Beyond Toyota, other organizations with notable patents granted this week include:

Amazon’s aerial vehicle landing pad with sensors
Amera IoT’s method for creating and using quantum-resistant keys
Bank of America’s predictive artificial intelligence for determining security events and mitigation strategies
BMIC’s modular electronics roofing attachment and methods of use thereof
California Bioenergy’s systems for aggregating and processing of biogas to biomethane
DT Whisky Solutions’ systems for secure, metered beverage dispensing
Edge Logistics’ aircraft tow system
Frontier Communications’ fiber upstream trace determination
Integer Health Technologies’ tree frog computer navigation system for the hierarchical visualization of data
Lhoist North America’s hydrated lime for carbon capture
NVIDIA’s hybrid liquid-based data center cooling systems
Parsec Technologies’ emergency portable hot spot with antennas built into cover
Southern Methodist University’s tuned microwave resonant system for subcutaneous imaging
Sphero’s modular electronic building systems and methods of using the same
Texas Instruments’ video surveillance system with enhanced camera wake-up based on radar data
Traxxas’ drag racing stability management for a model vehicle

Dallas Invents is a look at U.S. patents granted with a connection to the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Listings include patents granted to local assignees and/or those with a North Texas inventor. Patent activity can indicate future economic growth, 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 2/10/26 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

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

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 17
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 17
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 4
D: Textiles; Paper 1
E: Fixed Constructions 10
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 8
G: Physics 50
H: Electricity 59

DESIGN: 14

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 14
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, NC) 9
Traxxas L.P. (McKinney) 9
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 9
Capital One Services LLC (McLean, VA) 7
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 6
United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio) 5
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 3
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, KR) 3

UNASSIGNED 15

TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 8
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 8
Jory Sprowl (Howe) 3
Ross Martin (North Richland Hills) 3
Skylar Hagler (Anna) 3
Caleb Hix (McKinney) 2
Jeremy S. Papke (Monroe, WA) 2
Kent Poteet (Lucas) 2
Minhua Zhou (San Diego, CA) 2
Noah House (Sachse) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Apparatus for injecting constituents by confining the constituents in tubes
Patent No. 12543668

Inventor(s): John A. Sanders (Austin, TX), Mitchell J. NewDelman (Monte Carlo, , MC)
Assignee(s): Sub-Mergent Technologies, Inc. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Bailey Legal Services, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17839472 on 06/13/2022 (1338 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for injecting a plurality of constituents by confining the constituents in one or more tubes. The apparatus includes an outer tube ([b]1015[/b]D); a global positioning satellite (GPS) ([b]1113[/b]C); a programmable logic controller (PLC) ([b]1105[/b]C); an Artificial intelligence (AI) robot ([b]1107[/b]C, and [b]1205[/b]); a computer ([b]1111[/b]C); an encoder ([b]1305[/b]B); a plurality of limit switches ([b]1405, 1407[/b], and [b]1409[/b]), and a spacer tube ([b]1015[/b]D). The outer tube ([b]1015[/b]D) includes a plurality of stackable tubes ([b]1003[/b]D, [b]1005[/b]D, [b]1007[/b]D, [b]1009[/b]D, [b]1011[/b]D, and [b]1013[/b]D). The stackable tubes ([b]1003[/b]D, [b]1005[/b]D, [b]1007[/b]D, [b]1009[/b]D, [b]1011[/b]D, and [b]1013[/b]D) are stackable either in cylinder segments or polygonal shapes. Constituents confined therein or the stackable tubes ([b]1003[/b]D, [b]1005[/b]D, [b]1007[/b]D, [b]1009[/b]D, [b]1011[/b]D, and [b]1013[/b]D) themselves may be ejected through apertures for injection purposes. Some constituent contents may be ejected vertically or laterally-through perforations in the tube wall sub-surface to enable constituent amendment or sequestration. The stackable tubes ([b]1003[/b]D, [b]1005[/b]D, [b]1007[/b]D, [b]1009[/b]D, [b]1011[/b]D, and [b]1013[/b]D) may have apertures that when closed protects the constituents from soil or water penetration. The stackable tubes ([b]1003[/b]D, [b]1005[/b]D, [b]1007[/b]D, [b]1009[/b]D, [b]101

[A01G] HORTICULTURE; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPS, OR SEAWEED; FORESTRY; WATERING (picking of fruits, vegetables, hops, or the like A01D 46/00; plant reproduction by tissue culture techniques A01H 4/00; devices for topping or skinning onions or flower bulbs A23N 15/08; propagating unicellular algae C12N 1/12; plant cell culture C12N 5/00)

High production honey beehives
Patent No. 12543709

Inventor(s): Daniel Brantner (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Thrasher Associates, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18197102 on 05/14/2023 (1003 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments herein disclose a beehive system for high honey production. The beehive system includes a first lid slot assembly arranged between a first brood box and a second brood box. The first brood box and the second brood box are arranged linearly and parallel to each other. A bottom side of the first brood box and a bottom side of the second brood box are located over a bottom board in a same plane. A first migratory top cover is placed on top of the first brood box, and a second migratory top cover is placed on top of the second brood box to cover the first brood box and the second brood box, respectively.

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

Travel garment
Patent No. 12543808

Inventor(s): Steve Swaine (Granbury, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18227609 on 07/28/2023 (928 days app to issue)

Abstract: A garment for wearing during travel is provided which is configured for a removable positioning upon a suitcase having an elongated handle. The body of the garment includes a slot therein for communication of the elongated handle therethrough to hold the garment in the removable position upon the suitcase while it is stationary or being moved upon a support surface. Flaps having indicia thereon may be included to cover the slot while the garment is being worn by the user.

[A41D] OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES (eye or ear protectors A61F 9/00, A61F 11/00; sweating suits A61H 36/00)

Heated pet nail clippers
Patent No. 12543840

Inventor(s): Deborah Bradshaw-Reed (Midlothian, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18368679 on 09/15/2023 (879 days app to issue)

Abstract: Heated nail clippers include a pair of spaced, reciprocal handles that open and close a pair of cutting blades. Each cutting blade includes an inner cutting edge configured to easily sever a pet”s nails and an internal heating element or similar equivalent that heats the blades to a predetermined temperature. Accordingly, the clippers are used on an anesthetized pet to trim lengthy nails and to prevent regrowth. Furthermore, the clippers are used to significantly trim a cat”s nails as an alternative to the controversial practice of declawing.

[A45D] HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; MANICURING OR OTHER COSMETIC TREATMENT (wigs, toupees, or the like A41G 3/00, A41G 5/00; hairdressers’ chairs A47C 1/04; hair cutting appliances, razors B26B)

Modifiable cabinet for checkout system
Patent No. 12543870

Inventor(s): Dora Merrick (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS, INC. (Durham, NC)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19036875 on 01/24/2025 (382 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system (e.g., a self-checkout system) that includes a modifiable cabinet. The system includes a cabinet, a sleeve, and a panel. The cabinet includes a front side and a back side opposite the front side. The sleeve is positioned within the cabinet. The sleeve moves away from the front side of the cabinet and out the back side of the cabinet. The sleeve defines a chamber. The panel is positioned within the chamber. When the sleeve is moved away from the front side of the cabinet and out the back side of the cabinet, the panel folds down to create a shelf within the chamber.

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

Knife holder for a knife
Patent No. 12543875

Inventor(s): Aarav Patel (Frisco, TX), Akshara Kommidi (Plano, TX), Eyad Ismail (Southlake, TX), Hisham Ahmad (Allen, TX), Ishaaq Mohammed Ali (Plano, TX), Ismail Mohammed Ali (Plano, TX), Manyatha Simhambhatla (Frisco, TX), Mirza
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18582725 on 02/21/2024 (720 days app to issue)

Abstract: A knife holder for holding a knife includes a block defining a cavity to receive the knife, and a casing removably arranged inside the cavity and adapted to be locked with the block. The knife is removably arranged inside the casing. A lock structure locks the casing with the block to prevent the removal of the casing from the cavity. Moreover, a switch is adapted to be actuated by a user to enable an unlocking of the casing from the block to enable a removal of the casing from the block. A near field communication device is configured to determine a presence of an authorized user in a vicinity of the knife holder and facilitates an unlocking of the casing from the block in response to an actuation of the switch in the presence of the authorized user in the vicinity of the knife holder.

[A47G] HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT (book-ends A47B 65/00; knives B26B)

Vehicle heart rate detection device, resonators, and methods of detecting a heart rate
Patent No. 12543964

Inventor(s): Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini (Ann Arbor, MI), Paul D. Schmalenberg (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18186496 on 03/20/2023 (1058 days app to issue)

Abstract: A resonator for a vehicle heart rate detection device is disclosed. The resonator includes a chamber having a front wall and a sidewall extending circumferentially around the front wall, and the sidewall defines a rear opening opposite the front wall. A lid is secured over the rear opening, and the lid, the front wall, and the sidewall define a cavity within an interior of the chamber. A neck extends from the front wall of the resonator and defines a front opening, and a microphone is positioned within the cavity that records vibrations entering the cavity via the front opening. The cavity is filled at least partially with a first material and at least partially with a second material, and the cavity amplifies the vibrations within a target range frequency.

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

Tuned microwave resonant system for subcutaneous imaging
Patent No. 12543966

Inventor(s): Jungchih Chiao (Grand Prairie, TX), Sen Bing (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18612025 on 03/21/2024 (691 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for non-invasively identifying a location of a subcutaneous tumor comprising: providing a patient with a possible subcutaneous tumor; providing a detector comprising one or more radio-frequency (RF) planar resonant loop sensors, each sensor comprising a planar resonant loop and an element disposed within and co-planar with a loop formed by the planar resonant loop; creating a first localization map of resonant frequencies of an area including the possible tumor using the detector; and creating a second localization map of |s[subscript]11[/subscript]| reflection coefficients of the area including the possible tumor using the detector.

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

Friction-fit implantable devices and assemblies
Patent No. 12544113

Inventor(s): Frank LaRosa (Lewisville, TX), John Lovell (Lewisville, TX), Jose Luis Charvet (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Orthofix US LLC (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18701015 on 11/09/2022 (1189 days app to issue)

Abstract: An implantable device may be configured to couple to a bone screw for spinal fixation. The implantable device may include one or more friction-fit features to allow the implantable device to maintain its orientation before being locked into place by a set screw. For example, an implantable device may include a body comprising a sidewall. The sidewall may define a first passage extending within the sidewall and parallel to a vertical axis of the body, and a slot extending through the sidewall and in communication with the first passage. The device may further include a pressure member coupled to the body. The pressure member may include a distal surface for engaging the head of the bone screw. The device may further include a biasing member at least partially within the first passage of the body for applying a downward force on the pressure member.

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

Intravaginal culture incubation container and method
Patent No. 12544204

Inventor(s): Kevin J. Doody (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): INVO Fertility, Inc. (Sarasota, FL)
Law Firm: NIXON VANDERHYE (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16949960 on 11/20/2020 (1908 days app to issue)

Abstract: Intravaginal culture (IVC) container for intravaginal fertilization and culture of mammalian, and in particular human, oocytes, featuring an increased volume, and a method of using the same.

[A61D] VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS, IMPLEMENTS, TOOLS, OR METHODS

Surgical implant delivery with dual mode drive
Patent No. 12544259

Inventor(s): Yinghui Wu (Cedar Hill, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18182573 on 03/13/2023 (1065 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for eye surgery. Some embodiments may comprise a housing, a bore through the housing, and a push rod at least partially disposed in the bore. The push rod may be operable to move between three rod positions within the bore. A plunger key may be coupled to the housing and operable to move between three key positions. In the first key position, the plunger key may prevent the push rod from moving from a first rod position. In the second key position, the plunger key may allow the push rod to slide through the bore from the first rod position to a second rod position. In the second key position, the plunger key may also allow the push rod to be rotated to advance to a third rod position. In the third key position, the plunger key may allow the push rod to slide through the bore from the second rod position to the third rod position.

[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]

Dosage tracking apparatus
Patent No. 12544312

Inventor(s): Shari Yarto (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18339617 on 06/22/2023 (964 days app to issue)

Abstract: One embodiment is an assembly comprising a tracking mechanism comprising an hour indicator and a day indicator; a strap retention structure coupled to a back side of the tracking mechanism; and a flexible strap connected to the back side of the tracking mechanism by the strap retention structure, the flexible strap configured to encircle a container to removably attach the tracking mechanism to a side of the container.

[A61J] CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE

Vehicle sanitizing systems and methods for using the same
Patent No. 12544471

Inventor(s): James H. Kikuma (Plano, TX), Juan Acosta (The Colony, TX), Judy K. Chen (Dallas, TX), Sergei I. Gage (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: DINSMORE SHOHL LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17508208 on 10/22/2021 (1572 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle system includes a vehicle body defining a vehicle interior and a vehicle exterior, one or more detection devices, a sanitization device, and a controller, the controller including a processor and a non-transitory computer readable and executable instruction set, which when executed, causes the processor to receive data from the one or more detection devices, determine a surface at least one of within the vehicle interior or on the vehicle exterior contacted by a user based at least in part on the data from the one or more detection devices, determine whether the user is within the vehicle based at least in part on the data from the one or more detection devices, and direct the sanitization device to sanitize the surface based at least in part on the data from the one or more detection devices.

[A61L] METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICAL ARTICLES (preservation of bodies or disinfecting characterised by the agent employed A01N; preserving, e.g. sterilising, food or foodstuffs A23; preparations for medical, dental or toilet purposes A61K) [4]

Method of operation utilizing electric field for processing of blood to neutralize pathogen cells therein
Patent No. 12544497

Inventor(s): Dale B. Nixon (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17814541 on 07/25/2022 (1296 days app to issue)

Abstract: An operational unit for locating and neutralizing pathogen cells in blood includes a time use cassette which 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 selectively block the light to 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, an electric field is activated in the cassette chamber areas that include the identified pathogen cells. Sufficient electric field energy is applied to destroy the identified pathogen cells. A pump refills the cassette holding chambers, returns the neutralized-pathogen blood to the patient, and the process is repeated for a period of time.

[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]

Model vehicle electronic cooling system and method
Patent No. 12544678

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Casey Christen Jens Christensen (McKinney, TX), Jory Sprowl (Howe, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Skylar Hagler (Anna, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18376961 on 10/05/2023 (859 days app to issue)

Abstract: A model vehicle is provided including a model vehicle chassis and a model vehicle body. The model vehicle chassis has an electric motor and cooling fins, thermally coupled to the electric motor. In addition, the model vehicle chassis further has an electric fan directed towards the cooling fins. The model vehicle body has an air vent provided in the model vehicle body. When the model vehicle is operating, airflow enters the air vent and across the cooling fins to dissipate heat generated by the electric motor. Additionally, a rear edge of the model vehicle body is located at a height that is higher than a top of the electric motor and wherein the electric fan increases the airflow across the cooling fins to increase the heat dissipation.

[A63H] TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS, BUILDING BLOCKS

Drag racing stability management for a model vehicle
Patent No. 12544683

Inventor(s): Daryl Gene Spillman (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17840118 on 06/14/2022 (1337 days app to issue)

Abstract: A radio controlled model vehicle system, receiver, and method is provided. The model vehicle system, receiver, and method include a stability management system. The stability management system further includes a stability operating mode and a stability status indicator that indicates the stability operating mode. The stability operating mode is altered via a stability mode input device and indicated by a stability status indicator. Stability operating modes may include stability management on, stability management off, and stability management on braking, among others. The stability management system may be set on the model vehicle, the controller, or virtually using a portable, multi-function, electronic device.

[A63H] TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS, BUILDING BLOCKS

C4-modified oleanolic acid derivatives for inhibition of IL-17 and other uses
Patent No. 12545701

Inventor(s): Bradley William Caprathe (Livonia, MI), Chitase Lee (Ann Arbor, MI), Gary L. Bolton (Ann Arbor, MI), Martha R. Hotema (Hurst, TX), Melean Visnick (Irving, TX), William H. Roark (Ann Arbor, MI), Xin Jiang (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): REATA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: pH IP Law (Local + 65 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18149696 on 01/04/2023 (1133 days app to issue)

Abstract:

[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)

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

Systems for aggregating and processing of biogas to biomethane
Patent No. 12544712

Inventor(s): N Ross Buckenham (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): California Bioenergy, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18393123 on 12/21/2023 (782 days app to issue)

Abstract: A biogas collection and purification system that includes a plurality of sources of biogas and a network of conduits configured to convey the biogas from the sources to a central processing facility for processing the biogas into methane. The central processing facility removes impurities to convert biogas to biomethane and may include an H[subscript]2[/subscript]S removal stage; an activated carbon scrubber; a gas drier; and a carbon dioxide removal stage. The facility also has a biomethane gas compressor configured to deliver the biomethane for use in power plants, for CNG production. Ancillaries to the system include fuel cells for direct electricity generation from biogas/biomethane.

[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]

Hydrated lime for carbon capture
Patent No. 12544734

Inventor(s): Ian Saratovsky (Highland Park, IL), Kevin Dean Ingram (Fort Worth, TX), Susanna Helena Minnaar (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Lhoist North America, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19098873 on 04/02/2025 (314 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for lime-based carbon capture. The composition comprises a calcium hydroxide component having a specific surface area of at least about 30 m[superscript]2[/superscript]/g; free moisture in an amount of about 1.5 to about 30 wt. %, based on the total weight of the composition; and one or more moisture-retaining additives attached to at least a portion of a surface of the calcium hydroxide component.

[B01J] CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS, COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS (processes or apparatus for specific applications, see the relevant places for these processes or apparatus, e.g. F26B 3/08) [2]

Voxelated molecular patterning in 3-dimensional freeforms
Patent No. 12544975

Inventor(s): Taylor H Ware (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): University of PittsburghOf The Commonwealth System of Higher (Pittsburgh, PA)
Law Firm: Clark Hill PLC (Local + 7 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17621115 on 06/22/2020 (2059 days app to issue)

Abstract: A four-dimensional (”4D”)-printing or 4D-additive manufacturing method for producing anisotropic macroscopic structures and/or anisotropic macroscopic materials having a plurality of voxels, comprising: providing or forming a first layer of a photocurable first liquid crystalline (LC) monomer; wherein the first layer of the first LC monomer has been provided or formed at a temperature falling within a nematic phase range of the first LC monomer; applying a magnetic field, having a first three-dimensional (”3D”) magnetic field vector with respect to an origin point of a 3D coordinate system, to the first layer of first LC monomer or one or more of the plurality of voxels within the first layer of first LC monomer for a first dwell time, to produce in alignment with the first 3D magnetic field vector a first molecular director and/or first nematic alignment vector within the first layer of first LC monomer or within each of the one or more of the plurality of voxels within the first layer of first LC monomer; exposing the first layer of first LC monomer or the one or more of the plurality of voxels within the first layer of first LC monomer to a first dose of light radiation.

[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]

Optical microstructure-containing laminate for ophthalmic lens incorporation
Patent No. 12544998

Inventor(s): Aref Jallouli (Dallas, TX), Hao-Wen Chiu (Dallas, TX), Zbigniew Tokarski (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Essilor International (Charenton-le-Pont, , FR)
Law Firm: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17918220 on 04/13/2021 (1764 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laminate, comprising a first film including a pattern of microstructures embossed on a first surface of thereof, each microstructure being arranged at a predetermined distance between adjacent microstructures, and a second film including structures arranged on a first surface thereof at positions corresponding to areas of the first surface of the first film defined by the predetermined distance, wherein when the second film is laminated to the first film, the structures arranged on the first surface of the second film are in contact with the areas of the first surface of the first film defined by the predetermined distance, a height of the structures is greater than a height of each microstructure, and a delta defined therebetween encapsulates a void fill material in at least a portion of at least one void defined by the delta.

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

Tire mounting component and device, and tire mounting/dismounting device
Patent No. 12545063

Inventor(s): Chunhui Yang (Mckinney, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Panorama IP Group (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18598272 on 03/07/2024 (705 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a tire mounting component and device and a tire mounting/dismounting device. The tire mounting component comprises a main body and a pressing member capable of pressing down the tire, and the pressing member is arranged on the main body. A protective member is arranged on the main body, the protective member is at least partially located above the pressing member, and a portion of the protective member that is located above the pressing member can block at least a portion of a top surface of the pressing member. During mounting of the tire, the protective member can prevent an inner edge of the tire from coming into contact with the at least a portion of the top surface of the pressing member to prevent the inner edge of the tire from being stuck on the pressing member.

[B60C] VEHICLE TYRES (manufacture, repairing B29); TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES (testing of tyres G01M 17/02) [5]

Systems and methods for avoiding obstacles in a virtually connected convoy
Patent No. 12545246

Inventor(s): Shaurya Panthri (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18469031 on 09/18/2023 (876 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving obstacle avoidance for a virtually connected convoy of vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting an obstacle in a path of a convoy, determining that a vehicle in the convoy is to execute obstacle avoidance based on a property of the vehicle and a physical property of the obstacle, and disengaging a following mode of the convoy responsive to a determination that the vehicle is to execute obstacle avoidance.

[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]

Method for motion estimation in a vehicle, corresponding device and computer program product
Patent No. 12545265

Inventor(s): Andrea Donadel (Meda, , IT), Joelle Philippe (Le Mans, , FR), Leonardo Colombo (Lecco, , IT), Mahaveer Jain (Milpitas, CA), Nicola Matteo Palella (Rivolta d”Adda, , IT), Roberto Mura (Milan, , IT)
Assignee(s): STMICROELECTRONICS, INC. (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: Seed IP Law Group LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18496124 on 10/27/2023 (837 days app to issue)

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

Roof strength moment cancelling bulkhead
Patent No. 12545331

Inventor(s): Alex B. Taylor (Chelsea, MI), Chase A. Young (Ann Arbor, MI), Peter C. J. Piper (Saline, 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: 18219030 on 07/06/2023 (950 days app to issue)

Abstract: A vehicle roof support structure on a vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure includes a roof rail member extending in a lengthwise direction of the vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure also includes a side pillar member disposed at least partially below the roof rail member on a lateral side of the vehicle and extending substantially in a vertical direction of the vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure further includes a load force transfer member. The load force transfer member includes a first portion connected to the side pillar member and a second portion spaced a predetermined distance away from a closest point on the roof rail member. The load force transfer member is configured to assume at least a portion of a load force applied on the roof rail member during a roof impact event.

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

Slope sensitive pitch adjustor for bicycle seat
Patent No. 12545347

Inventor(s): Bradley Craig Davis (Boulder, CO), Craig Stephen Etchegoyen (Newport Beach, CA)
Assignee(s): Koch Bein LLC (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: Burdick Patents, P.A. (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17875377 on 07/27/2022 (1294 days app to issue)

Abstract: A slope sensitive pitch adjustor for a bicycle seat includes a rotatable seat support, a gravity sensor mounted thereto, a means for rotating the rotatable seat support, and an automated controller configured to drive the rotating means in response to an acceleration signal received from the gravity sensor. The automated controller stores data representing an initial condition of a pitch angle of the rotatable seat support with respect to horizontal and executes a control algorithm to maintain the initial condition when the bicycle is ridden over changing gradients.

[B62J] CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; ACCESSORIES PECULIAR TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS (registration plates B60R 13/10; cyclometers, i.e. wheel-revolution counters, G01C 22/00)

Aircraft tow system
Patent No. 12545408

Inventor(s): Doron Appelboim (Snoqualmie, WA)
Assignee(s): EDGE LOGISTICS, INC. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: KOWERT, HOOD, MUNYON, RANKIN GOETZEL, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19005190 on 12/30/2024 (407 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed is an unmanned, autonomous, cargo transport system comprising at least one towed aircraft coupled to a tractor aircraft for inflight towing.

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

Switchable thermal link
Patent No. 12545442

Inventor(s): Jesus Gerardo Vera (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): RAYTHEON COMPANY (Arlington, VA)
Law Firm: CANTOR COLBURN LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19037895 on 01/27/2025 (379 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting heat from a component side to a radiator side on a spacecraft includes a component side that contains a heater, an electrical component, an optional first conduction link, and a first portion of a switchable thermal link and a radiator side that includes a radiator, an optional second conduction link and a second portion of a switchable thermal link. The first portion of the switchable thermal link and the second portion of the switchable link are in operative thermal communication with the component side and the radiator side respectively. The first portion of the switchable thermal link and the second portion of the switchable thermal link are reversibly attachable and detachable. The switchable thermal link is operative to receive and radiate thermal energy from the component side to the radiator side.

[B64G] COSMONAUTICS; VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT THEREFOR (apparatus for, or methods of, winning materials from extraterrestrial sources E21C 51/00)

Aerial vehicle landing pad with sensors
Patent No. 12545447

Inventor(s): Dianne Anderson (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
Law Firm: Athorus, PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18736983 on 06/07/2024 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described is an aerial vehicle landing pad configured to capture various metrics regarding landing of an aerial vehicle thereon. The landing pad may be formed of layers, such as one or more sensors layers enclosed in protective layers. The landing pad may include elements with force sensors to sense a force of a landing of an aerial vehicle on the landing pad. The landing pad may include elements with pressure sensors to determine elements subject to pressure from landing structures of the aerial vehicle on the landing pad. Locations of the elements that indicate a pressure signal may be used determine a location of the aerial vehicle on the landing pad, an orientation of the aerial vehicle, and/or a type of aerial vehicle.

[B64U] UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR

System and methods for reducing multi-container packing errors
Patent No. 12545467

Inventor(s): Ashutosh Prasad (Dallas, TX), Vivek Prasad (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): KoiReader Technologies, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19202184 on 05/08/2025 (278 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and devices for automating and computerizing audits, tracking, and error prevention associated with container packing events and, in particular, multi-container packing events at a storage facility, yard, warehouse, or the like. In some cases, the systems and devices may be configured to monitor and detect errors or issues with packing items and send alerts and control signals to agents, such as autonomous agents, to correct the detected errors.

[B65B] MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C 1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B 25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B 1/00-B67B 6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C 7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C 9/00)

Methods and systems for secure, metered beverage dispensing
Patent No. 12545573

Inventor(s): Amrit Singh (Uttar Pradesh, , IN), Nagendra Palle (Danville, CA), Nirmal Chudgar (Gujarat, , IN), Shawn B. Smith (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): DT Whisky Solutions, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Spano Law Group (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17974365 on 10/26/2022 (1203 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for accurately and securely dispensing high value beverages are presented herein. A beverage distribution system includes one or more replaceable beverage cartridges mounted to a beverage dispensing device. Each of the beverage cartridges includes a fluid reservoir with an output port, an output control valve, a flowmeter, and a local controller. The local controller receives signals from the flow meter and determines a cumulative amount of beverage fluid dispensed from the beverage cartridge based on the received signals. In one embodiment, the beverage dispensing device includes a fluid pump and a master controller. The master controller also estimates the cumulative amount of beverage fluid dispensed from each beverage cartridge based on control commands communicated to each beverage cartridge. If a difference between the estimated cumulative amounts of fluid dispensed from a beverage cartridge exceeds a predetermined threshold value, an alert is generated.

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

Auto-siphon drainage system for aircraft
Patent No. 12546345

Inventor(s): Carlos Alexander Fenny (Fort Worth, TX), James Brendan Rohrer (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Akona IP PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18358484 on 07/25/2023 (931 days app to issue)

Abstract: An aircraft comprising a fuselage; a vent disposed through a bottom surface of the fuselage; and a drainage system for transporting fluid leaked from a fluid source out of the fuselage via the vent in response to a first condition, the drainage system comprising a container having a top and a bottom; and a siphon tube within the container, the siphon tube having an inlet and an outlet and comprising a 180 degree bend between the inlet and the outlet.

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

Emergency deployment of a drone-based dehumidifier
Patent No. 12546490

Inventor(s): Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, TX), Timothy Benjamin Czerlinsky (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): United States Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18307204 on 04/26/2023 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: A dehumidification system that can be used during emergencies. The system includes an autonomous vehicle carrying a dehumidification device. In response to information about a water-related disaster at a specific location, the system will instruct the vehicle to travel to the location, enter a building, and initiate a series of dehumidification cycles in the interior space of the building. The vehicle can navigate from room to room and determine whether moisture content levels exceed a specified threshold. In response, the vehicle can direct its dehumidification operation to these specific zones.

[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]

Code-shield label
Patent No. 12548475

Inventor(s): Tom Miller (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Platinum Press, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: Lathrop GPM LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18122584 on 03/16/2023 (1062 days app to issue)

Abstract: A label including a first strip including a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first strip includes an opaque material. The first strip further includes a first area proximate the first end. The first area includes a first length along a longitudinal axis common to the first strip. The label also includes a second strip including a third end and a fourth end opposite the third end, wherein the second strip includes a transparent material. The second strip is laminated over the first strip such that the third end is disposed outside the first area. The fourth end extends beyond the second end a distance at least equal to the first length.

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

Compositions comprising reaction products of saccharide polymers and fatty acids or fatty esters formulated with an amide-based neutral surfactant
Patent No. 12545749

Inventor(s): Ashoka V.R. Madduri (Belmont, MA), Christopher P. Gardner (Cresson, TX), Stephen William Almond (Creston, CA)
Assignee(s): INTEGRITY BIO-CHEMICALS, LLC (Cresson, TX)
Law Firm: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18711860 on 12/19/2022 (1149 days app to issue)

Abstract:

[C08B] POLYSACCHARIDES; DERIVATIVES THEREOF (polysaccharides containing less than six saccharide radicals attached to each other by glycosidic linkages C07H; fermentation or enzyme-using processes C12P 19/00; production of cellulose D21) [4]

Thermoplastic vulcanizate compositions
Patent No. 12545777

Inventor(s): Antonios K. Doufas (Houston, TX), Eric P. Jourdain (Rhode Saint Genese, , BE), Krishnan Anantha Narayana Iyer (Manvel, TX), Michael J. Goncy (Mont Belvieu, TX)
Assignee(s): Celanese International Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Dority Manning, P.A. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17601616 on 06/19/2020 (2062 days app to issue)

Abstract: In another embodiment, a TPV composition includes an ethylene based copolymer, a thermoplastic polyolefin, and one or more of an oil or a plasticizer. The ethylene based copolymer has an Mw of from 400,000 g/mol to 3,000,000 g/mol, a Mw/Mn of 10 or less, and a g[subscript]vis [/subscript]of 0.7 or more. An amount of the one or more of an oil or a plasticizer in the TPV composition is from 10 parts by weight to 200 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the ethylene based copolymer, and the TPV composition has an extrusion surface roughness that is from 50 in to 120 in. In another embodiment is provided a method of forming a TPV composition. In another embodiment is provided a method of forming an article that includes a TPV composition. In another embodiment is provided an article that includes a TPV composition.

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

Brine-tolerant compositions comprising fatty acid or fatty ester reaction products of saccharide polymers
Patent No. 12545830

Inventor(s): Brandy Adolph (Cresson, TX), Matthew B. Blackmon (Cresson, TX), Stephen W. Almond (Creston, CA)
Assignee(s): INTEGRITY BIO-CHEMICALS, LLC (Cresson, TX)
Law Firm: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18853566 on 04/17/2023 (1030 days app to issue)

Abstract: Surfactant compositions comprising a reaction product of a saccharide polymer and a fatty acid or a fatty ester may be obtained in an aqueous fluid in the presence of a hydroxide base and a neutral surfactant or a reaction product form thereof, the saccharide polymer comprising a dextran, a dextrin compound, or any combination thereof. One or more zwitterionic surfactants may be combined with the surfactant composition in a ratio sufficient to render the resulting combined surfactant composition brine-tolerant, even when both the reaction product and one or more of the zwitterionic surfactant(s) are brine-intolerant. The one or more zwitterionic surfactants may be further selected to render the combined surfactant composition non-emulsifying toward oleaginous fluids.

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

Ingot puller apparatus having dopant feeders for adding a plurality of dopant batches
Patent No. 12546028

Inventor(s): Young Gil Jeong (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. (Hsinchu, , TW)
Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18323770 on 05/25/2023 (992 days app to issue)

Abstract: Ingot puller apparatus for producing a doped single crystal silicon ingot are disclosed. The ingot puller apparatus includes a dopant feeder having a first dopant receptacle for holding a first batch of dopant and a second dopant receptacle for holding a second batch of dopant. A rotation mechanism rotates the first dopant receptacle to release the first batch of dopant into the crucible and rotates the second dopant receptacle to release the second batch of dopant into the crucible.

[C30B] SINGLE-CRYSTAL GROWTH (by using ultra-high pressure, e.g. for the formation of diamonds B01J 3/06); UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL OR UNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL (zone-refining of metals or alloys C22B); PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE (casting of metals, casting of other substances by the same processes or devices B22D; working of plastics B29; modifying the physical structure of metals or alloys C21D, C22F); SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE; AFTER-TREATMENT OF SINGLE CRYSTALS OR A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE (for producing semiconductor devices or parts thereof H01L); APPARATUS THEREFOR [3]

T E X T I L E S& P A P E R

Appliance monitoring sensors
Patent No. 12546057

Inventor(s): Matthew Flachsbart (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18047488 on 10/18/2022 (1211 days app to issue)

Abstract: Sensor units that includes a power source, a communication interface, and a sensor coupled to the power source and the communication interface. The sensor is calibrated to connect the power source to the communication interface upon an occurrence of a condition in an appliance. The sensor, thereby, permits the communication interface to transmit data indicating the condition to a computing device. Methods, systems, and apparatus, for monitoring such sensor units.

[D06F] LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES (apparatus for blocking, pressing, steaming, or stretching hats A42C; treating textile materials by liquids, gases or vapors D06B; chemical matters, see D06L, D06M)

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

Systems and devices for mounting a thermostatic mixing valve and methods thereof
Patent No. 12546097

Inventor(s): Philip Butler (Azle, TX)
Assignee(s): Double Leb, LLC (Azle, TX)
Law Firm: Whitaker Chalk Swindle Schwartz PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19212262 on 05/19/2025 (267 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mounting system and device for securing a thermostatic mixing valve (TMV) under a sink. The device includes a pipe-mounting section configured to engage an outer surface of a pipe, such as a pipe, and cooperate with an attachment mechanism for non-destructive securement to the pipe. A securing section, connected to the pipe-mounting section directly or via an optional support section, includes a holder configured to releasably secure at least a portion of the TMV. The mounting system prevents damaging wall attachments by utilizing the existing pipe structure for support, providing a stable and secure mounting for the TMV, and preventing potential damage and improving safety by securing the valve away from accidental contact. Embodiments may include a U-shaped configuration.

[E03C] DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER (not connected to either water-supply main or to waste pipe A47K; devices of the kind used in the ground E03B, E03F); SINKS

Roofing shingle and method of manufacturing thereof
Patent No. 12546113

Inventor(s): James A. Svec (Kearny, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18361327 on 07/28/2023 (928 days app to issue)

Abstract: An article includes a first layer including a front surface and a back surface and a second layer including a front surface and a back surface. A portion of the second layer overlaps the first layer. A portion of the second layer is fastened to the first layer. The back surface of the first layer contacts the front surface of the second layer. A plurality of indentations along a major dimension of the roofing shingle. The plurality of indentations are configured to partially press the second layer into the first layer such that the second layer is partially indented into the first layer. The plurality of indentations are at least one of barrel-shaped, flattened teardrop shaped, rounded taper teardrop shaped, or combinations thereof.

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

Device for leveling and aligning tiles and method for leveling and aligning tiles
Patent No. 12546124

Inventor(s): Clinton D. Bunch (Keller, TX), Joshua A. Bunch (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Acufloor, LLC (North Richland Hills, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17578808 on 01/19/2022 (1483 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for leveling and aligning tiles and method for leveling and aligning tiles are disclosed. In one embodiment, the leveling device includes a body and two spaced and parallel strip members extending transversely from the body. Each of the spaced and parallel strip members extend to the front and rear of the body. Two opposing lateral open windows are formed in the body. A breakaway section is defined along the body. A wedge device is provided for penetrating one or more of the two opposing lateral open windows and exerting a force on the tiles for leveling them relative to each other.

[E04F] FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS (windows, doors E06B)

Stabilization roller bracket for long roller stems of a movable barrier
Patent No. 12546154

Inventor(s): Danny L Preising, Jr. (Massillon, OH), Dwayne J. Kornish (Navarre, TX)
Assignee(s): Overhead Door Corporation (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18075227 on 12/05/2022 (1163 days app to issue)

Abstract: A stabilization roller bracket is positioned adjacent to a hinge and supplements a hinge in coupling a roller to a movable barrier. The stabilization roller bracket includes a base configured to be coupled to an inner surface of the movable barrier. The base includes a main body and a frangible portion. The stabilization roller bracket also includes at least one wall extending from the base and including a plurality of stem-receiving holes, each of the plurality of stem-receiving holes spaced a different distance from the base and configured to receive a portion of a stem of a roller for the movable barrier and space the roller from the inner surface of the movable barrier.

[E05D] HINGES OR OTHER SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS, OR WINGS (pivotal connections in general F16C 11/00)

Ratcheting adjustable top bracket assembly for a movable barrier
Patent No. 12546156

Inventor(s): Bradley J. Lee (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Overhead Door Corporation (Lewisville, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18071343 on 11/29/2022 (1169 days app to issue)

Abstract: A roller bracket assembly for a movable barrier includes a base bracket coupled to the movable barrier and a roller holder bracket. The roller holder bracket is rotatably coupled to the base bracket. The roller bracket assembly further includes a support bracket. The roller holder bracket includes multiple ratcheting features configured to engage with corresponding ratcheting features of the support bracket. The ratcheting features of the roller holder bracket and the support bracket allow movement of the roller holder bracket away from the movable barrier rotating relative to the base bracket, but prevent movement of the roller holder bracket toward the movable barrier.

[E05D] HINGES OR OTHER SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS, OR WINGS (pivotal connections in general F16C 11/00)

Drill string-connected protection from borehole pulsation energies
Patent No. 12546171

Inventor(s): Cersten Jantzon (Kingwood, TX), John Thomas Rogers (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Performance Pulsation Control, Inc. (Richardson, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18668780 on 05/20/2024 (631 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pulsation dampening device includes a body having an upper connection end and a lower connection end, each connection end adapted to connect the body to connectors for a drill string pipe segment that are part of one of a top drive, a lower Kelly valve, a saver sub, drill string sub, a drill string pipe and a bottom hole assembly. Flow restriction is provided within an internal flow path extending axially through the body and is configured to reduce pumped fluid pressure pulses originating from an agitator within downhole tools. The flow restriction is provided by a combination of one or more orifice(s) restricting fluid flow within the internal flow path, optionally coupled with relief feature(s) gradually increasing or decreasing a cross-section of the internal flow path, or by an orifice device. Flow restriction operates unidirectionally or bidirectionally relative to predominant fluid flow in attenuating pressure pulses.

[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]

Coatings for wear surfaces and related apparatuses, devices, systems, and methods
Patent No. 12546172

Inventor(s): James Rowan (Burleson, TX), Justin Green (Fort Worth, TX), Neil Thomas (Crowley, TX), Ramamurthy Narasimhan (Dallas, TX), Riyadh Salloom (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): CHAMPIONX LLC (Sugar Land, TX)
Law Firm: BKRIP LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17705139 on 03/25/2022 (1418 days app to issue)

Abstract: Metal-based ceramic composite coatings and related devices, assemblies, and methods include monocrystalline superhard particles dispersed in a metal matrix disposed on at least one wear surface of a component of an oil and gas well assembly, system, or device.

Wireline pressure control string with pumpdown assembly
Patent No. 12546176

Inventor(s): James Cook (Granbury, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18738461 on 06/10/2024 (610 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pumpdown system for use in performing wireline operations on a well bore includes a wellhead assembly positioned at the top of the well bore, a pumpdown fluid source, a flowline having a first end connected to the pumpdown fluid source and an opposite second end, and a wireline pressure control string releasably connectable to the wellhead assembly. The wireline pressure control string includes a pumpdown sub having a body and a through bore which extends through the body, at least one pumpdown valve having an inlet connected to the second end of the flowline and an outlet in fluid communication with the through bore, and a connector positioned below the pumpdown assembly for releasably securing the wireline pressure control string to the wellhead assembly. In operation of the pumpdown system, the wireline pressure control string is connected to the wellhead assembly and fluid from the pumpdown fluid source is conveyed through the flowline, the pumpdown valve and the pumpdown sub into the well bore.

Packer assembly with expandable spacer
Patent No. 12546183

Inventor(s): Shobeir Pirayeh Gar (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Sheri Higgins Law, PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18625553 on 04/03/2024 (678 days app to issue)

Abstract: A packer assembly can be used to create a seal against an inside of a tubing string. The packer assembly can be used in high-temperature, high-pressure wellbores. The packer assembly can include a first and second sealing element with a spacer located between. The spacer can be made from a deformable material such that during mechanical or hydraulic actuation of the sealing elements, the spacer expands to make contact with the inside of the tubing string and keeps at least a portion of the inside edges of the sealing elements separated. The deformable spacer can reduce the amount of elongation strain the sealing elements commonly encounter at the vicinity of current metal spacer designs during setting below a value that would cause a loss of structural integrity to the sealing elements.

Perforating gun and system having configurable orientation
Patent No. 12546193

Inventor(s): Dan S. Ang (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): SWM International, LLC (Pampa, TX)
Law Firm: Cabello Hall Zinda, PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18130823 on 04/04/2023 (1043 days app to issue)

Abstract: A perforating gun includes a charge holder that is positioned in a housing. End fittings are affixed to the ends of the holder and support the holder in the housing. Both end fittings have electrical conductors disposed therethrough. One end fitting has two supports. A first support is affixed to the holder”s end and has a mating surface. A second support is disposed adjacent to the first support and has another mating surface. The second support is configured to support the holder”s end in the housing. The mating surfaces of the supports have mating features configured to mate at different radial orientations relative to one another. This allows the orientation of the holder and its charge(s) to be adjusted inside the housing when the gun is connected to other components of a gun string.

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

Systems and methods for heat recovery for carbon capture in oil and natural gas systems
Patent No. 12546272

Inventor(s): Jack L. Imboden (Weatherford, TX), Janette Montalvo (Fort Worth, TX), Michael James Kennedy (Fort Worth, TX), Nathan Gann (Fort Worth, TX), Paige Lorson (Fort Worth, TX), Yang Du (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): EOG RESOURCES, INC. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: CONLEY ROSE, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19019781 on 01/14/2025 (392 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for carbon capture from engines includes a heat recovery steam generator that receives at least a portion of an exhaust from the engines and utilizes the exhaust to form steam. The system may include a steam turbine that utilizes at least a portion of the steam to generate electricity for the system. The system may include an absorption unit that receives the exhaust after the portion of the exhaust is utilized to heat the feedwater to form the steam and contacts the exhaust with a lean sorbent to cause carbon dioxide within the exhaust to be absorbed by the lean sorbent to form a rich sorbent and a carbon dioxide depleted stream. The system may include a desorption unit that receives the rich sorbent regenerates the lean sorbent utilizing heat from the steam.

[F02G] HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS (steam engine plants, special vapour plants, plants operating on either hot gas or combustion-product gases together with other fluid F01K; gas-turbine plants F02C; jet-propulsion plants F02K); USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Mechanically resilient and wear resistant steel compositions and high-pressure pumps and pump components comprised thereof
Patent No. 12546306

Inventor(s): Alastair Scott Pearson (Glasgow, , GB), Frank Hippenstiel (Siegen, , DE), Jacob Bayyouk (Richardson, TX), Michael Muller (Freudenberg, , DE)
Assignee(s): SPM Oil Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18256589 on 12/09/2021 (1524 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a resistant steel composition comprising a nickel content from about 3% MB to about 4% MB; a manganese content from about 0.5% MB to about 1.5% MB; a chromium content from about 12% MB to about 13.4% MB; a molybdenum content from about 0.3% MB to about 0.7% MB; and a copper content of less than about 0.40% MB. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a process for generating a resistant steel composition, the process comprising melting one or more resistant steel components together to form a melted steel; refining the melted steel to form a refined steel; and purifying the refined steel to form the resistant steel composition.

[F04B] POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F; crankshafts, crossheads, connecting-rods F16C; flywheels F16F; gearings for interconverting rotary motion and reciprocating motion in general F16H; pistons, piston-rods, cylinders, in general F16J; ion pumps H01J 41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K 44/02)

Fracturing pump pinion rotation assembly
Patent No. 12546307

Inventor(s): Christopher Kowalski (Fort Worth, TX), Eduardo Torres (Fort Worth, TX), Jeffrey Plaisted (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): BEST PUMP AND FLOW, LLC (Willow Park, TX)
Law Firm: Abel Schillinger, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18438700 on 02/12/2024 (729 days app to issue)

Abstract: A fracturing pump pinion rotation assembly has a stem having a portion adapted to be threaded to or bolted to a non-drive side of the pinion shaft, and a cover having an opening therein. The stem has a socket or extension adapted to be manipulated by a tool such that the rotation of the stem causes a corresponding rotation of the pinion shaft. The cover is adapted to be affixed to a wall of a non-drive side of the fracturing pump. The opening overlies the socket or extension of the stem such that the socket or extension is accessible from an exterior of the fracturing pump. A cap is removably or pivotally connected to an end of the annular portion of the cover.

Stemmed orifice component
Patent No. 12546309

Inventor(s): Albert Rubalcava (Lake Worth, TX), Chandu Kumar (Fort Worth, TX), Jeffrey Haiderer (Fort Worth, TX), John S. Marquez (Saginaw, TX)
Assignee(s): SPM Oil Gas Inc. (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18751100 on 06/21/2024 (599 days app to issue)

Abstract: An orifice component for a lubrication system may include an orifice head having an outlet orifice and one or more inlet passageways in fluid communication with the outlet orifice. The orifice component may include an orifice stem extending from the orifice head. The orifice stem may have a solid structure.

Projecting decoration
Patent No. 12546457

Inventor(s): Cheng-Chun Zhang (Shenzhen, , CN)
Assignee(s): Gemmy Industries Corporation (Coppell, TX)
Law Firm: KLEINBERG LERNER, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18795953 on 08/06/2024 (553 days app to issue)

Abstract: A projecting decoration comprises an outer shell, a light assembly, a light-blocking cover and a controller. The light assembly is mounted inside the outer shell. The light-blocking cover is mounted at the light assembly and has multiple hollowed-out graphic portions, which respectively correspond to multiple light units of the light assembly. The controller is electrically connected to and controls each light unit to emit light, which passes through corresponding hollowed-out graphic portion of the light-blocking cover to light up and project a projected figure to the outer shell. Because the controller controls a part of the multiple light units to turn on and another part to turn off, the outer shell shows various projected figures of different hollowed-out graphic portions corresponding to different light units, thereby enhancing a decorative effect of projecting decoration and inciting a sense of surprise and fun.

[F21V] FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR [7]

Drain assembly for heat exchanger system
Patent No. 12546507

Inventor(s): Ammar K. Sakarwala (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Rheem Manufacturing Company (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18325869 on 05/30/2023 (987 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a drain assembly for a heat exchanger system. The drain assembly includes a bracket, a drain pan detachably coupled to the bracket, and a support member detachably coupled to the drain pan. The drain pan defines one or more drain channels extending longitudinally therealong. The support member includes a central portion and two or more arms extending outwardly from the central portion, the two or more arms configured to support a heat exchanger thereon. With such arrangement, at least a portion of the drain pan is disposed between the support member and the bracket, such that load of the heat exchanger is transferred from the support member to the bracket via the drain pan.

[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)

Systems and methods for thermal reach enhancement
Patent No. 12546511

Inventor(s): Poodipeddi V. Suryanarayana (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): XGS Energy, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Law Firm: Umberg Zipser LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18588978 on 02/27/2024 (714 days app to issue)

Abstract: A thermal reach enhanced geothermal wellbore is provided. The geothermal wellbore includes a wellbore extending from a topside surface to a target location in a formation. The geothermal wellbore further includes a plurality of fissures that distally extend from the target location into the formation and that are at least partially filled with a compacted high-thermal k material. The compacted high-thermal k material terminates on a proximal end at the target location of the wellbore and is thermally coupled to a high-thermal conductivity grout or slurry through which heat is conducted to a working fluid that is contained in a closed loop working fluid conduit embedded in the grout or slurry.

[F24T] GEOTHERMAL COLLECTORS; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS

Quick-connect muzzle accessory
Patent No. 12546552

Inventor(s): Benjamin Ni Ye (North Richland Hills, TX), Richard Trevor Simpson Roe (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Shadow Systems LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kim IP Law Group (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18800734 on 08/12/2024 (547 days app to issue)

Abstract: A muzzle accessory for coupling to a firearm barrel, the firearm barrel including a chamber for receiving a firearm round, a firing tube extending distally from the chamber to a distal end of the firearm barrel, the muzzle accessory can comprise a main body having a proximal end, a distal end, a through-channel extending longitudinally between the proximal end and the distal end, and a keyed receptacle within the through-channel; and a lock coupled to the main body, the lock being positionable into an unlocked position to permit insertion of the distal end of the firearm barrel within the through-channel of the main body, the lock being further positionable into a locked position to prevent removal of the distal end of the firearm barrel from the main body after the firearm barrel is inserted into the through-channel.

[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

Transaction booth
Patent No. 12546131

Inventor(s): Rachel Elizabeth Csabi (Frisco, TX), Yan Pei (Frisco, TX), Yogen Rai (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17076018 on 10/21/2020 (1938 days app to issue)

Abstract: A transaction booth system includes a booth having a booth interior configured to receive a customer. The transaction booth system also includes a door system having a door that is configured to adjust between an open position to open the booth interior and a closed position to enclose the booth interior. The transaction booth system also includes an entry authentication system configured to authenticate the customer outside of the booth interior and an interior authentication system configured to authenticate the customer within the booth interior. The transaction booth system further includes a computer system that is configured to control the door of the door system to move to the open position in response to the entry authentication system signaling a confirmed primary authentication and to process one or more financial transactions in response to the interior authentication system signaling a confirmed secondary authentication and based on input from the customer.

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

Apparatus and method to test embedded thermoelectric devices
Patent No. 12546666

Inventor(s): Henry L. Edwards (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 13798544 on 03/13/2013 (4717 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit containing an embedded resistor in close proximity to an embedded thermoelectric device. An integrated circuit containing an embedded resistor in close proximity to an embedded thermoelectric device composed of thermoelectric elements and at least one switch to disconnect at least one thermoelectric element from the thermoelectric device. Methods for testing embedded thermoelectric devices.

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

Interface structured for detachably connecting a vehicle test body to a sled base in a vehicle body testing assembly
Patent No. 12546685

Inventor(s): James Jeffrey Sontag (Milan, MI), Kyle Allan Lindsay (White Lake, MI), Tiffany Marie Sontag (Milan, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18310583 on 05/02/2023 (1015 days app to issue)

Abstract: An interface for detachably connecting a vehicle test body to a sled base in a vehicle body assembly includes a sled first bracket connected to the sled base, a sled second bracket connected to the sled base opposite the sled first bracket, a body first bracket connected to the test body and structured to be detachably connectible to the sled first bracket, and a body second bracket connected to the test body and structured to be detachably connectible to the sled second bracket. In some arrangements, the interface also includes a brace connected to the sled base and a bearing member connected to the test body and structured to contact the brace when the test body is detachably connected to the sled base. The interface enables rapid removal of the test body from the sled base and also absorbs forward momentum of the test body during testing.

[G01M] TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Techniques for detecting probe landing in integrated circuit testing systems
Patent No. 12546819

Inventor(s): Brian Tilley (Anna, TX), Michael Berkmyre (Princeton, TX), Richard Stallcup (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): FEI Company (Hillsboro, OR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18333136 on 06/12/2023 (974 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and techniques for detecting a contact between a probe tip and a sample surface. A method can include dithering a probe in a plane substantially parallel with a surface using a periodic motion having a dither frequency. The method can include directing a beam of charged particles toward a region of the probe. The method can include generating detector data describing the periodic motion of the probe based at least in part on an interaction between the beam of charged particles and the region of the probe. The method can include displacing the probe toward the surface. The method can also include detecting a contact between the probe and the surface using the detector data.

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

System and method for geolocation identification and accuracy assessment of fixed wireless CPE endpoints
Patent No. 12546844

Inventor(s): Zainab Ababri (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18324972 on 05/27/2023 (990 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a system including: a base station; and a customer premises equipment (CPE) communicatively coupled to the base station via a wide area network (WAN) and to user equipment (UE) via a local area network (LAN). The CPE can transmit location requests to the UEs; receive location request responses from the UEs, wherein a given location request response in the location request responses includes a location and one or more measurement values generated by a respective UE; store the location request responses in a location database; identify highest accuracy location request responses for the UEs from the location request responses based on corresponding measurement values of the location request responses; compute a CPE location based on the highest accuracy location request responses, the CPE location including a latitude and longitude of the CPE; and transmit the CPE location to the base station.

[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 realtime interference location using wireless network field measurement data
Patent No. 12546846

Inventor(s): Hector Alejandro Garcia Crespo (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18062771 on 12/07/2022 (1161 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system may receive, from a network, an estimate of coordinates of a location of a potential interference source; determine, based in the estimate, whether the system is within a first threshold distance from the location; if the system is with the first threshold distance from the location, obtain real-time interference data from the network; determine, based on the real-time interference data, whether a source of interference exists near a first location that is within a second distance from a second location specified by the real-time interference data; and send a reply that indicates a result of the determination to the network.

Neutron detectors and methods of fabricating the same using boron as neutron conversion layer and conformal doping source
Patent No. 12546907

Inventor(s): Carlos Hugo Avila-Avendano (Dallas, TX), Jesus Alfonso Caraveo Frescas (Richardson, TX), Manuel Quevedo Lopez (Richardson, TX), Siddartha Srinivasan Nandagopala Krishnan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: SALIWANCHIK, LLOYD EISENSCHENK (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17759802 on 01/29/2021 (1838 days app to issue)

Abstract: Thermal neutron detectors and methods of fabricating the same are provided. A thermal neutron detector can use boron in both the neutron conversion layer and as a source for conformal doping in a semiconductor substrate. The neutron detector can be a micro-structured diode with cavities having a depth of 60 microns or less. The boron can be filled in the cavities and diffused into the semiconductor substrate via a diffusion annealing process.

[G01T] MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION (radiation analysis of materials, mass spectrometry G01N 23/00; tubes for determining the presence, intensity, density or energy of radiation or particles H01J 47/00)

Fiber optic enclosures and corresponding systems with optional splitter ratio outputs
Patent No. 12546965

Inventor(s): Kristine Alaina Johnson (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): CORNING RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Corning, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18319767 on 05/18/2023 (999 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, assemblies, and methods for selectively defining optical fiber splitter ratio outputs within an enclosure are provided. The system includes an enclosure comprising a feeder cable with a plurality of main optical fibers that are each connected to either an adapter port or to a splitter that is then connected to split adapter ports. Intermediary connectors are selectively connectable to the adapter ports or split adaptor ports, and the intermediary connectors are connected to additional splitters by intermediary optical fibers. The additional splitters are then each connected to distribution optical fibers, which are connected to sets of distribution ports. The sets of distribution ports are positioned in a panel of the enclosure and accessible for connection to downstream installation optical fibers. Various optical splitter ratio outputs for the distribution ports are selectable depending on which adapter ports the intermediary connectors are connected to.

[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]

Efficient user-defined SDR-to-HDR conversion with model templates
Patent No. 12547009

Inventor(s): Duane Scott Dewald (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION (San Francisco, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18008039 on 06/03/2021 (1713 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for projection systems with rotatable anamorphic lenses. In an embodiment, an optical projection system comprises: a light source; an optical integrator configured to receive light from the light source and to distribute a uniform pattern of light; a relay lens system including two or more rotatable anamorphic lenses, the anamorphic lenses oriented about an optical axis to transform the uniform pattern of light into an image having a specified aspect ratio; at least one spatial light modulator configured to receive the image and direct a spatially modulated image along an optical path; and at least one projection lens configured to receive the spatially modulated image from the optical path and to project the spatially modulated image onto an image plane with the specified aspect ratio. In a DLP projection system, the relative angle of the two or more rotatable anamorphic lenses is less than 90 degrees to pre-distort the image, resulting in a more rectangular spatially modulated image having the specified aspect ratio.

Smart lawnmower with development of mowing policy and system and method for use of same
Patent No. 12547129

Inventor(s): David J. Melbourne (Arlington, TX), Ross A. Melbourne (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Sensori Robotics, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Griggs Bergen LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18338120 on 06/20/2023 (966 days app to issue)

Abstract: A smart lawnmower and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the smart lawnmower, in a real world-to-simulated world (”real-to-sim”) training phase, the smart lawnmower constructs a simulated environment corresponding to a mowing-relevant portion of a real-world environment relative to semantic information, which may include received location signalization at an antenna In a simulated world-to-real world (”sim-to-real”) mowing phase, a mowing policy is applied to control the cutting subsystem and the drive subsystem in response to the semantic information, which may include the location signalization. In each of the real-to-sim training phase and the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may provide a user interface including the simulated environment. Further, in the sim-to-real mowing phase, the smart lawnmower may synchronize the real world and the simulated world.

[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)

Tree frog computer navigation system for the hierarchical visualization of data
Patent No. 12547291

Inventor(s): Ken Grifno (The Colony, TX), Scott Roloff (Arlington, TX), William McCallum (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Integer Health Technologies, LLC (Arlington, TX)
Law Firm: Carstens, Allen Gourley, LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18500955 on 11/02/2023 (831 days app to issue)

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

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

Health event highlighter
Patent No. 12547293

Inventor(s): David Wright (Burlingame, CA)
Assignee(s): Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: PERKINS COIE LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18454728 on 08/23/2023 (902 days app to issue)

Abstract: Introduced here is a method, a system, a device, etc. for displaying health-related data (e.g., blood glucose measurements) relevant to user”s selection. The method, the system, the device, etc. can be based on: receiving healthcare-related data from data streams associated with a profile of a patient; identifying, based on a least a subset of the data streams, a time window corresponding to a contextual event indicative of a patient activity that has a potential of affecting metabolism of the patient; determining a graphical representation of the contextual event; generating a graph of blood glucose level over time for display; detecting a user indication of a user interest in a time point along the graph of the blood glucose level; and highlighting the graphical representation of the contextual event in response to the time point falling within the identified time window.

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

Audio and visual environment for a pedestrian
Patent No. 12547359

Inventor(s): Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, MI), Rohit Gupta (Santa Clara, MI), William Patrick Garrett (Plymouth, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18519184 on 11/27/2023 (806 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving an audio and/or visual environment of a pedestrian. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying at least one device in an environment of a pedestrian that produces an output perceivable by the pedestrian, where the output includes at least one of an audio output and a visual output. The method further includes in response to determining that the output satisfies a change threshold, adjusting the output according to a pedestrian preference.

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

Application creation environment using multi- modality interface options
Patent No. 12547380

Inventor(s): Ruhaab Markas (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Reno, NV)
Law Firm: Hogan Lovells US LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18477994 on 09/29/2023 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods provide for a multi-modal development environment to receive inputs using a variety of different input modalities in different user interfaces (UIs). Multiple user interfaces may be linked within the development environment to maintain state information so that inputs provided to one UI are represented in the other UIs using an appropriate equivalent representation based on the UI modality. Users of the development environment may select a given UI for interaction based on a desired task and then see changes tracked and relayed through the different UIs to verify changes within the development environment. The UIs may also be contextually linked to permit the user to work between both UIs without losing the context due to the switch.

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

System for automatically generating scripts to run controls associated with policy rules
Patent No. 12547386

Inventor(s): Ashish Kanjiram (Allen, TX), Shailaja Masarwala (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18416644 on 01/18/2024 (754 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive policy data that defines one or more controls and a set of variable definitions associated with the one or more controls in a tabular format. The system may generate a two-dimensional dataframe in which each row corresponds to a policy rule, of the set of policy rules. The system may create a system-generated script that includes a sequence of commands based on the two-dimensional dataframe, wherein each command in the sequence of commands is generated from a row of the two-dimensional dataframe using string manipulations based on information in each column associated with the respective row and the set of variable definitions associated with the one or more controls. The system may execute the system-generated script to generate an output that indicates whether input data subject to the set of policy rules complies with the one or more controls.

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

Look-up table read
Patent No. 12547406

Inventor(s): Dheera Balasubramanian Samudrala (Richardson, TX), Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, TX), Naveen Bhoria (Plano, TX), Rama Venkatasubramanian (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18477657 on 09/29/2023 (865 days app to issue)

Abstract: A digital data processor includes a multi-stage butterfly network, which is configured to, in response to a look up table read instruction, receive look up table data from an intermediate register, reorder the look up table data based on control signals comprising look up table configuration register data, and write the reordered look up table data to a destination register specified by the look up table read instruction.

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

Securing conditional speculative instruction execution
Patent No. 12547411

Inventor(s): Steven Jeffrey Wallach (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18353558 on 07/17/2023 (939 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method performed in a processor, includes: receiving, in the processor, a branch instruction in the processing; determining, by the processor, an address of an instruction after the branch instruction as a candidate for speculative execution, the address including an object identification and an offset; and determining, by the processor, whether or not to perform speculative execution of the instruction after the branch instruction based on the object identification of the address.

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

Library identification in application binaries
Patent No. 12547425

Inventor(s): Duncan Ogilvie (Wrocaw, , PL), Jose Fernandez Portal (Crdoba, , AR), Matteo Favaro (Noale, , IT), Nicols Chiaraviglio (Barcelona, , ES)
Assignee(s): Zimperium, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Fenwick West LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18651129 on 04/30/2024 (651 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for identifying libraries used by an application based on the program code of the application. The system accesses a plurality of program codes of the application. For at least one program code, the system extracts raw type data from the program code and normalizes the raw type data to generate target normalized type data. The target normalized type data includes data type information of the program code. The system determines a set of candidate library types corresponding to the program code. The system accesses candidate raw type data associated with each candidate library type and determines a library type corresponding to the program code by comparing the program code of the application with the program code of each of the set of the candidate library types.

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

Methods and systems for generating a modified graphical user interface using an optimization protocol
Patent No. 12547433

Inventor(s): Blake Browder (Dallas, TX), Joy Figarsky (Little Rock, AR)
Assignee(s): BH Operations, LLC (North Richland Hills, TX)
Law Firm: Caldwell Intellectual Property Law (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19212206 on 05/19/2025 (267 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for generating a modified graphical user interface using an optimization protocol, wherein the system includes: a display device, at least a computing device, a memory; and a processor communicatively connected to the memory, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the processor to: receive a plurality of inputs; display a plurality of input triggers; generate, using the at least a processor, an admission pathway as a function of the verified input trigger, wherein generating the admission pathway includes generating an admission pathway machine-learning model using admission pathway training data configured to correlate each input of the plurality of inputs to the admission pathway; optimize each input of the plurality of inputs as a function of the admission pathway machine-learning model; modify the graphical user interface as a function of the admission pathway and an optimized input of the plurality of inputs, and display a modified graphical user interface.

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

Dynamic computing platform for real-time data container generation, authorization, and throttling management
Patent No. 12547472

Inventor(s): Manu Kurian (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18125223 on 03/23/2023 (1055 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to real-time management of data container generation, authorization, and throttling. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive a first data container and retrieve a first data container management file associated with the first data container. The computing platform may then perform a first preliminary analysis of the first data container, including analyzing the first data container and the first data container management file to determine whether a first predetermined communication path requires additional throttling analysis. If additional throttling analysis is required, the computing platform may send analysis messages to a data container throttling module to extract a first communication entity listed in the first predetermined communication path. Thereafter, the computing platform may retrieve real-time operating conditions for the first communication entity to determine that the first data container requires additional throttling processing, and queue, by the data container throttling module, the first data container.

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

Version rollback for cloud-based applications
Patent No. 12547502

Inventor(s): Milind Patel (Frisco, TX), Neeraja Desiraju (Plano, TX), Sayak Banerjee (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18780000 on 07/22/2024 (568 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive a request to roll back a cloud-based application to a previous version, where the cloud-based application is associated with a deployment type. The device may generate, in response to the request, a list of a plurality of previously-deployed versions of the cloud-based application. The device may receive a rollback request indicating a selection of a previously-deployed version, of the plurality of previously-deployed versions, of the cloud-based application. The device may perform one or more rollback actions to roll back the cloud-based application to the previously-deployed version, where the one or more rollback actions are in accordance with the deployment type associated with the cloud-based application.

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

Performance monitoring system using aggregated telemetry
Patent No. 12547519

Inventor(s): Elvis Nyamwange (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18508654 on 11/14/2023 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for performance monitoring using aggregated telemetry. The present disclosure is configured to receive, from the first performance monitoring engine, a first metadata associated with the first resiliency status; receive, from the second performance monitoring engine, a second metadata associated with the second resiliency status; determine, using a machine learning (ML) subsystem, an overall resiliency status of the device based on at least the first metadata, the second metadata, the first resiliency status, and the second resiliency status; determine one or more actions to be executed on the device, wherein the one or more actions are associated with the overall resiliency status; generate a notification indicating the overall resiliency status of the device and the one or more actions associated with the overall resiliency status; and transmit control signals configured to cause a user input device to display the notification.

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

Test case generation from requirements
Patent No. 12547528

Inventor(s): Farid Khafizov (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17692604 on 03/11/2022 (1432 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a test case generation service is provided. The service may include receiving and validating requirement text associated with a prospective test case and/or test script. The service may invoke a remedial procedure when the requirement text is not validated. The service may include selecting multiple types of classification models based on a model profile. The service may include aggregating probability values associated with classifications for sentences, and approving such classification that satisfy a threshold value. The service may further include generating test cases and/or test scripts. The service may generate a schedule for test cases and/or test scripts based on one or multiple criteria values generated by one or multiple predictive models.

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

Storage drive
Patent No. 12547548

Inventor(s): Alan Chen (Simi Valley, CA), Andrey V. Kuzmin (Moscow, , RU), Craig Robertson (Simi Valley, CA), Mike Jadon (Manhattan Beach, CA), Robert Lercari (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Assignee(s): Radian Memory Systems, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18403483 on 01/03/2024 (769 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure provides techniques hierarchical address virtualization within a memory controller and configurable block device allocation. By performing address translation only at select hierarchical levels, a memory controller can be designed to have predictable I/O latency, with brief or otherwise negligible logical-to-physical address translation time. In one embodiment, address transition may be implemented entirely with logical gates and look-up tables of a memory controller integrated circuit, without requiring processor cycles. The disclosed virtualization scheme also provides for flexibility in customizing the configuration of virtual storage devices, to present nearly any desired configuration to a host or client.

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

One-time programmable control for memory subsystem
Patent No. 12547551

Inventor(s): Praveen Kumar N (Bengaluru, , IN), Ruchi Shankar (Bengaluru, , IN), Sverre Brubak (Oslo, , NO)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18394629 on 12/22/2023 (781 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a hardware security module; a processor; a memory subsystem; and a controller. The memory subsystem includes a write interface and a memory. The memory includes a first region that is a one-time programmable (OTP) region, and a second region that is a shared region. The controller is between the hardware security module, the processor, and the memory subsystem. The controller is configured to: receive an OTP write request from the hardware security module; inhibit the providing of shared memory operations by the processor responsive to the OTP write request and an acknowledgment from the processor; cause OTP data related to the OTP write request to be written to the first region of the memory; clear storage of the write interface after writing the OTP data is complete; and cease to inhibit the providing of shared memory operations after the storage of the write interface is cleared.

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

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for utilizing accumulation records to reduce network transactions
Patent No. 12547613

Inventor(s): Karen Padgett (Laveen, AZ), Tate Williams (Loganville, GA)
Assignee(s): McKesson Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18641377 on 04/21/2024 (660 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for utilizing accumulation records to reduce a number of transactions occurring in a network. Aggregated quantities are calculated from at least a first quantity from a first sub-system and a second quantity from the second sub-system. Preliminary amounts may be reduced based on cap amounts less the aggregated quantity, and transmission of messages to certain sub-systems may be precluded. Accumulation records may be maintained by a service provider computer on an ongoing basis. The service provider computer forwards responses that reflect a reduced preliminary amount to a requesting computer that initiated a response.

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

Multi-channel search and aggregated scoring techniques for complex search domains
Patent No. 12547631

Inventor(s): Harsh M Maheshwari (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): Optum, Inc. (Minnetonka, MN)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18390940 on 12/20/2023 (783 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide query processing techniques for resolving queries in a complex search domain to improve upon traditional search resolutions within such domains. The techniques may include generating a keyword and an embedding representation for an agnostic search query. The keyword representation may be compared against source text attributes within one or more domain channels to generate a plurality of keyword similarity scores between the search query and features within a search domain. The embedding representation may be compared against source embedding attributes within the one or more domain channels to generate a plurality of embedding similarity scores between the search query and the features within the search domain. The keyword and embedding similarity scores may be aggregated to generate aggregated similarity scores for identifying an intermediate query resolution for the search query. The intermediate query resolution may be leveraged to resolve the query.

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

Matching data analytics parameters using prediction models
Patent No. 12547633

Inventor(s): Courtney St. Martin (Forney, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Potomac Law Group, PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18746830 on 06/18/2024 (602 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to prediction models that match stored parameters to a new data analytics task. A data analytics task can refer to a task that analyzes and queries data sources to retrieve target data. Example parameters for a data analytics task include a task description, assigned individuals, relevant databases, relevant data tables, search queries, data table joins, etc. Implementations can store historical data analytics tasks and their task parameters. Prediction model(s) can be provided new data analytics task parameters and predict matching historical data analytics tasks for the new task. The matching data analytics tasks can then be analyzed to select data tables common among them, and the common data tables can be provided to a user. Implementations can also group additional parameters according to a selected common data table and provide the grouped additional parameters to the user.

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

Systems and methods for classification of database records by mitigating bias using random data re-censoring
Patent No. 12547645

Inventor(s): Bing Liu (Frisco, TX), Fei Tong (Allen, TX), Xue Li (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18514236 on 11/20/2023 (813 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for improving data processing efficiency of classifying user files in a database. More particularly, methods and systems are described herein for improving data processing efficiency of classifying user files in a database in which the user files have a temporal element. The methods and systems described herein accomplish these improvements by mitigating bias using random data censoring.

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

Unsupervised machine learning system to automate functions on a graph structure
Patent No. 12547647

Inventor(s): Ronnie J. Morris (Mesquite, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18207861 on 06/09/2023 (977 days app to issue)

Abstract: Machine learning models, semantic networks, adaptive systems, artificial neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and other forms of knowledge processing systems are disclosed. An ensemble machine learning system is coupled to a graph module storing a graph structure, wherein a collection of entities and the relationships between those entities forms nodes and connection arcs between the various nodes. A hotfile module and hotfile propagation engine coordinate with the graph module or may be subsumed within the graph module, and implement the various hot file functionality generated by the machine learning systems.

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

Method and apparatus for creating and using quantum resistant keys
Patent No. 12547676

Inventor(s): Christopher J. Daly (Dallas, TX), Max Fleming (Addison, TX)
Assignee(s): Amera IoT Inc. (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18761877 on 07/02/2024 (588 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system is disclosed for securely communicating between a user device and a target device, which includes a user input receiving user inputs and a user device memory for storing at least one fixed dataset having a plurality of data bits and an inherent entropy. At least one predetermined harvest process is stored in ser device memory, which is operable within a main harvest process to distill the dataset to a predetermined bit length to define a private key of the user at a predetermined key length. A processor operates to execute the main harvest process to receive a unique user Personal Information Number (PIN) acquired by the user and having a plurality of digits associated therewith, and wherein the at least one predetermined harvest process is dependent on the user PIN and the value of at least one of the digits therein, such that the at least one predetermined harvest process is parameterized by the value of the at least one of the digits and operates differently for each value of the at least one of the digits. The processor applies the at least one predetermined harvest process to the dataset to distill the dataset down to the predetermined key length to define the private key, and then stores the private key to the user device. A target device memory and an encryption engine on the target device interface with a proximity-based link. The private key is transferred to the target device via the proximity-based link and an interface on the target device stores the tran

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

Known-deployed file metadata repository and analysis engine
Patent No. 12547708

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Texada (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18444942 on 02/19/2024 (722 days app to issue)

Abstract: A known-deployed file metadata repository (KDFMR) and analysis engine enumerates reference lists of files stored on a software delivery point (SDP) and compares the enumerated list of files and associated metadata to previously stored values in the KDFMR. If newly stored or modified files are identified, the analysis engine acquires the files from the SDP. Each file is analyzed to determine whether the file is an atomic file or a container file and metadata is generated or extracted. Each file stored in a container file is recursively extracted and analyzed, where metadata is generated for each extracted file and each container file. The KDFMR periodically analyzes the files stored on the SDP for differences to maintain the currency of the KDFMR data with respect to files stored on the SDP. Storage or modification of files on the SDP triggers analysis of the associated file. KDFMR data is updated with metadata determined based on sandbox detonation of files and/or identified artifacts of known-deployed files.

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

Predictive artificial intelligence for determining security events and mitigation strategies
Patent No. 12547735

Inventor(s): Matthew Williams (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Banner Witcoff, Ltd. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18776630 on 07/18/2024 (572 days app to issue)

Abstract: Predictive analysis for potential future security events may be performed using machine learning and an artificial intelligence model. Machine learning may be based on historical security event data, and analyzed on micro and macro levels to determine possible future events and a likelihood that those future events may occur. Further, machine learning and artificial intelligence models may be used to determine mitigation strategies to address possible future events.

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

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing natural language processing to determine natural language from computer programming language in an electronic environment
Patent No. 12547845

Inventor(s): Bhavna Agrawal (Plano, TX), Kristi A. Perry-Weaver (Waxahachie, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18225441 on 07/24/2023 (932 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for implementing natural language processing to determine natural language from computer programming language in an electronic environment. The present disclosure is configured to identify at least one change request associated with at least one computer program to: identify at least one modification to the at least one computer program; apply the at least one change request and the at least one modification to a natural language processor (NLP); generate a natural language interpretation of the at least one modification; generate a modification interpretation interface component, wherein the modification interpretation interface component comprises a data packet of the natural language interpretation; and transmit the modification interpretation interface component to a user device associated with the at least one change request and configure a graphical user interface (GUI) of the user device with the modification interpretation interface component.

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

Rules-based decision support system for assessment of digital content involving natural language
Patent No. 12547846

Inventor(s): Aditya Agarwal (Bengaluru, , IN), Sunil Vinodkumar Jain (Irving, TX)
Assignee(s): VIRTUOSOURCE LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18272477 on 01/14/2022 (1488 days app to issue)

Abstract: A decision support system for assessing and reviewing large volume of digital content which comprise complex subject matter and providing recommendations on relevance of each content by applying context-based rules which are specific to the subject matter of interest. The rules are captured in a standardized format and the algorithm for the rules-based decision making is designed with the flexibility to select the rules based on the subject matter of interest.

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

Neural network obfuscation by discretization
Patent No. 12547871

Inventor(s): James Ryland (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Raytheon Company (Arlington, VA)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17889008 on 08/16/2022 (1274 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments regard neural network (NN) obfuscation. A method can include receiving data representing the NN architecture. The NN architecture includes neurons, each neuron comprising corresponding neuron input weights, an activation function, and one or more interconnections between one or more other neurons of the neurons. The method can include mapping inputs to the neurons from a continuous domain to a discrete domain resulting in discretized neuron inputs. The method can include applying the activation function to the discretized neuron inputs resulting in discretized neuron outputs.

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

Correlation-based dimensional reduction of synthesized features
Patent No. 12547938

Inventor(s): Michael Langford (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17935552 on 09/26/2022 (1233 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining a first dataset comprising a first set of features and generating a second set of features based on the first set of features set by providing the first dataset to feature primitive stacks that respectively corresponds to features of the second set of features. The method further includes determining a reduced feature set based on the second set of features and a count of correlation values between features of the second set of features, wherein the correlation values satisfy a correlation threshold. The method further includes storing the reduced feature set in a database in association with the first set of features based on a determination that a second dataset comprising the reduced feature set satisfies a set of criteria.

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

System and method for computer-assisted improvement of business intelligence ecosystem
Patent No. 12547952

Inventor(s): Jeremy D. Siler (Dallas, TX), Lance W. Hankins (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17683165 on 02/28/2022 (1443 days app to issue)

Abstract: In various implementations, improvement of a business intelligence ecosystem may include analyzing component(s) of a business intelligence ecosystem, identifying candidate improvements, applying at least a portion of candidate improvements, and/or verifying effects of the candidate improvements. Candidate improvements for business intelligence artifact(s), underlying data sources, BI environment configurations, metadata models, and/or computing resources may be analyzed and identified.

[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]

Methods and arrangements to log implementation of controls to mitigate risk
Patent No. 12547959

Inventor(s): Ryan M. Parker (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: KDW Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18155944 on 01/18/2023 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: Logic may identify information of a first electronic mail document associated with a control, the control to comprise a process to mitigate a risk. Logic may select the electronic mail document based on the information. Logic may determine metadata for the electronic mail document, the metadata. Logic may generate a first value representative of the electronic mail document based on application of a mathematical algorithm. Logic may generate a log entry for the electronic mail document comprising the metadata and the first value. Logic may encrypt the log entry with an encryption key. And logic may store the log entry in an encrypted ledger with a log entry date and a unique log entry identifier.

Gamified member assessment and improvement systems and methods
Patent No. 12547964

Inventor(s): Sayeef Rahim (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Fletcher Yoder P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18059756 on 11/29/2022 (1169 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and method described herein include a member assessment and improvement system configured to receive data relating to personal activity of one or more members of an organization; to assess performance of the personal activity of the one or more members based at least in part on the data relating to the personal activity; to generate game-related data based at least in part on the performance of the personal activity of the one or more members; and to transmit one or more command signals to one or more game applications being executed by one or more electronic devices associated with the one or more members to display the game-related data via the one or more game applications.

Systems and methods for automated bill splitting
Patent No. 12548002

Inventor(s): Christopher Wallace (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER LOCKE LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18324062 on 05/25/2023 (992 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a system for providing automated bill splitting. The system may receive speech data. The system may identify, from the speech data and using natural language processing, one or more users. The system may determine, from the speech data and using natural language processing, orders of the one or more users. The system may determine, from the speech data and using natural language processing, rules for the orders of the one or more users. The system may process one or more payments for the orders based on the rules and one or more credentials associated with the one or more users.

Using unique identifier to supply user profile information
Patent No. 12548024

Inventor(s): Ankit Kothari (Plano, TX), Chih-Hsiang Chow (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18169519 on 02/15/2023 (1091 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a system for supplying user profile information may store, in an encrypted data repository, user profile information associated with a unique identifier. The system may receive, from a requester device, a request for the user profile information associated with the unique identifier, wherein the request may be associated with an application program interface call requesting approval to use the unique identifier. The system may communicate with a user device associated with the unique identifier to authenticate an identity associated with a user operating the user device. The system may provide the user profile information associated with the unique identifier to the requester device based on receiving information to authenticate the identity associated with the user operating the user device and verify that the user authorizes supplying the user profile information to the requester device.

Systems and methods for determining and communicating patient incentive information to a prescriber
Patent No. 12548079

Inventor(s): Roger G. Pinsonneault (Alpharetta, GA)
Assignee(s): McKesson Corporation (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Alston Bird LLP (Local + 10 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18098150 on 01/18/2023 (1119 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining and communicating patient incentive information to a prescriber. The patient incentive information may adjust the patient copay amount for a prescribed medication. The patient incentive information may be determined by evaluating pharmacy identification information and medication identifiers in a received prescription benefit check transaction and/or adjudicated response to a healthcare transaction to determine if an incentive is available to be applied to the current transaction. The incentive amount may be retrieved and the patient copay amount in the adjudicated response may be amended prior to transmitting the adjudicated response to the prescriber of the medication.

Intelligent systems and methods for mobilizing resources and assessing vehicle damage using aerial sensor data
Patent No. 12548082

Inventor(s): Robert Christian Law (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio, TX)
Law Firm: Plumsea Law Group, LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18497705 on 10/30/2023 (834 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for capturing and processing sensor data, such as aerial images of structures, to assess vehicular damage is disclosed. The system comprises a computing system used to obtain images of selected locations where large groups of vehicles were disposed during a natural or man-made disaster. The images are used to automatically determine a damage score for the vehicles. In addition, the imagery can be fed into a damage classifier that automatically classifies the degree of damage. The system and method may be used to quickly assess damage of vehicles in a disaster area and deploy resources to provide timely and swift assistance.

Automatic policy term adjustment based on advance renewal notice
Patent No. 12548086

Inventor(s): Harishankar Thodupunoori (Prosper, TX)
Assignee(s): State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (Bloomington, IL)
Law Firm: Lee Hayes, P.C. (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18416317 on 01/18/2024 (754 days app to issue)

Abstract: A renewal adjustor may determine that an advance renewal notice, associated with an upcoming renewal of an insurance policy that involves a premium increase, was not sent by a target notice date determined based on an applicable advance renewal notice period. The renewal adjuster may automatically edit policy data, maintained by a policy management system in association with the insurance policy, to extend a current term of the insurance policy by a length of time by which the advance renewal notice was delayed and to shorten a subsequent renewal term of the insurance policy by the same length of time. Accordingly, by editing the policy data to extend the current term and shorten the renewal term, a renewal of the insurance policy by the policy management system may be delayed until the advance renewal notice period elapses following the actual date the advance renewal notice was sent.

Optimization of hybrid growing infrastructure for different weather profiles and market conditions
Patent No. 12548089

Inventor(s): Bryan Nguyen (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Local Bounti Operating Company LLC (Hamilton, MT)
Law Firm: Maier Maier, PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17979302 on 11/02/2022 (1196 days app to issue)

Abstract: An embodiment may respond to different weather profiles and market conditions within a controlled environment agricultural system, which may include one or more power consuming and environment controlling systems. Different market demands and prices may be used to influence which plants are grown and when they should be harvested. The growing process may be altered based on market demand, which may call for a varietal to be harvested at a delayed time or may require some other parameters to be optimized. A control unit may identify criticality of and power consumption by the systems and may compare those with the current cost of power. The control unit may analyze the cost of adjusting power to systems and the cost of powering those systems during a specified period of time. A weather profile may be forecasted which can be used to identify which systems to power or when to store energy.

Image texture manipulation for machine learning data augmentation
Patent No. 12548285

Inventor(s): Bambi Delarosa (Celina, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Harrity Harrity, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18512715 on 11/17/2023 (816 days app to issue)

Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to image texture manipulation for machine learning data augmentation. In some implementations, a computer vision platform may transform first data of a first image file to a first frequency domain representation of the first image file. The computer vision platform may identify, based on the first frequency domain representation, a first subset of frequencies for the first image file. The computer vision platform may transform second data of a second image file to a second frequency domain representation of the second image file. The computer vision platform may identify, based on the second frequency domain representation, a second subset of frequencies for the second image file. The computer vision platform may generate a third image file based on the first subset of frequencies and the second subset of frequencies. The computer vision platform may store the third image file in a set of image files.

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

Methods and apparatus for enhancing unmanned aerial vehicle management using a wireless network
Patent No. 12548456

Inventor(s): Zhixian Xiang (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17662300 on 05/06/2022 (1376 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by an unmanned aerial system (UAS) traffic management (UTM) from a mobile network function providing UAS management support functionality, an authentication-authorization request including additional UAS management information associated with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); validating, by the UTM, the authentication-authorization request thereby producing authorization data associated with the UAV; determining, by the UTM, information for UAV management including remoted identification and tracking information (RITI); and transmitting, by the UTM to the mobile network function, an authentication-authorization response including the authorization data associated with the UAV and the information for UAV management.

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

Systems and methods for exposing user equipment identities to applications
Patent No. 12549635

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: 17173483 on 02/11/2021 (1825 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system comprises a Network Exposure Function (NEF) and a Session Management Function (SMF). The MF may be configured to: receive, from the NEF, a first request to subscribe to a notification service offered by the SMF; send a create session request to a User Plane Function (UPF); receive a first response from the UPF to the create session request, wherein the first response includes binding information that pertains to an association between a User Equipment device (UE) identifier (ID) and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses; and send, as part of the notification service, a message that includes the binding information to the NEF.

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

Remote network management infrastructure for cloud-based deployments
Patent No. 12549639

Inventor(s): William Joseph Schuller (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): ServiceNow, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: FLETCHER YODER PC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18495245 on 10/26/2023 (838 days app to issue)

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

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Security framework matrix visualizations for notable events
Patent No. 12547727

Inventor(s): James Apger (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17589671 on 01/31/2022 (1471 days app to issue)

Abstract: Techniques are described for generating visualizations of security framework information (such as, e.g., MITRE ATTCK information) displayed in connection with notable events detected by a data intake and query system. Data intake and query systems, SIEM systems, and other applications often provide user interfaces that display detected occurrences of incidents, sometimes referred to as ”notable events,” within users” information technology (IT) environments. A data intake and query system is described herein that is capable of identifying notable events, assigning tactic and technique information to notable events (and optionally to associated risk objects), and causing display of tactic and technique visualizations which are intuitive and customizable, provide ready access to relevant documentation, and follow a format with which security analysts are familiar.

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

Packages with electrical fuses
Patent No. 12548727

Inventor(s): Amin Sijelmassi (Dallas, TX), Anindya Poddar (Sunnyvale, CA), Honglin Guo (Dallas, TX), Joe Adam Garcia (Royse City, TX), John Paul Tellkamp (Rockwall, TX), Mahmud Halim Chowdhury (Richardson, TX), Murali Kittappa (Plano,
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18740456 on 06/11/2024 (609 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, a package comprises a semiconductor die having a device side and a bond pad on the device side, a conductive terminal exposed to an exterior of the package, and an electrical fuse. The electrical fuse comprises a conductive ball coupled to the bond pad, and a bond wire coupled to the conductive terminal. The bond wire is stitch-bonded to the conductive 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]

High frequency (HF) radio communication antenna system with airborne antenna positioning unit
Patent No. 12548891

Inventor(s): Ryan P. Williams (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Kennside, LLC (Carrollton, TX)
Law Firm: WARNER NORCROSS + JUDD LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18139687 on 04/26/2023 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: An HF antenna system is provided. The HF antenna system includes an airborne antenna positioning unit and computes an optimal antenna orientation and length based on relevant wave propagation data to position the antenna for maximal transmission and reception. In one embodiment, the HF antenna system includes an antenna base and control unit (ABCU) and an antenna positioning unit (APU). The ABCU is connected to the APU by an antenna wire. The antenna wire is retractable within the ABCU and is adjustable via positioning of the APU. The APU is an airborne device, such that the APU is tethered to the ABCU but can hoist the terminal end of the antenna wire with complete positional freedom relative to the ABCU.

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

Emergency portable hot spot with antennas built into cover
Patent No. 12548922

Inventor(s): Michael A. Neenan (Plano, TX), Richard Smith (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Parsec Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18754593 on 06/26/2024 (594 days app to issue)

Abstract: An antenna unit includes a case having a base and a lid. An antenna assembly is located within the lid and is IP67 compliant, being waterproof. The antenna assembly can provide antennas located on one or more baseplates that are positioned within the top cover of the box. A baseplate can act as a heatsink, a reflector, and/or a ground plane, for the antennas while the cover is closed and in the locked position. The antennas have been designed and optimized to work on a baseplate and designed to operate with the thick plastic cover of the box. A plurality of antenna components are situated within the base separate from the antenna assembly. An optional barrier is located within the base to divide the antenna components from the lid. The antenna assembly include different types of antennas operable at least between 600 MHz to 39 GHz. The lid is separable from the base and is divided from other components to minimize interference so that all antennas may operate simultaneously while the lid is in a closed position.

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

Modular electronic building systems and methods of using the same
Patent No. 12548947

Inventor(s): Antonio Hernandez (New York, NY), Aya Bdeir (New York, NY), Geoffrey Lipman (Brooklyn, NY), Jordi Borras (Brooklyn, NY), Paul Rothman (Brooklyn, NY)
Assignee(s): SPHERO, INC. (Greenville, TX)
Law Firm: Faegre Drinker Biddle Reath LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18487714 on 10/16/2023 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first connector including a first housing portion having top and bottom surfaces and a second connector including a second housing portion having top and bottom surfaces. The second housing portion has a form factor substantially corresponding to a form factor of the first housing portion. A circuit board having top and bottom surfaces is permanently coupled to the first housing portion and to the second housing portion such that a first portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board contacts at least a portion of the top surface of the first housing portion and a second portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board contacts at least a portion of the top surface of the second housing portion. A contact assembly is coupled to the first housing portion and electrically and directly engages a portion of the bottom surface of the circuit board.

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

Systems and apparatuses for a modular electronics roofing attachment and methods of use thereof
Patent No. 12548989

Inventor(s): Xavier Riley (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18484857 on 10/11/2023 (853 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods include a modular attachment mounted in a vent of a roof for electronic communication between devices interior to and external to a structure. The vent covers a slot in a roof of the structure to provide ventilation and includes a housing having a length, a width and a height that are sized to fit through the slot of the roof, and includes a top a top portion proximal to the vent, a bottom portion proximal to the interior of the structure and opposite to the top portion, and at least one wall extending between the top portion and the bottom portion. A securing mechanism is connected to the top portion of the housing to secure the housing within the slot. An electronics bus is positioned within the housing and has an interface that enables operation of modular electronic devices that are removably positioned within the housing.

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

Wirelessly notifying a transport to provide a portion of energy
Patent No. 12549039

Inventor(s): Norman Lu (Fairview, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERIC, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18081594 on 12/14/2022 (1154 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of wirelessly notifying, via a charging station, at least one transport of a group of identified transports of a needed amount of energy stored in the at least one transport prior to the at least one transport being connected to the charging station.

[H02J] CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY (power supply circuits for apparatus for measuring X-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation or cosmic radiation G01T 1/175; electric power supply circuits specially adapted for use in electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G 19/00; for digital computers G06F 1/18; for discharge tubes H01J 37/248; circuits or apparatus for the conversion of electric power, arrangements for control or regulation of such circuits or apparatus H02M; interrelated control of several motors, control of a prime-mover/generator combination H02P; control of high-frequency power H03L; additional use of power line or power network for transmission of information H04B)

High efficiency high density motor and generator with multiple airgaps and interleaved magnetic structures
Patent No. 12549079

Inventor(s): Hengchun Mao (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Quantentech Limited (Grand Cayman, , KY)
Law Firm: AP3 Law Firm PLLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18427504 on 01/30/2024 (742 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus has a stator having a first surface and a second surface, and a plurality of rotors magnetically coupled to the stator, with a first rotor facing the first surface of the stator through a first airgap and a second rotor facing the second surface of the stator through a second airgap. First slots, each containing first conductors and separated from each other by a first tooth, are distributed along the first surface. Second slots, each containing second conductors and separated from each other by a second tooth, is distributed along the second surface, where each second tooth is separated from a close-by first tooth by a yoke area. The first teeth are interleaved with the second teeth. Windings are configured using the first conductors and the second conductors. The first rotor and the second rotor are configured to produce mechanical torque in a same direction when currents flow in the windings in an operation mode.

[H02K] DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H 53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power H02M 9/00)

Motor controller with adaptive reference load angle for improving power efficiency
Patent No. 12549122

Inventor(s): Shivam Kumar (Bangalore, , IN), Venkata Naresh Kotikelapudi (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18193679 on 03/31/2023 (1047 days app to issue)

Abstract: A motor controller including load angle error determination circuitry for determining a load angle error based on a difference between a motor load angle and a reference load angle. The motor load angle indicates an angle between a stator magnetic field and a rotor magnetic field of a motor. The motor controller includes current control circuitry for setting a current level for the motor based on the load angle error. The motor controller includes reference load angle control circuitry for setting the reference load angle based on the current level.

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

System to display a vivid image on solar cells having flexible properties
Patent No. 12549127

Inventor(s): Brian Woods (Brighton, MI), Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, MI), Ryota Tomizawa (Susono, , JP), Songtao Wu (Ann Arbor, MI), Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, , JP)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18903607 on 10/01/2024 (497 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems herein relate to a device having a lens that directs angles of light toward solar cells and display sections having components that improve image clarity, reflectivity, and vividness. In one embodiment, a system includes a lens that directs incident light within a first angular range for absorption and a second angular range toward viewing material. The system also includes that the viewing material is within sections of the lens and forms an image. The system also includes reflective components adjacent to the viewing material within the sections of the lens, the reflective components reach ends of the lens away from the incident light and reflect the incident light within the second angular range that reflects off the viewing material. The system also includes an absorption component that captures energy from the incident light, the absorption component coupled to the lens at the ends and the reflective components.

[H02S] Generation of electric power by conversion of infra-red radiation, visible light or ultraviolet light, e.g. using photovoltaic [PV] modules (solar heat collectors F24J 2/00; obtaining electrical energy from radioactive sources G21H 1/12; light sensitive inorganic semiconductor devices H01L 31/00; thermoelectric devices H01L 35/00; pyroelectric devices H01L 37/00; light sensitive organic semiconductor devices H01L 51/42) [2014.01]

Gate drive apparatus and control method
Patent No. 12549181

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: 18886585 on 09/16/2024 (512 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 connected between the capacitive device and a gate of the high-side switch, wherein the gate drive path comprises a controllable switch and a first resistive device connected in series between the capacitive device and the gate of the high-side switch, 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]

PLL with a controlled range of output frequency for MEMS gyroscope
Patent No. 12549186

Inventor(s): David McClure (Carrollton, TX), Deyou Fang (Frisco, TX), Naren Kumar Sahoo (Frisco, TX), Pavan Nallamothu (Little Elm, TX), Yamu Hu (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva, , CH)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18635877 on 04/15/2024 (666 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a phased-locked loop (PLL) circuit, within a gyroscope system, generates demodulation signals. It includes a phase frequency detector receiving gyroscope output, which compares a reference signal with a feedback signal to produce an error signal. A charge pump then converts this error into a first analog control signal. A programmable clamp circuit refines this into a second analog control signal. A voltage-controlled oscillator uses the second signal to produce an output signal at a controlled frequency determined by the clamp circuit. A frequency divider sends a comparison frequency signal back to the detector, completing the loop.

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

Transmit (TX) local oscillator (LO) leakage calibration
Patent No. 12549216

Inventor(s): Abdellatif Bellaouar (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Smith Tempel Blaha LLC/Qualcomm Incorporated (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17950299 on 09/22/2022 (1237 days app to issue)

Abstract: A transmit (TX) local oscillator (LO) leakage calibration circuit including a transceiver having a transmit portion and a receive portion, an interface circuit connected to the transmit portion and the receive portion, an impedance control circuit connected to a low noise amplifier (LNA) in the receive portion, the impedance control circuit configured to adjust an input impedance for the LNA, a power detector coupled to an output of the LNA, and a local oscillator cancellation element connected to the power detector, the local oscillator cancellation element configured to adjust an input to the transmit portion based on TX LO leakage detected by the power detector.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Systems and methods for fiber upstream trace determination
Patent No. 12549250

Inventor(s): Jeremy S. Papke (Monroe, WA), Ryan C. Bennett (Arlington, WA)
Assignee(s): FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN BORUN LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 19184824 on 04/21/2025 (295 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for performing an upstream trace operation are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a new service location of a passive optical network (PON); detecting a physical polyline route, within the PON, from an on-ramp facility corresponding to the new service location to a serving office of the PON, the detecting based on (i) respective geospatial locations of a plurality of optical components of the PON, and (ii) interconnections of the plurality of optical components, and the plurality of optical components including the on-ramp location, a terminal disposed at the serving office, and at least one optical fiber optically connecting the on-ramp location and the terminal; and causing optical services to be delivered from the serving office to the new service location via the detected physical polyline route.

[H04J] MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION (peculiar to transmission of digital information H04L 5/00; systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal H04N 7/08; in exchanges H04Q 11/00)

Optical link power profile estimation
Patent No. 12549251

Inventor(s): Inwoong Kim (Richardson, TX), Motohiko Eto (Richardson, TX), Olga I. Vassilieva (Richardson, TX), Paparao Palacharla (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, , JP)
Law Firm: Maschoff Brennan (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18447288 on 08/09/2023 (916 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may include obtaining a first waveform profile corresponding to an optical signal received at an optical receiver via an optical link between the optical receiver and an optical transmitter. The operations may also include obtaining a second waveform profile that is an estimate of the first waveform profile. The second waveform profile may be based on one or more properties of the optical link and may be based on a complex scaling factor that accounts for rotation of the optical signal as the optical signal propagates via the optical link. In addition, the operations may include determining a power profile estimation corresponding to the optical link based on a comparison between the first waveform profile and the second waveform profile.

[H04B] TRANSMISSION [4]

Seamless roaming for multi-link device clients
Patent No. 12549285

Inventor(s): Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Merchant Gould P.C. (12 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18058604 on 11/23/2022 (1175 days app to issue)

Abstract: Seamless client roaming for Multi-Link Device (MLD) clients may be provided. First, a Traffic Identifier (TID)-to-link map may be established by an Upper Service Access Point (U-SAP) of a multi-AP MLD entity that assigns subsets of TIDs to at least two links of the entity. For example, a client device logically associates with the U-SAP, while the client device physically connects to a first and second AP of the entity on a respective first and second link, where the first and second AP include first and second Lower Service Access Points (L-SAPs) and are non-collocated. Next, using the map, data received at the U-SAP is directed over one of the two links for transmission to the client device. Further, frame aggregation and block acknowledgment functions may be performed by one of the first or second L-SAP based on whether data transmission is over the first or second link.

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

Method and apparatus of SCell beam failure recovery
Patent No. 12549297

Inventor(s): Li Guo (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD. (Guangdong, , CN)
Law Firm: PERKINS COIE LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17832121 on 06/03/2022 (1348 days app to issue)

Abstract: Method and apparatus of SCell beam failure recovery are provided. The method includes: detecting, by a terminal device, beam failure on PDCCH associated with each TRP in a multi-TRP system in a SCell independently. In this solution, beam failure on PDCCH associated with each TRP in a multi-TRP system in a SCell can be detected independently, so that the beam failure can be reported high efficiently and beam recovery can be done in time.

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

Efficient SRS resource indication methods
Patent No. 12549306

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm, , SE)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18665276 on 05/15/2024 (636 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of transmitting an uplink transmission by a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises a wireless device receiving signaling configuring the wireless device with a plurality of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources. The wireless device subsequently receives an indication, in a physical layer downlink control channel, of a selected plurality of SRS resources selected from among the plurality of configured SRS resources and transmits a plurality of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers of a PUSCH transmission. The selected plurality of SRS resources map to respective ones of the plurality of MIMO layers and the indication of the selected plurality of SRS resources includes SRS resource indexes with a fixed order that corresponds to an order in which the SRS resources of the selected plurality of SRS resources are mapped to the MIMO layers.

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

TA indication and application with multiple transmission and reception points
Patent No. 12549314

Inventor(s): Dalin Zhu (Richardson, TX), Eko Onggosanusi (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18177753 on 03/02/2023 (1076 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for methods and apparatuses for facilitating signaling of multiple timing advance (TA) values to a user equipment (UE), facilitating the use of multiple TA values by a UE for communication with multiple transmission and reception points (TRPs), and facilitating updating of TA values in a wireless communications network. A UE comprises a transceiver and a processor operably coupled to the transceiver. The transceiver is configured to receive a first TA command that includes a first TA value and a first TA group (TAG) identifier (ID) associated with a first entity, and a second TA value and a second TAG ID associated with a second entity. The processor is configured to identify a TAG ID associated with an uplink (UL) transmission, and identify, based on the TAG ID, a TA value. The transceiver is further configured to transmit the UL transmission using the TA value.

Migrating wireless coverage among access points
Patent No. 12549321

Inventor(s): Prashanth Murthy (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Dell Products L.P. (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Amin, Turocy Watson, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18487731 on 10/16/2023 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed toward migrating wireless coverage among access points. In an embodiment, a method can include identifying a first network function of a network provided by first network equipment, with the first network function serving a resource grid of a geographic area, and with the resource grid being designated to serve a selected user equipment in the geographic area. The method can further include instantiating a second network function of the network at second network equipment, with the second network function serving a first subset of the resource grid. Further, the method can include designating the first network function to serve a second subset of the resource grid, different from the first subset of the resource grid. The method can further include designating the second network function to serve, after connection of the selected user equipment, the second subset of the resource grid.

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

Error-aware hashing engine
Patent No. 12549333

Inventor(s): David Carlson (Haslet, TX)
Assignee(s): Auradine, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18218391 on 07/05/2023 (951 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example system, includes clock synchronization circuitry, first data processing circuitry, and second data processing circuitry electrically coupled to the clock synchronization circuitry and the first processing circuitry. The clock synchronization circuitry is configured to receive a first signal, and output a second signal synchronized to a clock domain of the second data processing circuitry. The first data processing circuitry is configured to perform one or more first computations based on the first signal, and provide, to the second data processing circuitry, a result corresponding to the one or more first computations. The second data processing circuitry is configured to perform one or more second computations based on the second signal, determine whether the one or more second computations satisfies a selection criterion, and generate output data representing whether the one or more second computations satisfies the selection criterion.

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

Apparatus and method for monitoring multiparty stream communications
Patent No. 12549400

Inventor(s): Joshua Oster-Morris (Atlanta, GA), Ramit Varma (Encino, CA), Steven Walters (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Breakout Learning Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Caldwell Intellectual Property Law (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18731974 on 06/03/2024 (617 days app to issue)

Abstract: This disclosure pertains to an innovative approach for enhancing monitoring multiparty stream communication analysis and machine learning applications. The apparatus monitor a multiparty stream communication, wherein the multiparty stream communication includes a first and a second packet series to generate, retrieve, and compare data elements. Training data is filtered and categorized into specific sub-populations, increasing relevance to particular subjects of analysis. These tailored datasets optimize machine learning models, resulting in more precise comprehension assessment.

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

Linear redriver with tunable low frequency and high frequency zero at equalizer stage
Patent No. 12549418

Inventor(s): Tony Yeung (Milpitas, CA)
Assignee(s): DIODES INCORPORATED (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18631996 on 04/10/2024 (671 days app to issue)

Abstract: An equalizer stage circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor disposed in a differential configuration. The equalizer stage circuit also includes a first selectable path. The first selectable path includes: a first terminal coupled to an emitter or a source of the first transistor; a second terminal coupled to an emitter or a source of the second transistor; a high-frequency portion comprising a first plurality of high-frequency RC time constant members connected in parallel between the first terminal and the second terminal; a first capacitor coupled to the first terminal; a second capacitor coupled to the second terminal; and a low-frequency portion comprising a second plurality of low-frequency RC time constant members connected between the first capacitor and the second capacitor.

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

Systems and methods for a lead portal with unified login for child applications in a tiered software framework
Patent No. 12549535

Inventor(s): Robin Alex (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Aambell PC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18515750 on 11/21/2023 (812 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments of a method for a lead portal with unified login for child applications in a tiered software framework include receiving a login credential at a lead portal displayed in a frontend of a parent application; and displaying a subset of child applications selected from a plurality of child applications on the lead portal, the subset being selected based on the login credential. The parent application comprises the tiered software framework having a first tier, a second tier and a third tier arranged according to hierarchical data access. The child applications are to use resources except data common across multiple tiers at a backend of the parent application. The child applications are to use data specific to the third tier. The login credential is of a lead associated with the third tier, and different login credentials are associated with correspondingly different subsets of the child applications.

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

Systems and methods for network-assisted authentication and location services
Patent No. 12549548

Inventor(s): Sumanth S. Mallya (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18526240 on 12/01/2023 (802 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system described herein may receive a first authentication request that includes a first identifier of a User Equipment (”UE”), and a second identifier of a second device. The system may output a second authentication request to a wireless network with which the UE is associated, which may include the first identifier of the UE. The system may receive, in response to the second authentication request an indication that the UE has been authenticated, and location information associated with the UE. The system may identify one or more services associated with the received location of the UE, and may output, to the second device and based on the response to the second authentication request, traffic associated with the identified one or more services.

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

Identity governance and administration with secure delegation of authority for identity and access management for computer networks
Patent No. 12549558

Inventor(s): Anthony Salerno (Dallas, TX), Martin Gee (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Evolved Identity Solutions LLC (Prosper, TX)
Law Firm: Hubbard Law, PLLC (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17643757 on 12/10/2021 (1523 days app to issue)

Abstract: In an identity governance system, processes enable secure delegation of authority to create and manage identities for users of a computer network and to provision access entitlements to users to network resources in a manner that ensures compliance with security and access policies. The provisioning of access entitlements to users is controlled based on a model of relationships between business entities that the computer network serves. Identities of users are assigned to a node of the model. Provisioning of entitlements for coarse and fine-grain access is restricted based on this assignment. The node of the business relationship model limits the scope of what user access entitlements can be assigned, to whom they may be assigned, and who may assign them.

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

Systems and methods for dynamic access permissions to secure data resources in a distributed network
Patent No. 12549561

Inventor(s): Malu Goff (Plano, TX), Michael Dee Conoly (Mesquite, TX)
Assignee(s): BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18099565 on 01/20/2023 (1117 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided herein for dynamic access permissions to secure data resources in a distributed network. An example method includes identifying an application from amongst a plurality of applications with which the system interacts and determining one or more access permissions associated with secure interactions between the system and the identified application. The method further includes determining an absence of a least a first access permission from amongst the one or more access permissions with respect to the system and modifying a database of the system to register the at least first access permission. The one or more access permissions associated with the secure interactions between the system and the identified application define an interaction time period during which at least a first portion of the one or more access permissions were used.

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

System and method for intercepting and classifying suspicious text messages between user devices
Patent No. 12549599

Inventor(s): Jeffrey Wayne Texada (Carrollton, TX), Scott Fennell (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18344226 on 06/29/2023 (957 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for classifying a suspicious text is disclosed. The method includes intercepting a suspicious text message having information data sent between a first and second user device. The method includes applying a hashing function to the information data to generate hashed information data, and storing the hashed information data in one or more of a plurality of network nodes in a blockchain network, where the plurality of network nodes form a distributed network configured to maintain a blockchain, and where each network node of the blockchain network comprises a blockchain processor configured to distribute the hashed information data among the plurality of network nodes. The method includes comparing the hashed information data to known hashed sensitive data stored in a database, and classifying the information data associated with the suspicious text message as containing sensitive data based on the comparison.

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

Freeze detection in video communication sessions
Patent No. 12549616

Inventor(s): Hao Kang (Plano, TX), Pranith Dachepally (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18614074 on 03/22/2024 (690 days app to issue)

Abstract: A processing system may obtain network performance data sets associated with a video communication session from a customer premises equipment, the network performance data sets including data sets for measurements of video uplink and downlink data rates. The processing system may apply at least one of the network performance data sets to at least one rule set implemented by the processing system to obtain a decision output indicative of whether an occurrence of: an uplink or downlink video freeze is detected. The processing system may detect the at least one of the uplink video freeze or the downlink video freeze in accordance with the decision output. The processing system may then perform at least one remedial action in response to the detecting of at least one of: the uplink video freeze or the downlink video freeze.

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

5G tactical access point proxy (TAPP)
Patent No. 12549646

Inventor(s): Jeffrey D. Bouis (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Law Firm: Suiter Swantz IP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17948000 on 09/19/2022 (1240 days app to issue)

Abstract: The US Department of Defense is rapidly moving to incorporate 5G in its networking capabilities. Incorporating 5G should be done in secure manner, especially in contested environments. Indeed, 5G UEs are typically located at the tactical edge, while the 5G Core Network is located safely away from the operational theater. The 5G base stations may be near the edge or further back, but come with their own operational issues in a battle scenario. By utilizing the N3IWF/TNGF functionality, but replacing the Access Point with a secure tactical network, UEs can securely reach back to the 5G Core Network with greatly reduced overhead. The UE”s communication remains robust even in the presence of reduced spectrum availability and/or intentional jamming by an enemy actor by using secure tactical networks and radios in a contested environment.

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

System and method to evaluate microservices integrated in interactive voice response (IVR) operations
Patent No. 12549669

Inventor(s): Amiya R Sahoo (Frisco, TX), Anand Daniel (Little Elm, TX), Dinesh Kumar Agrawal (Forney, TX)
Assignee(s): Bank of America Corporation (Charlotte, NC)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18525494 on 11/30/2023 (803 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus may comprise a memory communicatively coupled to a processor. The processor may be configured to receive an evaluation request to perform multiple data processing operations; determine a microservice configured to fulfill the first evaluation request; and determine multiple publishing commands associated with the microservice. The one or more microservices may be integrated in multiple Interactive Voice Response (IVR) operations. The processor may be further configured to obtain input parameters of the one or more input parameters corresponding to the microservice; generate a response to the evaluation request associated with the microservice, compare the response to an expected response of the one or more expected responses; and determine whether the response matches the expected response. In response to determining that the response does not match the expected response, the processor is configured to update the publishing commands in accordance with multiple rules and policies, and publish the microservice.

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

Video surveillance system with enhanced camera wake-up based on radar data
Patent No. 12549691

Inventor(s): Manu Mathew (Bangalore, , IN), Nathan Block (Dallas, TX), Sandeep Rao (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18646257 on 04/25/2024 (656 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to video surveillance systems, and in particular, to determining when to wake-up a camera based on gathered radar data. In an example embodiment a system including transceiver circuitry and processing circuitry is provided. The transceiver circuitry is configured to transmit and receive radar signals. The processing circuitry is coupled with the transceiver circuitry and is configured to generate point cloud data associated with a scene and obtain a radar-space region of interest (ROI) based on the point cloud data. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to identify a location of an object moving in the scene based at least on a radar signal received by the transceiver circuitry. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine to wake-up a camera based on the location of the object in the scene and the radar-space ROI.

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

Video content distribution methods
Patent No. 12549737

Inventor(s): Minhua Zhou (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19320213 on 09/05/2025 (158 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for parsing friendly and error resilient merge flag coding in video coding are provided. In some methods, in contrast to merging candidate list size dependent coding of the merge flag in the prior art, a merge flag is always encoded in the encoded bit stream for each inter-predicted prediction unit (PU) that is not encoded using skip mode. In some methods, in contrast to the prior art that allowed the merging candidate list to be empty, one or more zero motion vector merging candidates formatted according to the prediction type of the slice containing a PU are added to the merging candidate list if needed to ensure that the list is not empty and/or to ensure that the list contains a maximum number of merging candidates.

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

Video content delivery methods
Patent No. 12549755

Inventor(s): Minhua Zhou (San Diego, CA)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 19290801 on 08/05/2025 (189 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods are provided for inter-prediction candidate index coding independent of the construction of the corresponding inter-prediction candidate list, i.e., a merging candidate list or an advanced motion vector predictor list. A maximum allowed number of inter-prediction candidates for an inter-prediction candidate list is used for encoding the inter-prediction candidate index in an encoded bit stream. The maximum allowed number may be pre-determined or may be selected by the encoder and encoded in the bit stream. A decoder may then decode the index using the maximum allowed number of inter-prediction candidates independent of the construction of the corresponding inter-prediction candidate list.

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

Automatic generation of video content in response to network interruption
Patent No. 12549770

Inventor(s): Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): QUALCOMM INCORPORATED (San Diego, CA)
Law Firm: Shumaker Sieffert, P.A. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17933791 on 09/20/2022 (1239 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example device for presenting media data includes a memory configured to store media data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: receive a first set of media data of a media bitstream; in response to determining that a second set of media data of the media bitstream following the first set of media data will not be received within a period of time, predictively generate replacement media data for the second set of media data using at least a subset of the first set of media data; and present the first set of media data and the replacement media data.

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

Systems and methods for external ethernet qualification
Patent No. 12549876

Abstract: Systems and methods for qualifying external network facilities for a service location of a passive optical network (PON) of a PON service provider are presented. An exemplary method may include obtaining an indication of a service location of the PON and an indication of a set of required optical services at the service location; determining a group of candidate external network provider facilities for the service location of the PON based on geospatial coordinates of the service location and respective geospatial coordinates of the candidate external network provider facilities included in the group; selecting, from among the group of candidate external network provider facilities, an external network provider facility for providing the set of required optical services to the service location; and causing one or more optical services to be delivered to the service location via the selected external network provider facility.

[H04Q] SELECTING (switches, relays, selectors H01H; wireless communication networks H04W) [2009.01]

Systems and methods for session setup in a core network
Patent No. 12549938

Inventor(s): Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18064554 on 12/12/2022 (1156 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some implementations, a first network function device included in a core network may receive an indication of a user data management (UDM) group identifier that is associated with a UDM network function device included in the core network. The first network function device may determine, based on the UDM group identifier, a user data repository (UDR) group identifier associated with a UDR network function device that is associated with the UDM network function device. The first network function device may transmit, to one or more second network function devices included in the core network, an indication of the UDR group identifier.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Preserving privacy during secure transactions with ambient power devices
Patent No. 12549942

Inventor(s): Rakesh Taori (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18767547 on 07/09/2024 (581 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes broadcasting, by a powered wireless device, a survey request frame to a plurality of ambient (AMP) devices that harvest environmental energy, wherein the survey request frame comprises a unique public key to be used by each AMP device, of the plurality of AMP devices, to generate a survey response frame. The method includes using, within the survey request frame, a first random address as a source media access control (MAC) address and one of a broadcast address or a group address as a destination MAC address. The method includes determining, from each respective survey response frame, whether a corresponding AMP device of the plurality of AMP devices is accessible from which to securely obtain data.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Elevated device authentication through mutual identification
Patent No. 12549944

Inventor(s): Mir Farhan Ali (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18439860 on 02/13/2024 (728 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product authenticate devices using remote mutual identification. The method comprises determining that a network device requires management, where the network device is deployed in a location. The method also comprises identifying a trusted device, where the trusted device is within a range of the location of the network device. The method further comprises establishing a trust relationship between the trusted device and the network device. Lastly, the method comprises enabling management access to the network device based on the trust relationship.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Cognitive communication network management
Patent No. 12549966

Inventor(s): Krishna Kishore Bellamkonda (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Reno, NV)
Law Firm: Hogan Lovells US LLP (9 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18194047 on 03/31/2023 (1047 days app to issue)

Abstract: Approaches presented herein relate to the analysis and/or management of a communication network including resources from multiple, independent communications networks. At least one edge device can be placed within individual communication networks, allowing for the capture and anonymization of data from the various provider networks. The data for various users can be aggregated by location and associated with an identifying key. A cloud-based service can generate a snapshot using this data from the various individual networks, and a decision engine can be used to generate a set of recommendations or actions to improve operation (e.g., performance or security, etc.) of the network or perform actions such as disaster recovery. The recommendations or actions can be provided for individual devices, locations, communication networks, or providers but based upon the data aggregated and analyzed across multiple individual networks.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for congestion aware policy enforcement
Patent No. 12549998

Inventor(s): David Taft (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18737197 on 06/07/2024 (613 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to detect a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with a user equipment (UE) device. The processor may be further configured to obtain at least one congestion metric value for a base station associated with the PDU session; determine that the obtained at least one congestion metric value is less than a maximum throughput enforcement threshold; and override a maximum throughput enforcement policy on a User Plane Function (UPF) associated with the UE device, based on determining that the obtained at least one congestion metric value is less than the maximum throughput enforcement threshold.

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

Systems and methods for USN monitoring via virtual tap
Patent No. 12550010

Inventor(s): Brandon Bass (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee(s): NetScout Systems, Inc. (Westford, MA)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18493674 on 10/24/2023 (840 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for USN monitoring via virtual tap is provided. A system may obtain, from a virtual tap, virtual network data packets associated with a first type of wireless communication protocol. The system may extract a first ID from the virtual network data packets. The system may query a first database associated with the first type of wireless communication protocol or a second database using a second type of wireless communication protocol using the first ID. The system may determine a second ID and a security context based on the query. The system may convert the security context from a first type to a second type of security context. The system may store the converted security context into a field based on the second ID.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Efficient support for user equipment with redundant protocol data unit session
Patent No. 12550019

Inventor(s): Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, , FI)
Law Firm: Carter, DeLuca Farrell LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18042918 on 07/12/2021 (1674 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method may include establishing a second communication session at a second network with a user equipment that currently has a first communication session with a first network. The method may also include receiving a report from the user equipment including information related to measurement and reporting of the user equipment on the first network. The method may further include, based on the report, performing an adaptation of an operation and performance of the second communication session for the user equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Transmit power control design for make-before-break roaming deployments
Patent No. 12550080

Inventor(s): Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Law Firm: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18177041 on 03/01/2023 (1077 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and techniques for performing transmit power control for facilitating multi-band make-before-break (MBB) roaming are described. An example technique includes identifying a first access point communicating on a first band within a first cell. A second access point communicating on a second band within a second cell neighboring the first cell is identified. A target overlap between the first band and the second band is created.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Systems and methods for supporting usage limits in access and mobility management and session management functions
Patent No. 12550095

Inventor(s): Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18334819 on 06/14/2023 (972 days app to issue)

Abstract: A network device of a network may receive a registration request from a user equipment, and may generate, based on the registration request, a request for a usage limit control associated with the user equipment. The network device may provide the request for the usage limit control to another network device of the network, and may receive, based on the request, the usage limit control from the other network device. The network device may determine a policy for the user equipment based on the usage limit control, and may cause the policy to be implemented for the user equipment.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Efficient unicast super frame communications
Patent No. 12550127

Inventor(s): Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, TX), Arvind Kandhalu (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17828895 on 05/31/2022 (1351 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a set of battery cells and a secondary network node coupled to the set of battery cells. The secondary network node is configured to wirelessly receive, in a first slot of a super frame, a unicast downlink packet from a primary network node, the unicast downlink packet addressed to the secondary network node. The secondary network node is also configured to wirelessly transmit, in a second slot of the super frame and responsive to the unicast downlink packet, an uplink packet to the primary network node.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and system for signaling transmission layers for single user and multi user MIMO
Patent No. 12550155

Inventor(s): Robert Mark Harrison (Grapevine, TX), Sean Michael McBeath (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): Malikie Innovations Limited (Dublin, , IE)
Law Firm: CONLEY ROSE, P.C. (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18530574 on 12/06/2023 (797 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]

Systems and methods for transitioning between operating modes associated with bandwidth parts for efficient battery consumption
Patent No. 12550174

Inventor(s): Chin Chiu (Allen, TX), Jack Anthony Smith (Melissa, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18661624 on 05/11/2024 (640 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device may determine traffic information of a user equipment (UE) operating in a first operating mode. The first operating mode may be associated with the UE monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), via a first bandwidth part (BWP), according to a first rate. The device may determine, based on the traffic information, that the UE is to operate in a different operating mode including one of: a second operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via the first BWP, according to a second rate exceeding the first rate, a third operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via a second BWP less than the first BWP, according to the second rate, or a fourth operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via the second BWP, according to the first rate. The device may cause the UE to transition to the different operating mode.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus of channel access procedure priority on sidelink
Patent No. 12550199

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18188299 on 03/22/2023 (1056 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for channel access procedure priority on a sidelink (SL) in a wireless communication system. A method of a user equipment (UE) includes determining a type of a SL channel access procedure before a SL transmission, which is a Type 1 SL channel access procedure or a Type 2 SL channel access procedure, and determining, based on a type of the SL transmission, a channel access priority class (CAPC) when the type of the SL channel access procedure is the Type 1 SL channel access procedure, wherein the CAPC is associated with a parameter p. The method further includes performing, based on the type of the SL channel access procedure and the CAPC, the SL channel access procedure before the SL transmission and performing the SL transmission if the SL channel access procedure is successfully performed.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for link negotiation for multi-link multi-radio operation
Patent No. 12550213

Inventor(s): Boon Loong Ng (Plano, TX), Rubayet Shafin (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18183102 on 03/13/2023 (1065 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for supporting link negotiation for enhanced multi-link multi-radio operation are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a non-access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) comprises: receiving, from an AP affiliated with an AP MLD, a first enhanced multi-link operating mode notification (EML OMN) frame associated with a request to transition to an enhanced multi-link multi-radio (EMLMR) mode; and based on receipt of the first EML OMN frame, negotiating links for EMLMR operation between the AP MLD and the non-AP MLD before transitioning to the EMLMR mode.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and device used in communication node for wireless communication
Patent No. 12550220

Inventor(s): Qiaoling Yu (Shanghai, , CN), Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): Apogee Networks, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Volpe Koenig (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18224071 on 07/20/2023 (936 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method and device in communication node for wireless communications. A communication node receives each reference signal resource set in the first reference signal resource pool, a measurement performed on a first reference signal resource set is used to trigger a first BFR; determines a resource assignment of a first uplink grant according to logical channel prioritization; when the first uplink grant can accommodate a first MAC CE, transmits a first MAC PDU comprising the first MAC CE on resources of the first uplink grant; the first MAC CE is used to indicate the first BFR; a first parameter set is used to determine an order of the first MAC CE in the logical channel prioritization, and the first parameter set comprises a number of the reference signal resource set(s) comprised in the first reference signal resource pool; when the number is 1, the order is a first order.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Accelerating control procedures over BLE connection oriented services
Patent No. 12550221

Inventor(s): Lior Gersi (Kfar Saba, , IL), Yaniv Machani (Kiryat Ono, , IL), Yaniv Weizman (Tel Aviv Jaffa, , IL)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18661929 on 05/13/2024 (638 days app to issue)

Abstract: A first BLUETOOTH device includes a transceiver configured to receive a control procedure packet from a second BLUETOOTH device during a BLUETOOTH connection event of a BLUETOOTH connection between the first BLUETOOTH device and the second BLUETOOTH device. The first BLUETOOTH device also includes a controller coupled to the transceiver and configured to set a more data (MD) bit of a response packet to the control procedure packet to a first value independent of whether the first BLUETOOTH device has more data to send to the second BLUETOOTH device. The first value corresponds to maintaining the BLUETOOTH connection event open. The transceiver is further configured to send the response packet to the second BLUETOOTH device during the BLUETOOTH connection event.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Hybrid liquid-based data center cooling systems
Patent No. 12550292

Inventor(s): Pardeep Shahi (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Lowenstein Sandler LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18108392 on 02/10/2023 (1096 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and technique for improved data center cooling. In at least one embodiment, a data center cooling system may include a heat exchange device that exchanges heat between a first coolant in a first cooling loop, which may absorb heat from one or more first components of a computing system, and a second liquid coolant in a second cooling loop, which may absorb heat from one or more second components of the computing system.

[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)

Intelligent components of a data center
Patent No. 12550299

Inventor(s): Fred Devoir (Pilot Point, TX)
Assignee(s): Nvidia Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
Law Firm: Moore Van Allen PLLC (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18144971 on 05/09/2023 (1008 days app to issue)

Abstract: Some embodiments described herein provide intelligent movable racks for a data center and a central system for monitoring and directing the positioning of such racks within the data center. For example, a rack may include computing equipment as well as a power system, a cooling system, and a cabling system (e.g., for data communication). The rack may include a controller in communication with the computing equipment, the power system, the cooling system, and the cabling system. The rack may also include a rack interface for physically supporting the rack and operatively connecting the systems of the rack to power, cooling, and cabling infrastructure of the data center. The rack interface may receive an autonomous robot for moving the rack within the data center. The controller may control the power system and the cooling system based in part on the autonomous movement of the rack.

Capacitors for high temperature systems, methods of forming same, and applications of same
Patent No. 12550341

Inventor(s): Pijush Kanti Ghosh (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, AR)
Law Firm: troutman pepper locke (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17746027 on 05/17/2022 (1365 days app to issue)

Abstract: A capacitor is provided for high temperature systems. The capacitor includes: a substrate formed from silicon carbide material; a dielectric stack layer, including a first layer deposited on the substrate and a second layer deposited on the first layer; a Schottky contact layer deposited on the second layer; and an Ohmic contact layer deposited on the substrate. The first layer is formed with aluminum nitride (AlN) epitaxially, and the second layer is formed with aluminum oxide (Al[subscript]2[/subscript]O[subscript]3[/subscript]). AlN and Al[subscript]2[/subscript]O[subscript]3 [/subscript]are ultrawide band gap materials, and as a result, they can be use as the dielectric in the capacitor, allowing the capacitance changes to be less than 10% between 250 C. and 600 C., which is very effective for the high temperature systems.

[H10D] INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

Rugged LDMOS with reduced NSD in source
Patent No. 12550366

Inventor(s): Henry Litzmann Edwards (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18096679 on 01/13/2023 (1124 days app to issue)

Abstract: An integrated circuit has a P-type substrate and an N-type LDMOS transistor. The LDMOS transistor includes a boron-doped diffused well (DWELL-B) and an arsenic-doped diffused well (DWELL-As) located within the DWELL-B. A first polysilicon gate having first sidewall spacers and a second polysilicon gate having second sidewall spacers are located over opposite edges of the DWELL-B. A source/IBG region includes a first source region adjacent the first polysilicon gate, a second source region adjacent the second polysilicon gate, and an integrated back-gate (IBG) region located between the first and second source regions. The first source region and the second source region each include a lighter-doped source sub-region, the IBG region including an IBG sub-region having P-type dopants, and the source/IBG region includes a heavier-doped source sub-region.

[H10D] INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

Protruded scribe feature delamination mitigation
Patent No. 12550741

Inventor(s): Guangxu Li (Dallas, TX), Jaimal Williamson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18194512 on 03/31/2023 (1047 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device includes a semiconductor die having a semiconductor body, a metallization structure over the semiconductor body, a protective overcoat layer over the metallization structure, a polyimide layer over the protective overcoat layer, a crack arrest structure including contiguous metal crack arrest features in the metallization structure that extend from the protective overcoat layer toward the semiconductor body, conductive terminals that extend from the metallization structure through the protective overcoat layer and the polyimide layer, and a protruded metal feature over the crack arrest structure and at least partially abutting the polyimide layer, and a package structure that at least partially encloses the semiconductor die.

Double stitch wirebonds
Patent No. 12550771

Inventor(s): Hongxia Deng (Chengdu, , CN), Huoyun Duan (Chengdu, , CN), Peng Peng (Chengdu, , CN), Xiaolin Kang (Chengdu, , CN), Xiaoling Kang (Chengdu, , CN), Ye Zhuang (Chengdu, , CN), Ziqi Wang (Chengdu, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17956794 on 09/29/2022 (1230 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a semiconductor package comprises an electrically conductive surface and a bond wire coupled to the electrically conductive surface. The bond wire includes a first stitch bond coupled to the electrically conductive surface, and a second stitch bond contiguous with the first stitch bond and coupled to the electrically conductive surface. The second stitch bond is partially, but not completely, overlapping with the first stitch bond.

Semiconductor package conductive terminals with reduced plating thickness
Patent No. 12550772

Inventor(s): Jose Arvin M. Plomantes (Dagupan, , PH), Rafael Jose Lizares Guevara (Angeles, , PH)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18072426 on 11/30/2022 (1168 days app to issue)

Abstract: In some examples, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor package comprises forming a copper member on a surface; applying a photoresist to the copper member and the surface; and forming a cavity in the photoresist above the copper member. The cavity has a first volume with a first diameter and a second volume with a second diameter larger than the first diameter. The second volume is more proximal to the copper member than the first volume. The method also includes forming a nickel member in the second volume forming a palladium member in the first volume.

DESIGN PATENTS

Keychain
Patent No. D1111407

Inventor(s): Kadence Neuse (Grapevine, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Sam Sokhansanj PLLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29933481 on 03/20/2024 (692 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle steering assembly
Patent No. D1111943

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Noah House (Sachse, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29958931 on 08/22/2024 (537 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Wheel spoke insert
Patent No. D1111991

Inventor(s): Jonathan Pek (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T Sportline, LLC (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Sisson Banyas, Attorneys at Law, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29873017 on 03/23/2023 (1055 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Headset with detachable headband
Patent No. D1112155

Inventor(s): Annie Zhang (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Cognito Therapeutics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA)
Law Firm: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29907459 on 01/05/2024 (767 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
Patent No. D1112249

Inventor(s): Corey W. Trobaugh (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Cummins Inc. (Columbus, IN)
Law Firm: Foley Lardner LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29819164 on 12/13/2021 (1520 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle center 5th wheel mount assembly
Patent No. D1112527

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Jory Sprowl (Howe, TX), Kent Poteet (Lucas, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Skylar Hagler (Anna, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29906964 on 11/14/2023 (819 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle carburetors
Patent No. D1112528

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Caleb Hix (McKinney, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29934515 on 03/26/2024 (686 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle wing
Patent No. D1112529

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle body mount
Patent No. D1112530

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Noah House (Sachse, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Ross Martin (North Richland Hills, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29938931 on 04/24/2024 (657 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle sway bar mount
Patent No. D1112531

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29961141 on 09/04/2024 (524 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Model vehicle sway bar mount
Patent No. D1112532

Inventor(s): Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney, TX), Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett, TX), Randy Perez (McKinney, TX)
Assignee(s): TRAXXAS, L.P. (McKinney, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 29961147 on 09/04/2024 (524 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Water purifier
Patent No. D1112598

Inventor(s): Celina Gu (Arlington, TX)
Assignee(s): Bluevua Inc. (Spokane, WA)
Law Firm: Panorama IP Group (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29923883 on 01/02/2024 (770 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Roofing material
Patent No. D1112842

Inventor(s): Olan Thomas Leitch (Mt. Juliet, TN)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Venable LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29943098 on 05/20/2024 (631 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

Angled razor with side ports
Patent No. D1112934

Inventor(s): Timothy J Ferri, Sr. (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Leavitt Eldredge Law Firm (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29902612 on 09/14/2023 (880 days app to issue)

Abstract: No Abstract Patent Class: N/A

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