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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 26

by | Dec 4, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Grizzly Home's tornado-proof housing, American Airlines' demand forecasting, Avodah Labs'automated sign language translation and communication, Capital One's techniques to leverage machine learning for SEO, Olaeris' landing guidance for remotely operated aerial vehicles, Refocus Group's scleral prosthesis for treating presbyopia and other eye disorders, Swirlds' apparatus for efficiently implementing a fast-copyable database, and Toyota's system and method for Braille assistance.
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An illustration from Toyota’s newly granted patent for a physical assistive robotic system. [Image: USPTO, Patent No. 10478365]
Dallas Invents: 180 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 19
by | Nov 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's physical assistive robotic systems, Audatex North America's VIN-based insurance claim system, Bank of America's holistic data transmission throughout an enterprise, Novartis' curvature-changing, accommodative intraocular lens, Capital One's methods for co-browsing, and iMed Technology's antiseptic swab with activation button.
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Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 12
by | Nov 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Atos Digital Health Solutions' system for secure messaging, Bell Helicopter Textron's aircraft fleet maintenance system, Capital One's data sharing via distributed ledgers, Carefusion 303's variable dose dispensing system, Danco's smart water filter system, rewardStyle's dynamic creation of product links from a web browser, and Texas Instruments' one-way key fob and vehicle pairing.
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Dallas Invents: 137 Patents Granted for Week of Nov. 5
by | Nov 13, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Century Interactive's dynamic protection of personal information in audio recordings, Epsilon Data Management's social media instant win method and system, General Electric's system for data processing in a vehicle group, NEC's method for capturing images used in facial recognition, and Toyota's electronic and physical storage for shared vehicles.
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Dallas Invents: 126 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 22

by | Oct 30, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: University of Washington's cough detecting methods and devices for detecting coughs, Advanced Micro Devices' temperature-aware task scheduling and proactive power management, Cyber adAPT's cyber threat attenuation using multi-source threat data analysism, DFB Soria's delivery of drug nanoparticles , Ecotomic Group's furniture manufacturing system with on-demand production, Raytheon Company's detection system for detecting changes to circuitry, Retina Foundation of the Southwest's two-layer ocular implant, and Accudata Technologies' system for providing additional information to called parties.
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Dallas Invents: 143 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 15
by | Oct 23, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bell Helicopter Textron's anti-ice system for thermally fragile materials, Amazon Technologies' trust management in an electronic environment, Bank of America's synthesized voice authentication engine,K2M's expandable spinal implants, Lyft's apparatus for managing conference calls, Raytheon's LADAR data upsampling, UT, Texas AM System's 3D printing of regenerative bone healing scaffolds for rapid fracture healing, The Parking Genius' parking sensors capable of determining direction and speed of vehicle, and VPay's virtual payment card fraud detection.
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Audatex North America's predictive estimate for a damaged vehicle
Dallas Invents: 164 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 8
by | Oct 16, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Audatex North America's predictive estimate for a damaged vehicle , Your Command's apparatus for electronically searching for an item, University of Texas' kit for external fixators for bone realignment, LapKing Holdings' method of tracking a vehicle's course, Capital One's social home buying system, Excentus Corporation's system of influencing customer behavior, Flashscan3D's biometric image sensor with spoofing detection, BlackBerry Limited's provisioning of emergency numbers, Tango's identification of a vehicle driver based on driving behavior, 1A Smart Start's automated calibration station for ignition interlock devices, and Bank of America Corporation's "Message spinning engine" to create or manage a queue.
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Toyota's patent granted for a Smart necklace for social awareness for people with impaired vision or on the autism spectrum.
Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 1
by | Oct 9, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's smart necklace for social awareness, Apple's adaptive multiplexing and transmit/receive diversity for wireless devices, Arch Holdings' method for media destruction using a kiosk, AT&T's system for grouping users to different speed tiers for wireless communication, Bank of America's electronic security keys for data security based on quantum particle states, Capital One's vehicle location system, SMU's method for privacy preserving disclosure of a shared, identity-linked secret, and Wells Fargo Bank's biometric electronic signature tokens.
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Dallas Invents: 133 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 17

by | Sep 25, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcatel Lucent's driver behavior monitoring systems, Biological Innovation and Optimization Systems' bio-dimming lighting, CTL Medical Corporation's biomedical implants, Focal Therapeutics's implantable tissue marker device, GF-17's method for creating and sharing bots, Sprinkl.IO's remote wireless moisture sensors for irrigation, Texas Instrument's error-correcting analog-to-digital converters, and Victor Equipment Company's automated gas cutting system.
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Dallas Invents: 132 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 10
by | Sep 18, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: American Security Product's physical article exchange using a safe, Armor Defense's detection of malicious instructions in a virtual machine memory, BLIVIC's needle for a bloodless intravenous catheter system, Capital One Services' visualization of vehicle condition using extended reality, Yeshvik Solutions' parking system, and Futurewei's device for providing a key for IoT communication.
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Dallas Invents: 156 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 3
by | Sep 11, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Raytheon's "agricultural situational awareness" tool, Enseo's hospitality property management tool, Garrity Power Services' wirelessly powered locker, Global Tel*Link's AR system for guards, Microfabrica's releasable tissue anchoring device, MoneyGram's prefunding for money transfer, Nicomodo's floral packaging method and apparatus, Sigh's noise detector and analysis/alert engine, Toyota's vehicle console with device charging trays, USAA's methods for distributed currency management, Verizon's identification of wireless coverage for multi-occupant structures, and ZS Pharma's compositions to remove toxins from the GI tract.
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Dallas Invents: 162 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 27
by | Sep 4, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: The Snoring Center's airway implant delivery device, Bell Textron's mutually symbiotic aircraft systems, CPG Technologies' geolocation using guided surface waves, I D YOU's audio announcement to called parties, IBM's empathetic image selection, Roka Sports' eyeglasses with interchangeable lenses, Siemens Healthcare's next-generation MRI spine evaluation, and an unassigned patent for a remotely controlled smart fence.
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Dallas Invents: 153 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 20

by | Aug 28, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Malibu Boats' adjustable surf wake system that lets a rider enhance the wake of a boat, Audi's system to detect and predict movement of a vehicle occupant, AT&T's augmented reality shopping displays, IBM's cognitive analysis for healing an IT system, and Bank of America's system to allow secure access to a virtual credential.
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Dallas Invents: 168 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 13
by | Aug 21, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Toyota's methods for determining user frustration with voice control, AmerisourceBergen's pharmaceutical management and tracking, AT&T's apparatus for enriching metadata via a network, Encryptics' digital rights management of documents, IBM's secure medication delivery, Med Hab's dual case for fall detection device, MWD-IP Holdings' nuclear waste storage and monitoring, ShockWatch's wireless environmental sensor, and Varidesk's leaning chair.
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Dallas Invents: 179 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 6
by | Aug 14, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Vinli's cloud-integrated vehicle platform, Bank of America's network device spoofing detection, BizNet Software's smart data engine system, Blue Calypso's advertising distribution through mobile social gaming, CareFusion 303's methods for managing a return of medication, NxGen Partners' system for signal penetration into a building, PACCAR's augmented reality system for vehicle blind spot prevention, Platform Manufacturing Group's modular stair system, State Farms' vehicle image and sound data gathering for insurance rating purposes, USAA's low-bandwidth information distribution, and Verizon's traffic monitoring systems and methods.
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Dallas Invents: 136 Patents Granted for Week of July 30
by | Aug 7, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Rockwell Collins' night sky spatial orientation, Advanced Cooling Therapy's devices for controlling patient temperature, Capital One Services' data processing platform monitoring, FreeFlight Systems' UAV guidance and communication device , Innovative Defense's subterranean formation shock fracturing charge delivery system, IBM's location of misplaced mobile computing devices, K2M's expandable spinal implants, Lennox Industries' systems for operating HVAC systems in low load conditions, Rolls-Royce Corp.'s aircraft engine cleaning system, and TissueGen's conformation and structural integrity of biomolecules
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