Patented: UT System, SMU Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading and More North Texas Inventive Activity

Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of April 15 with a total of 84 patents granted.

A newly granted patent for "Systems and Methods for Energy Crowdsourcing and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading" has been assigned to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and Southern Methodist University, the patent outlines a system that enables distributed energy resources to be traded peer-to-peer across a power network

This week, newly granted patents also include:

  • AT&T's facilitation of dynamic edge computations for 6G or other next generation network
  • CareView Communications' smart monitoring safety and quality of life system using sensors
  • Coinbase's systems for generating secure, encrypted communications using multi-party computations in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications
  • Hera Health Solutions' bioerodible drug delivery implants
  • HG Partners' continuous-wave radar system for detecting ferrous and non-ferrous metals in saltwater environments
  • o9 Solutions' hierarchical tournament-based machine learning predictions
  • Skyhigh Security's systems, methods, and media for monitoring cloud configuration settings
  • Tenfold Technologies' anti-pathogen composition
  • Toyota's lithium metal nitrides as lithium super-ionic conductors
  • Verily Life Sciences' triggering virtual clinical exams


Dallas Fort Worth: U.S. Patents Granted in the Dallas Fort Worth region.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 indicate 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 4/15/2025  |  Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (19100) 

84 patents granted    
Ranked No. 13 in patent production out of 250 metros


NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION

A: Human Necessities 9
B: Performing Operations; Transporting 6
C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 3
E: Fixed Constructions 6
F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 3
G: Physics 24
H: Electricity 23

DESIGN: 10


TOP ASSIGNEES (NO. OF PATENTS)

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 7
Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) 5
Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 4
Bunker Hill Technologies LLC (Allen) 2
Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin) 2
BMIC LLC (Dallas) 2
Mary Kay Inc. (Addison) 2
Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) 2
Tenfold Technologies LLC (Pilot Point) 2

Unassigned: 7


TOP INVENTORS (NO. OF PATENTS) 

Adam Cole Ewing (McKinney) 2
David Gan (Addison) 2
Kent Poteet (Lucas) 2
Olan T. Leitch (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) 2
Otto Karl Allmendinger (Rowlett) 2
Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai, China) 2


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Patent information is provided by Joe Chiarella, founder of patent analytics company Patent Index and publisher of The Inventiveness IndexFor additional details on the patents granted below, search the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database.