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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: 145 Patents Granted for Week of Oct. 29
by | Nov 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: ATT's crowd location-based analytics for transactions, Bank of America's data transmission authentication and self-destruction, Evergaze's apparatus for improving, augmenting or enhancing vision, Futurewei Technologies' automatic identity detection, Imagine Communications' splicing media files, IBM's cognitive parking guidance, Lone Star IP Holdings' small smart weapon, and Oldcastle Building Envelope's demountable wall system.
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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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teleCalm Smart Home Phone
Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of Sept. 24
by | Oct 2, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: teleCalm's telephone system for impaired individuals, AiBUY's interactive product placement system, Allied Bioscience's composition to form self decontaminating surface, Capital One Services' method for an ATM to issue a secured bank card, Flex-a-Rock Holdings' latex-based formulations for coating and sculpting applications, rewardStyle's methods for screenshot linking, Tella Firma's expendable fluid drive actuators for foundation lifting, Tesla's solar photovoltaic power conditioning units, TRV Dispense's soft food and beverage dispenser, and Wells Fargo Banks' methods for processing nuances in natural language.
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IoT private key concept

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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Follow the Money: Honeywell and Cisco Invest in Theatro, Satori Makes $30M Investment; SWK Buys Enteris BioPharma
by | Aug 29, 2019
You’ll also find news about Stack Sports, Cambium Learning Group, Addus, AZZ, MEI Rigging, and Allied Universal in this roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving North Texas companies.
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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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Dallas Invents: 111 Patents Granted for Week of July 23
by | Aug 5, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include Sprinkl.IO's water conservation apparatus and method for programmable irrigation controllers, Toyota's smart necklace with stereo vision and onboard processing, American Vehicular Sciences' method for displaying data to a vehicle's occupant about road signs, Global Tel*Link Corporation's detection and control of contraband devices, IBM's automated prototype creation based on analytics and 3D printing, Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software's system for identifying clones, Sportsbeam Lighting's liquid-cooled venue light, Telepresence Technologies telemedicine consultation and diagnostic systems, and VBikes Technology's smart lock for shared-ride bicycle and mobile app-based control system.
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