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7-Eleven, Inc. has received a newly granted patent for "Detecting and Identifying Misplaced Items Using a Sensor Array," invented by Plano-based Deepanjan Paul, Irving-based Sailesh Bharathwaaj Krishnamurthy and Sarath Vakacharla, and Celina-based Shahmeer Ali Mirza. The patent describes a system that uses sensors and a tracking system to monitor store shelves, detect misplaced items, and update digital carts in real time. [Image: USPTO Patent #12223537, Fig. 33A]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Alert The Mechanism's system and method for emergency vehicle detection and alerting
- Amera IoT's method and apparatus for using a picture and shared secret to create replicable high quality pools of entropy for keys for encryption, authentication and one time pads for images, data and message encoding
- Bank of America's data security in virtual-world systems
- Capital One's systems and methods for measuring document legibility
- Citibank's end-to-end measurement, grading and evaluation of pretrained artificial intelligence models via a graphical user interface
- Hitrust Services' risk modeling for cyberspace control implementation deficiencies
- Hunt Energy Enterprises' coating of electrode materials for energy storage devices
- RO5's system and method for molecular reconstruction from molecular probability distributions
- SmartDrive Systems' systems and methods for using risk profiles based on previously detected vehicle events to quantify performance of vehicle operators
- Texas Instruments' hardware protection of inline cryptographic processor
- Toyota's analysis of transport damage
- Verizon's systems and methods for device grouping based on quantum resistant encryption capability
- Wing Aviation's semantic adjustment of unmanned aerial vehicle delivery points
Patented: 7-Eleven’s Sensor Array for Detecting Misplaced Items and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Mar 19, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 11 with a total of 122 patents granted.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Mar 12, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Feb. 4 with a total of 167 patents granted.
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Dec 18, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Nov. 26, with a total of 95 patents granted.
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Oct 23, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Oct. 8, with a total of 120 patents granted.
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AT&T Intellectual Property has been granted U.S. patent #12095813 for a system that detects homoglyph attacks, invented by Antoine Diffloth, Natalie Gilbert, and Sundaresan Manoharan. The system uses convolutional and siamese neural networks to identify malicious domain name variations, where visually similar characters from different alphabets (like 'O' vs. '0' or 'l' vs. 'I') are used to deceive users. This helps businesses safeguard their protected domain names from cyber threats. [Source image: Dragon Claws / iStock]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- American Security Products' physical exchange using a safe
- Bank of America's data processing by a self-correcting, deep neural network integrated within a memory resource
- The University of Texas System's controlling prosthetic devices by gestures and other modalities
- Care View Communications' monitoring a fall state of a patient while minimizing false alarms
- Comcast Cable Communications' dynamic virtual element positioning in an augmented reality environment
- Fluid Dynamic Sciences' fast feature recognition and mesh generation in structural design
- GEMMY Industries' firework lighting device
- Intellective AI’s alert directives and focused alert directives in a behavioral recognition system
- KoiReader Technologies' edge computing device and system for vehicle, container, railcar, trailer, and driver verification
- Legacy Ventures' clot retrieval system
- Marvell Asia's system and method for bitcoin mining with reduced power
- Mary Kay’s delivery of active ingredients from plant materials to skin
- Ryder Integrated Logistics' vehicle fleet control systems and methods
- SightGlass Vision's methods and devices for reducing myopia in children
- The Nielsen Company's methods and apparatus to collect and process browsing history
- Walmart Apollo's systems for detecting and tracking humans in captured images
Patented: AT&T’s Homoglyph Attack Detection and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Oct 2, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 24, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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May 1, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of April 9, 2024. 124 patents granted include: A. O. Smith Water Treatment (North America)’s liquid filtration systems, components, and methods, Avodah’s real-time gesture recognition method and apparatus, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s geographic population health information system, and Lennox Industries’ component tracking in automated manufacturing using digital fingerprints.
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Feb 21, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Jan. 30. 164 patents granted include: World’s Enterprises’ 2D detections and tracking, UNTHSC’s personalized medicine approach for treating cognitive loss, Toyota’s optical communication system for management of vehicle batteries, Overhead Door’s sliding barrier tracking system, 7-Eleven’s item identification using digital image processing, and more.
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Feb 14, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. 121 patents granted include: Mavenir Networks' method and apparatus for balancing server load in cloud RAN systems, Meta Platforms's selective offload of workloads to edge devices, Musarubra's system and method for detecting repetitive cybersecurity attacks constituting an email campaign, and National Tech Engineering Solutions of Sandia's secure authentication using recurrent neural networks.
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Dallas Invents: 69 Patents Granted for Week of May 2
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 10, 2023
Patents granted this week include: Bank of America's travel identity tokening, Floway Innovations' adaptive fluid switches for autonomous flow control, Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co.'s hybrid power devices, Intuit's automated field-mapping of account names for form population, Lennox Industries's method for identifying causes of HVAC system faults, Nice Ltd.'s methods for retrieving and presenting information using augmented reality, Norton Lifelock's protecting from automatic reconnection with Wi-Fi access points having bad reputations, Raytheon's image turbulence correction of moving targets, Skyhigh Security's security service for an unmanaged device, Unification Technologies' methods for identifying storage resources that are not in use, and USAA's call routing using artificial intelligence.
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Mar 22, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's pad transfer printing method for making colored contact lenses, AT&T's emotion-based authentication service, Cancer Diagnostics Research Innovation's method for diagnosing and treating esophageal cancer, Citicorp Credit Services' multifactor authentication systems, Digital Tonic's augmented reality platform, Reliant Immune Diagnostics' microfluidic testing system for mobile veterinary applications, Sixgill's method of counting livestock, StaCyc's bike frame having a drive module enclosure, Textron Innovations' illuminated rope as an aircraft emergency egress aid, Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America's artificial muscles having vacuum coupled electrode insulators, Zixcorp Systems' delivery of an electronic message using a machine learning policy, and more.
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Mar 7, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Adaptive 3D and UT Systems' vat resin for 3D stereolithography printing, American Airlines' mobile ground equipment location monitoring, Brightplus Ventures's image enhanced liquid crystal display devices, CBN Nano Technologies' mechanosynthesis, Halo Microelectronics Co.'s wireless charging transmitter system , IBM's historical augmentation of electronic maps, Mirelz's real-time virtual try-on item modeling, Neurolens' measuring binocular alignment, RealPages' interaction-driven AI system and uses for same, including travel or real estate related contexts, Toyota's inflatable drone with shape memory alloy wires, and more.
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