a wireless network. The system may receive, from a particular device, a monitoring policy specifying one or more criteria, and may compare the criteria associated with the monitoring policy to the monitored KPIs. The system may determine, based on the comparing, that the criteria associated with the monitoring policy is satisfied; may determine a particular subset of the monitored KPIs based on the monitoring policy and further based on determining that the criteria associated with the monitoring policy is satisfied; and may output the particular subset of the monitored KPIs to the second device. The system may monitor the wireless network via private interfaces that are not exposed to devices external to the wireless network.

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

Method and apparatus for using high availability controller with local area network (LAN) for local cloud
Patent No. 11876730

Inventor(s): Paul Spencer Dawkins (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: Sughrue Mion, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17976451 on 10/28/2022 (445 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method performed by a network node connected to one or more additional network nodes, the network node and the one or more additional network nodes forming a cloud. The method including setting a first timer to a first value, the first timer associated with determining whether another network node from the one or more additional network nodes is an active controller in the cloud. The method further includes determining, before the first timer expires, whether a first message that indicates that another network node from the one or more additional network nodes is the active controller is received. The method further includes based on determining the first message is received before the first timer expires, restarting the first timer. The method further includes, based on determining the first message is not received before the first timer expires, assigning one or more tasks to at least one network node.

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

Mobile station aggregation of acknowledgments and negative acknowledgments in wireless networks
Patent No. 11876751

Inventor(s): Adrian Boariu (Irving, TX), Shashikant Maheshwari (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Wireless Future Technologies Inc. (Ottawa, , CA)
Law Firm: Volpe Koenig (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17510929 on 10/26/2021 (812 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to one example embodiment, a method may include sending, from a base station, an acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NAK) aggregation indicator to the mobile station based on the determining, sending a plurality of data bursts to the mobile station, and receiving at least one aggregated ACK/NAK report from the mobile station.

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

CSI reporting in PUSCH for carrier aggregation
Patent No. 11876752

Inventor(s): Anthony Edet Ekpenyong (San Diego, CA), Eko Nugroho Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX), Runhua Chen (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17322476 on 05/17/2021 (974 days app to issue)

Abstract: Carrier aggregation allows concurrent transmission on multiple component carriers (CC) to increase the data rate. A user equipment (UE) device in a cellular network provides periodic or aperiodic channel state information of the DL channel to a base station (eNB) for each of the aggregated CCs. The UE receives two or more reference signals corresponding to two or more aggregated CCs from an eNB. The UE computes a plurality of channel state information (CSI) reports for each of two or more aggregated CCs derived from the two or more reference signals. The UE receives a positive CSI request from the eNB for a CSI report and transmits CSI feedback to the eNB comprising one or more CSI reports selected from the plurality of CSI reports.

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

Echo canceller training in full duplex networks
Patent No. 11876753

Inventor(s): Ayham Al-Banna (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, GA)
Law Firm: Chernoff, Vilhauer, McClung Stenzel, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17842643 on 06/16/2022 (579 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a first signal that is sent in a first direction in a network. Communications in the network are full duplex communications in a same frequency band. The first signal is amplified in the first direction. The method trains a first echo canceller to cancel a first echo signal from the first signal where the first echo signal is received in a second direction. After training the first echo canceller, the trained first echo canceller is enabled. The method receives a second signal in the second direction that is sent in the second direction in the network. The second signal is amplified in the second direction. The method trains a second echo canceller to cancel a second echo signal received in the first direction from the second signal where the first echo canceller cancels the first echo signal that is received in the second direction.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Multi-factor geofencing system for secure encryption and decryption system
Patent No. 11876797

Inventor(s): Brandon Hart (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Everything Blockchain Technology Corp. (Jacksonville, FL)
Law Firm: Polansky Associates, P.L.L.C. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17214507 on 03/26/2021 (1026 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes logging into a server and sending geolocation information to the server by a first device. The first device requests rights to decrypt a secure data file, and in response, the server sends a machine-readable optical label to the first device. The first device displays the machine-readable optical label. A second device logs into the server, and scans the machine-readable optical label displayed by the first device to create a scanned image. The second device decodes data from the scanned image to form decoded data. Geolocation information of the second device and the decoded data are submitted to the server. The decoded data and the geolocation information are validated by the server, and in response to successfully validating the geolocation information, a link completion status indicator is sent to the second device, and information to decrypt the secure data file is sent to the first device.

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

Secure online access control to prevent identification information misuse
Patent No. 11876807

Inventor(s): Rajkumar Bondugula (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Equifax Inc. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17659294 on 04/14/2022 (642 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some aspects, a computing system can control access of a user computing device to a resource. The computing system can obtain an access request submitted by a user computing device. The computing system can verify permission information in the access request to determine that the access request is valid. If the access request is valid, the computing system submits an authentication request to request an authentication system to authenticate the user and obtains authentication results generated by the authentication system. The computing system further provides, based on the authentication results, an access control decision for the access request.

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

Modeling queue-based message-oriented middleware relationships in a security system
Patent No. 11876817

Inventor(s): Colin Ross (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): vArmour Networks, Inc. (Los Altos, CA)
Law Firm: Carr Ferrell LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17133458 on 12/23/2020 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and a method for modeling queue-based message-oriented middleware (MoM) are provided. The method commences with connecting with a MoM system and converting information associated with the MoM system into a standardized object model. The standardized object model may include a queue-based node, at least one producer application, and at least one consumer application. The at least one producer application provides a message to the queue-based node. The at least one consumer application receives the message from the queue-based node. The message persists in the queue until consumed by the at least one consumer application. The method continues with generating a standardized graph of relationships between a producer and a consumer over a period of time. The method further includes creating a policy, periodically analyzing the standardized graph for at least one deviation from the policy, and issuing an alert in response to detecting the at least one deviation.

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

System and method for automatically prioritizing rules for cyber-threat detection and mitigation
Patent No. 11876836

Inventor(s): Chinmoy Dey (Bangalore, , IN), Christopher Glyer (Arlington, VA), Paul Schottland (Charlotte, NC)
Assignee(s): Musarubra US LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Rutan Tucker, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17710882 on 03/31/2022 (656 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and computerized method for generating an improved cyber-security rule ordering for cyber-security threat detection or post-processing activities conducted by a rules-based cyber-security engine deployed within a network device is described. Herein, historical metadata associated with analytics conducted on incoming data by a rule-based cyber-security engine and in accordance with a plurality of rules is described. These rules are arranged in a first ordered rule sequence. The historical metadata is analyzed to determine one or more salient rules from the plurality of rules. The plurality of rules are reprioritized by at least rearranging an order to a second ordered rule sequence with the one or more salient rules being positioned toward a start of the second ordered rule sequence. Thereafter, the rule-based cyber-security engine operates in accordance with the reprioritized rule set that is arranged in the second ordered rule sequence to achieve improved performance.

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

ID-based control unit-key fob pairing
Patent No. 11876896

Inventor(s): Eric Peeters (Frisco, TX), Jin-Meng Ho (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18175775 on 02/28/2023 (322 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for pairing a key fob with a control unit is provided. The key fob executes an ID authenticated key agreement protocol with a pairing device based on a key fob identification to authenticate one another and to generate a first encryption key. The pairing device encrypts a control unit identification using the first encryption key. The key fob receives the encrypted control unit identification transmitted from the pairing device. The key fob then executes an ID authenticated key agreement protocol with the control unit based on the control unit identification to authenticate one another and to generate a second encryption key. The key fob then receives an operational key transmitted from the control unit that is encrypted with the second encryption key.

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

Providing audio content to a device
Patent No. 11876926

Inventor(s): Kevin V. Nguyen (Allen, TX), Monica Rose Martino (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): FIRST ORION CORP. (North Little Rock, AR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18152728 on 01/10/2023 (371 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure describes receiving a trigger operation indication that content has been selected by a user device, and determining whether the content offers a recurring audio content data. The operation may also include retrieving a first audio content and transmitting the first audio content to the user device.

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

System and method for enhanced call progress assessment and call routing
Patent No. 11876930

Inventor(s): Ashish Koul (San Jose, CA), Ashok Raj Susairaju (Chennai, , IN)
Assignee(s): ACQUEON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Galvin Patent Law LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18147663 on 12/28/2022 (384 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for enhanced call progress assessment (CPA) utilizing dual-prong analysis, comprising a campaign management console, a data services engine, a traffic shaper, an agent desktop, an optimized CPA service, an auto-dialer with built-in CPA capabilities, and a simple dialer which allows enterprises to process outbound calls in parallel in order to quickly and accurately determine outbound call outcome, a live person or an answering machine or service, which can be used to route outbound calls in an appropriate manner. The system and method utilize a plurality of specialized CPA methods running in parallel to a built-in CPA system to analyze audio stream data associated with an outbound call and uses various entity-specific threshold parameters to determine a call outcome based on the results of the plurality of CPA methods. Such a system and method can provide faster and more accurate CPA using a dual prong approach.

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

Scalable prediction type coding
Patent No. 11876982

Inventor(s): Minhua Zhou (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17015137 on 09/09/2020 (1224 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for encoding a video sequence is provided that includes signaling in the compressed bit stream that a subset of a plurality of partitioning modes is used for inter-prediction of a portion of the video sequence, using only the subset of partitioning modes for prediction of the portion of the video sequence, and entropy encoding partitioning mode syntax elements corresponding to the portion of the video sequence, wherein at least one partitioning mode syntax element is binarized according to a pre-determined binarization corresponding to the subset of partitioning modes, wherein the pre-determined binarization differs from a pre-determined binarization for the least one partitioning mode syntax element that would be used if the plurality of partitioning modes is used for inter-prediction.

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

Methods and systems for facilitating multimedia data encoding using storage buffers
Patent No. 11876989

Inventor(s): Arun Shankar Kudana (Bangalore, , IN), Deepak Kumar Poddar (Bangalore, , IN), Pramod Kumar Swami (Bangalore, , IN), Uday Pudipeddi Kiran (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17242433 on 04/28/2021 (993 days app to issue)

Abstract: Several methods and systems for facilitating multimedia data encoding are disclosed. In an embodiment, a plurality of picture buffers associated with multimedia data are received in an order of capture associated with the plurality of picture buffers. Buffer information is configured for each picture buffer from among the plurality of picture buffers comprising at least one of a metadata associated with the corresponding picture buffer and one or more encoding parameters for the corresponding picture buffer. A provision of picture buffers in an order of encoding is facilitated based on the configured buffer information.

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

Radio resource management and spectrum coordination
Patent No. 11877172

Inventor(s): Gilwon Lee (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17209069 on 03/22/2021 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: A base station (BS) and user equipment (UE) are configured to perform measurement/reporting and spectrum coordination request/response in wireless networks. A method for operating a UE includes receiving configuration information for measuring interference from a neighboring cell, measuring the interference from the neighboring cell based on the configuration information, and computing a change in the measured interference from the neighboring cell based on a current measured interference level and a previous measured interference level. The method further includes determining, based on at least in part a determination that the change in the measured interference exceeds a first threshold, whether to generate a measurement report and transmitting the measurement report on an uplink channel.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for providing edge-based quality of service orchestration for multi-access edge computing (MEC) in a network
Patent No. 11877177

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: 17651263 on 02/16/2022 (699 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may receive data indicating a required quality of service (QoS), and may receive radio access network (RAN) information associated with a RAN, wherein the RAN information is provided by a centralized unit (CU) of the RAN. The device may provide the RAN information to a multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform, and may receive, from the MEC platform, a QoS request that requests the required QoS. The device may provide the QoS request to the CU, and may receive a QoS response to the QoS request. The device may provide the QoS response to a policy control function (PCF) of a core network, and may receive an indication of approval of the QoS response from the PCF. The device may cause, based on receiving the indication of approval, the required QoS to be implemented by the MEC platform and network devices associated with the core network.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for optimizing a radio metric within a mesh network by waking up nodes
Patent No. 11877239

Inventor(s): Shingo Sugimoto (Frisco, TX), Walter Accessor (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17233883 on 04/19/2021 (1002 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein optimize radio metrics between nodes within a mesh network by waking up nodes not actively connected to a mesh network. A mesh network system includes a computing device configured to determine that a radio metric between a first node and a second node in a mesh network is above a predetermined threshold, identify a third node operating in sleep mode, when the radio metric is above the predetermined threshold, and cause the third node to wake and connect to the mesh network, the third node is configured to relay communication between the first node and the second node.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and system for signaling transmission layers for single user and multi user MIMO
Patent No. 11877297

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX), Sean Michael McBeath (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): BlackBerry Limited (Waterloo, , CA)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18080515 on 12/13/2022 (399 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Frame structure in NR
Patent No. 11877308

Inventor(s): Salam Khan (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Law Firm: BakerHostetler (Local + 4395 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17870284 on 07/21/2022 (544 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present application at least describes a frame structure in new radio. The frame structure includes a self-contained transmission time interval. The transmission time interval includes a control information region including plural beams. The interval also includes a downlink transmission channel region including plural beams. The frame structure is configured for downlink control information to be swept through the time interval. The frame structure is also configured for an uplink or downlink grant resource subsequently to be swept through the time interval. The present application is also directed to a method for configuring user equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Channel assessment in a single contention-free channel access period
Patent No. 11877318

Inventor(s): Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, , IL), Yuval Matar (Kiryat Mozkin, , IL)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17410916 on 08/24/2021 (875 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device configured to communicate via a Wi-Fi channel obtains a contention-free access period on the Wi-Fi channel. The device sends a first probe packet to a receiving Wi-Fi device during the contention-free access period, with at least one parameter of a Wi-Fi transmitter of the Wi-Fi transceiver set to a first setting, and waits for a first reply period. The device sends a second probe packet to the receiving Wi-Fi device during the contention-free access period, with the at least one parameter of the Wi-Fi transmitter set to a second setting, where the second setting is based on a result of the first reply period, and waits for a second reply period. The device sets the at least one parameter of the Wi-Fi transmitter to a data packet setting, where the data packet setting is based at least on a result of the second reply period.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

System and method for encoding of local bandwidth conditions into tunneling message
Patent No. 11877328

Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium provide for encoding a general packet radio service (GPRS)-tunnel endpoint identifier (GTP-TEID) with data identifying radio frequency (RF) bandwidths supported in a local radio environment (LRE) from which a user equipment (UE) device accesses the wireless access station; sending, via a signaling channel, the GTP-TEID to a core network device; notifying one or more core network devices of an RF bandwidth category level corresponding to the RF bandwidths; and applying at least one of a policy rule or a charging rule to a packet data unit (PDU) session for the UE device, based on the RF bandwidth category level.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Roaming management system
Patent No. 11877347

Inventor(s): Jorge Caas (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD. (Enfield, , GB)
Law Firm: Newport IP, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17688673 on 03/07/2022 (680 days app to issue)

Abstract: The disclosures relates to a method of provisioning a subscriber profile into a subscriber data store of an IP Multimedia System (IMS) capable telecommunications network, the subscriber profile being for a subscriber which is a visiting subscriber with respect to the IMS-capable telecommunications network, the subscriber data store being for use in IP Multimedia System (IMS) call processing, the method comprising: receiving a request to allocate an IMS Access Point Name (APN); and in response to receiving the request to allocate the IMS APN, triggering a provisioning of the subscriber profile into the subscriber data store.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Battery thermal management with large area planar heat pipes
Patent No. 11877423

Inventor(s): Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, MI), Evan B. Fleming (Ann Arbor, MI), Gaohua Zhu (Ann Arbor, MI), Ryuta Sugiura (Ann Arbor, MI), Satoko Tofukuji (Tokyo, , JP), Swetha Minupuri (Farmington Hills, MI), Takayoshi Tanaka (Shimizu
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Jordan IP Law LLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17065782 on 10/08/2020 (1195 days app to issue)

Abstract: A thermal management system to cool one or more battery packs of a battery system may include a heat pipe arrangement that includes a plurality of heat pipes, having a planar configuration, in thermal contact with the one or more battery packs to draw heat therefrom, and a heat sink arrangement that includes a plurality of heat sinks, in thermal contact with two or more edges of the heat pipe arrangement, to dissipate heat away from the heat pipe arrangement.

[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)

Three-dimensional memory device with electrically conductive layers containing vertical tubular liners and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 11877446

Inventor(s): Adarsh Rajashekhar (Santa Clara, CA), Fei Zhou (San Jose, CA), Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, CA), Rahul Sharangpani (Fremont, CA)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17345860 on 06/11/2021 (949 days app to issue)

Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, memory openings vertically extending through the alternating stack, and memory opening fill structures located within the memory openings. Each of the electrically conductive layers includes a metallic fill material layer and a plurality of vertical tubular metallic liners laterally surrounding a respective one of the memory opening fill structures and located between the metallic fill material layer and a respective one of the memory opening fill structures. The tubular metallic liners may be formed by selective metal or metal oxide deposition, or by conversion of surface portions of the metallic fill material layers into metallic compound material portions by nitridation, oxidation, or incorporation of boron atoms. NULL

Three-dimensional memory device including laterally-undulating memory material layers and methods for forming the same
Patent No. 11877452

Inventor(s): Tatsuya Hinoue (Yokkaichi, , JP), Zhixin Cui (Nagoya, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17192603 on 03/04/2021 (1048 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a vertical semiconductor channel and a memory material layer. A vertical stack of insulating material portions can be provided at levels of the insulating layers to provide a laterally-undulating profile to the memory material layer. Alternatively, a combination of inner insulating spacers and outer insulating spacers can be employed to provide a laterally-undulating profile to the memory material layer. NULL

Fluorinated polymers with low dielectric loss for environmental protection in semiconductor devices
Patent No. 11877505

Inventor(s): Christo Bojkov (Plano, TX), Matthew Essar (Wylie, TX), Terry Hon (Plano, TX), Walid Meliane (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Qorvo US, Inc. (Greensboro, NC)
Law Firm: Withrow Terranova, P.L.L.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17501111 on 10/14/2021 (824 days app to issue)

Abstract: Semiconductor devices, and more particularly arrangements of fluorinated polymers with low dielectric loss for environmental protection in semiconductor devices are disclosed. Arrangements include conformal coatings or layers of fluorinated polymers that cover a semiconductor die on a package substrate of a semiconductor device. Such fluorinated polymer arrangements may also conformally coat various electrical connections for the semiconductor die, including wire bonds. Fluorinated polymers with low dielectric constants and low moisture permeability may thereby provide reduced moisture ingress in semiconductor devices while also reducing the impact of associated dielectric loss.

Uplink control information transmissions/receptions in wireless networks
Patent No. RE049807 (Reissue)

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Jianzhong Zhang (Plano, TX), Young-Han Nam (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16566709 on 09/10/2019 (1589 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and apparatus provide a user equipment (UE) configured to communicate with a plurality of carrier aggregation (CA) groups with at least a first CA group (CG1) and a second CA group (CG2). The UE includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the UE is power-limited. The UE is scheduled to transmit acknowledged information in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to a cell of the CG1 and uplink control information (UCI), other than the acknowledgement information, in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) to a cell of the CG2. The processing circuitry is also configured to, responsive to the UE being power-limited, prioritize the PUSCH for power allocation. The processing circuitry is also configured to transmit the PUSCH to the cell of the CG1. Patent Class: N/A

System and method for wifi authentication and selection
Patent No. RE049809 (Reissue)

Inventor(s): Zhixian Xiang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17673435 on 02/16/2022 (699 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method embodiment for network authentication includes selecting, by a user equipment (UE), an access network for establishing a network connection and receiving one or more network authentication status indications for a network associated with the access network. The method further includes implementing a network authentication and selection policy in accordance with the one or more network authentication status indications. Patent Class: N/A

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Desk
Patent No. D011096

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: 29813512 on 10/29/2021 (809 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Object holder
Patent No. D011141

Inventor(s): Ashley Diane Barbour (Fort Worth, TX), Robert Barbour, Jr. (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: QUICKPATENTS, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29894030 on 06/05/2023 (225 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Reclosable storage bag
Patent No. D011202

Inventor(s): Brad A. Cobler (Irving, TX), Daniel J. Layden (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Poly-America, L. P. (Grand Prairie, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29868629 on 12/09/2022 (403 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Glass tile with a diamond-on-diamond pattern
Patent No. D011562

Inventor(s): Rees Tate Bowen, IV (Dallas, TX), Starr L. Pitzer, Jr. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Scheef Stone, L.L.P. (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29836606 on 04/28/2022 (628 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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