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Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America has received a newly granted patent for "Child Soothing Devices Comprising Artificial Muscles," invented by Erin J. Rutledge and Michael P. Rowe. The patent describes a device that uses artificial muscles to apply gentle, controlled pressure, offering a responsive soothing mechanism for children. [Image: USPTO Patent #12150493, Fig. 1A]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- Amazon Technologies' methods to automate entry/exit operations at facilities
- BNSF Railway's remote device monitoring
- Cablecam's apparatus and method for calibrating an aerial movement system
- Calmwave's information management system
- Google's system on a chip
- Intelligent Communication Assistant's optimizing personal communications through objective alignment
- Juniper Networks' multi-stage virtual private network service provisioning for containerized routers
- 7-Eleven's diagnostic analysis of a toilet over time intervals
- Twisted X's footbed for footwear
Patented: Toyota’s Artificial Muscle-Based Child Soothing Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | 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.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 9, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of Sept. 17, with a total of 108 patents granted.
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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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Patented: UNTHSC’s Personalized Medicine Approach for Treating Cognitive Loss and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | 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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
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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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 17, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of Dec. 19, 2023. 101 patents granted include: 7-Eleven's detecting and identifying misplaced items using a sensor array, AiTax Corporation's tax planning using video-based graphical user interface and artificial intelligence, Bollinger Industries' portable power station, Discourse.AI's estimation of interlocutor intents and goals in turn-based electronic conversational flow, and Innomist's multi-mode fluid nozzles.
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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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U.S. Patent No. 11,591,076 (Inflatable drone with shape memory alloy wires) was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering Manufacturing North America, Inc.
Dallas Invents: 132 Patents Granted for Week of February 28
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | 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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Jul 12, 2022
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by Quincy Preston |
May 10, 2022
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Alcon's three-lens intraocular lens system, Berg's treatment of cancer by continuous infusion of coenzyme Q10, BLH Ecology Concepts' process to produce nanoparticles, CubicPV's perovskite material processing, IBM's prototype creation based on analytics and 3D printing, Lintec of America's manufacturing of artificial muscle actuators, QORVO's packages for advanced antenna systems, and USAA's autonomous vehicle control system.
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