Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 12, 2023. Patents granted include: Rochal Technologies’ composition and kits for inhibition of pathogenic microbial infection , Alcon’s pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses, Pratt Corrugated Holdings’ tamper-evident box, BMIC’s water-resistant acrylic coatings, AT&T’s auto machine learning via optimal hybrid AI formulation from crowd, Capital One Services’ pattern-level sentiment prediction, Toyota Motor North America’s accessible ride hailing and transit platform, Kyndryl’s artificial intelligence system for tasks, and more.

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

THIS WEEK, BY THE NUMBERS
Week of December 12, 2023 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100)

94 patents granted
Ranked No. 11 in patent production out of 250 metros

NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 7
B: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING 8
C: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY 5
F: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING 5
G: PHYSICS 26
H: ELECTRICITY 30
DESIGN 13

TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Texas Instruments (Dallas) 12
Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America (Plano) 4
Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA) 3
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR) 3
Toyota Motor North America(Plano) 3
University of North Texas (Denton) 3
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) 3
Capital One Services (McLean, VA) 2
InspectIR Systems, LLC (Frisco) 2

UNASSIGNED 15

TOP LOCAL INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS)

Rebecca Hadley (Flower Mound) 8
Guido Fridolin Verbeck, IV (Lewisville) 2
John Redmond (Frisco) 2
Luke Keiser (Frisco) 2
Stephen Hodge (Aubrey) 2
Tim C. Wing (Frisco) 2

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UTILITY PATENTS

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

Hydraulic delivery of surgical implants
Patent No. 11839537

Inventor(s): Jestwin Edwin Lee, IV (Grandview, TX), Pradeep Magadum (Arlington, TX), Saumya Dilip Yadav (Arlington, TX), Todd Taber (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17335553 on 06/01/2021 (924 days app to issue)

Abstract: An apparatus for eye surgery may comprise a nozzle having a delivery lumen, an implant bay coupled to the nozzle, an implant disposed in the implant bay, and an actuator coupled to the implant bay. The actuator may comprise a housing, a plunger disposed within the housing, a bore through the plunger, a first coupling proximate to a first end of the plunger, and a second coupling integral to the housing. The bore may be fluidly coupled to the implant bay. The first coupling may be configured to receive a hydraulic driver and fluidly couple a working fluid in the hydraulic driver to the bore. A portion of the plunger may be slidingly disposed through the second coupling. In some embodiments, the second coupling may be configured to retain a drive coupling of the hydraulic driver in a fixed position relative to the housing.

[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]

System and method for joining boney structures
Patent No. 11839547

Inventor(s): Randall F. Lee (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Bill Naifeh (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17372327 on 07/09/2021 (886 days app to issue)

Abstract: Disclosed are system and methods that use at least one non-threaded anchor and an implant with at least one aperture to join boney structures, where the interaction of the head of the anchor with the implant aperture causes the anchor to move transversely with respect to an initial trajectory. This movement causes compression or distraction of the boney structures which are coupled to the anchors.

Composition and kits for inhibition of pathogenic microbial infection and methods of using the same
Patent No. 11839626

Inventor(s): Ann Beal Salamone (San Antonio, TX), Joseph Charles Salamone (San Antonio, TX), Katelyn Elizabeth Reilly (San Antonio, TX), Kelly Xiaoyu-Chen Leung (San Antonio, TX), Ronald Thomas Nixon (Sugar Land, TX)
Assignee(s): ROCHAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: DUANE MORRIS LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 15693806 on 09/01/2017 (2293 days app to issue)

Abstract: Antimicrobial polymer coating formulations are prepared that protect biological surfaces by treating, reducing, ameliorating, preventing or inhibiting pathogenic microorganism ingress to a human or animal host, reducing the potential for infection, particularly by necrotizing fasciitis originating microorganisms, through use of a polymer coating barrier containing antimicrobial agents that facilitates sustained release of biocidal agents active against such opportunistic microorganisms. Such formulations are effective for inhibiting microbial ingress pertaining to soft tissue and skin tears, abrasions, punctures and surgical wounds, and can be used as in water environments and as a skin protectant sunscreen and insect repellent.

[A61K] PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms A61J 3/00; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for deodorisation of air, for disinfection or sterilisation, or for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; soap compositions C11D)

Methods for inducing partial apoptosis using caspase polypeptides
Patent No. 11839647

Inventor(s): David Michael Spencer (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Houstin, TX)
Law Firm: Jones Day (Local + 44 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16734104 on 01/03/2020 (1439 days app to issue)

Abstract: The technology relates in part to methods for inducing partial apoptosis of cells that express an inducible caspase polypeptide. The technology further relates in part to methods for inducing partial apoptosis of cells that express an inducible modified caspase polypeptide, having a modified dose response curve to the multimeric ligand inducer. The technology also relates in part to methods for cell therapy using cells that express the inducible caspase polypeptide or the inducible modified caspase polypeptide, where the proportion of caspase polypeptide-expressing cells eliminated by apoptosis is related to the administered amount of the multimeric ligand inducer.

Non-occluding balloon for cardiovascular drug delivery
Patent No. 11839727

Inventor(s): Brett Allyn Williams (North Oaks, MN), Vijay Sitharam Ramanath (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ADVANCED INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR SOLUTIONS, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17388554 on 07/29/2021 (866 days app to issue)

Abstract: A non-occluding drug-coated balloon catheter device for use in a blood vessel transporting blood comprises a catheter shaft including a guidewire lumen, a fluid lumen and a connector port. A balloon is mounted on the catheter shaft and includes an outer envelope surrounding the guidewire lumen in fluid communication with the fluid lumen; a drug coating applied on the exterior surface of the outer envelope; and at least one bypass lumen forming a passage extending from the proximal end of the outer envelope to the distal end of the outer envelope. When the balloon is positioned in a blood vessel and inflated, the exterior surface of the outer envelope presses the drug coating against the blood vessel and the bypass lumen is open between the distal end of the outer envelope and the proximal end of the outer envelope such that blood transport continues through the bypass lumen.

[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]

Method and system with current regulator biased by floating power supply
Patent No. 11839760

Inventor(s): Daran DeShazo (Lewisville, TX), Gavin L Rade (Dallas, TX), Steven Boor (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ADVANCED NEUROMODULATION SYSTEMS, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: THE SMALL PATENT LAW GROUP LLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17720239 on 04/13/2022 (608 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method are provided that include a power supply having positive and negative terminals. The negative terminal defines a reference ground. First and second electrodes are positioned within a patient and configured to be located proximate to tissue of interest that is associated with a target region. A control circuit is configured to control delivery of current for a therapy between the first and second electrodes. A current regulator (CR) circuit is connected to, and configured to control current flow through, at least the first electrode during delivery of the therapy under direction of the control circuit. A floating power supply is connected across power supply terminals of the CR circuit. The CR circuit and floating power supply are coupled to a floating ground node that is electrically separate from the reference ground.

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

Treatment intervals for use of compositions comprising energy absorbing materials for dermatological applications
Patent No. 11839775

Inventor(s): Anthony V. Lando (Suwanee, GA), Dilip Paithankar (Wayland, MA), Erin C. Keller (Atlanta, GA), Todd J. Meyer (Rosewell, GA)
Assignee(s): CORONADO AESTHETICS, LLC (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16927386 on 07/13/2020 (1247 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions comprising energy (e.g., light) absorbing submicron particles (e.g., nanoparticles comprising a silica core and a gold shell) and methods for delivering such particles via topical application. This delivery is facilitated by application of mechanical agitation (e.g. massage), acoustic vibration in the range of 10 Hz-20 kHz, ultrasound, alternating suction and pressure, and microjets. The method of treatment is performed and then, depending upon the desired clinical outcome, repeated after a treatment response interval has elapsed.

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

Pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses
Patent No. 11840035

Inventor(s): Changhong Yin (Mansfield, TX)
Assignee(s): Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, , CH)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18165653 on 02/07/2023 (308 days app to issue)

Abstract: The invention relates to a pad printing instrument comprising an ink supply system capable of control the temperature, viscosity and colorant concentration of an ink in an ink cup. Such controls are achieved by continuously adding and mixing a cold ink having a composition identical to the ink in the ink cup but having a lower temperature. The continuous addition of a small amount of a cold ink into the ink cup could compensate heat generated by the friction between the ink cup and a clich and could minimize the evaporation of a diluent in the ink and change in the concentration of colorants in the ink and ink viscosity. The invention also relates to use of a pad printing instrument comprising an ink supply system of the invention for producing colored hydrogel or silicone hydrogel contact lenses.

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

Seat blocking system and method
Patent No. 11840161

Inventor(s): Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, MI), Frederico Marcolino Quintao Severgnini (Ann Arbor, MI), Paul Donald Schmalenberg (Pittsburgh, PA)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Darrow Mustafa PC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17200150 on 03/12/2021 (1005 days app to issue)

Abstract: A seat blocking system can comprise a seat. The seat can include a seat understructure and an overlying seating surface. The seat understructure can form a seat base and a seatback arranged in a seating configuration. The seating surface can be configured to morph between a sittable shape, in which the seating surface is coextensive with the seat understructure, and an unsittable shape, in which the seating surface is expanded over at least a portion of the seat understructure. The seat blocking system can include a seat blocker. The seat blocker can be integrated with the seat. The seat blocker can be operable to morph between a deactivated state, whereby the seat blocker leaves the seat understructure to impart the sittable shape to the seating surface, and an activated state, in which the seat blocker acts on the seating surface to impart the unsittable shape to the seating surface.

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

Motor vehicle artificial intelligence expert system dangerous driving warning and control system and method
Patent No. 11840176

Inventor(s): Robert D. Pedersen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17862348 on 07/11/2022 (519 days app to issue)

Abstract: Specifically programmed, integrated motor vehicle dangerous driving warning and control system and methods comprising at least one specialized communication computer machine including electronic artificial intelligence expert system decision making capability further comprising one or more motor vehicle electronic sensors for monitoring the motor vehicle and for monitoring activities of the driver and/or passengers including activities related to the use of cellular telephones and/or other wireless communication devices and further comprising electronic communications transceiver assemblies for communications with external sensor networks for monitoring dangerous driving situations, weather conditions, roadway conditions, pedestrian congestion and motor vehicle traffic congestion conditions to derive warning and/or control signals for warning the driver of dangerous driving situations and/or for controlling the motor vehicle driver use of a cellular telephone and/or other wireless communication devices.

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

Methods and systems for informing drivers of vehicle operating functions
Patent No. 11840250

Inventor(s): Masashi Nakagawa (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17079698 on 10/26/2020 (1142 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for instructing users of car-sharing services to operate a shared vehicle includes identifying a user of a selected vehicle, determining a customary vehicle of the user based on the identification, determining differences between the selected vehicle and the customary vehicle, and informing the user of the determined differences.

[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]

Pallet sled and delivery system
Patent No. 11840271

Inventor(s): Jason Crawford Miller (Bedford, TX)
Assignee(s): Rehrig Pacific Company (Los Angeles, CA)
Law Firm: Carlson, Gaskey Olds, P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17358103 on 06/25/2021 (900 days app to issue)

Abstract: A pallet sled includes a pair of tines extending forward from a base. A load wheel supports each of the pair of tines. The load wheels are each configured to move away from the respective tine to lift the respective tine upward relative to a support surface on which the load wheel is supported. A processor on the pallet sled records usage of the sled, such as lift cycles, location over time, battery condition, lift height, weight lifted, distance traveled, and the like. A communication circuit may be configured to send data from the pallet sled to a remote server. An identification reader may be configured to read an identification tag of an object supported on the pair of tines, such as an rfid tag on a pallet.

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

Downstop load sensing system
Patent No. 11840330

Inventor(s): Evan Butler Bennett (Fort Worth, TX), Thomas Earl Johnson (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, RI)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17183510 on 02/24/2021 (1021 days app to issue)

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a tiltrotor aircraft having a wing, a proprotor pivotably mounted on the wing, and a downstop striker attached to the proprotor using a load pin, wherein the load pin is configured to generate an output signal representing a force between the proprotor and the wing. A downstop mounted on the wing is aligned to be in contact with the downstop striker when the proprotor is in a horizontal position. A conversion actuator moves the proprotor between a horizontal position and vertical position. A flight control computer is coupled to the output signal from the load pin and configured to control the conversion actuator, wherein the flight control computer is configured to cause the conversion actuator to increase the force if the force is less than a first selected preload value or to decrease the force if the force is greater than a second selected preload value.

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

Tamper-evident box
Patent No. 11840379

Inventor(s): Hector Nava (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): Pratt Corrugated Holdings, Inc (Brookhaven, GA)
Law Firm: Taylor English Duma LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17001016 on 08/24/2020 (1205 days app to issue)

Abstract: A locking device for a box includes a first panel defining a locking tab separable from the first panel and comprising a first tab subpanel and a second tab subpanel; the first tab subpanel extending from the first panel and the second tab subpanel extending from the first tab subpanel, the second tab subpanel including a neck and an ear, the ear extending from the neck in a lateral direction of the locking tab; and a second panel defining a locking opening, the locking opening sized to receive and capture the locking tab, the locking tab configured to engage an edge of the locking opening and thereby configured to prevent movement of the locking tab with respect to the locking opening in an opening direction of the locking device.

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

System and method for minimizing lost motion of an axle of a vehicle and filtering erroneous electrical signals
Patent No. 11842476

Inventor(s): Corey D. Wills (Berryton, KS), Darrell R. Krueger (Lecompton, KS)
Assignee(s): BNSF Railway Company (Fort Worth, TX)
Law Firm: WHITAKER CHALK SWINDLE SCHWARTZ PLLC (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17810441 on 07/01/2022 (529 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a roadway by comparing captured images to image inconsistencies caused by lost or unnecessary motion and for minimizing lost or unnecessary motion of an axle of a vehicle and filtering erroneous pulses of an electrical signal to generate a trigger signal to capture images is presented. The system enables the minimization of image artifacts causing distortion in an image. The system can take images of a target, compute an object pixel size of the image to ensure calibration of longitudinal measurements, and calibrate the rotary encoder with the camera of the machine vision system. The system can enable calibration of the locomotive components in the field to compensate for the misalignment of the machine vision system and provide safe travels.

[B61K] OTHER AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT FOR RAILWAYS (energy-storing brakes B61H; protection of permanent way against weather influences E01B; rail cleaning, snow ploughs E01H)

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

Silyl-biaryl phosphoramidites and methods of making
Patent No. 11840550

Inventor(s): Hiep Hoang Nguyen (Arlington, TX), Junha Jeon (Southlake, TX)
Assignee(s): Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Meunier Carlin Curfman LLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17366374 on 07/02/2021 (893 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds that may be used as ligands in metal-catalyzed reactions, in particular 3,3-bisilyl biaryl phosphoramidite compounds and processes for preparing the same.

[C07F] ACYCLIC, CARBOCYCLIC, OR HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING ELEMENTS OTHER THAN CARBON, HYDROGEN, HALOGEN, OXYGEN, NITROGEN, SULFUR, SELENIUM OR TELLURIUM (metal-containing porphyrins C07D 487/22; macromolecular compounds C08)

Iron compositions and methods of making and using the same
Patent No. 11840552

Inventor(s): Alvaro F. Guillem (Lantana, TX), Donald Jeffrey Keyser (Southlake, TX), Richard A. Zager (Seattle, WA)
Assignee(s): RENIBUS THERAPEUTICS, INC. (Southlake, TX)
Law Firm: Culhane Meadows PLLC (Local + 4 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17672072 on 02/15/2022 (665 days app to issue)

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

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

Water-resistant acrylic coatings
Patent No. 11840636

Inventor(s): Adem Chich (Kearny, NJ), Benjamin Pearl (Morristown, NJ), Daniel E. Boss (Morristown, NJ), Kihyun Kim (Hackensack, NJ), Michael Hagen (Parsippany, NJ), Wilson Cheung (Hillsborough, NJ)
Assignee(s): BMIC LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17169179 on 02/05/2021 (1040 days app to issue)

Abstract: Water-resistant waterborne acrylic coating materials, systems and methods providing enhanced water resistance and durability are provided. Such coatings extend the service life of roofing systems that are exposed to ponding water and other extreme weather conditions. Coatings described herein exhibit superior water resistance attributes including one or more of water infiltration resistance, wet tensile strength and wet adhesion.

[C09D] COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES OR LACQUERS; FILLING PASTES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR (cosmetics A61K; processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces, in general, B05D; staining wood B27K 5/02; glazes or vitreous enamels C03C; natural resins, French polish, drying-oils, driers, turpentine, per se, C09F; polishing compositions other than French polish, ski waxes C09G; adhesives or use of materials as adhesives C09J; materials for sealing or packing joints or covers C09K 3/10; materials for stopping leaks C09K 3/12; processes for the electrolytic or electrophoretic production of coatings C25D) [5]

Filter plug to prevent proppant flowback
Patent No. 11840661

Inventor(s): Michael Linley Fripp (Carrollton, TX), Richard Decena Ornelaz (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Justiss, P.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17116076 on 12/09/2020 (1098 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided is a filter plug, a well system, and a method for fracturing a well system. The filter plug, in one aspect, includes a filtration skeleton. The filter plug according to this aspect further includes a degradable material in contact with the filtration skeleton, the filtration skeleton and degradable material configured to lodge within a port in a wellbore, and thus substantially plug the port when the degradable material remains intact with the filtration skeleton and allow the filtration skeleton to filter particulate matter as fluid passes there through when the degradable material no longer remains intact with the filtration skeleton.

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

Allele selective inhibition of mutant C9orf72 foci expression by duplex RNAs targeting the expanded hexanucleotide repeat
Patent No. 11840690

Inventor(s): David Corey (Dallas, TX), Jiaxin Hu (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, TX)
Law Firm: Parker Highlander PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17528383 on 11/17/2021 (755 days app to issue)

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for reducing expression of C9orf72 transcripts in cells containing expanded intronic GGGGCC regions, including those in subjects having or at risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

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

Shape-memory material actuators
Patent No. 11841008

Inventor(s): Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, MI), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, MI), Shardul S. Panwar (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: 18163621 on 02/02/2023 (313 days app to issue)

Abstract: An actuator that includes a shell, a ring structure within the shell, a shape-memory material wire fixed at opposite points of the ring structure to extend in a first direction across a width of the ring structure, and a cooling fluid provided within the shell and in fluid communication with the shape-memory material wire. When the shape-memory material wire is heated, the shape-memory material wire contracts in the first direction to reduce the width of the ring structure and increases a height of the ring structure extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

[F03G] SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA, OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER-PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (arrangements in connection with power supply in vehicles from force of nature B60K 16/00; electric propulsion with power supply in vehicles from force of nature B60L 8/00)

Heat recovery apparatus and methods of increasing energy efficiency of hybrid heating systems using the apparatus
Patent No. 11841147

Inventor(s): Pratik S. Deokar (Lewisville, TX)
Assignee(s): Rheem Manufacturing Company (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (4 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17515718 on 11/01/2021 (771 days app to issue)

Abstract: A hybrid heating system having a heat recovery apparatus in fluid communication with a heat pump and a furnace is provided. The apparatus recovers heat from flue gas discharged from the furnace and transfers the recovered heat to a stream of refrigerant in the heat pump. The apparatus includes a shell disposed in fluid communication with the furnace and tubes disposed in fluid communication with the shell and the heat pump. The system includes valves for regulating access between the apparatus and the stream of the refrigerant in the heat pump, and a control unit in communication with the valves to regulate access between the apparatus and the heat pump during a heating mode based on operating parameters of the system.

[F24D] DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR (preventing corrosion C23F; water supply in general E03; using steam or condensate extracted or exhausted from steam engine plants for heating purposes F01K 17/02; steam traps F16T; domestic stoves or ranges F24B, F24C; water or air heaters having heat generating means F24H; combined heating and refrigeration systems F25B; heat exchange apparatus or elements F28; removing furring F28G; electric heating elements or arrangements H05B)

Refrigerant metering system and method
Patent No. 11841175

Inventor(s): Kenneth Ray Green (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17894661 on 08/24/2022 (475 days app to issue)

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

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

Rubber band gun, method of use, and method of assembly
Patent No. 11841207

Inventor(s): Brent A Eudaly (Centerville, KS)
Assignee(s): Elastic Precision, LLC (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Law Office of Mark Brown, LLC (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17557395 on 12/21/2021 (721 days app to issue)

Abstract: A toy gun having a pair of sides are joined together using a number of pins inserted through pin holes passing through the pair of sides. A trigger and a slide are sandwiched between the pair of sides and are secured therein. A pivot pin allows the trigger to be pulled rearwardly such that it presses against the slide, moving it reward as well. When this occurs, the slide moves out from between the two sides, pushing the elastic bands away from static notches located on the rear end of the sides. This causes the top-most elastic band to fire away from the gun, and the remaining elastic bands to be reseated upwardly into the next adjacent respective static notch. The elastic bands pull the trigger back into its original position, allowing for semi-automatic firing.

[F41B] WEAPONS FOR PROJECTING MISSILES WITHOUT USE OF EXPLOSIVE OR COMBUSTIBLE PROPELLANT CHARGE; WEAPONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (projectiles for fishing, e.g. fish-spears, A01K 81/00; sports implements for throwing A63B 65/00, e.g. boomerangs A63B 65/08; stationary apparatus for projecting sports balls, e.g. tennis balls, A63B 69/40; throwing or slinging toys A63H 33/18; knives, axes B26B; projectiles or missiles other than those incorporating springs as projecting means F42B 6/00)

Artificial muscles comprising an electrode pair having fan portions and artificial muscle assemblies including same
Patent No. 11843329

Inventor(s): Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, MI), Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, MI)
Assignee(s): Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Dinsmore Shohl LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18059474 on 11/29/2022 (378 days app to issue)

Abstract: An artificial muscle includes an electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode. One or both of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a central opening. The first electrode and the second electrode each include two or more fan portions and two or more bridge portions. Each fan portion includes a first end having an inner length, a second end having an outer length, a first side edge extending from the second end, and a second side edge extending from the second end. The outer length is greater than the inner length. Each bridge portion interconnecting adjacent fan portions at the first end.

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

P H Y S I C S

Mobile device and method for sensor data based antenna selection
Patent No. 11841221

Inventor(s): Navid Nader (San Diego, CA), Ping Shi (San Diego, CA), Robert McCarthy (Escondido, CA), Vijayakumar Krishnamurthy (San Marcos, CA), Vinh Vo (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Futurewei Technologies, Inc. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: Slater Matsil, LLP (Local + 1 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17139725 on 12/31/2020 (1076 days app to issue)

Abstract: A mobile device for determining a handling condition of the mobile device and a method of use thereof. One embodiment of the mobile device includes: at least one left capacitive proximity sensor disposed on a left side of the mobile device and operable to detect a hold condition, at least one right capacitive proximity sensor disposed on a right side of the mobile device and operable to detect a hold condition, an accelerometer disposed in the mobile device and operable to detect an orientation of the mobile device, an ambient light proximity sensor disposed in the mobile device and operable to detect a proximity of a user”s head, and a processor operable to execute an application configured to gain access to and employ the hold condition, the orientation, and the proximity of the user”s head to determine a handling condition.

[G01B] MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS

Techniques for portable rapid detection and quantitation of volatile organic compounds (VOCS) using breath samples
Patent No. 11841359

Inventor(s): Guido Fridolin Verbeck, IV (Lewisville, TX), John Redmond (Frisco, TX), Luke Keiser (Frisco, TX), Tim C. Wing (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): InspectIR Systems, LLC (Frisco, TX), University of North Texas (Denton, TX)
Law Firm: Fogarty LLP (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17033261 on 09/25/2020 (1173 days app to issue)

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

[G01N] INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q)

Techniques for rapid detection and quantitation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using breath samples
Patent No. 11841372

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

Methods and electronic device for dynamic distance measurements
Patent No. 11841424

Inventor(s): Johann Zipperer (Unterschleissheim, , DE), Leonardo William Estevez (Rockwall, TX), Peter Wongeun Chung (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 15823935 on 11/28/2017 (2205 days app to issue)

Abstract: An electronic device and methods for providing high resolution ranging measurements are disclosed. The electronic device includes a pulse generator, a memory, an ADC, a timer, a comparator, a processing unit, connectors for coupling to a transceiver and instructions stored in the memory. The instructions, when performed by the processing unit, performs a method that determines an estimated time of arrival of a series of measurement pulses in the signal and turns on, prior to the estimated time of arrival, the ADC to capture the series of measurement pulses using a first resolution provided by sampling the signal at a rate equal to or greater than the Nyquist rate. The ADC remains on for a fixed time period sized to capture the series of measurement pulses.

[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 single-sensor multi-target 3D tracking in an unbiased measurement space
Patent No. 11841432

Inventor(s): Aaron Maestas (McKinney, TX), Jason R. Mcmurtrey (Dallas, TX), Steven A. Miles (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, MA)
Law Firm: Lando Anastasi, LLP (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16897858 on 06/10/2020 (1280 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for determining positions of moving targets in unbiased three-dimensional (3D) measurement spaces using data collected against the moving targets by an electro-optical or infrared (EO/IR) sensor, the method comprising receiving data collected from electrical signals reflected from the moving targets in a first focal plane of the EO/IR sensor at a first time point, receiving data collected from electrical signals reflected from the moving targets in a second focal plane of the EO/IR sensor at a second time point, generating two-dimensional (2D) measurement data for the moving targets in the first and second focal planes, calculating 3D target velocities for the moving targets using the 2D measurement data, and estimating local 3D positions within a first unbiased 3D measurement space for the moving targets at the first and second time points based on the 3D target velocity.

3D angle of arrival capability in electronic devices with adaptability via memory augmentation
Patent No. 11841447

Inventor(s): Khuong N. Nguyen (Frisco, TX), Neha Dawar (Plano, TX), Yuming Zhu (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17559872 on 12/22/2021 (720 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes obtaining signal information based on wireless signals received from a target electronic device via a first antenna pair and a second antenna pair. The first and second antenna pairs are aligned along different axes. The signal information includes channel information, range information, a first angle of arrival (AoA) based on the first antenna pair, and a second AoA based on the second antenna pair. The method also includes obtaining tagging information that identifies an environment in which the electronic device is located. The method also includes generating encoded information from a memory module based on the tagging information. The method further includes initializing a field of view (FoV) classifier based on the encoded information. Additionally, the method includes determining whether the target electronic device is in a FoV of the electronic device based on the FoV classifier operating on the signal information.

Communication interface buffer with hot-swap protection
Patent No. 11841810

Inventor(s): Anant Shankar Kamath (Bengaluru, , IN), Sreeram Subramanyam Nasum (Bengaluru, , IN), Suvadip Banerjee (Bengaluru, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17244370 on 04/29/2021 (957 days app to issue)

Abstract: A communication interface buffer comprises: a data bus connection adapted to be coupled to a bus interface contact; and a ground. The communication interface buffer also comprises an output transistor with a first current terminal, a second current terminal and a control terminal, the first current terminal coupled to the data bus connection, the second current terminal coupled to ground, and the control terminal adapted to receive a drive signal. The communication interface buffer also comprises a control circuit coupled to the control terminal of the output transistor, wherein the control circuit is configured to: turn off the output transistor during a first interval that starts when the data bus connection is coupled to the bus interface contact; and turn on the output transistor after the first interval is complete.

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

Connectivity in coarse grained reconfigurable architecture
Patent No. 11841823

Inventor(s): Bryan Hornung (Plano, TX), Tony M. Brewer (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Schwegman Lundberg Woessner, P.A. (11 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17402900 on 08/16/2021 (848 days app to issue)

Abstract: A reconfigurable compute fabric can include multiple nodes, and each node can include multiple tiles with respective processing and storage elements. The tiles can be arranged in an array or grid and can be communicatively coupled. In an example, the tiles can be arranged in a one-dimensional array and each tile can be coupled to its respective adjacent neighbor tiles using a direct bus coupling. Each tile can be further coupled to at least one non-adjacent neighbor tile that is one tile, or device space, away using a passthrough bus. The passthrough bus can extend through intervening tiles.

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

Distributed data storage framework
Patent No. 11841859

Inventor(s): Apoorve Shrivastava (Frisco, TX), Srinivasa Somepalli (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Options Clearing Corporation (Chicago, IL)
Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17587145 on 01/28/2022 (683 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a database includes receiving, from a user, data and an instruction to store the data in a key-value based database, determining a context of the data, selecting, according to the determined context, a data write routine, writing the data and its context to the database using the selected data write routine, and writing the data to a cache associated with the database. In addition, indexes may be created in the database and cache separate from the native indexes of the database and cache.

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

Systems and methods for customer data handling
Patent No. 11841971

Inventor(s): Naganand Abbaraju (Frisco, TX), Rahul Saraf (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, CA)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17036300 on 09/29/2020 (1169 days app to issue)

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for secure customer data handling. More specifically, some embodiments relate to handling of derivative data as a provider in a manner that supports security and provides a stronger level of control over the data. The solution supports four core principles of customer data handling: no export of customer data, unless authorized; remote operations only via shell access or equivalent; temporary and task-based privileges; and diagnostic data to be ephemeral. The customer data handling system herein includes a central repository for the storage of diagnostic data, an upload tool for uploading to the central repository and automated staging on containers, a diagnostic virtual machine that enables task-based access to diagnostic data and analysis tools hosted on a dedicated container, and an application for handling requests, provisioning and staging containers, and purging.

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

Method and device for target information exfiltration out of a computing device based on lock key reflection by the computing device at an output keyboard end point
Patent No. 11841993

Inventor(s): Dallas Perry Winger (Dallas, TX), Darren Dale Kitchen (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): HAK5 LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: LEGALFORCE RAPC WORLDWIDE (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17877865 on 07/29/2022 (501 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method includes encoding, through a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device enumerated by a computing device communicatively coupled to the USB device solely as a USB keyboard device compatible with the computing device, target information on the computing device into lock key values interpretable through the computing device, with the lock key values pertaining to a number of lock keys associated with the USB keyboard device. The method also includes automatically activating, through the USB device, the number of lock keys indicated by the lock key values on the USB keyboard device, and automatically exfiltrating, through the USB device, the target information out of the computing device and to the USB device based on the computing device reflecting the automatically activated number of lock keys indicated by the lock key values back via an output keyboard endpoint corresponding to the USB keyboard device within the computing device.

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

Systems and methods for creating customized print or electronic materials
Patent No. 11842108

Inventor(s): Rochelle Rubin (Dallas, TX), Tim Eng (Jersey City, NJ)
Assignee(s): Rensera LLC (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: Haynes and Boone, LLP (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18295781 on 04/04/2023 (252 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and software are disclosed for a create-to-print document solution. A main processor generates individualized bespoke print material by receiving transmitted customizable third-party data and user input data, comprising, at least in part, project metadata. The third party data and user input data are integrated at the processor to create a plurality of customizable user templates and content.

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

Systems and methods for co-browsing
Patent No. 11842142

Inventor(s): Byron Romon Walker (Anna, TX), Connor Thomas Marcum (Little Elm, TX)
Assignee(s): CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS LLP (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17520898 on 11/08/2021 (764 days app to issue)

Abstract: The present disclosed technology relates to systems and methods for synchronizing the website displayed by two computing devices. Embodiments of the disclosed technology include methods for transmitting the contents of a Document Object Model displayed on a customer device to a customer service device. Embodiments of the disclosed technology further include methods to transmit Shadow DOM elements from a customer device to a customer service device.

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

Object recognition based on hierarchical domain-based models
Patent No. 11842254

Inventor(s): Gina L. Otts (Flower Mound, TX), Luis M. Tomotaki (Plano, TX), Natasha Avinash Shah (Irving, TX), William F. Copeland (Garland, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17089819 on 11/05/2020 (1132 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium each provide an object recognition service that identifies an object within an image or a video. An object is identified according to a general classification based on a domain-based inference model, and is subsequently further identified according to a sub-classification of the general classification based on another domain-based inference model. The domain-based inference models are hierarchical. The object recognition of the object may be used in support of end user services.

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

System, method, and platform for auto machine learning via optimal hybrid AI formulation from crowd
Patent No. 11842258

Inventor(s): Abhay Dabholkar (Allen, TX), Joshua Whitney (Richardson, TX), Mark Austin (Allen, TX), Vijayan Nagarajan (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): ATT Intellectual Property I, L.P. (Atlanta, GA)
Law Firm: GUNTIN GUST, PLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18070823 on 11/29/2022 (378 days app to issue)

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a plurality of proposed machine learning solutions to a machine learning problem including receiving, for each respective proposed machine learning solution of the plurality of proposed machine learning solutions, one or more of a machine learning model, a dataset and a data pipeline output; automatically determining hybrid solutions to the machine learning problem, including combining, by the processing system, at least one of a first component from a first proposed machine learning solution with at least one of a second component from a second proposed machine learning solution; and ranking the hybrid solutions including determining a log loss score for each hybrid solution and sorting the hybrid solutions according to the log loss score for each hybrid solution. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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

Pattern-level sentiment prediction
Patent No. 11842288

Inventor(s): Elizabeth Claire Maue (Dallas, TX), Rohit Sarin (Dallas, TX), Weiyan Sun (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Capital One Services, LLC (McLean, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16903852 on 06/17/2020 (1273 days app to issue)

Abstract: Based on the interaction data and response data, an interaction monitoring platform may determine a first known sentiment and a second known sentiment, identify a first pattern and a second pattern in the interaction data, and generate a first pattern-level sentiment and a second pattern-level sentiment based on the known sentiments and the identified patterns. A binary indicator may indicate which identified patterns are exhibited in a subset of the interaction data. The platform may train a gradient boosting model using known sentiment as a target variable and using binary indicators and pattern-level sentiments as input data. The platform may predict a sentiment corresponding to a subset of interaction data with unknown sentiment that exhibits one or more of the first pattern or the second pattern based on a binary indicator and the trained gradient boosting model.

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

Accessible ride hailing and transit platform
Patent No. 11842304

Inventor(s): Corey B. Clark (McKinney, TX), Equan Tompkins (Aubrey, TX), Kory M. Koran (Frisco, TX), Philip W. Ryan (Frisco, TX), Riley F. Keen (Plano, TX), Wenxin Xia (Atlanta, GA), Zhengyang Weng (Atlanta, GA)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SNELL WILMER LLP (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17099433 on 11/16/2020 (1121 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for a ride-hailing platform. The ride-hailing platform includes one or more processors and a memory. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining, from multiple transportation providers, multiple ride-sharing routes for multiple ride-sharing vehicles. The operations include obtaining a ride-hailing request including one or more disability settings for a user, a location of the user and a destination of the user. The operations include determining that a first ride-sharing vehicle should transport the user based on the one or more disability settings of the user. The operations include altering a first ride-sharing route to transport the user from the location of the user to the destination of the user and providing the altered first ride-sharing route to a driver of the first ride-sharing vehicle.

[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]

Multifactor authentication systems and methods
Patent No. 11842349

Inventor(s): Ashutosh Sureka (Coppell, TX)
Assignee(s): CITICORP CREDIT SERVICES, INC. (USA) (Long Island City, NY)
Law Firm: Johnson, Marcou, Isaacs Nix, LLC (no location found)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18108816 on 02/13/2023 (302 days app to issue)

Abstract: Multifactor authentication systems and methods employ an online payment server processor that authenticates a user in an online session with a merchant website server processor based on data representing one or more predefined authentication factors received from a user device processor over a communication network and sends data representing a secure user login cookie to the user device processor over the communication network based on the authentication of the user in the online session with the merchant website server processor. Thereafter, the online payment server processor authenticates the user in a subsequent online session with the merchant website server processor based in part on identifying the data representing the secure user login cookie on the user device and in part on data representing a second predefined authentication factor received from the user device processor over the communication network.

Automatic perspective transformation
Patent No. 11842544

Inventor(s): Nannan Wang (Allen, TX), Paparao Palacharla (Richardson, TX)
Assignee(s): FUJITSU LIMITED (Kawasaki, , JP)
Law Firm: Maschoff Brennan (5 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17339815 on 06/04/2021 (921 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method may include obtaining an image of a scene from a first perspective, the image including an object, and detecting the object in the image using a machine learning process, where the object may be representative of a known shape with at least four vertices at a first set of points. The method may also include automatically predicting a second set of points corresponding to the at least four vertices of the object in a second perspective of the scene based on the known shape of the object. The method may additionally include constructing, without user input, a transformation matrix to transform a given image from the first perspective to the second perspective based on the first set of points and the second set of points. NULL

Artificial intelligence system for tasks
Patent No. 11842733

Inventor(s): Romelia H. Flores (Keller, TX)
Assignee(s): KYNDRYL, INC. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Calderon Safran Cole P.C. (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17336551 on 06/02/2021 (923 days app to issue)

Abstract: An indication associated with an AI mode enabled by an AI system is received from a user with an affirmative opt-in status. A first task request associated with the user is identified. One or more instructions associated with the first task request are contextually recognized. The first task request is completed based on the contextually recognized one or more instructions.

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

Systems and methods for dynamically sensing a memory block
Patent No. 11842775

Inventor(s): Bo Lei (San Jose, CA), Nidhi Agrawal (San Jose, CA), Zhenni Wan (San Jose, CA)
Assignee(s): SanDisk Technologies LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17506960 on 10/21/2021 (782 days app to issue)

Abstract: A memory device that dynamically adjusts the sense time to read an open block of a memory block is disclosed. The adjusted sense time is based upon various considerations, including the sense time of the closed block equivalent and the openness of the open block. This allows the memory device to maintain a fixed Vt as well as reduce failed bit count, i.e., read errors due to an insufficient sense time. Also, the dynamic adjustment of sense time can optimize system performance and increase efficiency.

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

Bioinformatics systems, apparatuses, and methods executed on an integrated circuit processing platform
Patent No. 11842796

Inventor(s): Michael Ruehle (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee(s): Edico Genome Corporation (La Jolla, CA)
Law Firm: Fish Richardson P.C. (Local + 13 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16833172 on 03/27/2020 (1355 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for executing a bioinformatics analysis on genetic sequence data includes an integrated circuit formed of a set of hardwired digital logic circuits that are interconnected by physical electrical interconnects. One of the physical electrical interconnects forms an input to the integrated circuit that may be connected with an electronic data source for receiving reads of genomic data. The hardwired digital logic circuits may be arranged as a set of processing engines, each processing engine being formed of a subset of the hardwired digital logic circuits to perform one or more steps in the bioinformatics analysis on the reads of genomic data. Each subset of the hardwired digital logic circuits may be formed in a wired configuration to perform the one or more steps in the bioinformatics analysis. NULL

Pan-cancer platinum response predictor
Patent No. 11842805

Inventor(s): David Spetzler (Paradise Valley, AZ), Jim Abraham (Southlake, TX), Wolfgang Michael Korn (Mill Valley, CA)
Assignee(s): Caris MPI, Inc. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP (14 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17831274 on 06/02/2022 (558 days app to issue)

Abstract: Comprehensive molecular profiling provides a wealth of data concerning the molecular status of patient samples. Such data can be compared to patient response to treatments to identify biomarker signatures that predict response or non-response to such treatments. This approach has been applied to identify biomarker signatures that correlate with response of cancer patients to platinum-based chemotherapy. Described herein are data structures, data processing, and machine learning models to predict a probability of benefit of a treatment for a disease or disorder of a subject having a particular set of biomarkers, as well as an exemplary application of such a model to precision medicine, e.g., to methods for selecting a treatment based on a molecular profile, e.g., a treatment comprising platinum therapy. NULL

Structured plasma cell energy converter for a nuclear reactor
Patent No. 11842820

Inventor(s): Austin Lo (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Miller Johnson (Local + 48 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17870957 on 07/22/2022 (508 days app to issue)

Abstract: A structured plasma cell includes a first electrode including a first plurality of micro-cavities and a first plasma disposed within one or more micro-cavities of the first plurality of micro-cavities. The structured plasma cell also includes a second electrode including a second plurality of micro-cavities and a second plasma disposed within one or more micro-cavities of the second plurality of micro-cavities. The structured plasma cell also includes an inter-electrode gap disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.

[G21C] NUCLEAR REACTORS (fusion reactors, hybrid fission-fusion reactors G21B; nuclear explosives G21J)

Self-recharging direct conversion electrical energy storage method
Patent No. 11842824

Inventor(s): Eric M. DeLangis (Wylie, TX)
Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED
Law Firm: Law Office of Clay McGurk (Local + 690 other metros)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17468045 on 09/07/2021 (826 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for collecting and storing the energy emitted by radioisotopes in the form of alpha and or beta particles is described. The present invention incorporates aspects of four different energy conversion and storage technologies, those being: Nuclear alpha and or beta particle capture for direct energy conversion and storage, fuel cells, rechargeable electrochemical storage cells and capacitive electrical energy storage.

[G21H] OBTAINING ENERGY FROM RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; APPLICATIONS OF RADIATION FROM RADIOACTIVE SOURCES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; UTILISING COSMIC RADIATION (measurement of nuclear or X-radiation G01T; fusion reactors G21B; nuclear reactors G21C; lamps in which a gas filling is excited to luminescence by external corpuscular radiation or by radioactive material structurally associated with the lamp H01J 65/04, H01J 65/06)

Semiconductor devices having through-stack interconnects for facilitating connectivity testing
Patent No. 11842985

Inventor(s): Christian N. Mohr (Allen, TX), Scott E. Smith (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17965561 on 10/13/2022 (425 days app to issue)

Abstract: Semiconductor devices having through-stack interconnects for facilitating connectivity testing, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stack of semiconductor dies and a plurality of through-stack interconnects extending through the stack to electrically couple the semiconductor dies. The interconnects include functional interconnects and at least one test interconnect. The test interconnect is positioned in a portion of the stack more prone to connectivity defects than the functional interconnects. Accordingly, testing the connectivity of the test interconnect can provide an indication of the connectivity of the functional interconnects.

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

E L E C T R I C I T Y

Binary AgCu amorphous thin-films for electronic applications
Patent No. 11840756

Inventor(s): Santanu Das (Benares, , IN), Sundeep Mukherjee (Highland Village, TX)
Assignee(s): UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS (Denton, TX)
Law Firm: Chalker Flores, LLP (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17066670 on 10/09/2020 (1159 days app to issue)

Abstract: An interconnect and a method of making an interconnect between one or more features on a substrate comprises: sputtering a noble metal-copper eutectic thin film under controlled power on an oxide grown or deposited on a substrate; and forming an amorphous alloy structure from the noble metal-copper eutectic thin film in the shape of the interconnect and the interconnect comprising no grain or grain boundaries without temperature sensitive resistivity.

[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]

Double side heat dissipation for silicon chip package
Patent No. 11842952

Inventor(s): Makoto Shibuya (Beppu, , JP)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17158152 on 01/26/2021 (1050 days app to issue)

Abstract: System, method, and silicon chip package for providing structural strength, heat dissipation and electrical connectivity using ”W” shaped frame bonded to the one or more dies, wherein the ”W” shaped frame provides compression strength to the silicon chip package when the one or more dies are bonded, and electrically conductivity between for the one or more dies to leads of silicon chip package, and heat dissipation for the silicon chip package.

Multi-layer reconfigurable surface for an antenna
Patent No. 11843171

Inventor(s): Gang Xu (Allen, TX), Mohammed Reza Hashemi (Allen, TX), Shadi Abu-Surra (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17384684 on 07/23/2021 (872 days app to issue)

Abstract: A multi-layer reconfigurable reflective intelligent surface (RIS). The RIS includes a unit-cell of a reconfigurable intelligent surface. The unit-cell includes a first layer composed of a conductive material and structured according to a sub-wavelength reflective pattern. The first layer reflects an impinging wave at a predetermined phase and steers the reflected impinging wave toward an intended receiver. The unit-cell includes a second layer composed of a first dielectric substrate material. Between the first and second layers, the unit-cell includes a middle layer composed of a second dielectric material having tunable dielectric properties. Tuning a dielectric constant of the second dielectric material modifies the predetermined phase of reflection of the impinging wave.

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

Systems and methods for providing power consumption predictions for selected applications within network arrangements featuring devices with non-homogenous or unknown specifications
Patent No. 11843248

Inventor(s): Adam Hess (Roanoke, TX)
Assignee(s): Citibank, N.A. (New York, NY)
Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP (17 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18361658 on 07/28/2023 (137 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements to artificial intelligence applications in an environment with limited or no available data. In particular, systems and methods are described herein for providing network arrangement recommendations based on power consumption predictions for selected applications within network arrangements featuring devices with non-homogenous or unknown specifications.

[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)

Controller circuit for photovoltaic sub-module
Patent No. 11843251

Inventor(s): Amneh Mohammed Akour (Plano, TX), Jayanth Rangaraju (Bangalore, , IN), Nat Maruthachalam Natarajan (Plano, TX), Richard Hester (McKinney, TX), Suheng Chen (Plano, TX), Timothy Patrick Pauletti (Dallas, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17512459 on 10/27/2021 (776 days app to issue)

Abstract: A controller circuit for a PV sub-module includes a power harvest controller circuit, a voltage limit controller circuit, a power mode control circuit, a multiplexer circuit, and a switching converter circuit. The power harvest controller circuit, including a first PV voltage input, a ceiling reference input, a floor reference input, and a first gate control output. The voltage limit controller circuit, including a first output voltage feedback input, a pulse width reference input, and a second gate control output. The power mode control circuit, including a second output voltage feedback input, a mode reference input, and a mode selection output. The multiplexer circuit, including a first gate control input, a second gate control input, a mode selection input, and a third gate control output. The switching converter circuit, including a second PV voltage input, a third gate control input, and a DC voltage output.

Wide-voltage-range DC-DC converters
Patent No. 11843316

Inventor(s): Heping Dai (Plano, TX), Liming Ye (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, , CN)
Law Firm: Vierra Magen Marcus LLP (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16932574 on 07/17/2020 (1243 days app to issue)

Abstract: According to one aspect, an apparatus comprising a two stage DC-DC converter is provided. The converter consists of a multilevel DC-DC converter stage cascaded with a fixed voltage ratio DC-DC converter stage. The converter is controlled so that a first stage of the converter provides an optimized output (a regulated bus voltage) which serves as the input to the second stage. The multilevel DC-DC converter may be the first stage and the fixed voltage ratio, unregulated DC-DC converter may be the second stage converter. Alternatively, the fixed voltage ratio, unregulated DC-DC converter may be the first stage and the multilevel DC-DC converter may be the second stage.

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

Method of operating isolated resonant converter with synchronous rectifier
Patent No. 11843320

Inventor(s): Brent Alan McDonald (Murphy, TX), Ramkumar Sivakumar (Bangalore, , IN), Yalong Li (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17362875 on 06/29/2021 (896 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method for operating a resonant converter in a burst mode includes determining the polarity of a transformer voltage across a secondary winding of a transformer. The method includes determining, from the polarity of the transformer voltage, on/off states of first and second transistors coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer. If the transformer voltage has a first polarity, the method includes commencing a burst period by alternately turning on/off high-side and low-side transistors electrically connected to a primary winding of the transformer.

System and method for digital-to-analog converter with switched resistor networks
Patent No. 11843390

Inventor(s): Jun Zhang (Shanghai, , CN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18179428 on 03/07/2023 (280 days app to issue)

Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter for generating an analog output voltage in response to a digital value comprising a plurality of bits, the converter including: (i) a first switched resistor network having a first configuration and for converting a first input differential signal into a first analog output in response to a first set of bits in the plurality of bits; and (ii) a second switched resistor network, coupled to the first switched resistor network, having a second configuration, differing from the first configuration, and for converting a second input differential signal into a second analog output in response to a second set of bits in the plurality of bits.

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

Systems and methods for online gain calibration of digital-to-time converters
Patent No. 11843392

Inventor(s): Jayawardan Janardhanan (Bangalore, , IN), Subhashish Mukherjee (Bangalore, , IN), Yogesh Darwhekar (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17541781 on 12/03/2021 (739 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system includes a first digital-to-time converter (DTC) adapted to receive a first DTC code and a first clock signal. The first DTC provides an output clock signal. The system includes a calibration DTC adapted to receive a calibration DTC code and a second clock signal. The calibration DTC provides a calibration output signal. The system includes a latch comparator which provides outputs indicative of which of the output clock signal and the calibration output signal is received first. The system includes an average computation module which provides an average value of the outputs of the latch comparator. The system includes a digital controller adapted to receive the average value. The digital controller provides the DTC code and the calibration DTC code.

Systems and methods for monitoring network traffic
Patent No. 11843455

Inventor(s): Andrew Bagrin (Charlotte, NC)
Assignee(s): NEWCO OMNINET PURCHASER, LLC (Allen, TX)
Law Firm: Goodwin Procter LLP (6 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17227976 on 04/12/2021 (974 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring network traffic. A server may receive data packets originated from a first remote computer system, the data packets having a destination of a second remote computer system. The server may determine a user of the first computer system and, based thereon, identify network traffic monitoring tools configured to connect to the server through respective distinct network addresses. The server may determine a routing path for the packets including a sequence of network addresses including the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools and a second network address corresponding to the second computer system. The second network address may be ordered after the respective distinct addresses of the identified network traffic monitoring tools in the sequence. The server may send, according to the routing path, the packets to the identified network traffic monitoring tools and the second computer system.

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

Adaptive equalizer for redriver
Patent No. 11843484

Inventor(s): Amit S. Rane (Santa Clara, CA), Charles Michael Campbell (Wylie, TX), Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18046716 on 10/14/2022 (424 days app to issue)

Abstract: A system for selecting an equalizer setting of an equalizer to equalize signals received via a communications link. Starting with a first (e.g., minimum) equalizer setting and a threshold voltage near the mid-eye voltage of the equalized output signal, the system estimates the amplitude of the inner eye of the equalized output signal by comparing the equalized output signal to a series of threshold voltages. If the amplitude of the equalized output signal is less than ideal, the system dynamically increases the equalizer setting. The system quickly converges on the equalizer setting for the communication link because, rather than comparing the output signal at every voltage offset using every equalizer setting, the system only evaluates the equalizer settings necessary to select the equalizer setting for the communications link and uses only the voltage offsets necessary to evaluate each equalizer setting.

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

Method and system for containerized network function management service
Patent No. 11843545

Inventor(s): Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, TX), Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17819761 on 08/15/2022 (484 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a containerized network function (CNF) management service is provided. The service may provide for allocating discrete sets of CNF resources deployed as pods to provide application services to end devices; identifying at least one threshold resource value associated with a first number of the deployed pods which are activated to provide the application services; determining an anticipated nonsatisfaction of the at least one threshold resource value associated with the first number of the deployed pods; and invoking, for a period of time, horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) via an application programming interface to activate a second number of the deployed pods to provide the application services, wherein the HPA is performed non-incrementally until at least one of the period of time has elapsed or each of the deployed pods has been activated to provide the application services.

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

Methods and apparatus to perform network-based monitoring of media accesses
Patent No. 11843576

Inventor(s): Achilleas Papakostas (Dallas, TX), Sanjeev Kumar Viswambharan (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (New York, NY)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 18168316 on 02/13/2023 (302 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example system includes: at least one memory; programmable circuitry; and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: obtain a public internet protocol (IP) address associated with a household and a timestamp in response to a census impression request indicating a media access on a first client device of the household; obtain a private IP address associated with the first client device; cause storing of the public IP address, the private IP address, and the timestamp in a panelist impression record in association with a panelist identifier, the panelist identifier corresponding to a panelist audience member, the panelist audience member enrolled in a panel of an audience measurement entity; send the census impression request to a census system; and send the panelist impression record to a meter collection system.

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

Systems and method for providing a data security service
Patent No. 11843585

Inventor(s): Aaron Ferguson Cooley (Oakland, CA)
Assignee(s): MoneyGram International, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17508069 on 10/22/2021 (781 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing standards compliant encryption, storage, and retrieval of data are disclosed. In an embodiment, data is received at a first data center from a first device in connection with a service request and encrypted to produce encrypted data. The encrypted data may be transmitted from the first data center to the first device, and then may subsequently be received at a second data center. The second data center may store the encrypted data in a database accessible to the second data center. Because all data provided to the system is encrypted by the first data center prior to being stored and/or provided to the second data center, the database and the second data center may be out of the scope of compliance monitoring, auditing, and reporting for one or more data security standards.

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

Multifunction wireless device
Patent No. 11843591

Inventor(s): Christopher McNitt (Fort Worth, TX), Stephen Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17530092 on 11/18/2021 (754 days app to issue)

Abstract: A communication device and system are disclosed for providing communication and data services to residents of a controlled facility. The device can be restricted to communicating only using an internet protocol so as to restrict the device communication to an internal intranet. Wireless access points may be disposed throughout the environment to route calls and data between the device and a central processing center. By converting a protocol of the communications received from the device to a protocol used by the central processing center, minimal modifications to the central processing center are needed to support a wireless communication infrastructure. Many restrictions and safeguards may be implemented within the phone and system in order to prevent improper use.

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

Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for securely establishing credential data for a computing device
Patent No. 11843601

Inventor(s): Christopher Michael Davis (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Round Rock, TX)
Law Firm: Jenkins, Taylor Hunt, P.A. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 16999967 on 08/21/2020 (1208 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for securely establishing credential data for a computing device are disclosed. According to one example, a method includes assigning, by a credential manager, credential set data to a computing device and mapping the credential set data to a device identifier key associated with the computing device in a credential data store accessible by the credential manager. The method further includes receiving, from a provisioning service client, a credential set request message including the device identifier key by the credential manager in response to an activation of the computing device at a customer location site and sending, by the credential manager to the provisioning service client, the credential set data for authenticating the computing device at the customer location site.

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

Electronic messaging exchange
Patent No. 11843640

Inventor(s): David Woody (Allen, TX), Stephen Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17859271 on 07/07/2022 (523 days app to issue)

Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for secure electronic message exchange including coupling a control platform to a workstation of a plurality of workstations via a communications medium, where the control platform includes one or more apparatuses for monitoring, controlling, conversion, and billing, related to messages exchanged between a plurality of local users and a plurality of remote users. The system prevents forwarding or copying of a message sent by a local user of the plurality of local users and received by a remote user of the plurality of remote users, to another party by the control platform. The system and method also provides for authenticating the remote user with the control platform.

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

Real time boot for secure distributed systems
Patent No. 11843667

Inventor(s): Satyajit P. Patne (The Colony, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 16995483 on 08/17/2020 (1212 days app to issue)

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of powering, by a transport, one or more critical components, running, by the transport, a first set of applications on the one or more critical components, responsive to a dependency of one or more noncritical components on the one or more critical components, powering, by the transport, the one or more noncritical components, and running, by the transport, a second set of applications on the one or more noncritical components.

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

CABAC decoder with decoupled arithmetic decoding and inverse binarization
Patent No. 11843794

Inventor(s): Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, TX), Mehmet Umut Demircin (Kecioren, , TR)
Assignee(s): Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17988265 on 11/16/2022 (391 days app to issue)

Abstract: An encoded bitstream of entropy encoded video data is received by a video decoder. The encoded bitstream represents syntax elements of a sequence of coding blocks. The sequence of coding blocks is recovered by processing a bin sequences associated with each coding block in a processing pipeline, wherein a defined amount of time is allocated to process each coding block in the processing pipeline. The encoded bitstream is arithmetically decoded to produce each bin sequence. The arithmetic decoder is time-wise decoupled from the processing pipeline by storing a plurality of the bin sequences in a buffer memory.

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

Random access at resync points of DASH segments
Patent No. 11843840

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: 18069069 on 12/20/2022 (357 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device for retrieving media includes a memory configured to store media data of a media presentation; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: retrieve a manifest file for a media presentation indicating that container parsing of media data of a bitstream can be started at a resync point of a segment of a representation of the media presentation, the resync point being at a position other than a start of the segment and representing a point at which the container parsing of the media data of the bitstream can be started; use the manifest file to form a request to retrieve the media data of the representation starting at the resync point; send the request to initiate retrieval of the media data of the media presentation starting at the resync point; and present the retrieved media data.

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

Secure nonscheduled video visitation system
Patent No. 11843901

Inventor(s): Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, TX)
Assignee(s): Global Tel*Link Corporation (Reston, VA)
Law Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein Fox P.L.L.C. (2 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 18077598 on 12/08/2022 (369 days app to issue)

Abstract: Described are methods and systems in which the censorship and supervision tasks normally performed by secured facility personnel are augmented or automated entirely by a Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System. In embodiments, the Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System performs voice biometrics, speech recognition, non-verbal audio classification, fingerprint and other biometric authentication, image object classification, facial recognition, body joint location determination analysis, and/or optical character recognition on the video visitation data. The Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation utilizes these various analysis techniques in concert to determine if all rules and regulations enforced by the jurisdiction operation the secured facility are being followed by the parties to the video visitation session.

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

Methods and systems for gain alignment in multiple devices with reduced latency
Patent No. 11843924

Inventor(s): Matthew Raymond Kucic (Santa Clara, CA), Prateek Jain (Chandigarh, , IN), Sahiti Priya Chittam (Bangalore, , IN)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17147259 on 01/12/2021 (1064 days app to issue)

Abstract: Methods and systems for aligning amplification gains in a plurality of interconnected devices are disclosed. The method includes receiving by each device limiter gain attenuations and brownout gain attenuations broadcasted by the plurality of devices and selecting the maximum brownout gain attenuation and the maximum limiter gain attenuation. The method includes determining a total attenuation as a sum of the maximum brownout attenuation gain and the maximum limiter attenuation gain. The method includes receiving a frame synchronization signal and adjusting the amplification gain by applying the total attenuation responsive to the frame synchronization signal.

[H03G] CONTROL OF AMPLIFICATION (impedance networks, e.g. attenuators, H03H; control of transmission in lines H04B 3/04)

Method and system for enhancing cellular network coverage
Patent No. 11843958

Inventor(s): Heitor Almeida (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, KS)
Law Firm: Jones Robb, PLLC (1 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17977450 on 10/31/2022 (407 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for enhancing cellular network coverage. In order to enhance network coverage, churn data is correlated with the measured coverage data for the multiple locations in the cellular network. Based on the correlation, a network readiness status in the multiple locations is determined. Network resources are then deployed to any of the multiple locations determined to have a network readiness status of not ready.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Computer-implemented method of processing an emergency incident and emergency communication network
Patent No. 11843974

Inventor(s): Sofia Anagnostou (Athens, , GR), Zisis Tsiatsikas (Salonika, , GR)
Assignee(s): ATOS PUBLIC SAFETY LLC (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17536221 on 11/29/2021 (743 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method of processing an emergency incident reported to a PSAP by a plurality of callers can include checking, at the PSAP, if video calls have been received from the same specified location within a predetermined time period, and if it is determined that there are such further video calls, feeding at least a part of the video call and the further video calls to a ML classifier unit. The ML Classifier unit can identify if there are similarities between the video call and the further video calls. If there exists similarity between the video call and at least one further video call, a determination about which one of the video calls t uses less resources (e.g. less bandwidth). That video call can then be utilized and other similar calls can be adjusted to reduce the bandwidth further (e.g. converted to audio calls, etc.).

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Message queuing and consolidation in an in vehicle environment
Patent No. 11844005

Inventor(s): Evan A. Vijithakumara (Frisco, TX)
Assignee(s): TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. (Plano, TX)
Law Firm: SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER HAMPTON LLP (7 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17135234 on 12/28/2020 (1079 days app to issue)

Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable media, techniques, and methodologies are disclosed for detecting messages received sequentially in short succession and implementing delivery controls to control a timing of the delivery of content of the messages for presentation to a user. Message detection and delivery control mechanisms disclosed herein refrain from presenting the content of multiple messages received in quick succession until a delivery event condition is detected. Upon detection of the delivery event condition, the content of the messages is consolidated into a message digest that is presented to a user (e.g., an intended recipient of the messages). The consolidated message digest can be presented to the user via an output interface, such as an in-vehicle speaker or display. In this manner, both disruption to the user experience as well as potential safety concerns, particularly in an in-vehicle environment, are mitigated by reducing the number and frequency of messages that are consumed.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Open loop wake-up radio based on transmitter fingerprinting
Patent No. 11844020

Inventor(s): Matan Ben-Shachar (Kibbutz Givat Haim Ihud, , IL), Oren Aharon Shani (Kfar-Saba, , IL), Yaron Alpert (Hod HaSharon, , IL)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17712236 on 04/04/2022 (617 days app to issue)

Abstract: A device (e.g., an IoT device) includes a first radio, and a memory device accessible to the first radio. The memory device is configured to store a fingerprinting feature for a specific transmitter device. A second radio and a processor are also included. The process is coupled to the first and second radios. The first radio is configured to extract a fingerprinting feature of a first received wireless signal, determine that the extracted feature matches the fingerprinting feature stored in the storage device, and responsive to the determination that the extracted feature matches the feature stored in the storage device, cause the second radio to transition from a lower power state to a higher power state of operation and continue to receive the incoming signal.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Component carrier management service
Patent No. 11844031

Inventor(s): Maulik Shah (Carrollton, TX)
Assignee(s): Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17177405 on 02/17/2021 (1028 days app to issue)

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an component carrier management service is provided. The service may monitor data pertaining to a transmit power of an end device and a component carrier of a carrier aggregation. Based on the monitoring, the service may determine when the end device is at or near a maximum transmit power. The service may perform a mitigation procedure to prevent or minimize the end device shutting off a component carrier in a radio transmitter chain.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Synchronization of wireless network nodes for efficient communications
Patent No. 11844038

Inventor(s): Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, TX), Wonsoo Kim (Allen, TX)
Assignee(s): TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED (Dallas, TX)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17473609 on 09/13/2021 (820 days app to issue)

Abstract: In examples, an electronic device comprises a transceiver and a processor coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to synchronize a clock of the electronic device to a clock of another electronic device using elapsed time indications in multiple packets received from the another electronic device via the transceiver. The processor is configured to transmit a packet via the transceiver using the synchronized clock of the electronic device.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Method and apparatus for initial access block on stand-alone NR unlicensed spectrum
Patent No. 11844107

Inventor(s): Hongbo Si (Plano, TX)
Assignee(s): Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Suwon-si, , KR)
Law Firm: No Counsel
Application No., Date, Speed: 17815941 on 07/28/2022 (502 days app to issue)

Abstract: A UE in a wireless communication system is provided. The UE comprises at least one processor configured to identify a DTTC including at least one of a first periodicity, a duration of a first transmission window, or a first timing offset of the first transmission window, wherein the DTTC is identified for the DSCH or RLM in a serving cell, and identify a DMTC including at least one of a second periodicity, a duration of a second transmission window, or a second timing offset of the second transmission window, wherein the DMTC is identified for RRM measurement based on the DSCH. The UE further comprises a transceiver operably connected to the processor, the transceiver configured to receive, from a BS, at least one DSCH from a set of DSCH over unlicensed downlink channels based on the identified DTTC, wherein the received at least one DSCH includes a SS/PBCH block.

[H04W] WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS [2009.01]

Three-dimensional memory device with backside support pillar structures and methods of forming the same
Patent No. 11844222

Inventor(s): Akihiro Tobioka (Yokkaichi, , JP), Kengo Kajiwara (Yokkaichi, , JP), Seiji Shimabukuro (Yokkaichi, , JP), Shunsuke Takuma (Yokkaichi, , JP), Tatsuya Hinoue (Yokkaichi, , JP), Yuji Totoki (Yokkaichi, , JP)
Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, TX)
Law Firm: THE MARBURY LAW GROUP PLLC (3 non-local offices)
Application No., Date, Speed: 17146866 on 01/12/2021 (1064 days app to issue)

Abstract: At least one vertically alternating sequence of continuous insulating layers and continuous sacrificial material layers is formed over a substrate. Rows of backside support pillar structures are formed through the at least one vertically alternating sequence. Memory stack structures are formed through the at least one vertically alternating sequence. A two-dimensional array of discrete backside trenches is formed through the at least one vertically alternating sequence. Contiguous combinations of a subset of the backside trenches and a subset of the backside support pillar structures divide the at least one vertically alternating sequence into alternating stacks of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers. The sacrificial material layers are replaced with electrically conductive layers while the backside support pillar structures provide structural support to the insulating layers. NULL

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Plunger pot spindle
Patent No. D007233

Inventor(s): Xuzhong Wang (Shenzen, , CN)
Assignee(s): ABORDER PRODUCTS, INC. (Irving, TX)
Law Firm: KLEMCHUK PLLC (Local)
Application No., Date, Speed: 29776788 on 03/31/2021 (986 days app to issue)